By now, we all know that Bethesda released patch 1.2 for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and was supposed to fix many of the issues that players were reporting on the Skyrim forums, most notably the “texture” issue on the 360. While this patch did resolve the fifteen or so bugs that most gamers experienced, it also created a number of new and interesting bugs.
http://youtu.be/_xCjK3BD6u4
That was one of the more bizarre bugs, but another issue that arose was a game breaking bug for certain players. Anyone that created a mage class character, became practically unprotected as Magic Resistance no longer existed. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim had literally become unplayable for many gamers as crashes, corrupt save files and unbearable levels of lag seemed to have gotten worse after Patch 1.2 instead of better.
Today Bethesda has released Patch 1.3 onto the Xbox 360 with promises that this patch will fix the following:
Since Patch 1.3 has gone live there have of course been reports of new bugs, such as a balancing issue that is causing players to level up entirely too fast, but on the whole it seems that 1.3 is very stable and only a small percentage of gamers are still experiencing major issues. This of course by no means that the game is in perfect working condition, rather the game is merely playable for everyone once again.
Now while there are a lot of problems to complain about in this game, we as gamers need to understand that a game of this magnitude will have its problems especially since there was no beta to help work out the kinks before the game’s release. There is so much going on in this game, it is difficult to predict every single issue that can occur within the game and the guys over at Bethesda are working their tails off to give us the best gaming experience they know how. In less than 30 days, we have received not one, not two, but three different patches; that’s a patch every ten days! No other developer can claim such thing and as long as Bethesda continues to support Skyrim they way they have been thus far, I can easily see The Elder Scrolls V being played for years to come.
Oh and don’t forget to check out our Ultimate Wiki Guide for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with constant updates and daily content additions.
bugbear1
December 16, 2011 at 3:00 PMWhat!?! -“we as gamers need to understand that a game of this magnitude will have its problems especially since there was no beta to help. . .”
Sorry, but this assertion is IDIOTIC! It directly implies and suggests that consumers are indirectly responsible for the plethora of bugs and weirdness that plague SKYRIM. It is NOT the consumers job to QA Bethesda’s buggy titles, whether FALLOUT or SKYRIM.
-A game about dragons and the dragons do not “fly” right? Npcs getting stuck, falling thru the world, broken quests, hardlocks, massive lag and CTDs for PC was to be expected because gamers hadn’t beta tested for Bethesda?
And, “predicting” possible errors is NOT needed when base code functions- Bethesda’s QA couldn’t identify error issues without modder, gamer or public review and testing?
Well, if ya don’t know how to cook, get outta the kitchen!
SKYRIM’s litany of bugs are eerily similar to many of FALLOUT and NEW VEGAS bugs, glitches, savegame anomalies and, yes, PS3 LAG-
And, for us to be gleeful due to Bethesda’s tripartite patching of SKYRIM is silly. -One of those patches patched an earlier patch!
Bethesda will keep fixing SKYRIM until none of it works properly. Bethesda is Dev of the Year and SKYRIM got GOY? -And, yet, it doesn’t work on the systems that it was made for? Not including PCs, don’t consoles have similar architecture? When something coded for XBOX fails to work on XBOX, doesn’t that issue signal other failings and not, solely, hardware issues?
And, “no other developer can claim. . .” to have released 3 patches during one month? Either this writer is wholly ignorant or pandering for cookies from Bethesda, MANY devs have released patches for their games more frequently, try examining MMOs. . . .
crazyswesey
December 16, 2011 at 4:06 PMpatch1.2 was a bit of a disaster for my console (360) in particular, i immediately encountered a backwards flying dragon, that must have texture glitched, cause it then proceeded to turn invisible. shortly after that aggravating struggle, i entered my home in whiterun to find that my mannequins were now glitched and i couldnt activate them, or my weapon racks. :( very sad…
luckily the 1.3 patch fixed it all! :)
-thanks bethesda, your the best
skyrim *****
replay value 10/10
GolumEi
December 16, 2011 at 4:41 PMSo…still no patch for the Golum Ei bug on xbox 360? I mean it only makes the Thieves Guild Quest Line entirely unplayable. However, no worries right, I mean the Thieves Guild is only one of the three holy trinity of dnd guilds and largely responsible for Oblivion’s success (stealing an elder scroll did we forget how epic that was). Who cares if the Skyrim Thieves Guild doesn’t work though, so long as the Warrior and Magic users are happy.
