Fable III Patched - VO Issues and Crashes Fixed

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Richard Walker

Lionhead has deployed a 5MB patch for Fable III, rectifying a whole host of issues, inlcuding voice-over issues that had Jasper not talking at certain junctures and Reaver's voice being absent for an entire mission in the Japanese version of the game.

The title update also fixes some instances in which the game crashed and certain glitches that caused chickens to soar thousands of feet into the air and parts that had players falling out of the world completely. Progression and online multiplayer fixes are also chief among the list of updates, which you can browse at your leisure below:

Major Fixes

  • Sanctuary: Fixed numerous issues whereby Jasper would stop talking or whereby the world map would become unusable
  • Quests: Tabletop: The Hobbes may not spawn in the last area causing the player to be unable to progress
  • Quest: Tabletop: Online multiplayer: Player host is unable to vault off platform to Hobbe area
  • Quest: Tabletop: Player can become stuck behind some rocks
  • Quest: Tabletop: After defeating the hollowmen in the room with the lever the player is unable to progress
  • Quest: The Masquerade: Player can become trapped in Reaver’s mansion.
  • Quest: The Masquerade: Player can fall out of the world
  • Quest: GNOMES PART 1: Player can break script
  • Live: The players fall out of the world (FOOTW) when transitioning from Shifting Sands to The Veiled Path
  • Crash: Mourningwood guards audio
  • Crash: During the quest “Peace, Love and Homicide”

Minor Fixes

  • General improvements to performance and frame rate
  • World: Online multiplayer: Fast Travel area does not extend from end of level the "The Hole" to go to Mistpeak Valley
  • World: Player can fall out of environment in Mistpeak Valley while in combat
  • World: After proposing marriage, Bowerstone Castle cannot be selected as family home.
  • World: If client repairs a house, the house goes from renting out to living in
  • World: Player can become stuck during Castle Battle after vaulting over sandbags near burning cart
  • World: Bowerstone Industrial: Player can fall off the world
  • World: a fix for existing or future FOOTW situations
  • World: Online multiplayer: No Particle Effects on Host Screen after Marrying another Player
  • Live: Orbs do not always show up
  • Live: Online multiplayer: Fixed an issue with sliding host in the sanctuary
  • Live: Fixed several issues relating to gifting and receiving gifts in local and online coop
  • Quest: Tabletop: Breadcrumb not leading to Demonic Chickens
  • Saves: Fixed a few issues that could cause a corrupt save game slot
  • World: Driftwood: Hero can become stuck inside of tree
  • World: Shooting a crate creates a duplicate crate
  • World: Black chicken in castle gardens flies straight up into the air for several seconds when kicked
  • Speech: Japanese: Reaver is missing VO in one quest
[Via Lionhead.com]

 

