Fallout: New Vegas patch due before DLC

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 13 April, 2011

Should release in next couple of weeks.

Bethesda will patch post-apocalyptic role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas before it releases the next paid downloadable content – widely rumoured to be called Honest Hearts.

The PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 patch implements optimizations and stability improvements, senior producer Jason Bergman wrote on the Bethesda forum.

Bergman and his team worked with Sony and Microsoft to identify issues, "and we have fixed a great deal of the crashes and lockups that people were experiencing." The patch also tweaks weapon balance.

Bergman said the patch should release in the next couple of weeks. An announcement on the next DLC is "coming very soon".

Another update is planned. "We know we're not done yet," Bergman said. "There's still more work to do, and we'll be monitoring the forums very carefully following the release of this patch, looking for more issues."

The new DLC is thought to take place in New Canaan. Images lifted from a quickly pulled video uploaded to YouTube showed a man wearing pants and a crop-top and swinging a spiked club. He was aiming at another human, possibly a lady.

The images also offered a view of an expansive rocky vista and the Honest Hearts title screen.

Picture of Wesley.

About Wesley Yin-Poole

Wesley is Eurogamer's news editor. He likes news, interviews, and more news. He also likes Street Fighter more than anyone can get him to shut up about it.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • PixelPirate #1 1 year ago

    we'll be monitoring the forums very carefully following the release of this patch, looking for more issues."

    You really dont have to look very hard....

  • Romeric #2 1 year ago

    "We know we're not done yet"

    I knew that when I bought the game on the release date. Possibly the most glitch/bug-ridden game I have ever encountered. This trend of releasing buggy games, only to rely on patches later seriously needs to stop. For me, New Vegas would have been much more enjoyable if it weren't for constant glitches and a more than acceptable number of crashes. I'm talking invisible enemies, giant ants spawning upside down, Brahmin clipping into the scenery... I could go on.

  • elmoape #3 1 year ago

    Taking their fucking time for this DLC. I'm sure the fallout 3 DLC was released much faster...

  • roojames #4 1 year ago

    #firstworldproblems

  • menage #5 1 year ago

    I stlil have to complete the main game, bit I don't think I can. I loved F3, technically I should love Vegas but for some reason I can't keep interested. Boring even.

    It's probably the factions, they all leave me cold. If I see another army tent I'm going insane. And then the bugs came.

    I'm never buying an Obsidan game again.
    Edited by menage at 13/04/11 @ 08:54

  • metalangel #6 1 year ago

    WARNING: Comment #12 gives away the ending[/b]

    @menage: yup. As it's so similar to FO3, I find myself infuriated that I can't do what my FO3 character could, especially when my progress is brought to a grinding halt because I lack a skill requirement and can't be bothered going looking for trouble to grind it up.

    I do wonder if I made a mistake going straight to Vegas after the first town but I and others I know feel a bit burnt out after Fallout 3 and New Vegas doesn't offer enough new or different stuff to do. It doesn't help they've added loads of complexity to the ammo system which completely overwhelms the inventory interface.
    Edited by metalangel at 13/04/11 @ 12:36

  • gooner77 #7 1 year ago

    I somehow managed to enjoy this despite the wide range of obvious bugs. Now I can time to my 2nd playthrough with the patch and new DLC (still haven't played the first dlc)

    Its a good game , sometimes you just have to look a bit harder to see it.

  • ERG1008 #8 1 year ago

    Agree with menage to a point.
    Fallout 3 was fantastic and couldn't get enough of it but NV just lacked a certain something and stopped being interesting about half way through.
    Not sure if I'll snub Obsidian though.

  • liveinabin #9 1 year ago

    I've only had two crashes in my whole playthrough of New Vegas (360). Pretty bug free. That said, my friend is on the PS3 game and it crashes continuously (as did Fallout 3 - I bought the wrong format there). Maybe they just need to patch the PS3 game.

  • atomised #10 1 year ago

    it's absolutely appalling that a product can be sold that is so broken: only in the video game industry. there is strong consumer legislation in australia against selling of broken/faulty consumer goods.
    imagine if it was a chair: 'oh, sorry we advertised it with four legs but now that you have bought it gotta sell it with 3 legs, won't be fit to be used but we'll supply the fourth leg later...oh yes this may not hold...'
    i loved fallout 3 but could not be bothered with something so flawed. i was hoping it would have been fixed by now.
    they are lucky they have not had civil suits against them for their 'product'.

    heck if i had a truck of money i'd sue them, just to stop all these crappy companies releasing piles of poo.

  • Gecks #11 1 year ago

    it would be lovely if they somehow fixed the two paths to power armour that have glitched for me.

  • milki-tea #12 1 year ago

    The only bug that really got me screaming was when you get to the Dam at the end of the game for the president assassination and the final battle of the Dam, my xbox 360 slim started making noises ive never heard before, and the game just stuttered through the whole last 2 mission, was awful. So, even if they've sorted that, im happy!

  • metalangel #13 1 year ago

    @milkitea: Spoiler tags, for fuck's sake! Idiot.

  • DavoTheDiv #14 1 year ago

    Something, something, patch.

  • superbeast2010 #15 1 year ago

    Post deleted at 10:57:39 01-02-2012

  • ShiroBen #16 1 year ago

    Love turned to like turned to resentment. So many things right, so very many things wrong. Can this patch make it all better? Is it not already too late? Will the creators learn any kind of a lesson from this?

    Time will tell.

  • Tryhard #17 1 year ago

    My first play through was all about save corruption.I had one good save out of four corrupted points.And had to play offline.
    But from then on it was save every 5 minutes,check save.Reload from checked save.
    I was worrying more about the saves than enjoying the game.

    I may give it another playthrough.And enjoy it,how I should have enjoyed it in the first place.

  • 32768Colours #18 1 year ago

    "We know we're not done yet," Bergman said. "There's still more work to do, and we'll be monitoring the forums very carefully following the release of this patch, looking for more issues."

    Must be nice to have a huge swathe of your game testing carried out and paid for by loyal fans. Go Obsidian!

  • darkphoenix #19 1 year ago

    Yes, the more I played F:NV, the more buggy aaannnddddd slow it gradually became.
    I had to reset it every 2 hours, terrible memory issues resulting in failure to stream-load and taking forever to load a new area.

    I finished it first on Hardcore Survival mode, wich is totally broken btw.
    Then, I went for the completion, but all those bugs just kept me cold.

    I didn't enjoy this half as much I enjoyed F3, no contest about it.
    Some great new ideas, but awful technical implementation.

  • RumpyStumpy #20 1 year ago

    I got New Vegas as a present and it's still unopened. Soon it my be worth breaking the seal.

    Loved FO3 so have high hopes for this once it's fixed.

  • darkphoenix #21 1 year ago

    What about raising the level cap?!?
    I won't touch the damn thing until then...

    I want to buy all the bionic upgrades in the clinic, but I need to level up.

    After all, what's the point in having a HUGE game with lots of stuff to do and to kill, if you're going to undermine it with level cap?
    I reached the maximum level ages before even finishing the main story.
    What am I suposed to do know?
    Wander the Mojave, pointless killing useless enemies?

  • peppergomez #22 1 year ago

    too little, too late