Point Lookout bugs

Bugs and glitches/exploits in the Fallout 3 add-on Point Lookout.

PC

 * Game crashes to desktop after using the Cot on the boat. Cannot even arrive in Point Lookout. (Fix: Load very old savegame.) (Do you mean load an old save and then reload are recent save or start from an old save?)


 * When meeting Jackson, one of his sentences does not match the subtitles at all. Though it does not harm the game it is slightly off putting.


 * Once the last mission of the main quest begins, a message saying "The Brain is unconscious" will randomly appear despite him being dead. (Verified)


 * During the quest, The Dark Heart of Blackhall, if you opt to take the book to the Dunwich building, your quest marker will point to Springvale instead of Dunwich. Can be even 2 markers near Springvale (one on the cliffside, other in one ruined house).


 * During the same quest, when the player is in the Dunwich Building, the quest markers leading back to point lookout and to the obelsik will be placed not at the doors, but outside the building map.


 * Missing water texture in the Ritual Chamber


 * If the terminal in the bunker is activated (triggering the double-cross) before speaking to the Protectron, the Protectron continues to tell the user to leave the area. If the codeword is given to the Protectron, it returns to the terminal area.


 * If the Robotics Expert perk is used to deactivate the Protectron inside the bunker, the deactivated robot sometimes appears standing on top of the hatch leading to the bunker.


 * Game crashes to desktop upon entering The Sacred Bog


 * [Possible fix] The crash is linked to certain areas in the Sacred Bog. This player was able to bypass those areas using the console command TCL (toggle clipping). You don't even need to go through the rocks, disabling clipping is enough, as this player was able to follow the regular path with no crashes.

Xbox 360

 * Some players may not be able to complete the quest 'The Velvet Curtain', as the bunker will not open despite the correct code being entered.


 * After coming back to the Capital Wasteland, I wanted to visit my ghoul follower Charon, but he refuses to accompany me on my adventures. Before I traveled back to the Capital Wasteland he was waiting for me at my house in Megaton. Arriving at Point Lookout a message told me that Charon is returning to the Ninth Circle. I don´t know if this possibly happens to any of you but I tried lots of things but somehow Charon won´t follow me because he says that I am followed by a npc.


 * After completing the main quest, a message saying "The Brain is unconscious" will randomly appear all the time despite him being dead.
 * See the "glitch" for the hidden Preservation Shelter. It contains Calvert's actor for the Thought Control quest. He is prone to sometimes falling through the map and getting KOed from fall damage.


 * If you use the Double-Barrel Shotgun while in V.A.T.S and you have only 1 shotgun shell, you will be stuck in V.A.T.S and the gun will make a sound like its out of ammo, this happens to me all the time so make sure you have an even amount of rounds.


 * During the quest, The Dark Heart of Blackhall, if you opt to take the book to the Dunwich building, your quest marker will point to Springvale instead of Dunwich. Selecting a different active quest and then switching back may fix this.


 * Water may become discolored due to a dithering glitch.


 * Ol' Painless Hunting Rifle disappears from inventory when reaching the Point Lookout locale.


 * Once Point Lookout is visited, the game is very prone to freezing


 * V.A.T.S freezing during mansion quest.


 * Problems with water texture in Capital Wasteland and Point Lookout.


 * All weapons seem to have gotten an upgrade with Point Lookout. Eugene has increased from 110 damage (fully repaired, 100 Big Guns skill) to a whopping 260 at all times. It seems all automatic weapons are effected by this, so grab your Chinese Assault Rifles and go hunting!
 * UPDATE: It seems Ghoul Ecology causes this increase. My weapons damage immediately increased upon getting it on a new file. The Chinese Assault Rifle went from 30 damage to 52 damage right after getting it.
 * UPDATE 2: It is NOT Ghoul Ecology. I only have Superior Defender and all my weapons are doing extra damage. Still, Ghoul Ecology may help too.
 * UPDATE 3: This glitch is definitely caused by Superior Defender, as I looked at my PIP-Boy before gaining the perk and it showed the regular damage for all my weapons with 100 small guns and energy weapons. After wards, a fully repaired Chinese assault rifle did 77 damage. (Are you sure it's not the +5 damage bonus when standing still? I've only ever observed this increase when I got GE)
 * UPDATE 4: They both do it. Just with Superior Defender my xaulong assault rifle did like 90 dam then with Ghoul Ecology it did like 100.


 * If you are standing on the bridge to or on the Gambit, you may notice your feet sink into them. It is possible to fall into them, sometimes you simply are underwater, while others you are trapped "below" the water and must reload a previous save to escape.


 * After you see Mister Burke Blow up the Megaton Bomb (During the Punga Hallucinations), the game will freeze right after the loading screen. You will have to start at your last save.


 * Using the flamer on large natural gas swamp area causes the game to crash. Small swamp areas do nothing.


 * This editor noticed rendering difficulties on the boardwalk after exiting the warehouse building, possibly unrelated but "The Velvet Curtain" quest was active at the time. Large areas of black consumed the screen whilst facing south-west (to the Ferris wheel). Fixed when I finished "The Velvet Curtain". Also the further I got from the boardwalk the less black was on the screen.


 * Once you've killed the Tribals in Desmonds mansion he may freeze stopping you from playing on. He says "Help me take out these bastards, whilst I figure out a plan." But all of the enemies are dead, and you cannot proceed. Reloading to a point either before entering the mansion or the auto-save after entering the mansion fixes this.


 * Also when Desmond asks you to help him defend against the last wave of Tribals, the Tribals may never come, another symptom of this glitch is that Desmond will be very unresponsive.


 * When entering and exiting a building a two minute or longer load time may occur.


