Fallout: London

As a mod, it's an easy 5/5. This is a store page so I will go in between and give it four. To give the developers credit, I will mostly treat this as if it were a """real""" game. Because they have done something incredible. That also means I will be more critical. I'll go over: - Performance & bugs - Gameplay/visuals (nonstory stuff...how it looks/feels to explore locations, kill stuff and do Fallout things - Story (quests and pacing) Let's start with performance and bugs. tl;dr: pretty damn good! The game is 100% playable for me. I got stuck 5 minutes in (first elevator) and couldn't progress. Buffout 4 fixed it. Now I crash maybe 1/10 of the time while fast traveling and 1/20 times entering a zone. I always save or it autosaves before you do this so, for me, this is slightly frustrating but nowhere near game breaking. It also runs well. I haven't played vanilla in over 6 years so I can't compare but performance is good on my 6-year-old laptop. I have had many collision bugs that required >tcl, so no big deal. Then there are the bugs where I had to turn to the internet for tips. First, the beermat and opening END stat fiasco. That greatly affected my early game but when I looked online, I learned these bugs existed and was able to fix each with a single console command. Made me think the game was broken for six hours but went away in flash. I had to get around 3 quests using console commands. Luckily I waited a bit to play the game and each situation, after realizing something was broken, found online the console commands to fix it. Gameplay: Best fallout map ever. Beautiful. Locations are mostly pretty and welldesigned but the amount of locations with zero terminals/notes/quest is VERY disappointing. Enemies/attacks/resources are very balanced though. Map should have been smaller Story: I wont get into it (our of characers) but lots and lots of problems. Many NPCs that dont talk. Factions are meaningless until the very last bit. Not enough side quests

A worthy succesor to Vegas with some minor stabiity issues. About as stable as FO4 was at launch, except Team Folon is actually going to support their game. Devs are super easy to contact for support.

I'm British but definitely not a Londoner (and can't stand the place frankly), and from the previews I expected to find this total overhaul a bit silly. And from the reviews I also expected to find it very crashy. But being free and having already played FO4 several times I thought, hell, why not try. I'm glad I did. It's not silly. And no it's not crashy - not one crash in first two evenings of play (though I installed the game after the update was published). I disabled weapon debris in settings (which I do in FO4 anyway). I also installed one mod called "Load Accelerator" from Nexus (it's just a dll file and config file, not an esp mod plugin). Other than that I used my usual settings. No "Buffout 4" either. The attention to detail is beyond impressive, and even the voice acting so far has been good. This has all the feel of Fallout New Vegas but set in London - i.e. more faction-oriented like comparing FNV to FO3, which some will like or dislike. And I love that it isn't too focused on all that tiresome minecraftian FO4 setllement building (though there's a few places you can build up if you're into that). The only minor issue I've noted is some new glassware is too dark (almost black, missing some texture or specular maybe) and a couple of FPS drops. I also think the terminal screens when in close-up view are set too far back (they want you to still see the very neat but utterly pointless keyboard in the foreground). No doubt more updates, tweaks, mods etc will sort these out sooner or later.

Best overhaul mod I've ever played! This could be an actual installment in the Fallout franchise. There are a few bugs but its immensely impressive. Looking forward to see what these folks make next!

Really fun, definitely worth playing especially for free. On par with a new full release fallout game :)