Let me first preface what I'm going to say with some praise; I absolutely loved Fallout 3. I bought all 5 DLC and spent 600+ hours playing it like a mad man.
Now to the crux of my post. New Vegas is, quite simply, not complete. The story is nice and the game play would be good if it wasn't so buggy. When I heard about the patch that came out mid December 2010 I was elated. The game would finally be fixed and turn into the great game it should be! I downloaded the patch hoping it would fix the game; when I played after the download I was expecting a drastic change on my previously buggy game (silly me). So I found out I was mistaken and started a new game. In this new game, there were still several minor bugs (floating beer, items don't touch the surface of shelves and such) but I was able to ignore that. Then I got to the Caesar's Legion safehouse. The patch notes say that 3 suits of armor and several weapons were added but when I got there the place was empty. I heard that if I cleared my Xbox cache it would get rid of the 'patch' and I could re-download it so that's what I did. I read that the patch was supposed to fix the red box that appears when you mod the weathered 10mm pistol and is supposed to fix several crafting recipes. I start a new game and check the recipes but they're unchanged; I ran to Novac and bought a 10mm Pistol mod from the gift shop in the dinosaur then applied it but still got the red box glitch. Did my patch not take or something? Anybody have any suggestions as to what I could/should do?