Anyone notice how pre-patch the water looked REALLY good, but now it looks like [censored]?

just a placebo effect...

NOT a placebo effect, i saw a waterfall completely static yesterday, the problem is that not cause it was static but cause it was like a wallpaper low res (will take a pic tonight and post it) the more i went near it stayed the same then suddenly it came to life, but parts of it remained like a low res wall paper!! i dont know if it is a glitch or not but it was ugly to see

I think it was texture load bug for you. i was distant and my waterfall effect was fine and looked great

I have the same issue with waterfall textures not loading until im right next to them but I still havnt downloaded the patch since I have to bring my PS3 to a friends to do that. Its a problem with many textures, but I doubt the patch did it to you since its been happening to people since before this patch was released. I hope it gets fixed though because it looks really bad and it wasnt like that when I first played the game, but now the textures do not load correctly everytime I play even starting with new characters.

Oh Ok thanks for that then, cause you are right since it was just a coincidence then as was in that area of skyrim only after the patch so i associated it to the patch