Hello there, I'm new to the forum but I thought I'd make a contribution to the bug list.

I just encountered this bug, and it won't seem to go away even though I reloaded a save I made before I encountered it.

It happened when at the Cerulean factory when I was doing a quest: Went up to the computer terminal to use it, and instead of getting a computer terminal screen I ended up with a "black" screen that looks like the backdrop of the world map in the middle. I reloaded my save, and it still does it. Now I've learned that it also applies to when I use any terminal, pick a lock, and even when I try to zoom in with a sniper rifle through a scope. The end result is always the same, I get the black backdrop and I can see a fraction of what is "really" supposed to be going on... ex. lockpicking I see just the screwdriver handle moving around.

I have a glitch where I cannot aim or turn on the x-axis with the left thumbstick. This is the most annoying glitch, and I don't wanna have to reload my pretty old save... It's not my controller, because it still moves the cursor on the Pip-Boy map.

Quest Bug: One for my Baby

This quest can bug such that when the player is told to investigate the lobby of the Novac hotel for clues as to Boone's wife's disappearance and gets the Bill of Sale from the safe, the hotel's proprietor doesn't respond at all. That is, she has no new dialogue options and there's no way to get her to come out front of the dinosaur so Boone can shoot her. I fixed this by reloading a save before I stole the Bill of Sale and then she worked fine. I am not sure if this is randomly triggered or what but I Googled it and several people have had the exact same issue.

Last night while playing I encountered a Giant Rad-scorpion with a health bar that would not deplete regardless of how many times I shot him, threw sticks of dynamite at him, used vats mode etc...
Thinking this one of the many bugs I've encountered I immediately reloaded my last save, only to encounter the same problem again in the exact same spot (somewhere near Good Springs cemetery).
Initially his health bar is full, but after I start shooting him it shows as empty and stays that way even though he's not taking any damage whatsoever. As you would suspect he inevitably chases me down and kills me because I CANT DO ANY DAMAGE TO HIM!!

Hi all, just joined the forums to mention a couple of issues I've been having. Love the game but it is disappointing to see so many problems. However at least the guys seem to be working as hard as possible to sort them out.

Anyway, two problems I have had so far:

• Hacking terminals - I think this may be down to me having remapped my controls. I have to click B to hack a terminal and when I do, the terminal screen will not load up unless I hold B down continuously. If I let go of B the terminal screen disappears and all I can see is a blurred background until I press B again to exit the view. It took me a while to figure this out, but since I have, I can repeat it every time - it comes down to needing to hold B rather than just pressing B to get into the terminal. It's not a gamebreaker once you know how to get around it, but it is annoying.
  
• Selling items - I went on a stealing spree in Goodsprings and intentionally overburdened myself with a whole lot of things, including burned/scorched books, Iron, Vacuum Cleaner, and a few other bits. I got rid of some of the stuff by selling to Trudy, Chet and the Doc, but I still have a ton of items - including those listed above - in my inventory that will not appear in my "sell list" when I try to sell to those people I listed above. I can of course just drop them but it's annoying that I can't sell them to gain a few caps.

Hopefully these things can be added to their fix list, though I appreciate they won't be top priority. :fallout:

I had a music issue during the mission from Novac where I check on the nearby ranger station. Upon entering the ranger station there were a few things that caused instant death and a reload of an autosave. The music wouldn't stop playing into the next reload, but also a new instance of the music would begin playing. After several deaths, There ended up being multiple instances of the same radio station playing, just offset by the amount of time I took me to die again. I counted up to 4 separate instances of the same song offset by a 30-60 seconds. It was weird.

I also had an issue where I visited a main town (not sure what its called, east of the starting town where there are lots of signs of warning about death claws) and upon entering the town, there is a single death claw and lots of named and unnamed dead npcs. It didn't seem right to me that named NPCs should be dead before I even had a chance to meet them. Luckily the deathclaw killed me instantly and I reloaded to a previous save. I didn't go back there, but I'm sure that town is still a dead town killed by a wandering deathclaw that is far stronger than any of the NPCs in that town.

I've found instances where NPCs will be "floating" several feet off the ground and moving like they are on the ground.

Radscorpions no longer have faces to shoot. Not so much of a bug as an oversight from the previous game. I have yet to figure out how to effectively take them down even with entomologist. I end up using entire runs of ammo (200+ bullets) just to take a single scorpion down on normal difficulty. Maybe I am just doing something wrong, but there aren't many places to shoot at that aren't heavily armored or ineffective. I should point out I'm using a service rifle mostly. Haven't tried lasers or heavy weapons yet.

