OK WORK AROUND.

"Come Fly With Me" quest is bugged, but it is not the end. This quest is a link quest to the main story line quest, but fortunately there are many other ways of getting the quest done.

So here's the work around, which I've tested.

First alternative, you can kill MANNY, and pick up his holotape, which will lead to discovery of BENNY's location, and most likely "come fly with me" quest will be gone. It is noted that this manner, has led to a graphic bug as well, causing the screen to be very blurry, thus the need to reload a previous save game after all.

Second alternative, you can go to MANNY's house and access his computer terminal. It's a bloody email only, simple click and the quest is done. If you have taken the "Come Fly with me" quest, it will still be open for completion, but in order to not activate the bug, probably won't temper with it just yet. You will be able to get BENNY's location, no karma gained, and "Come fly with me" quest still available.

Third alternative, is to bypass all in NOVAC, and go straight to BOwler city, snoop around and you'll find something.

So yeah, here you go, on overcoming the "quest corrupt" bug.

I've had no issues after completing the Come Fly with Me quest to completion on PC. I did find out about Benny from Manny's computer, though. I simply walked into his room at night and after I finished talking to him, I saw the computer and decided to look at it while he went back to bed. So I saw the file and got the update to continue on to Boulder City. Later I did the Come Fly With Me quest. I've done other stuff since and have no save corruption or other issues, including taking the space suit (though I stashed it in my room right away).

FOR THOSE WONDERING WHAT CAUSES THE SAVE FILE CORRUPTION:

If you LEAVE the Repconn Facility with the Come Fly With Me quest still active and then go back to it, all save files after that will be corrupted.

So if you are trying to Come Fly With Me, just do it straight through without leaving the Repconn Facility. Then leave and dont go back.


-- Note: There may be additional factors, but I can load save games at Repconn before I left to go sell stuff. Then when i try to load any save games after returning to Repconn, they are all corrupted. No changes in quest status occurred while I was away from Repconn, so it was just the act of leaving and returning that caused the corruption.

I've been seeing some disturbing reports on some other forums about other corrupted save files.

Some people say they made it all the way to new vegas, saved, computer crashes, and all of their files

could not be loaded (kicked to the desktop with "falloutnv stopped working")

I hope to hoolies that they are just hardcoe and were bugged in the facility and just played for hours on end without stopping.

Cuz if not, then there is another "bugged" item/event that will destroy hours of playing... :cryvaultboy:

But don't you have to leave to collect the parts for the rocket scientist?

So i guess everyone should just go into manny's room and look at his computer instead of clearing the ghoulies...

Unless you can... kill the ghouls?

NOTE: The first post of this thread is WRONG. It does NOT start after you hand over the parts, it starts before that. From what I can tell, after entering the basemant, if you attempt to leave and return, ALL SUBSEQUENT SAVES after re-entering will crash. It does not matter what part of the quest you're in. It has to do with re-entering the basemant. I have done extensive testing on this.

Only the BAsemanT is the trigger area for this bug.

Seriously, why the hell did I pay 50 dollars for a beta test? Fix this [censored] now. I have lost up to about 6 hours of gameplay because of this [censored] bug.

Ha so in summary, ditch the quest?

Oh man looks like there is a similar problem if you go into Vault 3 and save inside or something. I hope its not part of the main quest.

I have verified this and this seems to be correct. My first save in side the REPCONN basemant is fine, but after I dealt with NightKins and returned to office, then go inside basemant again would lead to corrupted save files.

It's so annoying because those corrupt save files would still work while you are in the game, but once you exit out and start the game again, none of the subsequent save files would work.

I was lucky I still had a save file from my first visit to the basemant, and I have only been there once.

Right now I am ditching the rest of the quest and went on my way to other quests. I had already located Benny's location way before I started this quest though, would you happen to be in the same situation in the story line?

BTW:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Come_Fly_With_Me#Bugs

I hope some one will fix this bug. Coz i dont wanna lose 10 hours of gameplay...

I think it's the basemant itself. I was able to complete this quest as well. I went back for the astronaut suit because of radiation in another area, that save game was corrupt, crashed later on. I had to go back two saves, that save worked. Both were in the basemant, so the corruption may be random.

I finished the quest and then went back, that save was corrupted. Another save on my return trip wasn't, it was two back but still on the return trip. That save was fine, I did save and test as soon as I left the basemant though.

Seems to be a bit random, but still big chance of happening, I climbed out of the ladder from the basemant to wasteland, and it was ok.

I won't be going back there to finish the rest of it until it's confirmed fixed in upcoming patches.

Is there any word that this is being looked into? or are we just SOL and either have to play from the most recent uncorrupted save or quit the game?
I really don't want to lose so much play time because my last save outside of REPCONN is at least 10 hours ago and there is no way I am going to replay through that just to get back to where I am.

That sux, I only lost about an hour, but I lost the save data in with I went with a non-violent way of resolute the conflict in that quest, but I lost the file, and in the only save file I have, my character killed all NightKins in the basemant.

I don't know if they are looking into this, but consider that this quest is an optional main story quest, and this is considered data corruption, I'd think this is of higher priority than some other issues.

Well I have a save in the basemant after sneaking around and not killing any Nightkin (ironically, I killed them in my main save. Opposite of what you did), but I don't know if following this path will corrupt the game.

I just loaded that file and ran through 2 different ways trying to get the bug to re-occur and it won't which at this point I find hilarious because my goal is to get the bug so I know what I can do to avoid it, but instead I don't get the bug so I am worried that if I load that save and play through the game from it I might run into the bug at a later date...

If they are working on it, it'd be nice if they could tell us when they at least OFFICIALLY pinpoint what is causing the bug because I'd like to be able to play through the game from my older save file without worry that I'm gonna run into the same problem again.

strange that quest worked for me okay.

I am currently getting bitten by this bug on the PC version.

(Spoilers)

All my saves are fine until I go back to the basemant to bring Chris the rocket fuel and/or thrusters. Immediately after entering the basemant (either through the manhole or the door in the main building), all of my savegames from that point on are broken, even after I complete the quest.

Not really sure what to do at this point. I still have good savegames, but the quest has already started in those saves, and I've already chosen a path which would require me to leave the facility and return to the basemant (which based on my experience and what others are saying, is what triggers the bug).

So I guess I either need to sidestep finishing this quest and move on (who know what other problems that may cause, though! I think my paranoia is justified..), start over completely (no), or *gulp* stop playing until this actually gets fixed. :sadvaultboy:

There should be a "Beta-tester Discount" for people who pre-order or buy Fallout games within the first month of release. I'm not really joking about that.

Bumping this thread because this is an extremely serious bug.

Bout to start up my 3rd go around, the first 2 times I completed "Come Fly With Me" and my games bugged later on and when I try to load them I get a message "FalloutNV has stopped working" first time I made it a couple hours past from when you get into the new Vegas, the 2nd time it froze right as I went in.

Going to try a few alternatives to get around the quest, hope fully it will work and I won't of wasted all those hours again. Since I'm having to start from 30 minutes into the game, that my only save file that didn't get messed up.

Me too. I saved a LOT after I began "come fly with me", but my saves still load fine now that I've completed the quest. In fact, New Vegas hasn't crashed on me at all, so far.
I have Win XP and I don't use quick/autosaves, maybe that helped...

same i've done this quest multiple times on diff chars at lest 6 times now never gave me a problem but idk my games been pretty tame as far as problems guess i'm just one of the lucky ones