Brilliant! This image will have me laughing for a while!

Anytime

I would prefer improved animations for existing kill cam moves/animations over new ones. Combat animations and collision detection/interaction is something that could really improve in Skyrim overall.

Yeah, the collision is terrible and swords go though the shield in the kill animation.

The collision is that bad to save performance. If the collision mesh is more detailed and has more polys...well, then expect to see a higher performance hit.

Well, they should just make a kill animation that doesn't involve the sword passing though the shield and it's just yet more sloppy work by Bethesda.

Hope they fixed the flickering mountains... I also hope you'll be able to turn off killcam if you so desire

It'd actually be great if I could play the game for longer than 5 minutes at a time without my system hardcrashing and having to manually reboot.

Killcam animations, buggy textures and other petty s hit like that are the least of my worries!!

Yup, this game has the most clumsy and poorly executed coup de grace moves I've ever seen. Why the hell would they be adding new ones, when the the existing ones need so much tweaking. The Legolas dragon moves are the worst. Even if the positioning of the character in relation to the dragon wasn't WAY off, it would still look ridiculous. And as for coup de grace moves against humanoid characters, well Assassin's Creed is where bethesda should look for inspiration.

I've been playing this series since Daggerfall, but if they don't address the quest issues, I will never buy another game from Beth. I couldn't possibly care less about new kill cams at this point.

I logged on so that I can applaud you for that great reply!

I don't get all these bugged quests. The White Phial bugged on me once during 1.1 and I have done Blood on Ice (the most bugged out quest that I know of) on every character(5) with no issues. What quest issues are you having persay?


That is a hardware issue: Try disabling the HD texture pack it uses more VRAM enabled. Past that I would say its some form of hardware failure possibly Power Supply. Make a thread post your specs and DXIAG, any .ini changes and a list of any mods you may be using.

Another patch already?! I certainly hope not.

I for one have had quite enough of these patches for quite a while at least. Because every time there's a patch, it not only means I have to wait for a new version of SKSE/Script dragon/Catagorized Favorites menu/SKyUI/Uncapper/etc, it also means I get constant crashes all over again, and it means I have to through [censored]ing patch-hell to fix them again, which usually means reinstalling my entire game.

For example, in the 1.3 version everything was fine. Everything was good. I was having hang ups and CTDs like... once in a blue moon, and I was able to run things like Skyrim2k textures, and whatnot with no real problems. then SUDDENLY 1.410 comes along and then I gotta wait till SKSE/Script dragon/Catagorized Favorites menu/SKyUI/Uncapper/etc were updated, and on top of that suddenly I get lots of crashes when playing. I had to disable skyrim2k, and a bunch of other stuff, and not to mention reinstall the game from scratch like several times before I FINALLY got it back to the point to where I could run things like Warzones again.

... And by the time I got 1.41 stable again, running smooth, with relatively few problems... guess what happens? 1.427 comes out . And i'm stuck in patch hell AGAIN... only this time it's longer since the entire load list thing is messed up. Hell, I'm still waiting for boss and wrye to update. Good god. Oh, and the crashes are back too. That's [censored]ing nice.

... And now 1.5 is coming out soon on TOP of that?! FFS.

I'm sorry, but every time I hear another patch is coming out for skyrim, it just gets me into a foul mood.

Devils advocate - I get the knock on effect to modding the game can be a pain, but I would rather have a stable game with the majority of fixes solved by gamesas within a few years, rather than have to wait for the modding community to solve them all maybe ten years away with an un-official patch - If those dedicated individuals are still around ... crap happens.

Keep em coming I say. The patch we had which turned on code optimisation at compile time (which just about negated the need for Skyboost/TESVal at the time), was very welcome, along with dragons flying backwards being solved fast etc etc ...

Adding stuff along the way from DICE, not so important I guess, but if they can throw one of those in along with fixes periodically - Why not ?

Would love to see water flowing correctly personally, bit of an immersion breaker seeing it flowing at an angle across a river instead of following a logical downstream path.

This game is a long term keeper, we can mod to our hearts content later, the importance should be on fixing while gamesas are still allowed to do just that - Before long the company will pull any active support and move on.

Additionally, smaller more frequent patches enables resolving problems those patches caused in turn to be easier to figure out. One big bunch of patches less often may cause more complications which are harder to resolve purely because of the amount of new code thrown into everyones setup.

