I hear the Companions questline is buggy, is it worth playing?

[Dubnoman]

I hear the Companions questline is the buggiest questline. I have the unofficial patch for Skyrim, but I figure that will help out the Companions questline only so much. Should I even bother with this questline? Is it worth investing time into? I know some spoilers about it, too.

I know some members are werewolves.

 

 

I was thinking about doing the civil war questline, too. Is that one worth doing? I will join the Imperials. My character believes a united empire is needed to take on the Thalmor, and finds the Stormcloaks to be racists.

Edited July 30, 2013 by Dubnoman

[CasperTheLich]

I haven't had that many issues with either questline. and I've put something like 3000 hours & 20 or so characters into it. though i'm using the unofficial patches and a truckload of mods.

[helloguy1232]

I thought everybody just played every questline and then started over again with a new character

 

lol

[kleinstaff]

I rarely had any problems with that questline except with a few glitches that can be worked around

Companions probably the only questline with so little bugs

except in the vanilla version it is so incomplete and not really immersive you could do those 9 quests in a evening if you want to and become harvinger at level 1 not very immersive

[spinspider]

I've played it, and the only issue I encountered was with the "test" fight with Vilkas at the beginning - he continued to be hostile after the fight had ended. However, I simply turned off AI detection, and when I went downstairs and spoke to Aela to complete the quest, the problem was fixed (he was no longer hostile).

[kleinstaff]

I've played it, and the only issue I encountered was with the "test" fight with Vilkas at the beginning - he continued to be hostile after the fight had ended. However, I simply turned off AI detection, and when I went downstairs and spoke to Aela to complete the quest, the problem was fixed (he was no longer hostile).

thats one of the glitches i sometimes have or when he draws his sword and keep repeating ' we do not use magic ' line

for the first glitch i reload to fix it and the second one i take some distance crounch and fire some arrows at him

another glitch happen when you accept the werewolf blood and go with ael to that silverhand hide out ( forgot the name) and aela goes off hunting rabbits and don t follow you into the keep when you finish the dungon you find her back at jorvasker where you can finish that quest and start the next one

these glitches only happen rarely for me and you can work around them

[thenobody0]

I've never had any bugs with the Companions questline.

[wynterlyn]

I hear the Companions questline is the buggiest questline. I have the unofficial patch for Skyrim, but I figure that will help out the Companions questline only so much. Should I even bother with this questline? Is it worth investing time into? I know some spoilers about it, too.

I know some members are werewolves.

 

 

I was thinking about doing the civil war questline, too. Is that one worth doing? I will join the Imperials. My character believes a united empire is needed to take on the Thalmor, and finds the Stormcloaks to be racists.

I can't really say I've had any problems with the Companions quest chain. I've had around 6+ saves on new characters and I've never had a problem with the Companions.

 

However, the Dark Brotherhood is a totally different thing altogether. I've had 3 bugged quest chains out of 6 saves and the I didn't even attempt it on one of my saves. So that is like 3 out of 5 which is simply horrible. The first one I just wouldn't get the letter after starting the quest chain; the 2nd time there were no quests available after joining the Brotherhood. Astrid or the other guy wouldn't give me any quests. 3rd time my horse got bugged and I couldn't find him again.

 

I've been told that the unofficial skyrim patch conflicts with the Dark Brotherhood. Don't know how true it is.

[RatcatcherOfKvatch]

Just remember: FARKAS FIRST, FIRST IS FARKAS.

 

The worst bug is when you cure lycanthropy for Vilkas first, but if you cure Farkas first Vilkas goes second and all is well, or at least that's been my experience.