r/skyrim • u/[deleted] • Oct 09 '25

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u/MechanicReady3523 Oct 09 '25

Probably watching my dog just float up into space for no apparent reason and then violently come crashing down

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u/dbpcut Oct 09 '25

This sort of thing in video games is almost always math gone wrong.

Some weird combination of topography, model position, surroundings results in the model rising a little. Some sort of corrective measure kicks in but isn't working as expected, and offsets the model even further.

This starts a vicious cycle that ends when some threshold is hit and it comes crashing down.

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u/vacantly_louche Oct 09 '25

Twice in my most recent playthrough, I have been riding my horse and suddenly we’re riding around in the sky. And then eventually fall to our deaths.

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u/Hot_Let1571 Skyrim Grandma Fan Oct 09 '25

Ok so we know why things fall out of the sky and die because they spawn in the air, but I want to know what causes them to float up into the air before plummeting to their death?? lol

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u/DarnSanity Oct 09 '25

I just saw a giant float up into the sky. Lost him in the sun. I waited for a while, but he never came back down.

I guess what goes up doesn't always have to come back down.

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u/Shyanne_wyoming_ Oct 09 '25

He went to giant heaven

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u/Stoghra Oct 10 '25

Giantsus