Invisible Mutants!!! What the heck?

scooter-blue

First time out of the vault
I posted on some other Fallout boards because no matter what I did, I couldn't find Zaius the mineworker in Broken Hills. I just found out why. All the mutants that look like Zaius (except for Markus) are invisible in my game. I can't see them, I can't click on them, I can't attack them, and I can walk right through them.

The way I figured this out is that I planted dynamite in the miner shack outside the mine, and this damaged Zaius. He became visible for a second while he was being damaged by the explosion. Then, my NPC teammates started shooting him until they killed him. Each time they hit him he would become visible for a bit. However, Zaius would never strike back or move around. Finally, when Zaius died, I could see and search his corpose.

I have since seen this exact same thing happen while I was escorting caravans. The mutants with the same appearance as Zaius are invisible and unclickable unless they're being hit. However, the other types of mutants, like those 5 mineworks standing outside in front of the mine entrance, show up completely normally.

Can anybody think of something I could do to make these Mutants no longer invisible? Perhaps if somebody knew how I could replace the graphics files for that creature or something?

Please help! :D
 
Sounds like you need to reinstall the game and remember to patch it..
 
The file for the mutant is located within the Critter.dat file so you will need to copy thi off of the CD again. The file may just be currupted. As it uses a different file in the Dat for when the mutant is shot, but I would still have expected him to attack you back. In short more than likely you have a currupted install of FO and more than one file is effected? so try a complete reinstall if this doesnt fix it. Also files sometimes get currupted for a reason, ie: bad sectors on your HDD so run a full scandisk to be sure the disk is fine
 
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