After more than two months of delays and inappropriate corrections, Fallout: Londonthe fan-made expansion for the 2015 Bethesda classic is finally nearing release.
Team FOLON, the group of creators who built this brand new, English-centric take on the Fallout universe, recently announced on Discord that the hotly anticipated expansion has been sent to GOG.com for quality assurance testing. They are now awaiting the green light to release the final version to the public soon.
“While it may seem like not much is happening, we can assure you that the department heads have been working non-stop behind the scenes during this time to make the release as good as it can be,” the note said. “The end is in sight.”
Fallout: London is an ambitious game created by fans.
Its been a long time. Fallout: London began development in 2019, with the team and project steadily growing over the years. The expansion isn’t your typical fan-made mod. It will feature a brand new, post-apocalyptic version of London built from the ground up with dozens of new quests, characters, factions, weapons, music and original voice acting. Fallout: London will also split the voiced main character included in the Negative impact 4 in favor of silent, allowing for the more traditional RPG experience that many fans missed in the base game.
Team FOLON said this Fallout: London world map is approx Fallout 4 Commonwealth and “Far Harbor” DLC combined. The size and ambition of this project was too big to be hosted by popular modding sites like Nexus Mods, so Team FOLON struck a deal with CD Projekt Red’s GOG digital store to launch it.
Fallout fans got to play this expansion much earlier in the year. for months, Fallout: London was set to release on April 23rd, which coincidentally happened shortly after the popular Amazon Prime TV show premiered. But just weeks before what seemed like the perfect launch date, Bethesda announced that they were releasing a next-gen patch for Negative impact 4 before the end of April.
Fallout: London may not be canon, but it will be the first look at how the franchise’s global nuclear disaster has affected Europe.
Team FOLON
While Team FOLON was able to release the mod on April 23rd as planned, the impending release of Bethesda’s next-gen patch just days later would have ruined the mod for thousands who would have unknowingly updated their game. Rather than risk their mod being broken like so many others, the team made the crushing decision to postpone Fallout: London For an undetermined amount of time.
“You’d think they’d at least have a conversation just like, ‘Look, you guys are definitely remarkable, let’s make sure we don’t ruin it for the fans.’ Fallout: London project manager Dean Carter told the BBC at the time.
Without a proper Fallout game ready to launch alongside the TV show, Bethesda is holding back the big community-driven update in Fallout: London it was a no-brainer. Gaming metrics showed that people were hungry for Fallout games after watching the show, and Team FOLON essentially made the game that Bethesda should have for free.
Fallout: London world map is approx Fallout 4 The Commonwealth and its map Far Harbor DLC combined.
Team FOLON
Instead, the next-gen update did more harm than good Negative impact 4 at launch, breaking legacy, fan-favorite mods like Sim Settlements, as well as graphics and quests in the base game. The fact that the patch also delayed Fallout’s most exciting project in development, poised to spark even more interest in the franchise, was an unnecessary blow to creators that Bethesda says it values.
Every time it finally comes out, Fallout: London will probably be the most interesting Fallout game of the year. To run it, players will need a copy of the Negative impact 4 and all its DLCs. The mod can only be played on PC.