Matt
December 16, 2011 at 5:49 PMBugbear, I think you misunderstood the author. He wasn’t holding the consumer indirectly responsible at all. He simply stated that, lacking a beta (at least a public one) limits a company’s ability to test a game in actually play situations. You mentioned MMOs later in your post, consider World of Warcraft, which puts patches on Public Test Realms long before release, and if you’ve ever played on a PTR, you know just how bug-ridden they can be.
Also, as far as the game “not working” on the systems it was made for, the game works fine and is completely playable. The bugs are generally minor, the few major ones have been patched out. That’s normal for a game of this magnitude. Again, look to your MMOs, they are the closest example.
All in all, try being a bit more understanding and a little less quick to attack an author.
Matt
December 16, 2011 at 5:50 PMAlso, as for the Golum Ei bug, there are workarounds and fixes for it. Do a little research.
Martian Warlord
December 16, 2011 at 6:31 PM1.3 for 360 is causing MAJOR problems for me.
When I save a game session and come back it drops the 90-120min of play.
Several of my higher level spells are missing. And some quest items are missing.
Im going to have to stop playing until they offer a fix to teh save issue.
Josh
December 16, 2011 at 8:09 PMI would think they would fix the main quest glitches before theyd fix that other crap. I dont care about texture. Game is pointless when you cant go any farther into the game.
lol
December 16, 2011 at 9:12 PMIm here because of Silent Rob! LOL
Invisible Man
December 16, 2011 at 10:15 PMBugbear1
When I was five years old I remember saying very similar things about my 80 year old piano teacher. I much regret it, because I play piano now as well as I did then as a result.
Perhaps you ought to apply at Bethesda. You seem expert enough in the field, I’m sure they’d hire you right away, perceiving you as a Joan of Arc for their failing game and business. You could probably turn the whole industry upside down.
Or perhaps you should get out of the kitchen, since you clearly have no idea how to cook.
wampdog29
December 17, 2011 at 4:53 AMBugbear’s right for as far as I can tell.
I love these comments both here and on other sites. Things like “there are fixes and workarounds” for certain bugs and issues. Wait…. so, that’s okay? Everyone is fine with the fact that you pay 50 to 60 bucks for a game and you have to find out ways around bugs online and then apply them to your game?
Others are saying things like “oh, well Bethesda didn’t have a public Beta, so that’s the issue.” Again, I say, wait, what? You’re telling me that a company should have a public beta every time they release a game to get all of the bugs out and to “see it in a real playing environment?” Why? The only game-type I give a pass to Beta’s and patches being released over and over again are MMOs due to the fact that you CAN’T possibly test MMO’s in a real environment because you won’t have the server load until you bring in a lot of the gamers.
I mean, not ALL bugs can be found but come on. These are major and aplenty! I cannot believe that everyone is fine with having paid 60 bucks to test out a game for a company. That’s basically what we have become as gamers: game testers that pay the companies in order to test out their games for them. I really can’t believe everyone is fine with that.
Oh, so “a game of this magnitude will have bugs” huh? Why? Why did Bethesda only take 3 years to make a game of this magnitude then? Call me crazy, but didn’t Skyward Sword take 5? Yes, there’s a bug in Skyward Sword…one. Nintendo’s fixing that now. Meanwhile, Bethesda still hasn’t fixed the save file issue of Fallout…
Souless
December 17, 2011 at 8:04 AMyay thank god now i can put books on my shelves correctly…. to bad im stuck with several bugged quests like Leifnarr’s remains and investigate the bards college… but hey, my book shelves look great :)
bob jones
December 17, 2011 at 10:35 AMfix arniels endeavor quest! convectors dont work
Reality
December 17, 2011 at 1:40 PMLet me know when Skyrim is fixed for good and then I will play it again. I’m not playing it while it’s a buggy mess. I don’t know why people get so excited for an Elder Scrolls release when it’s usually not playable for about 6-12 months later anyway.
