Fan made mod Fallout London has just launched for free on GOG, but there are a couple of requirements if you want to play the large scale game.
The large scale, fan-made mod Fallout London has finally been released after five years in development and a three month delay, thanks to complications with Bethesda’s recent next gen update for Fallout 4 earlier this year.
It’s a big moment for the fan project, whose lead developer told GameCentral ahead of the release: ‘If it’s an awful launch then we’ll probably all just go to sleep, and vanish from society.’
The Fallout London team decided to ship its highly anticipated mod without a release date, although a cryptic image from earlier this week did hint that launch day was close.
Fans can now start exploring a post-apocalyptic London by installing the mod at GOG, where it’s free to download.
What you need to play Fallout London
There are a couple of requirements that are important to note, however, with the first one being that you need to own Fallout 4 and all its downloadable content (or the Fallout 4 Game of the Year edition) for the mod to work.
Another prerequisite is that those who bought Fallout 4 through the Epic Games store won’t be able to play the Fallout London mod, as the storefront doesn’t support update rollbacks.
Fallout London requires players to remove the next gen update using a ‘downgrade’ tool and that’s not possible with the Epic Games store.
The Fallout London team has added instructions of how to downgrade the next gen update, if you’ve installed it, here.
If you’ve bought Fallout 4 via Steam or GOG the mod will play just fine, as long as you own the correct edition and all the downloadable content as well.
Fallout London’s project lead Dean Carter also told GameCentral that the mod is a love child between Fallout: New Vegas’ storytelling and the gameplay of Fallout 4, adding:
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‘You wake up in a lab and you have to try to figure out what is going on, who are the people involved in the situation that you’re in, and you have to escape your situation.
‘Once you have escaped, you then see what is going on in London, and then you have to deal with the consequences of what is happening in London at that time.’
How big is the Fallout London map?
Fallout London had almost 100 fans working on it through its development phase, and is roughly the size of Fallout 4 itself.
The mod includes 15 real London boroughs, including Camden Town, Westminster, Eastminster, City of London, Hackney, Croydon, and Greenwich.
There were between 100 and 130 voice actors, including the actor for Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3 and former UK Speaker of the House John Bercow.
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