stuck on skyrim...literally. : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:54 am

Has anyone else ever gotten stuck in a rock on Skyrim or is it just me? This isn't a rant, i found it quite funny, but i don't know if this is something that's happened to people often or if its very rare and i'm just very unlucky. After and hour of trekking i got stuck in a rock and couldn't get out no matter how hard i tried and then eventually had to go back to my last load which was a while ago. That's basically my story.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:46 pm

It doesn't happen often to me. It has though. I would not be as calm as you seem I assure you

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:58 am

I think I got stuck once. But when I did I was trying to mountain climb my way to somewhere and it didn't really work out. I just fast traveled to somewhere nearby and tried it again.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:09 am

Nope. Never in Skyrim, but plenty of times in Fallout: New Vegas.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:13 am

I got stuck in a waterfall.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 5:26 am

happened to me the other night but fast travel fixed the problem...guess you forgot about fast travel? As long as there's no enemies around and you're outside, fast travel will get you out of those jams

i misread your title, i thought you meant you were stuck on skyrim as in can't play anything else at the moment...i have that problem too

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:24 pm

Yes. It happens. It can happen with your opponents also. I hit a skeever through a wall. You could hear it trying to attack but when you try to hit it with your sword your sword just hits the wall. It's caused by gaps in the meshes between sections. If you are playing on a computer you can type ~tcl to toggle off collision long enough to get unstuck.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 2:24 am

I just tcl my ass off when I'm stuck.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:29 pm

If you haven't gotten stuck in some rocks in a Bethesda game, you haven't played them enough yet to even be considered a novice :tongue:

Nah, just kidding. It happens a lot if you do a lot of exploring of tight corners of caves, mountainsides, rivers, etc.

Yes. It happens. It can happen with your opponents also. I hit a skeever through a wall. You could hear it trying to attack but when you try to hit it with your sword your sword just hits the wall. It's caused by gaps in the meshes between sections. If you are playing on a computer you can type ~tcl to toggle off collision long enough to get unstuck.

Or between textures and walls.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:05 pm

Yep. When you're outside, you can sometimes fast-travel to freedom. Not always, though.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:58 am

Yes it's happened to me many times before, mostly because I go mountain climbing a lot.
Me: "oh I'll just use this rock as a foothold "
Skyrim: "you're not going anywhere"
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» Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:41 am

It hasn't happened to me in this game yet but in Oblivion I got stuck in rocks a few times. In NV I got stuck in practically everything. =/

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:26 pm

Happened to me last night in Blackreach, thank god I had just walked out of a door

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:49 am

Its happened to me a few times, never had to re-load though, always got out of it by either fast travelling or using whirlwhind sprint.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:35 am

It happened to me once... Well... I wasn't really stuck. Here is what happened:

I was on the second floor of Breezehome, and I walked, then just fell through the floor. I must be gaining some weight... Might need to lay off the Sweetrolls.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:49 am

Couple of times this has happened. Save frequently.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:18 pm

Sometimes this happens but more common is that you slip between stones and can't get out - that happens to me quite often when I'm climbing on cliffs and mountainsides. Using quick save after every cliff when climbing on a mountain is best way to avoid being stuck.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:32 am

Yeah, been there done that! I've been getting stuck on Beth games ever since good old Oblivion. Between rocks, under rocks, between beds, behind beds, while climbing hills or mountains and once even in an empty corridor (this was FO3 though). This oldtimer has done it all

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:15 pm

And that's where the usefulness of Whirlwind Sprint comes in. I'm quite the climber and I get stuck a lot on those cliffs but I'm usually able to shout myself off of them, even though noclipping is sometimes the only viable solution.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 2:45 am

If you're on the PC you can fix it with the TCL command which disabled clipping.

» Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:34 am

Yep, I have gotten stuck on rocks in Skyrim, but I guess that is what happens when you try to get over a mountain and not use the roads.