hi, i apologize if this has been listed but ill write it here anyway. I am unable to start either of Raul Tajeda's or Craig Boone's companion quests. For Raul's I talk to ranger Andy and talk about his leg, but Raul will not talk about his story or history. For Boone's i have done more then the required history, but still nothing. I have killed Caesar, Vulpes Inculta, killed all of cotton cove, and freed the nelson crucifixions (along with other stuff for him, also talking to him after each time). I have gotten him to talk about what happened to his wife and bitter springs, but the damn quest still wont start. Other stuff i have noticed is minor (the Q-35 Unique plasma gun is somehow lockout to me, note that i didn't trip any alarms REPCONN and unlocked all computers and key cards.) Yea I am writing a lot so ill stop lol. The only ones that really upset me are the companion quests since i really want to upgrade Raul and Boone (my two favorite companions xD). Sorry for the wall xD.

P.S- I love the game though so Good Job on making an amazing game

I am currently on the quest "For the Republic, II" and am on the portion of the quest where I have to investigate the Omertas.

Well, when I go to their casino "Gomorrah" on the strip, the quest icon just sits in the lobby. And whoever I go and talk to in the casino has nothing NEW to say.

You see, when I first arrived to the strip (many saves and hours ago) I was doing side-quests along the strip, I did the "How Little We Know" quest, but when I lost fame on The Strip and karma from telling Big Sal that I got everything he needed , I quickly loaded a save I had just before telling him that. So now that I have to come back there for the main quest, I can't get do anything to progress further.

If I tell Sal that I got everything, it ends the "How Little We Know" quest, and then for the "For the Republic, II" quest it tells me to go back to Colonel Moore and lie about the Omerta's plan.


Can anyone help? I know others are experiencing this, so I know it isn't just me.

I've been experiencing increasingly frequent freezes that require hard restarts. It was only 3 or 4 in the first 5 days, then it was once an hour or so, and yesterday it was 5 times over the course of about an hour. I've felt pretty lucky so far that I haven't had it as bad as some people, but 5 times in an hour? That's unplayable.

I see stutters about every 30 steps that I take outside; I've found that if I back up, they subside more quickly. The "Wheel of Fortune" quest is bugged for me slightly differently than other people have documented - I have all the dialog choices with Boxcar, but there is only a single radiation suit and not the radiation suit cache in the Hidden Supply Cave. This might have been mentioned before, but I haven't seen it: When I play Caravan against Lacey or whatever her name is at Mojave Outpost, I can win more than she has available to spend when I trade with her. She tops off at about 8,500 caps, but I know I've taken close to 20,000 from her on multiple occasions. She seems to only a bet a percentage of what she has like all the other merchants that play, but it seems like the entire pot gets added to the number of caps I had before I bet. And of course creatures getting stuck in the ground or in rocks or falling through the ground during the kill animation.

I haven't even tried to go to The Strip yet.

Like a lot of other people, I also have lost a number of items in my inventory. The workaround I found for that is to dump eveything I'm carrying into ED-E and take it back. Everything I've noticed missing reappears. I assume this would work with any companion.

How in the hell did Sawyer let gamesas ship another QA nightmare to market with his franchise written all over it? My game file is so corrupted that the engine refuses to properly load the Vegas Strip whenver I try to enter it.

All I keep getting everytime is the black crash screen of death where only the soundtrack and background noise continue to play while my poor console is trapped in limbo and I have to kill the power, which is just as annoying
as when this crap happened regularly in FO3.

I'm just lucky it never corrupted my HDD from the 500 some times I had to hard-boot the PS3 because of FO3 and NV's tech hiccups. It's like patch 1.01 made the game 1% less buggy. Is anyone else here having this problem?
If so, let me know. Kind of infuriating to know my 16 days of playtime, item hoarding, and trophy chasing just got C-blocked by Gamebryo's idiot logic... >X(

Having problems with the weathered 10mm pistol. When equipping it, A large box appears around my character. Changing to 3rd person view reveals a large box with an exclamation mark. Any clue on what's wrong and why this is occuring??

