PS3 Fallout DLC "earliest date possible"

By Robert Purchese Published 11 May, 2011

Honest Hearts at mercy of PSN restoration.

The continued absence of a PlayStation Store means Fallout: New Vegas - Honest Hearts will release on "the earliest date possible" on PS3, Bethesda has said.

Xbox Live and Steam welcome the add-on on 17th May.

Honest Hearts takes you to a post-apocalyptic Zion National Park in Utah. There, raiders attack your caravan - and so begins your role in the conflict between the warring factions of a New Canaanite missionary and the Mysterious Burned Man.

On Monday, Sony announced that PSN services won't return until later this week - "it will likely be a few more days," the comms chief Patrick Seybold said.

First to be restored will be online PS3 gaming and matchmaking. It's thought the PlayStation Store will be the last of the features to return.

Honest Hearts.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • RodHull #1 1 year ago

    @bleaseboxx

    They're releasing a Move game based on that scenario you mentioned, game includes Move wand and 2 rusty meat hooks.

  • andijames #2 1 year ago

    Not to sound like a pedantic bastardo but it was Tuesday then said it would be a few more days not Monday :)

    ahem.

  • Murton #3 1 year ago

    @andijames: not to try to out pedant a "pedantic bastardo" like yourself, but the announcement was made on Monday night, it's just that SCEE didn't make the official European announcement until they woke up and read their emails on the Tuesday.

    Hmmm, Bethesda reminding us that DLC is on the way and will be available as soon as the Store is back up. Unfortunately adding DLC to a game which already features a horrendous memory leak is a bad idea if you actually want to play that game rather than constantly reach for the power button, we learned that from Fallout 3. If Bethesda want PS3 owners to play their DLC then they have two options 1: make it free to PS+ members like they did with the Fallout 3 DLCs or 2: fix the fucking memory leak. There's no way any anyone in their right mind would pay for something which they know isn't going to work so don't ask them to.

  • andijames #4 1 year ago

    @murton

    My apologies i just took the date off of the american blog when it was posted on the 10th and presumed that was yesterday that is all.
    Edited by andijames at 11/05/11 @ 16:25

  • Murton #5 1 year ago

    @andi - no worries, the announcement was made in Japan and then translated across the following morning. That's the worst part in this whole outage business really. the SCEA and SCEJ are calling all of the shots and making all of the announcements and then SCEE just relays the information. The result being that we're last to know, take the Identity Theft Insurance in the US, Howard Stringer announced it, SCEE then forwarded the announcement to the Euro blog and then scrambled their own update saying "you guys are going to get something similar, once we get it worked out" and then nothing else since. Sony have handled a lot of things well, but the communication has been dire, it can't be beyond their ability to update all blogs and FAQs at the same time surely?

    I also find it strange that the Euro blogs and forums are affected by the outage but the US ones aren't. People are still posting comments over there and those comments are being moderated but not replied to, kinda makes you wonder what's going on.

    /off topic

  • DAILY-BONG-TOKER #6 1 year ago

    I FUKN NEED PSN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SONY FIRE YOUR MAINTENANCE MAN HES SLOW!!!!!!!!!!!
    Edited by DAILY-BONG-TOKER at 12/05/11 @ 19:00

  • andijames #7 1 year ago

    Yeah i think the majority of the servers that were effected were based in Japan/US but i'm not sure how they can still login in the USA unless they still have authentication servers running that are nothing to do with PSN but are Sony?? Really not sure to be honest it is a bit confusing! I imagine most things will be ironed out in the coming few days and then the rest of the network will come online by end of the month (about another 2-3 weeks). Still been a complete nightmare for them from start to finish. Don't blame them at all really with what's gone on after all they were victims in all of this but i guess you have to find a balance between doing what's right for your customers whilst also keeping them happy.

  • RodHull #8 1 year ago

    @bleaseboxx

    That'll explain the fits of giggles she's been suffering from since. I put it down to another of her mogodon/diazepam mishaps.

  • jablonski #9 1 year ago

    3 news stories in a row out of this?

    Fallout DLC was such a mixed bag on Fallout 3 that I think I'' probably give this a miss

  • bodhi85uk #10 1 year ago

    I wonder how they'll take all our stuff away from us this time. Looks like another melee heavy DLC from the video

  • Torkin #11 1 year ago

    I'm playing New Vegas on 360 and have a question! Bethesda told us to decline the last update because of a bug with saved games not loading. Well, i haven't read anything since then and I'm still declining the update. Does anyone know if the problem has already been solved? Thanks.

  • makeamazing #12 1 year ago

    Do you know what, I can wait thanks... I LOVED Fallout and played all of the DLC, but I just havent got on with NV so far... have to try and get motivated with it again, but it just so far given me enough new reasons to play it... unlike AC Brotherhood which shows you how to release a game using the same engine but with so much more.

  • Gumersindo #13 1 year ago

    Anybody waiting for the Special Edition with every DLC in it?

  • arremelle #14 1 year ago

    FallOut on the PS3 is an excellent game. There are lower gfx vs the PC version, but it still looks excellent and plays very well.
    Looking forward to DLC being available.