Fallout 3 glitch

[dreadmaster]

ok i got a funny glich dancing mutated bears

 

[bikebones]

i hope xojins answers with his solution

 

[bikebones]

so my quest still says i need to escort dr. li INSIDE when i do it it freezes inside at 5 feet. i have tried to leave my companion. and also enter the secret back glitch way still no luck as soon as i enter the citadel she freezes me as she walks in

 

[walls of cetepedes]

This is the second thread I've seen with this glitch in a row.

OT: I don't know the fix.

Yes, but look at the date for this one. December 2008.

 

[WolfMage]

Ok, so I'm on the quest where you have to escort Doctor Li to the Citadel. I already escorted her there and she yelled into the intercom and everything, and the gate opened and all of us went inside, but it didn't give me the quest. I didn't know what to do so I just went and did other side quests, and then I came back to the Citadel. However, now every time I walk in more than 5 feet it freezes me in place, and I see Doctor Li walk past me, and the other scientists come out to greet her or whatever, but I can't move at all, look at my Pip-Boy, take out a weapon or anything, and I still haven't gotten the quest. Does anyone know what I should do to fix this?

No, I don't have a save point earlier than this.

Go search for the quest codes, use the code for the quest you need to get, and hopefully all ends well.

 

[ThePirateMan]

Do it like me, I have 800 saves.

 

[mcbakura]

its supposed to freaze and you sit there listening to them talk crap until yhe elder scribe talks to you then carry on . if this dont work then i sugesst goin there guns blazing and then leave and come back a few days later.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Ohh and it's a Bethesda game - that means have at least 10 backed up saves as they are completely unprofessional about game making. They can't even make PC games that actually quit when you click "Quit" - they just crash to desktop.

That last one seems to happen to Source Engine games as well as just Bethesda by the way, and with far more regularity than it happens with Fallout 3 for me. Doesn't make them any worse as games.

Maybe so, but still... Bethesda are generally known for the shoddyness of their titles. It normally takes a slew of patches and community patches to bring their games up to an acceptable standard of completeness.

I've run into some troubles with bethesda games but I'd never go so far to call it "unprofessional" or "incomplete". They produce giant sandbox games where the player is often free to do all sorts of stuff that may screw up the game. When you give the player the power to destroy your carefully crafted world on accident it's difficult to figure out all the ways such a thing might occur and patch for it until it happens. I've never had a problem completing any bethesda game out of the box so it's never seemed fundamentall "broken". I played both morrowind and oblivion on consoles while deployed (meaning no internet access) and managed to more or less finish them.

Sure, I've run into really annoying glitches myself (the vampirism cure quest in oblivion is my favorite as it took three attempts for it to work properly) - they seem to space themselves far enough apart that they don't destroy my will to continue on with the games.

 

[megapenguinx]

Ohh and it's a Bethesda game - that means have at least 10 backed up saves as they are completely unprofessional about game making. They can't even make PC games that actually quit when you click "Quit" - they just crash to desktop.

That last one seems to happen to Source Engine games as well as just Bethesda by the way, and with far more regularity than it happens with Fallout 3 for me. Doesn't make them any worse as games.

Maybe so, but still... Bethesda are generally known for the shoddiness* of their titles. It normally takes a slew of patches and community patches to bring their games up to an acceptable standard of completeness.

It pays to remember though that Bethesda games are HUGE and it is somewhat understandable that the glitches are as widespread (However not near as horrible as the crap-fest Fable 2)

God I hated the glitches in Fable 2 (and the fact you can't make multiple save files with the same character). But yeah, if you do manage to fix this bug, remember to make more than one save file. Just in case.

 

[bikebones]

i found the answer.. you need to go to little lamplight which is the next quest in the trail quest

 

[GOATOFRAGE]

i had a glitch when, after taking the big town quest everyone started shooting at me, and i had good karma so i was puzzled, ah well, i ended up killing everyone in big town, which was good fun

 

[SlayerNumber1]

What exactly did you do? please i gotta know i cant do anything else in the game besides that mission

 

[GonzoGamer]

Ohh and it's a Bethesda game - that means have at least 10 backed up saves as they are completely unprofessional about game making. They can't even make PC games that actually quit when you click "Quit" - they just crash to desktop.

That last one seems to happen to Source Engine games as well as just Bethesda by the way, and with far more regularity than it happens with Fallout 3 for me. Doesn't make them any worse as games.

Maybe so, but still... Bethesda are generally known for the shoddiness* of their titles. It normally takes a slew of patches and community patches to bring their games up to an acceptable standard of completeness.

It pays to remember though that Bethesda games are HUGE and it is somewhat understandable that the glitches are as widespread (However not near as horrible as the crap-fest Fable 2)

That's what I was going to say: any game like this with a huge 3d world, there always seems to be a bunch of hard brake (even game over-start again from the beginning) glitches. Oblivion was just as bad if I remember correctly. Actually, the only ones that stick out are the Jesus bandits.

San Andreas had quite a few of those game ending glitches as well; like the Mad Dog jumping glitch.

What might be an exception is Just Cause 2. I haven't played it as extensively yet but it's really smooth.