Broken Steel Might Be, Um, Broken
Posted May 5th, 2009 in Articles, News, PC, Xbox 360, Xbox Live by Adam Robinson
So, the latest DLC for Fallout 3, Broken Steel, is floating out into the ether now. Xbox 360 owners are having a lovely time as I type this, no doubt. On the flip side, PC gamers eager to get their Broken Steel DLC on might have noticed this error:
“Not a cryptographic message or the cryptographic message is not formatted correctly. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8009200D)”
Seems this error is a game breaker: the game just stops, unable to load further. And if the kerfuffle on the Net is to believed, this will happen to a lot of you PC Fallout 3 peeps.
Remember who gave you the head’s up when your PC tries to kill you.
This is really disappointing. All of the DLC for Fallout 3 has had significant and common breaks. Bethesda needs to get on top of that, figure out how to fix them, and patch it. I had a game ruining bug with the first DLC and haven’t touched the game since. I was going to go back to it with Broken Steel, but now I’m not going to even bother. Come on Bethesda, you’re better than this.
I had a game-ruining bug in Fallout 3 itself, and I’ve read about others experiencing similar issues with the core game. I remember Oblivion having similar problems too. This is beginning to look like par-for-the-course difficulties for Bethesda.