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You finally won’t have to go through the rigmarole of getting off your horse when a pack of stray wolves attack you in Skyrim: the imminent 1.6 patch will be bringing both melee and ranged combat from horseback.
There is no date for the 1.6 Skyrim patch other than ‘soon’, though PC users can opt-in to a beta version of it via Steam.
The 1.6 update also brings with it a host of tweaks and changes – as detailed on the Bethesda Blog – which you can digest easily by glancing your eyes over this tidy little bulletpoint list:
- General stability and memory optimisations
- General AI pathfinding optimizations and bug fixes
- Optimisations and crash fixes for data leaks
- Fixed rare crash with lighting
- Fixed crashes related to loading and saving games
- Fixed crash with summoned creatures/NPCs
- Fixed rare issue where saves would be corrupted
- Improved logic for when ranged kill cams are played
- Fixed issue with ranged kill cams while killing a dragon
- Fixed rare issue with certain ranged kill cams not playing properly
- Fixed issue with nirnroot lighting not properly cleaning up
- Fixed issue where bow damage was being calculated incorrectly
- Fixed rare problem with werewolf kill moves would not finish animating properly
- In “The Break of Dawn” fixed rare issue where Meridia’s Beacon would disappear from player’s inventory
- Fixed occasional issue where followers would disappear after player pays off a bounty after committing a crime
- Fixed issue where certain creatures and NPCs would fail to respawn properly
- Fixed rare issue with dialogue subtitles not displaying properly
- Fixed issue with water appearing blurry when loading a saved game after creating a save underwater
- Fixed issue where map cursor would occasionally disappear after closing a message box with Kinect enabled (Xbox 360)
- Fixed rare issue with shouts only performing the first level and not other unlocked levels with Kinect enabled (Xbox 360)
- Fixed issue where the shout buttons would stop working properly if users mashed LB and RB during cooldown with Kinect enabled (Xbox 360)
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Genre(s): Action, RPG
