Oh, Bethesda.
No one expected The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to come out of the gate perfect, as the kinds of games Bethesda crafts are prone to having what might call...jank. Fortunately, the games themselves are so terrific that it’s (mostly) excusable. It’s when the company goes to address the remaining issues and makes things worse that causes the real headaches.
Version 1.2 arrived this week, addressing texture issues on Xbox 360, save problems on PlayStation 3 and other miscellaneous problems on those platforms, plus PC. It also broke a bunch of things, including making dragons fly backward and eliminating magic resistances.
You’ll be waiting another week or so until those things are addressed, as revealed on the official Bethsda blog. The fix will come to PC first, then arrive on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as the manufacturers approve it.
“We want to thank everyone reading this for playing our game and supporting all it tries to do,” said the company.
Bethesda is promising “regular” updates to the game in the coming months, both to address glitches and reported balance problems and exploits. There will apparently be “a lot” of these.
“We’ve also realized that with the millions upon millions of people playing Skyrim, we need to treat our updates with greater care,” added the company. “If we get too aggressive trying to fix a minor issue, we run a risk of breaking something larger in a game like this.”
One of the rubs there is how Bethesda is sorting what issues are being addressed immediately. “Quest and balance” issues are data, not code, and those will be “rolling out in a huge way” in...er, January. Patience?
Also coming in January, however, are the official modification tools.
So the dragons won't fly anymore? What?
Fuckin A. At least they acknowledge this last patch was rushed.
They may not produce immaculate code but Bethesda is a pretty cool company.
thank you based todd
Yay
Dragons will no longer be able to back that thing up? Since when is that considered a bug?
@gladspooky: They'll fly correctly now. After that patch they all flew backwards.
@PlasmaBeam44 said:
At first it said "Skyrim's Flying Dragons Should Disappear Next Week." Guess they patched this article, too.
So when will there ever be a "right time" to buy this for PC?
Am I the only one who's seen 100% forward-facing dragons since the patch, or is the issue sporadic?
Patrick, you might want to report more on the mod tools. The "Steam Workshop" aspect is very unique and exciting, and could offer up a whole new world of easy modding.
Kill all the dragons you can, because next week they're ALL disappearing! Not that anyone cares about the main story anyway.
No one expected the Backwards Flying Dragons Should Disappear Next Week to come out of the gate perfect, as the kinds of writings Patrick crafts are prone to having what might call...jank. Fortunately, the articles themselves are so terrific that it’s (mostly) excusable.
So hey, this is update no. 6 on my experience with Skyrim:
-PC version 1.1 with automatic steam updates turned off
-40 hours in
-Tons of mods
-Still no bugs
Basically what I'm saying is, fuck anyone who plays this game on a console because you really should've known better. I'm using a Xbox 360 controller btw.
@morningthief said:
your not the only one i have yet to see any dragons fly backwards since the patch all that i have meet flew as they did before the patch also I still don't get lag on my PS3 version either, maybe the bugs only seem to effect some people or just very random i dunno.
@A_Deep_Mushroom said:
If you wait long enough, the GOTY edition probably wont have that many bugs.
@Daiphyer: heh, that's pretty good.
Still love this game, jankiness and all. It's so good
Kinda feel bad for them, but GOD i love their games so it's ok in my book, few games I can spend 60+ hours in nowadays so they get a pass from me