This is by far the most infuriating bug I've experienced so far. I've heard many people having issues with pathing AI on the intro wagon ride but I've never expected it could be this serious.

It's seems after allowing me to create a zillion Stormcloak characters and escape, the Imperials have finally decide to take revenge by making my journey to the headsman block a complete nightmare and intentionally getting us stuck. I had to literally go through the intro like 7 times for the Imperials to finally desist the ride to hell

Here are some shots of the poor Stormcloaks who can't even go to their deaths peacefully.

http://i.imgur.com/IpOBEAr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ov7ic1G.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/h1dZke0.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6s4t3DB.jpg

Even general Tullius and the lot are getting impatient

http://i.imgur.com/l551L8g.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jAWOyE8.jpg

Hah! Yeah I never had any problems with the intro until recently, and then suddenly I had to try 3 times to actually get to the bloody headsman.

Heh! I had that problem back on the Ps3, ended up being a scratched disk.

https://38.media.tumblr.com/3267a55dfcadfc0ae29babebf99ad3d3/tumblr_n9ekrp9JfU1slawspo7_1280.png. https://38.media.tumblr.com/6a24d90671621c5fbc40ed7cdc107c99/tumblr_n9ekrp9JfU1slawspo6_1280.png

https://38.media.tumblr.com/14eabb795618d3214b94b3b10f878c11/tumblr_n9ekrp9JfU1slawspo5_1280.png

Keep in mind, save for the first image, I was spinning out of control after the horse exploded, so every screen shot was by chance.

Maybe they just wanted to try some offroading first

Well that's an odd one! You running Scenic or Touring Carriages by any chance?

Only time I had a glitch at the beginning of the game is when the imperials tried to behead me for supposedly crossing a border that was plenty legal to cross.

Aside from that, one time Alduin didn't land. Which svcked because I had to then recreate that character and I bet it would have been an awesome play through. probably why Alduin was to fearful to land.

Wow you've managed to land in the bandit camp near the Stones? That's even more wack than mine

Nope. No mods that would affect carriages from what I know.

Easiest way to prevent it....

This just seems like such a bad bug that I can't believe it's not caused by mods.

I know... that's just way to strange.

But I haven't ridden the cart to Helgen since discovering Alternate Start (live another life) mod. So refreshing to be who I want to be in Skyrim and start how I want to start.

Heard rumors the bug is caused by too a high of frame rate, and that messes with the physics of the game. No clue if this is true or not, but read in a mod discussion somewhere about it.

It was one helluva ride. But yeah, I didn't have any mods installed that would likely affect the intro, either. It was the first time in a long time that I ran the vanilla opening, too. Second time was pretty normal aside from Hadvar being harassed by something during the ride to Helgen and then being absent for character creation. The captain jerk-lady looked pretty silly talking to herself after several long pauses.