hello..

According to Steam, I have over 100 hours logged playing NV. It sure didn't feel that way at first, but now... I simply cannot start yet another game. I am just to afraid that the time I spend, will get me bugged, stuck or wiped.

Please understand. I want to play. I am enjoying the game immensly. I am the kind of RPG player that takes his time, reads every bit of narrative, hunts, gathers, and gets immersed into the world. I have no dire need to finish the MQ straight away and enjoy the little things like evirons, time transistions and RP. So for me the time so far spent is not important. BUT. What IS important, is knowing that all this invested time actually leads to a fulfilling conclusion. And so far its been heartbreaking.

I play on PC. I am trying my hardest to play an un modded or "community fixed" game.

1. First play.. 30+ hours. Destroyed by save game problems. (fixed after patch)
2. Second play.. 30+ hours. Destroyed by corrupted Save games. (still a persistent issue)
3. My last go. Not so many hours but simply cannot go any further due to quest bugs/limitations. Sherrif Mayers will not open dialogue once helping NCR to retake NCRCF. I want HIM to be sherrif of Primm. This one is new for me, as I didnt help NCR retake prison in my first two plays.

The bottom line. I am simply to afraid to start again knowing that with current bugs/Quest lines, its either going to get me stranded (Legion quests, Vegas quests and others), Corrupt my save games (Vault 3 issue), or simply be non-patch compatible when Obsid finally does fix the issues.

For me, NV is broken in the worst possible way. It breaks my INVESTED time. I can easily break past the immersion busters. Enemies getting stuck on terrain, Enemies you kill "falling" through the game world, Rad scorpion spawns in the center of Goodsprings. Invisible walls. 1 Mile sniper shots criticals without VATS, Point blank misses with VATS and so on.

But when the game takes your hours of fun, exploration and RP and either destroys them.. or tells you.. sorry you cant go any further due to scripting mishaps. well... just to freaked out "get into" this game anymore.

Lastly: Where in the heck is the feedback? Why is there no response from Obsid or Beth acknowledging the issues and problems. I feel that nobody over there gives a toss and more importantly no motivation to pull the community together to help flush these issues out and get this stuff fixed. It has been seven long days since ANY word from Beth or Obsid directly related to the problems at hand. I expect more from this title.

today is my Bday. some gift.

to afraid to start over
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Yeah after having finding a second area that caused corrupt saves for me I've stopped playing for the time being. When I thought it was just REPCON I was willing to press on after a few lost hours. After Vault 3 area corrupted about 6 different saves (all made in that general area) as well as autosave and quicksaves... yeah I'm done for a while.

It's a great game- but the savegame corruption issue is simply unacceptable and has sapped my desire to play. I'm sick of replaying content over and over and don't feel like bothering with this game again until I can be fairly confident I won't discover any more areas that eat my progress.

Now I trust that they did actually play test this game, but I have to wonder how vigorously if this issue was missed. I would be more understanding and patient if the official response was only the following:

"Reload an earlier save."

Well thanks. I'm sure it's not the intention, but that being the ONLY official comment feels a lot like a big middle finger to your customers.

Well I haven't had any issues from a PS3 perspective. But I can definitely empathize with your situation; I get into the game (metaphorically of course =D) and really get into detail with the game, and to play with the constant threat of losing the save data would be horrible for me and very futile. Its a shame that Bethesda don't care about the community, me being annoyed that PS3 users don't get DLC's for a long time; they create connotations of being indifferent and only caring about profit. Oh, happy birthday btw lol.

I started over. Got to level 10 in an hour and haven't regretted it once.

As to the corrupted saves, Fallout 3 had issues with saves becoming corrupted as well. It's my understanding that one way to reduce them in FO3 was to never load a save from anywhere other than the main menu. I'm told that loading a saved position from within the game can result in some information being 'carried over' from your current position into your new load, which can corrupt your next save. Not sure if it was true or not, but I got into the habit of always loading saved games from the main menu. Even if I died, I would exit to the main menu then load up my last position instead of accepting the auto-load.

I don't know whether it was a real issue or not, but I very seldom had any issues with bad saves after developing that habit. I've maintained the habit with New Vegas and have never had a corrupt save (yet), after about 40 hours of play.

May or may not help, but won't hurt.

If you wanted him to be Sheriff of Primm you shouldn't have got the NCR to take over- they are mutually exclusive. Or did you mean something else?

Really? There's been more feedback from the devs on this release than almost any I've ever seen. Most of the time you won't hear anything until a patch is released. Look at the stickied posts over in the troubleshooting forums. Lots of feedback and promises to scour the forums for issues there. Seriously...read them.

Exactly how I feel. May seem like all the talking will be to much seeing as how you have already been there. Believe me, Im the same way as you. I truly appreciate the effort up into games like these on a micro level. I thought I wouldnt like it just because of how much effort I put into finding every bottle cap or skill book in every single location I found... but in the end I just avoided places I had been first, went to place I have no been instead, and the game is actually better for me.