<p>Bethesda has offered some clarifications to last week’s <em>Skyrim</em> patch. The update, however, is currently only available to English speaking territories with a world-wide release to come later.</p>
<p>Below is a complete list of the new features and fixes.</p>
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<p>NEW FEATURES</p>
<ul>
<li>Mounted Combat – Skyrim now allows you to do melee and ranged combat while riding a horse</li>
</ul>
<p>BUG FIXES</p>
<ul>
<li>General stability and memory optimizations</li>
<li>General AI pathfinding optimizations and bug fixes</li>
<li>Optimizations and crash fixes for data leaks</li>
<li>Fixed rare crash with lighting</li>
<li>Fixed crashes related to loading and saving games</li>
<li>Fixed crash with summoned creatures/NPCs</li>
<li>Fixed rare issue where saves would be corrupted</li>
<li>Improved logic for when ranged kill cams are played</li>
<li>Fixed issue with ranged kill cams while killing a dragon</li>
<li>Fixed rare issue with certain ranged kill cams not playing properly</li>
<li>Fixed issue with nirnroot lighting not properly cleaning up</li>
<li>Fixed issue where bow damage was being calculated incorrectly</li>
<li>Fixed rare problem with werewolf kill moves would not finish animating properly</li>
<li>In “The Break of Dawn” fixed rare issue where Meridia’s Beacon would disappear from player’s inventory</li>
<li>Fixed occasional issue where followers would disappear after player pays off a bounty after committing a crime</li>
<li>Fixed issue where certain creatures and NPCs would fail to respawn properly</li>
<li>Fixed rare issue with dialogue subtitles not displaying properly</li>
<li>Fixed issue with water appearing blurry when loading a saved game after creating a save underwater</li>
<li>Fixed issue where map cursor would occasionally disappear after closing a message box with Kinect enabled (Xbox 360)</li>
<li>Fixed rare issue with shouts only performing the first level and not other unlocked levels with Kinect enabled (Xbox 360)</li>
<li>Fixed issue where the shout buttons would stop working properly if users mashed LB and RB during cooldown with Kinect enabled (Xbox 360)</li>
</ul>
<p>(Via <a href="http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2012/06/11/skyrim-patch-not-worldwide-yet-beta-info-this-week/?utm_source=feedburner&;utm_medium=feed&;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThatVideogameBlog+%28That+VideoGame+Blog%29">That Videogame Blog</a>)</p>

Skyrim Patch Detailed

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