Mine has never worked. I figured I needed to find something in the game to make it work.
Yes, there some quests with Veronica to get it to work. Problem is, even after you get it to work, the game is so buggy that it stops working for many in the manner I described above.
At least I have a chance to get it to work yet.
I never used it, but I got the finishing message that made it clear that apparently I had used it.
In addition to MTUI, try Inventory Sorter. It adds prefixes to items, so that all foods go together, or all chems.
That’s much closer to what I want. Doesn’t applying mods at this point become a problem. I’ve applied many to Fallout 3 but the steam interface makes me hesitate.
Ahh, that makes sense. I think I am going to have to take a break until the next patch then. It’s too annoying when all the interesting locations seem to have immortal mobs, and once you have three of them on you you can’t break the cycle or get anything done.
That’s done. They fixed it within a couple hours though I didn’t notice a new version number.
MIne was still screwed as of 10 minutes ago. I guess I’ll kill and restart steam to see if it can find it.
To me it feels like they are just adding new bugs in the patch, since I barely had any during my first playthrough, but now on the second I’ve had way more:
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the Strip’s gate got mysteriously relocked and the security bots just said “move along” to me, so the only way I could get in was to kill a few of them and grab keys from their smoking, broken metal bodies.
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vendors aren’t refreshing their inventories at all, which is kind of a bummer since I have a few tens of thousands of caps worth of junk on me and ED-E I’d like to sell. Not going to happen with all vendors already drained of their caps, of course.
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ED-E disappearing and then re-appearing in a different location, only way I could find it was the fact they are now marked on the map.
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not being able to do anything after reloading a cowboy repeater or a lever-operated shotgun for a short while. I didn’t have this bug pre-patch and the patch claimed to fix it, but now I have it. Meh.
It’s still playable, but these kinda annoy me, especially the fact there’s no way for me to unload my meticulously scavenged and lovingly repaired pile of heavy weaponery. Missile launchers, miniguns, light machine guns and super sledges, anyone? 
I remembered my mistake from Fallout 3 now that I forgot about while play New Vegas: have EXTRA save point files. I exited a cabin and 4 of the cazadors were waiting for me and I had full health and was dead within seconds. I’ve tried weapons, stealthboys, different armor, slept and waiting til different times of the day back in the one exit cabin and have come to the conclusion that I need to start the game over from zero. :mad:
Question about the main story towards the end of the game:
I’ve made all the decisions regarding the family’s and clans except for the Omertas. Right now, Yes Man only has the option to support their attack on the strip. I told the NCR that they were going to attack New Reno because I don’t especially like them either, but now it looks like that may have forced me into supporting the Omertas. I’ve finished their quest and have nothing else to do with them, though Sal still hasn’t told me what their plan “The Racket” is. Anyone know of a way to tell the Yes Man that I oppose them?
If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say you need to talk to Cachino at the Gomorrah, and then steal his journal and then return it to him, which will give you the option to take out Big Sal & Nero, and then nobble their plans. After that, you should (I think) get a dialogue option with Yes Man to say that you’ve dealt with the Omertas.
Just make sure you have a high enough Stealth to smuggle a sawed-off shotgun into the casino.
I had 100 speech and I didn’t have to fire a shot inside Gomorrah, even though with my high sneak I also had a bunch of guns with me. 
Speaking of speech and casinoes, using Black Widow on Benny was one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen in a computer game. “When you shot me in the head and left me in an open grave, you ran off so fast I didn’t get your name.” as a pickup line, heehee.
I already did all that, though.
Killed Cachino, helped Troike and other guy. Thinking about running in there and just killing sal.
Might be a bugged quest. I’ve run into a few of those.
Yeah, the programmers were really bad at designing a complex state machine.
Early game spoilers:
[spoiler]For example, even though I’ve liberated NCRC and defeated all the Powder Gangers, including those that hide in the cell blocks and don’t participate in the main retaking, and even though Eddie is dead, and the NCR has replaced him, the Radio still says the assault failed.
