What breaks in New Vegas gets patched in New Vegas

by Richard Mitchell on Oct 21st 2010 11:07AM

An automatic update has been released for the PC version of Fallout: New Vegas. Without offering any specifics, the Bethesda Blog states that the update "resolves quest and scripting issues." Of course, doing anything to fix the game's many technical problems has to be a positive step, right? Bethesda is working on releasing the update for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of New Vegas "as soon as possible."

Apart from the patch, Bethesda has also released the G.E.C.K. Editor for the PC version of New Vegas, which allows players to create their own characters, locations, dialogue and game scenarios. You can grab it from the Fallout downloads page, and it should be available via Steam "shortly."

Source: Bethesda Blog

Tags: Bethesda-Softworks, Fallout-New-Vegas, microsoft, patch, pc, playstation, ps3, update, xbox

Reader Comments (58)

Did they fix the problem with save files and Steam Cloud? God I hope so.

@Operator
They patched the PC version first, so they may have.

@Operator
they didn't. this helps, but doesn't fix the NPC fps drop issue and removes some of the random crashes, mine hasn't randomly crashed since the update at least. but a quest item did fall through the map, i'm still waiting for them to fix that...

Faout New Vegas sounds like it would be very messy

New Vegas is messy, but hopefully this solves some issues. I keep dozens of save points because I'm so neurotic about the game locking up on me in a certain spot. This happened in Fallout 3 and there was nothing that I could do about it but go back like 4 or 5 hours of playtime to a previous save and play through again... which was a major drag. Desperately hoping this doesn't happen to me with New Vegas, but so far, there have been more glitches with NV than Fallout 3 for me... so I'm not optimistic.

@The Albatross
Were you on Pc or Console?
I've never played fallout before, so I'm not familiar with all the bugs, and I'm on an xbox 360. Wondering if I should start saving every so often

@HeriocZebra Regardless of tech issues, you should definitely save every so often in Fallout. I remember a time I had wandered the wastelands for like an hour, and had a deathclaw come out of nowhere. I ran away...right into a pack of raiders. I died, and had to retrace my steps.

@HeriocZebra I'm on 360, btw. Been getting a lot of intermittant .. 3-sec freezes approaching New Vegas.

Awe... they're going to take away this awesomeness?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKIkw3LIoQ

Fear and Loathing in New Vegas

@cic

I recognize that old-timer's voice! That's Michael Hogan (Saul Tigh from Battlestar Galactica)!

I keep 5 different saves, along with the auto save file, at all times. I save in a different slot each time in case one would get glitched or corrupted, this way I have 5 saves each with about 20-40 min of playtime between them in case I would ever need to reload an earlier save

So patches aren't a timed exclusive for 360?

@Pure Black World Tendency ZING!

@Pure Black World Tendency Nice!

Also, is it just my screen or are the comments that have 3 stars, no longer blue? Maybe I missed something.

@Voshempa
You may want to see your optometrist.

@Brando Calrissian I was at Best Buy earlier and noticed the blue was on the comments using their iPad. I changed my color settings but everything seems fine except I'm not seeing the blueness. I don't get it. I did a Java update and a Flash un/reinstall before, too, so who knows. Thanks for the clarification.

I love how they say we will let you know the dates when the PS3 and Xbox 360 update will be available. I keep getting a message that games will not load because DLC is not available anymore. I am on the console and I never downloaded the DLC that came with my game. Bums me out that I can not play my game.

@spookym15 Play it offline then dude..

@ShadowMonkey987

I tried it wont work.

@spookym15 I had the same problem last night. When it stopped giving me that error my Autosave file would no longer open, froze on load every single time.

Bye bye to 5 hours of play time. Back to saving manually every hour.

has anyone experienced the glitch where it will lift your gun and arms up higher than usual in fps mode?

@xbashingx Yes, this happens all the time to me and I can't figure out why. I usually go into "zoom" and then unzoom to get it to stop.

@xbashingx
Yes very frequently. Super annoying.

Is it still bad? I've been waiting for it be properly patched to purchase the game. I got burned on Civ 5- not this time!

@HaloisthemostOverratedGameEver Just a future warning - games with large amounts of content like New Vegas and Civilization 5 often ship with a few kinks!

The first step is dealing with it.

Good, this game is a mess! I honestly don't understand why it's getting such high scores. With all the bugs and the feeling of "been here, done that". This game doesn't deserve any higher than a 7.5...

I also think it shouldn't cost $59.99! It's like Halo 3:ODST to me, a glorified expansion. Sigh, I know the down votes are coming, but I had to vent. I was playing for five hours then ran into a game breaking bug lol :(

@DeeZeee Every single game is going to have bugs and glitches dude it's a god given fact..

@ShadowMonkey987 I'm aware of that, but this game has way too many. I think developers are starting to take patches for granted. Is it so hard to ship a game that just works like it's supposed to?

