Skyrim PS3 fix not in next patch, says Bethesda

“These fixes are not in the current 1.3 update that is in final testing, but will be in future ones,”

Bethesda test their stuff?

I wonder if this patch will give back magical/poisen/disease resistance… Or will it break something else?

Maybe the inability to open wooden doors?

Okay, it’s time to call in the experts: Naughty Dog, Sony Santa Monica…you’re up

@3

They don’t make open world games, they both create heavily scripted linear games.

@4 I believe he was talking about “how to code for the platform” not to make a game.

Doesn’t matter I still stand by what I had said.

@4

Doesn’t make naughty dog any less talented because there genre of game is NOT open world. What a silly suggestion dude.

@6 Lol

lol @6 funny guy

why ur laughing?
he made a fair point.

this is not a problem of shoddy programming.
im sure the programmers could have handled it. But if u proclaim a release for eleven eleven eleven one year in advance the publisher rather sticks to that date even if that means shipping a broken/unfinished product.

and im afraid this wount change anytime soon. There are way more sheeps then wolves out there. sheeps who think this is ok because they dont see/understand/experience the problem, sheep who in general never stand up for anything and always swallow even the worst shit – because they are what they are and wont change.

@10 actually it is a case of shoddy programming. What are you talking about? They ported 360 code to PS3 and failed to properly optimize the code for PS3 split memory, HDD I/O and memory allocation. That’s shoddy programming.

they failed. yes. but because of what? because they arent able to do better? dont be a fool.
they faild cause beth doenst have the balls to say “right guys, the ps3 is a bitch, we need some more time to get it straight in it. PC360 is ready and out, PS3 will need some more time until we nailed it”

same with f3 and nv
release dates and yearly figures are more important than a working product. Because sheeps are sheeps are sheeps are sheeps and will always be sheeps who swallow what u shit in their face.

@10 It is pretty much the definition of shoddy programming. Having your investors, shareholders, producers and middle-managers commit you to shipping knowingly broken software for a set date only adds to the insult that consumers are feeling.

I agree it won’t change. It’s just such a shame that proper testing and honest reviewing of the product seem to have gone amiss with this game and therefore contributed to the problem when they could have (and should have) called it out.

JM

in general this shows the many many flaws of the entire industrie condensed into one single desaster:
- Programmers not allowed to do their job
- Publishers not interested in the product they orderd
- Reviewe sites paid by the industry or led by their bias. in general an heavly dependend media
- Studios not testing their AAAs enough anymore.
- consumers who dont no shit about what their about to buy

the wheel has turned: we arent the custumors anymore. where the ressources used to please the actual customers (shareholders)

So much hate… Played the game on my PC and only experinced one annoying bug ingame, the damn backwards flying dragon. But it actually gave me some fun hunting it so cant really hate em for that. And if you buy a PS3, sucks for you… trololol

@14′s post has the heady whiff of truth about it, and it freakin stinks.

Games are getting too clever and complex. I don’t think games such as Skyrim could ever be released 100% bug free, so to some extent bugs are expected and forgivable.

Other bugs, not so much. Like the key rebinding issues. That was just sheer laziness or rush for release.

@17, sorry but thats not true. SKYRIM is the least complex game from the Elder Scrolls series.

@18 What programming background do you have?

Also I stipulated games SUCH as skyrim. Anything with quests that can be done in any order with multiple outcomes. I managed to find three massive bugs in fallout 3 for example, including a wedding that repeated every day, groundhog day style.

@17 there’s an element of truth in that, but this isn’t that kind of bug, this is a low level issue with the game engine and how it operates. That kind of thing shouldn’t happen as often as it does – particularly with Bethesda to be honest.

Basically, the core engine should be sound but some bugs with quests glitching, etc. or wonky AI is understandable due to number of permutations they can play out. Here though we have arguably too many of the latter and a really bad case of the former.

Think I might fire up Oblivion on my PS3. Yeah it’s not as pretty, but at least they got that right.

I can verify that not one person from bethesda has asked me for my save file, despite e-mailing bethesda tech support and posting on bethesda’s official forums, detailing the problems I’ve had with the PS3 version.