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Lhet
Apr 2, 2008

bloop


As far as "Forsworn Conspiracy" goes, after completing it, be sure you never go to jail in Markarth. There is no escape. All the NPCs are gone and the only door you can target requires a key. I guess it's realistic though.....

Lhet fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2011 around 21:56

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Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

...the engine tracks thousands of details for each unit meaning it will be a far deeper game than your grandpa's chess.
Pre-order CHESS now and receive the DLC "queen" unit.

Despite some of us having quest bugs and poo poo, the game is remarkably well put together at launch, I'm really impressed. The load times are amazing and I've not crashed once. Good work guys. Also over 200 million in sales in the first 2 days that's insane.

JosefStalinator
Oct 9, 2007

Come Tbilisi if you want to live.


Ive got two broken quests:

1. Meet Brynolf for the theives' guild, since I've already joined. It just bothers me that its sitting there incomplete, is there a way to be rid of it?

2. Collect souls black and white - I have the book already, and had it when I was assigned the quest by the guy in the mages' guild. Still the quest wants me to go to an empty chest, and I cant put the book back in since its a quest item. Any way to resolve this?

Sir Bruce
Jul 8, 2004



Trinity Restored in the Thieves Guild has been bugged out on my version.

Brynjolf isn't at the cave when I get there, but shows up later. He also wanders around by himself saying his lines. After I put on the Nightingale armor, Karliah and Brynjolf both leave the cave and wander back to the Rotten Flagon or whatever the Thieves Guild HQ is called. The chained gate doesn't open and I can't continue. I tried adding both Karliah and Brynjolf to the room using noclip and placeatme, and the cutscene starts but hangs in the middle.

ARACHNOTRON
May 10, 2008


A miscellaneous quest for the Arcanaeum bookkeeper in the College has you searching for a book. I don't know if it's random, so it may be different for other people, but he told me to search for some book on Dwemer starting with a C.

I stole the book, twice, but can't turn it in to complete the quest. Does it have to be legitimately acquired, or am I supposed to find it through a quest location? I'm feeling it might be a bug, though.

Griffith86
Jun 19, 2008


Has anyone had a problem with getting Enthir (mage college) to sell you his black market magic stuff? I went through the quest (eye of magnus) and now I'm the arch-mage. But apparently because I didn't talk to him after the first lesson quest, he won't sell me anything (only has 1 dialogue option).

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

dmt.s
Dec 28, 2010


e: nevermind I'm an idiot

dmt.s fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2011 around 23:59

RBA Starblade
Apr 27, 2008

Going Home.


The Forsworn Conspiracy may or may not take all of your quest items off you, so be careful if you have any.

The Saddest Robot
Apr 17, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 13 days!


Pellisworth posted:

if you listen to the Synod (I think, right?) dude who takes you to that device, he mentions that you have to heat/cool the focusing crystal to make the light work right. Standing beneath the focusing crystal, spray it with the novice level Flames and Frostbite spells will cause the lights to change. I think I did two increments worth of cooling and that made everything line up correctly.

More specifically: You need to use the apprentice level flamethrower/icethrower spells. Adept/etc spells don't seem to cut it, they only go through one stage of the heating or cooling - there are several different stages of heating and cooling.

Xaander
Jul 11, 2007
Lord of Toast

So I've run into a bug that may or may not be game-breaking. I'm on the quest Alduin's Wall, and I stumbled on the Karthspire earlier in my adventures. While there, I brute-force solved the combination lock at the entrance. Now that I'm actually on this quest, I went up to the door to Sky Haven Temple, opened the blood seal and as soon as I did, the two people who are with you for this quest ran back to the entrance of the dungeon. Now they're just standing in front of the combination lock. Nothing will move them and I can't progress in the quest.

For the love of god, someone help me so I can keep going with this quest

Alkanos
Jul 19, 2009

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fht-YAWN

Not a quest bug, but I saw someone mention that cancelling out of the mining animation before it completed would disable the vein. But you can still get the ore out. Just equip the pickaxe like you would a weapon and go to town on the vein. And there's your ore. It sucks to glitch out an ebony vein, but now you can get around it.

On another note, there's a dungeon east of Whiterun called the Abandoned Prison, can your companion not go into it? Even if Lydia's nearby, when I go inside she doesn't follow. I think it's because the entrance is across a river, but even fast traveling to it I'll pop up on the prison side of the river, and she's on the other side. Maybe she's afraid of ghosts?

thebardyspoon
Jun 30, 2005


Waking Nightmare in Dawnstar sometimes bugs, the priest who starts it is supposed to go inside the tower he tells you about and open up a secret passage. Instead he sometimes disappears so the quest is undoable on consoles.

