Obvious scripted dragon death : V

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:15 am

It's pretty silly to see this sort of thing in a game with a big budget. watch the vid. enjoy, and LOL away @ a dragon being teleported to site of death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoGTfOI-OKw

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:07 pm

Looks more like a bug, like last night I two shotted a frost Dragon, with my Leg Daedric bow, and it never burned away n gave me a soul.......

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:58 pm

I don't see your point, Dragons crashland all the time, any random Dragon can do it, though the Terrain got in the way of that one, hence the teleport.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:53 pm

What happens is the game doesn't know how to handle death in that situation. That's really all it is. The crash is what happens when they die in the air. They're not programmed to die while perched. So they go into the initial stage, launch, go into the air, then death catches up.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:37 pm

I don't see your point, Dragons crashland all the time, any random Dragon can do it, though the Terrain got in the way of that one, hence the teleport.

it teleported, not because of the terrain, but because that was where it died. hence the thread title. obvious huge over-sight by devs. if you are going to have a kill-able dragon perched like a bird, at least script in a proper death animation for it. This is an AAA title.\

Below link is lollable as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTHVn8UYHGY&feature=related

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:52 pm

not scripted. Its called 3x damage and ridiculous enchantment and ebony arrows at a probably modded level

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:17 pm

not scripted. Its called 3x damage and ridiculous enchantment and ebony arrows at a probably modded level

3x sneak damage. poison. dual enchanted bow. all made from in game items. nothing modded. no need for it.

That doesn't change the fact that the death animation is poorly implemented (if at all lol) for perched dragons.

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forgot ebony arrows.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:18 pm

3x sneak damage. poison. dual enchanted bow. all made from in game items. nothing modded. no need for it.

That doesn't change the fact that the death animation is poorly implemented for perched dragons.

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forgot ebony arrows.

They didn't expect people to be able to kill dragons that fast. And they shouldn't be able too... it's stupid...

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:05 am

Was that your video? If so, how do you zoom out that far in the third person view? I can not find any way to adjust my view, seems its zoomed all the way in. I'm on PS3, I'm sure that is the problem all together.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:12 am

I don't even know why the Dragon would need a death animation, just let the Ragdoll slump.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:43 pm

I expected BGS to produce a flawless game. Especially when considering its animations.

I also can't wait for my new-found Nigerian banker friend to deposit the 60 milllion USD into my savings account!!!

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:30 am

Its not scripted, your just not suppose to kill them in one hit either, cheater...

The condition goes, they have to be on the ground standing up to die properly.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:47 pm

I think I met up with that dragon when I was doing a quest for something else. Maybe the dragon was part of the quest I don't know but I don't remember it dying in a weird way.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:55 am

I don't even know why the Dragon would need a death animation, just let the Ragdoll slump.

Well, as you can see, it looks like it's hard coded in.

also to this cheater non-sense.

100 smith. 100 enchant. 100 alchemy. 100 archery. make your own gear. it's fun.

218 hours logged in game. not a single cheat. no need for it.

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missed your post Dawg, if you are on a console, sorry. there is no way that i'm aware of to set your FOV.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:08 pm

It's pretty silly to see this sort of thing in a game with a big budget. watch the vid. enjoy, and LOL away @ a dragon being teleported to site of death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoGTfOI-OKw

you can clearly see that the inertia of the dragon was calculating it at that position. the smoke goes there but the body got caught on the terrain then caught up. sure there is no death animation for a perched dragon, i can't imagine it being hard to implement one because they could just have them go ragdoll immediately. but seeing as skyrim doesn't have destructive terrain, what do you expect?

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:38 am

Forgot. 100 smith, 100 enchant, 100 alch, and ofc 100 archery. currently level 65 @ 17%

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:36 pm

Bringing this post up. Maybe Beth/Zen will see this and at least try to do something about it.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:59 am

Making people aware of scripted dragon deaths.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:39 am

Looks more like a bug, like last night I two shotted a frost Dragon, with my Leg Daedric bow, and it never burned away n gave me a soul.......

I found this out the other day. The dragons in some respawn places like mounds only give the soul once. They are scripted to respawn in that place only. Now the spawns you get near towns and exploring are different and randon, so they give a soul all the time.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:28 pm

Forgot. 100 smith, 100 enchant, 100 alch, and ofc 100 archery. currently level 65 @ 17%

So basically you powerlevelled certain skills to effectively break the game and now you're upset that the in game animations can't handle you one-shotting dragons? This isn't an MMO, no-one is going to give you an award.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:17 pm

That's not a scripted death, that's abuse of crafting, genius.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:42 am

I found this out the other day. The dragons in some respawn places like mounds only give the soul once. They are scripted to respawn in that place only. Now the spawns you get near towns and exploring are different and randon, so they give a soul all the time.

Except that there is a bug where dragons do not give a soul at all, regardless of their origin. I have endured this bug on my Breton, who has killed no less than nine dragons but was unable to unlock any of the six shouts she had acquired from Word Walls with the message "Dragon Souls Required". Just today I seem to have identified both the cause and solution in the PC Bugs forum but hardly anyone has even looked at the post

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:49 pm

OP, I'd like to see you do better.

Plus, this is a new Engine for Bethesda, animations are not their strong-point.

Especially in a big handcrafted world such as Skyrim.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:18 pm

That's not a scripted death, that's abuse of crafting, genius.

Sorry, but no. Hanging out, in the world, and (skill) leveling up, doesn't change the fact that dragons, while perched, have the same scripted death as a dragon in flight. (hence why the dragon takes to flight, clearly, after it should be dead)

@ the time of that vid, There was 218 hours logged in game time.
When you add the right buffs (I used The Thief Stone/The Lover Stone/other various ones when needed to level)...
There is no reason at all to abuse the mechanics. It's just not called for. Just a tip.

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And yes @ Sokar, I've been gypped at least 10x where a (dead)dragon has not rendered it's soul to me.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:04 am

Am I the only one that likes that death? It took him a while to realize he was dead, so it was cool.