Did they fix the Wall of _____ spells, and did they enable magic use from horseback? The Wall of ____ destruction spells got bugged at some point in between early versions of the game (around 1.1/.2) and now. They used to be one of the most powerful/magicka efficient spells in the game (and my personal favorite) but they don't work right most of the time. The novice destruction spells do 12 points of damage per second and the expert level spell (Wall of ____) do 50, yet most of the time the novice spell actually does more damage due to Wall of's buggy random damage.

So yeah, just wondering if that's fixed. Thanks!

Edit: Also did they fix having Sarena as a follower making the Vampire Lord drain life spell useless?

1.7 adds no new features to speak of, so magic use from horseback is not enabled. As for the wall spells...I can't check, as I have the USKP installed and I believe it fixes this on its own. Someone else will have to check that one, but my suspicion is that no, they're not fixed.


Dawnguard is not out for PC. We cannot test this.

Meh. This seems like a very weak update for a whole ".1". Thanks for the reply though!

Woah is xbox the only one with Dawnguard right now? If so that's really lame.

Nope , read my thread , I actually think it's better than new content.

You can read here: http://www.bethblog.com/2012/07/30/skyrim-1-7-available-to-all-steam-users/

I did read that but it just looks like some very tiny minor bug fixes. I'm not sure if every change/fix actually gets listed cause it seems there's been some unlisted fixes on previous updates.


Could I get a link?

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1399793-some-good-feedback-for-the-17-patch/.

I'm not seeing what you're so happy about. I doubt the frame rate will change on xbox and I don't see any fixes that affect issues I've had.

Well you know , I noted that there are MODS.

are they actually fixing any of the major bugs or is it just a bunch of crap that never had any effect on my gameplay?
are they ever going to fix the potion that esbern gives you? or the gildergreen not being replaced by the sapling properly? or that guy following mjiol the lioness? or perhaps followers not leveling with you? how about the fast travel problems if you ever plan to go back to that island you go to during the east empire company quest?

Yeah I feel about the same as you towards these updates. For the most part they seem like useless crap that barely does anything instead of fixing actual big bugs/quest bugs/spell bugs. Its very frustrating. Although they've apparently fixed followers leveling with you in 1.6 and you could work around that via wabajack pre 1.6, the usep wiki is where I found that out.

I use the PS3 tho so we RARELY get updates
It really is just a load of [censored] that they don't bother to fix the problems that people actually complain about