Skyrim Player Shoots Enemy Into Pot With Spell
The Creation engine is the in-house game engine used by Bethesda to make games in both The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series, and has become famous for how it allows the player and NPCs to interact with environmental objects. One of the most notable examples of this from Skyrim is how buckets could be placed slowly over shop-keepers heads thus blocking their line of sight and allowing players to rob the store.
Another famous aspect of the Creation engine is how enemies rag-doll upon dying; this would lead to NPC’s flying off cartwheeling when hit with a powerful killing blow. Skyrim's most famous shout ability, Unrelenting Force, was even designed to cause this rag-doll effect as it threw enemies away.
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The same pushing effect could also be achieved with certain spells if they were the killing blow on that enemy. This is seen clearly in a clip posted by Reddit user ZeldaJT in which they land an extremely unlikely shot that both kills a Draugr and throws its rag-dolling body into a human sized pot both up a staircase and across a gap.
These empty human-sized jars found scattered aroundSkyrim's numerous creepy dungeons and crypts do make for inviting medieval basketball hoops, but the odds of firing an enemy into one from across the room is extremely low.
The shot is made all the more impressive by how finickySkyrim’s physics can be at times, especially in regard to placing items into jars. It is no surprise that despite the game allowing players to freely move and throw many items that are affected by the game's physics engine, not a lot of examples can be found of players throwing smaller items at targets, let alone throwing enemies using magic.
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