Fallout: London

Short background: I’ve always wanted to go to London, but doubt I’ll ever make it. Even though this is a blown to pieces version, it filled some of that craving. That’s saying a lot. These guys hit the bullseye in more ways than one. Nothing seems amateur. What strikes me the most is the sheer size. Not just the map(s) size, but everything down to the tiniest minutia. That goes for voice acting, quests, and immersion. I started looking up images of the IRL places and it seems both the highlights and lowlights make an appearance. I don’t usually just walk around looking at the views in a game and compare them to the real places on the internet. In fact, I never have. Not that the player can just stroll along. I’m an old man, so I had to tick down the difficulty a bit. Don’t expect FO4 difficulty. The addition of a hideout early on is a welcome relief in v1.02. Looks like my grandkids bedroom in there with all the stuff dropped on the floor. The gang situation goes from a cool Peaky Blinders type to the ludicrous Clockwork Orange vibe. As a Yank I barely understand what some are saying, but it’s not because of the sound quality. I can’t understand some guests on The Graham Norton show either. In fact, I’ll milk that for my summation. Take some entertaining folk, lube them up with a bit of alcohol, and see what happens. Every time I think I’ve seen what the game has to offer, something new comes along that cracks me up, soils my drawers, or both. If you’ve held off, or moved on, because of the hiccups, now is the time to visit Ole Blighty. FYI I cleared out any Steam FO4 stuff and did a fresh GOG GOY install and then FOLondon. No mods or tweaks, just hit play. Only two CTDs in over 200hrs and both seem related to the London Bridge settlement. I just avoid it. Don’t tell my old lady, but I haven’t had this much fun since my first marriage.

I Know it's a freebies but it's unplayable, give it a 1 - 2 month for bugfix and I'll revisit someday

the mod is a total mess, not only it takes a long time to make it work, but also it crashes a lot of times like a 20 years old game, painful to play unless you have time to fix it.

I can tell this mod would be great, but I just cant get it to work. Game worked perfectly fine until I got to the train after that the game crashes non stop after trying to load into London. Downloaded Buffout 4 and followed steps on their discord and the game still crashes on the exact same part. Apperciate their hard work maybe in the future they can get it to work properly but as of right now it is literally impossible for me to play.

First off - hats off to the talented people who made their own entire Fallout game. It is NOT easy! The custom assets are gorgeous, the voice acting is great, and the general vibes are exactly what I was hoping for. However, this game has some pretty glaring issues that are preventing me from enjoying the game, and I have ended up uninstalling it and going back to regular FO4. The biggest issue by far is map/dungeon flow. Now, the actual design and overall layout of London is great. However, in several areas the path you are supposed to take becomes really difficult to follow due to the insane amounts of clutter, lack of lighting, misleading labelling (please don't put lit EXIT signs above things that aren't actually exits), non-functional doors that look identical to functional doors, unnecessary small rooms loading their own cells, and extremely tight passageways that limit your view and make it easy to miss paths. I finally gave up when I couldn't find my way up to a plane-based town that was on some rooftops, because I couldn't find or see the way up. The walkways were also very narrow and easy to fall off of... right above instant-kill 250rad/sec water. The difficulty curve needs some serious tweaking. I put it on 'normal' expecting to get the normal Fallout experience, and instead I am in a position where I am getting one-shotted by low-tier early-game enemies. You also start the game with TWO debuffs (one I believe is basically permanent until the late game), which is a really baffling decision to me. Stability and performance is also a bit issue. I crashed multiple times in my 4-ish hours playing. And the loading times... hoooooly crap the loading times. I ended up in that damn loading screen so many times due to unexpected deaths, back-tracking, and going through doors trying to find my way out of places. This mod has promise and these issues can be fixed. But until then, I genuinely can't recommend it.