Damn it Salmo

umbraroze , 2 hours ago

Salmo has two AI packages commanding him to take five loaves of bread to the Two Sisters Lodge at 10am and to the West Weald Inn at midday, but the packages never execute as he has no bread in his inventory and the packages are of “escort” type, meaning he doesn’t actively seek any out. It’s possible this bug was introduced to avoid another, more serious one: if bread is given to Salmo using the console or CS, he will walk to one of the inns as commanded, take a bite of bread, and the game will crash. (UESP)

Right, this is classic Bethesda stuff right here.

leisesprecher , 2 hours ago

This is what’s happening in highly complex software over time. Every larger system has corners like this.

I’ve worked on a system that required that you send invalid XML, because some bloke 10 years ago didn’t know what he’s doing and hardcoded a certain structure.

Easy fix, but our clients relied in the old behavior, and nobody bothered fixing it.

Prunebutt , 1 hour ago

and nobody bothered fixing it.

As they said: “Classic Bethesda behavior”

felixwhynot , 3 hours ago

Now I want to know why it crashes!

Irremarkable , 3 hours ago

It somehow clips with a texture under the floors that nobody knows why it's there, all they know is the game doesn't work if they remove the texture. Something like that, probably.

ObviouslyNotBanana OP , 3 hours ago

We should boot the old 'blivion and figure it out

Iheartcheese , 2 hours ago

I don’t have the 12 hours to mod it though

ObviouslyNotBanana OP , 1 hour ago

I’m sure Bethesda has gotten around to bug fixing it by now /s

cmhe , 3 hours ago

It is Oblivion, so the crash might be unrelated.

aeronmelon , 1 hour ago

To be fair, most innocuous behavior makes Oblivion crash.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 hours ago

Screw the bug, I want Salmo CHIM lore