That Latest Fallout: New Vegas Patch for Xbox 360? Yeah, Don't Install It

Glad I play on the PC. Sucks for everyone on the 360 version, though.

Ouch.

Oh Obsidian.

No wonder it was released buggy when they still have trouble fixing it months after release.

A patch for the game! a patch for the patch! a patch for the patch for the patch..

Damn I installed it but things are working fine. It did tell me that the Dead Money DLC no longer existed.... I suppose that's my punishment for buying it in the first place.

Silver lining to PSN being offline. Crazy people can't break your game saves until May 3rd at the earliest.

Doesn't Microsoft have lengthy approval procedures for patches? I mean, plenty of developers complain about the length of time MS takes to approve updates to games. I specifically remember the Super Meat Boy update not arriving on consoles for many weeks after Team Meat said they had submitted it to MS, and every time they were asked, they said it was on MS, not them. So how did this slip though? Surely if MS are doing such lengthy tests, shit like this shouldn't happen.

So don't install the patch that is required or else you can't be logged into Xbox Live?

Gamebryo Engine. Gamebryo Engine never changes.

Come on. This was on the forums for some time. It seems a bit off when you see news on the forums before you see it from journalists.

"Glad I play on the PC. Sucks for everyone on the 360 version, though.

Is this a crash bug for the 360 itself, or just for the New Vegas bootup?

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The game will load up fine.  The problem is with loading your saved games.  As soon as you do an error message about not having some of the DLC required for that game pops up (which is hilarious because I never bought the DLC).  If you ignore the error and continue loading the game will freeze on the loading screen.

My impression is that you can start a new game, but I don't really feel like replaying those 20-30 hours I put in already.

Good QA testing!

The patch work just fine, it's just that you can't load your current save file because of DLC error, and if you continue to load it will freeze the game. I had no problem starting a new game because, truly, this patch is a god send because of the performance optimizations.

You'd think the ability to patch games post launch would help improve games not make them more buggy.

@patrickklepek:    That's right: a patch for a patch! Such if the age of games we live in, apparently, though one has to wonder how a botched patch survived both development and certification without anyone catching this bad boy.

Bethesda: This is why people don't like you. It's because of stuff like this.

Too bad as I did this & seeing the same amount of lockups as before now with messages of DLC not being available. Would have liked it if they did the DLC support/variety for this like Fallout3, seems at times that they moved on past doing more for this game.

Such irresponsible garbage. I guess that ridiculous two-week patch certification process is meaningless too.

Don't mention the patch's eye...

I ERASED MY FUCKING GAME BECAUSE OF THIS! GODDAMMIT

THIS SHIT IS LIKE INCEPTION OR SOME SHIT

" Silver lining to PSN being offline. Crazy people can't break your game saves until May 3rd at the earliest."

Bethesda has the most buggy engine I've ever seen.

Bethesda/Obsidian could probably find a way to red ring a ps3.

Goddamnit Obsidian...

The PC version is worlds better than at launch, but I still have a hard time convincing myself to play it anymore. I *really* want to like it as much as I liked Fallout 3, but... meh. It just feels off somehow. If I had the 360 version and lost my save because of this, I'd swear off the game for good.

Yo dawg...

Christ, how can one game still be so fucking buggy. 

What did a ghoul ever do to you?

@ HatKing
Oh, I see now why I was able to play the game after the patch - I started a new game instead of loading the old one started months ago. It was only one hour of play anyway.

BUT that doesn't mean I didn't encounter problems. I have a Brazilian X360 set to English instead of Portuguese, and now the game displays a number of dialog options and HUD lines in... Spanish! 
At first I thought it was due to Dead Money, which I bought but haven't played yet. But even simple, standard dialog options - such as the 'Goodbye' one in almost every conversation - come out in Spanish sometimes. Fortunately Spanish and Portuguese are similar enough I can understand the messed up lines, but it's still... Well, messed up :)

Heres hoping the next fallout is on a new engine..

" @extremeradical: the patch stuff still works... i downloaded it last night on the PS3 "

This is the buggiest game I've ever played. Would've been a brilliant game if it worked like it was supposed to. I have an unhealthy amount of animosity towards it.

I really like Bethesda games (Fallout3 in particular) but they have a horrible track record of patches and DLC being broken on XBLA.

I'm beginning to think that the internet hates us ...

 Patching. Patching never changes.

If you already got the update, you can delete it from your Memory>Hard Drive>Games> Fallout New Vegas folder (it is Title Update #3). This fixed everything for me and my girlfriend. However, I have heard some people saying it can corrupt your saves too, so hopefully you can fix your issue before the game breaks your saves.

Goddamn am I pleased I saw this. Was about to get back into Fallout this evening and i've got a save which is over 200hrs old. 

Wow I was actaluly going to go play some FONV, I so glad I saw this.

" Bethesda: This is why people don't like you. It's because of stuff like this. "