Red Mundus
Oct 22, 2010


The quest House of Horrors apparently can sometimes mess up your vision permanently not just for your current character but for ALL character saves. Meaning if you get this bug you will have to start a new game for all characters you've created. It's recommended not to do the quest. Hopefully someone can shed more light on this as it seems pretty serious.

SGRaaize
Jan 19, 2011
DONT YOU DARE TELL ME HOW THE FUCK TO HAVE FUN IN VIDEOGAMES!!! OR TO READ THE FUCKING OP!!!!

I entered this Dungeon at the very south of Skyrim called "Something Cain" (I forgot the exact name), I fought a ghost boss there and won after a heated battle, I now found out that there is gonna be a quest about that dungeon that should be me finding a book and giving it, the thing is, I went to the place where that book would probably be and took what was there, instead of it being a quest item, it was a "Ruined Book".

Am I hosed? I hope I can just fix this poo poo with the console if it ever comes to a glitch.

DrPaper
Aug 29, 2011

I can't stop being mad.

420 eat a weed. It's the weed destiny.


Okay so in 'Laid to Rest' in Morthal, I get into the cave and find Alva, but she's friendly and all the vampires are attacking her. I also can't talk to her (I just get the generic lines, no conversation dialogue). I wasn't sure what to do so I didn't kill her or anything. Upon reaching the exit the ghost of the little girl was there, but as soon as I talked to her she disappeared.

I was able to complete the quest, but this all seemed pretty weird to me.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

I believe in your victory.




You can walk directly through this pillar in the Jarl's Quarters in Whiterun. You will fall into the brown nothingness, and like 75% of the time, die after falling for a while. Otherwise you just teleport back into the room and walk in slow motion for a few seconds.

EDIT: Cropped/thumbed for table breakage, my bad. It's the one I'm looking right at.

Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro


Xaander posted:

So I've run into a bug that may or may not be game-breaking. I'm on the quest Alduin's Wall, and I stumbled on the Karthspire earlier in my adventures. While there, I brute-force solved the combination lock at the entrance. Now that I'm actually on this quest, I went up to the door to Sky Haven Temple, opened the blood seal and as soon as I did, the two people who are with you for this quest ran back to the entrance of the dungeon. Now they're just standing in front of the combination lock. Nothing will move them and I can't progress in the quest.

For the love of god, someone help me so I can keep going with this quest

The exact same thing happened to me. I ended up restarting...

J Greedy
Apr 18, 2003

Ask me about my bitchin' Iroc-Z

DONT CARE BUTTON posted:

For example, don't clear out Bat Fang Cave until you get the quest from the librarian in the mage college. He asks you to find a copy of "Invocation of Azura", but if you looted it before getting the quest then it breaks and you can't complete it. You get stuck with an unfinished quest and an unremovable quest item in your inventory.

JosefStalinator posted:

2. Collect souls black and white - I have the book already, and had it when I was assigned the quest by the guy in the mages' guild. Still the quest wants me to go to an empty chest, and I cant put the book back in since its a quest item. Any way to resolve this?

ARACHNOTRON posted:

A miscellaneous quest for the Arcanaeum bookkeeper in the College has you searching for a book. I don't know if it's random, so it may be different for other people, but he told me to search for some book on Dwemer starting with a C.

I stole the book, twice, but can't turn it in to complete the quest. Does it have to be legitimately acquired, or am I supposed to find it through a quest location? I'm feeling it might be a bug, though.


Got a quest to kill bandits in Rift Watchtower, clear the tower and find "The Wolf Queen, v6." Get a misc quest from the Arcanneum library dude to find the same book and can't turn it in. Quest marker at Rift Watchtower still points to empty chest.

Sounds like book fetch quests are borked if you pick up the book before you get the quest.

J Greedy fucked around with this message at Nov 16, 2011 around 01:48

Alkanos
Jul 19, 2009

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fht-YAWN

Almost forgot to post this. In the quest "The Cursed Tribe", you're supposed to escort the orcish chieftain through a dungeon. At one point we had to fight some bears, and after the fight my companion started attacking the orc, refusing to give up even after she got knocked down a few times. I thought she got a stray hit in the fight, but even reloading a few times it always ended up the same. I think it had something to do with the buff I got from those tablets on the 7000 steps that makes animals non-aggro, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I just told her to wait by the entrance, and all went well. Except then I had to fight a giant all by myself...

