Ambitious and promising fan creations around Fallout 4 are legion, and one of the most interesting in the field is certainly Fallout London. A few days before its release, however, it had sad news to share.
The team behind Fallout London was very proud a few months ago to announce its release on April 23, St George’s Day. Unfortunately, these plans for one of Fallout 4’s most intriguing mods were blown away by an unfortunate combination of circumstances.
Fallout London plans undermined by the American situation
A team of talented volunteer modders have been working on Fallout London for several years. As a reminder, this is a mod from the fourth opus developed by Bethesda. Thanks to this creation that looks like a giant expansion, we will be able for the very first time in a Fallout game to visit a post-apocalyptic destination outside the United States. In this case, the idea is of course to discover a devastated version of London.
Fallout London is therefore an extremely ambitious mod. It took years of development, sporadically stealing a few hours from each modder’s free time. This was finally due to be released on April 23. But in the meantime, several nuclear explosions have shattered these hopes. First of all, the Fallout series landed with a bang on Prime Video. Building on all this excitement, Bethesda finally announced a next-gen update for Fallout 4 on April 25, nine years after its release. It also concerns the PC version and risks rendering most mods irradiated and unusable. And so by extension, Fallout London bears the terrible brunt of all this radioactive fallout.
The post-apocalyptic version of London isolates itself from the world for work
Given the current situation, it is therefore unthinkable for Fallout London to release two days before a major update to the base game. It would indeed quickly become unplayable. The 30 to 40 GB of disk space it requires (in addition to the game) would therefore be dead weight. Thus, the team behind this fan-DLC has made the sad but necessary decision to postpone the release date until further notice.
In addition to having to rework their own creation, the team behind Fallout London will also have to wait for modders to update theirs. The fan-DLC indeed includes a concentration of mods created by others, over which the developers have no control. Modding on Fallout 4 is therefore likely to be greatly disrupted from April 25. Hopefully things will get back to normal quickly. In any case, we wish the best to the tourist guides wanting to show us around a post-apocalyptic version of London. And also full of courage to modders in general, without whom Fallout 4 would certainly not be where it is today.