Gamers can look forward to more changes to the stability of the game

Mar 30, 2012 11:58 GMT  ·  By

The PC version of the Bethesda-made open-world role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has received another patch via the Steam digital distribution service, labeled 1.5.26.

The bug fixes included are:

– Fixed issue with frequency of first-person kill cameras; – Underwater effects now display properly; – Fixed crash when loading certain plugins; – Fixed issue where sun would not appear properly after fast travel.

It’s not much, considering the kind of changelog that fans of Bethesda and The Elder Scrolls are used to getting when a new patch is launched, but it seems that the changes are important enough to be worth a new update.

Gamers will get the new patch automatically through Steam as long as they are allowing Skyrim to auto-update itself.

Those who are playing the role-playing game on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony are still waiting to get the more solid 1.5 patch, which has been submitted for certification and should be launched during the coming weeks.

It’s not clear whether the changes that are listed for 1.5.26 on the PC will be included in the core 1.5 patch for Skyrim on home consoles or whether they will only be included in a future patch.

Skyrim was one of the most stable Bethesda-published launches when it arrived in late 2011, but the developers have still had to fix a lot of issues, most of them reported by the player community.

The team has said that at the moment it is focusing on making the game as stable as possible before moving on to develop new content for it.

A recent trademark for the Dawnguard name suggested that it could be the first significant DLC package for Skyrim and Bethesda has already admitted that it could use portions of both Morrowind and Cyroodil in expansions.