Problem area West of NCR Safehouse

Post » Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:12 am

Sorry, if this has been covered before, but I could not find any previous posts relating to this area specifically. Here are some directions to the area in question: Leave the NCR Safehouse and turn left down a narrow path between the rocks, take another left up into the hills, backed by mountains to the south and overlooking the entire Vegas area to the north. To the west is a billboard and army truck on the road. The rocks and hills between the road and the NCR safehouse have been nothing but trouble. I'll explain in detail, but first, a few events leading up to this.

I've been accompanied by Veronica both times I came through this area. Been having some issues with her that may or may not be related. I left her at Nellis AFB once and several days later, she shows up out of nowhere on the bottom floor of Vault 34. I opened up her companion wheel and found she had somehow decided to follow me again on her own. A second time I left her at McCarran and she vanished. Sorry for all the backstory, just thought it might be relevant. I met back up with her after being informed that she had returned to the trading post, and we proceeded to the safehouse. Thus begins the bugginess:

When I arrived at the NCR Safehouse there was no dialog to enter the base. I ran straight through the door into a dead end tunnel. I decided to leave the area and come back to see if it would load properly, and not 20 feet down the path it looks like an earthquake has struck (maybe Los Angeles is finally sinking into the ocean...) My character and Veronica are both hopping up and down repeatedly. It looked more like we were in the crouched position and bouncing off the ground, but there was a lot of weird camera jitter in 3rd person. I could still manage to bounce my way out of the effected area, which happened to be just past the entrance to the safehouse, but Veronica just stayed in one spot, bouncing up and down.

In response, I saved the game, restarted the console, cleared the console's memory cache, cleared the game cache and then reloaded the save. Got the message about content being unavailable, but my canteen (only DLC item I still had) was still there. None of the issues that people have been experiencing regarding that. Everything is back to normal. From this point things went well, for the most part. A few instances of the 1st person weapon model appearing way over my head or disappearing completely. This and other minor issues seem to crop up in this area more frequently than elsewhere.

So, I finally make it to my favorite deathclaw sniping perch and go to work. I have Veronica wait up in the hills, while I explore the area around the road leading into Sloan and mop up a few more deathclaws. Time to return to Veronica, so I head all the way back to the path leading up to the safehouse, as it is the easiest route back up to where she is hiding. I saved the game again, and then when I tried to speak to Veronica there was no dialog option. She would rotate around and follow me with her eyes, but she would not move, and in fact I could walk right through her as if she weren't even there.

Ok, that about wraps it up. Sorry for the essay up there, but I hope this helps the buggy cleanup efforts. Aside from this recent adventure, I have only experienced a handful of scattered issues, mostly minor. Thanks for reading, if you did make it through all of that!
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