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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 8 hours ago

The spiffing brit recently did a video on a bunch of fun crap like this, he crashed it doing a lot of things.

My favorite was taking all the food out of someone's house, reverse pickpocketing a poison apple in their pocket, the waiting around until 8pm when they eat and observing them dieing.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

Does the player character have to be present for this to happen?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In Elder Scrolls III on Xbox, there was a memory leak that they couldn't fix, so sometimes when the game is loading a new area, it actually reboots the Xbox. Apparently there's a way the developer can keep a freeze frame loading screen up while the console completely reboots.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 13 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I still can't fathom how implementing that "solution" is easier than fixing a memory leak. Like what the hell?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

Deadlines have entered the chat.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

shareholders have entered chat

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 7 hours ago

leaks are extremely hard to find and rebooting is just one function call.

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting. My og modded xbox has a custom firmware, and launches games off a hard drive, i wonder how it would handle this. I might have to dig it out and ftp over a copy of ES3 just to try it out.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah im still curious how that would work with a custom bootloader, but thats an interesting read.

[–] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's almost like it's a requirement that Bethesda programmers never write defensive code.

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only cowards check for null.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 8 hours ago

I always check for nuns out of habit

[–] ech@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

*remaster. It's largely just a reskin. As such...yeah, this probably still crashes the game (if it was a legit bug itfp).

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago

They patched SOME bugs, SpiffingBrit mentions the important ones to him they patched in his latest obliteration of Oblivion.

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Except they changed engines, so a lot of those bugs they actually had to program back in

Edit: Disregard, I am incorrect

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They sewed UE5 graphics on to Gambryo everything else. It’s the pigeon-rat of video games.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Just like god intended 🙂

[–] moody@lemmings.world 10 points 1 day ago

They changed graphics engine. The game engine is still the same.

[–] LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They only used UE5 for the graphical component. The rest is still the original engine.

A bit like the halo master collection.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and I'm willing to bet that there's an hour-long video on Youtube about it

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The fan wiki page says Salmo is programmed to deliver bread to the inns they visit but if you give them bread they eat it instead. The crash is probably due to attempting to complete delivery of an item that's no longer in the inventory.

The wiki also says other characters in the game erroneously refer to Salmo with "she/her" pronouns, but until I ask Salmo for their pronouns I'll keep using neutral language.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

Sure, some bugs are amusing, even if only for their stupidity. I can do without bugs that crash the game, though.