Fallout: London

It's a very raw experience. You take one wrong step and you completely break your playthrough, not to mention how fiddly it is to install. Mod also doesn't pre-install mandatory engine bug fixes out of the box and doesn't even mention them in installation instructions, which probably results in a large portion of users who can't even play the game due to constant crashing. Once you install all the necessary fixes the mod is quite stable, but performance can be lacking, especially in large dungeons. The real deal breaker for me are the bugs. I had to scrap several playthroughs because for some reason my character's max HP were so abnormally low, any critter could one-shot him. Another playthrough got scrapped because I accidentally hit a dog during a scripted even and it made the entire city wanting to kill me later in the story, ruining the main quest progression. Speaking of story, I can't really tell you much past very early game due to all the bugs right now. But early game is pretty on rails and it holds your hand a lot. I've seen some nonsensical events and revelations too, but it isn't too bad so far. Voice acting is excellent, which is rare for a mod. Worldbuilding is solid too, but exposition is lackluster. Some character will dump lore onto you in buckets while another won't have anything to say to you apart from the quest they're a part of. Dialogue is okay, but can be very on rails too with just one variant of answer. Gameplay is pretty much vanilla Fallout 4 with some minor changes to perk trees and mechanics. Locations are very detailed, but sometimes layouts can be quite confusing to navigate. New weapons are fun, but they aren't uniform in quality. There can be a shoddy texture, some jarring animation, pointlessly flashy holstering, etc. Not too bad, but not ideal. Mod isn't ready due to it's technical state. I'd revisit it six month or so, right now I can't recommend it.

The first choice you get in the bar is "Female" or "Male" body. Any choice leads to a male body? Then the game crashes when you leave the tutorial area. Completely clean install, GoTY. Idk if this has been tested at all.

The graphics and assets of the mod are honestly fantastic. The fact that Team FOLON was able to succesfully translate Fallout Americana into the United Kingdom is fantastic. The weapon designs, animations, character work, all of it is great. But this is a bad game. The combat balance is a disaster. No, it isn't hard, it just isn't well made. Ammo is handed out at survival horror levels, but sometimes a radroach can take 2 mags. Most foes can drain your health in an instant, and the cover system that was fantastic in Fallout 4 is not present here, or at least not functional. Battles take place in areas with no cover and no room to manuver, and one early game set piece locks you in a boat, disables movement, and makes you fend off about a dozen raiders. Don't let people tell you that this combat is just "old school" It is poorly designed and not fun to play. Even without the crashes (which the store page oh so elegently blames on users), there isn't a good game here. There is a half decent mod in here, but it isn't worth muddling through bad combat, awful encounter design, and incredibly dull quests (no, breaking 30 eggs so a door to a crashed airplane will unlock is not fun or interesting.)

This mod is unfortunately very overhyped, and all the YouTubers hyping it up fail to mention the many issues that it has. The voice acting is great for a mod, there are a couple of characters that are less than, but in general it's great. Expecting the quality an actual game studio offers would be unreasonable. The performance within London is dreadful, and the lighting effects are all over the place. Some areas are over exposed, or look bad during the day. There are also a lot of area's you can wander into, that feel like you shouldn't be there. There is significantly less to loot, and interact with compared to the base game of fallout 4 as well. It's still incredibly impressive what they managed to create when it comes to how the world looks and feels, but it does suffer from being too bloated, and details in area's. It can be overwhelming to navigate, because of the amount of clutter, and lack of clear paths. The themesfolk are also somewhat of a gripe, the way they talk is annoying, their design is interesting, but I would have preferred if they'd avoid the trappings of adding their own humanoid races. On top of that, their hub area is very laggy, once again very narrow, and not fun to navigate. The weapon animations, return to the classic perk system, introduction (first 30 minutes), and skill checks in combat, are all amazing inclusions of this mod. To summarize, they do a lot of things with this mod, I wish Bethesda would do in a mainline fallout game. It however suffers from over cluttered environments, having too big of a scope, and a lot of technical issues. I think I might come back to this mod in a year from now, to see if the issues are fixed. It's impressive, just not the second coming of Christ that people make it out to be.

I've tried it, twice. I didn't enjoyed it. First of all, CTD, occurred to me too. But I fixed it by go to FO4 starter and turned the game borderless-windowed. That's not the biggest problem. What's lethal for me is, the game is frustrating: -The maps are mazes, the boring ones. You just don't know where to go. -"Loading doors" every where. -Some challenges are base on FO4 system weakness, like jump and swim. -Minimal acting during dialogue. -Main quests are simply go/kill/fetch. -Fighting is hard, guns are crap, and many human enemies kill on sight. -High Charisma (10) doesn't seems to mean anything in the main quests. Like, a bottle of water is good, yeah, but that's it?