Anyone have a corrupted save that hasn't gone into Vault 3 yet? I read on another forum that it seemed a lot of people that have gone into Vault 3 have this problem, so maybe it's something in there that's messing things up.

I can't vouch for that personally though, I just got the game today lol.

One of the first mission i finished was Come Fly With Me. Everything was fine. Days later, i just went in vualt 3. Once i was done there, i was leaving and decided to explore some other place. Since i left vault 3 thats when i couldnt load my game cuz of the dlc/ save game glitch. It might have something to do with it. Or it could be the devs just didnt do there job. probably both.

I am convinced that some object in Vault 3 caused the "DLC save game loading problem" for me. To narrow that further, I believe it was either "the reverse pulse cleaner" or an npc named "Motor- Runner". I got tired of fussing with it and haven't pursued it any further.

I enter Vault 3 from a good save, clean it out, save, load, "DLC not found" error. Consistently.

Other folks have had it happen elsewhere - Repconn Test Facility, for one.

I was doing the quest for the Brotherhood of Steel where you need to go into vault 3 and vault 11. I went through vault 3 fine but vault 11 "sacrificed" my save. You see, in vault 11 there is a sacrifice chamber for the vault dwellers which I went into, got killed and then BAM. dlc error.

I (personally) don't think it has anything to do with either. I finished Come Fly With Me, no problem. I cleared Vault 3, including killing Moto-Runner or whatever, no problem.

I was *spoiler* talking to the lady at the Crimson Caravan, she told me to talk to Cass in Mojave Outpost. I did some more exploring, finding new locations, and decided to turn the game off to take a break, so I fast traveled to Mojave Outpost from Gun Runners (after selling all my wares.)

Come back to the game, load it up, bam, 4/5 manual saves and my auto-save were done. I found one that was a little bit father back, but since installing the patch have not had the issue again. 48 hours and level 26 w/ my current toon, and have an evil char. thats level 10 and no clue how many hours.

Maybe I'm just lucky. But I am hoping Obsidian can somehow magically fix my saves, lol.

I cleaned out Vault 3 and havent had this happen. (Knock on wood). Reading around it seems pretty random. The one thing Vault 3 did was even after showing Motor-runners helmet for proof of bounty I cant drop it or store it because it is marked as a quest item. Same thing with the rebreather which I dont mind because it is handy to have.

I was in the middle of the Come Fly With Me quest when it happened to me. A few people have done threads like this before where they compare the ways people got the glitch, and one person even did an extensive test on all the ways people said they got the glitch. While there's no 100% surefire cause of the glitch (as you can see from this thread where some people did the vaults and Come Fly With Me without any problems), it does in fact seem to be that a majority people get the glitch after CFWM or the vaults. Obviously some people have played the game completely and done everything without getting the glitch, and some people have gotten the glitch either before or long after doing either the quest or the vaults, but like I said it's not 100%. It does seem to increase your likelihood.

I have 2 saves that are corrupted. Both of them are INSIDE of vault 3. I really had no issues until I went into Vault 3. Except the floating people here and there. This may help people trying to fix the bugs but before the saves were corrupted, I was having this wierd thing happen when I was picking locks and hacking computers. They would both pop up. Or the computer screen would be black. Or the key lock would fail to show up on the screen but it would still be there. I picked an easy lock by ear because the lock failed to appear on the screen but the action was still happening. Basically these two actions were badly scrambled once I worked my way into Vault 3 then my save corrupted. I think it may have started with the locked computer next to the jail cell with the dead guy and the ghoul and 2 humans inside of it. Thats the first time I remember it acting up.

i had just finished Come Fly With Me and went into the Novac Dinosaur now i cannot load my game because of the DLC load error thing. i had put 7 hours into this now its basically useless.

