A team of modders has been working on the largest mod for Fallout 4 since 2019, the biggest ever made. But just before the mod is set to be released, Bethesda secretly updates the game and disrupts the team’s plans.
What kind of mod is this? The Fallout 4 mod “Fallout: London” aims to bring players to London. The mod wants to recreate London in detail and show players many familiar locations with the twist of devastation.
A team of modders has been working on the largest mod in Fallout history since 2019. The mod is expected to be about 30 to 40 GB in size, so large that normal mod hosts cannot accept it, which is why GOG has agreed to help.
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Just before the release, Bethesda disrupts the plans
What has Bethesda done? Many fans had been waiting a long time for the release of Fallout: London, after all, the official channel of the mod has over 13 million video views, spread across trailers and updates from the development. On April 23, 2024, St. George’s Day, an important memorial day in England, the Fallout: London mod was supposed to be released, but that did not happen.
Bethesda, the developers behind Fallout 4, unexpectedly decided to update their game and announced this for April 25, 2024. The problem: Updates to the game usually make modifications incompatible, which is why the modders behind Fallout: London had to postpone their release.
Why do the modders feel betrayed? The modders behind the largest mod for Fallout 4 learned about the update just like all other players. Bethesda did not contact them, despite the great interest of Fallout fans in the mod. In an interview with BBC, a member of the modding team commented on the issue.
He made it clear that Bethesda had not reached out to the modders in any way, thus throwing their plans into disarray. “[…] They randomly announced that they would release the game on April 25. Excuse my words, but they have betrayed us[…]”
What technical problems the creators of Fallout: London are facing can be found out from our colleagues at GameStar.
What are the modders doing now? The modding team is now waiting for tomorrow’s update of Fallout 4. Depending on how many things change in the game due to the patch, the developers will decide on a new date for the mod’s release. Even a release on the same day is conceivable, provided not much changes.
Even before the release, there is a lot of hype around the Fallout: London mod. Many mods have eventually turned into real games. This is also true for these titles: These 8 extraordinary shooters on Steam were once just a mod
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