(The fun part was I had infamy with the Gangers by the time I undertook their NCRC quests, as a combo of the Goodsprings events and the fact that I got pissed when two of them spontaneously attacked me at Jean’s skydiving even before I had resolved Goodsprings, so I decided to kill them willy-nilly when I ran into them. As a result, I had to sneak in with faction armor after plunking all the guards–who aren’t fooled by armor like the non-guard members are, and then hurry over to Eddie and engage in conversation before he or his personal guards became suspicious. Apparently he counts as a guard. After getting each quest, I would immediately high-tail it out of there since ineveitably they’d figure out who I was. By the time I finished their NCRC quests, save the final one where I betrayed them, I was accepted by them. I then help the NCR assault them at NCRC in the betrayal, but my reputation didn’t get worse with the Gangers. Apparently they still accept me.
And then there was the freeing of the NCR guys being hung from crosses in Nelson. I used a stealth boy and Legion armor so as not to get attacked by the Legion (I had Boone, Legion instantly become hostile if Boone is in your party unless you wear faction armour. The StealthBoy was to not have them get pissed at me (yet) as I did this. I freed the three, went back to the checkpoint, and the leader still hadn’t figured out my quest was done, in spite of the game informing me that it was. I had to fast-travel out, fast-travel back, and then talk to the leader, who was still perched at the sniper point.
Then, when I liberated Nelson by letting the NCR do the combat while I stealthed my way into the barracks to reverse-pickpocket a grenade on the leader (no penalty to Legion reputation), all the NCR died in the process, and some Legion were still alive. So the game has it recorded as Nelson being freed, yet, there are no NCR troops there, but there about 3 or 4 Legion.
And before the liberation quest (Restoring Hope), I talked to the guy who’s collecting ears first. Apparently if you talk to him before doing any of the other Forlorn Hope quests, you instantly fail the Restoring Hope quest and something else. So I had to reload. WTF?
Also, I discoverd that if you try the Medical supply quest in the middle of doing Restoring Hope, the leader of Forlorn Hope strangely goes missing from the game. So I had to reload that one as well.
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Fortunately, I don’t seem to have any real game compromising quest bugs yet, or at least I haven’t discovered any, and the few I ran into I could work around to still accomplish the quests.
Just finished the game and the issue didn’t seem to make a difference:
[spoiler] The Vegas families aren’t mentioned in detail in the ending, though everyone of significance outside of the strip is. Strange.
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Sad to see this is off the front page now. Ah well. As much as I love the game, I’ve hit a fatal glitch on the xbox 360. Every time I try to go into the New Vegas Strip to see Mr. House, the screen goes black and the autosave is corrupted. I tried a fix for it (clear systems cache and make sure game is not installed to hard drive) and it lasted just long enough to get the chip and kill Benny. :mad:Now I’m stuck outside and can’t get the main quest moving.
That said, I’m enjoying everything else about the game. Finished the Khans (moved em out), the Boomers (enjoy the new plane kids), and the BoS (thanks for the armor). I’m idolized with the NCR. Caesars legion has shunned me just because I killed Caesar, wiped out Cottonwood Cove, killed Vulpes Inculta in Nipton (thanks to the incinerator I picked up in Primm), killed all of them in Nelson, and generally killed them every place I saw them. Nothing personal. Don’t know why they got all offended.
I also found a fun xbox 360 glitch. If you take the Anti-Materiel rifle (available at your local gun runners) loaded with incendiary rounds and VATS target anything, it bursts into flames. The damage is pretty low really, but it’s non-offensive. They just stand there burning. You can kill anyone (with enough patience) with no loss of karma or reputation. I used this to get some snazzy veteran ranger armor and a couple of nice guns. It’s also fun at the great khans main building, where I watched a whole group of them sit and eat while they were on fire.
Again, where’s an evil smiley when you need it.