Forum:What is considered a bug?

Is there a policy on bugs other than this post on notable bugs policy? I cleaned up the bug section of the Ultra-Luxe, a few on Gomorrah and plan on doing a few others for which I have saves near a point where I can verify them. I removed some entries that I don't consider bugs, for example:


 * The seats of the Gourmand are highlighted in red (although this may be due to the waitlist associated with such a high caliber restaurant), regardless there are no consequences (faction, karma, et cetera) for sitting.

I don't consider that a bug, because it doesn't have any effect on the game. There are still two on the bug list that I wouldn't consider bugs since neither of them cause an undesirable or negative effect on the game. I left them in because I was able to consistently reproduce them:


 * In the bathhouse, if you walk into the semi-circle indent in the wall to the right of the steam room door, you will fall out of the map and be teleported back to the center the bathhouse in front of the pool. If you do this during the Beyond the Beef quest you can see the assassin in a tiny room underneath the steam room.
 * The female croupier who is running the roulette game on the east side of the casino floor may become unconscious when entering the casino area from The Strip. After a few seconds she will stand up and return to her original position behind the table.

Also, if a bug has been fixed by a patch, should it be removed or mentioned that is was fixed by patch x.xx? I've seen some articles that just mention that it was fixed. I don't know how patches are handled on consoles, but since the PC version is tied to Steam, it will always be patched to the latest version and seems reasonable to remove the bug after it has been fixed.

--jimnms 17:04, July 31, 2011 (UTC)