» Fri May 27, 2011 9:56 am -Monsters usually don't move very much, if at all. Some creatures, such as rats and spiders, seem to be completely stationary and don't move at all. Instead, when I'm near them, they twitch and jerk around a lot while remaining in one spot the whole time. They make no effort to pursue me or even take a few steps in my direction in order to engage me. Occasionally I'll find a thief, werewolf, or mage that will take a few steps towards me, but that's rare.
-When I go to the Mages Guild in Daggerfall and attempt to buy spells, the game inevitably crashes the very second I scroll down to a certain spell (I think slowfall). This means that I have to quickly bring the scroll bar down in order to see all of the spells that come after that particular spell and avoid crashing my game. This happens no matter who I choose to buy spells from, by the way.
-Maybe this isn't a bug, but my character moves very slowly. Walking across towns and cities is an agonizingly long process, and when I hold down the run key I don't seem to actually notice any increase in speed. The reason I think this may be a bug is that I've seen some youtube videos of this guy named boilerplate playing the game and his character runs very fast. I suppose it may be because his character is high-level and thus would have a higher running skill, but still, even with my skill as low as it is, I wouldn't think my character would be *this* slow. Nobody moves this slowly unless they're morbidly obese yet clearly if you look at my character's paper doll he is a handsome young Breton in peak physical condition.
-This is really important: MY CHARACTER CAN NOT SWIM. That's right, swimming is completely broken for me. I jump into a body of water and I get stuck in place. I can't move around, I can't dive under water, and I can't even get back out of the water. My character can't move at all in the water and I am forced to load a previous saved game.
-I'm on a quest for the court of Daggerfall to get these letters from Castle Necromoghan, but the letters are nowhere to be found! I've exhaustively searched the entire dungeon except for the parts that are underwater, and I used cheatmode to teleport myself to all of the places where the quest item might be just to be sure that I didn't overlook it, but it's in none of the locations where it should be. It's like it just isn't in this dungeon at all. Is there anything that I can do to fix this?
-It's too late to do anything about this, but I did a Mages Guild quest where you're supposed to protect this sorcerer in a trance from assassins, only the assassins never really showed up. I was supposed to guard the guy for three hours, so I decided to loiter for three hours. My loitering is interrupted with the message that there are enemies nearby, so I search the entire Mages Guild but I never find any assassins. Whenever I tried to rest, I kept getting the message "enemies are nearby" but I never found any enemies. Eventually I was able to rest and just completed the quest without a fight. What the heck happened?
-I joined the Temple of Julianos early in the game and had a quest concerning some false prophet or whatever and at one point I receive two letters, one telling me to go back to Privateer's Hold and find somebody or their body inside and another telling me that something terrible has happened to one of my contacts at this tavern. I search the entire dungeon and I don't find anybody or their body, and when I go to the tavern to talk to the lady I'm supposed to talk to, I can't initiate dialogue with her. She's there, but when I hit the space bar nothing happens. As a result, I was unable to finish this quest and was expelled from the Temple of Julianos. I'm way past this experience now, but seriously, what was up with that?
Things you should know:
-The game is fully patched
-I am running it with VDMSound
