Skyrim Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits

[@thespiffingbrit]

*I am sure after 10 years Bethesda has fixed all the bugs and exploits....* Also if you want to listen to the full podcast episode about this video then check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2HamYZjir2Ja9U

[@rbuckley6248]

You're the best bro love the content so unique

[@darrenjohnhadenford1588]

You could also have stabbed Hadvar from behind with a dagger and maxed out your one hand too.

[@ZeFroz3n0ne907]

There's no issues with Skyrim, all is well in the world of Todd Howard, haha. *Get's foosed into the sun by Todd Howard*

[@Marten_Zeug]

Nice Video Spiff!

[@Reversemotion20]

Idk about hadvar cuz i just started watching video but if you go with the other guy you can keep attacking him with no consequences and get your one or two handed ridiculousy high

[@abloodcorpse3318]

"Turns out 10 years isn't enough time" Hey to be fair, the developers found out about Skyrim Anniversary edition at the same time we did.

[@QuackinOut]

This made me laugh, thank you.

[@callmeriggy]

@@QuackinOut Same.

[@norishimogawa6125]

@@callmeriggy when did we find out? like was there a trailer? i don't keep up with this stuff

[@Truck-kun653]

"What?! We're rereleasing skyrim again?" Todd Howard: Yes, but were going to add some stuff. -hands over one paper of the things added- "....these are just mods that someone else made...."

[@bustacs2]

probably even later

[@bastianjacobsen6696]

I mean were they really going to fix everything after 10 years. Hey, it wouldn’t be skyrim without the glorious exploits.

[@thespiffingbrit]

They really have become gameplay features

[@tada-kun982]

@@thespiffingbrit It just works

[@Guardian-of-Light137]

Yet the only one I really wanted to stay got patched out. The ogma infinium glitch. Granted it was only useful on the ps3 version as if I really wanna be overpowered I can just use console commands on pc. But still.

[@brennanmarsh1572]

@@Guardian-of-Light137 It's just not the same unless the glitch.

[@J-ManJT]

Elder scrolls V: exploit simulator

[@vantahku7211]

Fun Fact about the starting area: Once you reach the Bear encounter, Hadvar will sneak and give you a bow. So long as you do not pass, disturb, or kill the bear, Hadvar is now unprovokable and unkillable. You can get behind him and infinitely sneak attack him, for sneak and melee exp. You can* also use magic on him, but you will not get sneak exp at that time. If he's running out of HP, simply switch difficulty to legendary and hack away! You can than leave the starting cave with level 100 sneak, one and/or two handed melee, or even destruction magic. So far as I know, this only works while Hadvar is crouched (sneaking) and works best in the shadowy areas. Still maintain your distance from the bear, as it can and will notice you.

[@thebotdestroyer852]

Okay I took all the wrong steps in my legendary character. I hope there’s other ways to do that.

[@mickyflint]

Iirc so long as your in tutorial,hadvar and ralof are invincible and unaggroable.

[@kadajyvalencia351]

Quicker to do it right as you enter the keep, kill off the heavy armor guard and steal the key before he does and bam, he cant go anywhere

[@spencergimlin8763]

You can do this right from the start, as long as you don't open the indicated chest. Hadvar will just stand there saying "you should get some gear". His voice lines are even the perfect timer for sneak attacks.

[@boiyado6717]

A similar exploit I found is with Feralda in the College of Winterhold. As least on PS4, while she is sleeping it takes about 3 hits in quick succession for her to aggro onto you. Just sneaking behind her bed and attacking her once won’t cause her to become hostile, making it a pretty easy way to gain sneak experience if you missed the Hadvar and Ralof exploit.

[@biohazard9077]

Todd : *sells the shop owner his own stuff* Also Todd : *sells 76 owners their own game* Todd found the money exploit irl

[@tomisabum]

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[@erikurizita6702]

Yooo, my man knows nothing until *Todd gives fans who were dissatisfied with their hundred something collectors edition something equal in return. 5 Dollar Nuka Points card*

[@afjer]

Yeah, it's basically just a mod pack branded as a new edition. Granted, they are some decent, albeit glitchy, mods. Still... I was hoping for more of an upres.

[@guxery8901]

@@afjer yeah it is just a few little mods with a 20$ price tag

[@linkfloyd1975]

Lmao You really just stole a joke from this video. . . You so funny/clever.

[@lycrist_kat8116]

"What is the best set of armor in Skyrim?" Spiff: "Yes"

[@makke_macro]

all of em'

[@Johndeepwoken-z2i]

hide toenail covers

[@akunformalitas]

Plot armor

[@richfiles]

My Khajiit with basically a hide skirt and some jewelry tanking everything, save for jumping off the Throat of the World. XD

[@hellothere5077]

"Who would want to become immortal through exploits at 3AM?!" thespiffingbrit: *sips yorkshire tea* "Oh boy! 3AM!"

[@marcelbruin4582]

Hello there

[@STOPSYPHER]

Hello there

[@technicallywrong9075]

Hello there

[@ShedinnStudios]

*sips Yorkshire tea* GENERAL KENOBI!!!

[@HelloThere-nd7px]

Hello There

[@Deeveeaar]

Skyrim is suped balanced. You are suposed to be the dragonborn (chosen one) obviuously you are meant to be this powerful! xD

[@leyrua]

* "Superman" balanced 😉

[@csg1lcolonel528]

@@leyrua nah superman isnt anywhere near as powerful as the dragonborne with prep time

[@exittierone]

It's literally prophesized that you're supposed to kill alduin I don't know why more people in prophecies just realize this and do whatever knowing that whatever they do will fulfill the prophecy because it's a prophecy

[@Arrusoh]

you joke, but with The Elder Scrolls really weird lore console commands are actually canon. So it could be argued the exploits are too. Console commands are apparently super powerful alteration magic

[@anthonybottigliero8336]

I can craft a dagger which can one-hit-kill a god. That's balance!

