While duking it out with a massive dragon in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, one player stubled across a glitch that turned said dragon into a cow.
Dragon fights in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim often prove intense, but one player recently stumbled across a glitch that reduced the difficulty when their dragon opponent transformed into a cow. It’s no secret that Skyrim is filled with bizarre glitches. While some gameplay bugs can drastically disrupt the flow of things, others can prove quite hilarious under certain circumstances.
One recent bug that made the rounds online involved a guard randomly hovering across the screen at a speed that would make Sonic the Hedgehog blush. Another humorous glitch saw a deer perform a well-timed backflip after being zapped with one player’s lightning spell. Needless to say, there exists no shortage of Skyrim-centric gameplay errors. And it seems that most of the more hilarious examples have certainly hit the web in some form or fashion over the last decade or so. However, every so often, something unique takes the Elder Scrolls community by storm. This time, that something just so happens to involve Skyrim’s usually formidable dragons.
A popular post on the official Skyrim subreddit from user lizardThenoob has proven quite the headscratcher. The Redditor recently shared a 30-second gameplay clip of their battle with a dragon. Pretty standard stuff, really. But once the player defeats the majestic creature, one last zap of lightning does a lot more than rid the dragon of its remaining life force. When the dragon succumbs to lizardThenoob’s death blow, it transforms into a cow, a dead cow at that. Take a look at this bizarre turn of events in the gameplay video linked below:
The above counts among the strangest of things. Who knew cows in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim somehow bore a connection to the game’s most powerful creatures? Jokes aside, whatever caused the glitch doesn’t seem to have disrupted things too much in terms of the player progression. Cattleborn does have a nice ring to it, though.
Notably, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim reentered the spotlight late last year amid its 10th anniversary, which Bethesda Softworks and Bethesda Game Studios celebrated with the release of an Anniversary Edition. This updated version of the seminal role-playing title introduced players to a whole host of new features, including fishing mechanics, Survival Mode, the Rare Curios creation, and several hundred of Skyrim’s Creation Club offerings. It, too, has been riddled with a wide variety of bugs since its November 2021 rollout on consoles and PC.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is available on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
Source: lizardThenoob/Reddit
A Senior Writer on Screen Rant’s Game News team, Brianna Reeves graduated from Sam Houston Statue University in 2018 with a Master of Arts in English Literature. Brianna’s enthusiasm for games dates back to Mortal Kombat Trilogy on PlayStation 1, along with classics like MediEvil, Syphon Filter, and THPS2. However, Red Dead Redemption reinvigorated her love for the medium; hopefully, that passion reflects in the work she has contributed to Comic Book Resources, PlayStation LifeStyle, GVMERS, and Screen Rant.