Oscar Salazar
December 17, 2011 at 2:05 PMI just downloaded patch 1.3 for PS3 and to be honest, it doesn’t fix anything. Bethesda claimed to have fixed radiant quests, reality is that they are still broken. I’ve done the thieves’ guild 3 times now, and whenever I get to the radiant quests, I never get quests in Solitude. Silly me to have believed in Bethesda.
bugbear1
December 17, 2011 at 4:26 PMreply to Invisible Man and Matt
-No, I don’t need to apply to Bethesda for any reason. Frankly, I have worked in the broadcast/film industries for over 30 years. Incidentally, I HAVE worked on games, both production and testing for a variety of publishers. . . BUT, that is NOT the gist of your post, is it?
No, your post is about trolling my comments. Fine, np. :)
But neither your off-topic comments nor Matt’s comment that, “the game works fine and is completely playable” changes the salient, main thrust of my argument: SKYRIM is broken and not working as intended. . . .
-Unless, of course, lag, crashing and hardlocks, broken quest lines, textures flashing and savegame corruption are considered acceptable. . .
As far as my “attacking” the author claim that was made by Matt, in his post, I can only reply that public PUBLISHED opinion pieces will garner audience responses, whether sympathetic or otherwise.
I should also be a “bit more understanding?” Of whom? The author or Bethesda’s currently broken SKYRIM? In either case, both JPS’s writer AND Bethesda published their offerings FOR public acceptance and review. Written editorials generate critiques; in fact, ARE critiques, whether sympathetic or otherwise.
paul
December 17, 2011 at 5:35 PMIf they held back on release date because of glitches we’d never get the game and we’d be saying how let down we feel, and how we expect these big titles to be glitchy. It’s £27 and will eventually get patched up. Short of magic, What more can be done.
Jake
December 17, 2011 at 7:08 PMsince 1.3 came out, whenever I wait or sleep my game crashes. I’m on PS3 by the way.
Tilearian
December 18, 2011 at 12:01 AMHonestly… My games not had a problem yet, I just installed the damn thing. I mean sure there’s problems with quests, big whoop. As long as I don’t have problems with my achievements I don’t give a damn. And I didn’t seem to have a problem with thieves guild, or any other guild. All be it, they were simply too short some of them, but I don’t really care too much. Yall are honestly taking the game to a whole new level by being pissed about some small things. But I can sympathize for the people who get crashes.
Derek
December 18, 2011 at 12:06 AMSo i bought this game on 11 11 11 and i have only found one problem with the whole game in all of that time that i have owned it. I went into Solitude and a dragon attacked the city i started to fight it and the guards started attacking me instead of the dragon.. Inconvenient? Yes. Making the game a worthless piece of crap? Not even close.. Skyrim is a very beautiful very detailed game that i have found very enjoyable and Challenging well worth the 60 dollars i shelled out for it. I think Bethesda has truly created a Beautiful amazing game and hey if you have a problem with that you should have bought COD Modern warfare thr… i mean 1 just remade again with nothing new to add.
Laurens
December 18, 2011 at 5:50 AMMust say its just funny to read all these comments and see everybody bullshitting. Even if the game is buggy in some ways. Bethesda did a make a great game. the game is so fuking huge, that it just CAN’T be compared with other games. but i see people don’t realize that. comparing it with an mmo or skyward sword is just rubish. but hey. it’s just takes some time to repair some things. there still tons of other things to do ;)
Fallenlords69
December 18, 2011 at 7:24 AMI had no problems with the game prior to the latest patch. Now everything is just screwing up, NPC’s are duplicated back to back. Collision detection for NPC’s seems to have gone out of the window, they now walk into objects like tables, walls and stuff. Game is lagging when fighting multiple opponents.
Still a great game but I want an option to roll-back to the previous version.
MrGamer81
December 18, 2011 at 9:31 AMHad the game since release date, and a few problems like not being able to use weapon racks/bookshelves and weapon plaques. Other than that, no real issues at all. Skyrim is a huge game, very well rendered and as a huge epic feel to it. I’m 70+ hours in, and I’ve only done 2 main quests!! What over game can you say that about?? Yeah, ok theres still some issues to sort out, and I’m sure Bethesda are working around the clock to fix it all for us. I had similar problems with Fallout 3, but Bethesda fixed it….
