Shivering Isles: Bugs Bugs Bugs
Shivering Isles, the latest Oblivion expansion pack, is getting great reviews, but will you be playing a broken game if you make the purchase? Websites across the US and Canada are reporting on a major bug in the Elder Scrolls IV add-on.

” The problem has been determined to derive from six scripts which control the patrolling patterns of certain guards. The scripts, which run even if you are not in the area, exhausts the internal allotment of identification numbers which are assigned to every object in the game (e.g. dropped arrows, weaponry). Once all the space is full, newly created objects disappear from the game world. ”
Even if you aren’t playing the game, the bug can still happen if you have it installed. Depending on your framerate, the bug will hit your game after 75-150 hours of gameplay. The Xbox 360 version is expected to experience the bug after 150 hours.

For now, gamers can only wait for a patch to fix the problems, or just play out the game and live with the bug. Hopefully we’ll see a patch in the near future.
[via Joystiq]
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Shivering Isles, Xbox 360
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