What glitches have you experienced in Skyrim so far

[XMark]

Glitch on top of a glitch. A while ago I bought a horse from the stable outside Solitude, who lasted me a while and helped me through many adventures. Then one day, on the way back to Solitude, I took a route I hadn't taken before. The road was partially blocked by a bandit attack, which included traps which rained a bunch of boulders down on me. I escaped the boulders quite easily and dispatched the bandits. Then I got back on my horse and tried to go through.

However, apparently just stepping on a boulder resting on the road is enough to make the physics engine go haywire and kill my horse. It was a good 20 minutes since my last save so I just decided to accept that my horse is dead and walk the rest of the way. I had about 10,000 gold on me so buying a new horse was no biggie.

I arrive at Solitude a while later and visit the stable. I talk to the guy and give him 1000 gold and he says to take the horse with the saddle.

There is no horse with a saddle. Apparently when you buy a horse, no new horse comes in later to replace it. So I spent 1000 gold for nothing. I saved the game, took an invisibility potion and pickpocketed the guy to get my money back. But he only had 2 gold on him, and I got caught pickpocketing despite being invisible (I'm not really a sneaking character though, so maybe I just don't know the rules about invisibilty, sneaking, and pickpocketing).

So in conclusion:
A glitch killed my horse
Another glitch made the stable owner rip me off when I tried to buy a replacement horse

 

[Jesus Phish]

30 hours in and none. Not a one.

Guess I'm lucky! Thought I reckon I'll go load it up adn run into all horrible horrible things

 

[King of the Sandbox]

155 hours in, and I've had two. Once, I found a goat in the snow. Not very bad until you realize only the ass end of the goat was sticking out. I lol'd for a good minute. I hope it's just an easter egg, but it's still funny as a glitch.

The second was a guy stuck in the ground up to his waist outside the stables in Whiterun. I could still interact with him, so I just chuckled and continued Dovahkiin'ing it up.

 

[Jaloopa]

There were two guys outside Whiterun stables. Always standing next to each other, always in the same place. I went to talk to them to see if they were twins or soething, could be an interesting quest.

Turns out they're the same person. Same name when my cursor is over them and when I talk to one, both of their mouths move. Lol, silly little glitch, move on.

Next time I visited Whiterun there were three of him, slightly clipping into each other. I am now taking bets on how many there will be by the time I finish the main quest.

 

[Freaky Lou]

There were two guys outside Whiterun stables. Always standing next to each other, always in the same place. I went to talk to them to see if they were twins or soething, could be an interesting quest.

Turns out they're the same person. Same name when my cursor is over them and when I talk to one, both of their mouths move. Lol, silly little glitch, move on.

Next time I visited Whiterun there were three of him, slightly clipping into each other. I am now taking bets on how many there will be by the time I finish the main quest.

Not uncommon.

 

[realist1990]

Gauladar( not sure on spelling) questline. in an area where I have to move pillers so I can open a gate however it won't let me move them.
Backwards dragon
Gallus journal refuses to be dropped
sometimes texture in the college is dodgy(normally fixes itself after i go inside)

on xbox

 

[Handbag1992]

While fighting that wolf-queen-necromancer (who's name I can't remember) one of her Draugr got stuck behind a door, a door that wouldn't open until I had killed all the Draugr in the room. Luckily I was able to kill him by sending ice-storms through the door.

 

[XMark]

Ooh another one I remembered. There's that murder mystery quest in Windhelm. I found that amulet which serves as a piece of evidence in the case. I talk to Calixto to have it identified and he offers to buy it from me at a great price.

However, at the time I'm thinking "what kind of investigator sells their best piece of evidence before the case is solved?" so I reject his offer, but he says if I change my mind later I can talk to him again. So I decide I'll hold onto it until I'm done with the quest, just in case selling it makes you fail or Calixto ends up being the killer or something.

Unfortunately, after the case is over, Calixto's dialogue options concerning the amulet disappear and you can't sell it or drop it because it's a quest item. It doesn't weigh anything though, and you can still wear it, though it has no effect.