I'm having this EXACT same problem every time I try to enter the vegas strip now, and have posted about it twice. I have deleted and reinstalled the game 3 times to no avail as well.

i've played NV for about 30 plus hours and i am now at the point in which you can finally enter the strip. i went to sell off some items, but whenever i fast travel to anywhere or enter any building, it'll go to the loading screen and then freeze and show just a black screen with music and other sounds still going on. so i decided to just make a item pile somewhere, but when i went to the menu and selected save, my game would freeze completely again. other than this and the usual crashes, the game with the patch has worked fine for me.

Think another posted but I have had the same issue, I've lost my companions after coming out of Lucky 38 the first time. I've looked all over New Vegas and I cant find them. The game also wont let me get any other companions to fill their spots. The build I made my chara, really counted on the companions I had to work without having to adjust the game to easy or very easy just to survive the rest of it, after 22 hours of play time this really a heart breaker.

Is there any way to fix the issue, or do I have to start the game over because my chara can't handle it on her own ?

i thought you were trolling, but after doing some google searches i see other people posting about this random completely unexplainable fix.

i can't seem to figure out what town i can buy this hat in. do you have more info on this?

also i have heard people saying that they have disabled autosave and it has corrected the problem, as well as enetering the strip via the monorail. i won't be able to try out these fixes until i get home tonight. if they work i will post here again.

well butter my biscuits

some potential work arounds for those attempting to enter the vegas strip and getting the black screen.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/New_Vegas_Strip

first off I haven't experienced many of the glitches that have been noted here, aside from the drop in framerate and the radscorpions being stuck in the ground, the one glitch that is really pissing me off is the fact that i can't hack any terminals what so ever!!!!! i've reinstalled the game and started a new game with and without the patch, and still the same issue exists. i've loaded previous saves and still the same i've uninstalled and reinstalled the game several times and started new games several time and nothing works!!!!! It would seem that this glitch is a positive because all terminals are automatically hacked and all you hear is the keyboard in the background, but i don't receive XP or the hack nor can i see what the options are, to unlock safes or open doors or turn off turrets.

If anyone knows of where i can get a list of options per terminal i can make them work...i don't need to read it as long as i know that a certain terminal is "2nd option", then "3rd option" from the top to reprogram ur security key to allow you access to the 3rd floor of REPCONN so that i can get the awsome plasma rifle!!!!! HELP!!!!!

I am having the same issue with Raul, I was able to trigger the story with Sterling and also Loyal but Ranger Andy will not trigger any response, he is the last one besides Arcade that havent finished and need more story to trigger Gannon.

As for Boone, I was having the same problem, altho I noticed his Bitter Spring dialouge was not available anymore ,didnt hit the cove yet, but after using other characters for awhile and I picked him back up to do some NCR quests I could ask himn about Bitter springs again, and after a few minutes he finally triggered his story.

Also with Raul, the only way to get him to repair stuff is to leave him as companion in his shack but soon as join up again even if in shack he gives that response that needs to goto shack to fix things. Which while I am at it, is kinda silly since Veronica can act as a portable crafting bench, why should Raul be hampered by this, if anything he should be able to get a toolbox from shack and then be portable repairer. And he doesnt even seem any cheaper than other smiths.

And the companion path AI is getting worse and worse the further I go. I am constantly doing quick travel back and forth to get them to follow me again but even telling them to go home just leaves them standing there, ED-E is the worst so far.

While I have enjoyed the story so far alot of these bugs are getting so irritating that it's starting to affect that enjoyment and where before they were minor headaches, now they are making the game feel like work jiust getting to the end, where before I took my time to explore, now just want it to end so I can put the game down, no replays either and doubt will get any addons because I still remember the buggy FO3 addons for ps3.....

I've been having freezing problems as well. Several hours in. Every time I try to equip a weapon it freezes, and my PS3 requires a hard-reset. Game is pretty worthless if I can't equip any weapons at all. Game never lasts more than 30 seconds so it's hard to judge what else is wrong. Tried uninstalling game data & reinstalling. Didn't help at all. I'm using an old fat ps3 80gb with an upgraded hdd. Software is up to date.