Along the lines of creatures, there are these dragonfly looking things that I cannot seem to kill at all. VATS says 95% chance to hit on body, head, etc, but when I activate, nothing hits them. I've tried this many times now and they seem to be immune. I've also tried shooting them outside of VATS (which is pointless in NV for some reason... didn't have this much trouble in FO3, but whatever) and even when I get a hit, their health doesn't seem to go down. I don't know what the deal is. Again service rifle.

One other thing that isn't really a bug, but has annoyed me with Oblivion, FO3 and now NV is the lack of a periodic autosave. Often times, especially in the beginning, things are far stronger than you and you will unknowingly walk into situations where you are greatly outmatched and can easily be outrun and killed. Then, you die and go back to when... a half hour ago save that was the last door you exited. I never understood why a 5-10 minute periodic autosave would be such a tough thing to put into said games and why it's not standard in this day and age (including games that aren't gamesas related). I guess it would have to make sure you weren't "in combat" before autosaving, but thats pretty simple as the game engine mechanics are already in place. It just makes exploring not fun by punishing players to do so. My perception level in NV is about 7 and most of the time, I dont even see enemies before they know I'm there. And reaver ghouls can easily outrun you and kill you long before you can harm them to any great extent early in the game. Anyway, needing to save manually every few minutes takes away from the "adventure" and I typically forget to do so in a timely fashion.

some of these are repeats, some aren't:

the game crashed when i opened the door to the mirror field at helios one. twice.

after a third attempt, i made it into the field, and then it started getting choppy and jumpy. that soon ironed itself out, only to have the sound get super screwy (technical term) and sound like someone was hitting mute and un-mute repeatedly. then it just crashed again.

another glitch upon entering that field is that about 10 dogs start leaving the door and piling (heh. dog pile.) up on each other for no reason. the other thing that happens is about 15 barrels fall out of the sky onto me!

the arms raising to the top of the screen thing is still happening.

npc's occasionally just walk knee deep in the ground. which is fun, but then they can't get anywhere you need them to. (example: not too much of a spoiler.. the captain in the office park doing his duty with me as back-up, couldn't get into the building he was heading toward because he was stuck.)

i found a radscorpion pinned vertically to a rock, still alive. it was neat because i thought maybe the legion crucified a radscorp, but then it started crawling down into the ground.

and once out of every.. maybe 15 times, i'll be in vats and my guy won't shoot a single shot, which results in never coming out of vats. he just stands there until he gets shot to death, taking it like a champ. albeit in slow-mo, which looks funny.. but annoying if i'm in the waste and haven't auto-saved or manually saved in a good stretch. i understand a good fix for this is to manually save more, but i shouldn't *have* to rely on saving for a game not to glitch me literally to death.

in the strip.. i confronted benny, survived the ambush, went to his suite, and talked to yes-man. upon taking the elevator to the subbasemant and investigating, i leave to come back up (btw, neither ed-e nor veronica follow me down) and the game crashes..

another new thing as well: npcs are now just falling down whenever i jump around them. although funny, not conducive to a fun gaming experience in terms of pushing the story forward.

My game wont let me do anything other then walk around the world and shoot, if i reload, try to use pip-boy, v.a.t.s. walk to a loading area, or building it just freezes and have to restart system.
I have one of the new 250gb systems.

I just want to play the game!!!!

Is this on every playthrough? Or just your current game?

I experienced a glitch during One for My Baby. No-Bark tells you to look for the evidence, which is in Jeannie May Crawford's safe. I get the Bill of Sale, put on the beret, and walk her in front of the dinosaur. He shoots her, and I go up to talk to Boone. He asks me how I know and I have no option to give him the Bill of Sale.

Every playthough. if I start a new game same thing. game was working great till the patch. is there a way to unpatch my system

Hello everyone. I encounter a bug when I travel to towns with ED-E. Whenever I enter a town it takes about 1 or 2 min for the npc's to start attacking ED-E even though my reputation is idolized. ED-E doesn't even fight back when the the townsfolk attack him. I haven't gotten any other companions yet so I can't be sure if it happens to all of them.

The terminal bug you describe sounds like the Pip-Boy Black screen, but you may have figured a work around with the controls. I know there are a lot of bugs combined with remapping your controller. Including VATS not working. As for Selling Items see http://support.gamesas.com/eng/resolution.asp?sid=143422101024173173052197&pid=400000953&pnm=Fallout%3A+New+Vegas&seid=400002571&pos=Xbox+360&top=Gameplay&rid=400003369. This is a known bug by Bethesda when attempting to sell stolen items to the same faction they were taking from they wont appear in your list. Something that will be patched and i'd wager already is patched on the PC. XBox gets the short end of the stick with patches.

Pretty sure he doesn't give the option to give him proof, he only asks how you knew it was her. I could be mistaken but as long as you say you had some kind of proof or that you had a hunch he will join you reguardless. If not reload an earlier save.