The shift of tone in Dead Money was a brilliant move too, though it's depressing and sad enough to keep me from playing the scenario again. (On the other hand, the Great Khans could have used a bit more back story to explain why a group of former Americans had decided to go all Mongol on us, and the idea that the Boomers are going to get an aluminum plane flying in a week that's spent the last 200 years under water doesn't so much challenge suspension of disbelief as knock it down and p*ss all over it.) My first reaction was WTF, guys, didn't you wander in from another game? Ersatz Roman soldiers running around the Mojave? However, what you gradually learn and the back story make them very credible. The chief example of these is Caesar's Legion. But I do have to admire how some things that should have been total asinine failures actually work really well. I didn't see any magic wand in the Courier's inventory.

Waltzing into Camp Golf and reforming the Misfits, in 100 words or less, for instance, hovers on the verge of silly. Sometimes, this is because being a game, it just has to do things too fast and too simply. It tries to be more philosopical and realistic in places but doesn't always succeed. The nuclear war is little more than a decoration, noises off. Instead, you're playing politics, deciding who'll get New Vegas in the end. It has very little of the after-the-apocalypse ruined world feeling of F3. No such reveal took place at that time, but now that the game update is live we'll have to see if the rumor of more DLC pans out. We'd heard rumors that a new bit of Fallout: New Vegas downloadable content called 'Honest Hearts' would follow the patch, and Bethesda would show it off its recent event in Utah. If so, the FNV patch will be live at 00:00 GMT.' Unfortunately, that's not really a guarantee. Bergman tweeted, 'I'm told game updates may be functional over PSN, despite the outage (system updates are).

The continuing saga of the PlayStation Network outage means it's hard to tell if the patch will go live on PS3 as planned. Possibly the best update description is for the Splash Damage perk, which simply reads: 'Functions properly.' Thank you, Obsidian, for your blunt honesty.

The patch notes do include a hefty list of balance tweaks for weapons, including damage, better zoom functionality on the missile launchers, and less ammo consumption for some energy weapons. The patch notes are vague on stability improvements, but senior producer (and Shacker extraordinaire) Jason Bergman previously promised that it would fix most of the crashes and lockups in the game. Fallout: New Vegas received its 1.3 patch today.

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