Is the Ebony Warrior glitched in Special Edition?
I got around to fighting the Ebony Warrior with a new character and something strange happened. I had a pair of Demora Lords wailing on him until he was down to a sliver of health, then they just stopped. He went into the bleeding out/injured animation essential NPCs go into when their health reaches zero and I tried hitting him with a dagger to finish him off.
Nope.
Dude got up, instantly went to full health and started in on me again. Got him down to the ground again, same thing happened.
Tried using the kill command on the console, again, that only put him in the death pose.
Made sure he wasn’t essential with the command console, he still won’t die.
Does anybody know what might be going on?
Posted Aug 19, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC
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Okay just a thought, but maybe you (or someone else, accidentialy) properly set the ebony Warrior to essential, and then when you were fighting him and wanted to undo that, you actually thought you did, but didn't? That would mean that the ebony Warrior is still essential, but you would only think that he isnt.
I hadn’t used any console commands up to that point.
And the command doesn’t work like a toggle, it’s either set to 0 (non-essential) or 1 (essential). I set it to 0 and it still didn’t allow me to kill him.
That sounds exactly like a toggle. Are you running any mods?
By toggle I mean the same command doesn’t turn being essential on or off like how “tgm” will enable god mode and typing it again will turn it off.
The command I used is “setessential <baseID> 0” which can only make the target non-essential. There’s no way I accidentally made him essential. You need to use “setessential <baseID> 1” to do that.
No mods, just vanilla Skyrim Special Edition.
Oh I see what you mean.
Okay so im thinking there might be more commands for setting npc's to essential, as there are also multiple commands for setting the speed of the dragonborn (I had a real fuckup with that once). So you might need to see if there is another command that still lists him as essential.
And, did you start the Quest to fight him or no? I dont know how else to meet him , but he might be set to essential if you didn't start the Quest yet. (Specifically he might be set to essential, until you reach the Queststage where you actually need to kill him, during which he would be set to unessential)