So, I get home the other day after dropping $60 for this game, i'm all excited when I put the disc in my 360. I start doing the tutorial mission only to find a serious gamebreaking bug right off the bat. I fire the Varmint Rifle at the VERY FIRST sasparilla bottle... "Reconnect your controller." I notice my controller won't power back up, so I physically take out the battery tray, put it back in and power back up my controller. Problem solved... until the very next shot. "Reconnect your controller." I repeat what fixed the problem the first time. Then i'm able to get off a couple shots with no problems. When I go into the schoolhouse and start shooting at whats in there... You guessed it, "Reconnect your controller." It happens often enough to be VERY annoying, especially when it happens while you are surrounded by 5 or 6 enemies, and it only happens right after you fire a gun. Seriously, WTF guys?!?!?!?! How the hell does a game even go out the door with an issue like this? If Bethesda expects people to pay $60 for such a blatantly unfinished product, then i'm gonna seriously re-consider my personal policy of not using torrent sites the next time they release a game. Come on guys, FIX THIS ISSUE THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!

Whoa Nelly. Have you tried putting in another game or messing around in the dashboard with the controller? I highly, highly doubt this is a game error. (for one, i've never seen anyone else bring up this problem on any other forum, and Fallout has been a major release, people would notice. Secondly, i've had the same problem as you before, and it ended up being the controller not the game.) Check the battery level, even replace the batteries entirely, before considering it a game error. Do you have another controller avalible you can try?

I have this issue with an entire controller, it clicks itself off the same way (replace the battery pack) all the time, it started in a single game, but ended up being a defective controller issue - the problem was constant over multiple games.

It only happens on this game and the controller is less than 2 months old with new batteries. It only happens after you fire a shot, wheather it be in VATS or not. It doesn't happen while just wandering around the map if you aren't shooting at anything.

This happened to me as well, exactly the same thing. My controller is plugged in with a cord and it came up and said please reconnect controller, I unplugged and replugged the cord to no avail the only way to fix it was the pull the plug and battery pack and reinsert it then it'd reconnect. It did it several times in a row on two different occasions but only those two occasions and I've been playing the game daily since release day so it doesn't seem to be a very common bug/glitch/whatever. I've only ever had this happen to me in fallout: NV.

Glad to know i'm not the only one this has happened to. You are right that it usually happens multiple times in a row but it seems to be happening to me more often. I had it happen on four different occasions before I left Primm.

I have the same problem it's because the battery pack fits loose from wear and tear of taking it on and off for so long mine is the same way and every time the controller rumbles it does it turn off rumble and check I guarntee you thats the problem.

If that was whats causing it then it would be doing the same thing with other games. Its only happening with NV. And like I said above, my controller is less than 2 months old

I despise rumple and turn it off first thing right away in any game I play that has it and also I always play with my controller plugged in using a cable so both of those things are unlikely to be causing the problem in my situation.

Just a small update; I noticed it tends to happen more in certain areas and/or quests. I did the quest "Booted" three times and it happened at the Legion Camp, multiple times, on two of the three tries.

I played for a few more hours today and it happened 5 more times. I finally gave up when my controller wouldn't power back up after putting the batteries back in. I powered off the console, powered it back up immediately, and my controller was magically working perfectly again. This is seriously inexcusable. I don't appreciate paying $60 to be an unwilling beta tester for your terribly unfinished game