The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Patch 1.2 Details
I’ve been lost in Skyrim for so long now that if someone asked me where I lived, I’d probably just respond with a cheerful ”Whiterun!”
"My house is right there. See it? Next to the blacksmith."
As engrossing as Skyrim is, many of my fellow gamers have encountered bugs. Big deal, right? Bethesda’s games ALWAYS have bugs. They’re like little Easter Eggs of masochism.
Thankfully, however, Bethesda is patching up the game to fix some of the more annoying, game breaking and uglifying ones. Skyrim Patch 1.2 details were recently released on the Bethesda Blog:
UPDATE 1.2 NOTES (all platforms unless specified)
- Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation 3)
- Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed to drive (Xbox 360)
- Fixed crash on startup when audio is set to sample rate other than 44100Hz (PC)
- Fixed issue where projectiles did not properly fade away
- Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player’s wedding dead
- Dragon corpses now clean up properly
- Fixed rare issue where dragons would not attack
- Fixed rare NPC sleeping animation bug
- Fixed rare issue with dead corpses being cleared up prematurely
- Skeleton Key will now work properly if player has no lockpicks in their inventory
- Fixed rare issue with renaming enchanted weapons and armor
- Fixed rare issue with dragons not properly giving souls after death
- ESC button can now be used to exit menus (PC)
- Fixed occasional mouse sensitivity issues (PC)
- General functionality fixes related to remapping buttons and controls (PC)
Bethesda also mentioned that it would continue listening to gamers on forums, blogs, and other venues to improve the game’s performance.
So let your voice be heard if you notice a mammoth falling from the sky! (And no, it wasn’t the imaginary result of a 17 hour play session . . . )
Has anyone beaten Skyrim yet? Is there even an “end” to this fantastic game?
This is really going to make the PC version ultimately unplayable for a lot of gamers. “Fixed crash on startup when audio is set to sample rate other than 44100Hz (PC)” this is the only type of crash they fixed? This was an easy fix to do manually in the first place. Instead of focusing on the crashes that NOBODY in the gaming community can find a way to fix themselves, Bethesda fixes the one type of crash any gamer can easily fix.
If this is really all the patch does then I’m going to demand my money back because I CANNOT PLAY THE GAME. I understand that this is a huge open-world game and that bugs were to be expected, but why spend $60 on something that gives you nothing but frustration? And yes the issues will probably be fixed in the future, but this has become an issue of principle. This is like buying a season of your favorite show on blu-ray and you only get the first disc out of 5 in the box. You’re able to watch the first few episodes and are able to get the gist of the plot and where the story may be going, but instead of putting in the next disc you find a note that says “Sorry working on it, we’ll send you disc 2 as soon as it’s available”. This would be totally unacceptable to most people!! But because Skyrim is such a huge game and has totally been geared to be played on consoles, PC gamers are left with having the game crash to their desktop or getting a black screen and having to manually reboot their system with the hope that Bethesda may fix these issues sometime in the future.
By making it mandatory to have to start the game through steam, Bethesda has made it exceedingly difficult for PC gamers to even be able to play the game. If I spend $60 on a game I should be able to play it however I want. I shouldn’t be having to start up steam, and get a bunch of pop-up ads for other games that are on steam just to play the game I’ve been looking forward to all year.
I’ll wait till the 1.2 patch comes out, although it seems that the issues affecting me aren’t going to be addressed. If they are and my computer stops crashing then I guess it would be worth it because Skyrim seems like an incredible game from the few hours I have been able to play. But if my issues haven’t been addressed and I’m still not able to play the game I will be asking for my money back.
It’s come down to the point to where I feel like Bethesda really doesn’t give a crap about my experience as a gamer, but more importantly I feel that they don’t give a crap about my experience as their customer.
**fingers crossed**
I completely know where you’re coming from, eachbraveeye. I haven’t experienced any game breaking bugs or crashes with my copy of Skyrim, but I remember not being able to finish KOTOR on the Xbox because of a terrible bug.
I do hope that 1.2 fixes all of the issues you mentioned. I’ve seen them mentioned in other websites (black screen, crashing to desktop, having to restart your pc, etc.), so I’m hoping that Bethesda is aware of them as well.
I helped the apprentice mage at the collage of winterhold with her spells and now im perminentally invisable. Not to any other characters in the game but just to myself. I have heard mention of this glitch in other forums but so far I have not heard of a solution. Is there an easy fix or is this something that bethesda is going to have to update to fix?