Cannot kill the leader of Uttering Hills Cave

Post » Sun Apr 07, 2013 1:53 am

Aarghhhh...yet another broken quest, but one that loses me a follower! I got a quest from Brunwulf Free-Winter to kill the leader of Uttering Hills Cave. I go there only to find out that it was the one I already cleared out featuring Linwe and his gang of thieves for the Thieves Guild. Everyone had re spawned except for, you guessed it, Linwe himself, whose body was still lying on the floor despite it having been at least a hundred or maybe two hundred hours of gameplay ago that I originally killed him. I figured I might try using the Ritual Stone to resurrect him and killing him again, but no dice. There he lies, with the white arrow over his head, dead (again!). Not only can I not complete the quest for Brunwolf, this also means that I cannot GET a quest from Annekke Crag-Jumper, and she will be forever lost to me as a potential follower. As a ranged thief myself, she would have been an asset to me since her skills are complimentary to mine. Sure there are a couple of other options for followers, but not many in my line of work, and I like to keep my options open. Besides, why even have them in the game if we cannot access them? I love TES, but playing on Xbox where I am dependent on Bethesda to patch the game and fix the bugs has been a nightmare so far. I have spent literally several HUNDRED hours re-playing content because of major game-breaking bugs, and still they keep on coming. All the tech support folks can say is, "revert to a previous save." I don't remember any of the other TES games being this buggy, but then I played those on PC. Unfortunately, I am now disabled and cannot sit upright at a desk to use a PC anymore. The console is the only way I currently have that allows me to play on the television while lying in my power recliner. I am not the only person in this particular situation. Please, please, please support this game...or are the "console peasants" just screwed?
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