[@ArkayeCh]

"Skyrim has been out for ten years." Could have fooled me. Felt like several decades.

[@Hortifox_the_gardener]

you do? It just makes me feel old. It feels like I played it just a year ago.

[@InvestmentBankr]

same, but thats because I went through oblivion a few times, and then when they released the Skyrim texture pack it all just blurred together.

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@InvestmentBankr for me the blurring was from morrowind to oblivion.

[@InvestmentBankr]

@@GameTimeWhy That doesn't really copy, it was a new engine and serious graphics/style change. Whereas Skyrim is just Oblivion with HDR.

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@InvestmentBankr new engine but the same mechanics.

[@xbeliefs4242]

I think the fact that Todd Howard has refused to fix all the bugs is the reason Skyrim is such a glorious game! Everytime you load up the game its like reaching into a hat pulling out bugs. You never know what your experience will become with each gaming session.

[@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool]

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 :)

[@diabolicwave7238]

@@GirolamoZanchi_is_cool In this metaphor, I take it Todd Howard is God (it rhymes!), his son is bugs, and having eternal life is having 500 cheese wheels?

[@Pudcup]

@diabolicwave7238 Nope, it's just religious praise.

[@diabolicwave7238]

@@Pudcup That's far less fun than assuming these nutbars are trying to say something halfway relevant, though.

[@menthols4625]

I love how the prison armor stacking glitch is actually perfectly logical, in the sense of how and why it works and does what it does as an exploit. I could imagine a random player thinking about it working in theory, then trying it out and being pleasantly surprised that it works. Unlike many other glitches where I feel like players accidentally discover them, this one seems a bit more intentionally found.

[@icngames1032]

Spiff's videos showcase lots of, "Oh, I see how this bug was found." while Ymfah's videos showcase the others.

[@twilightsparkle75]

@@icngames1032 back in the old days when blaxksmith forges damaged the player, that damage increased the players destruction xp.

[@louisvaught2495]

The fortify restoration loop was found intentionally, actually. Back in Oblivion, fortify effects were considered part of the restoration school of magic, but skill calculations were capped at 100 and there was no fortify restoration. In Skyrim, people realized that skill "effective" levels were now uncapped, and that fortify restoration was an effect that you could get fairly easily. Since fortify effects are part of the restoration school, that means "fortify restoration" effects fortify themselves.

[@Hirokuro_Asura]

@@louisvaught2495 Well, as much logical as this exploit is somehow through all these years since 11.11.11 I've never used that one lol

[@beaawsome2211]

I agree with the enjoyment of such glitches. Though with enough knowledge and being enough of a nerd its equally as fun to know the code ajd exactly what makes the game do weird things.

[@snakept69]

Todd Howard selling items back to the trader like he sells us Skyrim for the 18th time is just chef's kiss. PS: Never finished main quest, did all guild quests though.

[@rns9644]

You're missing out.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

my first playthrough I didn't even know that dragons were randomly occurring enemies in the game since I didn't go up to high hrothgar (except to drop off some supplies) until I'd done all the guild quests I was interested in

[@rns9644]

@Tomáš Nikel ofc its easy if you play on normal mode

[@SerratedSkies]

Ahhh I see. After losing his first game to glitches, Spif is using glitches and exploits himself to come to terms with his loss. By taking ownership over the thing that traumatized him, he hopes to gain a sense of control over his pain. Very commendable. Very strong.

[@reothered]

"Even though I've played 100's of hrs I've never beaten the main quest" I felt that one in my core

[@UnGodlyGod7365]

Skyrim in a nutshell

[@JuniorJuni070]

If you never have beatem the gamr then you a noob.

[@bigkirbyhj666]

@@JuniorJuni070 only noobs complete the main story in skyrim.

[@EneruM]

"Why don't they develop technology on Tamriel over centuries?" Boy, they got teletransporting buckets and walls, who needs electronics with that?

[@Arrusoh]

Serious answer because I love the series a bit too much. They do develop technology. Magic is literally science in this universe. And Skyrim is the Province that hates magic the most. There is no point developing technology like we did on earth if they have an alternative. Without the need there is no inavation. A lot of people look at fantasy worlds and think they lack developed technology. without realising that the magic they have would have completely changed the course of development. Just look at any Dwemer ruin

[@mikehunt4265]

I'd imagine the dwemer not being a part of tamriel has made it the equivalent of the dark ages but in reverse as without the dwemer magick is the technology of age as nobody is pushing tech anymore

[@GlowBerryPumpkin]

Get these milkdrinkers some gaming pcs

[@Ac0303]

Another semi serious answer alot of the games for some reason actually suffer from technological downgrades because if you look at the lore they used to have things akin to space ships and the numideon which was a giant dwenmer robot and the battlespire which was a giant floating platform in the aether which touched on multiple planes of oblivion and had teleportation portals to multiple places across tamriel. I have seen people theorise it's post apocalyptic due to the amount of things that happened around the time of oblivion with plagues and the moon's disappearing and the oblivion crisis itself but even then they've still gone from space ships to regular boats and horses and carriages long before then. You can probably put it down to the dwenmer disappearance as you can find ruins of airships they had made in morrowind and the dragon born dlc but I do think some of it comes down to Bethesda just forgetting lore

