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Enormous Fallout: London mod is out now, and it’s totally free

Some dirty London buildings against a gray sky in Fallout London.
Team FOLON

It’s been years in the making, and the gigantic Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London is finally here. The developers at Team FOLON teased the release on Wednesday, and it’s now available today for free exclusively on GOG.

The mod, which is DLC-sized at around 33.8GB, has been in the works for around five years, with a team of around 50 people and contributions from around 200 others. It’s also the first time the Fallout games have gone outside the U.S. (albeit unofficially) and the first Fallout-related video game release since Fallout 76 in 2018. The franchise is having a moment, though, thanks to the Fallout TV show, which was recently nominated for 16 Emmy awards.

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The easiest way to install it is through the GOG Galaxy launcher. All you need otherwise is Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition. Launch Fallout: London through the launcher and follow the instructions to complete installation. It’s worth noting that Fallout: London will overwrite your Fallout 4 and is irreversible unless you uninstall and reinstall the base game.

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It’s way more difficult to install if you own the game on Steam. However, there is a solution that requires a downgrader available on Nexus Mods.

In December, it was in a complete playable state and touted a lot of features, including around 200 quests, 20 factions, and an original soundtrack. It also featured its own voice acting, which included some shocking names, like Baldur’s Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon, Doctor Who’s Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker, and, most surprisingly, former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow to play, you guessed it, a Speaker of the House. Truly, it feels like an official DLC.

At one point, it felt like the mod was in trouble. It had previously landed on a April 23 release date, but Bethesda surprise-announced a next-gen update for Fallout 4, which made a lot of Fallout: London unusable. Project lead Dean Carter told IGN that Bethesda, which has made clear it’s aware of the mod, hadn’t alerted the team.

“This is the thing: they randomly dropped it, that they were going to bring it out on the 25th of April. So that has, for lack of a better term, sort of screwed us over, somewhat,” Carter said.

Carter said in an interview with TheGamer that the mod was initially set to release on Nexus Mods — the most well-known hub for mod discoverability and downloads — but it ran into problems hosting the files.

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