Skyrim has experienced great success, but as we’ve stated previously there are a fair number of glitches and bugs floating around in its massive world. I experienced one myself yesterday that resulted in a quest being uncompletable (thankfully fixed after a save and load). People have been clamoring for a fix to the bugs, and VP of Marketing Pete Hines has been getting berated via Twitter for the better part of a week and a half.

Good news for Pete Hines and Skyrim fans everywhere: the game’s first big patch is probably coming next week, and hopefully it will solve things like this:

Updating via his Twitter account, Pete Hines confirmed that the latest patch for Skyrim has been submitted  for PS3 and Xbox 360 certification, and there’s a PC patch in the works. He goes on to state that Bethesda is expecting to see the patch land sometime next week – we’ll just have to see if that actually happens.

Some of the issues expected to be fixed include:

• Xbox 360’s texture-streaming issue
• PS3’s frame rate problem
• PC’s random freezes

Certification is a notoriously shifty process, so while Bethesda expects the patches to go live, don’t be surprised if they are delayed by one service or the other. Bugs are a common fixture in Bethesda games – Fallout 3 is still packed with them. But, for the most part, they’re little things.

Beyond my one small inconvenience, I haven’t had too many weird problems. The walls in my house disappeared for a little while, but that’s about the strangest thing. One fix I’d like to see: a dramatic improvement in follower intelligence or resilience.

What’s the weirdest/worst Skyrim bug you’ve encountered?

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