[@xancharles]

I didn't see anybody making timestamps for all those deliciois glitches, I had a lot of time to spare, so here there are ! Please tell me if I forgot some or if they are incorrect, I will gladly change it. (Sorry in advance if i made grammatical mistakes, I'm French and still learning ^^) 04:09 : Sneak lvl 100 afk (beginning of the game) 6:15 : Selling its own items to a NPC 6:53 : Reset a trader's inventory (items AND gold) 8:03 : Going under Whiterun & stea... borrowing from the Skyforge 9:37 : Classic Downstar hidden chest 10:22 -> 13:32 : Wearing multiple sets of armor/clothing/jewelry 15:47 : Getting inside the Thalmor's Ambassy 16:45 : Getting inside the Tower of Mzark 19:35 : Trapping Odahviing without fighting Thanks for reading !

[@Madness801]

*if it ain't broke don't fix it* its balanced in a way that you as the player got no limits push past boundaries overcome obstacles believe in yourself and become something more don't let limits hold you back

[@thespiffingbrit]

Thats the spirit Todd

[@tada-kun982]

Todd? Is it you?

[@noaamonyakuza5]

you dork, go back to the chess club

[@atomicanachronism8849]

Todd are you okay

[@robertlewis6915]

Appropriately grammatical.

[@RadioStatic-ic1dy]

This man is the definition of "tough talk for somebody in quick save distance"

[@PierreLucSex]

Hahaaa

[@STOPSYPHER]

that mf ancano is always in quick save distance. but you don't even gotta cause nobody reacts to anything you do to him lmao

[@uchihacuh69]

Fun fact about dual wielding Your dual power attack speed is determined by your left hand weapon, meaning that if you equip a mace in your right hand with enchantments and a dagger in your left hand with no enchantments, then use elemental fury, your dual wielding power attack will be as fast as the elemental fury dagger which is pretty dang fast and it'll also mean that your mace will be doing a ton of damage really quickly

[@charlessmith5465]

The exploits have moved beyond features at this point and are practically canon: they'd never remove them. 😁

[@teal_m_101]

Nirn is a wacky place.

[@TheMarkieMarkMan321]

It's probably in C0da

[@darrennew8211]

That's actually true of the giant yeet effect. They fixed that, and everyone complained, so they put it back in.

[@jediknight1294]

The problem is they'd have to rewrite fundamental game mechanics to do it and honestly it's not worth it. Given how the vender system works. Shared inventory/inventory reset is a limitation of the core code of the time and without porting to the fo4 engine it wouldn't change

[@phexitol]

It just works.

[@shr1mpsush1]

You know, all they have to do is drop that particular chest a few inches down and no player will ever be able to reach it again.

[@thespiffingbrit]

Well actually you can still reach the chests under the map by falling through the world and stacking entities until you build a path out to the chest. This is an exploit used to get high level spells in the college of winterfell as the chests are under the map

[@Vericentra117]

lol., schooled 😂 thought you could out-skyrim the Keanu Reeves? edit: Reanu Keeves, my apologies

[@mulrich]

Hilariously, that chest has been fixed in the unofficial patch for literal years, as has the fortify restoration loop.

[@sidecharacter7165]

At this point it isn’t an exploit, it is a feature.

[@TinedaVO]

@@Vericentra117 Ahem. That’s Reanu Keeves to you, sir. 😁

[@tomharris2813]

He really needs to do a Skyrim VR episode. The pure chaos in that would be amazing

[@normalhuman9878]

With the mod to grab NPCs installed

[@tysonhumble1604]

I hate that i want another version of skyrim, psvr2 needs it

[@alexdmg]

Damn, didn't know there was such level of detail in the continuity department! In Oblivion there's also an exploit to put on an infinite amount of armor and I just learned that it's also in Skyrim, simply amazing!

[@Romanticoutlaw]

fun fact: it's technically possible for the hero of oblivion to be alive for the events of skyrim if they're of an elvish race (and were very young back then, and are very, very old now). So perhaps they just remembered the trick they came across in the oblivion crisis

[@shadowstrider5033]

@@Romanticoutlaw Or if they are a vampire or is sheogorath.

[@alexdmg]

@@Romanticoutlaw damn, that's a pretty interesting idea!

[@destronamicsz7207]

“Todd Howard just convinced you to buy your stuff back to you” … Skyrim anniversary edition

[@MorrisJoshua26]

One more time for the folks in the back. Lol

[@pheonixshaman]

I was scanning the comment section to see if someone would bring this fact about Toddius Vile up. Glad to someone did. ;)

[@voodoominerman]

Did you buy them again? I bought regular Skyrim on steam and over the years I've been given the Special and Anniversary editions for free when they came out. Not as in someone gifting them to me, steam just gave them to me.

[@kuhhnt]

Yep. I finished Skyrim. On PS3. Where the alchemy exploit made my 3rd play through, that much better. So I was able to one-hit Alduin with a wooden sword, while I wore rags for armour, could carry the world, had effectively infinite health and mana, could breathe underwater, and all the rest.

[@danieladams1752]

Brit: "The rebellion are a bunch of madlads that dont really know what theyre doing." America: "Thought I heard something..."

[@leyrua]

Must have been the wind.

[@polla2256]

Long live the Empire

[@danielwilson4947]

Yeah uhh I think that's second place you heard

[@ericb3157]

"sell him his own stuff" WOW, what a weird glitch/exploit, i never heard about that one before!

