Forum:Is my save corrupted? How did this even happen!?!?

Okay. I was wandering around, and after a fight with a half-dozen Cazadors, I entered Brewer's Beer Bootlegging. After I got into the basement, Lily died of Cazador poison. So, I re-loaded the auto-save to try to fix that. Well, after it loaded, I couldn't turn around. My left thumbstick was completely unresponsive. Yet, when I went to the map screens, it worked. Same with the V.A.T.S. screen. I repeatedly used V.A.T.S. on Lily to slowly turn around and leave, thinking it might fix if I left the building. Nope. So, I fast-traveled to the Gun-Runners to see if that would do it. Nope. So I made a seperate save and went the Xbox dashboard, and started the game again. It still wouldn't work. Finally, I turned the system off, turned it back on, cleared the system cache, and started the game again. Now, when I start the game, sometimes it will do the "Loading downloadable content. Please wait." thing, then do it again and crash. Other times it will load properly, but when I try to load my game, it will say I don't have the DLC needed for it, even though the DLC screen clearly says I have Dead Money installed, and so does my hard drive. So I try to load it anyway, and it crashes at the loading screen every single time. WTF!?

System: Xbox Level: 29 Difficulty: Hard (Hardcore mode) Location: Brewer's Beer Bootlegging (basement) Companions: Lily Equipment: Reinforced Leather Armor, Sunglasses, Jessup's Bandana, Assault Carbine+ (AP ammo)

-I loaded the save right after I'd opened the Explosives Crate in the corner and taken 1 C-4, 1 Frag Grenade, 1 Plasma Mine, and 1 Incendiary Grenade from it. -Also, earlier that day, I'd given Lily the Oh Baby! super sledge, and I noticed it had disappeared from her inventory while I was troubleshooting. Not sure when it happened, but she had it when I completed "Guess Who I Saw Today," and I remember it being on her back when I went outside to fetch her after the situation with Keene. -I had over 55 hours on this character, and it was my second playthrough, after my first ending was unsatisfactory. If I can't fix this somehow, I'm going to have to give up on this game for a while.

Although i can't say for sure i think you've got a game breaker there, because the exact same thing happened to me by reloading the auto-save in Brewer's Beer Bootlegging basement, this is on the PS3. I re-loaded and re-booted but still no turning. i ended up loading an old game save and everything was fine.

There is some info on this on the Brewer's page here is the reported fix, Fix: try to move forward to an object such as a toolbox, open it, take the contents, and your joystick should work again.Heavenssmile 11:26, February 10, 2011 (UTC)

-Well, it's too late for me, my game won't even load anymore. Hopefully this will help someone else though.