Bugs (Arena)

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The following are bugs and glitches that have been reported in The Elder Scrolls: Arena.

Bugs and glitches[]

There seems to be a higher rate of crashes with DOSBox than on the original floppy disk form.
When reloading a save or checking stats, the game may crash.
Using Passwall in dungeons may cause the game to crash.
Enemies tend to get stuck in a corner when doing their running animation
Sometimes the Champion can glitch in a wall if they long jump
Names with spaces will only have the first word displayed in many screens and dialogues, so typing in "John Doe" becomes "John."
Setting the music sound to 0 does not actually mute the music, which can still be heard at higher speaker or headphone volumes.
Due to graphics resolution, health, fatigue, and mana bars may not reach the top even when fully healed.
An indefinite number of items such as daggers and shortbows that have 0.5kg weight can be carried.
All human enemies, when killed, turn into bodies that resemble male spellswords when they hit the ground.
After giving a Blacksmith a piece of armor that is currently equipped to repair, the following issues may arise:
- The character screen page will freeze, preventing the screen from being exited
- Statistics on the character screen will be missing.
- Text written on the map will disappear
- Specific locations will not appear when asking characters for directions.
- The difficultly level of locks will not be displayed.
- Talking to a priest in a temple will cause the game to freeze.
- Camping in a broken-in house or dungeon will cause enemies to be invisible with a magical effect and may instantly kill the Champion regardless of their regular damage, also possibly causing the game to crash.
- The names of slain enemies will not appear and will instead result in the prompt "The has nothing usable." followed by the heads-up message "You see a ..."

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