[@someone24c]

Tested the immortality glitch on xbox. It just works. Keep in mind you cannot stack the same armor or jewelry. Thank you sir spiff for another amazing skyrim video! Edit: if you stack weapon boosts you need to go to jail one more time or until you notice a significant boost to damage.

[@lilgezpacho]

Honestly, on my first playthrough way back when, I legit forgot about Alduin and thought the Civil War was the main story. So I finished that and noticed I didn't get the achievement and was extremely confused for a shameful amount of time.

[@LoganT8792]

same thing happened to me with the dragonborn dlc

[@theindooroutdoorsman]

Civil war should have been the main story. The dragon stuff was eh, but so overpowered.

[@genie55_LordFinn]

They are both mainquests as you can see when you need to pause the war to gurantees whiteruns safety before capturing the dragon. Always funny to me was how you can assasinate the emporer at any time by that dark brotherhood questline

[@kaltaron1284]

I love how Hadvar tells you that you "aren't the sneeky type" after you've maxed out stealth. Classic.

[@OmniscientWarrior]

And ignoring that he got past so many things just to get there.

[@alden2085]

The most surprising thing in this video was actually fighting Nahkriin, instead of just walking past him before he has a chance to close the portal

[@Timocracy]

It is incredible how the game has managed to stay so relevant for 10 years. Even spectacularly broken games can be really, really entertaining.

[@chikenugets9165]

if it worked as intended i think it would have died when they tried to monetize mods

[@eonnephilim852]

@Jay Leno You mean it can be modded heavily to become either really feature rich but somewhat broken (less broken than vanilla though), or modded to become way more stable while adding more depth to vanilla features? Not to mention it can look really good either approach you take. Skyrim is a shitty game unmodded, the gameplay is brainless as hell and even though there's a lot to do it doesn't really matter since there's no depth to your actions. Without its modding scene it would be forgotten, or classified up there with Ride to Hell as "shitty games that are memeworthy."

[@sdfkjgh]

@Jay Leno: So, what I hear you saying is that Skyrim is an unintentional Goat Simulator.

[@msolomonii9825]

exactly what I've been thinking!

[@canismajoris6733]

@@eonnephilim852 Skyrim is a great game unmodded. It's very obvious if you're not a brainless sheep

[@ItsMadSweeny]

Spiff is finally defeating Alduin after all these years

[@thespiffingbrit]

Turns out pretty EZ tbh

[@AmarantFFO]

Reanu Keeves ate Alduin alive and like the mighty Thor with his goat, he revived him to eat it again, true story

[@akilh340]

@@thespiffingbrit "It's super easy, barely an inconvenience"

[@definatehuman2967]

4:30 You can also max out 1 and 2 handed weapons here just by repeatedly hitting the npc, and if you sneak attack him you can kill 2 birds with 1 stone

[@neror9499]

and it would lvl up sneak Much faster... 2 hours damn xD

[@Korikesho]

Which npc?

[@ezracoleenokson2911]

@@Korikesho Ralof or Hadvar.

[@neror9499]

@@Korikesho as Ezra said :D just turn difficulty on max, so they can regen theyr hp fast enough

[@Korikesho]

@@neror9499 thanks!

[@thatgun6726]

My brothers were in the back of the car and one went to sleep on the way back from Christmas vacation. When he finally woke up my other brother looked over at him and said "Hey you, your finally awake."😂

[@CthulhuianBunny]

If anyone wants another time-saving exploit, you can just sprint past Nahkriin, activate his staff while it's still on the pedestal, and hop into Sovngarde.

[@ruukinen]

Ah someone else also mentioned this. I thought we were on a tight schedule and didn't have time to fight ol mummy boyos.

[@walterdog3603]

Nah don’t do that, you won’t get nahkriins mask and can’t get konahriks mask which is really good

[@indrickboreale7381]

I did it in pacifist run xd

[@ruukinen]

@@walterdog3603 Uh, he skipped a lot of content anyway so I don't see your point. This was essentially speed run lite.

[@walterdog3603]

@@ruukinen no yeah I get that, I mean for anyone else. A better miny exploit in that section is to kill nahkriin as soon as he grabs the staff, loot his body and take the staff and mask then jump into the portal. You keep the staff and mask

[@afjer]

As I'm sure everyone has already pointed out, you can go to Sovngarde without fighting the dragon priest by simply running past him and jumping in the portal.

[@onelusciouslad7841]

That's what I did lol, I was like "Oh fuck this" and just ran past him.

[@afjer]

@@onelusciouslad7841 Lol. One thing I've always wanted to try is the glitch that lets you keep his staff.

[@SophiaAstatine]

@@afjer Basically the same thing. You just have to murder him really fast so the portal hasn't closed yet.

[@digishade7583]

@@onelusciouslad7841 I tried to do the fight a few times and then just went EFF it and ran straight past him

[@onelusciouslad7841]

@@digishade7583 Same lol, plus those dragons and all the other enemies, it was just too much

[@bluicarys732]

Once. I beat it once. Hundreds of hours and years later, after i bought it.

[@Cheesyboiii-sx9ks]

HUNDREDS of hours and YEARS!!! HOW DID YOU SPEND HUNDREDS OF YEARS??!!?!?

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

These aren't bugs, they're in-universe powers. In the elder scrolls lore, characters can "achieve Chim" which is when a character becomes aware they and the world aren't real, and either disappear or can manipulate reality around them, Tiber Septim achieved Chim and changed Tamriel from a jungle into a forest

[@avak2101]

so he changed a big forest into a small one... sounds like just renaming to me

[@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013]

This is the worst interpretation of Chim, and one that really only exists because one guy wrote a series of batshit blog posts.

