Fallout: London

... that doesn’t mean we can’t criticize it. To my bitter regret, I’ve had an overwhelmingly negative and frustrating experience with Fallout London. The mod suffers from crashes for many players, including myself. It’s not news anymore, but the mod definitely needed more time in in the cooker. The “Tutorial area” was super annoying. I spent a whopping 10 minutes in the first two rooms, going in circles because a door was hidden in shadows. I had to look online to figure out where to go. So, dear FOLON-Team, please add some light source there—whether it’s some sparks, a lamp, or something else. Later on, there’s a transition to the overworld, but it’s also plagued by crashes and urgently needs a fix. In survival mode, you can only save when you sleep. However, the first two beds you find don’t allow sleeping. This needs to be addressed as soon as possible as well. Having an initial safe haven or save point is crucial. Bethesda did this well in Fallout 4 by providing an immediate settlement where I could build a bed and save. The Fallout London team adds the first weapon (a walking stick) AFTER encountering initial enemies, which is frustrating for survival players. They do provide 9mm ammunition though... ¯\(ツ)/¯ Bethesda gave players a melee weapon before encountering enemies and shortly afterward provided a 9mm pistol . In Fallout London, I’ve died more frequently in Survival mode than in Dark Souls 2’s starting area or in Vanilla Fallout Survival mode. One frustrating death involved a wild mongrel that seemed to teleport behind me like Son Goku in VATS. After some CTD's it also messed up my Resolution and the game was surrounded by big white borders. TL;DR: Game either crashes, or gets funky with graphics resolution. If those 2 don't happen, then several ingame issues plague the experience. 1/5 stars, cannot reccomend in this state.

I want to enjoy this game. You want to experience it and fully explore it. The theme and feel is there. Unfortunately... The game just gets in the way of itself and keeps knocking you out of enjoying it by the really awful combat balancing, punitive world elements, and lack of basic testing. The installer is just a file copier without any mechanisms to really detect if any of the files are the correct versions. To make the mod functional you have to install more mods, which you would think would have been included with their installer. This is a large project, I understand. But, to have such failure with just installing the mod correctly with a supposed installer, showcases the lack of even basic testing the devs had in place. Did no one do a few test installs in different environments? Did they not check to see if the installer did its job? With the mod "installed", there's still oddball crashes at different points. Even with a fresh, clean install of Fallout 4: GOTY edition and using the Fallout: London installer, I ran into every major crash and had to use all kinds of work-arounds to get out of the tutorial area. Just plainly not a great first impression. Exiting the tutorial/starting area, you try to sink into the game and engage with it. Then, you notice how punitive combat is. Not punishing, punitive. It's difficulty of the sake of difficulty. You run out of ammo all the time because enemies are very much bullet sponges, and you don't feel like you can ever do any real damage. It doesn't feel fair. There's no real challenge in combat, just fighting bad dev math. There's many developer "gotcha" elements. Despite it being many years after the bombs dropped, being around a river that dumps out into the ocean, somehow all pools of clean/clear looking water does 200+ rads a second. That's just touching the edge of the water briefly. This mod may have content to enjoy, but developers have a flawed understanding of what makes a game play well.

Amazing quality game - they've clearly put a lot of care and attention into the design, and I love the voice acting!

I did a clean install of GOG Fallout 4, Followed the install directions, and the game crashes at the train ride. I have tried all the fixes found here and elsewhere, no luck at all. Thanks GOG for the free download, you all rock and this is not your fault. I will try again in a few months to see if has been fixed, for now it is not worth the effort.

Gog gets a good storefront against Steam? I'm in! This mod looks amazing already