Hi there,

I fear I have a savegame that is corrupt or something. The problem is the following (contains spoilers): Near SatCom Array NW-07c on the highway is a truck with a dead scicentist inside. When approaching the truck a bomb is triggered and the scientist is supposed to fly out of the truck. But in my current savegame (and several others of older date) the scientist does not spawn. The bomb is triggered correctly. In an older savegame (that is 'six hours gameplay' earlier) the scientist is spawned a few moments before the bomb goes off (he isn't there unless the event is triggered hrough the player's approach).

I was able th spawn the scientist (alive) via the console and have him killed with the bomb, but I fear this might not be the only problem. Is there a way I can tell if the savegame is corrupt and I may encounter similar problems? Should I send my savegame in? I could do additional comparison between the last working and the first broken save - what quests I had done for example.

Any helpful comments would be nice!

Oh, almost forgot: I'm playing the UK GOTY edition, latest patch applied.

The Fallout 3 Vault says that its a 'known' bug, and is not associated with a corrupted save file. Nor does it state that if that event doesn't trigger correctly that other events also won't trigger correctly. Its a single 'error' that has no known bearing on the integrity of your save file. So, I wouldn't worry about your save being corrupted because the scientist didn't spawn.

Ok, that's good to know (well, kind of, since it's a bug after all). Thank's!