[@biggestfan883]

No, there bugs Chim is just reality warping in lore

[@Alexanderparks_]

He changed Cyrodill not all of Tamriel

[@resileaf9501]

Technically CHIM is supposed to be game mechanics rather than bug exploits. Another character who has achieved CHIM is Vivec, who describes it as being a player character, being able to save and load games, aware when he dies that he can reload at any time he wants.

[@nathandesilva4781]

I honestly have to say that Skyrim's flaws are part of the reason the game has so much charm. Like, I get why games get patched and balanced after release, but leaving some of this stuff in a single player experience just adds to the fun.

[@NfamousShirley1]

8:24 for those who might have trouble getting outside the walls, I timestamped the direction you want to head towards. You may get some resistance but head towards that direction and you’ll see where you can walk under the main wall. Also important, once you get close to going under the wall make sure to keep left and watch for the giant pit to your right otherwise you’ll fall in and have to load your last save. From there just head around the outside of the wall until you get to where he is by the sky forge. Since he cut away I wanted to make sure and add some tips because there are invisible floors underneath that prevent you going certain directions. 👍🏼

[@zackaryboys8923]

Doesnt work bro cant find where to get through

[@o76923]

I love the combination of a bunch of different exploits you've done before into a single video to show us something new. There aren't a ton of games you can do that in since you rarely go back after demolishing a game the first time but I'd love more content like this.

[@tammyboy2084]

I’ve finished it a few times, but it’s honestly more fun (for me) to just go around doing everything else. Doing the main story has a sort of “meh, when you’re not busy…” sort of feel to it.

[@AndyIsLazy18]

4:03 if you want to know how to level up sneak fast you just need to equip a dagger or 2 dagger for fast leveling and keep on shanking ralof or hadvar in the back tho you need to level up sneak by just 1 if you want to level up your character continuesly because if you level up the sneak all the way the sneak attack will just reduce the hp bar a lot of the person you're shanking and make them go limp and you gotta wait for them to stand up again oh just to remind you put the difficulty in legendary so ralof/hadvar can have many hp well since they don't attack you you can do whatever you want to them Well have a nice day I've been only playing skyrim for 1year and im loving the mechanics a lot

[@jebodeiasque]

Spiff, when you're leveling sneak in the tutorial cave, instead of walking into the wall, use sneak attacks on Ralof/Hadvar. You get a lot more xp and you also level one handed

[@Marcusjnmc]

I mean, afk > one handed

[@jebodeiasque]

@@Marcusjnmc Leveling up 2 skills to 100 in ~20 minutes>afk for 2 hours. Like literally just put a podcast or a KZbin video on and go to town.

[@MrZaoTic]

I just did it behind greybeards

[@kingqunt8567]

@@MrZaoTic but when you do it to the Greybeards it can go wrong pretty easily and they’ll agro you

[@MrZaoTic]

@@kingqunt8567 only happened to me couple times, risk worth taking

[@madmotz3939]

I watched this literally two hours after finishing the main quest line for the first time in the years I’ve had and played the game and on a save where I’ve already completed every other major quest. I never knew of some of these bugs and it was hilarious as always to watch you play through them

[@ravenfloofy1472]

Skyrim is the only game you can become god with no exploits because they're just features

[@truepotatoking7486]

I’d love to imagine that this entire run only lasted about an hour.

[@GlidingBoulder]

Where are the speedrunners at? Oh, under 10 minutes and an hour 30 for glitchless.

[@cx3622]

He literally said at the beggining that the sneaking park took him 2 hours

[@truepotatoking7486]

@@cx3622 I’d love to _imagine_ that this run only lasted about an hour.

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

@cx you dont pay attention very well

[@Semaichan]

I finished Skyrim on my third character. The first got stuck in an endless loop of dragon fights, the second time around I got hard locked in a puzzle room and the third time around I knew what consol commands are and when Lydia decided to disappear into the sky with a quest item, i just generated a new one.

[@Mystic-Midnight]

A new Lydia or a new Quest item cause both are important

[@Semaichan]

@@Mystic-Midnight Quest Item. I'd decided that Vilkas is a better fit for the time being. You kinda hold a grudge against a character who naffs off into the sky with your dragon bones and smithing materials.

[@YiotisTheGnome]

@@Mystic-Midnight Lydia was special for me as well. I still remember the shivers that run down my spine the first time I asked her to carry my stuff and she replied "Lets get this over with" Lydia is also the name of my Dentist...

[@tomhubbard8510]

I got locked in the "dragon rend" summoning of Alduiin cut scene... in the main storyline... on PS4... So I was completely fucked. Edit: yeah... this bit 18:00

[@tomhubbard8510]

Immediately regretted buying my 3rd copy of the same fucking game. Felt really f stupid.

[@GamePlague]

Why bother paying an intern to fix blindingly obvious simple bugs when you can just rely on the modding community to do it for you.

[@veliki_sef.9034]

4:25 actually, when you start hitting Hadvar, you level up the sneak much faster and gain quite a lot of points in one/two-handed (depending on your weapon) as well. He is immortal and won't attack you even if you nearly kill him 10 times in 10 minutes.

[@bazzisaus]

Yep, got sneak, one handed and destruction on hundred xD

[@YikaroArakmes]

"Convince you to buy your own product back to you." So basically, npcs in Skyrim are the modders.

