Fallout NV Old World Blues is so buggy I stopped playing

[Googenstien]

That is why Skyrim is a wait to buy option no matter what.. chances are it will release buggy and with issues

 

[Coller]

Had no problems at all, explored pretty much every nuck and cranny of the place, and i'm using the sink as my new safehouse, and didn't have any problem with the dlc.

 

[Hybridwolf]

No bugs, but some really nasty load times. I also did wonder if the HP for everything was a bit high, but I remembered Point Lookout had something similar so I just got on with it. Only thing I did get thinking back was the first time I loaded it, it crashed, but it was a one off. Also, a quest got completed for me, so I guess that's good?

 

[mexicola]

Yes it crashes on me too about every 20 minutes, not on quick travel just at random moments. Main game used to crash too but nowhere near this often. I guess it depends on your machine? Not whether you can run the game properly but some arcane coincidences with hardware/software that decide whether it will crash every minutes or be absolutely stable like some people claim it to be.

 

[Wayneguard]

It froze a lot, but then again what do you expect from Bethesda/Obsidian?

Didn't the CEO of Obsidian specifically say that their main goal for all subsequent releases was stability and lack of bugs? I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that he said that after apologizing for New Vegas's bugs. But you're right... Obsidian.... seriously guys...

Absolutely no problems what so ever. In fact I haven't had any issues with any Bethesda or Obsidian games

Then you have not played many Obsidian games sir. Just try running Kotor 2 on windows 7... (I used the fucking kotor 1 .dll like everyone said AND IT STILL WON"T PLAY FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF). Or NWN2 with a dual core. God dammit I love Obsidian games but they're SO FUCKING BUGGY and not futureproofed at all.

How the fuck do you futureproof stuff like this? you're essentially asking them to provide compatibility for billions of possibilities, it in no way is feasible and most of the time all you can rely on is that they'll provide it with re-releases or that modders will fix it.

Considering that the vanilla Descent: Freespace (a game developed for Windows 95) runs without a hitch on literally any modern system configuration or that Disciples, a game developed by a low budget, near-indie studio runs perfectly fine as well; I am confident that a big budget studio like Obsidian is up to the task of creating products that last more than one software generation.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

It was horribly buggy, as NV has been for me in general. At least that's true on PC. I haven't played through it on 360 (haven't had spare money to buy something I own for another system), but the main game was much more stable, and I'd be surprised if that didn't hold true for DLC. Going by what I did play of the PC though, it was awful. Half the time I couldn't fast travel, it would choose to crash just for fun (though that seems to be the standard for that game) and it was just generally a buggy mess.

But it's a buggy mess that I loved.

Be thankful you didn't play it on the 360. As I have this game for both the 360 and PC, I can say outright that the former is pure torture to play because when the game froze, it took for-freaking-ever to power/log in to Xbox Live/start game/load game. Oh dear god, loads and loads of loading, even for the most mundane of fast travels and something so simple as entering a building. I even have this game installed on my 360 HDD and it is still very slow (and it crashed more than if it wasn't installed).

Yeah, this game crashes on my PC, but I can ctrl-alt-del my way out, uninstall the mod that's causing me pain and restart the game. And I've had no problems with Old World Blues, lucky me.

 

[Irridium]

It's an Obsidian developed game built on a buggy-ass engine that was bug-tested by Bethesda.

The fuck did you think it would be like?

Anyway, I'm on the PC so most bugs have been fixed by mods. So yeah.

 

[Hawgh]

It hasn't increased the number of crashes over standard NV for me. Then again, it's not a great standard.

 

[Echo136]

That is why Skyrim is a wait to buy option no matter what.. chances are it will release buggy and with issues

First off, New Vegas was made by Obsidian, not Bethesda, and Skyrim isnt going to be using the same engine as Fallout 3 and Oblivion. Your making that decision based off of nothing.

 

[sms_117b]

Old world blues is the only one I've not had a problem with.....go figure

 

[TastySurvivor]

I never had problems with Old World Blues. I did have lots of crashes and freezes with the main game before the patches.

 

[NotAPie]

The game only froze like twice or three times, one of those times I tried hitting dynamite with a golf club in V.A.T.S (Go ahead try it!)
The DLC's also never fucked up on me.

 

[Airsoftslayer93]

Didnt have any problems with OWB

 

[dancinginfernal]

Only bugs I encountered in all of F:NV was an occasional crashing, which wasn't a problem because it occurs after I played some 5 hours of it. I tend to think of it as the game telling me to start doing something practical.

Or have dinner. Delicious dinner.

 

[MuppeTeN]

I played the other 2 DLC and never had problems thankfully.

 

[otakon17]

I lucked out. The most things I had to deal with is the Cap limit glitch with The Sink CIU while bartering(it won't give you money if you sell it items while it's cap count is at 65535 or so), and the map markers disappearing off your compass(has done that to me 2 times, once at Big MT and again at Zion National Park). Pretty damn fun for myself and good loot to boot!

 

[Echo136]

If quicksave doesn't work and the game crashes at every second fast travel, I'd be inclined to say the problem lies with you, not the DLC.

The DLC is fine for me. I'd check for problems with your RAM or HDD.

So then your saying something is wrong with my PS3. my Fallout New Vegas litterally crashed every 30 seconds (edit: err, meant 30 minutes. huge difference but still seriously annoying.), and the PS3 was brand new right out of the box. Huh, imagine that.

 

[Googenstien]

That is why Skyrim is a wait to buy option no matter what.. chances are it will release buggy and with issues

First off, New Vegas was made by Obsidian, not Bethesda, and Skyrim isnt going to be using the same engine as Fallout 3 and Oblivion. Your making that decision based off of nothing.

So are you. I am going by track record