ASkyrimfan has posted a video online of a Khajiit tail wagging, even though the character in question lies dead on the ground.Skyrimbeing littered with bugs is no secret in the gaming community, but this hasn’t stopped the game from becoming the highest-selling game ever inThe Elder Scrollsfranchise.
Skyrim wasreleased in 2011 and was a big part of the reason developer Bethesda would garner a reputation for releasing buggy games. Some community members are even preparingpre-release to fix Bethesda’s next game,Starfield. Although fans love the game, so much so that it continues to be among Steam’s most-played games to this day, there was no shortage of bugs inSkyrim. It’s a direct result of the sheer scale of the games that Bethesda develops, where no amount of testing could possibly catch everything that’s broken.
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The clip in question is quite short, with the dead Khajiit wagging their tail in Redditor DonTong’s face. The rest of the corpse remains still, as would be expected. The flowing nature of the tail makes it look as if it’s underwater, or operating within another field of gravity to the rest of the game. Other fans had plenty of jokes about the glitch, with many implying that the tail could be hosting the other eight lives of thecat-like Khajiit.
Although it probably wasn’t expected one user actually provided a reason for the glitch’s occurrence. Reddit user Self-Comprehensive said “True answer: it’s actually a piece of non removable animated clothing and the animation does not stop when they die.” It’s interesting that the reasoning for the bug is rather simple, yet over the years was never found and patched by Bethesda.The developer is still releasing updates forSkyrimto this day, though many of the glitches have been patched through community-made mods.
WithSkyrimnow over a decade old, most glitches that are still being found are relatively harmless. There have been past reports ofgame-breaking bugs in the Anniversary Edition of the game, though these have mostly been ironed out at this point. The glitches that are still there are a core part of the game’s charm that has kept players engaged all this time. Though players continue to awaitThe Elder Scrolls 6eagerly, there’s still plenty of life inSkyrimyet, bugs and all.
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - Anniversay Editionis available now for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
