Ahh yes, your right. There is no videos on Youtube anymore and I'm not sure why. You hit LB and go into third person. Then hold LB and rotate your camera. Doing this at a window will allow you to look through the window. Its a great thing to do. In BoS Bunker in FONV, you can do this to some power armor in the armory without being seen.

Thanks man.

Yup sorry to hear that. One last thing to do is turn off the game. Restart and clear the cache to see if that helps though i doubt it. I keep around 12 saves to be safe, overkill yes but have i ever gotten totally stuck.... No. Either way chalk it up as a learning experience.

Meh, ok!

Try this:

Wait for 3 days.
Put on the armor dohickey.
If the chick opens the door.
Blow her brains out.
Then t-bag.

Short:
Wait 3 days, put on the armor, get free, and celebrate by killing her.

thanks, I may have to experiment with this

You know, I liked Fallout 3 so much I pre-bought New Vegas months ahead of time. After Oblivion and Fallout 3 I was very impressed with what Bethesda was doing and I was even thinking I'd like to apply for a job there.

I've been frustrated and irritated with all the bugs and glitches in New Vegas, but then I hit this one and it pretty much killed my game. It's particularly irritating because if you have enough competent quality engineers and beta testers working on a project you don't end up with glitches like this, let alone the sheer number that there seem to be. To me, that fact makes this really very unacceptable.

It's true that it's smart to have multiple saves, but you should be able make manual saves at key places in the PLOT, not out of paranoia that the game is going to freeze, or that you're going to get stuck in an interrogation room. I COULD go back about 20 hours of game play, but I'm not going to.

Hopefully Bethesda will come out with an patch that fixes this or someone will post something out here that actually works some time soon. Otherwise I'm going to trade in the game for Black Ops, and tell everyone I know that New Vegas is full of bugs so they shouldn't waste their money, AND there's no way in hell that I'm buying the next version.

I have to agree with the last post. Sure, he didn't save, but he shouldn't have to. If some people did their job properly then so many people wouldn't have their games ruined. I don't blame you for trading in, this game shouldn't be allowed on the shelves yet.

Even so to play ANY large sandbox/rpg type game without multiple saves is a bad idea. Hell there are times where its the game mechanics and people's stupidity that are the reasons to go back to a previous save. For example its not a fault of the devs if a person is dumb and walks too far into the heavily irradiated Vault without enough Rad-x and Rad away and gets stuck constantly dying from radiation poisoning. Other occasions? Accidentally (and I mean REALLY accidentally) discharging a weapon and killing a friendly NPC. Or talking to a NPC and saying something you didn't mean to say. There are tons of other things that can happen where its best to just go back to a previous save, not just glitches and bugs.

In short if you depend on the auto-save feature and only have one save you pretty much are setting yourself up to get into an impossible to get out of situation.

Fine, but those two examples aren't GLITCHES. I wouldn't be complaining if I did something stupid and got myself stuck, but I didn't. I played the story line exactly the way it was supposed to be played, and an error in the game itself is what got me stuck.

I have multiple saves, they just aren't close enough together for me to want to go all the way back to the last one before this. Particularly when the NPC AI and crappy collision detection cause things to happen like an NPC continually pursuing and attacking an enemy that is stuck in a hillside, no matter what their distance or aggressiveness settings are (I've had to load a previous save because of this 7 times so far).

Really, seriously, if they don't release a patch that at least fixes the collision detection it just is not worth playing in my opinion. It's 2010, and this is at least the third release from Bethesda on the roughly the same game engine and platform (Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas). They REALLY should have this stuff figured out by now.

Its frustrating I agree. But what can you do?
If you honestly want to stop playing because of it then don't buy the dlcs and don't buy any subsequent installments of the game.
If you ARE gonna continue playing then adapt to the conditions or live with the consequences of not adapting. I myself save manually every 5-15 min and have about 12 game saves lined up at all times. And im not the only one that goes through such measures.

I was looking to see if anyone had a for a SOLUTION to the issue, not trying to have a moral conversation about whether you should manually save every 5 minutes or not.

This is what is frusterating, IGN scores:
Elder Scolls IV: Oblivion - 9.2
Fallout 3 - 9.4
Fallout New Vegas - 8.5
I pre-bought expecting at least a 9, and got a piece of crap that requires me to save every five minutes. And it's really disappointing because given that and WET, which got a 6.6, it looks like Bethesda is going downhill. Which is REALLY disappointing because Oblivion and Fallout 3 had some really cool, revolutionary things in them.

I traded in the game for Red Dead Redemption (IGN - 9.7) and I haven't looked back. It definitely doesn't have these kinds of issues, and I can save in key places in the plot instead of conmensating for sub-standard production.

With all multitude of games that are out there these days I really don't think it's unreasonable to expect quality.