Oblivion: Shivering Isles expansions critical bug discovered! |
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And it doesn't matter if you haven't even gone through the Portal to the Daedric Prince's plane: as long as you install the Shivering Isles, the countdown starts immediately after loading or starting a new game. The bug is heavily rooted in the system's Form ID generation, where it's internal mechanics could force other items to disappear from the world.
Once the symptom is observed from vendors who seem to be missing items you sold them earlier, it's only a matter of time till the game "craps out on you." Preventive solution? Don't install the US$ 30 content, and wait for Bethesda's official fix for the issue. Yes, they are currently at work to address the bug. An official statement from Bethesda...well, stated:
Regarding the issue in which Form ID's are being used at a high rate in the Shivering Isles content; we are aware of the issue and we are currently looking into a solution. We appreciate your patience, especially from those of you affected by this issue, as we carefully work out a fix that will correct this problem without adding any new issues.
The PC community have already addressed the issue with their own versions of patches, permanently fixing the issue from ever happening again. There has been no full confirmation of the bug on Xbox 360, but just to make sure you can find out if the bug is affecting you by doing the following: drop an object from inventory on the ground, save, quit, reload. If the item's not there, it's an indication that the rollover has already occurred.
Also, the performance of the game is an indicator of how long your game will continue to run fine. If the game runs at around 30 FPS, the game will run fine for 150 hours, and that is all. The faster the FPS, the earlier the bug hits.
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I can't believe we'd see the same company that made Star Trek Legacy would do something this stupid! Oh wait a minute, yeah I can.
So does that mean if you play the game with Shivering Isles installed for 150 hours this will happen to you? Or once your save file hits 150 hours, including the main game from before you installed SI? I'm at 220 hours with about 30 of that on SI, and no problems yet.
And what exactly happens when the game "craps out on you"? Can you like not load your save or something?
Went to the ES forums and found this
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic+674324
This is about the buggiest games you can buy, apart from numerous quest destroying bugs in this game (including a big one that still prevents you from ever starting the thieves guild quest line) there is another huge game destroying bug that the delvelopers will not even admit exists.
Its called the animation bug. Here are links explaining it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsr89X25laE&mode=related&search=
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?s=771c771f3c98d5a89e01e229d28cf011&showtopic=522143
I plan never to get another one of Bethesda's games ever again.
If freaking game companies actually playtest their patches/add-ons before releasing them....
This, coupled with the bugs in the new gears patch (which I recognized after a 2 games, and confirmed with others after another 4 games) make me really wonder if beta testing is done at all....