Comments
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  • Well thats good the game was kinda glitch :/
  • Nice. Finally can get the game.
  • sweet. what about save crashes? my save works but i have no magic and cant give gifts lol ill try this later to see if it helps.
  • They also stopped the dupeing Which makes the legendary weapon achievement next to impossible
  • Quest: The Masquerade: Player CAN fall out of the world (intresting)
  • thank god for the framerate update, that was annoyying the hell out of me
  • Not had a problem with Fable III yet, but good to see issues are being fixed.
  • @ 4 you can still dupe after the patch. just gotta clear system cache. that will erase all patches youve downloaded. then dupe whatever you need then redownload the patch. youll just be disconnected from live without the patch
  • awesome..right after I get my 1000 lol
  • Wow. I did not even realize this game had so many glitches!!! Good I held off on purchase. Am busy now, but I plan to get it next year after Dead Space 2 ^^
  • i only encountered one glitch. During online co-op my hero stopped moving his legs, but still moved forward, just gliding on the ground. That was aweomse.
  • what about the glitchable achievement for finding all the books?? i've done multiple playthroughs and it's still not giving me the quest that i need to get the second to last book.
  • How about fixing the fact that only one user per console can use the shit they downloaded? Oh wait, that wasn't a glitch. It was an intentional asshole move to be greedy and make four people in one household buy the same thing four times!
  • #12 exactly what I was looking for in this update. Not surprised Lionhead didn't fix that one though, seems bugs I never encountered are more important than an achievement breaking quest glitch.
  • "Save issue: corrupt save slot" considered as "minor fix"? Errr... I believe that was a major pain in the butt!
  • how bout they now fix the understone dlc 'locked room with no monster spawns' glitch. hoping they fix it soon
  • well this is what i mean. Release a game after you checked it for glitches
  • How about DLC showing up for more than just the gamertag that downloaded it? Assholes. :[
  • The fact a game has this many glitches in the first place is a joke. Even the second one was full of bugs.
  • I'm with #12 &14, kinda. I got the quest but ran the guy into the water...now he is stuck and I can't get him out(no kill, no hand hold). How about fixing that. So I can finish the book quest, It's all I have left.
  • A big list there. How pathetically unprofessional, Molyneux. Seriously, just quit making games you massive failure.
  • @ 21 - Pathetically unprofessional is what he calls "His Career" lol. I just wish he would make games and keep his mouth shut. That's the whole reason I shied from Fable 3. I wish he would make another kind of Black and White for the console.
  • Holy crap, finally.
  • It's a decent fix list, but still doesn't fix my 29/30 Auroran Flower Quest... Now, it isn't a missing flower, no, no. It's a flower I picked up and it counted 29/30 twice, I was able to finish the dye quest... and then it starts up with zero dyes to find. Weee. No achievement pop, but I can dye my tats at least.
  • lot of glitches but still a good game
  • Prime examples that Fable 3 was rushed to market. Most likely by Microsoft to pad there shamefully dwindling list of exclusives for this year. Sigh. Dear Molyneux and Company at Lionhead. TAKE YOUR DAMN TIME WITH FABLE 4 FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! If you must work on it for the next 3 years, then so be it, but please, resolve not to make us pay $60 (Ok so I got mine free) for a glitched, and in some cases, broken game. Fable 3 was great besides those issues. XD
  • i never knew there was all those bugs. havent really had any problems except the game being slow and the game freezing once. other than that the games been great, nothing to complain about. dont see why some people feel this game failed. definitely have to update game since ive been playing offline.
  • > Sanctuary: Fixed numerous issues whereby Jasper would stop talking or whereby the world map would become unusable I don't want Jasper to talk. I want him to stop reminding me every sodding time I visit the sanctuary to purchase DLC which is of no use to me. Either because I don't need it (already own it via codes) or because it's stupid dyes.
  • I don't see anything about fixing the glitched key count my game has suffered. Great. Was waiting for an update to continue my game, guess its hopeless now.
  • Black chicken in castle gardens flies straight up into the air for several seconds when kicked LOL!!!! But no fix for the ungettable achievement to go to the cespool thing? LAME
  • i wish i had experienced the flying chicken.
  • What I wish was included in the patch would be a "point of no return" prompt, so you don't get blindsided with an empty treasury.
  • It fixed my issue with no being able to interact with enemies or people in town. I then went to play with a friend in coop and join his game 5 times with a reboot and both of us clearing cache and redownloading patch in between. Now when I join someone elses game my character just stands in one place. I can't look around but can't walk anywhere. Also if I hit start I can run around the sanctuary.
  • They should add an option to the sanctuary ledger were you can click automatically repair all properties. Because I am sick and tired of having to scroll through every house and repair them.
  • For the record I didn't encounter that many glitches in my game.
  • Too late, molyfag, and never again.
