Fallout New Vegas love/hate, It's like sliding into a warm, bubbly bath. Full of piranha. Options

[Atty]

Anyone else playing this at the mo?

Picked it up for xbox360 and it's such a strange game. It's so full of great ideas, great quests, great story, etc. but has some of the worst bugs I have ever seen in a game. Technical crapiness and crashing aside, there are about a billion quest scripting bugs, AI glitches that make crazy stuff happen and a total lack of balance or polish on big chunks of the game.

I've still put about 80 hours into it so far and have almost got to the end, but i've also come up against literally dozens of almost game breaking bugs that I could only recover from by going back to an earlier save and finding out how to avoid them in the first place.

Obsidian have a dreadful track record for exactly this sort of thing and it looks like not much has changed.

[Chisel]

Did I get shipped a different version to you guys (playing on PC)? Aside from a few crashes after several hours of play I've found no major bugs at all, a few minor quest glitches and the usual floating rocks due to the procedurally generated terrain but that's all, the only time I've had to reload a save is when I've died horribly.

[Atty]

Did I get shipped a different version to you guys (playing on PC)? Aside from a few crashes after several hours of play I've found no major bugs at all, a few minor quest glitches and the usual floating rocks due to the procedurally generated terrain but that's all, the only time I've had to reload a save is when I've died horribly.

You need to play for longer than a few hours to experience many of the bugs as they are linked to quests not triggering, triggering incorrectly and becoming unfinishable.

The companion AI also goes screwy as hell and it's easy to lose them alltogether.

I wish I had got the PC version now, this sucks donkey balls. It's a real shame as underneath all the bollocks there is a genuinely great game.

[Chisel]

You need to play for longer than a few hours to experience many of the bugs as they are linked to quests not triggering, triggering incorrectly and becoming unfinishable.

The companion AI also goes screwy as hell and it's easy to lose them alltogether.

I wish I had got the PC version now, this sucks donkey balls. It's a real shame as underneath all the bollocks there is a genuinely great game.

I'm playing on an Nvidia card (GTX470) and it displays fine, the only issues I've had have been very rare crashes which are probably card related since the GTX470 likes overheating and my dodgy temperature control hacking can only do so much, really need to get me a 3rd party cooler for it.

As for quest issues when I say few hours I mean per play session, I've totalled several days of play time in total and not had any quest triggering issues, some of the triggers aren't always obvious, but that's a not really an issue as I see it, I've never had any fail to trigger when I've actually completed the objective.

Companion AI is a bit screwy, I'll give you that, but hardly game breaking, just need to occasionally tell them to wait and follow again to get them back in line is all I've found, but then I am on the PC version.

[=R6= Raile]

I'm playing on an Nvidia card (GTX470) and it displays fine, the only issues I've had have been very rare crashes which are probably card related since the GTX470 likes overheating and my dodgy temperature control hacking can only do so much, really need to get me a 3rd party cooler for it.

As for quest issues when I say few hours I mean per play session, I've totalled several days of play time in total and not had any quest triggering issues, some of the triggers aren't always obvious, but that's a not really an issue as I see it, I've never had any fail to trigger when I've actually completed the objective.

Companion AI is a bit screwy, I'll give you that, but hardly game breaking, just need to occasionally tell them to wait and follow again to get them back in line is all I've found, but then I am on the PC version.

yeah but Chisel, as Atty said, have you played it for very long? the vid card issue is not a display problem, it's that the game gets terrible lag when multiple human characters are on screen. If you have gotten to the final quest of the starter town, and you aren't getting lag there, then you're fine. That scene for me was nearly unplayable.

[Chisel]

yeah but Chisel, as Atty said, have you played it for very long? the vid card issue is not a display problem, it's that the game gets terrible lag when multiple human characters are on screen. If you have gotten to the final quest of the starter town, and you aren't getting lag there, then you're fine. That scene for me was nearly unplayable.

As mentioned in that bit you quoted I've played a fair amount, at the moment I'm nearing the start of the end, I think. I've done pretty much every side quest I can find and now only have what I think are ending type final story quests to do. Certainly I've had many human characters on screen as I've been into the Vegas casinos.