The game's been great, but I've suffered from the spontaneous, random CTD's like many others. It's been getting worse, but I don't consider it 'game-breaking' quite yet (getting close tho). Why this wasn't addressed in the patch is baffling to me.

However, since the patch, dragons in this game are f'ed up, and it IS now game-breaking. They fly backwards, sideways, merge into mountains so I can't hit them, or just hover in one place at high altitude so I can't get at them. Reloading the game helps for a minute or two as it re-triggers the dragon attack response, but they ultimately go into high altitude hover mode shortly thereafter.

WTF is up with this patch?

This game is broken until further notice.

I've noticed a dragon just flying around and not attacking both before and after the 1.2 patch. I assumed that was intended, they're not all interested in attacking. In between CTDs I'm still hunting for one of those new backwards-flying ones, got to see one for myself before they fix it.

But the CTDs really are gamebreaking for me, I get them within a minute inside major cities.

I've killed about 30 dragons total.....

But today.... my first dragon i run into since the 1.2 patch.. It didn't fly backwards... but i killed it quick and then it just laid there dead... no souls... no burning up and showing bones..... i could loot it.. but nothing more..

So the patch was to FIX this exact same case.. and the one dragon i run into, in an area i've NEVER been to, isn't quest related or anything.... and this happens..... Patch my ass..



Additionally i can confirm that dragons, even if they are flying forward... they are flying totally irregularly..... doing things they shouldn't..... looks like they are spazing out all the time. I just finished a fight with a frost dragon that would land on the ground.. but the animation would start a mile high in the sky... and come down so fast and hard the svcker was almost a blurr....

Unfortunately i didn't have fraps up at the time.. but after first i just laughed at the total absurdity of the whole thing.. then i kind of cried and died a little inside as i was expecting backwards dragons... not totally broken ones....

i can tolerate the backwards situation to a certain degree as that should be easy to fix..... however i can't stand to see dragons doing incredibly against all the rules and looking/acting totally out of place...

If I could kill one I'd let you know if it's lootable or I get souls, but they are so erratic you can't figure out where they're going. Sadly, they can't kill you either as the vast majority of the time their breath while flying is sideways from you, so they don't even come close.

It really is bad. At least dragons worked for me before the patch.