Wow. This is officially the most bugged and glitch filled game I've ever played - and I've been playing games avidly for about 15 years now. I know you won't flat out admit it, but its like you guys just slapped this together in the G.E.C.K. editor and just shipped it out without testing it. There is NO WAY to play through this game without encountering glitches and having it freeze. NONE. Nadda. Zip. Impossible. Not even feasible. Can I possibly emphasize this any further? The other day a child in Freeside knelt down to munch on the rat I shot, and slid across the floor on her knees in the most epic power slide ever (probably the only ... good?... glitch to occur). My companion went missing for an enormous amount of time - I eventually found her stuck inside a robot outside the strip. Random items disappear from my inventory at seemingly random intervals. The game freezes at least once every day I attempt to play it - KEY WORD ATTEMPT! Limbs are randomly not target-able in VATS. Random textures don't load. Not to mention the number of times I've entered a quest dialogue for a quest I don't have yet, or, worse yet, can't enter a quest dialogue for a quest I do have. I mean geez, I'll forgive some glitches, they're bound to happen, but the sheer number of them and amount of occurrences is astronomical. Its like you guys tried to put the glitches in. Its like an illiterate drunken hobo was programming this while smoking his own toenails. There's less holes in swiss cheese than there are in this code. There's simply too many for me to list, or detail, or even fathom. Thus, I'm going to take a snap shot of the game case and e-mail it to EPICFAIL.COM. They won't even need a caption for it to be funny. So yea, normally I would detail all of these to try to help you guys out - but sorry, you are beyond help.

My biggest problem with the game. If I spend more than 10 minuets at a time on the over world I.E. any place you can fast travel, the game will freeze. No matter what happens even reinstalling the game wouldn't fix it. The second I step outside, every 5 seconds or so everything will freeze for half a second, but after roughly 10 minuets without going into some building...CRASH. I can spend all the time in the world inside a building and the game wont crash. I mostly work around by having a 9 min timer I hit every time I go outside. If it beeps, I save and restart the game. It's a royal pain at the start of the game when you don't have many locations discovered or have to have a gunfight out there.

To BigWoopMagazine: I have a little vid of a legionnaire moon walking, it was funny.

I've experienced many of the problems listed in these forum replies, except one of the worst ones, the inability to enter the Strip (thankfully). One issue I'd like to report is the game keeps crashing whenever I approach or walk around Camp Forlorn Hope. As a result, I tend to avoid the camp and am unable to finish the quests there. If I reach a point where the game is stuck and I cannot finish it after 55 hours of play, I will never buy a Bethesda game new ever again. My PS3 is probably receiving a beating from the 5-10 hard shut downs each time I play the game. Screw Bethesda and the game critics who lauded this POS software. We've been had, folks.

When i got the ban message from the casinos in the strip, i never received the trophy/achievement.
I'll try and use a different character and see what happens. This reminds me of when FO3 first came out when it froze when people signed onto PSN.

Hello



I am playing Fallout new vegas.



I have sent various emails to bethesda but you are not getting back to me. Please let me know who i need to contact to help me or advise me onthe following issue.



Im doing the mission "Guess who i saw today" I have got to the part where Dr Henry is doing the test on Lilly and its bugged. It wont proceed any further. If i try and talk to the Doctor then he simply says "wait till i finish the test" or something to that effect. I have tried waiting for a few days and i have even left him and gone abd done other missions but he simply will not move forward with the mission.

I hhave read on other forums that many others have the same problem and they are using the GECK to fix it. However i am on a PS3 and therefor cannot use this.

Its very frustrating because i need Dr Henry to do quest "for old lang syne" and i really want to see what the enclave are going to be like.

I have emailed bethesda about 15 times and mentioned this on this forum before but i have had no response. This is unbelievable how much is going wrong with this game after reading these forums. Please get back to us all and let us know what to expect

Please let me know how you plan on fixing this bug because i looooooove fallout and its just such a shame that an otherwise perfect game is let down by such a small problem

kind regards

Gatano

So I was in the REPCONN HQ and got into the locked room behind the giftshop type room. There's a safe back there. It seemed like there were duplicate safes occupying the same spot. I picked one and looted it's contents (most of them) and then as my mouse was still hovering over the safe and it said locked again. So I picked the safe again and looted it's contents (different than before, so I took everything). Then as I moved around the safe I could see where it said "Open Safe" with "[EMPTY]" occasionally flickering on... so it's like overlapping safes. No big deal, but a glitch none-the-less.

