14 DAY TRIAL // Video game developer and publisher Bethesda has announced that it plans to launch a new major patch for Fallout: New Vegas, the Obsidian developer post-apocalyptic role-playing and action mix, before launching any new downloadable content, the much-rumored Honest Hearts.
The official forum announcement, which is written by Jason Bergman, who is a senior producer working on Fallout, says, “our next DLC release (announcement coming very soon, we promise) has been complete while we worked on getting a patch ready for you all. We didn’t want to just release more DLC before we had a patch that would improve the overall New Vegas experience.”
He added, “The good news is that we do have such a patch and it’s been handed off to the necessary platform owners. It should be released in the next couple of weeks on 360, PS3 and PC (can’t be more specific than that, I’m afraid, although PC will almost certainly get it first).”
The developers are saying that they are planning to make the game more stable and optimize performance on most platforms, with the PC receiving the most attention.
Fallout: New Vegas has been well known to be affected by crashes, most of them unexplainable, and by bugs linked to quests since it was released and patches eliminated some of the problems but not all of them.
The developer also says that an official announcement about the DLC for New Vegas will be made very soon and hinted that the content will answer a lot of the questions that players have about the game world and its backstory.
Fallout: New Vegas has already received a DLC pack called Dead Money and sources inside Obsidian are saying that there might be as many as eight content packs launched for the game, depending on how well they are received by players.