If you’ve come across an impassable door while exploring the British capital in the massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London, as almost anyone who’s played the game for more than a few hours has, you’ve most likely stumbled upon a location used by a cut of the main questline without knowing it. This arc is a Fallout: New Vegas-style Wild Card option that will be properly deployed in a future update.
Yes, forget about the crash for a moment, there is a British version of the adventures of Nice Guys conquering striptease, with The Courier just sitting on the sidelines in the background, after the FOLON team were forced to give up on including it in the initial version.
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In an interview with iGamesNews (which you can read more about here , which also touches on the modder’s current plans to correct the troublesome launch bug), Fallout: London Project Manager Dean ‘Prilladog’ Carter revealed some details about the questline, and why the team was unable to include it in the initial release.
“It was going to be announced at launch, but if you remember when we first made the announcement we said we weren’t going to release it in late 2023, and the guy who was responsible for doing the Wild Card questline, which you mentioned, he wasn’t able to do it. [any longer] Because he was basically conscripted. [Russo-Ukrainian] War,” the modder explains, “So, as you can imagine, making Fallout mods wasn’t really his first priority.
“All the lines are recorded, all the systems [have been made]That’s why people might notice when walking around that there are certain buildings or certain floors of buildings that you can’t go into. That’s because it’s designed to be there for release, but things like this are completely out of anyone’s control, I don’t care if you’re a big company. It’s so unexpected that you just say “Oh”.
“So, this will come in a future patch, and then you might walk around and go, ‘Ah, that’s why that door is locked, there’s a whole building behind it.’ We’ll have to lock things down very quickly, but that will come in a future patch.”
On the war, which also caused problems for other games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Carter added: “A lot of us on the script team were in those areas, and yes, it did have an impact. That’s why I had to learn scripts really quickly, and that’s why our head writer is now also the head writer/head script writer. We had to restructure, and a lot of us had to learn very, very quickly.
“That’s why, I’m not even going to lie when I say that there were some missions, maybe the implementation aspect of the backend that wasn’t as good as it could have been. We can’t control what happens in that situation. You know, things are going according to plan, we’ve planned everything, all the missions that he did were foolproof, and then all of a sudden, [that person] Have to leave, as if that is not an option, so they have to leave.”
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