William the Great
December 18, 2011 at 4:05 PMWHA WHA WHAT!!!?
I am sick and tired of reading about how Bethesda is working its tail off and patch this patch that and patch the patch that screwed everything up. How about some tests before you patch again and you actually listen to the gamers and the issues they are talking about and not just selecting a few here and there. The main line of the DEV team was that you effect your outcome blah blah blah…I am not so sure now that was not just a cover for an excuse to the plethora of issues. HOW DID THEY GET GOY with such a piece of crap? I can answer that…because they dazzled us with CGI that was not game related and stunning graphics, of which I would trade in a heartbeat for a functioning properly game. They certainly should have tested the game prior to release. Why didn’t they? I can answer that as well…profit margin. I am welling to go as far to say this maybe the way of the gaming future. If that is the case then kiss your future profit margins goodbye.
zenkuja75
December 18, 2011 at 10:09 PMwell im lv 65 and patch 1.2 i saw backwards flying dragons and my game started to fresse up when i loaded it same thing even with the new patch it wont load so i lost about 80+ hours into the game gana play somthing else great game really fun lots of problums
Mike
December 19, 2011 at 4:30 AMI can’t deny the game looks good and much of the time it works well. I think the biggest problem with the Game is that they didn’t release the developer tools at the same time. If they had modders would have done much of the work around issues and solved things such as CTD, Texture glitches, backwards flying dragons..I find it funny that people are happy with a buggy program and get upset with people that aren’t..Matt and Invisible man..if you bought a car that worked most of the time..but sometimes it just stopped and the doors didn’t always open..and sometimes for no apparent reason the windows went up and down the horn beeped and the breaks were applied..I am sure you wouldn’t say..thats ok there are work arounds..and the car is still great..
Tom Burns
December 19, 2011 at 9:05 AMI have a problem with one of the side quests in Whiterun, Missing in action. I have to speak to fralia at her home… i go there and i speak to her but i can only ask her who the best blacksmith is and if she can tell me any more info on where her son is. But i cant get any further than that. And then someone is supposed to come and talk to be but they don’t :(
oj simson
December 19, 2011 at 1:50 PMwilliam th great fuck off. this game obviously has some problems, so what. even if you had to start over it wouldnt be boring to restart that just means you can get better at it. im lvl 81 with all the perks avaliable. ive started over atleast 3 or 4 times. atleast the game even came out when it did. if they had beta testers there prob wouldn bee skyrim for 3 or 4 months. so i say shut the fuck up if u dnt like it then play a different game. bitch
KingOfArcadia
December 19, 2011 at 2:52 PMThis is an Elder Scrolls game, made by the same company that made Fallout 3, and you bought this game believing that there wouldn’t be any glitches in it at launch? Boy, are you naive. And sad.
That said, the only issues I seem to run into on my xbox is some pop-in from time to time. Oh and I once saw a mammoth levitate temporarily to make way for another one. The game, for me at least, is definitely not unplayable – I find it a lot less glitchy than any of their previous games.
Old dirty gamer
December 19, 2011 at 9:47 PMLoved the game as soon as I got it. Then I started experiencing the glitches. Book shelves don’t work, Companions quests locked, Quests being repeated as if not completed but dungeon is still cleared, Losing levels, Disappearing/reappearing dragons, Locked Companion quests locking other quests/characters, Having to look online to find special ways to trick game into functioning properly. It all adds up to a sour taste in my mouth that I can’t seem to rinse out. Bought the game and the strategy guide and after over $80 spent, I have a game I can’t play or have limited access to. Am I supposed to feel satisfied with this? Well I’m not. And to those of you who want to defend this kind of crap or tell me I should expect it, you can choke on a skeever tail.
M
December 20, 2011 at 6:15 PMI wonder why some people are having more problems than others? I have it on PC and I haven’t encountered a lot of bugs to make it less enjoyable. The only major one is the Markarth – Escape from Cidhna Mine quest bug. I had to reload a few times to get around that one. There was one other bug involving becoming Thane of Riften. I had to do things in a certain order for the option to show up. Patch 1.2 did screw up the bookshelves but that is fixed now.
