(That's a lot of 1:s)

Patch notes are now official: (spoiler tagged since it involves some quest fixes)

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  BUG FIXES

  • General optimizations related to stability and performance.
  • Essential followers recover properly if player fast travels away.
  • Fixed rare instances of dragons flying improperly though objects after player exits an interior.
  • Fixed rare instance where the a music track would not stop playing properly.
  • Autosave message properly displays when going through a load door.
  • The fifth level of the Light Fingers perk correctly calculates the Pickpocket skill bonus.
  • Enchanting an item to improve the Sneak skill properly calculates the bonus to the player's Sneak skill.
  • Enchanting an item to improve the Lockpick skill properly calculates the bonus to the player's Lockpick skill.
  • Corpus Enchanter perk properly calculates bonuses to stats for the player’s new enchantments.

  QUEST FIXES

  • Fixed rare issue where a character would not arrive properly to the Thalmor Embassy during Diplomatic Immunity.
  • Rescue/Attack on Fort Neugrad will trigger properly if player travels to Fort Neugrad by foot.
  • In To Kill an Empire, Gianna will now talk to player with certain diseases.
  • Fixed rare instance of Civil War battle not starting properly if player receives a Companions quest from Farkas.
  • During Brelyna's Practice, fixed rare issue where the player could be permanently invisible.
  • Triggering combat in Largashbur no longer stops progression to The Cursed Tribe.
  • Fixed rare instance where fighting a Civil War battle during The Fallen would prevent the Jarl of Whiterun from accepting their axe in Message to Whiterun.
  • In The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller, fixed rare instance where Arngeir would not teach player the last word of Unrelenting Force.
  • In Taking Care of Business, fixed issue where Brynjolf would not give player this quest if Talen Jei was dead.

I don't know what they're patching, but I'm glad they do.
Imagine all those hungry gamers diving into it just to encounter a save corruption or glitch that makes the games unbeatable etc?

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

I don't know what they're patching, but I'm glad they do. Imagine all those hungry gamers diving into it just to encounter a save corruption or glitch that makes the games unbeatable etc?

Yeah, agreed. In my view patches are always a good thing. Well, except in New Vegas, since I now have to start from the beginning when I go back to S-Rank it. :)

jesus Bethesda we get it

Thank god! 11-11-11 1.0?

Fuck no!

1.1 baby.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't.

Change log:

WE WANT THEM ONEZ!

im guessing its just the usual balance stuff.

One-derful.

@ShaggE said:

One-derful.

Oh dear.

They are probably fixing all the floating horses and disjoint body parts before anyone sees them.

@ShaggE: You win.

You would think this is to remove glitches, but they realized they didn't have enough of them in this game, so they're taking the time to make all characters have floating eyeballs. 

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.

Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

We will remember them.

They are probably fixing all the floating horses and disjoint body parts before anyone sees them.

@MaFoLu said:

You would think this is to remove glitches, but they realized they didn't have enough of them in this game, so they're taking the time to make all characters have floating eyeballs.

That would be hilarious.

@isnipeyoudie said:

@ShaggE: You win.

I one?

Fuck they need more 1's... there should be 11 1's in the release date, version and time or something.

Every game has bugs on release, doesn't matter if it's Obsidian or Bioware. Bethesda fixes 'em like a boss though!

@Dagbiker said:

im guessing its just the usual balance stuff.

Hmm, I remember reading an interview with Todd Howard saying that balance stuff could be done without patches with their new system, so damage values and stuff can be updated on the fly.

Maybe I'm remembering wrong.

They did a recount and realized that the number of dragons in the game was actually finite. This patch includes the promised infinite dragons. However, because the patch was developed so quickly, they had to resort to using old cliffracer code from Morrowind in order to save time.

I generally just love patches. I love the fact that I've bought something that is now going to be better. Even if it's just a small tiny bit better, it feels great to download and install that patch.

Why didn't they just patch it before release? Seems kinda weird.

@Video_Game_King said:

Why didn't they just patch it before release? Seems kinda weird.

Because they had to declare a build ready for production in order to prepare for duplication and shipment. This patch is meant to address issues that couldn't be fixed in that timeframe.

@Video_Game_King said:

Why didn't they just patch it before release? Seems kinda weird.

The discs have been manufactured for probably over a month at this point.

