Fallout 3 a Mess of Bugs?

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:26 am

[ Community -> Update ] - More info on Game: Fallout 3

A quick look at the Fallout 3 Tech Support forums reveals a very disturbing trend. The game has been out for less than a day and there is already a great outcry among players. The PS3 community is especially angry. It looks like they were completely screwed over and Fallout 3 for the PS3 is almost unplayable. One PS3 blogger writes:

As a PS3 owner, I've been constantly blogging about Fallout 3 and how amazing it will be and letting people know recent news about the game, and this is how i get treated after both doing this, and giving Bethesda 60 bucks. I can't believe a patch hasn't already been announced as on sites like Gamespot, the game is recieving LOWER ratings simply because of these problems that are SO obvious in the game. WHY THE HELL DOES THE GAME LAG EVERY TIME SOMEONE SIGNS IN/OUT ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST??? NOT EVEN THE WORST OF PS3 PORTS HAVE THAT PROBLEM!!!!! I'm not one of those kinds of people that go crazy over small things exclusive to another console like the DLC, or the PC's superior graphics, but this is OUTRAGEOUS. Draw distance, Framerate, lighting,Anti-Aliasing etc. has all be Dumbed down so bad to a point that it seems the developers did this on PURPOSE. I heard that Bethesda Will release a patch for the ps3 version that fixes these problems if we demand it so here i am demanding this. If you guys don't, then, I'll be glad to go get my money back, and buy Farcry 2 instead and sign a petition that goes against Bethesda.

PC players are reporting on constant crashes, crashes when creating new games, crashes on the intro video, and a load of other crash issues. As of the time of writing this post, this poll asks users if the game is working well for anyone. 69% said No.

If you are experiencing issues with the game, then go here for PC problems, here for Xbox 360 problems, and here for PS3 problems.

For some reason, I feel like the XBox problems will be the first to be fixed.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:32 am

HIVE MIND.

Edit: Also - it appears that the review community knew about as subject of my story, but decided to say NOTHING about it.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:44 am

The Sexbox might be the first one to get an Official patch from Beth, but I'm willing to bet (based solely on the fact that it really is just Oblivion mod) that the fans and pirates get it fixed first, on PC. Arrr.

Edit for great clarification

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:22 am

On the bright side, if it crashes you won't have to endure playing it.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:58 am

Ah, reminds me of Fallout 2 and every Troika release. At least they got something right.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:31 pm

:nostalgia:

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:55 pm

I remember Fallout 2 crashes, but there were pretty much once every 2-3 hours apart for me, similar with Troika games. Exception to this is of course the wonderful Society of Leopold bug, which made me promptly return it and wait for the game to get fixed before getting a bargin bin copy.

I'm used to games crashing, I accept a degree of instability. Crashes that happen every couple of hours or so are bearable, and a great reminder of saving a game. It's when the crashes are so epically fail to the point that people crash on the opening videos that I just have to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:41 pm

Crashing on a console is pretty sad but I think they had the same problems with Oblivion. The only problem I noticed so far was during the intro movie there was like these lines in the screen where everything on it would jerk. It was about 2 big lines and was kind of annoying. I know there was some jerkiness to the pictures during Ron Perlmon voice over but I think that was on purpose and it was the whole pictures. I don't think the lines in the intro part were intended but I don't get them while playing the game.

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:24 pm

I had a word with Todd today:
http://www.zshare.net/flash/50629301ba2e0782/

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:43 pm

HAHA NICE!! that is funny.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:40 am

Maybe half of whatever vehicle you get in Fallout3 will disappear after 12 hours, just for verisimilitude. Oh, the happy memories...

pray

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:09 am

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_bugs

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:30 am

Time to churn out one of those 500 MB patches.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:18 pm

Well so far I have the same freezes/crashes as I did with Oblivion., for the PC. It's very frustrating that I have to quicksave every time I look at a door, just to make sure I don't lose my progress...

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:20 pm

Anything wrong with the carrying capacity though?

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:33 am

I dont remember them saying anything about console crashes. icon_confused2

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:08 am

It's happening quite a bit. It's why the PS3 community is up in arms.

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:04 am

Pretty silly that you spend over four years and millions of dollars wanking over things like teddy-bear-launchers and mini-nuke-catapults, but forget to make sure the thing actually works. Hot-damn!

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:22 am

Nope it's fine. No stamina/endurance issue either because I have to step over a piece of carton. Wow they got something right!