Come to think of it I did go to vault three before i got this horrible bug. Maybe you on to somehting kid

Mine died right after "Come Fly With Me" and "One for My Baby"

Can't load any of my saves now.

i started to get the dlc when i started to do missions from town with the giant T-rex Sorry i cant remember the town name but it been over a week so sorry and i believe the last mission that i was doing was to find the one that killed or captured someone wife and he is found inside the T-rex"s mouth

i didnt have any problems with with vault 3 but vault 11 was very laggy and froze up on me

while not doing any quest and yes the patch has been downloaded ,anyway once i was done exploring and killing everyone in vault 3 it started to have huge frame rate lags and when i entered the maintenance floor where motto runner is and instantly i got the DLC error and this was without loading a save file.and of course when i tried to load my save it gave me the same issue.so this is where it happened for me but it can happen anywhere at anytime as far as i can see i have never experienced any other major issues until i downloaded the patch then all hell broke loose.

I didnt even make it that far, I seriously completed Come Fly by Me and not 10-15 minutes later all my saves were corrupted (saved over my 2nd manual save slot shortly after completing the quest...would rotate between the two...before I knew about the whole missing DLC bug being out there and striking especially after completing that exact quest).

Guys this is crazy. Beth are not being honest with us here.

If all of you got it then how the hell did 300 playtesters not encounter it? Something just doesn't add up.

For me it happen half way through the Come Fly With me quest, I haven’t done vault 11 or 3, but I have been in vault 22 and 34. It happens if I go back into the main building to complete the quest. Luckily I save quite a lot anyway, so I went back and continued the came without completing this or the One for my baby quest. You don’t need to complete the CFWM quest anyway as there are other ways of getting the info you need.

I have now been playing the came for about another 15 hours, without any problems, but I have been avoiding all the area that people say they have come up with the error (according to other threads it happens on the strip as well), so I have basically just been wondering around the wasteland completing any quests I get and exploring anything that pops up.

I am going to try venturing into freeside today, to see what happens, but I have also read that it you come back to the quest you have been having problems with after completing others you don’t get the same bug. So I might try this as well.

It seems really sill that you have to tip toe round a game just because you are afraid of breaking it! Plus its been over a week and we still have not patch or info on when this is going to be fixed.

Obsidian/Bethesda how about an update for your poor Xbox users?????

my saves went ka-poot after i was done in vault 34, bummer cuz i wanted the all-american marksman carbine....

oh is anyone having an issue with unique weapons being where they're supposed to be? for example, the "dinner bell" hunting shotgun is supposed to be in the shack at the old nuclear test site but, for me, the only thing there is a regular hunting shotty, *tear*

Everybody i know got corruptions after the Come Fly With Me quest, i have played 53 hours with no corruption by not taking any quests and just roaming the map i have now got to level 25, its getting boring but it seems to be a way to avoid corruptions while awaiting a patch, which once given the all clear will give me the confidence to actually play properly.

Bug testing usually involves many people testing small parts of the game - very few play it all the way through from the start, so they may not see the additive effect until the game is released into the wild (at $60 a pop).

With the current power of the newer computer hardware, they may be running on console emulators that are not exactly like the actual console hardware. (just speculation or excuses for the issues seen... )

JimC

vault 3 is also the area that borked my game.

played for 40 hours without ever seeing the save game issues (had the normal freezing problems, most of which were reduced after the first patch). around hour 40 i went into vault 3 and spent like an hour and a half or so exploring the whole thing. saved in vault 3 because it was a saturday night and i was going out. came home the next day, and was able to load the save without any problem. went around and played for another 2 hours or so, spending about 30 minutes more in the vault. none of the saves i created after leaving vault 3 will load - they all get the missing DLC message and freeze up before loading (or refuse to load and go back to the initial splash screen and menu).

one other thing i noticed - the save game files are getting significantly bigger. the initial saves were ~2MB, but my later saves have been over 5MB for a while. if it's not actually something in vault 3 (since i think there are still other people having this issue other than in vault 3), could it have something to do with the save game file size?