@XII_Sniper:

I'm assuming that they weren't released before the 11th is because of business reasons (working things out with retailers, ads, etc.)?

Hopefully it isn't a big one, the internet at my uni house is more than absolute shit

They're probably removing horse armor from the game for us to buy later.

@Video_Game_King said:

@XII_Sniper:

I'm assuming that they weren't released before the 11th is because of business reasons (working things out with retailers, ads, etc.)?

Probably still working on it and anyone who plays it atm will be reviewers used to games a little broken because they dont have a day 1 patch.

If this patch only exists to update the version to 1.1 and fixes absolutely nothing, that would be awesome.

@Hailinel said:

They did a recount and realized that the number of dragons in the game was actually finite. This patch includes the promised infinite dragons. However, because the patch was developed so quickly, they had to resort to using old cliffracer code from Morrowind in order to save time.

...Fuck!

• Patched out the dragons because they were janky as fuck.
• Nerfed Orcs.
  

I wasn't going to post anything as I think patches are good but then I clicked on the source link and saw that the poster was Nick Breckon! Now all I can think of is wizards and idle thumbs. He's heading up a good bethesda podcast though, to bad it wasn't done more regularly.

@Cloudenvy said:

@Dagbiker said:

im guessing its just the usual balance stuff.

Hmm, I remember reading an interview with Todd Howard saying that balance stuff could be done without patches with their new system, so damage values and stuff can be updated on the fly.

Maybe I'm remembering wrong.

Hmm, I didn't hear that - not from BGS anyways. The MNC people and Netherrealm have both talked about balance tweaks sans-patch, so that is a thing that is possible if you build your game with it in mind, so maybe?

Discs and boxes have been getting printed and packages since before the game went gold.

They patched in a cameo from Booker T.

• Patched out the dragons because they were janky as fuck.
• Nerfed Orcs.
  

@Hexogen said:

If this patch only exists to update the version to 1.1 and fixes absolutely nothing, that would be awesome.

It honestly wouldn't surprise me! Though it would be nice to know how frequent the bugs are in v1.0. Are we talking New Vegas-levels or what? I know Jeff pretty much knocked off a star off the score due to the bugs in that game.

Have you seen those Fallout games they've been putting out? Did you think that broken shit would miraculously not happen in Skyrim?

Hopefully it's to fix the apparent bug where installed 360 games stream low textures rather than high ones. I really don't want to have to stream it off the disc :(

(That's a lot of 1:s)

From NeoGaf, a Bethesda community manager confirms a day one patch for all platforms. Patch notes will be official on that day. Wonder what they're patching, and if it'll affect reviews who are stuck with a pre-patched game.

@ShaggE: That's certainly one way to go about it.

@lclay said:

Hopefully it's to fix the apparent bug where installed 360 games stream low textures rather than high ones. I really don't want to have to stream it off the disc :(

i've been playing the 360 version a couple of hours now and i installed it but indeed i'm getting low res textures on my weapons, characters and world stuff. It's kind of annoying tbh. Is there a solution or should i just wait for patch

@Syndrom said:

@lclay said:

Hopefully it's to fix the apparent bug where installed 360 games stream low textures rather than high ones. I really don't want to have to stream it off the disc :(

i've been playing the 360 version a couple of hours now and i installed it but indeed i'm getting low res textures on my weapons, characters and world stuff. It's kind of annoying tbh. Is there a solution or should i just wait for patch

You got it early?

1111111111111

One of the things will probably fix the bug that's happening on the 360 version.

yeah i live in europe (belgium) and a some stores are selling early cause of the holiday on friday. Great game so far, really getting into the whole norse vibe of things. Just the textures are a annoying issue. No other bugs up until now.

Have those who got it early tried to clean their cache on X360? It seems the texture bug is rooting from that, just like it did in Fallout: New Vegas.

Seems like it will be a very minor patch. Well, minor in terms of size. Quest progression is pretty important.

For those who will pick up Skyrim this Friday, expect a patch to download onto your console. Here’s what the patch fixes;

• Some minor stability
• Quest progression issues

Source

@Cincaid said:

Have those who got it early tried to clean their cache on X360? It seems the texture bug is rooting from that, just like it did in Fallout: New Vegas.

How do i do that? got my xbox recently, don't know much about it :D