Post by jgf on Dec 11, 2016 2:05:48 GMT
Ah, the bats are busy tonight, but this is my last question (for now).
This was a rare coincidence of events from which I cheated to extricate myself. But i wonder if there was another way.
It was in an Ayleid ruin, a room with gas vents in the center and four walls which instantly raise if you enter that area. Vilja and I skirted that and explored the rest of the ruin, on the way out we had to go back through that room ...and there was a stentorian sound as we approached. A will-o-wisp had drifted into the gas area and triggered the walls, now that creature is one of the more difficult to kill, so those walls would drop and raise and drop and raise as it just drifted around inside. The cycle of the walls was too fast for me to get a shot at the will-o-wisp; also too fast to run in and run out, especially if the creature decided to attack. My next thought was to cheat, when the walls were down open the console, click on the creature, and "kill" it; but getting a will-o-wisp ID is problematic under the best of circumstances, all I could get was the ID of the far wall of the room. So I saved the game and exited; that save crashed every time I tried to load it. Loaded the previous save (made when I first heard those walls crashing) and decided either god mode or tcl was the only way out, the latter seemed less of a cheat.
So,
- I could not kill the will-o-wisp from outside the walls
- IF the gas could kill it, it would take a long time (and probably just as long for it to decide to drift out of the area)
- I hadn't the health/armor/speed to run into the area, make a turn, and run out
other than waiting it out was there a non-cheating solution?
This was a rare coincidence of events from which I cheated to extricate myself. But i wonder if there was another way.
It was in an Ayleid ruin, a room with gas vents in the center and four walls which instantly raise if you enter that area. Vilja and I skirted that and explored the rest of the ruin, on the way out we had to go back through that room ...and there was a stentorian sound as we approached. A will-o-wisp had drifted into the gas area and triggered the walls, now that creature is one of the more difficult to kill, so those walls would drop and raise and drop and raise as it just drifted around inside. The cycle of the walls was too fast for me to get a shot at the will-o-wisp; also too fast to run in and run out, especially if the creature decided to attack. My next thought was to cheat, when the walls were down open the console, click on the creature, and "kill" it; but getting a will-o-wisp ID is problematic under the best of circumstances, all I could get was the ID of the far wall of the room. So I saved the game and exited; that save crashed every time I tried to load it. Loaded the previous save (made when I first heard those walls crashing) and decided either god mode or tcl was the only way out, the latter seemed less of a cheat.
So,
- I could not kill the will-o-wisp from outside the walls
- IF the gas could kill it, it would take a long time (and probably just as long for it to decide to drift out of the area)
- I hadn't the health/armor/speed to run into the area, make a turn, and run out
other than waiting it out was there a non-cheating solution?