  • My game made me fall through the map twice! Got too annoyed and traded it, good game though.
  • @13 if you play on same console, i think you don't need to buy it four times (this does work with arcade games, not sure about game add-ons)
  • @38 - it SHOULD work that way, but doesn't - all add-ons for Fable III can only be used by the gamertag that paid for them. They've supposedly said it was an error, and they are working to fix it - it was supposed to be in the 'end-all, be-all' we just got, but apparently it isn't. I'll have to see if it fixed my issue with not being able to leave Brightwall, though.
  • They need to fix the damn way point glitch.
  • grrr i had to start a new game because those friggin hobbes wouldnt spawn on the tabletop quest
  • Never had any of these glitches... So meh doesnt bother me much.
  • I've encountered glitches not listed here apart from Jasper's voice stopping. Still, only 8 more weapons to get and I'll never have to play this mess again.
  • lucky that I never confronted these sort of problems apart from those missing hairstyles and tattoos
  • Never had any problems whatsoever. Win.
  • does the money copying glitch still work?
  • Agree with # 36.... too late. Game is unplayable with or without the patch. I hope MS gets rid of Lionhead just like they did with Ensemble.
  • ensemble was great tho and a lot more known and respected than lionhead.
  • I just got Fable III today. Good i'll be going straight into an update.
  • yay...been waitin for this!
  • @34... couldn't agree more, a real pain.The unreliable money counter when transfering funds is annoying too. It's those little touches that were missing and prevents this from becoming a great game! Personally I havent suffered majorly, just freezing and frame rate issues, but my mate has lost 3 game saves and can only seem to play smoothly whilst playing with me or someone else.
  • So I downloaded the patch and dig spots and chests are still empty. I'm not stupid enough to start a new save. I'm just gonna beat the game as is then put it on the shelf. I'm done hoping that my game will be fixed. I've never been so discouraged my a videogame. I feel used lol.
  • Nothing about "The Game" quest where the door to the castle doesn't open and isn't openable resulting in you having to fucking start a new character???????????????????????????????
  • unfortunately this is kinda becoming common. at least they are fixing this stuff like the devs did for fallout nv.
  • this update made me loose progress on the friends achievment dropped it down to 0/20 from 17/20 and for some odd reason EVERYONE in brightwall now hates me on my good character.
  • What about the retarded trail thing (I refuse to call it bread crumb trail) pointing me in the wrong direction every time? IT WAS IN FABLE 2 FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
  • @17 Are you serious? Check this vid at about 04:15 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixWBUzXEr-s), you can see that many people have tested the game before its release. You would propably say that same thing if the game had only one glitch like the floating apple in Black Ops. (Test the game or go f yourself and stop making games). @21 Do you really think that anyone can make a perfect game with no glitches for release date? If you think everyone who make games that have so "many" glitches like Fable 3 (not encountered any glitch so far), then maybe GTA IV, Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops, Gears of War and Battlefields should've never been made. According to your comment. The only thing about glitches that I can think make people angry, are save corrupts. You can always play again a mission where you can't progress, after a patch like this.
  • Haha, I held off this game until christmas because I knew there would be glitches XD Good decision lol, glad they're all fixed.
  • Richard I know this is wrong article but I didn't think you would still be viewing the others comments but for the Xbox Rewards scheme you said UK and US only and that once your eligibility is confirmed your avatar will appear. Well I'm in Australia and I tried signing up, I'm still getting the message up the top of the page saying I will get an email when I can start using the Rewards Program (Which I cannot do yet I assume) but since my avatar is there does that mean that I will actually be able to do it and it is Available for Australians? Thanks.
  • Nice, I've got this for my birthday in a few days so it's cool to know I've missed the bad glitches.
  • glad to see they cleaned up the game some. im still trying to connect with somone that has all 50 wepons im missing 21 myself.
  • Yeah, so now when I get to open my damn Christmas present, I can actually play it without glitches. Now if they'll just fix Fallout New Vegas before I buy it...
  • I have this glitch where i am friends with everyone in my world yet i don't have the achievement for making 25... :/
  • this whole game is riddled with glitches and issues. its not polished and seemed rushed. like the second fable much better. the dlc stuff is to be expected tho it is a blatant rip off but thats the trend these days. until the gamers unite and take these companies to court nothing will be done about the dlc rip off trend. i hope they do more updates to fix more issues. as for the dlc....im not gonna pay 2 to 3 dollars here and there for stuff that should be in the game. if they come out with decent dlc with new quests, areas, and achievements then i will probly get it. tho no more nickel and dime crap for me in fable3.
  • yeah
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