Bethesda’sThe Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrimmay be one of the most celebrated RPGs of all time, but few gamers would argue on behalf of its stability. The developer’s games are notoriously glitchy, andBethesda often seems to not learn from its mistakes. Though it has received multiple re-releases, modernizations, and improvements over the past decade, players are still routinely running into weird issues and errors, and one Reddit user went semi-viral after discovering an amusing problem.
With just under 5,000 upvotes and an approval rating of 99 percent, u/CNE_Spooders’ clip showcases one of the funniest glitches to be captured inThe Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrimin some time. The seconds-long-snippet sees a band of archers float across the sky, stuck in a strange animation as they pass by the player. The clip is made all the funnier by the cries of some nearby NPC soldiers who seem to be every bit as confused as the player.
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Bearing the caption “Skyrim’s native birds are returning. Tamriel is healing,” fans can only roll their eyes and laugh at the nonstop nonsense of the fifth installment ofThe Elder Scrollsfranchise. Oddly enough, this clip pairs pretty well with a strangeflying horse glitch that was posted to r/skyrimlast month. In addition, it’s not all that dissimilar to another recent viral clip that saw a khajiit swimming through the air toward the player.
Fortunately, while Bethesda’s post-launch patches tend to fix one thing and break another, fan-made mods and updates do a pretty good job of ironing out the game’s most egregious problems. Yet, for some players, coming across oddities such as these are part of the experience and help to makeThe Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrimthe iconic title that it is.Bethesda has also removed or disallowed certain fan-made modsin the past, meaning that players can’t always count on community-generated fixes.
Yet, withThe Elder Scrolls 6currently in development, fans have been left to wonder if the same issues found throughout the previousThe Elder Scrollsinstallment will return in the long-awaited follow-up.Fallout 76may have undergone many improvements since launch, but when it first debuted, it suffered from many of the same bugs first seen inFallout 4, and it’s not inconceivable that the nextThe Elder Scrollsgame could suffer similar shortcomings.
Bethesda’s overall attitude toward bugs and glitches could have an impact onStarfield, as well. In late March, a lead designer claimed thattheStarfieldteam was partially inspired byCyberpunk 2077, and given the litany of issues that game had at launch, it felt like a bit of an unwise comparison.
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrimis available now for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
