Bethesda plans to drop patches for all three versions of the game.
Fallout: New Vegas has a bug or two. There are crash bugs, animation bugs, scripting bugs, and even bugs that make dogs moonwalk. But while the game has issues, it's important to note that it's still a really good game. It's just, you know, buggy and will often test your ability to ignore flaw.
This will change with time. Speaking with us this morning, Bethesda PR man Pete Hines confirmed that Bethesda is working on patches and updates for all three versions of the game. Specific announcements about these patches are coming, too.
"We are currently working on releasing patches/updates as quickly as possible for Fallout: New Vegas, for all platforms," Hines said via e-mail. "Announcements regarding the patches are forthcoming."
== TEASER ==Numerous bug videos are hitting YouTube at the moment, as players are actively uploading their favorites. I'm partial to the moonwalking dog video, but The Exorcist rotating-head vid is pretty rad as well. What a way to welcome someone in the game, eh? Anyway, I've embedded these clips just below if you'd like to take a gander. I suppose you could also try to experience hitches yourselves in our own copies of the game, but you better do it fast.
Has anyone (especially playing on a console) run into any actual crashing/game breaking bugs? The uncertainty about that is what's preventing me from making a decision about getting this. I can deal, to a certain extent, with random glitches and jank, but not a game that will straight up not run properly. Moonwalking dog = cool. Game seizing up after playing for a few hours = not cool.
Well I've only played a little over two hours and haven't encountered any bugs or glitches. Though when I was following the girl with the dog she frequently stopped for a second and then kept running. Not a big deal.
I have yet to run into any bugs, awesome or otherwise. Only a couple of hours in though. The rotating head should be the normal opening sequence though, that was awesome.
While waiting to get bugs patched sounds nice. From a sales perspective, getting the game out ahead of the oncoming onslaught of games is probably worth more than the mixed press the bugs are giving the. Despite the bugs, it's still got a good meta-score. And if they delayed it, they'd be competing with Fable 3, Kinect, Call of Duty. There is a major release every week right now.
We've had this conversation before. Competent QA people abound. It's the dev's & pub's call to say whether they will or won't fix something in time for gold code. "Broken but good." is the mantra I'm seeing all over the blogs and twitter... "Same but better." And look at all the free YouTube PR...
Other developers are taking notes. This will happen again.
" I predict an unofficial fan patch for this game. Before New Vegas, there was Oblivion and Fallout 3. When will Bethesda hire competent playtesters? "
I highly doubt this was a problem caused by the QA department. I think the guys in the Bombcast were pretty spot on: The game runs on an engine that is jacked as hell and they know the game will sell even with those bugs ... so why not release it, take a deep breath and fix the bugs they find the most youtube videos about? "
While shipping games with ridiculous amounts of bugs is certainly one of Bethesda's core principles, it's not something new for the Fallout series - Fallout 1 and 2 - developed and published by Black Isle/Interplay - were also fundamentally broken at launch, and even after 13 years of fan patches, a lot of ridiculous bugs remain - like important quest characters randomly getting out of the map boundaries so you can't finish story quests. One of the most famous bugs in Fallout 2 when it was released was that the car you'd get a couple of hours into the game wouldn't always keep the stuff you put into the trunk, occasionally the whole back half of the car would disappear.
I guess Bethesda goes even further back with that stuff, considering Daggerfall was released a couple of years before the first Fallout and shipped with extremely game breaking bugs - like having dungeons that you could enter, but that had no exits. So you'd be stuck there forever!
All the buginess of Bethesda titles mean that you should never get them on launch, and never get them on anything but the PC - since that's the only platform that has a fan community that will make unofficial patches long after Bethesda drops support (they dropped support for Oblivion 2 years ago, there's still a fan community for that, but more impressive is that the fans still are developing patches and huge updates for Morrowind, which is 9 years old).
What platforms are these bugs on? Because I have not had a lot of problems with my PC version, bought off of Steam. I did have a few animation glitches, but only one CTD so far...knock on wood.
I do not give a shit about patches fixing any weird animation stuff until they fix the fact that on a good deal of steam copies of the game, autosaves and quicksaves do not work properly. This would not be so much of a problem if it wasn't for the fact that the game crashes randomly. I understand that there are workarounds but jesus christ.
@darkjester74 Same, no problems on steam version except animation glitches. Common one is white flashes and powder gangers in the air. No crashes so far, 6 hours in.
The bugs in Fallout 3 were easy to avoid if you kept a stockpile of saves, about 15 and saved every five minutes at the max, even shorter time intervals if I was hurt or going through an important section of the game, like meeting that ex-Brotherhood of Steel guy at the end of the pit DLC.
I played Fallout 3 from day one on my PC and have no bitterness like a large majority of other people do towards the glitches. That's not to say that a lot of them should've been fixed, but I wasn't affected by them.
Obsidian should have a dedicated team just for fixing bugs and releasing patches as this will not be the only patch, I hear people are suffering from corrupt saves as well. I'll still buy it though.
On PC, I witnessed a bug where a scorpion was shaking, stuck in the ground, I was still able to kill it though. Framerate is erratic. I would have areas with 140 fps, then turn around and it would suddenly drop to 12 fps, and there is no real difference in the number of models on screen. The original Fallout 3, I had no problems THAT severe. Hopefully this gets fixed soon. Video drivers all updated, etc.. All other games run fine.
" Will probably get this on PC eventually. Sounds like it is more interesting than Fallout 3, which is good, because that game didn't do a lot for me. "
I'd be careful with this one if Fallout 3 didn't do anything for you. It seems like it has the potential to me more interesting, but it's also A LOT of the same.
I know that I'm supposed to be all "awesome! They're good guys and fixing this right away! Hurrah!", but part of me can't help but think about an entire generation of videogames that are going to be quickly fucking useless, because as soon as the 360 ceases being supported, the only game content you're going to have is what's on the disk. If what's ont he disk is horribly broken, that's the game you're stuck with.
Come on guys, you shouldn't rush out an obviously buggy game. Of course bugs are nothing new to the Fallout franchise. Fallout 2 players might remember the crashing and a patch that ERASED ALL YOUR SAVE GAMES.
" I know that I'm supposed to be all "awesome! They're good guys and fixing this right away! Hurrah!", but part of me can't help but think about an entire generation of videogames that are going to be quickly fucking useless, because as soon as the 360 ceases being supported, the only game content you're going to have is what's on the disk. If what's ont he disk is horribly broken, that's the game you're stuck with. "
By the time that happens the game is old enough for you to buy it cheap on PC and I'm sure even the cheapest PC would be able to run the game by then.
That crazy floating, head spinning NPC freaked me out!
I have played the game for 5+ hours now and have not run into any bugs at all. I am playing the PC version. It's kind of funny because after reading Jeff's review I was actually hoping to run into a couple of bugs and glitches just for the lols but no such luck... my game seems to be working properly (for now).
I'm gonna have nightmares tonight about that Doc Mitchel one. Also is that Michael Hogan voicing him? Sure sounds like him. Yes I watched all of Battlestar Galactica :D
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