I just had a new glitch screw everything up. Got past the "R2" and weapon freeze I was having. Then today I got past my load screen freeze by loading an earlier save. Next I couldn't use my right anolog stick. Tried switching controllers, no luck, reloaded game, no luck, loaded an earlier game, stick works again. WTF? then I try to pick a lock, and I can't see the lock. Nothing just a door and I try to pick the lock & just break picks. This is seriously frustrating. I just want my money back and they can keep this awful abomination that they're trying to pass as a game. You broke my heart Fallout...

I was seriously looking forward to Brink. Now.....not so much.

bug on weatherd 10mm pistol if you put laser sight on it you get ! in read square so u lose it and waist a mod

I'm having a problem with The Thorn that I bet on a match and the two combatants came out to fight and now they are just staring at each other. I wouldn't mind so much but it also means that I can talk to Red and continue my mission.

-Bought it launch day after a few hours I began to get intermittent lockups. Some times I get jumpy game-play for a second or two prior to the screen freezing sometimes there is no warning.
-I actually had the game crash out to the console screen once which I've never seen or even heard of on ANY console. One second I was shooting Caesar the next he gets in a lucky right cross and I fly across his pavilion slam into the wall and then the screen goes dark for a half second before I see my console screen as if I'd just turned the system on. Dang that guy hits hard! He knocked me back to reality! :-/
-I have seen a few stacking issues with multiple of the same item sometimes only looking like one (or sometimes just fewer than it should in the case of throwing spears) until I drop or sell drop or give away (or take in the case of my companion's inventory) what I can see then I find that the others are in my or my companion's inventory after leaving the screen and coming back.
----I didn't care much about any of that junk but now I've hit a game ending glitch it seems. Many people mentioned they cannot enter the strip I wonder if they aren't actually having the same issue as me which is that I cannot look at the Gomorrah casino. I went in Gomorrah once and came back out no problems but now..... If you take the north entrance to the strip you start out facing it and if I try this my game will either hang at the loading screen or finish loading and I get the black screen just before you can see, I hear ambient noise and hear the doors close behind me but then it's frozen. The same thing happens if I try to come OUT of the Lucky 38 as you start out facing Gomorrah. However I can take the monorail and enter via the south entrance. Once inside I can turn to face the Lucky 38 as you don't start out facing Gomorrah and I can run around and do anything while facing that way including go into the Lucky 38 but as I said then I cannot get back out.

On a lighthearted note one bug had noticed but that seems to be fixed or just went away is that if you had the Anti Material rifle with Incendiary rounds equipped and used VATS to target someone but then backed out without shooting at them they would catch on fire any way. I experimented and found that you could use that to kill people without ever going hostile to them or taking faction hits. I mean why be mad at you? They just spontaneously combusted when you looked at them. LOL

I really wish not to be just another "whiner"... however ...

Yes!! The absolute MAGNITUDE of the glitchiness I'm experiencing is amazing.

I've read some of the other posts, and yes this is YACP (yet another complaining post)!

Yes, I DO understand what it takes to develop software of the complexity apparent in the overall game play. I develop complex scenario simulation engines for AI applications. Its difficult and rewarding when you get it right.

Mine is not a complaint, even, about the game play. Yes there appear to be some bugs, but I can live with that...and patches..

However, the problems, beyond the gameplay glitch here and there are in some lower level aspect of the application.

I played FNV over a period of 12 hours yesterday, and it froze up on me 9 times. I've gleened a patterned, and I save frequently, however, its still NO less frustrating.

I will just mention that Im on a 250GB PS3... Ive had this box for over 4 months (or about) with about 65% disk space free. The only one freeze-up ever before was (White Knight Chronicles).

My son and daughter extolled the fun and challenge of the earlier Fallout episodes, as well as Oblivion...so I went for it.

Gameplay wise Im loving it...but with a TON, I mean TONS of frustration!

The game freezes randomly many times a day for me... some times back to back within 5 mins of rebooting my console. First comes the laggy-ness then wait stop running...wait for the disk light to stop flickering, now run...ok its fine...most times that works. But damn!!! Ya mean I cant even run without having to keep glancing at the disk access light? And even when I do pause and let the buffers/caching do its duty, sometimes it hangs anyway!

So frustrating, I made it to 30 and would love to finish and replay, even look forward to additional/downloadable content. However, I'm seriously sceptical at this point and dont know if I'll ever buy any more gamesas games, if this isnt fixed soon. /sigh

I really like the game, but, the freeze-ups alone have just about lost this customer.