it's a video game... <_<

A video game we all paid for - and expected to play.

That's like paying for a new set of brakes on your car, getting in it and finding out when you get home they dont work - at all. Then calling the company you brought your car to and the best you can do is a leave a voice mail. Im sure the voice mail you'd leave wouldn't be too nice nor understanding.

I am included in the "cabbage crew" as I have been stuck here not playing for a few days now. 2 saves, 1 auto - 1 manual - BOTH corrupted. I like to LOOT everything in this game. There isn't a corner I dont forget to check before leaving the location. I dont know the exact time the corrupted saves were created but I can tell you they were working within Vault 3. I tend to reload anytime Boone decides to venture off and die. I do remember going into that last room with the dogs and the boss and Boone killing him and getting quest failed. I reloaded - told Boone to stay put killed off the guards prior to the room and then did a little bit of looting. I then left the vault went back to my room at Novac, emptied out my inventory and went back to vault 3 and finished cleaning up all the stuff I could not carry on the 1st trip. Went back to the room repaired all the guns decided what I wanted to sell and headed to caravan headquaters, I was up to the part of the quest were I had to get the girl at the outpost to sell her company and get the guy in freeside to quit the job. I went and go both done thinking I would have gotten a better deal for all the stuff I just found. I sold it to the guy inside the caravan hq and went on my way to shut down sarsasparilla bottle cap press and while inside the building boone dies, i try to reload my auto save - DLC error - tried to load my manual save at caravan hq - DLC error. I tried looking at the internals of the save but im not too good with software based problems the furthest I got was seeing within the save file was a .dat file. Within the dat file is another file which I believe is where all the actual save data is stored, I stopped there. I know DLC has been leaked online for illegal download - I had someone try the save with all the DLC installed. Still same error. Now..I dont play - im in a lose lose situation. Restart from the BEGINNING and have it happen again or wait this out only to find that this save im holding onto is deemed useless. Thank you developers. There is no way to explain how this slipped by before being pressed. Thats why you are keeping a tight lip.

I think the real problem they are going to have is trying to remove the "corruption" from the files that are unloadable. As much as I hate to admit it, I dont think the already corrupted files are ever really going to be playable again. Best bet is just to start a new playthrough. And if they manage to fix the bug and repair the corrupted files, then everything is perfect. But chances are it will only be the former.

Well colour me a shade of annoyed to hell. Just lost my 50 hour save to this bug so I joined the forum seeing help. Doesn't look like there is a fix. How can you ship a game with such a crippling bug. This is an open world 100+ hour game not a 5 hour call of duty shoot-em-up. Having people invest huge amounts of time getting where they get up to and then corrupting their save is inexcusable. I'm holding on to my save in the hope you can right this wrong Obsidian/Bethesda. I was loving this game and feel gutted the time I spent in the world you made and the prgress I had made stolen from me. I really can't start again. 50 hours is 2 days of my life.

edit: vault 3 killed the game.

I still have saves that work...

yep i had too make an account on here just to complain and figure out WTF happened.This is bull im set back 12 hours because the makers cant make it there own game work right because of this a really dont feel like playing the game anymore because of it loved it at first but this is absurb and needs to be fixed now

I just want to know if they have even a chance of saving files affected by the dlc problem. I don't want to start again, I really don't I just want the developers to come in and say yes there is a chance of the save being 'saved' or no it's done for. Such a shame that so many of us have invested so much time into a game world only to have it ruined by poor quality control.

I was hit with the bug during the first week I had this game when it was released. I was 5hrs in...but, I didn't mind starting over again. I cannot tell you HOW FAR I AM IN THIS GAME at the present moment...but, let me tell you, I have tread some MAJOR ground. And just a while ago...even when I cut of ALL possible ways to auto-save, I was hit with the bug again and the ONLY save that worked was, you guessed it, the AUTO-SAVE. The other files after that would not load, but that file would load. So, I loaded and saved twice after it, and it seemed to have solved the problem. The new manual saves work now, but that is BESIDE the point. It's the fact that it happened again....AFTER that half-a$$ed update, which I thought was suppose to FIX what even caused the auto-save problem in the first place.

Will this be the last game I buy made by Obisidian? You better believe it! And I hate that because this game has been AMAZING so far. But, I swear before a box of m&m's, this is it. Now, it doesn't matter if I stop buying their games because someone will come and take my place. That is OK! But, should I lose my mind one day and buy another game made by Obisidian, I will do what I did with fallout 3, when I didn't even know a game called "Fallout" even existed: I will wait an entire YEAR after it has been released to buy it. By that time, there should be no excuse for it not be fixed by this. $60 is A LOT of money. Let me say that one more time: $60 IS A LOT OF FREAKIN' MONEY! Never again. Never EVER again.

Fallout New Vegas Release - Oct. 19th
1st patch for consoles - Oct. 28th

9 day gap in between

2 days to create patch + 7 days to be certified ? just saying for argument sakes

November 5th still no patch for game breaking bug

8 days from release of first patch

If my time line is accurate a release for a patch should be tomorrow

That is..if it only took them 2 days to fix it

Update...

I have emailed support, and asked when we do receive a fix - will we be able to recover our current corrupt games...I got the following:


Can I urge everyone who is effected by the bug to open a support ticket via the link in my original post.


