Over the past few days, I’ve been playing through Fallout: New Vegas, and while it’s generally a pretty enjoyable game, I’ve noticed that there are a few bugs that mar the experience. Specifically, it seems like there are certain things you can do that’ll cause the game to lock up and corrupt your most recent save file. In an effort to help out other players, I’ve put together a list of missteps during my game so that in the future, I can avoid them:

Entering a building

Exiting a building

Using Items

Shooting at an enemy

Aiming at an enemy

Thinking about an enemy

Breathing (in-game)

Breathing (while playing)

Looking at the television

Displaying aggression

Speaking

Sunspot activity

Chaos theory

Poor Feng-Shui