I have not posted to forums about games much, but in this instance, I am so hacked off with this game that I am going to vent.

Just about every time I trade for cards, the game crashes.
Whenever I try walking around Camp McCarron, the game crashes.
The clipping is appauling, with creatures vanishing underground and becoming unhittable.
My Drone (Ed) stopped somewhere, and although he's listed on the map, I cant find him again. He's just not there. (although NPC's sometimes react as if he is)

So, I trawled through endless forums and bug reports and see that quite a few people have some of these issues, and there is no official word on fixes.
So, I give up on the game, hell thats nearly 40 quid I was CONNED out of.

But wait, was I too fast, there are patches. So each and every patch that has come out, I have gone back to the game and .... No, still broken.

So, did you sack all of your Quality Control people and Beta testers? Or did you ever have any?

Yours,
40 quid poorer.
Algernon.

Out of curiosity have you tried a new character after the patches? Sometimes a problem will be fixed but old saves will continue to be glitched.

Maybe You'll feel less disappointed if You read below (sorry for mistakes in English):

Before 1.3 patch:
- I could ask Trudy: "why not just murder Cobb.." (even if his name was NEVER mentioned before) and after that "who was that man you argued with?" It seemed like develpers made some no-logic mistake (already at beginning) but the dialogs vere so much better than in Fallout3 anyway (at least in my opinion) so i played further.
- Then there were critters/NPCs stuck, dog with eyes on the side of his head, critters dying by them selves when PC was visiting same area, missing stuff (Johny 4 aces encounter with no corpse ), stuff falling underground....
-Ruby's casserole bug with "i don't have any" when having 2 poison glands
-Primm gosship miss (NCR stuff instead of new sherif stuff)
-With "trigger discipline" I always aim little left from "varmints rifle"'s NOT SO "true" iron sight, since the point to hit is there (strange how could dev's missplace smething like that ro maybe its my "30 only" in guns). Anyway the correction always works with "ULTRA" settings and also from very far distances.
- Distant sounds of guns - comment: DO NOT BELIVE COMMERCIALS (liars).
- SNEAK ATACK:
1) [HIDDEN]
2) You kill critter with sneak attack.
3) Another critter sees corps and starts seeking ---> [CAUTION]
4) Critter stops looking for whatever it was looking for ---> [HIDDEN] for a short while.
5) Critter turns around and sees same corpse again (same one which triggered it to seeking) and gets surprised corpse still didn't get back to life ---> [CAUTION]
6) Repeating 4) and 5) as long as you can bare.
7) Charge with your "sneaky" character or just leave the stuff. (You can also be very fast and shoot critter when [HIDDEN] appears for a second.)
-In "Mojave Outpost" I met a sniper on the roof that had her head glitched through her headwear (women should be more aware of her looks).
- Then were some more bugs that I started fixing with "bugfixes" from "fallout new vegas nexus".

After 1.3.0.0452 patch:
-Noticed balance changes and that same food types usage seemed to be changed (5 Sunset Sur-something gave 5 times longer effect instead of 5 times stronger for example although different food types still gave cumulative effect in one time). At least instant healing with food on "hardcoe" is not so obviously easy anymore.

How did I get dissapointed with game in such a short time again:
FIRST:
- In Novac, when doing mission with brahmin and Nightkin:
1) Found Nightkin at night.
2) Stole his holotape.
3) Since no other alternatives found - neutralized Nightkin with "Tire Iron" (or something) when it approached cattle.
4) NO DIALOG OPTION regarding finished mission after that.
5) LOAD
6) Found Nightkin, neutralized it, finally received the appropriate dialog option and finished "unmarked quest".
NEXT:
- In Novac (again) talked with ranger Andy regarding Station Charlie and also passed speach check (received "RangerTakeDown")
1) Went to station charlie, took audio logs 1 nad 2.
2) Went back and again found there is no dialog option to tell him that the "Legion" did it (JUST HOW MANY MORE BUGS CAN STILL BE IN THIS GAME AFTER AROUND 6 UPDATES?). Its quite expensive PC game (for a game without any sign of QC or QA in development).
3) LOAD
4) Forget "speach check" and take unmarked Andy and Charlie quest.
5) Go to Charlie Station.
6) Found audio log 1 and 2 and received dialog option about the Legion (quest accomplished)... but what is the point of buying and playing broken games that rather irritate than recreate?

I'm sorry for spelling and style mistakes. English is not my official languge.
I'm looking forward for real patches to be able to finally enjoy this game (maybe i'm just naive gamer that should stay away from bethesda products).
I think Fallout New Vegas is an interesting game (plot, dialogs, etc.) although its still not playable for Fallout 2 fans like me.

Regards
Mike

Mike:Speaking of Ranger Station charlie and Andy, if you talk to Andy by yourself without the companion Raul, you can`t complete his companion quest.é

When I bought New Vegas it was bad timing for me that 1.3 was released. It's that Steam decides what you get that is out of control. You should watch the Community Bug Fix Patch and demand or plead for an update. There is no inspiration or idea that I can express for stability other than that the cosmic video game fairy should wave her wand and heal GameBryo of it's virtual crippled limbs.

