Skyrim Player Almost Crashes Xbox Series X By Littering Whiterun

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A Dragonborn litterbug nearly crashed their Xbox Series X by leaving a massive pile of items outside Breezehome in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. Despite launching way back in 2011 the Bethesda Game Studios open-world RPG remains extremely popular thanks to its world design and character progression system. The title's dated Creation Engine can lead to many glitches in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, though, as recently demonstrated by one particularly filthy adventurer.

While Skyrim is still considered one of the greatest video games of all time, the fantasy epic's Creation Engine has many notorious quirks and technical issues. Physics objects are infamously unpredictable, with players often soaring high into the atmosphere after being struck by a Giant or other sufficiently strong opponent. Shortly after launch players also discovered that they could easily rob stores by simply placing a basket over the shopkeeper's head to avoid detection. Even more unusual Skyrim glitches exist that threaten to ruin a player's immersion as they journey across the fifth Elder Scrolls entry, with a strange blood fountain bug in Windstad Manor spraying gore around the customizable home.

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Reddit user RicoculusPrime recently shared a video of Skyrim nearly crashing their Xbox Series X due to mountains of trash left laying around Whiterun. RicoculusPrime explains that they dumped all of their extra gear outside the Whiterun house Breezehome, which eventually added up into a massive pile of garbage. Rendering all of these individual physics objects clearly puts a strain on the Creation Engine, since the video looks like Skyrim has transformed into a slideshow. This seems to be