We can only hope bro. I myself, am very much looking forward to it.

*fingers crossed*

Ohh lord i cant imagine if im currently in love with lidia ...after i wabbajacked her i will be totally broke for her ....damn !!!!! yes i really want to marry her ....

Closing in on 300 hours, more than half of which have been played with a permanently looping audio bug. Please 1.4, please remove the constant sound of hissing poison/fire from my character.

At first, changing to beast form would clear it up, but reload a save and bam ... hiss, crackle, hiss ... loop and repeat. Then I got the permanent werewolf bug, so no more fix. If anyone knows how to "rewrite" their character ... let me know. Maybe the Wabbajack ... maybe if I wabbajack myself. lol

Other than that, thanks for an enjoyable experience Beth.

Sounds like you need a complex fix. The links below may help you, if you have a pc and the tools to alter your Skyrim save file, or you know someone with Skyrim for PC that would be willing to help. (I'm sure you can find someone on the PC side of this forum.
From Xbox to PC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTg-U8atbR0
From PC to Xbox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znMpYUw7dE4

Edit: What needs to happen is on Xbox turn beast, then save. Go to PC, and enter console command to change back to human, save, then put back on Xbox.

The Beta patch fr PC is about 190 mgb .....even for PC thats hell of a patch if you ask me ...thats a good sign thou....they did include lot of stuff in it....im glad

I agree, that is a pretty good sign. I've been reading the PC side of the Forums and the overall concensus is pretty damn positive. But like Llamaskull said above, I'm going to keep my fingers crossed until it's done downloading and installing from Xbox Live... once it goes live that is.

Thank you. Well, I have no business messing around with .dat files.

The bug is not a game-killer, especially outside in the wind or rain. Deep in a quiet dungeon, however, the constant hiss is impossible to ignore.

On the positive side, my game has had relatively few quest bugs. Almost none actually. Maybe the audio loop is granting +60 magicka to the quest script engine. lol

Me too. What I did was enchant my jockstrap with 49% bug resistance

Thank You Bethesda,
For the continued support & updates to your amazing game. (except when you fix the glitches I like)
Also for taking time to read and respond to comments and complaints posted by your fans.
Keep up the good work!

This may seem a bit silly of a question, but do the patches automatically download, or do I have to get them from the Xbox live marketplace?

I don't know if this is common but my character is level 44, and whenever I go into the items menu, it constantly freezes when clicking on different items, whenever I select a different piece of armour or weapon it freezes everytime for minutes, svcks :/ and with the markarth bounty, where you get framed, the guard stops me, and i select 'I submit take me to jail' but nothing happens!!! Anyone have any similar problems or suggestions??? Would be much appreciated

when you play the game and you are connected to live it will prompt a download for an update

The menu freeze problem.. can be caused (mostly) by two issues.. 1)Your controller (if wireless), Test it with a wired controller, or reload/change the battery.
2) Autosave is on.. Disable it... or let it only autosave on fasttravel or waiting.

As for the Markarth issue.. I would advise: Wait for 1.4 or in the meantime read either these two wiki-articles.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_talk:Markarth
and
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Markarth_(City)#Bugs

I don't remember, how big was 1.2 and 1.3? Is 190 unheard of or is that what it should be?

why is it that the pc patches are 100mb while the xbox patch is 2mb?
ive always wondered this

i download patches all the time on ps3, some are a hundred mb, but the xbox patches are always very very small

Just a warning on this, some items are disappearing on me when doing this. I haven't nailed down what the exact cause is, but for example a pair of upgraded Ancient Shrouded Boots disappeared from Kharjo, J'zargo, and Jordis every single time, yet they still had Daedric artifacts, upgraded enchanted weapons, and normal items in their inventory. J'zargo also poofed upgraded enchanted Stormcloak Officers chest but held onto upgraded enchanted Elven armor. So, it is confusing but you might want to double check after wabbajacking to make sure everything is there.

Its just how MS manages its patches, its small to fit in the cache, any larger would have to be a major update that needs to be downloaded off the market place and stored on your hard drive.

Guys i wrote today with great sadness.....for the first time in 113 hrs of gameplay my game lagged yesterday in a way that ive seen only on PS3 videos ...i wish i could have shown you ..i was completing the quest "pieces of the past" and i was retrieving the pommel from http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dead_Crone_Rock playing in master (eventually i had to lower it to expert because of the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Forsworn_Briarheart ridicously hard they were hiting me twice and i was done ...well after probably one hr and 15 minutes of frustration on master (im that stubborn) i decided to switch lower back to expert willing to just get out of there given my alreadu on-going frustration so as soon as i lower the diff...for some reason and im not sure why my game started lagging but like if i was playing an online game on dial-up connection bad ..really bad ...i stopped and reload and the same thing happened again and again ...at this point i swear i had to stop playing and get to my bathroom and have a cold shower ...i swear i did....get back turn back on my xbox and "thankfully.......everything went well from that point"...now of course i understand this is a signal that things are starting to go downhill with my game and the fears of crash and game breaing bugs are hunting me to the point that im not sure if ill play today lol......So yeah i was one of the ones that never had any "mayor" problem and i just had my first lagging experience ...at leats it was not constant .....im playing on an arcade 2009 xbox with 60 gigs hdd and patch 1.3.....

A lot of people have had this problem at this location, myself included.
By any chance, did you notice a frostbite spider in a tent when you came up out of the first part of the dungeon to the big clearing with the 2 briarhearts and all the other foresworn?
Some have said that they got the lag in that area until they killed the spider. That wasn't the case for me- it just seemed like the game was having trouble just working through loading up the area and all the enemies, and it seemed to decrease gradually as I started whittling down the number of enemies. I only found the spider after I had taken down everyone else.

But yeah, I don't think it's a long- term stability issue, just an issue specific to that location. I'm pushing 300 hours and keeping my saves down and clearing cache every so often and my game's still holding up pretty well.

YEESS I saw the spider ....and in my case she was the last i killed actually but im glad to know this is an area related issue and not a long term condition ...thanks a lot for the reply..honestly i have no idea what that frostbite spider was doing there in the middle of more than 10 foresworn in the first place she seemed to be kind of stuck on the tent as a matter of fact....but great thanks for the reply ..appreciate..the funny thing is that i had visited that location before (i wonder around a lot) and i dont remember the damn spider there ....

Those crazy foresworn- trapping spiders in tents......
Yes, I blame them for putting the spider in there.

Seriously, I don't know why the devs put a frostbite spider in the tent, or maybe she's a glitch.

Sorry if this has been asked before; (I have trailed the previous posts, but couldn't find what I was looking for! :$) for the 360, will the upcoming 1.4 update overwrite/include the fixes from the previous patches, and will I have to start a new game for those fixes to be implemented? I ask because I haven't used any patches before, since *touch wood* my game's been fine... *so far*. I figured I might as well download 1.4 since it'll allegedly do a lot for my game.

Thanks

The new patch supersedes all previous updates. It will include the 1.3 fixes as well as adding the new ones. If you're worried about 1.2 and the problems it caused, they were eliminated (for the most part) by 1.3. So 1.4 should be a further improvement. The PC guys are already using it and their reaction seems positive for the most part, so we have reason to anticipate 1.4 happily.

Thank you for the quick reply! How did the 1.3 patch fare, out of interest? I think that's the one XBox Live keeps nagging me to install currently.