ok so if you have played dead money, you may or may not have encountered this very unusual glitch...

so when you go in to this one part of the casino, where the 3 holograms are patrolling, you have to go down to the ledge below where there is a holodisc next to the tool box, now normally for some reason unknown to me i tend to slip off the pipe and fall to my doom. so being the smart guy i am, saved the game while in the mist... i then proceed to fall off the pipe, and die, lucky me i saved the game seconds before i fell no no worries. well, that was absolutely the WORST mistake i ever could have done in this game, as somehow i tricked the game in to thinking i was constantly in the mist and my health rapidly depleting, thin red paste, blood sausage, and water (survival at 100) and 5 stimpacks, 25 auto inject stimpacks, and 4 super stimpacks (med at 30). the food items when eaten in large quantities seem to do little, but at least slow down the massive health loss i get when walking in non mist areas, say by the time i get to the safe, im at about 10 blood sausage and 10 thin red paste, 5 waters, and 2 stimpacks. anyways i pick up the medkit items in the safe and make a rampant mad dash towards the exit, and finally im in the villa, right next to the exit, now i have no health items at all. and i die. again and again and again... over and over, there is no escape, i am stuck and cannot do anything but hopelessly run to an exit. i am at a loss, i guess ill have to start a new game, because i can only imagine if i were to go to the cashier and turn in several hundered prewar money, and stock up on stimpacks i could make it to the exit in time, but whos to say the glitch wouldnt cary out for the rest of the game?

if anyone has encountered this before please let me know, does bethesda know about this? i know this game has been out for a while, and i can probably expect no patches for this anytime soon, or the rampant crashing i experience during gameplay. oh and my absolutely favorite part of fallout, the defining aspect of what makes fallout new vegas my favorite hated game, is the part where the game grashes immediately after the loading screen, then the "this save game is corrupt and cannot be loaded message" then it asks me if i want to overwrite my corrupted auto save, my response is "no i think i want to hold on to that one"

thanks for hearing my rant

update: so i went ahead and went back to the cashier in the casino, traded in 2000 prewar money then bought 80 stimpacks. by the time i was back to the safe/vault i had already burned through 50 stimpacks more or less. picked up my gold bars, grabbed the stuff out of the medkit, talked to that 1 dude (cant remember his name right now) and booked it for the exit, probably another 15 or so stimpacks, i wasnt paying attention, got to the door right before the elevator, and of course (im the master at finding glitches with pretty much every electronic device i own) low and behold the invisible wall from hell, as if i wasnt having enough issues trying to escape the infamous door glitch occurs. and i die.

attempt 2 (well at least using this strategy): game loads at the terminal, talk to that 1 dude again, book it for the exit. again get to the last door before the elevator and what do you think is waiting for me? if you guessed that damned invisible wall you are correct! so i also have found a bypass for that glitch, in the thorn i placed a frag mine right in the doorway and just like that the "wall" was gone, allowing me to pass through, so how about that destroyed book around the corner, grab the book and... wow... the game crashes... this game wants me to quit or something. im going to keep trying at it and i will be willing to place money on this glitch happens in the main game...

thank you

this will be my last post on this subject.

I made it to the exit, return to Mojave and during the exit movie you cannot skip for some reason, i died, so im like "ok well i already have stimpacks hotkeyed to the right on the d-pad so ill go blow another 1000 prewar money on 40 more stimpacks" so i returned to the exit, saved, went back to the exit movie and i died right in the middle of the dog part of the movie, health depletes but you cannot use stimpacks... so even in a cinematic segment you can still die, go figure, so this game is toast...

thank you

Unfortunately this bug is well reported... and known... and has never been patched..
Lesson nr1... for any Creation engine/Bethesda game.... keep multiple saves..
There is no known workaround... Unless you saved before entering this area.. (the slideshow both in the main game and dlc's is in fact really a slide show in a non-playable cell with the PC zoomed in, thus you can die.)

As another tip always look at wiki sites...: Had you done that.. well than you would not have continued playing..
Which leads to another tip... If a save is giving problems ... load the autosave.. (you would not have been screwed but only would have needed to repeat the first part of the vault)
And finally never... ever safe in areas where your health is depleting..
-Cure poison than save
-Kill Cazadors/Radscorpions cure poison than save..
-Don't save on high ledges.. (with the risk of dropping to your death)
etc.. etc..

From the wiki:

A bug may cause you to continue to be poisoned for the rest of the game despite being outside the toxic cloud, if upon entering the room with the three hologram guards, you turn immediately right and go down the steps to a platform within the toxic cloud where you can find a toolbox and a holotape with the Vault turret terminal Password. Should this happen, you will not be able to leave the Sierra Madre despite achieving mission success (with enough stimpaks) as you will die during the ending slide show which one cannot skip through. If you wish to get the holotape, you should save your game before going down the steps and should the bug occur, reload that save game and try again.