On a side note, it's endlessly amusing to shoot someone in the goddamn head and back off a bit only to hear them be like "Huh...I must be imagining things." while they head back to their spot. That's a nice chunk missing off your health bar, bruh. Imaging things. Gotcha.
I once exited a cave, and was shot into the air, like the giant hitting you, but I wasn't dead. Rather than reloading while in the air, I was just going to wait until I hit the ground and died, and the game reloaded for me. I fell, and hit the ground, and phased through it, to the negative zone, and my character model spaghettified and then the game froze, and crashed, corrupting my entire character save.
Ouch. :/ I guess you could say...Bethesda likes spaghetti code? Bad joke, I know. But shit, it fucked the whole thing? You couldn’t go back to a previous load?