Bethesda today released the next part of its Fallout 3 DLC, The Pitt, but warnings have come in from early downloaders to avoid this thing like the plague, because it's borked to Hell. Described as "completely broken" by one poster, and flagged as a "corrupted file" by a Dtoid community member, it sounds like this download needs to be avoided for now.
Giant floating exclamation marks seem to be the most striking phenomenon in The Pitt, although glitchy graphics and missing textures are also quite prominent. Raiders are showing "rainbow colors" on certain parts of their bodies, and that classic -- the complete game freeze -- is also rearing its ugly head with regularity.
With three threads on the subject at Bethesda's forums already, this is looking to be quite a widespread issue. The general consensus right now is to avoid The Pitt, especially on the 360, where it seems a majority of these issues lie.
Frankly, this doesn't surprise me. Fallout 3 was, itself, a shameful mess of glitches and bugs. The fact that the DLC is a botched mess seems rather in keeping with the spirit of the game.
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8:00 AM on 03.24.2009
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It's a shame if the DLC is such a mess, but I never intended to get it anyway. For me FO3 had an ending and I didn't intend to spend time with it after that. I can patiently wait for the inevitable number 4.
Not that I'm all that bothered now, my 10 month old 360 has E74'd. happened after I downloaded this, I don't think there is a connection though.
Still, avoid this like the plague.
Holy shit, you can taste the pretentious!
Lucky. While mine only suffered the occasional glitch or loss of textures, it would randomly crash all the time. I got real close to the save function in that game.
Still, to hear that the DLC is that horribly buggy is kind of sad.
Fallout had some bugs, but it was hardly a "shameful mess of glitches and bugs". The game was pretty fucking stellar IMO and never crashed or hung up on me on the one and a half playthroughs I've given the game. The only glitch I ever had was on my first playthrough where the lincoln memorial was buggy when you went to the back of the memorial.
IIRC, you guys gave the game a 9 and make no mention of this "mess of glitches and bugs", which seems to be a pretty convenient turn of opinion for your story more than any real issues with the original game.
Did it have reported bugs? Yep. Were there people who had game breaking glitches? Yep. Was it something that affected everyone in every way, making the game unplayable or somehow full of shame? Nope.
But good to know about the Pitt not being "ready." Was going to download it as soon as I got home but knowing this, I'll wait.
I played it on the PS3 and PC and had a great experience, too.
Maybe this will be a better PC experience than a 360 one.
Then many hours later i went exploring and came accross a giant white void, that crashed my xbox when i walked into it. Oh, but enemies were still attacking me.
It didn't really take away from my enjoyment, but it did concern me a bit.
IIRC, I never wrote that review, and actually disagree with the game's score. Contrary to popular belief, the Destructoid writers do not share some all-encompassing hive mind.
My experience of the game is of glitches and bullshit. I deeply apologize for not having the exact same experience you did.
"Holy shit, you can taste the pretentious!"
Holy shit, you don't know what that word means!
Anyway, with the main game, I've had the occasional glitch here and there for the PS3 version of the game, but then I played the PC version and it ran pretty fine for me.
The game was simply amazing.
Sucks the DLC is hosed, but according to a post by one of the members of the Bethesda team, they are looking into it. So, I'll just re-download it later when it's fixed.
keep it up, guys.
METAL GEAR?
I'm sorry, I guess you were right. I must have defined you instead of your little news blurb. My mistake.
Sorry for the size.
Did you try the unpatched PS3 version? I did, and it made a mockery of that quote. Game freezing every time you get any sort of message in the corner, and the massively irritating G.O.A.T. bug. As good a game as it is, Bethesda continously thinks it can get away without proper QA/testing, and that is shameful.
Looks like the download is missing some 3d model files. How did that slip through QA?
Sufficed to say, I'm gutted, but at least Major Nelson's on the case.
That's right bludesign just because you had no problems with the game absolutly means no one else did. They're all wrong and you're right. Do you think anything before you say or type it? Also see PySk's pic in this article. Yes there is nothing wrong and the world is all sunshine and puppies.
I feel people need to start being more critical of lazy design in order to force the developers to change their bad habits.
Pure gold.
On the other hand, The Pitt is TOTALLY FUCKED like, pre-alpha build fucked. So irritating.
It appears like the 360 build was corrupted. Bethesda could've uploaded the wrong build to Microsoft, Microsoft could've uploaded the wrong build to LIVE, or it could've been corrupted in the final upload. I am leaning towards the latter, as it's very unlikely that Microsoft would have uploaded The Pitt without giving it a spin through their QA department.
This is a big ol FUBAR tho - I mean missing assets - entire buildings tsk tsk.
Some people will find no bugs and others will find all of them. It's the nature of beast. I think Jonathan Ross found every glitch imaginable when he was playing the first Gears of War while I hardly saw any. It painted our impressions of the game quite differently. He also played by himself which as complete fail :P
Fallout 3 is practically a technical breakthrough. It's astonishingly massive. It's only natural that it has some issues. I do agree that calling it a "shameful mess of glitches and bugs" is a bit over the top.
I'd agree with you, except for the fact that this game isn't a linear corridor shooter. And games (even something like CoD4 or GoW2) have had geometry issues. It's not anything rare. I've had Marcus go through a piece of cover and be stuck.
The problem here is that everyone is trying to make their experience the definitive one. I get what DMV was saying, even though he came off a little jerk off-ish.