Skyrim: How many bugs are there?

Question

Not counting spiders and chorus, how many bugs have you run into? Major bug, e.g doing "X" crashes the game repeatedly, character deleted, etc.. Typical bug: quest broken and cannot be advanced, unable to interact with object or NPC, Minor bug: can't remove quest item from inventory after quest is completed (all my items like this weigh zero regardless of what they say they weigh, thank you!!!!). Finally, please state your system and as video games go, rate "buggyness" 1-10.
My experience on Xbox (and yes, i'm jealous of all you PC players):
0 major bugs
1 typical bug per 10 levels
1 minor bug per 3 levels.
rating: ?

Answer 1

PC version was *incredibly* buggy up until patch 1.3. Now it crashes once every 20-30 hours. I have not noticed any other bugs, apart from the usual menu bugs that STILL force you to use the keyboard for menu's. ******* bethesda still has not fixed that issue with the mouse. Other than that, no bugs at all. Loadings screens also take just 5 seconds instead of several minutes like console. :)



Pre 1.3 patch

2 major bugs

30 typical bug per 10 levels

600000000000000000000000000000 minor bug per 3 levels.



After 1.3 patch

0 major bugs

0 typical bug per 10 levels

? (depends on how many times you insist on using mouse for menu's) minor bug per 3 levels.

Answer 2

eehm i think its OVER 9000!

Answer 3

I don't have Skyrim, but my friend says that the Xbox 360 version has a lot more bugs than the PS3, but O'm not completly sure.

Answer 4

Enough to be noticed and annoyed by.

Minor bugs:

1. Floating mammoths and items.

2. After telling my companion to leave, I went back to get him again, and he was wearing nothing.

3. If you give your companion armor that he had by default, you can't get it back.

Major bugs:

1. Belethor's General Goods store in Whiterun is permanently locked down. Belethor isn't dead though, as I have picked the lock and found him inside. And then I killed him in my anger.

2. Game randomly freezes sometimes. (This has only happened once in 10 hours of gameplay)

These are just some of the glitches and bugs that come off the top of my head.

Overall 'Buggyness' with 10 being unplayable because its so buggy and 1 being bug free. I would rate it a 3.5 on buggyness so far.

Answer 5

PS3 seems quite reliable. the game hangs after 5 or 6 hours of straight play, but I think that's my PS3 getting hot, not the game. I've had 2 battles where what was killing me was invisible, but no worries there. The loading screen of 30 seconds is a bother, but PS3 doesn't have the RAM that PCs have. My biggest beef is that quest items can't be removed from inventory. You should be able to remove them. I have one item that is stuck in my inventory after completing the quest... but it was my fault. I stole the item back from the guy after delivering it.



I think you should be able to sell quest items. If I don't want to complete the quest, I shouldn't have to carry around crap that I'm never going to use.

Answer 6

Even on the PC Skyrim is filled with bugs. Personally, i've had an item stuck in my inventory after i failed sell it to someone and just him after i have to kill him for a quest. Also, i found out that sometimes if you cleared a dungeon before and you received a quest to retrieve something on that dungeon so when you enter said dungeon my game crashes every time. Had to use console commands for of these bugs above. Once the jarl of whiterun is swimming on the ponds outside dragonsreach when hes supposed to be inside for a quest and only giving out the generic dialog.



My PC bugginess is rated 4/10 buggy. Not so bad on the PC but i heard its worse for the 360 and PS3

Answer 7

There used to be lots in the first week of release, they got a lot of the bugs down with a few hot-fix patches, but there are still a lot.



I'd say it's about 4/10 for bugs, 1 being not that many, and 10 being constant of course :P

Answer 8

Depends on how may arrows to the knee you take.