PSA: Skyrim 1.3 patch breaking auto-saves, causing various problems

VGW: Only hours after the much-needed 1.3 patch for Skyrim has been released for Xbox 360 (and PS3 in Europe), users are beginning to report a variety of new bugs and unfixed issues. Some of the complaints include infinitely hanging loading screens, dragons that don’t give souls when defeated, Lydia falling through floors, and broken auto-saves.

[milohighclub]

The dragons not giving souls was pre-patch its been happening for me on os3 for the last few days that I've noticed, but now I think about it I don't remember the last time I got one..

[Iroquois_Pliskin]

Jesus f'ing Christ... Stop patching Skyrim Bethesda, until you do some proper testing or something. Dont rush it,you are doing the exact opposite!

[JaredH]

It happened to me once or twice during the first week the game was out before any patch that wasn't released day one and same with the freezing on autosaves but that was after 1.2.

Every Bethesda game has had problems though and imo the games fun and worth while anyway.

[ReservoirDog316]

Yeah, I was too broke to buy skyrim but I plan to later. The only solace I can give myself about waiting till later is I would hope most of these issues are solved by then. And maybe a GOTY edition.

Still...I'm sure it's worth it regardless of bugs.....

[Candy1]

What's the point of patches awaiting certification from Microsoft etc when more problems occur.

It all sounds like us skyrim fans become post beta testers for something we've fully paid only to encounter more bugs that we're not getting paid anything back for as game testers. lol.

[TopDudeMan]

The infinite loading screen one happened to me way before the patch.

[Highlife]

I got that on 1.2 couldn't hit the ps button either. Was stuck so i hit the reset button turned it back on and it said the file system was messed up and that it had to restore I thought that i was F'ed and was going to lose everything but when it was done everything was there. I am so Tired of this sh!t with bethesda. As hard as it's going to be I am not touching that game till it is confirmed to be working.

[Snookies12]

Wow, just wow... I love Skyrim, but this is getting ridiculous... How about getting some people in there who can actually do things right?

[ziggurcat]

leave it to bethesda to not fix things properly despite claiming that they have...

i have only played this game for about 2 hours and i'm not going to continue until these issues are resolved, which may mean that i'll never play this game ever again.

[M1chl]

I just don'T get how could you screw things by patch. This thing should patch the problems, am I right? I love Skyrim, but what the fak is this?!

[Chuk5]

Is because the game is so complex. It's a domino effect.

[M1chl]

Yeah I get it, but why patch for streaming texture cause Dragons to fly backwards? Its kinda wierd, don't you think?

[ginsunuva]

But some things are just plain old bad programming. We need better programmers.

[ElementX]

I got the patch this morning around 3am and had no issues with autosaves, soulless dragons, or loading screens. I played for 3 hours.

[Bigpappy]

I have not patched skyrim yet, as I had no need to. The only problem I have had since 11/11/11 is a body cliping. I have an old 60 Gig 360.

[marioPSUC]

They need to take their time with the patches, sure people are having some issues, but they need to properly check as much things as possible. What ever they are doing for testing the patches out it certainly isn't finding this stuff. And these problems popped up not even a day after this new patch hit.

[jessupj]

So much for "taking their time, not rushing and releasing a quality patch that doesn't create more problems then it solves."

I still haven't started playing this game yet. I'm waiting until all major bugs have been ironed out. Guess I could be waiting quite a while...

[Highlife]

Wish I had your patience. Going to try now though

[Neko_Mega]

As I said, they just can't do patchs right.

It looks to be Fallout New Vegas again.

[c1oudy]

New Vegas was developed by Obsidion and published by Bethesda.

[ZeroChaos]

And this was some people's GOTY?

They just keeping making it worse and worse.

[Ser]

Agreed. I love Skyrim, but in no way, shape, or form is it my GotY candidate. Not with technical issues like these constantly popping up.

[Eu]

Game of the year.....

[ufo8mycat]

I have no patches installed at all and surprisingly 175 hours in, I have only encountered around 4 bugs total.

But just because I haven't encountered many bugs myself, doesn't change the way I feel about Bethesda lackluster attempts at fixing them, because I KNOW there are a TON of bugs people have had.

And yet these patches come out and fix some of these bugs but break other things, this proves a severe lack of testing.

The lack of effort in testing shown by Bethesda is appauling and don't give me this EXCUSE "Skyrim is a massive game, there are bound to be lots of bugs".

Excuses excuses - If you're committed to creating a massive game, then you need to be committed to fixing the bugs.

Bethesda have this lack luster attitude towards this because they know they can get away with it.

There really needs to be gaming laws in place for this. Sue these companies that provide lackluster attempts in fixing their games.

For now - thank god for piracy

[xXxSeTTriPxXx]

i sold my sykrim for $35, that went towards my ff13-2.i can't be bothered with broken games no matter how many gamers and publication make excuses for it.

[billtvshow]

I haven't installed 1.3 yet but as of patch 1.2...
1 - Infinitely hanging loading screens -> Haven't ever had one.
2 - Dragons that don’t give souls when defeated -> Has happened frequently across all versions.
3 - Lydia falling through floors -> My follower is Jordis (Solitude Housecarl) and during 1.2 she was knocked into the floor/wall by a swinging blade trap, but popped out of it and started following me again once I continued walking, so no real issue there.
4 - Broken auto-saves - None as of 1.2

[Mr-Dude]

I wait for the new patch then....
The most annoying thing for me now is, i can't complete the last quest for the thieves guild because i can;t trade in my thieves armor...
I sold it to a vendor... okay my mistake but every other item is quest related and can't be removed or sold... But this one....

The forum of Bethesda is full of this problem

[SimpleSlave]

d^_^b lalala (≧ロ≦) THIS IS MY GOTY!

( ﾟдﾟ) What? (≧ロ≦) THIS IS MY GOTY!

(╬ ಠ益ಠ) But it is full of bugs and it's freaking broken!

ಠ_ಠ Σ(゜д゜;) What?

Σ(ﾟДﾟ) Stop being a fanboy! t(>.<t) Screw you man!

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ Mother fffffffff! (≧ロ≦) THIS IS MY GOTY!

(屮ﾟДﾟ)屮 Say it one more time. щ(ﾟДﾟщ) THIS IS MY GOTY!

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┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ) X_x What happened?!

(´ー`)y-~~ You took an arrow to the knee O_x

（ ^_^）o自自o（^_^ ） zoinks!

Happy holidays and happy gaming.

[baboom223]

I haven't had any problems :P been playing for like 4 hours or so.

[Raider69]

i played for 2 hours 0n 1.3 and the game did not save!

[kingPoS]

How 'Skyrim: The beta Experience' won game of the year is beyond me. Not even Batman AC was THAT buggy.

[kma2k]

Am i the only lucky one who hasnt had any problems? Ive played now 70 hours & am having a great time. Ive noticed when exiting a door in major cities like whiterun the game will freeze for about 2 seconds & then return to normal but thats the only issue ive had. (knock on wood) i hope my luck holds up!

[eak3]

No there's a decent amount of people, like myself, that aren't experiencing many, if any, of these issues. I've only had the game freeze once in the 100+ hrs i've put into it. Never seen a flying backwards dragon and only once had a dragon not give up its soul. I play on PS3 and haven't had any of the lag issues. By the intensity of the complaints on here you would think its hitting everyone but its not. Its enough that it needs to be addressed but I wouldnt refrain from playing one of the best RPG games ever because I might have an issue.