Forum:Will the game include bug/crash reporting/fixing software

One of my biggest gripes with Fallout 3 on the PC was how buggy it was. I know defending against crashes and poor performance is harder with PCs because of the great variability in the machines playing the game, but my recent experience with Starcraft 2 has shown that it is possible for a developer to build software that knows when something has gone wrong with itself and automatically gather and report all the specs tech support will need to fix the problem.

I also know that that's Blizzard, and few developers have the care or willingness to devote resources to the stability and improvement of their games after they get your $50 bucks.

So, is there any current information, or reason to hope, that New Vegas will be more stable at release, or at least have a mechanism to gather crash and bad performance data automatically?

Servius 22:18, August 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * I have no idea, but all I know is that I really really hope so. There was some update I did on PS3 which seemed to actually mess up my Fallout 3 more than it already was. Really annoying... I can't even play it for like 15 minutes. Anyway, I would hope that they would make it so that it wasn't buggy at all, but if it was, it'd be nice to have a bug report-type thing. Except I've never heard of that on consoles... 23:20, August 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry Sporky, but it's unlikely that they will. (Incidentally, I've never heard of something like what you're going through. Which version do you have?)
 * I also dunno if there will be an unofficial patch for the PC version, I think Quazzy (the dood who did the F3 patch) died. Nitty Tok. 23:23, August 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm familiar with the Blizzard crash reporting tool from my experience playing WoW. IMO it's a piece of junk - though to be honest, WoW's problems didn't often lead to a crash, at least for me. Not that it didn't have its share of bugs, but crash bugs were rare. Still, wowerror.exe wasn't all that useful even when it did crash. Kris   mailbox  00:12, August 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * If you want a bug free game, then I would suggest something like rock-paper-scissors. If it runs on a game engine, it's going to have bugs. :P Of course, I'm not disregarding the fact that Fallout 3 has crippled my gaming experience (My game froze, so I shut off my xbox, start it back up, and I get the red ring of death. But wait, Bethesda actually screwed me twice here, because my game disc was scratched up beyond use when I got it out. Thanks guys :D) All in all, I had to buy the F3 GOTY edition later just to keep playing, plus get my xbox shipped to Texas. What I would like is for Bethesda to start digging through their game engine for bugs before they continue to make improvements on it, and ship out games like F:NV. I would hate to see all of Obsidian's weapon changes result in a completely new line-up of bugs. Ghouly89 (Talk) 03:04, August 15, 2010 (UTC)