Just recently got this game and I seem to be spending a ridiculous amount of time playing!
I was wondering if people could help me with a bug (maybe two?) that I've encountered:
When I go to loot the corpse of a dragon, I don't absorb their soul- to progress past the first dragon fight I had to input some complicated console command and every dragon since I've simply put in the command "player.modav dragonsouls 1"; this isn't a big problem.
The big problem is I can't progress past the fight with Miraak because he can't absorb the dragon souls either, so the corpses of the dragons just flop to the ground and he freezes in place because I guess for the script to continue he needs to absorb a soul or something. I've literally done everything the wiki recommends regarding this bug but nothing works, the only way to progress I've found is to use the console to set the quest as finished but then the fight music never stops and it's pretty annoying.
Anyone know what I can do?
Are you running any mods that effect dragons? This is almost always the cause of this happening, the other being not running the unofficial dragonborn patch while running the main unofficial skyrim patch(The dragonborn dlc rebreaks some of the fixes to dragons made by the unofficial patch and causes this bug if the unofficial dragonborn patch isn't run or is run in the wrong position).
Assuming you have all dlc and are running the unofficial patches your initial load order should look like this.
Skyrim.esm -
Update.esm - these first two will not be shown if you are using the games launcher.
Dawnguard.esm
Hearthfires.esm
Dragonborn.esm
HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.esp
HighResTexturePack03.esp
Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp - make sure to get the version from the skyrim nexus. The steam workshop one is out of date/can't be updated until larger mods are allowed by steam.
Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp
Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp
Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp
If you are still having issues give us a list of all mods you are running.
For the shouts, if you don't abuse the restoration potion glitch you can get a maximum of 40% reduction from amulet of Talos + blessing of Talos(60% if you have the USP fixed version of the bugged mask of Morokei)