@sixpin: True that. I have always been pretty on the edge ever since I read the article about the guards in Oblivion killing prisoners for their food because they were hungry.
I recently had to move all my Novac stuff to my Presidential Suite. Took me about 5 trips while using ED-E as a mule.
@sixpin: I never use open world containers for anything I want to keep. Just because the AI is built so that if a character needs something, they will go get it from the environment. Like if you shoot the gun out of a bad guys hands, they will pick up the nearest weapon. I have seen NPCs pick up my stuff in Oblivion, Fallout 3 and I don't want to see it happen in NV. I would suggest using Victor's shack as a base of operations since he cannot physically use any of your belongings and his house has plenty of spots to put things.
Let's put it into perspective here shall we? Got the game at midnight release and played daily since then, 1 or 2 one to eight hour sessions each day. Already have a save file with 45 hours logged. I had one system freeze night one (forced restart, worked fine the next day). That Thursday, had back to back system freezes that occurred after some obscure bugs that involved no interface showing up for lock picking or vendors. Friday I played for about an hour and had 10 hour setback involving bad judgement on my part and lack of saving (companion died and I need them on Hardcore mode). Saturday and Sunday were fine. Monday had some glitches and a freeze. Tuesday had a really bad lock up and some horrible framerates. Wednesday..... I downloaded the patch. Buttons stop working (mostly VATS or the menu button). Sometimes when trading items mods will go missing from weapons, quantities will change, values will change, and conditions will as well. I have had terrible frame rates in closed spaces such as the Crimson Caravan base or the Followers of the Apocalypse base, while in the open waste it is fine. Had 3 major lock-ups in the game during fairly light parts of the game (talking to Mr. House, finalizing a trade, switching between 2 close targets in VATS).
So disappointing. It is as if the patch made things worse for me. I know it is not likely since the patch has been released for mostly scripting issues... While the trading issues are understandable, all the other stuff is just bad luck I guess. What sucks is my character has 10 luck. This shouldn't be happening...
The most annoying one I encountered was towards the Nelis AFB. When that guy who makes a living on people marching to their deaths tells you how to get to the front gate. The way I was walking had left it so that when the convo ended, I was looking at a wall that seemed to have a oath running up to a flat spot that could potentially land me at the front gate. So I hopped up there just to find an invisible wall about a foot in from the edge. Made no sense to me. It was clearly a path, the color was a bit lighter showing the area was heavily trafficked.
It is so frequent that sort of thing happens. Just minding my own business, jumping around the wasteland and climbing on heaps of rubble, then one of them just won't let me jump to the top. Or paths in buildings... they will be blocked by a bit of junk on the floor about shin high. Really love this game, but it does have it's flaws.
In Nipton there is a house that was destroyed and in front of it there are two burnt corpses, Beru and Owen. They are Luke Skywakka's aunt and uncle. Me and my roommate got a good laugh out of it.
@The_Laughing_Man: While I understand what you mean, it is something I think people anticipate when dealing with anyone online. It is somewhat expected nowadays. Rules are rules, but I do see this as a chance that some people don't mind taking. It is only a pre-order code.
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