Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

KevinC · 2011-11-30T10:51:23.000Z

Contrai:

Yeah like mouse movement being tied to your FPS.

Huh, I’ve never noticed that but then I guess I haven’t had framerate issues.

Giaddon · 2011-11-30T10:52:08.000Z

Almost totally sure that if you reinstall a steam game you get the latest version, with no option for previous versions.

Vesper · 2011-11-30T10:52:59.000Z

Looks like I’m rolling my Skyrim directory back to yesterday’s version. Thanks, Windows Home Server!

kerzain · 2011-11-30T11:02:53.000Z

I, for one, welcome our new backwardsflyingdragon overlords.

Kunikos · 2011-11-30T11:07:44.000Z

My machine definitely patched something, as it was listed in the downloads.

James_Johnson · 2011-11-30T11:08:10.000Z

kerzain:

I, for one, welcome our new backwardsflyingdragon overlords.

They’re just playing catchup to recent developments in horse dance.

Fugitive · 2011-11-30T11:37:59.000Z

James Johnson:

UESP says:

REINSTALL TIME WOOOO

I think that’s referring to the PS3 ability to delete game-specific installed data though, not reinstalling via Steam.

extarbags · 2011-11-30T11:40:50.000Z

Telefrog:

All elemental resistances are completely non-functioning in the new patch. To the point that a Fire Atronauch(sp) will take normal fire damage and a Frost Atronauch will take frost damage. Unfortunately, it means your resistances also won’t work, so have fun battling mages!

Oof. Well hey, people were complaining about the game being too easy…

Sam_Jones · 2011-11-30T12:00:05.000Z

Despite my best efforts in preventing Steam from patching the game, it managed to delete my TESV.exe before even visibly starting the update process in the Steam client, so I had no choice but to update.

Tested the resistances bug and it is indeed present. Good work Bethesda :(

Sarkus · 2011-11-30T12:00:27.000Z

I played around for a bit and saw nothing that stood out. No backwards flying dragons or noticeable drop in resistances. Hard to say for sure, though, since I was clearing a bandit fort and only saw one mage. But a frost dragon fight didn’t seem particularly harder then before.

kerzain · 2011-11-30T12:02:34.000Z

Nuke a summoned atronoch with the same element they are comprised of. If it takes a ton of damage, resists are borked.

MarchHare · 2011-11-30T12:07:03.000Z

Anyone have a link to the patch notes?

Skipper · 2011-11-30T12:07:57.000Z

I left steam running and this patch has been out a while. I’m probably in the updated boat. :( I don’t rely on many resists, but I’m sure this will affect me in some way.

Vesper · 2011-11-30T12:09:00.000Z

Does the patch only replace the EXE? Or are any of the data files changed? Seems like it’d be easy to share just the EXE with those without a backup.

kerzain · 2011-11-30T12:09:09.000Z

Well, I disabled automatic updates, but it did it anyway. So here come the backwards dragons.

Teiman · 2011-11-30T12:11:50.000Z

The abuse bug on the vendor has ben fixed. No more selling stuff the vendors own to itself.

Fugitive · 2011-11-30T12:12:59.000Z

kerzain:

Well, I disabled automatic updates, but it did it anyway. So here come the backwards dragons.

Steam will always patch up to the latest version when you go to play a game; disabling the automatic updates just stops it from automatically doing so on its own before you hit that Play button.

Vesper:

Does the patch only replace the EXE? Or are any of the data files changed? Seems like it’d be easy to share just the EXE with those without a backup.

It also changes the “Data\Skyrim - Interface.bsa” file, but I think that’s it. You might have to go into offline mode to keep it from just repatching it again, though.

Vesper · 2011-11-30T12:13:30.000Z

kerzain:

Well, I disabled automatic updates, but it did it anyway. So here come the backwards dragons.

You have to play offline, otherwise it’ll apply the patch when you try playing. Disable auto-updates just avoids doing it ahead of time.

triggercut · 2011-11-30T12:24:16.000Z

Vesper:

According to UESP, the patch has been removed and verifying game cache restores 1.1.

Confirmed that this didn’t happen.

Patch was not/has not been pulled.

Sam_Jones · 2011-11-30T12:29:15.000Z

So, I’ve rolled back the .exe to the v1.1 that I squirreled away last night in anticipation of just this sort of clusterfuck. Seems to still work fine with the 4gb loader, and Steam doesn’t try to overwrite the file again when you start the game. Resistances are working as expected, so I will continue like this until Beth manage to get their act together and hotfix it.