{"id":1535677,"date":"2026-03-25T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uQE8FNAvPZ3PRzWs5VPvqh"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:49:06","slug":"fallout-megamod-maker-says-there-were-moments-of-uncertainty-about-how-okay-bethesda-was-with-it-but-gives-props-to-todd-for-staying-cool-about-the-whole-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/fallout-megamod-maker-says-there-were-moments-of-uncertainty-about-how-okay-bethesda-was-with-it-but-gives-props-to-todd-for-staying-cool-about-the-whole-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout megamod maker says there were ‘moments of uncertainty’ about how okay Bethesda was with it, but gives props to Todd for staying cool about the whole thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You might have read\u2014on some website called PC Gamer dot com\u2014that Fallout 4<\/a> megamod Fallout: London (FOLON)<\/a> is a genuinely impressive modding achievement, cramming a “DLC-sized” Brit-Fallout expansion into Bethesda’s 2015 RPG. It’s also the biggest singleplayer Fallout release we’ve had in over a decade.<\/p>\n

But there were moments during development that project lead Dean “Prilladog” Carter and his team worried FOLON might not make it out the door. In a chat in the latest Edge magazine<\/a>, Carter recalled “moments of uncertainty” during FOLON’s five-year development when the devs worried that Bethesda might not be all that happy with a humungo-mod like theirs using the Fallout setting and branding.<\/p>\n

Luckily, those fears proved unfounded, and Carter gives “props to [Bethesda]” for being chill about FOLON. Then again, perhaps the company is just happy to have the Fallout name continuing to gin up hype\u2014Carter notes that “I do feel that the publishers increasingly rely on user-generated content, because it keeps their games alive for longer.” <\/p>\n

It’s not like Bethesda had a singleplayer Fallout of its own on the horizon that FOLON could suck up oxygen from\u2014maybe it’s useful that something<\/em> is out there keeping people excited about the series, even if it’s not from Bethesda.<\/p>\n

I reckon that’s part of the thinking going on at the studio, though by means all of it. After all, Bethesda was famously chummy with the devs of Skyblivion\u2014the mod remaking Oblivion in the Skyrim engine\u2014around the time of Oblivion Remastered’s release, and those two projects are more-or-less direct competitors. <\/p>\n

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