I wish they'd stop "fixing" the game.
I read on Bethesda's forum that v1.3 is a fix dealing specifically with what v1.2 broke. (With updates for other issues coming in from January onward.) If v1.3 reverses v1.2, then aren't you left with v1.1?? Is V1.3, V1.1??
:lol: Seriously though, I was lucky enough (360 version) to avoid V1.2 and am continuing to play v1.1 offline. On the whole it's fine. The bugs I've encountered so far are of the chucklesome variety for the most part. Dancing Dragon skeletons dropping on me out of the sky when I exit a town. Given a quest to persuade "Ben" to part with a gold watch, only to travel across the map and discover that "Ben" is an "Irish Wolf Hound"! that kind of thing. (Ok.. I might have made that last one up.. you decide.)
I'd say the worst thing is the CTD's, …. well.. I say "CTD's" but in fact on the 360 it's a complete lockup which requires a manual reboot. I've seen that three times in fifty five hour of play. It ain't good.. but it ain't life threatening.
Apparently there are broken quests.. well I've had a number of bugged quests, but so far (touch wood) noting that has prevented completion. (Albeit that I've had to make some leaps of logic and/or do some fancy footwork.) It'll certainly be an annoyance when I finally get stumped by one.
(An example apparently, is the possibility of getting a radiant quest sending you to clear a cave, which you are then required to visit later with the "Skooma Quest" in Riften. Sadly you've already killed the people this quest is now asking you to kill again and it seems that your inability to do so, effectively stops you completing it and therefor getting your house in Riften.)
Is V1.3 actually V1.1? Will V1.4 cause chaos by revisiting V1.2? Did "Lost" lose it's way about half way through the series and end up stealing hours of my time which I will NEVER get back? Perhaps only time will tell or perhaps we'll never really know these answers. But one thing I do know is that I'm putting the whole issue of patches completely aside and just playing v1.1 as it stands. I don't care what they come up with in the next few months , I'll be ignoring it.
Hopefully when I come to replay this game in a couple of years time, the version which my console pulls off "XBox Live" (No choice of version number with a fresh console install) will be one which everyone was eventually happy with.
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