Other than those, and maybe the save/load screen slowing down a lot more as I get further into the game, I haven’t encountered anything that would make me want to stop playing it. I’m about 120 hours in, did all the guild quests, and am now just getting into the main quest.
david
December 20, 2011 at 6:52 PMSorry for ranting but this is a matter that ticks me of real bad. I was shaking my heading as I read this article.
First, a few glitches that can be patched after a game’s release I would consider acceptable. As long as they are not the type that breaks a quest or forces us to find ways to play around them. A few glitches are just that – a few.
The author let Bethesda off the hook. We paid 60 bucks for this game. I read some highly-rated reviews before buying Skyrim. Some reviewers mentioned a couple of minor glitches, none which were quest or game-breaking). In the past, I also Bought from Bethesda TES III: Morrowind, TES IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas. I had no problems from Oblivion (there probably were some minor glitches, maybe a patch, I don’t remember, but nothing game-breaking). The version of Oblivion I bought was the GOTY with Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine. I bought it on December 2007, so maybe any glitches that were there had been patched before I started playing. Oh, and Morrowind, I played on my XBOX in 2002. It had internet access tech of course with XBOX Live (I never used that), but as far as I know, wasn’t set up to handle patches – Morrowind didn’t need any, the game played fine as I remember.
Fallout was very glitchy with many game freezes. Annoying as hell sometimes, especially if I hadn’t save the game in the last hour of play with no auto-save either. This too was a GOTY version with all the DLC on the disc).
And then, Bethesda was about to really start pissing me off when…
…Fallout New Vegas was released. Twice I needed to go back to an earlier save because of a broken main quest line, one which sent me back 60 hours (I had played for over 200 hrs BEFORE that happened). Majorly Pissed!
Then Skyrim came out (I didn’t expect any problems because both Morrowind and Oblivion were fine. Plus, Bethesda was both the developer and producer, unlike New Vegas). They made several patches which came out so quickly after the game went on sale. This tells me they most likely knew of the many glitches in advance of Skrim’s shipment. They didn’t have time to address those problems since they had to stick to their Nov. 11th deadline to have the game on store shelves. Release dates are vital and chosen for several strategic reasons, all for max profit potential. Skyrim is a beautiful game and quite an improvement over Oblivion (IMHO), but because of how messy the game can be at times, I won’t be buying DLC for it.
Games that can be patched for flaws after release might become the new reality. “Buy Now – We’ll Fix ‘Em Later” will become the new slogan.
That’s what us gamers are essentially doing when we buy flawed games. Next Bethesda game I buy – If I buy – I will wait, I will watch the progress of the game patches, the playability and so forth (probably a solid year, right there, minimum) and then I will look for and buy the now used game from a private seller, so that this person will get my money, NOT Bethesda. I wish all of us could send game companies (not just Bethesda) a message that would make them think twice about releasing a game before it is ready.
Bottom line: Do not reward incompetence!
Coolguy1
December 25, 2011 at 6:29 PMI am 155 hours down in my game and im still on 1.0, level 51 on x360, no major bugs, no unfinishable quests, im pretty happy.
You guys should wait before applying a patch -_- it’s like buying a car that just came out… wait for feedback bitchez
LeXX
December 30, 2011 at 5:55 PMSo what are those of us to do who copies don’t work at all. For example my first copy froze with a blue screen on certain mission. I’d turn on the xbox 360 start a mission and 2mins later frozen. Told to get a new copy, upon doing so now it freezes at load screen. If I keep trying I will get in and shields are white with no characteristics, as well as parts of the ground and parts of clothing and the sky, then 3mins in it freezes. I tryed it on a different xbox and it does the same. Bethesda conclusion of the email they sent me is to complain to xbox. Way to take responsibility for what everyone knows to be your mistake. And yes I deleted the cache a million times. I also have no little to no problems with Fall Out New Vegas which I recently tested out to make sure it still works. So I’m just out of $50 bucks just like that. I mean as long as everyone else s happy.