 

[mitchell271]

-slow textures
-followers dying when they wait in my house

 

[Link XL1]

in the beoliath daedric quest, (SPOILERS)

i sacrificed a merc i hired and the daedric prince used his body as a conduit. i was then supposed to talk to it, but every time i pressed A to talk it just repeated the first two lines of dialogue and i never actually started a conversation (i could still move around)

kinda sucks cause i cant finish the quest, but im hoping it'll just be fixed next time i play

 

[JET1971]

And crashes to desktop.
I also had crahses to desktop constantly in 2 places for a while.

EDIT: Pantea won't take her flute, so I can't finish that quest, nor gcan I get rid of the flute because it's a quest item.

I get crashes to desktop allot, usualy when zoning but not always. theres one cave Bonechill Passage that is short and leads to a dragon lair i cannot go through. luckily theres a trail leading into the mountains further west that allows an easy way to get to it from behind, plus theres a woman that does archery training on the trail whos shack doesnt have a marker.

I have all the instruments for the bard quests, I can get panteas quest but she wont accept the flute and the other quests wont start after i gained membership. I did the console comand completequest to finish it and the delete from inventory to get rid of the instruments.

Blood on the Ice quest thats needed to buy a house and become thane wont start. standard setstage console commands wont start the quest but theres a workaround on the wiki in the discusion page that works.

The windhelm house is a mess of gltches. theres furniture and clues still in it, cobwebs and litter on the floor. some of the floor there is flashing. I think only part of the pre purchase interior cells were replaced by the purchase cells and some remained. this house seems to get allot of complaints for this.

I have several quests in my journal that i completed already back in my journal saying I just started them again and these are 1 time quests that i cannot do again. completequest doesnt work because the quest was completed.

texture issues on occasion makes the textures look like bump maps instead of the actual skin. well the color for a bump map is correct but its really smooth so wouldnt make much of a bump map. this usualy happens just prior to a crash to desktop.

some lighting issues in a few places where it looks like sand ripples on everything including people. worst place for it is the upstairs dining room in the solitude house.

Some funny moments such as fast travel someplace and a red dot on my compass and my horse will go straight to it at about 100 miles per hour in a straight line through anything in the way. but when I get to the red dot my horse is not there but back at the zone in location eating grass or whatever it does.

another horse glitch is I leave the horse outside of a tower or some ruins, close the door behind me and start my raid. get to the top and back outside and theres my horse running up some stairs attacking someone. this happened first at valtheim towers. I cleared up to the bridge on the south tower and went across the the north tower and cleared that completly then when returning to the south tower there goes my horse up the stairs.

*edit
Ebony blade wont level up when I murder a follower with it so i reloaded the earlier save, then put it on the display rack to the right of the door in whiterun and the next time i went to that house it was gone. console command to the rescue and dont put it on that rack again.

 

[CRRPGMykael]

Ooh another one I remembered. There's that murder mystery quest in Windhelm. I found that amulet which serves as a piece of evidence in the case. I talk to Calixto to have it identified and he offers to buy it from me at a great price.

However, at the time I'm thinking "what kind of investigator sells their best piece of evidence before the case is solved?" so I reject his offer, but he says if I change my mind later I can talk to him again. So I decide I'll hold onto it until I'm done with the quest, just in case selling it makes you fail or Calixto ends up being the killer or something.

Unfortunately, after the case is over, Calixto's dialogue options concerning the amulet disappear and you can't sell it or drop it because it's a quest item. It doesn't weigh anything though, and you can still wear it, though it has no effect.

The quest isn't actually over, then. The real killer is Calixto. Give Windhelm another visit and you'll find another dead woman. Now speak to the mage guy who is in the Bloodworks and is wrongly accused. This will continue the quest that you previously thought was finished.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

-slow textures
-followers dying when they wait in my house

You know the quest when, after the Companion guy's funeral, you have to return the axe to the statue in the tomb? when returning it I mashed the A button, and somehow returned it and kept it..

 

[Brutalis317]

I had the Ghostblade weapon on the display thingy in my Whiterun home. Downloaded the update and... gone. And it looked so cool too. *sniff*