Bethesda has been more aggressive than usual in post-game support for Skyrim which has led to some amazing new features like archer and magic kill cams. One of the latest upgrades came in the form of mounted combat for the PC version, but now that update has hit the Xbox 360.
Bethesda announced today that the 1.6 update for Skyrim has hit the Xbox 360. The major addition as mentioned is mounted combat. This allows players to fight with melee or ranged weapons while riding a horse. It doesn’t clarify if ranged combat means just bows or if magic is an option as well.
The other big addition with 1.6 is that it readies the Xbox 360 version of the game for the first DLC expansion for Skyrim, Dawnguard. In it, the player is tasked with joining a group of vampires or the Dawnguard to either blot out the sun or protect the mass of incandescent gas up in the sky.
Here’s the full change list:
NEW FEATURES
Mounted Combat – Skyrim now allows you to do melee and ranged combat while riding a horse
BUG FIXES
General stability and memory optimizations
General AI pathfinding optimizations and bug fixes
Optimizations 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)
It remains to be seen when this update will hit the PlayStation 3 version of the game. It shouldn’t be too much longer as Bethesda is pretty good about keeping on top of this stuff.
Here’s hoping the next major update brings that giant mudcrab battle that we saw at DICE. Skyrim could use some legendary monsters like the ones that were in Fallout: New Vegas.