Vladypuss
January 1, 2012 at 8:18 AMSome of the other things that have happened to my game is: I can’t do the main quest because it’s gliched: fully explore some of the dungeons, with that problem I can’t get the croton priest mask: I bought a house in windhelm for 8,000 gold and not standard 12,000 gold and when ever I encounter this one dragon it stars flying backwards and than my game (skyrim) starts to become super slow and and everything is bulck looking: the rings on the claw door would not spin and let me get the combination.
NeoMorph
January 3, 2012 at 3:07 AMI’m beginning to think that Skyrim is going to take the title of buggiest game since Frontier: Elite II.
The game crashes my console regularly, slowmo glitches, quest glitches (to such a degree that it is not possible to complete the game), teleporting animals… I could go on for hours. And this is the “1.3 is very stable and only a small percentage of gamers are still experiencing major issues.” version. I call bull on that quote.
You only have to check on the “A Season Unending” posts to know that the game still is wrecked.
true nord
January 4, 2012 at 5:27 PMi want to see storage containers get patched so i can find stuff easier in there like in fallout
Weapon Racks?!
January 11, 2012 at 7:16 AMWait… you could actually put weapons on your weapon racks _before_ the patch?
(slaps forehead)
Dorn the dragonslayer
January 12, 2012 at 10:38 PMWhen I first got Skyrim, I was like OMG this is going to be sweet. Atlas my hopes were bashed by the countless bugs in this game. I have played this game over 300 plus hours from the day of its release. I also have more than one character, 15 in fact. I should know all about the bugs in this game and I do… Trust me, I know them all and have had most of them thus far. TOO many to count for such a promising game. The broken quests ones are the worst. I will make a major point, it is very disappointing for a company that has had poor numbers with their game RAGE sales and Brink to have such poor luck with their new baby Skyrim. Skyrim is bad, very bad in fact, most of you all know this by now. Need we say more about how Skyrim is a piece of shit? On a better note, I hope these major bugs are fixed soon. I know they will be “in time” fixed but it looks very bad on a company to have such poor luck this last year with their three latest releases. I will not be rushing out to get a game from this company for a long time. Also, I don’t play Skyrim anymore and I haven’t played in a long while.
Marr
January 13, 2012 at 3:27 AMOk… So here I am. Just a stupid run of the mill consumer, but I think I have a beef anyway. I dont know anything about what it takes to make a game. Not my job. I dont know anything about the patches. I dont know anything about the difference in problems between different consoles or PC. All I know is I spent 60 bucks on a game for my 360 that is so badley flawed I cant even play it. Even if the crippling lag stopped and didn’t continue to crash my console, i would still be pissed by the “minor” glitches. (quest, skills screen, gameplay, ect.) Im not even gonna argue whos fault it is or that it should have been fixed long ago. I just want it fixed! I enjoy the idea of the game but have yet to experience it. I even deleted my game memory to try to start over. Still cant play it. Im trying to be patient and understanding but its Jan. 12, the games been out how long? 3 Months? I keep hearing about “Game of the year”, “its an industary changer”, yet I cant even see for myself. It seems to me its hard for a game company to stay in business with games you cant play. I hear in works great for some people. Well, great. What about the rest! Bethesda constantly has everyone telling us to calm down and understand. You know what, your right we are sorry. As a game company you made a game thats not playable. God forbid we’re pissed. Fix it. If its not ready, dont release it. If you need a beta, use a beta. As consumer I should be able to put the disk in a play. Thats all I’m looking for. Is that to much to ask?
Marr
January 13, 2012 at 4:23 AMOk Im back. I read only about half of the comments before making my own and now that Ive read the rest I want to make some more. I think because of the design of the game, a huge beautiful world where you can do anything, the minor glitches should be important. Its not a typical game that you beat the level and it cuts to a cimatic. Gameplay is everything in this game. The smoother you make it, the more life the game brings to the consumer. Thats pretty important. But alot of you that arent so pissed are right, because of the scope and features of the game it is extremely hard to make it that way right out of the gate. Thus I will have patience for the little stuff knowing bethesda is putting themselves out there.
However, its easy for you to give them some slack cuz the game is still playable. What about the people, like me, that literally can not play for five minutes without crashing? And during that five minutes you are simply trying to get to the merchant on the other side of town? So basically I own a shinny siver disk in a green boxx that just sits next to my conslole. Sweet.