 * The ferryman may not appear by on the ferry (happened on second visit to me), leaving you unable to return to Point Lookout.


 * After initiating the self-destruct protocol in the Chinese submarine and exiting the game freezes.


 * After Talking to Marguerite and retrieving the book for the "Dark Heart of Blackhall" Quest, the holotape and the message on the wall do not appear, and she is nowhere to be found. She may have been killed on the way back to her tent.


 * Holotape in lighthouse doesn't register as received, and no message plays.


 * When deciding to either kill Desmond or the Brain, if you chose to kill Desmond and the Brain sends his robots on you, sometimes they will not move or attack you, and is hard to tell the difference between the enemies and the inactive ones.


 * When you first enter the mansion and kill the Tribals and then talk to Desmond, he will just stand and stare at the TV's in the back room (supply room), when you try to speak to him he says something like "You take out the rest of the Tribals while I watch the security cameras" and doesn't allow you to go into a dialogue sequence or continue the quest with him opening the west door where the Tribals blow through the wall. To solve this, simply reload the last save.


 * There is a small boat East-Northeast of the Coastal Grotto. If you fall into the broken window you can become stuck. However, if it possible to fast travel to another location to fix this.


 * Point Lookout may constantly freeze


 * In Point Lookout, framerate issues(not freezing) may occur. The only known way of fixing this is to save the game, exit to the dashboard and reload the game.


 * The framerate may slow down around The Ark & Dove Cathedral.


 * It may randomly freeze after exiting some of the buildings.


 * May crash when activating locker.


 * Save files may corrupt.


 * Game may crash whilst saving, this happens in the Capital Wasteland and not just in Point Lookout (may have started after Broken Steel was installed).


 * Loading screen may freeze.


 * Loading a save file may result in the game freezing.


 * After just finishing The Local Flavor and leaving the hotel, the game may just turn into a black-screen.


 * While in V.A.T.S in Point Lookout the gun may possibly jump to another area on screen and mess up the trajectory of the shot.


 * After visiting Point Lookout and returning to the Capital Wasteland, all soil, and grass may not load, causing objects to fall through it, and causing the player to "bounce", making you unable to inflict damage unless you stand still for 3+ seconds.


 * Other known freezing issues happen when going into buildings(through doors), using V.A.T.S or simply walking around.


 * After playing the game for a few hours, the game will start stuttering real bad and the only way to fix it seems to be, to quit to the dashboard and load the game again.


 * While walking in and around the Broadwalk area (area with the pier, Ferris wheel, motel etc) the framerate begins to suffer badly, and occasionally the game will freeze temporarily. Especially noticeable after applying the jamming device to the Ferris Wheel, when the game spawns an ambush of Tribals; from then on the game becomes nearly unplayable in that area. These performance issues seem to lessen the further away from the broadwalk area you go, to the point where normal gameplay is possible lag-free in the northernmost area of Point Lookout.


 * When going to the Homestead Motel you can glitch into the fence right before the parking lot. Fix this by trying to get back out the way you got or by fast traveling to another location.


 * During Walking with Spirits, the game is prone to freezing after activating the Mother Punga and the hallucinations begin.


 * After completing Point Lookout, trying to leave Underworld by going through the big entry doors results in freezing at the loading screen.


 * Tobar may not be on his ship, and can't be found, so you can't travel to Point Lookout.


 * The Dismemberer, if equiped during the Megaton Explosion will increase to 400321 Damage. Everytime you try to attack with it the game will crash. (Confirmed)


 * After completing Point Lookout and returning to your home, if you found one of the giant teddybears and left them on display, they may return to the size of a normal teddy bear. Even more interestingly, the once giant teddy bear floats in midair, until picked up or bumped into.


 * After returning from Point Lookout I found a group of talon company nearbye and killed them, and looted their armor for caps. I later went back to point lookout, then returned several days later to the capital wasteland. The Talon Company Mercs respawned but didn't have any cloths on.

This situation occurs when the game is loaded up on Xbox 360 without being signed in to Xbox Live. After downloading Fallout 3 DLC on the 360, you must always be signed into Live in order to use the DLC (reason unknown by this editor). Disconnection from Live has no effect during gameplay however. It is not so much a bug as a pain in the neck.
 * I reloaded a save in Point Lookout and I was told some game files were missing but continued playing anyway, little did I realize Operation anchorage, The Pitt, and Broken Steel are missing from my game files! Guass rifle gone, stealth armor gone, broken steel perks gone! I didn't realize until I went to the Jefferson memorial and noticed the water was impure and the door to the inside of the memorial was missing! Please help!

Comment on this "bug": If you download in someone else's console - even if you use your HDD - you will have to be logged to xbox live or the DLC will not load. A fix for that is to perform the Licence Transfer on the Xbox.com Website and transfer all your licence's to the console where you play the game, or just downloading it on your console in the first place.


 * There is a Pulowsky Preservation Shelter within the walls near the ferris wheel. There are a few ways to overcome the walls, either by using the baby carriages or by jumping from the back of the truck near the entrance to the warehouse. This Pulowsky Preservation shelter has someone inside, as is easily noted with a high Perception, however, it is inoperative, and does not respond to any attempts to open it.
 * Comment on this "bug": The shelter contains Professor Calvert's actor for the Thought Control quest. Ergo, it's meant to be there. They had to have a close-by, "off-screen" NPC for Calvert to attempt to


 * During the side quest Plik's Safari, when trying to fend off the ghouls, they may just stop coming and you're stuck there with no way out. The only solution is to load a save previous to going in. It is also possible that some ghouls fell off and landed in the water below the platforms. If you kill them, the game should move on.