benny00000 Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 So last week I decided I wanted to play around with my characters appearance a little bit. I used showracemenu from console as so many people have suggested. I ended up finding the hair I liked. Several hours later after all my existing saves were overwritten I realized that at some point all of my skill levels had changed. My archery which was 80+ was now 15. Which explains why everything took 10+ arrows to kill. Has anyone else had this happen? Their stats being reset to base as a result of using "showracemenu"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertex23 Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Several hours? By the Nine, man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldShaperDragon Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 showracemenu is known to bug up skills. I've had a skill get penalized down to 15 for no apparent reason aside from the obvious that it was a glitch, though the skill itself was still at 72, which was astonishingly enervating, essentially giving me wasted perks. It was remedied days of play later through a skill book, but by then I had completely built my character another way and it was essentially redundant now. I'm going to use the console to refund my perks out of it once I get the chance >:/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoreai Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 So last week I decided I wanted to play around with my characters appearance a little bit. I used showracemenu from console as so many people have suggested. I ended up finding the hair I liked. Several hours later after all my existing saves were overwritten I realized that at some point all of my skill levels had changed. My archery which was 80+ was now 15. Which explains why everything took 10+ arrows to kill. Has anyone else had this happen? Their stats being reset to base as a result of using "showracemenu"? That shouldnt happen if you just changed your appereance...your skills reset only when you change race...thats strange becouse i changed appereance lots of times and im now arround 80 hours to the game and nothing like that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soot00 Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Yah the FIRST TIME will be the only time your skills get scrambled. After that initial WTF Moment you can use that console command 50x after and your skills will stay locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar88889 Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 I have the same problem I accidentally moved the race slider and didn't notice that my skills had been messed up until I levelled a while later. How do I get my skills back to how they were (I can't remember the exact numbers) do I have to use console and add them manually? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsYchotic666Joker Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 If you change your race it does that, but if you just use it to change your looks then it won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesapien Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Yeah, not much you can do at this point. Agree with others that only touching the race slider messes this up, as OP as said too. I've heard that tgm (toggling into god mode) before using the race menu and then tgm again after can also lock in those values but haven't tried it. Still, sounds too late for you now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James009 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Too late. The lesson is to make sure you have backups and multiple backups for times like these. Anyways, just use the console commands to estimate yourself back to where you were. It'll take a bit of typing but isn't impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OminousVoice Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Whenever I use showracemenu, I make a save beforehand, then use tgm first to 'lock' my stats. It doesn't actually lock them (as you can still gain xp with tgm) but it does prevent your skills from being scrambled. A teltale sign of imminent stat-scramblage is if your character is doing the 'bound' pose á la character creation when in the race menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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