[@rincewind3043]

Honestly, after nauseating amount of time spent in it, I've never managed to complete it myself. Good to see you complete it!(and in the most perfectly balanced way possible)

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Oooh shiny! Is definitely a game feature... XD

[@Its_Pretty_Lame]

Man this game literally got me through school. This game and Destiny are my childhood. I love them both dearly

[@steve7189]

Childhood 🤣 It’s getting me through adulthood.. Hopefully I’ll be playing elder scrolls 6 in the nursing home between rice pudding and getting my mail.

[@dysnomiaalvey]

I'm a bit late to this one, but in regards to the prompt at the end of the video, I have indeed beaten Skyrim, on multiple occasions. However, the first time I beat Skyrim was when my whole family was playing it together; my mother, father, brother, sister, and I were all progressing at our own paces. My brother wasn't as excited by the game, so he never finished it. My father is the sort of person to do every side quest humanly possible, even on the first play through, so it took him quite some time to beat the game. My sister is similar, but managed to beat it before he did. But when it came to my mother and I, we ripped and tore our way through the main quest, until we got to the part where you have to fight Alduin at the Throat of the World. I got through with no issues, but for my mother, Alduin was completely invincible, and she could not progress, allowing me to beat the game before her. She got so mad about it she didn't play the game again for some time, but since then she has returned to loving it dearly.

[@Drosera420]

I beat it years ago. I played the shit out of Skyrim, the hard way. Sadly, I played it so hard that I can't even get into it enough to try out these GLORIOUS exploits. You have helped share some of the pleasure these amazing "features" provide this game, thank you for sharing these!

[@milesmackie6213]

Spiffing missed the big first exploit of power leveling sneak and one handed on Ralof at the begining Side with Sotrmcloaks, when the imperials first run in make sure you loot the key, the Ralof will stand there and allow you to sneak attack him (stick it on legendary so you don't one hit) then power level sneak and one handed in under an hour

[@goblinpopcorn1367]

You can do it with Hadvir too. Just don't loot the chest, use the sword on the wall. 100 sneak/1 handed/ destruction and you still unlock hadvir as a friendly NPC

[@finaladvance5085]

That armour exploit looked genuinely good aesthetically

[@noahparks3532]

He needs to play Skyrim in VR and see if there’s any new exploits.

[@jerekcrowler9682]

Hello, I just wanted to leave a little tip for the power leveling. As soon as you get a weapon, you can sneak attack whichever guide you've chosen. It only takes a few minutes to max out sneak, and I have personally left the first cave in the game at level 50 with all the perk points I'll need for a build right at the start. Cheers

[@damiansebastian656]

Technically at the spot where you have to sneak around the bear (4:04 you can instead turn around (and it takes a stupid amount of tim) but you absolutely can 100 all of - 1 handed - 2 handed - Block - destruction magic. Before ever escaping helgen. Just fyi for anyone who grinds to lvl 45 before doing any quests.

[@HeinerGunnar]

I've never even started a Skyrim playthrough, but I've seen it finished dozens of times (thanks MittenSquad!)

[@mallen123]

Sneak xp gains are based on damage dealt whilst in stealth along with moving near something alive while stealthed, you can cut the 3hour afk time down at the start, by sneak heavy attacking your faction companion of choice, down to about 10 minutes

[@buulecoom]

As usual these videos never get old, makes me realize how broken some of these games are and then you go and brake it even further. I raise my cup of tea to you good sir. :D

[@Duros1394]

Spiff: "so here I am playing skyrim for the 740th time" Those are rookie numbers

[@steve7189]

When you start to repeat the dialogue before it happens on a random quest. Then you know you have played to many times 🤣

[@Lunam_D._Roger]

@@steve7189 I feel called out. Been playing since right near release, ps3 first, then 360, then ps4, then xbox one, and finally PC. I ran the numbers back in 2019 and even at that point I had, lowballing, 18000 hours in the game across all consoles and versions.

[@davidshelby7518]

@@Lunam_D._Roger Bonus points. Play on any 2 devices SIMULTANEOUSLY

[@listenbornaby447]

Personally, I managed to finish main quest of Skyrim only after watching Spiff's videos about restoration loop. It was like a walk in a park with these OP 999999999 hp apparel and a stabby sticks for 69000001 dmg

[@-KILLBOY]

Though I haven't really done the main quests yet, this is exactly why I started playing too, I wanted to be a God.

[@exodore2000]

I've never gotten that exploit to work but I have done the werewolf and undead perk exploits.

[@chrisdeckrow8744]

@@exodore2000 oh man, it really is easy once you get it. My tips for beginners in this are: Wait until you have all 5 items with alchemy. You can make them, but they should at least start out double digit buff. Wait until your alchemy is 100. Have enough ingredients to make about 30 restoration potions, 10 smithing potions, and 15 enchanting potions. The above is mostly optional, but for a beginner, this works best. Save multiple times during this loop. So, if you make a mistake, you don't have to start over completely. I'm sure the loop is well documented, but here it is anyway. 1. Equip all 5 items 2. Make 1 restoration potion 3. Eat restoration potion 4. Unequip all 5 items 5. ReEquip all 5 items If items boost is less than 100 return to step 2 If over 100, make a few restoration potions, and a few smithing and enchanting potions. Then return to step 2 until boost is in the 1000s. Make a few restoration potions and a few smithing and enchanting potions. When you get to the 1000s of boost, carefully only do it a few more times. Beyond 10000 and up can be bad, and even crash your game. Now make a few restoration potions, and a few smithing and enchanting potions. All good. You have the means to make lots of fun things, and the potions to do it over again if needed, but start from the middle. Good luck.

