'Buggy’ Fallout: London gets baptism of fire from critics
The wait for Fallout: London is finally over, but with critics slamming the mod's 'buggy' release, some think Team FOLON should've delayed the Fallout 4 expansion.
26th Jul 2024 16:51
Images via Team FOLON
'Buggy’ Fallout: London gets baptism of fire from critics
The wait for Fallout: London is finally over, but with critics slamming the mod's 'buggy' release, some think Team FOLON should've delayed the Fallout 4 expansion.
26th Jul 2024 16:51
Images via Team FOLON
There's a bit of bother in Blighty, as Fallout 4's long-awaited Fallout: London expansion has been struck with a slew of technical issues upon release. It's been five years since we first heard about Team FOLON's expansive total immersion mod, but by the sounds of it, the kettle hasn't quite boiled.
The team behind Fallout: London admitted that Bethesda's much-hyped new-gen rerelease of Fallout 4 "screwed" the project, with some doubting it would ever see the light of day. After so many years of hard work and managing to wrangle the voice talents of two Doctor Whos (Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker), we're glad it's finally out.
Fallout: London reviews aren't that great
Team FOLON has been jumping through hoops to release Fallout: London, and while it once sounded like it had a reasonable relationship with Bethesda, the two aren't exactly best buds these days. Fallout: London is only available through GOG.com due to the fact you have to downgrade your base version of Fallout 4.
While Fallout: London is already proving popular with players, the game's GOG.com page is littered with middling reviews. Despite only being out for a day at the time of writing, Fallout: London has a decidedly average 3.5 out of 5. A quick scan of the reviews shows a major problem with glitches.
Most seem unable to even load the game, meaning negative reviews feel a little unfair. When the issue was shared on the Fallout Reddit, the thread was soon filled with disgruntled gamers who can't enjoy this trip to a new part of the Fallout world.
Echoing the GOG.com reviews, one critic grumbled, "There's a lot of issues and bugs. People think it should have been delayed." Another fumed, "It being free doesn't isolate it from criticism. If someone gave you a half-baked cake for free, you wouldn't sit there and eat it to be nice. Doesn't matter how nice they were about it. It's still half-baked and inedible."
A third concluded that Fallout: London was heavily marketed and might've led to its own downfall by overhyping something that's not quite ready: "This mod felt more like it was advertised as a product not a work in progress. I wonder if it would have received less negativity if it was released in stages and updated as it was worked on like most other mods."
As Bethesda's Todd Howard has reiterated there are no plans for the official Fallout games to ever leave the USA, it's over to modders like Team FOLON to explore the rest of the apocalyptic globe. Even though Fallout: London has the scope to outshine the mainline games, that seemingly all depends on whether you can actually boot it up.
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