Then when you try to tell bethesda the problem, they tell you its your xbox. Yet my console works flawlessly for every other game. There is no excuse for that. There is no patience or understanding for that. I bought a game I expect to play it.
If you game works great, then you a lucking gamer. But just remember that you backed bestheda and didn’t hold them accountable next game, when it might be you sitting in our shoes.
So in summary. For all those of you who are lucky enough to be able to excutually play the game. Dont sit there and critize those of us who cant. Bestheda is dropping the ball. End of debate.
Chris
January 13, 2012 at 10:41 PMMany passionate perspectives…… In my case (LVL 40 and running on xbox360) I was given the game as a gift from my daughter. They have it on PC; she and her hubby have been playing and I thought it was the balls. He has a ton of mods that have improved his user experience. Different world with xbox since the mods are not (?) seemingly available. With play I have encountered odd problems as I am leveling up… For example, I knew about the bug in the dining area container at the Whiterun house so avoided loosing stuff in that one but… I just was made Arch-Mage at the College of Winterhold and given his quarters (and began storing stuff there) and have started having problems with the containers in the Whiterun house. MAJOR problems like the stuff is in the container and when you take it out is disappears from inventory. I am also having a hell of a time casting conjuring spells for my flaming Atronoch… I have to cast 3 or 4 times and move the cross hairs around a lot before the cast will take. Really SUCKS in battle… If I knew I was doing something wrong then I would say fine and do something different but all I know is that it does not “work” and it is actually pissing me off enough that I am beginning to severely limit my play…… Yes many quests are buggy and quest items are still for the most part leftovers that need to be dumped (a lot of papers….. sure glad they don’t weigh anything..) SO the game is playable yes but the joy is diminishing when it should actually be increasing… There are alot of bugs yet to be found as play expands and there are capacity problems encountered…… Sidebar.. interestingly enough the development company already has our money so what incentive do they have to actually fix the problems? Gotta make the quarterly revenue numbers so you wonder why there was a release date and a lot of fixes to follow? What world are you living in… It is the benjamins talking… Hello??. Enuff… I just hope that the Bethesda folks have a way to actually capture some of the more advanced users bugs and get them fixed before the masses get there; I see no way for them to actually have a trace done for a bug report in the game so guess you have to describe the bug in text. Heavy sigh….. SSDD in the software biz…. Only here it is people dying in the game instead of real life like in the old days of transaction software development … End of message…. Back to the store to get more batteries….. Damn controllers are eating the things like candy…
Raaaaage
January 14, 2012 at 4:19 AMI tried looking around for fixes to the Golum Ei bug. After I encountered a gamebreaking one that completely killed the quest. I found brinewater grotto accidentally and the challenge went from Shadow Golum Ei to Confront Golum Ei, and he is NEVER at the end of the cave. Grah!
mmortal
January 14, 2012 at 11:27 AMI am a level 58 and stuck in companions building in Jorrvaskr..everytime I attempt to leave the buiding, the game freezes..thus having to restart the Xbox..my game has been unplayable for almost 3 weeks now..
UXOBABY
January 21, 2012 at 11:22 PMLvl 48 and ALL my saves are corrupt and cannot be loaded!! WTF?! I wanted to play through before starting over. Now I don’t know if I even want to start over because, will this happen again? I don’t want to get halfway through and have all my saved games get corrupted again. I’ll trade you the backward flying dragon for my saved game issues anyday!
I’m still undecided as to weather I even want to play it again. I do not remember having this issue with Oblivian.
UXOBABY
January 22, 2012 at 1:52 PMStarted again did a bunch of stuff went to the first village and now cannot sell or buy anything with any vendors! Exited and tried to reload, SAVE CORRUPTED!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now the game IS unplayable!! FUCK YOU BETHESDA!!! I WANT IT TO WORK OR I WANT MY $60 BUCKS BACK!!!!!!!!!!
Starseed
January 23, 2012 at 2:07 PMI sympathise with all the problems. I have played Morrowind and Oblivion and despite occasional glitches they eventually sorted themselves out. I am now on lvl 26 of Skyrim (no glitches till now) and appear to be unable to do any serious fighting. I get to the end of a quest and once I have to use a few health potions etc my game freezes. I can’t be bothered to try a new quest only to find that I can’t complete it. I paid £44.99 for a very beautiful but incomplete game as all I can do now is run around in the heather catching butterflies!!!!!
