The lead developer on ambitious-looking Fallout: New Vegas mod Fallout: Nuevo Mexico has canceled the mission to be able to prioritize his “psychological well being” and to “face actuality”.
In a message shared on the mod’s Discord server (by way of TheGamer), developer Zapshock says that whereas Nuevo Mexico has been his “ardour” and “obsession” for years, the mission’s workload and prices are “too nice”.
As such, persevering with with Nuevo Mexico‘s growth “merely is not sustainable for [Zapshock] and everybody concerned, together with voice actors”, and so the choice was made to cancel the mission. Zapshock says the choice was “painful”, however “crucial”.
Earlier than its cancellation, Nuevo Mexico was set to be a mod roughly the dimensions of one of many Fallout collection’ DLC packs, and it will have taken you to the US state of New Mexico, because the identify suggests.
The mod was to be set 5 years after the occasions of the unique Fallout, placing it a number of many years earlier than the occasions of Fallout 2 and New Vegas, each of which occur as humanity is starting to rebuild one thing resembling a coherent society.
Per a Recreation Rant interview from February final yr, the modders had been planning to incorporate Dragon Age-style origins for characters in Nuevo Mexico, together with one for a ghoul character, which might have basically modified the mod’s gameplay expertise.
Truthfully, it sounds to me prefer it’s no marvel the mod was canceled; Zapshock and his crew clearly had an insane degree of ambition for Nuevo Mexico, and with simply 4 folks engaged on the mission, they had been sure to burn out eventually.
Nuevo Mexico is not the one Fallout mod to have been canceled in latest months; again in October, the builders of Fallout: Vault 13, a mod that tried to remake the whole thing of the unique Fallout within the fourth sport, shut down their mod resulting from “a mixture of things”.
In case you are in search of a DLC-sized Fallout mod expertise, nonetheless, all is just not misplaced. There’s nonetheless Fallout: London, which launched in July final yr and which had attracted 1,000,000 downloads by October. It is a Fallout 4 mod, although, so you may want the bottom sport to play.