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

what are you talking about? the game is brain-dead easy. why would you need exploits to beat the campaign? and how boring is it to just walk through the game with infinite health and damage. are you a little kid that shouldnt be posting public comments?

[@hypermaeonyx4969]

@@SobeCrunkMonster I don't little kids would know what the meaning of Personally is, also who the fuck cares how you beat skyrim or not? i beat skyrim by accidentily doing psb but it was an accident so naturally i made another run and whatnot, And.. Umm.. This isn't exactly an argument is it?

[@lisamarie06]

I have completed the main quest 3 or 4 times. My late fiancé never completed the main quest. His last save file was a level 50-something Kahjiit with the dragonstone still in their inventory.

[@nicholasthoelke4768]

I finished the main quest once in about 20 playthroughs. It was my second playthrough and no exploits were used, and not many side quests were completed either. The following 18 were all spent exploring the rest of the world of skyrim.

[@Basti_Wood]

deep down we all know Reanu Keews is the true god of skyrim.

[@varethedemon]

Careful saying his name outside of skyrim!!! Luckily the Anti RK autocorrect saved us this time.....

[@maerlyn7730]

Thank you for this glorious video! I too have not ever finished this game, but I've downloaded it once again, and hope to actually get through it THIS time!!!

[@professor_oakenshield]

Any updates?

[@AutTheWizard]

"10 years is apparently not enough to fix skyrims bugs." *The USSEP mod team will remember that.*

[@OneLooseGal]

Is it really called “Ultimate Skyrim Special Edition Patch”

[@lazulenoc6863]

Their mod actually bugged out my game.

[@simongilgenbach4630]

yeah but fuck those guys and their shitty holier-than-thou attitude towards modding and the modding community in general. also... a bug-fix patch shouldn't alter game canon to fit your own opinion of how quests should be.

[@bjoernusw5195]

@@OneLooseGal Last time I check the "U" stood for "unofficial", but after seeing some discussions about some of the contributors "ultimate" seams to fit their ego too

[@Sigilstone17]

@@lazulenoc6863 it's almost like these things haven't been fixed for a reason and touching them causes more problems than it solves (because coding is a mystical beast that operates according to no logic)

[@baker099]

It's actually faster to sneak and hit the NPC with a dagger. It levels sneak faster, at early levels every sneak attack is 1 skill level

[@williaml840]

Yes, but you actually have to play the game if you’re doing that - you can just have your character continually autosneaking into a wall while you’re doing something else.

[@baker099]

@@williaml840 That is true!

[@thedarkoverlordofall]

@@williaml840 nah you can do that with a macro no problem, not heavy attacks but light ones

[@placeholdername8529]

There's also the "sneak-backstabbing the greybeards while they're meditating" trick, which I think is one of the funniest exploits on this game

[@williaml840]

@@thedarkoverlordofall Eh, there’s always the chance that they’ll move - or glitch out of the way if you try to force them into place.

[@adamwalters3100]

I’ve never been so happy watching a video as when spiffing said he has more ideas on how to break Skyrim 😄

[@TheLucashebert]

While trying out the multi-equip exploit in the original Skyrim, my game speed got messed up and everything was moving 2-3 times as fast. I don't know what happened, but it seemed like a pretty useful trick for speedrunning.

[@linkfloyd1975]

Not when speed runs use the games internal clock ;)

[@ImFangzBro]

@Link Floyd That's why they put a timer on for real-time stuff, too.

[@Force2reckonVods]

"We're gonna give him the magicky stone cause he's gonna do magicky things" Proceeds to use almost no magic except the basic spells and scrolls/staves (which don't count) but uses tons of archery and swords *smh* Spaff in true form here

[@elfen__]

The magic was the exploits.

[@SomeGuy-ty7kr]

to be fair, magic sucks ass in skyrim

[@sernightshade5630]

@@SomeGuy-ty7kr you sound like a jealous Breton, “hush child”.

[@SomeGuy-ty7kr]

@@sernightshade5630 lmao, I was about to be offended. You should probably have a more "elf-y" pfp to really sell it though.

[@sernightshade5630]

@@SomeGuy-ty7kr lmfao I literally look like Legolas with a curly mustache irl 😂😂

[@CW19941]

I distinctly remember one game breaking glitch from Skyrim that happened to me. Brynolf ran, but the guard missed him with the arrow, and I was perpetually stuck in the hell before character creation 😂

[@sixstringedthing]

His death is scripted, I don't think I've personally ever seen him successfully run away but I have had the execution sequence glitch out in other ways, like Alduin failing to spawn. So I was stuck in place with all the imperials just staring at me in a displeased manner. Felt a bit like a dream of realising that you're naked in class. 😆

[@CW19941]

@sixstringedthing I may be thinking of a different NPC as well, haha. The one the female guard shoots when he tries to run away. She missed and he got away and I was stuck. Also have been shot up in the air on a horse near Whiterun and died🤣

[@DefecTec]

3:48 honestly I think it makes sense to go with the stormcloaks first then join the imperials later, since the imperials just tried to cut off your head

[@pjhoffmann3917]

but hadvar said he was sorry xD

[@hermonymusofsparta]

Never makes sense to join a Imperial Empire that tortures its citizens, allows other nations to do the same in their own land, and knowingly continues the Civil War instead of letting Skyrim be independent which plays right into the Thalmor's plan (Stormcloaks don't know it's a trap. Empire does. i.e General Tulius dialogue)

[@loughlan775]

Video features the most powerful item in all of Skyrim: The Bucket

[@korone609]

It is legitimately amazing to me how similar the reason for this video sounds. Once the girl I was dating at the time told me she had never beaten skyrim. I Looked at her confused, as I started to ask, "How have you not..." I trailed off after realizing I hadn't beaten the main quest line yet... I have now, but similarly because of that conversation lol.

