I desperately need a radio playlist expansion mod. I swear the radio stations have less songs than the ones in Fallout 3, which collectively had maybe a CD’s worth of music of which you could access half (i.e. maybe 6 tracks) on GNR and another quarter each or so on Enclave Radio and Agatha’s station. I know, I know, I can turn it off and I probably will soon, even though there’s a GNR style announcement of stuff you’ve done and other breaking news that I would like to have.
This. It happened in FO3 too. You can be in an all-out war with a faction and kill as many as you like and still be on the side of the angels, but damn it, lift one of their ashtrays and you’re eeeeevil.
Who wrote this, Ayn Rand?
As for tech stuff, after a couple hours played on the PC, nothing terrible but it’s certainly got some issues. I got stuck in a culvert grating (console TCL ftw), had a few NPCs stand around two feet off the ground, and more annoyingly there’s a fairly common flashing or strobing of textures that is annoying. I’m running at 1900x1080 on a 24" with a GTX 460 1GB. The game looks great really but I wonder if the texture stuff is a driver issue or something else?
I’m having the same flashing/strobing effect with a GTX 470. Maybe it doesn’t like Fermi?
I turned AA and Anisotropic filtering off and turned off the HDR and the game performance is a lot better. Still stutters now and then (like if I’m running and swing my camera to the right or left about 90 degrees, it stutters and the music skips every time).
Yeah, I decided I would lose Karma by ripping off some ammo and needed items from my “friends” in town. It’s the least they could do!
Oh, also, some of the quest completions seem a bit screwy - one of the tutorial ones, specifically. You’re told to get two items to learn how crafting works, and at the same time you’re told to go talk to Trudy. If you talk to Trudy, you see the encounter with the Powder Gang guy, but the tutorial quest completes, and the crafting part of the quest can’t ever be completed - not a big deal but it seems weird.
Yeah, same thing here with my 470. Hope it gets fixed either by nVidia or Obsidian, it’s a bit distracting.
I’m really enjoying this so far, and I haven’t had any technical issues in eight hours of play on the PC.
Guns/Repair/Speech for me, without any traits at the start and picking all the +exp/skill perks along the way to level 9. I’ll probably switch over to energy weapons at some point.
Grifman
1907
Shooting the dynamite in their hand before throwing and killing several with one shot - which I just did - is even better! :)
Syzygy
1908
Was anyone who got the $20 off of game purchase coupon@Kmart for buying Civ 5 (discussed there a few weeks back) unable to redeem the coupon on Fallout: NV? Even though mine is valid until 10/23 it wouldn’t go through, and of course the employees had no idea why. Their best guess was that I was trying to buy the PC version which doesn’t count as full price. Doesn’t make sense as Civ 5 is PC…
I take back what I said about not having any technical problems. Lost my saves completely, and the game reverted to a quick/auto that was five hours old.
I think I’m gonna have to walk away from this one.
Syzygy
1910
Answering my own question if it helps anyone. I found here at CAG that this is a known issue and should supposedly be fixed tomorrow.
flyinj
1911
Wait what? All your manual saves are completely gone? What the hell! Did the game crash? How did you find them missing?
I started the game again (after quitting normally) and they were gone. Checked this thread:
and tried the things suggested in it, but they didn’t work.
My theory is that Steamcloud is overwriting your save folder with an older version, no matter what. I tried deleting my (now worthless) save folder entirely and found that even with Steamcloud turned off, it put the old, crappy saves back in place.
I’m going to recommend that if you simply must play this before they fix the Steamcloud/save issues that you alt-tab out and manually back up your save files regularly. They’re in My Documents/My Games.
Oh man, the SPECIAL attribute descriptions are hilarious. I chuckled. This is already better than Fallout 3.
I specified the Caravan Pack from Wal-Mart but received the code for the Classic Pack instead. Apparently Gamestop pre-orders got the wrong packs also, in some cases, or the code won’t redeem.
Jafisob
1915
I did the same earlier this evening. It was my favorite FNV moment so far.
My least favorite moment, losing my quick saves. However, thanks to the warnings in this thread I was saving often to non-quick save slots. Did Obsidian have no clue that people losing hours of game play due to a technical snafu was going to irritate customers?
Anyways, after 6 hours of PC play I have had two crashes. Am I ahead of the curve?
Except for the technical problems, I am enjoying the game.
stusser
1916
I just finished playing for 7 hours straight with 0 crashes. Totally smooth, no major bugs except for a gecko stuck in a rock. I just checked and my savegames (including quick/autosaves) are still intact too.
I did all the stuff I posted earlier; disabled AA/AF, forced them on in the CC control panel, disabled steamcloud, and played the game as normal.
MattB
1917
In store Best Buy didn’t have my CE either (Apparently there was a different pre-order pack for them) but they were available through BB’s website this morning. (I’d check again, but their website is down right now.)
Ah, ok, that’s good to know. I’m not too keen on ordering through them online because I hate to hand Best Buy money in spite of their screw up. I’m hoping Amazon gets some more in or I stumble upon one at GameStop or something.
jeffd
1919
Well I think I ran into my first bug. After eating a few facefulls of buckshot, an NPC corpse disappeared. Said corpse had on it, I believe, the key to a locked door.
So, give this one a pass until Obsidian gets time to finish their work?
