Fallout New Vegas bug is scary

CVG: Fallout: New Vegas is so good it'll make your head spin, quite literally in the case of Doc Mitchell.

The first character you meet in New Vegas can't control his head, which spins around while he talks, before he floats around the room while his bonce flops down to chest level.

[Mista T]

lol, I wish this bug happened to me when I started the game. I would've laughed out of my chair :P

[hay]

Lol, maybe it's homage to The Exorcist?

[toaster]

Well if it's homage to poorly developed games then Obsidian is doing it right.

[ProjectVulcan]

They must use blind testers or something. I know the economy problems hit everyone hard, but you cant pick up cheap testing labour from the queue outside the nearest optician.

[Timesplitter14]

I want this game even more now

[visualb]

I LAUFGHED SO HARD! especially when he stood up! xP

[kneon]

I think Bethesda don't like doctors as there was a similar problem with the doctor in Megaton in FO3. If he was in bed and you went to talk to him his head would disappear or be twisted around in some very unnatural orientation while he was getting up.

[Snakefist30]

HAHAHAHAHA!!

[B-Real206]

weird, it was almost a day 1 purchase for me but I flaked out and changed my mind. Gonna hold out a little while.

[jony_dols]

I don't think New Vegas is going to win all the accolades that Fallout 3 got,
but at least it is a definite shoe-in for one award : most broken game of the year.

[Cenobia]

Despite all the glitches and negative comments (about glitches), I just couldn't help myself and "pre-ordered" from Amazon yesterday. I just really want to play a game like this right now.

Maybe because it's getting cold and the game takes place in Vegas...

I hated the way the story played out in the F3, so hopefully this is a big improvement in that department.

[Acquiescence]

Look on the bright side, it would make a killer party trick.

[foker]

omg that was crazy !

[Eiffel]

Have yet to get my copy, damn mail is slow lately. Love how I pre-order and get the game the day after release. Meh.

[CandyCaptain]

I wish I wasn't wearing my skirt.......damn demonic pervs

[Sarcasm]

LOL

In other news, the game is buggy. Surprised anyone? People with Nvidia cards are having massive frame dips (including me) where the fps goes from 60fps to as low as 10fps. WTF...

[MegaMohsi]

is there a way to check fps without using fraps, maybe typing in something in the console command?

[Nihilism]

nope, the engine does not support it, fraps is free anyway, it's like 2mb, just run it in the background, press f11 to start benching...press f11 again and in the fraps directory there is a txt file, it will tell you max, avg, min frame for the period.

[MegaMohsi]

Am I the only one not getting any serious bugs? I'm roughly 3 hours in and aside from the white spots I've been getting due to the nvidia 400 series issues and 1 scorpion clipping underneath railroad tracks, the game has run perfectly, no crashes or anything.

[dragon82]

I haven't seen any bugs either. I also had very minor issues with Fallout 3. I am on the PS3 version if it helps.

[Orion]

How much did you play Fallout3? I had the GOTY edition and it was great until I had finished every quest available, DLC included, and was trying to "polish" that 100% in trophies. Those last hours were completely unplayable, crashing every few minutes.

[A Cupcake for Gabe]

It's not cause you have PC PS3 or 360, it's a Fallout thing. The bugs are random. Some people have broken games throughout, otter have no issues at all. It's all luck really. When you have 10,000 options to choose from, there's bound to be a few hiccups.

[Triggs]

@MegaMohsi

Just one crash when I shot at an NPC I thought was lunging towards me (his companion went hostile on me). Other than that, New Vegas seems to be more stable than Fallout 3 (initially, at least). One Clipping problem with a hostile Powder Ganger stuck on a mound chest deep but I'm used to waving off minor bugs like these for a large game like Fallout. Nothing is perfect. Kind of funny and weird to see that,too. I had to mercy kill that Powder Ganger execution style to get him out of his misery.

May I ask if the game is running smoothly on your series 400 video card and have you set the settings to Ultra HIgh? I had to tone down the settings a bit to High Quality because NPC's shake too much when they walk/run if the game is set to Ultra high. Still, High Quality looks superb.

(I just love the true iron sights!)

GTX275
i7-920 (overclocked to 3.2 Ghz)
6GB RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit

[LeAspect]

LOL

[Constantime]

hahha how can they even have the stomach to release such a broken game? Fuck you obsidian

[dragon82]

Not everyone is getting issues like this. I haven't seen anything like this yet.

[Beahmscream]

BJ at 1:45? lmao

[3ldiablo666]

That's a work of the devil!

[BannedForNineYears]

Reminds me of that haunted version of Zelda Majora's Mask.

[Vip3r]

Best glitch of all time. Bar laddergoat that is. ;)

[Simco876]

Its the PC version... don't believe its a glitch! MOD!!!

[Count]

I've fought mud crabs more fearsome than this.

[DTG_The_Man]

This brings a very special quote to my mind: "YOUR MOTHER SUCK COCKS IN HELL!"

The Exorcist?

Seriously, though, I haven't had that problem. I guess the bullet that hit the person playing the game made it look like people have spinning heads or something.

[Def Warrant]

Another mediocre third party game i'll be passing on. They just keep getting worst.

[Jack-Pyro]

Mediocre third party game......*looks at Mortal Kombat avi*......HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHA!!!!!!

[Kingdom Come]

"What's so strang...wait, what's up with his neck? Wait, what's, what's happ... WTF?!"
"Why's he... What... The... F..., now he's floating?! Wait, he reminds me of one of the creatures from one of the Siren games. What the Hell?"

[Der_Kommandant]

Fatal Frame New Vegas

[C L O U D]

I so wish I can get up from a chair like that.

[DTG_The_Man]

What? Float into a chick's vagina. I would like to do that, too.

[hoops]

Bug ridden orgy of a game