Xbox 360 Battle for Solitude Bug

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jclar

New Member
I'm on the final Stormcloak mission "The Battle for Solitude." I get all the way to the end of it, but it won't let me kill Legate Rikke. I can't force the general to surrender until she's dead. Every time I get her down, she just falls to one knee, and then gets up, and isn't hostile anymore.
Ulfric and Galmar just stand there during all of this.
I've searched around for help on this bug, but haven't found anything helpful.
 

Dagmar

Defender of the Bunnies of Skyrim
The only possible solution I've read was on the Skyrim Nexus forum and I'm not sure if it will work because (1) the person who posted it indicated that Rikke was still hostile though unkillable and (2) I don't know if you can actually skip a quest step ("Force General Tullius to surrender") and go straight to the next step but you can give it a try.

Try killing Tullius outright. According to the person who posted this solution the game will acknowledge you have achieved that step and finish the quest (and Rikke will become non-hostile).

PS Please let me know if this actually works.
 

imaginepageant

Slytherin Alumni
I'm running into the same glitch in my game. Unfortunately, Tullius is also unkillable for me - he goes down on a knee for a minute, regains his health, and then is no longer hostile. Neither Tullius or Rikke will die, no matter what I do.
 

whiskey

Member
I wasn't able to get around this glitch and wasn't able to play the game on from there since at that point pretty much ALL my quests required me to go to Solitude and I couldn't enter it.

The only solution I read was going back to an earlier save and trying again but I couldn't get that to work either.
 

Maxlength

Member
Maybe the force is strong with them? I joined the Imperials for that reason! :)
 

Gemini Sierra

Pre-emptive Salvage Specialist
I'm not 100% certain, but I think I talked to her before forcing tullius to surrender and got her to reconsider her position with the imperials. Ulfric and his side kick where there too Once she left (I think) Ulfric gave me the chance to kill Tullius but I let Ulfric do it.
 

imaginepageant

Slytherin Alumni
I finished the main questline tonight, and afterward decided to try Battle for Solitude again, hoping that Alduin's demise might've fixed the civil war glitch, and lo and behold, it did! I was able to kill Rikke and Tullius with no problems. I can't say with 100% certainty that it was finishing the main questline that did it, but I would certainly suggest doing so to anyone else having problems finishing the civil war questline.
 

Skullrattla

Button Pusher
It seems that the best way to go is to NOT finish the Civil War before the Main Quest. You get more interesting resutls this way and possibly less bugs. It seems that is the way the game makers assumed people should go.
 

Lydia Barron

New Member
i had the same issue but im stuck in solitude i cant open any doors or leave the city im stuck in battle mode and i cant quit or exit out.. if i try the loading screen appears and it immediately freezes my whole xbox.. im a level 57 Legendary Khajiit. i have changed game discs and uninstalled and reinstalled and its still the same.. please help i miss playing my game.. do i need a new xbox or something?
 

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