Fallout 3 Glitches

[Nebagram]

I think I've got a bugged copy of the game- just after leaving the Vault the game becomes remarkably erratic- every step I take it's like my character's about to fall through the floor, he can't jump, enemies appear and disappear at random and some background items seem to be levitating like Indian fakirs. Anyone else experiencing this or is it just me? (Yes, I have reloaded the save, and tried an older one, same problem).

[Drexel923]

No problems with my copy at all. Sorry to hear you are having issues as it is a great game.

[walrusmonger]

What version of the game are you playing?

[Dangerboy]

I've heard the PS3 version is buggy as hell, including crashing at the GOAT test. I've only seen 2 glitches in my 360 version, and both were just bodies floating in air.

[MrSparkle]

not surprising really. I'm sure they'll drop a patch within a weeks time given how highly hyped this game has been.

[Darren870]

I think your copy is a dud. Even the PS3 version isn't that glitchy where it is actually unplayable...

[Kitsune Sniper]

A friend of mine has the 360 version and he's always telling me how buggy it is...

[Darren870]

A friend of mine has the 360 version and he's always telling me how buggy it is...

I played for 6 hrs and only have seen one. One of the moles fell through the floor and wound up stuck in the ceiling above.

Everything else has been fine though.

[alxbly]

I've been playing the 360 version for a while now and haven't encountered any bugs.

[Sudo]

I have the 360 version and love it, but it is indeed buggy as hell. This is my post copy/pasted from the IGN Boards:

"Since I got the game Tuesday, I've had it hard freeze on me three times, requiring a manual power off on the 360. I've gotten stuck on objects 2-3 times and had to reload a save. Once, the particle effects on my Shishkebab glitched and obscured my view of the whole screen, forcing a reload. Just now, when I respawned after dying I was stuck in attack mode, which pretty much gave me infinite AP while in VATS. Despite all this, it's still a great game IMO. I'm on the last story mission and am going back and finishing up the rest of the side-quests and collecting all the bobbleheads.

I really think Bethesda should've given the game another month or so of QA testing, but whatever."

[Nesmaster]

I've had two glitches (PS3) myself, one amusing and irritating, and the other just bizarre:

1) I was in the robotech factory looking for parts to build the railway gun, and a bunch of the protectrons were stuck in the walls, glitching around and shooting at me behind the walls. It was funny as hell, but also very annoying. Thankfully I was able to kill them when parts of their body would "pop" out of the walls, allowing me to shoot at/target them in VATS and dispose of them.

2) This one frustrated me, and was extremely bizarre. I fast travelled to a location, got killed, and the auto save loaded me the second before I made the travel in the old location. No big deal right...? The only problem is that when it loaded, for whatever reason my fists were equipped, and I constantly did strong punches as if the R1 button was being held in... switching to a gun seemed to fire bullets randomly, but never when I actually pressed the button. Fast travelling didn't fix it, reloading didn't fix it, even loading another save gave me the same problem. Figuring the controller had something to do with it, syncing and re-syncing it up didn't fix it either. Thankfully a hard reset of the system itself fixed the problem, but why did I have to resort to doing that?! Stupid bugs...

Beyond that, I've seen floating guns and bodies a few times, but that hardly bothers me. I'm having too much fun with the game to let any little issues get me down. So long as the game doesn't render my save useless and/or lock up to the point where I can't proceed in the game, I'm fine.

EDIT: Sudo, I forgot about getting stuck on things! That happened to me once, when I jumped on a table. Thankfully I was able to get "unstuck" by sitting on the chair close by a few times.

[carlcarlson]

Bethesda is kind of known for releasing buggy games. I don't really hold it against them because their worlds are just so damn big. Hopefully there will be a patch in the next few weeks that will fix a lot of these things.

[Nebagram]

Fortunately my panic is over, I reverted to an even earlier save and played back through a bit and all is (hopefully) well now. The killer was probably levelling up from level 1 to 2, but there's no way to be sure. At least the molerats have stopped doing their best Homsar impersonations.

[spoon]

I've played over 35 hours and have encountered a few bugs.

I have been stuck between a rock and a fence a few times.

I came up on a group of raiders that were stuck together. I killed them and then they stretched out in a line equal distances apart and looked like they were crucified on an invisible cross. funny stuff. Then when I walked by them, the texture of the water glitched out for a minute or so. I also could not search them for any items unless I cut off a limb and searched it. So, I have a row of headless, armless and legless Jesus Raiders out there somewhere. I am loading up my save in a few minutes and will see if they are still there.

Also, I Was wondering about the achievements on the 360 version, I was trying to get the three different achievements for reaching level 8 either with good, neutral or bad karma. I had a save right before I leveled up. After I did, I tried to load up the save and switch my karma. I could switch the karma, but, no matter how much xp I got, I could never level up and the achievement would not pop.

I wonder if they programmed it that way so people would not take the easy rout to get the achievement?

[heybtbm]

I was taking a few shots at a sniper who was hiding in the rafters of a crumbling church. All of a sudden he disappeared. I shot him 3 or 4 times and the guy just disappeared right in front of me. I wasn't even close to killing him. Oh well. That's as close to a "good" glitch as you can get I suppose.

[dao2]

and thats why you should all learn to play fallout on pc :P

[Sudo]

and thats why you should all learn to play fallout on pc :P

All versions of the game are buggy, it's not just the consoles.

[Berserker]

and thats why you should all learn to play fallout on pc :P

Yeah I know, it's purely anecdotal and probably doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it's still a funny juxtaposition.

I'm planning on getting the PC version myself. I'm basically just waiting for them to at least work some of this crap out.

[dao2]

All versions of the game are buggy, it's not just the consoles.

Probably, but I finished the entire game without any bugs ;p

Yeah I know, it's purely anecdotal and probably doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it's still a funny juxtaposition.

I'm planning on getting the PC version myself. I'm basically just waiting for them to at least work some of this crap out.

Damn ps3 and 360 users don't know how to use the interwebs ;p I wonder how many of those problems are from vista? ;p

If they are I again feel absolutely no sympathy :P

Vault 106: Purple hahaha ;p I didn't go to vault 106 ;p gonna play again and do a lot more though, only fought one behemoth too. gonna be a good guy this time ><

[Trebuken]

Yeah I have been playing the PC version as well without any problems, which is actually remarkable. I can run it at fairly high settings as well which usually introduces more issues...

It's worth trudging through the issues though deleted saves are killer...