How glitchy is Fallout: New Vegas, exactly?

People keep on saying that the game is full of technical problems and glitches. What are those glitches anyway? And are they more annoying than the FO3 GOTY glitches or less annoying?

played for about 6 hours on xbox 360 and just see occasional bad guy get stuck in a rock or car wreck. nothing as funny as that guy who had Doc's head rotate !!! classic.

In Fallout 3, just about everybody had different glitches. New Vegas uses the same engine, which obviously hasn't been improved one bit. So some people may have a pretty good experience, while others may find it almost unplayable. On exactly the same system.

Ya basically everyone now and then it kinda pauses for like a second or two. ( Frame rate drop), and like enemies will get stuck in rocks. Nothing MAJOR, but everyone exagerates online. Enough if your like a graphics whore, or someone with OCD to get upset about, but the average gamer really wouldn't notice this stuffXx-Addict-xX

I have 30 hours into the game and it has froze 1 time.

It seems either people are blowing things out of proportion, or certain games are somehow more buggier then others (which is bull). The game does have a little lag, but to say it ruins the game is laughable.

Some people experience some pretty bad glitches others not really, but the game has some really bad glitches.

I checked out the GT review and the reviewer got stuck in a house., I also saw a video of the doctor who has his head rolling and rolling.

Also there are problems like freezing, and the game goes to the XMB and quits the game by it's own.

I hope that are going to be patches to fix this bugs, but it's amazing how they launch a game in this condition.

Ya basically everyone now and then it kinda pauses for like a second or two. ( Frame rate drop), and like enemies will get stuck in rocks. Nothing MAJOR, but everyone exagerates online. Enough if your like a graphics whore, or someone with OCD to get upset about, but the average gamer really wouldn't notice this stuffXx-Addict-xX

been playing steady since release. the periodical frame drop ( a half second freeze) seems to be when its loading stuff in the wastes. I seem to get it once every 5 mins, never had it do that inside buildings. the ai getting stuck is trivial at best. (seems to be a collision detection issue). This problem is a godsend when im running deathclaws!! lol

I think its hit or miss.

I haven't encountered any glitches yet. My main issue with the game is its constantly unsteady framerate

i hope everyone here who is playing on xbox 360 has it installed to their harddrive. one thign i have noticed about it on my HDD is that when i shut the console down, it shuts down pretty much instantly. i have a launch 20gb, and some games cause the console to have to slow down or wind down once its switch off (it stays lit up and flashes beforeactually powering off).

Here is my list of issues:

Game skips during basic functions (walking)

Game AI freezes causing all NPCs to be unresponsive to any kind of action, this includes enemies and friendlies.

During combat: cannot use iron sights, shoot or use weapons, access pipboy, search corpse... basically walk around and die only.

Quest checkpoints and important characters are missing.

Game freezes at important load points (entering towns, waking up, waiting, quest activation)

[QUOTE="Xx-Addict-xX"]Ya basically everyone now and then it kinda pauses for like a second or two. ( Frame rate drop), and like enemies will get stuck in rocks. Nothing MAJOR, but everyone exagerates online. Enough if your like a graphics whore, or someone with OCD to get upset about, but the average gamer really wouldn't notice this stufftekken220

I've played around 12 hours probably, and it's froze around 10 times, and there is plenty of times the game like freezes for just a second or two. Also, just random glitches like I was wondering why I was getting attack on sight by Caesar's Legion despite being neutral, turns out that Boone who was just randomly standing on the staircase leading to Lucky 38 Casino was supposed to be in my party according to the game, but he was just standing there on the steps at all times and I had his gun, which was causing Caesar to attack, so I had to temporarily abandon him. It's not bad though, especially with autosaves.

I guess it's a roll of the dice, if your game glitches or not. I mean this is VEGAS BABAY! Haha. Xx-Addict-xX

froze twice today at the repconn factory

People keep on saying that the game is full of technical problems and glitches. What are those glitches anyway? And are they more annoying than the FO3 GOTY glitches or less annoying?

tekken220

It's the same as when Fallout 3 released, no worse in my opinion. It was just exaggerated and blown completely out of proportion because Obsidian was the developer, not Bethesda and everyone is on their cocck.

I guess it's a roll of the dice, if your game glitches or not. I mean this is VEGAS BABAY! Haha. Xx-Addict-xX

lol so true, it's almost part of the excitement to wonder if you're going to have a good experience or shiity one.

I'd say very glitchy.

it gave my ps3 aids

Beat the game on Hardcore and only had a few issues:

• Companion dissapearing that prevents me from getting another (party is full)
• A.I. freezing
• Objects sink through the floor as you walk up to them
• Infinite loading screen
• Multiple game freezing
• Repairing 2 boxing tapes crashed game
• Adding lazer sights onto the weathered gun (the DLC 10mm) throws up a huge red boxed exclamation mark around the character
• Doctor taking money but not performing the requested action.
• Objectspermanently placed in Items section of inventory
• Boone gives up hisweapon when hegoes inside casino, but never gets it back after we exit and won't use any other weapon.
• Being locked inside rooms that I entered previously (like a hotel room)
• Radio looping the same song over and over (I'm so sick of "Johnny Guitar")
• Invisible pip-boy (not using stealth boy)
• When going up to pick a lock or access a terminal sometimes there's just a black texture that keeps me from seeing what I'm doing
• Giving items to followers and they won't give them back.
• Followers running through locked doors...and dieing.
• Floating enemies
• Getting stuck on rocks
• Corrupted save files

But other than that. The game runs perfectly. Smooth as sandpaper.

after several reloads to try and successfully hack a terminal, i lost hte UI for hacking and lockpicking until i reloaded after switching off the system (even reloading to previous save didnt help, had to restart console)

I'm 15 hours in with three freezes total and very few glitches. I have been playing with all auto save turned off and only one save file. Nothing that can ruin how much I'm enjoying this awesome game.