I am one of those people who started Skyrim on several other platforms, only to stop before an hour had passed. I did however put significant time into Morrow wind.
note: I wrote this in a rush, didn't re-read, and hope this makes sense. I may have to edit later, somehow I thought I could save a copy for editing on a subsequent day... sorry if you are reading and it makes no sense...
This is not so much a blog as a note to self and any others who might stumble upon these traps and be looking for a way out. A reminder of how I got to that screwup in the first place.
Apparently, I discovered two bugs in the past two days, early on in the game. My present game plan was using my Amiboo to check in daily, scan all 6 for gold, and sign off, for year 1. Yep. That's the whole plan, lock, stock, and (lock) pick. While in White Run I tried updating my Hyrulian shield and instantly lost my ability to save, anywhere. I tried reloading, previous saves of the day, checking the shield for updated status before trying to save and each time the update was there but unable to save. Finally, I shut down unexpectedly, without checking a shield status, after loading, I loaded the original days save, the one I make just after the amiboo loot chests, loaded it, and without checking the shield, I again shut down. I then loaded that exact save without save after restarting and it again allowed me to save. After checking the save ability I then checked the shield to find it ... updated! apparently, the updated shield status carried over to every save for that day even the ones before the shield had been updated.
That was the second glitch if you can call it that.
The first was where I had been trying to improve my lockpicking skills be picking a random house, I've forgotten exactly which one, a low-level character in SOlitude, an old lady, (I'll update when I recall her name) I had no intention of entering, just opening the lock for the skill improvement. As soon as the lock opened, the old lady, said something about me not supposed to be there, I tried turning to leave, and the controls wouldn't let me. I've forgotten exactly what didi, I didn't shot off, or fast travel (yet) I kept trying to walk out, and a little back it, I was locked, it wouldn't let me go either way!
I tried reloading the previous save, just moments before picking the lock, when loaded, I still couldn't move, forward or backward. tried several previous save, same results. I tried fast traveling outside city doors, the same results. I finally broke this pattern by shutting down, without saving, and opening a save previous to my daily loot save, and it again allowed me to walk again.
In both these situations, ( I know nothing about these memory hacks) apparently, it saves the previous status of conditions while a game is loaded and requires very specific restart conditions to dump those memory conditions, locked walking, upgraded shield etc.... What does this all mean?
I'm not sure, but if it helps someone, who stumbles upon a similar situation, I'll consider it a win.
note: I wrote this in a rush, didn't re-read, and hope this makes sense. I may have to edit later, somehow I thought I could save a copy for editing on a subsequent day... sorry if you are reading and it makes no sense...
This is not so much a blog as a note to self and any others who might stumble upon these traps and be looking for a way out. A reminder of how I got to that screwup in the first place.
Apparently, I discovered two bugs in the past two days, early on in the game. My present game plan was using my Amiboo to check in daily, scan all 6 for gold, and sign off, for year 1. Yep. That's the whole plan, lock, stock, and (lock) pick. While in White Run I tried updating my Hyrulian shield and instantly lost my ability to save, anywhere. I tried reloading, previous saves of the day, checking the shield for updated status before trying to save and each time the update was there but unable to save. Finally, I shut down unexpectedly, without checking a shield status, after loading, I loaded the original days save, the one I make just after the amiboo loot chests, loaded it, and without checking the shield, I again shut down. I then loaded that exact save without save after restarting and it again allowed me to save. After checking the save ability I then checked the shield to find it ... updated! apparently, the updated shield status carried over to every save for that day even the ones before the shield had been updated.
That was the second glitch if you can call it that.
The first was where I had been trying to improve my lockpicking skills be picking a random house, I've forgotten exactly which one, a low-level character in SOlitude, an old lady, (I'll update when I recall her name) I had no intention of entering, just opening the lock for the skill improvement. As soon as the lock opened, the old lady, said something about me not supposed to be there, I tried turning to leave, and the controls wouldn't let me. I've forgotten exactly what didi, I didn't shot off, or fast travel (yet) I kept trying to walk out, and a little back it, I was locked, it wouldn't let me go either way!
I tried reloading the previous save, just moments before picking the lock, when loaded, I still couldn't move, forward or backward. tried several previous save, same results. I tried fast traveling outside city doors, the same results. I finally broke this pattern by shutting down, without saving, and opening a save previous to my daily loot save, and it again allowed me to walk again.
In both these situations, ( I know nothing about these memory hacks) apparently, it saves the previous status of conditions while a game is loaded and requires very specific restart conditions to dump those memory conditions, locked walking, upgraded shield etc.... What does this all mean?
I'm not sure, but if it helps someone, who stumbles upon a similar situation, I'll consider it a win.
