BRB: CRYING BLOOD.

[antoj]

Vlakume's Fallout 3 file has PERMANENTLY CORRUPTED. I should have gone to bed two hours ago but I've been trying everything in my power to freaking fix this. I was about to freak out and shit when I realized I had saved a copy of his file right before Tranquility Lane.

THANK GOD.

Sure I lose about 10 hours of gameplay (over the course of four days, apparently) and will have to re-do 3-4 quests including making the hilariously dangerous trek through Deathclaw-ville USA.

But at least I don't have to restart his entire file.

It's either that, or try to salvage every bit of shit from his Tenpenny Tower suite that I can, and then just never ever want to go in it ever again, since the game will freeze every time, without fail, upon trying to load the floor the suite is on. EVERYTIME. WHY DID I OVER WRITE MY SECOND BACK-UP SAVE WITH THE CORRUPTED DATA AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Seriously though, thank GOD I HAVE THAT TRANQUILITY LANE save. @___@;;; (also thank god it's not like 2 weeks worth of gameplay behind)

Moral of the story: Save like 3 different copies of fallout 3 files. Do not overwrite previously working saves. ): I... I don't even know anymore... please patch this bethesda? Google says it happens on xbox AND ps3, so its not even something with just my console... ):

vlakume i will get you back up to speed in no time.

ugh.

Update I emailed bethsoft's support and they basically told me I'm fucked. haha. brb bringing file up to speed.

Comments

[jammiedodger.livejournal.com]

So whereabouts (unspoilerly please, I'm only level 7 and not too far in :P) does this happen? I was keeping two save files per character (in Oblivion I never overwrote my saves, and I'm STILL trying to delete about 200 saves -- I wish you could delete more than one at a time, but they are dumb -- from my xbox, they take up soo much space. Dx My Oblivion portion of my HD is literally about 2 gb, which is a lot on my poor ancient 20gb HD. :( I'm trying not to make the same mistake with Fallout 3, I might have gone a bit overboard though), but I save pretty frequently. I added in a third save file the other night after reading this. Maybe I should keep one save file a day behind, and then my other two as my frequently updating ones? What would you recommend?