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.
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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
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