Fallout: New Vegas

Quaro · 2010-10-18T18:37:30.000Z

How can they possibly debug it – can you send your Xbox saves to them, like you could do on the PC?

AndrewMyers · 2010-10-18T19:01:59.000Z

TomChick:

Since it’s happening on two separate Xboxes where the only hardware in common is the hard drive, my guess is that something got corrupted at some point and basically tainted about three hours worth of saved games.

…or you have a flaky hard drive :)

tomchick · 2010-10-18T19:16:49.000Z

How are “something getting corrupted” and “flaky hard drive” exclusive?

So from one of the earlier saves I’ve made a beeline to where I was before, and I’m now getting the same freezes. I seem to have hit on some unholy combination of stuff that’s killing the game and corrupting my saved games. Fuck this. At midnight, I’m going to pick up a copy of Vanquish so I can just shoot stuff.

 -Tom

stusser · 2010-10-18T19:21:54.000Z

You can put savegames on a USB thumbdrive now, can’t you? Maybe you can send your saves to Bethesda to take a look.

Sorry to hear about all that time wasted. I know it would drive me up the wall.

Jafisob · 2010-10-18T19:50:32.000Z

TomChick:

How are “something getting corrupted” and “flaky hard drive” exclusive?

So from one of the earlier saves I’ve made a beeline to where I was before, and I’m now getting the same freezes. I seem to have hit on some unholy combination of stuff that’s killing the game and corrupting my saved games. Fuck this. At midnight, I’m going to pick up a copy of Vanquish so I can just shoot stuff.

-Tom

I think this proves it folks. Console gaming is domed. ;-)

You have my sympathy. There is nothing quite as sucky as having a save go bad on you causing you to lose hours of gaming time or worse yet, having to restart from scratch. It is one of the reasons I save frequently and to many different save files in any rpg I play. OTOH, this sounds like no amount of caution would have prevented this.

I hope Tom’s experience is the exception rather than the rule.

My PC version of Fallout New Vegas unlocks at 3 AM. My strange addiction to food and shelter will prevent me from playing it until after work.

Morberis · 2010-10-18T19:56:02.000Z

The timer keeps moving the unlock hour ahead, shit on a stick. First it said noon, then midnight, then 1 am now 3 am. After refresh that is, cockles.

Sarkus · 2010-10-18T20:02:55.000Z

Morberis:

The timer keeps moving the unlock hour ahead, shit on a stick. First it said noon, then midnight, then 1 am now 3 am. After refresh that is, cockles.

Depends on where you are. Midnight pacific time is 3AM on the east coast.

mrmolecule88 · 2010-10-18T20:25:49.000Z

My copy on steam just downloaded an extra 4 mb…something. Normal, or -1 day patch?

Angrycoder · 2010-10-18T20:31:58.000Z

MSUSteve:

That’d be like avoiding Tylenol because some was poisoned in the 1980’s.

But it wasn’t.

Sean_Tudor · 2010-10-18T20:33:41.000Z

It’s the Doomsday Patch.

Sarkus · 2010-10-18T20:56:06.000Z

mrmolecule88:

My copy on steam just downloaded an extra 4 mb…something. Normal, or -1 day patch?

They had to update The Strip to reflect the new casinos that have been built since the game went gold.

Cubit · 2010-10-18T21:00:53.000Z

Gerstmann’s review:

Giant Bomb

Fallout: New Vegas Review

Fallout: New Vegas somehow manages to have even more technical problems than Fallout 3 did, but its great characters and setting still shine through.

Adam_Eayrs · 2010-10-18T21:01:14.000Z

You are quick on the draw. (take the quick draw perk)

Joe_M · 2010-10-18T21:04:42.000Z

Apparently Gerstmann’s got a bum hard drive, too.

Strollen · 2010-10-18T21:09:21.000Z

So is it to much to hope for to think that PC version maybe more stable than the Xbox.

Or am I better off betting my house on the pass line at the crap table?

Equis · 2010-10-18T21:09:23.000Z

Cory:

http://www.giantbomb.com/fallout-new-vegas/61-25933/reviews/

A well written game filled with interesting characters married to a technical mess of a game engine.

At this point, this should just be the review of every obsidian game.

stusser · 2010-10-18T21:24:13.000Z

The engine’s fine, oblivion and fallout3 were stable. It’s just buggy, because obsidian can’t QA for shit.

Sarkus · 2010-10-18T21:29:38.000Z

stusser:

The engine’s fine, oblivion and fallout3 were stable. It’s just buggy, because obsidian can’t QA for shit.

So Bethesda has no role in the state of release? Last time I heard, the publisher plays a bigger role in QA then the developer does.

bjbrains · 2010-10-18T21:30:16.000Z

stusser:

The engine’s fine, oblivion and fallout3 were stable. It’s just buggy, because obsidian can’t QA for shit.

Stable? I guess (although Fallout 3 bugged out a lot on quad cores until 1.7), but certainly not bug/glitch free. I remember one glitch that Fallout 3 had for me at launch- whenever I transitioned items/mobs would randomly spawn above the ground and then fall instead of at their intended spots.

MattKeil · 2010-10-18T21:31:00.000Z

I can definitely back Tom up on the bugginess of the game. This thing hard crashes if you look at it funny. That’s leaving aside the various creative ways you can break quests to the point of needing to reload much older saves. Keep multiple slots going, people. Seriously.