Published on November 29th, 2011 | by Aplfisher

Skyrim Patch 1.2 hits PC tomorrow

Oh the [ESC] key. What a beautiful thing it is. However, if you’ve been playing Skyrim non-stop like me for the past couple weeks, you’ve probably noticed a problem with that little key. It doesn’t fricking work in the menus. This may seem like a small gripe, but when you consider the hours spent in menus throughout your time with the game, not being able to hit [ESC] to exit is kind of a big deal.

Thankfully Bethesda has addressed this issue in it’s latest 1.2 patch, which is slated to go live for the PC tomorrow (November 30th). They’ve also fixed some of the annoying Dragon glitches, dead wedding guests, and mouse sensitivity issues.

The full patch notes are listed below.

UPDATE 1.2 NOTES (all platforms unless specified)

Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation 3)
Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed to drive (Xbox 360)
Fixed crash on startup when audio is set to sample rate other than 44100Hz (PC)
Fixed issue where projectiles did not properly fade away
Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player’s wedding dead
Dragon corpses now clean up properly
Fixed rare issue where dragons would not attack
Fixed rare NPC sleeping animation bug
Fixed rare issue with dead corpses being cleared up prematurely
Skeleton Key will now work properly if player has no lockpicks in their inventory
Fixed rare issue with renaming enchanted weapons and armor
Fixed rare issue with dragons not properly giving souls after death
ESC button can now be used to exit menus (PC)
Fixed occasional mouse sensitivity issues (PC)
General functionality fixes related to remapping buttons and controls (PC)