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38326

You are lucky you can even play the game. I can't after this last patch. Steam pops up a "loading game" window then that small black window closes and it opens it again and unless I click on the X really quickly the window keeps reopening. Task manager shows me that falloutnvlauncher.exe is loading and some times it loads falloutnv.exe.. no launcher screen at all for me.

I posted my issue here and no ones responded yet.

Thanks for the info. It saved me a lot of dissapointment with Andy later. Quite an out of order NPC for a "Ranger".

I stopped playing the game last weekend and took it off steam. Thing that really peeves me off personally is that it was fine at 1.2 for me.......never encountered a bug I couldnt ignore (I'm usually easy going like that).....at 1.3 though the game just crashes randomly for me (often when just doing really basic things like running from one place to the next - not even doing complicated stuff). The patch totally killed it for me. Another thing that hacks me off (and this is more of a steam issue) is that potentially I could redownload v1.2 and be happy with it as I was before, but with steam you dont even get that option.....you're getting 1.3 whether you like it or not, sunshine! Thats really poor, you should have the option of installing vanilla and then the option of installing patches in order or not at all......forcing you to use a particular version, that and the 1.3 patch, those two things are what have conspired to make me feel like the game is unplayable.

I havent just come here to rant though. I'm after some closure. I'm at the point where I'm ready to decide if I want to wait until this thing gets a new patch, or walk away now and never buy another obsidian game.

So really, apart from venting, the point of my post is to ask the question: Are they actually working on any patches right now to fix all these issues that people are having? Or is it in the works for the future? I'm not bothered about timeframes - I can be real patient......I just want to know if they do actually plan on fixing this stuff or just letting it hang in the air, because at this particular point in time, I havent been made to feel like this is going to get fixed, and I think a lot of people are left with that feeling too, so some communication on this would be really nice, even if its just to tell me no, its not getting fixed, then at least I dont have to waste my time trawling forums for news about a patch I can just walk away. Like I say, I'm not bothered how long it will take, I just want to know if they are going to do SOMETHING other than just seemingly ignore all these problems and carry on developing DLC for a game that for many is broken.

Just wanted to point out that Bethesda Softworks published the game, Obsidian's the one who made it. If you're going to rant, at least aim your spittle in the right direction.

This question needs to be posted as a real topic asking for an answer from G or JE with yes or no and eta. The 1.3 patch was preceded by a notice that a patch was coming. The patch was released April 25. It is now May 10 and there has been no word I've seen that another patch is on its way. If the question is asked and it is answered then we will know what to expect. If the answer is silence then...


I love this comment because it allows me to bring this up:
Obsidian CEO: "I wish Fallout: New Vegas wasn't as glitchy when it came out."

Fallout new vegas is a proof that Bethesda doesn't respect fans. They also just admitted that new vegas is full of bugs. Don't expect improvement, they gave up on this game as soon as it was released. I uninstalled the game 2 month ago, and i swear to god i will never give my money to them...
And i am not surprised that BRINK is a piece of crap, lokk at the review accross the world...Bethesda used to be my favorite. /forgetyourname.

Awww come it can not be that bad, I mean this last patch stop most my CTD!





Although I stutter 100% more and have 5 or 6 game freezes when loading every hour..... XP

Good job totally helped stabilize the game.

Thanks, does'nt actually help me or anyone else that are having problems though, but I'm sure we're all impressed with your knowledge of who made the game.

Going by the replies on this thread, I'll assume a patch is'nt being worked on or it would be getting talked about already. So thats it for me and this game/company.

1 week ago I posted just to ask if a patch was being worked on. In one week all that question yielded was a pedant looking to correct me on my knowledge of who made the game, and another post telling me to start a new thread to ask for a patch.

So I guess in less than a roundabout way, my original question has been answered and I no longer need to think about this game.

And before anybody has anything smartmouth to say, it's not a crime to lose money and be angry about it. And I'm angry. So save your condescending replies as I wont be reading them (you'll just be wasting your own time).

If you're still willing to try a few things, including something that is available now:

1. This alternative patch already works with 1.3
http://www.ravenmodding.terminal47.net/?p=768

2. Wait for the Community Patch to be updated for 1.3
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38326

3. We might still get a surprise rear penetration patch via Steam on the night before Honest Hearts

Funny... my game plays fine...

Funny. My game dosn't.

1.3 won't even let me get into the launcher. no error. just an infinate loop of steam closing and restarting with the "launching game" popup appearing.

WOW I'm so glad I saw this thread because I thought it was just me having problem after that [censored] forced update I'm constantly getting runtime errors which happened ONCE on 1.2 and was fixable but now on 1.3...PSSSH enter or exit an interior cell CTD with runtime error :down:

EDIT:

Thought I might add that I think they know there's a problem seen as their technical support line has been busy for he last 3hours haha

And what of this theory that for every person who has posted about their tech problems there are 100 people who have had absolutely no issues?