No need for stealth. You can commit murder as noisily as you like and they'll be dumbly oblivious to your actions.
It's SO obvious they obviously forgot to check for the obvious obviousness. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the VERY sort of thing game testers are highly paid for? To USE their lateral thinking talents to TRY to break the game in ways the programmers haven't thought of, so exploits which render the game mechanics a joke can be plugged? Aren't programmers even MORE highly paid to logically think these things through before they even get as FAR as the game testers, to avoid wasting money by unnecessarily spinning the develop-test-debug merry-go-round another full circle?
I think this, and other bugs/glitches, encapsulates the very "get it out the door and let the players act as unpaid beta testers" mentality that pervades the gaming industry. If movie producers premiere their movies full of obvious bloopers, they soon find a cinema full of jeering booing people. There have been classic examples, like the Roman Soldier wearing a wristwatch, the plane flying overhead, the white van wending its way down a hill in the background, and even the entire film crew reflected in shop windows.
To my mind, Bethesda will NEVER live this down. I can see bucket sales going sky high worldwide as people send them to Maryland as party hats for Bethesda staff to wear while they're working. I can see Bethesda's next appearance at E3 being greeting by an audience of 1000's wearing buckets. I can see "The Bucket Award" being invented for the silliest obvious simplistic exploit that breaks a game. Todd Howard can have the very first solid platinum one.
I strongly suspected Skyrim would be just as buggy and glitchy as Morrowind and Oblivion were on release, which is why I didn't buy into the pre-release hype and why I'm instead waiting until it stabilises. I learned my lesson from 9 years of Morrowind and 5 years of Oblivion, having wasted a LOT of time hunting for workarounds and modder-created fixes for bugs & glitches the company never bothered to patch. I've wised up. I'm not going to be someone's unwilling unpaid beta tester of an organ grinder's monkey dancing to a one-note tune again, simple as that.
Like my new avatar? I think red suits me. Anyone fancy doing some Blender modelling for Oblivion to create a fun new helmet type?
Sorry if I'm laughing in my bucket and enjoying the echoes here. But flame away if you want. It's fireproof.