Breadtime Bandit
Apr 28, 2007


After completing Reviling the unseen college of Winterhold Quest:
After the arch-mage is killed in the hall of elements explosion the quest chain hits a full stop, nobody recognizes that Savos is dead and Tolfdir doesn't give you the new quest. I have no idea what causes this to happen, though it could possibly be because Tolfdir's missing alembic is conflicting with the quest

mistermojo
Jul 3, 2004



I'm doing the Visit the Shrine of Azura side quest, but when I get there, the only NPC there attacks me. I can't kill her because she's invincible and she has a quest arrow above her head. Can I fix this somehow?

lizzyinthesky
Mar 24, 2010

Take drugs! Kill a bear!


During the Thieves Guild questline, a quest called 'The Pursuit', you are supposed to deliver a letter to someone notifying them that their debt has been erased so that they will not attack you when you infiltrate a place. However whenever I try to talk to the NPC (Vald) he immediately goes hostile.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

Flying the friendly skies in relative safet-oh god the engine fell off


mistermojo posted:

I'm doing the Visit the Shrine of Azura side quest, but when I get there, the only NPC there attacks me. I can't kill her because she's invincible and she has a quest arrow above her head. Can I fix this somehow?

Click on her (if you're on PC) and type stopcombat or scaonactor in console.

Atma McCuddles
Sep 1, 2007



DrPaper posted:

Okay so in 'Laid to Rest' in Morthal, I get into the cave and find Alva, but she's friendly and all the vampires are attacking her. I also can't talk to her (I just get the generic lines, no conversation dialogue). I wasn't sure what to do so I didn't kill her or anything. Upon reaching the exit the ghost of the little girl was there, but as soon as I talked to her she disappeared.

I was able to complete the quest, but this all seemed pretty weird to me.

I've heard of this happening to a loooooot of people (myself included) so I think it's something we'll have to wait for a patch to fix.

Broken Cog
Dec 28, 2009


lizzyinthesky posted:

During the Thieves Guild questline, a quest called 'The Pursuit', you are supposed to deliver a letter to someone notifying them that their debt has been erased so that they will not attack you when you infiltrate a place. However whenever I try to talk to the NPC (Vald) he immediately goes hostile.

I think you have to talk to him through the gate on the backside. If you break through it, it counts as trespassing.

freeforumuser
Aug 11, 2007


The 2nd Stormcloak quest where you have to return an artifact to Jarl Ulfric doesn't seem to work as he will not have the quest dialogue up.

deathbagel
Jun 10, 2008


So I found an awesome companion Illia from Darklight Tower, problem is I went back and finished the Companion quest line and it forced her out and replaced her with the companions. Now I went back to Darklight Tower and she just gives general responses when I click her and it won't open dialogue with her so I can try and get her to join back up. Does anyone know how to remedy this? I really enjoyed having an ice magic slinger to compliment my "run in and impale it on my giant 2 hander through" game style.

Any help would be appreciated!

Washout
Jun 27, 2003

"Your toy soldiers are not pigmented to my scrupulous standards. As a result, you are not worthy of my time. Good day sir"


Zotix posted:

There's a quest in the mage guild, that has you go to a dungeon and insert a gem into a device that has mirrors. You need to reflect the light onto other mirrors. The problem is, sometimes the light from the ceiling doesn't come down and hit the gem. I had to reload a save 2 minutes prior 3-4 times for it to work. I'm not sure of the quest name as it was Saturday that I did it.

I had this same problem, hit things at random and got lucky and solved it in 30 seconds.

DrMelon
Oct 9, 2010

You can find me in the produce aisle of the hospital.

Brelyna's first quest in the mages guild, where she casts as spell on you and you have to "wait for it to wear off" sometimes doesn't work, as she misses with the spell and fails to turn you green. You can wait indefinitely, and it will never ever wear off. To solve this, either load an earlier save so she hits you with the spell, or do this in the console:

setstage MGRAPPBrelyna01 30

PoopinClumpin
Jul 4, 2006



Thieves Guild quest: "Blindsighted"
This isn't so much a bug as it is a reload trap/bug. You can actually complete the quest. If you go back after the quest is complete to loot the dwemer dungeon there is a cliff at the end of the dungeon before the exit door; but the exit door doesn't work anymore because the room filled with water during the fight so you must backtrack out of the dungeon. If you looted everything and expected to exit the way you did before by falling over the drop and swimming out of the cave, you're trapped and must reload. You can't find this out until after you've comitted to exiting that way, so be wary

PopeOnARope
Jul 23, 2007

Hey! Quit touching my junk!


Thieves Guild Quest Transition: Loud And Clear -> Dampened Spirits.

