Can't "absorb" shout at Arcwind Point, help please.

[Mookie]

Hello!

I can't absorb the shout from Arcwind Point.
I don't remember if I have gotten the word before, or if I've just been close by to get Arcwind Point on the map.
I have it as a quest from the Greybeards.
I've retried to quest from an earlier save and hoped to get another word/place. Doesn't happen.
I've tried to go there before getting the quest, still not absorbing.
When I get to the wall, there is nothing special at all, except the word glows.
Searching the web hasn't given me anything to go with.

I know I've had bugs with this before, on 2 other play throughs, but can't remember the words/places. Pretty sure it's the same one.

I have no mods.
I have all three DLC's
I wish to continue to get achievements so I don't want to do anything that disable that.

Any idea on what I can do?

[Alex]

It seems that this location has several bugs:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Arcwind_Point
Did you visit it before? And, do you have the unofficial patch?

[Mookie]

Originally posted by Alex:

It seems that this location has several bugs:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Arcwind_Point
Did you visit it before? And, do you have the unofficial patch?

Yes, so it seems.
Yes, I did visit the area before. But never close to the wall.
Unofficial patch? I guess I do not.

[Death Approaches]

It happens. Were it me? just do a 'completequest freeformhighhrothgara' then give yourself the shout word from the wall, which if you're being sent to Arcwind Point will be part of Drain Vitality unless you already have the words. So see if you have any words Gaan, Lah, Haas... if not, give yourself the first one, if you have #1 already, you don't have to do anything, the other 2 word locations should become unlocked with the 'completequest' command, but if you don't feel like trekking around? Hey, give yourself #2 #3 too, we ain't judging.

Haas 02008a63, Lah 02008a64, Gaan 02008a65. ( ex. to learn Lah, do 'player.teachword 02008a64' )

(for most, the first 6 load order are always: Skyrim, Update, Dawnguard, HearthFires, Dragonborn, USSEP; if your DG isn't 02, adjust the LO numbers accordingly.)
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As Alex said, read that page! This DG DLC shout learning can get weird buggy, there's a slew of bugs where you won't get more locations from greybeards, where you can't learn any other shouts, to the point most wikis and even UESP tell you that you have to uninstall Dawnguard DLC, learn those words, then reinstall... which for a vanilla user is one thing, and for a modded user, is HELL NO I'm not disabling a DLC mid-game!

Many mods require DLC resources; the ones that just need the texture archives etc., that's one thing, the ones that rely on scripts and directives and locations said DLC provides, all those will break, and who knows what can happen, you might even corrupt your save beyond being able to use it. I highly recommend against disabling DLCs mid-game if you are using mods, unless you're technical and can solve problems much more involved than adding shout words manually with the console.

[Nabinkemper]

The only issue that sometimes occurs with word walls is the word will be embedded further than normal making it so that the word cannot be collected. Many if not all these have been corrected with the Unofficial Patch.

No one should be using console commands to learn a word. No one should be uninstalling anything due to a word wall not allowing acquisition.

If a word wall is not allowing a player to collect it, you will just need to turn off collision. This is done by the following:

Open the console with ~ and type: tcl and press enter. Walk through the wall and collect the word. Walk back through and use the same command to enable collision again.

[Mookie]

Originally posted by Nabinkemper:

Open the console with ~ and type: tcl and press enter. Walk through the wall and collect the word. Walk back through and use the same command to enable collision again.

If I use that console command, will it disable me from getting achievements?

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by fukkmook:

Originally posted by Nabinkemper:

Open the console with ~ and type: tcl and press enter. Walk through the wall and collect the word. Walk back through and use the same command to enable collision again.

If I use that console command, will it disable me from getting achievements?

There are no console commands that disable achievements,

[Mookie]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Originally posted by fukkmook:

If I use that console command, will it disable me from getting achievements?

There are no console commands that disable achievements,

D=
Great to hear!

Though, it didn't work helping me collecting the shout. =/

[Mookie]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

It happens. Were it me? just do a 'completequest freeformhighhrothgara' then give yourself the shout word from the wall, which if you're being sent to Arcwind Point will be part of Drain Vitality unless you already have the words.

I did the "completequest freeformhighhrothgar"
It says something "Item completequ.. not found for parameter Quest"
The white arrow disappears, But it is still a quest in my journal, and the beards won't give me a new one.

I restarted, did the CC to get all the shouts, but the blue text was still shining on the wall, and the Greybeards still sent me to Arcwind point.

[Mookie]

The USSEP is a mod, right?
Is it a mod that does NOT disable achievements?

[Blackpine]

Just get another mod that enables achievements back. Bethesda games are unplayable without mods.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by fukkmook:

The USSEP is a mod, right?
Is it a mod that does NOT disable achievements?

All mods disable achievements, unless you use Achievement Reenabler mod or SSE Engine Fixes (which has achievement reenabler built in, do not use both)