Skyrim talk:Harsh Master

Bug removed in Special Edition?

I just recently got this quest with the Uttering Hills Cave as target, long after having finished the Thieves Guild questline. I am not sure if this may have been the a second time I have received this quest. (Ref. my recently added bug a few minutes ago. If so, then I have received the quest three times during my playthrough.) Playing fully patched Special Edition, with only "Run for your lives" and "Stones of Barenziah quest marker" mods enabled throughout the whole playthrough.—MortenOSlash (talk) 21:15, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

So are you suggesting a bug has been introduced by Special Edition? Can't see what has been removed here. —⁠Legoless (talk) 04:18, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

I may have been a bit unclear here:

1. My main point is that the first bug listed tells that when "you are sent to Uttering Hills Cave, and have already completed Summerset Shadows for the Thieves Guild, you will be unable to complete this quest". I was sent to the Uttering Hills Cave after having completed the whole Thieves Guild questline, including the Summerset Shadows quest. I was still able to complete the quest, as an anonymous dungeon boss had spawned in, in place of Linwe. That is why I wondered if the bug has been removed in Special Edition.

2. Then I started to speculate, as I had been able to trigger the quest twice, something I have added as a bug (still unconfirmed) to the bug list. (And that bug may or may not have been introduced in Special Edition, since no-one seems to have reported it before SE.) Since I have been able to trigger the quest twice, as i have reported, maybe I have even triggered it thrice, but do not remember the first time? Can a second triggering og the quest have reset the dungeon after the Summerset Shadows quest? That is of course pure speculation. If I may speculate further, might another quest to Uttering Hills Cave, totally unrelated to the Harsh Master quest, but after the Summurset Shadows quest, have reset the dungeon (still purely speculation), and as such reset the cave for the Harsh Master quest? (If I understand the description of the first bug correctly, as described now, I do not think so, but what do I know?)

—MortenOSlash (talk) 19:27, 3 January 2021 (UTC)