UknowItsTrue
January 23, 2012 at 4:23 PMSo emailed Bethesda on friday still no reply. A game should work the way it’s designed to when you buy it end of discussion. if I couldnt use the weapon racks why are they in the game? that’s just a small example as you all know. Everyone is saying well it’s because they didn’t have a beta. Why didn’t they have a beta? Oh it would have cost money huh? and what happened to game testers why were people not sent home with copies of the game? Oh it would have cost money huh? I wouldn’t mind waiting longer for a release if it means I enjoy playing the game more. Skyrim is great with the huge expanse and you’re always finding new stuff but the little things add up. I’m stuck with an item because I found it before i started a quest and the quest giver doesn’t recognize that I have it, can’t drop the item because it’s a quest item can’t put it in a weapon holder that I own because they don’t work see how the little things add up. I’m sorry for defenders of this game it’s a great idea and the big things seem to work but it should work on the whole not just here and there.
harbinger96
January 24, 2012 at 11:29 AMi have a major bug the load screen at the start of the game just keeps zooming in and out slowly with the quotes and tips but it never loads please help.
Roikuchan
February 16, 2012 at 10:05 PMMy character is stuck standing in third person forever. I can deal with not be able to do some quests, texture glitches, messed up book shelves, and backwards dragons. But making it literally impossible for me to move on in the game? That sounds like a bug that needs fixing. And I read up on a few sites/articles, appears it’s common. That’s the only real bug I can say Betheseda should have done something about from the beginning. I’m flat out going to quit Skyrim if that isn’t fixed because I’d rather not risk that happening again after putting so much time into it. I’m not doing it out of spite, it’s just not worth the disappointment for me.
Russell
February 29, 2012 at 10:28 PMLevel 59 Khajiit sneak theif, played 300 hours and just working towards the last few missions… Out comes the xbox patch… Suddenly save file is corrupted – thanks Bethesda. I can load up my manual save in Riften, fast travel to Whiterun, go to Jorrvaska, pick up the Daedra heart, go to leave and the game will either lock up on the autosave or, if autosaves are disabled, open you up to a grey screen with the compass and the crosshair stating “open Whiterun”.
So my 300 hour character, which took fricking AGES to get most of the skills up to 100, is now boned. Bethesda’s support solution “Sorry, but we aren’t planning any patches to sort this, please make a new character” thank you very bloody much.
In the 25 years that I’ve been playing computer games that is the biggest and worst bug and attitude to the bug I’ve ever experienced. I’ve owned and played games on the Atari ST and ZX Spectrum, the Commodore Amiga, Gameboy, NES, SNES, N64, PS1, xbox, GBA-SP, xbox 360, PS3, Wii and the 3DS.
Total shambles. even the PC version is buggy. I wouldn’t mind but I’m running a i7-940, Sabertooth X58, 12Gb of Mushkin DDR3-1600 Radioactive RAM, a KFA2 GTX 480 Anarchy and a high speed Sata 2 SSD and the game still lags and acts up.
Yet you can run something really graphics heavy like MS Train Sim on this system with everything on max at a good 30+ fps and MS Train Sim is really badly put together graphically.
Russell
February 29, 2012 at 10:36 PMBy the way – one of the best “bugs” you can get is when you’re trying to do the 125 jobs for the Thieves Guild after missions like the battle for Whiterun and the damn game wasn’t programmed to take into account the fact that homes are destroyed during those missions.
I had to save every time before accepting T-G missions to make sure it didn’t ask me to rob that Priest of Talos’s house in Whiterun etc.
Utterly stupid and incompetant. I bought it for the 360 and ended up having to buy it for the PC simply so I can use the console codes to get around all these silly bugs.
henry
March 18, 2012 at 9:27 PMSkyrim for xbox 360 i found the book of black and white before the quest was given! now i cant drop it or finish this quest tells me i don’t have the book! Is this a quest i will be unable to finish? or is there a way out of this mess? any suggestions?