Disarm glitch

[AusGuerila]

I got hit by a disarm shout and it made the weapon equipped dissapear instead of being dropped. Has anyone else experienced this bug before? What was the cause of it?

[Daniel]

I've had stuff fall through the floor after dropping it. Just something that happens I think :/

[AusGuerila]

tcl showed nothing

[Bomb Bloke]

Odds are Daniel's right, though. It's pretty much impossible to find items once they've gone through the floor, as you can't fly directly downwards and you lose all frames of reference as to where you should be once you've gone down deep enough.

[rpwalle]

Yep, happened to me a couple of times now. And I had a great weapon!

[AusGuerila]

Has anyone else experienced this bug? What was the cause of it?

[DPMR]

It seams to be a part of the game, sometimes it can't be found.

The The UESPWiki says:

Disarm is a shout that pulls the weapon out of an opponent's grasp.

It is one of the more common shouts used by draugr, which can be quite an issue if you are wielding a unique weapon, as the weapon can easily be lost when thrown from your hand.

[rpwalle]

Happens alot. Just look around usually you can find it but it might be far from where you were standing.

[Bomb Bloke]

Originally posted by AusGuerila:

Has anyone else experienced this bug? What was the cause of it?

Normally the physics engine detects when objects collide, and causes them to bounce apart. Sometimes it fails (especially with fast-moving objects) and they go through each other. This may cause weapons flying from your hands to fall through the bottom of the world.

It's more likely to happen if your frame rate goes above 60FPS, as exceeding that figure causes the physics engine to misbehave in increasingly bizarre ways. Send it high enough, and eventually it'll decide that your character needs to swim everywhere.

[Zsrai]

Tip: Bound weapons can't be disarmed.

[NoriNoNoroi]

On a PC a solution for this is:
open the console
save funclist 1
find the name of you weapon and get the REFID
player.moveto REFID
tcl (so you can get out of the floor)

for me this was 20 feet underwater beneath the stone floor :)

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by AusGuerila:

tcl showed nothing

It won't, if a weapon falls below the floor it will fall away into nothing.

I find that if you don't learn the disarm shout then Deathlords don't use it on you, but others disagree. If a decent weapon is lost, you have two choices, reload from before the fight or live with it.

[Perplex]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Originally posted by AusGuerila:

tcl showed nothing

It won't, if a weapon falls below the floor it will fall away into nothing.

I find that if you don't learn the disarm shout then Deathlords don't use it on you, but others disagree. If a decent weapon is lost, you have two choices, reload from before the fight or live with it.

Depends, the one where the jagged crown is will use it even if you never started the dragon rises quest or visited any word walls.

[NoriNoNoroi]

after playing with this solution, it's better to use
prid REFID
moveto player

also sometimes the graphics for your weapon get disabled, you can still see a floating text tag though and pick it up that way.

[Ihateeverybody]

There are two possibilities.

The Centerpoint of the cell (The space) or a Zone in point. Check up or down. Items in the void have a tendancy to fall perpetually or continuously. You just have to keep looking while TCL in console. Sometimes if it's an option just reload the save is easier.

Check corners and crannies in the area where it was disarmed, etc. Game Physics are weird. Also check ccompanions to see if they picked it up (Maybe NPCs also).