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Fallout London is a total conversion mod made by Team FOLON® for Fallout 4 GOTY and requires you to own the base game on either GOG or Steam.
How to install and play Fallout London:
If you own Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition on Steam, please click here to access the installation's instructions provided by Team FOLON®. You will have to downgrade your version, then install the Fallout: London via our dedicated launcher.
Install Fallout London via GOG GALAXY and launch it.
Follow the launcher’s instructions, and enjoy!
A Polite Disclaimer
In typical imperial British fashion, Fallout: London will take over your Fallout 4 installation. Installing Fallout: London will make irreversible changes to the default Fallout 4: GOTY Edition installation. You’ll also need to disable cloud saves (as the save folder is shared between the game and the mod). If you’d like to play the default Fallout 4: GOTY Edition again, you’ll need to uninstall the game and the mod, and then reinstall Fallout 4: GOTY Edition.
Summary
Fallout: London lets you explore a dishevelled London set in the Fallout universe. It overhauls Fallout 4 with a new story, new weapons, London-centric items and a vast recreation of the ruined city to explore.
Fallout: London is a free total conversion mod for Fallout 4, available to anyone who owns the base game and all of its DLCs. It is developed non-commercially by Team FOLON, many of whom are proud London residents or expats.
About This Game
There has never been a better time to sample the capital’s delights! Fallout: London lets you explore the wonders of the city 160 years after the bombs have dropped, and 40 years before the events of Fallout 3. You can now reimagine Fallout in a London-centric universe, interacting with a brave new world of London-based locations, stories, factions, creatures, weapons, and gameplay mechanics.
Features
Protect and Survive!
The Gentry-dominated London stands on a knife-edge, and you may be the key to which way the guillotine falls. Play a new story set in London with a fresh character beginning, numerous conflicting factions to engage with and multiple story paths and endings with up to 90 hours of gameplay. Just be aware of what terrible secrets you may uncover in the shadowy gaps amidst the halls of power.
200 Quests to change London’s future
20 Factions bickering for power
7 Companions to bring along on your journey
15 Boroughs crafted from the ground up, bringing you a new warped and broken London
Extended Dialogue System to bring player-choices to the table, carve your own story!
Overhauled Original Soundtrack to bring personality to each nook and cranny
Original Voice Acting from all major characters, gangs, and factions
Authentic London Flair!
Discover new weapons, creatures, clothing, items, collectables, architecture, foliage and NPCs to complete the London setting. Interact through the world with your custom Atta-boy, with a fresh interface based on the UK’s life-saving Protect and Survive nuclear information campaign.
Build back better with 7 unique settlements
New craftable items with a plethora of new weapons
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?
This will be one of the best fallout experiences ever, but not yet. I have put in thirty hours and know that most of that was fighting the bugs. Yet I loved it. The game tricks you into thinking its working for several hours then certain areas - london bridge, st pauls, constantly crash. Do yourself a favour and dont sully your experience by playing it in its current state, wait until it is fixed, proper fixed.
At the moment it is such a buggy mess that it could have been made by bethesda.