What about the people that don't have their console hooked up to the internet? There's no excuse, it's sloppy. A few glitches are expected, but this game almost feels broken at certain parts.

@ShadowMonkey987

Yeah but we're not talking about a few little glitches here and there. We're talking game breaking stuff here. That's not excusable. I loved Fallout 3, but come on.

@DeeZeee Bah, saying it's a glorified expansion is ridiculous. It's got around a hundred hours of gameplay. New place, new questline, 30 levels.

The bugs are lame, I agree...but reviewers don't take those into account, especially knowing that a game can be patched.

But sorry that your game got messed up.

@DeeZeee
In this day and age, there is no excuse to not have your xbox or playstation hooked up to the internet at all times.

@Petebot330
reviewers no longer use a retail version of the games they review , they use a special version that the game company has sent them. its close to the retail version but its not. this is done so the the website or magazine can be the first to have a review up. egm magazine used to not review any game till after they bought it from a store but even they had to stop that just to stay in business

Does this mean the game is out of beta and ready for general use?

lolololololol. awesome!

You know what's awesome? The community fixed all the major system errors, they're just releasing quest and script fixes for now (since it applies to ALL versions). Makes sense I guess.

From what I hear it breaks more than it fixes on the PC. Haven't tried it yet. I hear saves are still fubar. Will try it for myself later tonight.

Like someone said, "Open Letter to Obsidian : Thank you for allowing us to be in the Fallout : New Vegas Open Beta!"

Great Band-Aid placement, Rich.

Also, any game made by Obsidian will have way more bugs than others.

Not having to worry about being gang-raped in an early area would be nice. I got ambushed by four radscorpions last night and while I was busy running for my life four feral ghouls decided to join in the party, and I was only near Fort Mojave at Level 4. What the Christ.

@Faceless Troll
yup attacked by two giant radroaches, then ants, then like 10+ powder gangers all in the matter of minutes on the I15 at only like lvl 5 or 6. Thankfully Im not playing hardcore on this run.

@Faceless Troll
Yeah i was walking minding my own i come across this pass called plamer pass or whatever im Lv what like 5 so keep that in mind so im walking and BAM i see some weird creature behind a rock i thought it was one of those big-horned sheep things but i was wrong oh god was i wrong trying to figure out what it was i go into V.A.T.S and what does the name say Blind Death-claw so being the sane person that I am I decide to run like someone's playing Run To The Hills and what do you know i got captain K'nuckles on my ass i take three steps and the death claw is already in my face. Now if you cant guess what happend next I'll give you a hint it involved my ass,rape,and no lube.

I'm eagerly awaiting the console patch. No patch, no buy.

Sure most of us here know about patches, and have our consoles online, but what about the average people who don't? They get stuck with a broken game that they paid full price for?

Not good. Not good at all. There's no excuse. Oblivion is 4 years old now, and it ran smoothly without any errors. After Fallout 3 and all of the DLCs, they still can't get the engine to run properly at release time?

Fallout: New Beta!

They're both very admirable development houses, but with the, uh, "magic touch" Bethesda and Obsidian both seem to possess, who didn't expect this? These people have proven that they will never be able to publish a thoroughly polished game. Sure, it is due in large part to the scope of their games, but if only they could test more adamantly and thoroughly...

I'll still pick it up, eventually.

For some reason every time I continue my game it uses an auto-save that happened in the beginning of the game. I freak out a little and just hope that my save is still there to load. Still don't know why that particular auto save loads even though I have had countless more.

My xbox 360 copy arrived in the mail 20 minutes ago.

The disc was defective upon arrival. I couldn't even boot the game up.

I got the worst bug of all.

First person to release a higher-res texture pack wins!!!*

*prize to be determined.

I'm only about eight hours into the game on my Xbox, but I haven't noticed any major glitches yet. I can't figure out if I've just been lucky or if I just haven't gotten far enough into the game yet.

The bugs associated with this game are just ridiculous. I am deciding whether to wait for these patches before I continue playing. I really like this game, but freezing three times within 5 hours of gameplay is absolutely unacceptable, I can remember maybe once or twice when fallout 3 froze over the 100+ hours I played it. They shouldn't have released the game in the state it's in, I almost regret buying it on day one.

Does this fix the audio error I've been getting? Every once in a while I will get a really really loud static sound that kills my ears and I just have to wait and it goes away within a minute usually.

@(Unverified)

That's probably not a Fallout bug. Sounds more like an issue with your sound output to your TV.

At least, I've had a similar issue in the past. I changed the audio settings from Dolby Digital 5.1 to Digital Stereo and it went away. This was on the 360, though I'm sure that type of issue isn't console specific.

I've only had a chance to play for about 2 hours on 360, but haven't experienced any bugs yet, somehow. I'm sure they're waiting for me, drooling at the chance to make me scream! It is Halloween, after all. Maybe this was on purpose, a trick not a treat!

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