Serious Fallout 3 bug... Or something.

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#1 Sgt_Politeness
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So, I was playing Fallout 3 earlier today. I'm level 18, and on the last main storyline quest, but I decided to explore and level up a little more, because I hear the game ends after you finish the last one. So, I'm in the middle of exploration, I just left the Oasis, and I was cruising around looking for trouble, but I needed to leave and saved my game. I only have two save files: the autosave and a single "In Case I Don't Get Out of this Alive" save. 

 I just got back home, and loaded my "In Case..." file, and for some reason, I'm in a rock. Somehow it replaced me just a little under the game's geography. But I can't jump out. I hit my head on the "roof" of the rock, and I can't run out, because the rock sides. I even tried stupid stuff like shooting a missile at my feet or dropping a grenade to see if I can blast myself back into the game's normal geometry. No luck. So, I think, "That sucks. Looks like I have to use the auto save file and start over back when I left the Oasis." I load the autosave, but for some reason, it sinks me into the dirt. It's like I'm wading through the path, only it's really choppy because the camera doesn't know where it should be, so it's kind of sickening. But I tried running around to somehow unlodge myself, and I can't do it.

 And now, halfway through my post, I just tried reloading both files, and there was no luck on the first save, but I reloaded the autosave, and now, suddenly it works. Until just this moment, I was terrified that 30-50 hours just went down the toilet.

Any other weird bugs you've experienced? Funny or exasperating?  

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#2 TonyOG13
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I dont know if anyone else has this problem or its my game, but sometimes when I go into the VATS system is shows 0% on all limbs and I can't exit out of it an I have to restart from the last saved point. After I go through killing all these fools and suddenly I can't exit out of it. It's happend what about a 3 to 4 times so far.

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#3 ianp_91
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when ur in the rock or dirt have u tried to fast travel something. i got stuck between some rocks before and i just chose to fast travel to the nearest town and it took me there and i wasnt stuck anymore...try that if u havent..
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#4 atm0073
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Oh man I've been where you are. I wasn't as far into the game as you are (I was at Level 11 with about 25 hours of gameplay), but I did glitch up and end up having to restart the entire game; unluckily this glitch was a bit more stubborn and there was no way to get out of it. I had gone into a building to explore it; I forgot the name of the location. Anyway, there is this section of the building where there is a hallway filled with rubble and its ceiling is collapsed, and there were two file cabinets in the rubble so I decided to jump into the rubble and get what was in them. Once I did that, I couldn't get out of the rubble. I tried everything, from dropping all of my weapons to shooting myself in the feet with a Fat Man. I could not jump back out because of what I think was a glitchy issue with the design of the caved-in ceiling and the rubble; I just couldn't jump out. What made it all even worse was that I could have just reloaded my save from when I entered the building, but I was so entwined with getting out that it didn't occur to me to do so, plus, I didn't feel like recollecting what I had found in the building. So, out of fright and in-the-moment ignorance, one of the things I tried was waiting a couple of hours, which overwrote my save from entering the building. So instead of losing 15 minutes of gameplay, I lost about an entire day's worth. Just because of a silly mistake and a stupid glitch. I was so upset about this that I wrote to Bethesda about the glitch, explaining it in detail. I'm still pissed off about this because this was my only save in which I did not have Megaton blown up (at the time I was playing off two saves, a good Karma save and a bad Karma save, and so instead of starting a whole new game after I lost my good Karma save, I just played off my bad Karma save), and because of this, I've missed out on a lot of things, namely a Bobblehead (which I will have to play the entire game over again just to get, as I plan on collecting all of the bobbleheads). But hey, look where I am now... over 70 total hours of gameplay and 860 Gamerscore in the game. Haven't run into another glitch since. Luckily though, I've learned from my mistake of overwriting my save, so if I do in fact run into any other problems, I'll be prepared :)
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#5 Mau-Justice
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I had the strangest bug. Everytime I loaded in this one spot, my character would shoot his gun off right away without me hitting anything, then after that none of the buttons would work. Needless to say I reloaded about 20 times and finally it worked.

The bugs are few and far between considering how great the game is, I mean I did experience some clipping and strange issues occasionally but nothing that made the game any less memorable for me.

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#6 the_game_fan
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I got stuck in the rocks near Megaton. I releoaded the auto-save from just outside Megaton and it worked fine.

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#7 Vittupersaatana
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Happened to me too. Among other things.
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#8 Vittupersaatana
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Happened to me too, among other things.
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#9 Vittupersaatana
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I got problems in Jeffersson memorial room. First of all the cenral unable shoot the Assistant scientist. Cenral is just shooting like hell and finally after few minutes he hits the target. So, now the plot can gontinue but when I'm leaving from Jefferson's memorial room, game goes frozen when loading. I was able to go trough these difficulties before and I got away from the Enclaves using escape tunnel... But when I finally got in the surface Brotherhood Of Steel fellows who were suppose to help me killed me and my escaoing companions. Thats just the forst of it.

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#10 chit0wn_23
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i'm having the problem where my character gets stuck on the way to the underground caves in Oasis. This really pissin me off anyone know any solutions?

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#11 ThatsSimtastic
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[QUOTE="Mau-Justice"]

I had the strangest bug. Everytime I loaded in this one spot, my character would shoot his gun off right away without me hitting anything, then after that none of the buttons would work. Needless to say I reloaded about 20 times and finally it worked.

The bugs are few and far between considering how great the game is, I mean I did experience some clipping and strange issues occasionally but nothing that made the game any less memorable for me.

I got that aswell, all I had to do was restart my xbox and it was fine again..