PlagueFox Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 for starters, it's been a few weeks since i've played skyrim, until this morning. just finished downloading the new patch for PS3, loaded up my save, cleared a dungeon i was near, yadda. but then i tried fast traveling to Solitude to get rid of the loot, and what met me there when i spawned in? no less than 5 draugr deathlords/scourges, 2 fire mage adepts, 2 bandit marauders, a cave bear, an ice wolf, and a snow sabre cat. the hell? i ended up living through it but a whole bunch of solitude commoners bit the bucket, so i decided to reload and try again. went to the stables outside solitude this time, and the same thing happened. tried more spots farther east, same thing. ended up fast traveling to an enemy fort and letting them kill each other while i picked off the stragglers. it was the first time i fast traveled since i installed the 1.05 patch, anyone else have something similar happen to them? it only happened the first time, didn't happen on any fast travels after that, so it's not that big of a deal and i'm not complaining, just curious. it happened on my PS3, so it wasn't some rogue mod. i've come to accept Skyrim bugs as an inevitability, but i thought i'd make note of this one anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitchieTheMerc Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 I'm thinking it could be due to the way Skyrim handles random encounters, because if you saved outside, near that dungeon you cleared, there is a high chance that the game had already 'prepared' a random encounter near your location. If you fast traveled only a few seconds after leaving the dungeon, the game could've already started 'performing' or playing that random encounter, so the NPCs and factions involved in the 'scene' would have spawned. Then, when you fast traveled to Solitude, the NPCs could have been transported there with you, because you have already triggered the encounter. So, in short, a random encounter traveled with you to a city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlagueFox Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 must've been one hell of a random encounter to get such a wide variety of participants. thanks for the reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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