@rylasasin

What did you really expect? lol I suggest you make sure your PC is clean before complaining about a game not working because your issue sounds rare...

And what's with the load order? Hasn't caused a single problem for me and it if your's is messed up, well just run BOSS!

If your problems really bother you and you believe the game is causing it and not your PC, create your own thread that's defined to your issue and people will try and help you!

If anything these patches keep getting better for me, although I did start out at 1.3.10.0.. I've not had a Single CTD and I've got 150+ Hours, BRING ON 1.5!



TO EVERYONE:

THIS IS NOT A RANT THREAD, YOU MAY MOAN ABOUT SOME BUGS THAT YOU WISH TO BE FIXED, BUT I DO NOT WANT THIS THREAD TO TURN INTO A "Let's bash Bethesda".

This is purely for discussion of the upcoming 1.5 Update until the Beta Section gets opened, so in the meantime try and keep this clean


Ohh and I would sooooo love SSAO to be patched in

For cereal SSAO support for ATI users would be lovely........matter of fact more graphics options period would be lovely.

@Thoth

Ahhh yeah that's the life, SSAO would make make the game alot nicer... But I wonder what other effects they could put in or something?

Would be interesting if they patched out VSync, but I doubt that.

V Sync seems to be just the harsh reality for Skryim meaning a FPS limiter if you have a monitor over 60 refresh maybe even regardless. I was maybe hoping for a few smaller things that you could tick on and off in the settings on the launcher as opposed to .ini tweaks. Maybe a few extra shadow options, particle count just the little stuff. I remember Oblivion having a pretty large video options page.

Pretty much every quest in the game can be broken if a quest condition is met before said quest needs that condition to be met.

A perfect example in my list is the quest "Repentance". You are supposed to fulfill a condition by killing someone who I killed before receiving the quest. Now the quest is broken, waiting for me to kill that person. It doesn't have to be killing someone. It can be 'find an item' or some such. If the condition is already met, it breaks the quest.

Even THE MAIN QUEST CAN BE BROKEN by investigating certain areas prior to being instructed to do so.

I have 14 broken quests simply because I explore. That is pure bull shenanigans. The whole point of this game is to be free to explore or quest - whichever makes one happy - not to do stuff in some predetermined linear order... unless that makes you happy.

The whole "Do what you want to do" mantra is a lie as long as the quest system is broken.

They can either fix it or I'm done.

I don't encounter this issue numerous times have I completed an objective for a quest I had been yet given and it all seems to work out fine for me. Have you done a game reinstall since release (or whenever you purchased the game)? My release characters still suffer the same bugs however my newer 2 (one created after 1.3 and the other after 1.4) have not encountered any bugs as far as quests. Don't misunderstand I don't doubt you just think that those original characters will always be borked....best to make a new one now and yes I know it svcks but is the nature of the beast.

Yeah well, Bethesda insisted on opening everywhere without properly thinking it through. I prefer to do pick my quest rather then having them forced onto me evertime I enquire about something. Also, if you go into a place that has a quest and you have no choice but to do that quest even though you were never given it because you have to kill the people anyway.

please put in something to help investigate ctd, like a log.

This is a 1.4 character. Fresh start. Fresh install. Vanilla Skyrim.

Frankly, I don't see how you have avoided this mess, but I'm pretty certain that if you were to start a new character and go randomly casting about, you would accumulate a list of broken quests. Not that I doubt you, but there has to be some reason that multiple people on multiple blogs, including this one, bring up the issue of unadressed and, most frustratingly, unacknowledged quest bugs. I would bet you a new graphics card that, if you were to kill the target in "Repentance" before receiving the the quest, your quest would be broken.

Now, just tonight, I had "talk to Esbern", or whatever it was, pop up.... again. I've been finished with the main quest for a month-and-a-half!

"Become a full member of the thieves guild" Done did it. Quest is stuck.

I don't know if this one has been fixed, but solve the bridge puzzles in Skyhaven Temple without Esbern. Bring Esbern later and he just idles preventing completion of the main quest.

These are all cases where conditions aren't being tested when an objective is given and the quest gets stuck. I'm half tempted to restart again and see just how many quests I can intentionally bork in this manner.

I want Hob Goblins.

Going to go try that today.....and you don't want my GPU trust me. Biggest pain in the ass ever in life just for 2 GB of VRAM