[@themapleog5053]

There is another entrance to the skyforge next to whiterun's main gate, turn right as soon as you enter whiterun, jump on top of the barrel in the small room and jump over the side wall (might take a few tries)

[@omaridusk3803]

Legit as soon as i saw this pop up on my phone i clicked it with excitement thanks spiff for making videos that are always fun to watch

[@VladtheInhaler]

Fastest way to level sneak at the bear is to sneak attack hadvar, wait 5 seconds for him to forget you're there, and repeat.

[@chaseevtushevski8431]

This is just how the Dovahkiin from lore would have defeated Alduin

[@coladiephlegm1221]

I like how he used one of the slowest exploits for maxing sneak.

[@yaemz123]

yeah, just a few minutes of sneak stabbing your companion in that same spot gets 100 sneak and also high level 1h.

[@Selsius96]

10:42 How did I not know about this glitch after 10 years? Instead of being limited with what enchantments are active at once, now you can have them all active. Shit I need to try this...

[@HLGAM3R]

I beat Skyrim once, after many on-and-off sessions where I modded the game to varying degrees of stability. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was a Stealth-Build. Because that tree is supremely balanced.

[@Peron1-MC]

i played it in like 2013 on my 360 and i pretty much only did the main quest so i did finish the game and i loved it. i didnt know of any of the exploits at the time. the dwarven parts are my favorite. such cool enemy designs :)

[@catboynestormakhno2694]

Actually the issue they had with the carriage in the intro, was due to how you can pickup bees, as that means bees were objects like buckets and other stuff, so they had collision and flew into the cart and disturbed it that way

[@lilbi2526]

fun fact, the part with the bear in the beginning can be used to level sneaking and one handed at the same time, if you bump the difficulty up to legendary, then start sneak attacking hadvar/ralof, it will level both sneak and one handed at the same time, just knock him into the little creek there and sneak attack him until satisfied

[@dragaz01d]

Sounds like what I did to the grey beards lol. Same trick works on them too

[@chrisdeckrow8744]

Yeah, I walk out of that cave having legendaried sneak once, and back up to in the 60s. About level 17, and one handed in the 30's I think. Good times.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, I do it at the greaybeards as well

[@Walrus_Warrior]

@@chrisdeckrow8744 I once max levelled destruction by burning Ralof for a few too many hours in the locked room in Helgen. Judging from the fact that both you and The Spiffing Brit also reached level 17, I think it is the lowest level you can be with a level 100 skill. With the exception of if you avoid spending the level ups.

[@elmadicine]

this was actually kinda surprising. I've always found the main questline of skyrim to be very easy (though pretty fun and worthwhile), and pretty much everyone I've ever discussed the game with over the years has had roughly the same opinion. morrowind I didn't actually finish the main quest until several years after it came out, and oblivion... I think it was more difficult than skyrim but I still completed it on my first character. but I didn't realize there were people who had played skyrim extensively but hadn't completed the main quest haha

[@Dumblecop_Lord_of_the_Darkmeal]

Yeah it was a huge meme back then, because there was so much to do in Skyrim people just didn't bother with the main quest.

[@cheeto.burrito]

I never finished the main quest and I have 500 hours on steam...

[@UrixMusic]

Didn't realize this was uploaded on my birthday. Nice

[@tronybalogna]

I drink coffee. I watch Spiff. My life is a beautiful mess

[@Vericentra117]

blasphemous words 😂😂 1 like for you sir

[@ryanhass8716]

Ah, a fellow bean-water drinker, cheers lol

[@wildefice1]

We are average coffee enjoyers

[@TheSunMoon]

We've got a Stormcloak here!

[@sleepwalking117]

I love the farm addition to the game. It literally prints money while you're doing other missions. Your income seems to be based off of the price of your crops so find the most expensive thing you can plant and fill the entire place up with it. Be sure to get the place upgraded all the way and you're set.

[@lucifereldiablo7770]

there's farms now ?

[@HiFenDinok]

plant ingredients based on their viability for alchemy potions, I make potions worth about 200 gold with no alchemy fortifications and 20 alchemy skill using creep cluster, mora tapinella and scaly pholiota

[@rivmusix]

Surprisingly enough, I've actually learned a few new exploits I'm excited to try!!

[@veastley5501]

I love this series sm, it makes me constantly laugh uncontrollably

[@SturmfaustHobbies_Games]

Bethesda knows those exploits are just "Happy Little mistakes" for players to utilize. It's part of the game XD

[@editorrbr2107]

It is truly a testament to the immortal fun of this game that a decade later 1.3 million people have watched Spiff find new ways to break it. That seems like some of the highest praise you could have as a game developer.

[@donjuan9746]

I feel that has more to do with spiff being a good creator than skyrim being a good game past a surface level.

[@paihamu6486]

The Spiffing Brit would be the most perfect game tester, dude finds exploits and glitches in even the most polished games.

[@SKandSCS]

That's how I gave up on ANNO 1800 having an exploit. If Spiff Ain't got ir. It ain't in.

[@MrLandShark55_55]

I used a handful of the glitches you used on one of my characters. I soft locked myself in Delphine's basement because I forgot to bring a 2nd bucket.

[@spacebearcadet746]

Wooden plates work too.

[@heinrichleroux9712]

Bethesta games "what is this debugging you speak of?"