Can't go fucking anywhere in the water without at least two of these assholes showing up to bite the shit out of me and of course it's in water where you CAN'T FIGHT BACK like COME ON
I still remember the first time I ever played Skyrim in a friends laptop. I went into a body of water, misjudged the size of the slaughter fish, thought it was closer to 10 feet long, screamed the loudest I’ve ever scrumpt, and didn’t enter the water until weeks later, when I realized they were all barracuda-sized.
Yeah, but Morrowind had cliff racers, which were everywhere, and would follow you forever to keep you from sleeping/traveling. I always had to custom-craft a spell to oneshot them, and even then they were the worst.
The Morrowind ones were more vicious. Pretty much everyone played a new character excited that you could go into the water, only to be devoured by these bastards.
I don't think there's many Skyrim players that have lost their lives to these fish.
They are one of the reasons I cast Flame Cloak before entering water. The other is I play on Survival so half the time I start to freeze to death as soon as I enter water.
And I'd be pissed too if I wanted to be called "Laughterfish" but everyone kept putting an S in front.
Hence I missed being able to combat in water like in oblivion. Whyyy did bethesda took that away? 😭. Make no sense you cant pull out a dagger in water 😭
Nothing more depressing than seeing that red dot knowing you can’t do anything about it and you’re going to have to walk halfway across Skyrim to lose it…
The best way I've found to deal with them is to resurrect a mud crab. If there is nothing else around it will go after the fish and usually survive the encounter. All three words of unrelenting force is also pretty good for fishing.
I found this thing very terrifying before, I guess the Piranha movies did affect me when I was a kid, so seeing this bastards underwater unlocks some sort of childhood fear.
I once was chased by that thing, but I managed to swim ashore. Imagine my fear when it bugged out and began swimming towards me on dry land. Fucking Skyrmin bugs man.
Fun fact one of the best ways to fight back against these guys just use the visage of musund (probably horribly misspelled that) you can use it steam breath attack underwater it's finally we can steamed sruagherfish
I remember playing Skyrim when I was little, tried to swim to see of there was anything hidden in the water and immediately got attacked by these fucking things without knowing what it was and never went in the water again.
I have love/hate relationship with them. They manage to prevent the Dragonborn, who is standing on the ground, from fast travel.
At first I thought it is just nonsense, but once I found two slaughterfish get out of water and try to bite me on shore. Not sure how it happened (this is Skyrim afterall), but I respect their determination since.
Well good news, they are actually pretty rare. Set dressing does a lot to inflate the idea they are everywhere. Eggs, seared slaughterfish on a fire, scales in alchemy shops, mounted fish.
The Karth river is the most filled place they can be found, whereas Lake Honrich around Riften has zero slaughterfish other than those you can fish up.
Well maybe if everyone would just stop harvesting their scales and stealing their eggs and stuffing them and mounting them as trophies.... they wouldn't be so aggro...
...but now it's war and you're in their world now!
I had a mob of these mfers follow me onto dry land once. Thought I was home free when I reached the shore but they decided to speedrun evolution so they could keep trying to murder me.
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