'Hello,

It would ultimately depend on the cause of the issue. If it is simply the game not recognising your saves for some unknown reason then it may be possible to fix the game and by extension, your saves.

However, if your saves are simply corrupt then there would be no way to recover them'

False. The first patch came October 22nd. That's the day I downloaded it anyways.. on the 360

[censored]. I just gave Mr. House the Chip and he said go somewhere to claim something (he did'nt say what no) So I saved it then went to bed, went to school and couldnt wait to play Fallouut new vegas, came home and this bloody downloadable content pops up... :sadvaultboy:

That's all awfully optimistic. I'd love for that to be the case, though.

You are correct it was pushed early morning of the 22nd. That puts them OVER the minimum amount of time needed to see a patch. xD we are in trouble

Man, I'd love it if that was the case. I've only put eight hours into my game, but it's still eight hours I'd rather not have to use getting back my old progress rather than having fun finding new things. I really do hope they get a patch out this weekend, I'm kind of afraid to play now that this bug has surfaced. It happened once before to me, but I dismissed it as an error on my part and loaded a save from an hour back. Then I found out a ton of other people are having the problem...and it seems to be that Vault 3 and the Come Fly With Me quest is what's causing the problem.

Hello,

I am sorry to hear that you are disappointed with the game. The issue with the save games being damaged and showing this error message is currently under investigation by the development team and it is their highest priority.

Unfortunately any fix which would be released for this issue is most likely to prevent the issue from happening again as opposed to fixing savegames that have already encountered this issue.



Your customer number is
Please refer to case if you have any further questions.

If you need further assistance, you can also reach us online at http://support.gamesas.com or our technical support staff at 0203 0270982. Please include all previous replies when/if responding to this message.

Best Regards,
Jamie D. at Bethesda Softworks Technical Support
supportuk@gamesas.com

this is the email i recieved

I got the error for the first time last night.

I tried going back to several old saves but no luck.

I even went as far as deleting my DLC content package but no dice.

So now not only cannot I not progress any further (and I was along pretty danged far) I cannot re-download the content package as well unless I purchase another copy to get the code.

As it stands, it looks like I will have to start the game from the beginning. :cryvaultboy:

been waiting for about a week and a half...... fix this [censored] already. 20 hours in and i havnt played in a week because Bethesda wont fix this patch? Pretty sure this should be #1 priority, and also we should be getting some response or recognition that it is being worked on rather than sitting and waiting.......

I am also very mad, this is insane a game whit 100 hours of game play and ive spent about 8 hour trying to fix this bug, only to find out they know about it and are going to send out a pach IN A COUPLE OF WEEK'S ! well that's just great i'm going to have to plug my xbox into the Internet just for this !
client confidence is going to be bad next time guy's at least i hope you get this done in less than a few week's

I have been waiting a long time to buy this game and i'm not the only one , now we are still waiting but we have payed, i still have a couple of DAY'S to be able to return this game and if i dont get any news soon i will and i just hope other gamer's will too and demand a legal refund, you are legally obligated to fix this and quick, or your client's will teach you a lesson: you don't let client's wait wen they have already payed

very disappointed and very mad .....

Yup, I got it too. On my way to Boulder City, doing the quests in the NCR camp along the way and boom, this bug. I'm just going to wait for a patch, I don't want to make a new character and end up getting the bug again.

no corruption after about 70 hours in(with one character...about 10 a piece with the other 2). 3 manual saves per character. (3 characters=9 manual saves)

and what if i never installed the "exclusive" dlc?

because i didn't.

The only other game I have ran into with a corrupt save file of some sort like this is when I played pokemon and that was about 10 years ago. So, as you can imagine I'm not one to keep many saves so unfortunately my entire collection of saves, which consists of only three, are all corrupted. Let's all hope they get this horrible glitch fixed as soon as possible.

After already experiencing a bug in The Thorn, where my game froze and lost 5 hours of time, I got the DLC error, losing my whole game,which is 40 hours of time. I can load a game not too far back, but I can't save after loading it, otherwise I will get the DLC error again while loading. Got to level 28, then a brick wall is thrown in front of me and I can't play anymore. Pretty embarrassing Bethesda, considering that you are saying only about 360 people got the bug while there are obviously many, many more.

Someone else might have already posted this, but the reason this number will seem so high is because the people enjoying the game and playing it aren't actively seeking out polls to complain about an error they're not getting. They're too busy having fun.

That said, I've been playing for over 50 hours, visited about 130-140 different locations, completed "Come Fly With Me" or whatever it's called and have been in all the vaults except for vault 34, and have not had this problem. My girlfriend has been playing for 80 hours, she ended up having the problem with the strip from killing Caleb McCafferty or whoever, she doesn't care because she thinks the strip is "boring" anyway compared to the rest of the game and is just waiting for the patch or will go try and get a cowboy hat, she's fine with exploring everything but the Strip for now. Either way, 130 hours total game time, neither of us have had this DLC error. Also I know not everyone who bought the game would use the forums, but just over 200 people experiencing the issue is a very low number considering the game sold anywhere from 100,000 to 400,000 units I'm sure.