EDIT:

some more details, in case this any of this info actually makes it to the devs. i was in vault 3, have boone and ED-E as companions. i believe i have the gauss rifle equipped, i don't have any of the pre-order unique DLC items on my character (other than the super-stims). i got the best-buy pack (mercenary pack i think it was called).

Sorry I have not gotten to that quest yet, so here's at least one player who can't blame it on entering the vault.

With that said let me add that I was able o track mine down to finishing the quest where you send the Gouls into space. As soon as the rockets took off & the music started playing, I was toast. And reading these forums I'm not alone with this quest triggering the glitch...

But I did get past it... One other common issue i noticed was having companions. I had Ed & Boon at the time. I tred it without them still no dice. I went back to before I "discovered" the rocket facility & had both of them wait in my hotel room and tried to shoot the Gouls into space, it worked!

I went back & got Ed but left Boon & I am now in New Vegas chasing the guy with the pinstripe suit (along with about a dozen other missions).

I can't say this for everybody, but in my case it is a problem with having two companionswith one of them being Boon. Too bad too, h is a good shot!

-Pete

Try going back to before you discovered the Vault and have your comapnions wait somewhere, it worked for me at the rocket plant..

I got the same situation, and got also the DLC savegame glitch.

I was in Vault 3, had Boone and ED-E with me and was just before the encounter with the Motor-Runner guy. And since then the savegames were corrupted!

I think really, some item in this Vault could cause the glitch!

that would involve reverting back over 4 hours of saves (and 3 character levels, and about 10 quests). after i left the vault, i had kept playing and did a lot of the run-around quests (mostly involving NCR rangers), and then tore through the repconn HQ and got everything it had to offer. i don't want to revert back that far only to discover they release a patch the next day that makes my saves usable again. instead, i gave up on new vegas until there's a new patch. the unfortunate thing is that i really really want to play new vegas; despite the freezes, i very much enjoyed the game. i know how to leapfrog my saves, and with a 250GB hard drive i had no problem creating a new save every time. i thought that would get me past all the crashing without frustration. however, if i can't even trust that my saves will load, the game is 100% unplayable in my opinion. i'm running out of my backlog of games to play in the meantime... i beat fable 3 and found almost all the collectibles, i bought army of two: the 40th day just to have a shooting game and my friend and i basically beat it in a single sitting...

IMHO what we need is some legitimate communication. i've been lurking these forums for a week hoping in vain that either (1) someone would post they found a fix for the save game bug, (2) a patch would be announced, or (3) that beth/obsidian would give some sort of explanation. i'm a software engineer, and i'm trying my best to understand this from the point of view of beth/obsidian, but they're making it pretty difficult. as much as i hate that games today are pushed out the door with problems because our consoles are internet-connected and they can just patch it, i can understand the complexity of all the code involved here and the reality that some bugs are going to escape QA. that's not an excuse to have game-breaking issues, but that's a discussion for another thread. but the most important thing is: when you release a product that is broken, you don't just hide. if i pushed out a release and there were this many bugs (especially of this severity!), there would be a series of communications. i would need to explain to a group of people what happened, and someone would be drafting a communication explaining what went wrong, what steps were being taken to make sure this didn't happen again in the future, and a plan and timeline for when we would have the issues fixed. where has that been?

the thing that's outraged me the most has been the way it seems they're trying to sweep this under the rug. the boards are literally riddled with threads being locked by moderators, some of which have been locked on very shaky grounds. the new vegas landing pages on both the bethesda and obsidian sites just talk about critical acclaim. the sticky posts at the top of the boards say little more than "Please continue, my good sir. we heard you, there's bugs, deal with it, we're working on stuff" (obviously i'm paraphrasing there). i'm not even sure there's been any sort of apology.

anyways, sorry for the rant.

EDIT: apparently the profanity filter changes acronym for S T F U to "Please continue, my good sir." i got a good laugh out of that. but then i remembered i'm getting more enjoyment out of army of two: the 40th day (i game i outright laughed at when it launched) than i am out of new vegas (a game i was waiting for anxiously). now i made myself sad.