When I turn in Loud and Clear, I don't recieve the followup quest, at all.

gucci void main
Jul 2, 2010


Think I got a gamebreaking bug. Earlier in the game I was learning the words for Unrelenting Force. When I talk to Wulfgar for the third word, he just bows and nothing happens. I ignored it for a while, but then after Anduin's Wall, you're supposed to go back. The guy you have to talk to is the same one who tells you to go inside to meet up with Wulfgar, and he says the same thing, so I can't advance the main quest.

Star Guarded
Feb 10, 2008



Anyone know how to fix the bug where 90% of my zombies just run in place after being revived and do nothing? It's making my necromancer worthless and I think I'll have to play another character for a while.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/stargu...856881948549161
http://steamcommunity.com/id/stargu...56881930341293/

Rueish
Feb 27, 2009

Gone

but not forgotten.


Donald Duck posted:

Companions quest line, after Bloods Honour, I was not able to receive the follow up quest. The guy talked about what it was but I never got the quest. On top of that, almost all the companions and a few towns people are stuck in the event that happens when you are turning Bloods Honour in.

Edit: FIX:

If you have completed getting the Winterhold helm, go back to Driftwood Sanctuary and Resurrect every NPC you can(press ~ and type Tilda then click on their corpse till you see the hax value representing them, press enter).

When you have resurrected everyone, or all that it will let you type player.setStage C05 00.

Oh yeah, I hated this bug like none other. To elaborate more on it, the follow-up quest shares a location with the "Helm of Winterhold" as mentioned. So if you've already killed the witches and collected heads without having done the Helm quest, just pop on over to Driftword Sanctuary, run in without killing anyone (don't believe this is ENTIRELY necessary, you just need to avoid killing the guys in the last room) then grab the helm so you can turn it in. After that, you can just go back and turn in "Blood's Honor" and you'll receive the follow-up quest.

Priss In Plate
Feb 4, 2009

This wedding is cancelled.


Not sure what caused it, but on the main quest Alduin's Bane and you can not get the shout (the NPCs stand there and do nothing), let the dragon finish his conversation, then fast travel somewhere, wait 24 hours, and come back and use the necessary item.

Not sure why this happens, but that's what fixed it for me.

Black Pants
Jan 16, 2008

Such comfortable, magical pants!

Does anyone know how to force a quest to start? After finishing Diplomatic Immunity, I was told about Esbern and how paranoid he is, but wasn't given an actual quest and am stuck. Of course, I didn't realize until I'd gone off and done a bunch of other quests.

PopeOnARope
Jul 23, 2007

Hey! Quit touching my junk!


Black Tracky Dacks posted:

Does anyone know how to force a quest to start? After finishing Diplomatic Immunity, I was told about Esbern and how paranoid he is, but wasn't given an actual quest and am stuck. Of course, I didn't realize until I'd gone off and done a bunch of other quests.

If you can get the quest ID, just do setstage ID 0. Some quests that doesn't work for, however (For example, Dampening Spirits). If that's the case, use completequest ID and then just assign yourself the next one.

Black Pants
Jan 16, 2008

Such comfortable, magical pants!

I tried setstage and nothing appeared to happen. Considering this requires me to fetch Esbern and he's otherwise stuck behind his unopenable door, wouldn't completequest break things further?

Edit: getstage ID returns 0.00 no matter what value I give to setstage.

Edit 2: both completequest and spawning Esbern where I was still don't help.

Black Pants fucked around with this message at Nov 16, 2011 around 08:18

Yasser Arafatwa
Jan 13, 2009

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.


No idea what the quest is, but attempting to "Go to Sabine Nyett in Solitude and pick up the item" isn't working for me. It's a Miscellaneous one. She's chilling out in the ship Red Wave in the port outside Solitude. Trying to talk to her inside of the ship just gets me a "You're not supposed to be in here" message.

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General Olloth
Oct 25, 2007

One Vision, One Purpose: The Technology of Peace!

Black Tracky Dacks posted:

I tried setstage and nothing appeared to happen. Considering this requires me to fetch Esbern and he's otherwise stuck behind his unopenable door, wouldn't completequest break things further?

Edit: getstage ID returns 0.00 no matter what value I give to setstage.

Edit 2: both completequest and spawning Esbern where I was still don't help.

Does esbern not have any dialogue? This could be related to the bug where he doesn't have his speech files properly. http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=78


As for myself, has anyone hit Blood on the Ice refusing to trigger? I can't buy the house here because no matter how much I leave/come back in the middle of the night there is never the trigger for it.

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