BBC covering fallout is so weird.

I am bewildered that BBC is covering a mod for Fallout

The BBC interviewer looks like he's shut himself in the cupboard to do this interview secretly and I love it

Hopefully the literal BBC covering their game will act as a wake up call for Bethesda.

Theres definitely a BBC top brass looking forward to playing Fallout London and is fuming at Bethesda for the delay

Surprised this is something the BBC would cover

"The BBC has approached Bethesda for comment" Unironically, this could be the catalyst for Bethesda providing an official response, or MAYBE some actual support

Makes a change from the usual death, despair and destruction that usually dominates the news.

1. Me being amazed that the BBC is covering a MOD. 2. Me being amazed that a BBC report on a MOD got 50 000+ views in less than a day.

Me first see the Fallout London title: Okey dokey. Me see the BBC News then: What's this then?

I think the only time Bethesda warned an unofficial dev team of an update was back when they were prepping to release Skyrim Anniversary Edition. They let the SKSE team know ahead of time. I could be wrong but I thought I read something about that once.

I think what many people dont understand is the sheer size of this MOD; its bigger than most games coming out, hundreds of people involved, all working for free! The equivilent would be a "fan made" formula 1 racing team taking part this year for then suddenly the rules to change and give no warning.

Thought I was tripping seeing BBC news covering this? Are they feeling alright?

Wow wasn't expecting BBC to be reporting on Fallout. This is a big moment for the Fallout community

Delighted that the BBC is covering gaming and games development

I'm so gutted for all of you been following this for ages and like the skywind project this looks absolutely amazing

I didn't have BBC covering Fallout London on my 2024 BINGO card...

The only reason why they are covering fallout is due to the widespread success of the TV show Fallout which widened the target audience for this specific news coverage to be more plausible. That, and it's a great game.

As a modder myself and a lover of this guys and other mods i can not agree that Bethesda owes us anything. What we do is modify their original content and they allow us to easily do it and integrate it to the game, is not fair for us to think that we work with or for them. Its our choice to do it, nobody hired us or forced us to do this

Now BBC is covering mod release? good to live long I guess

I had to rub my eyes just to make sure I was seeing this right; BBC covering Fallout.

Aside the controversy, it is so great to hear more about how the mod has been produced, in which context, and how much these people got involved into it. So grateful to have guys like these sharing their passion for the sake of our entertainement. It's incredible when you think about it.

I think I met this guy backpacking in Asia many years ago. This feels weird. I can not place it exactly but I know I have spoken to this man. Maybe it was brief and I was drunk.

Wow. Major outlets covering A GAME AND MODS. Such cool times to live in

A mod getting news coverage is actually insane. Awesome!

I guarantee that some of the staff at the BBC were just super miffed about the delay and the news team picked up on the story that way.

Big news corporations are missing a gap in the market not reporting on the gaming sector, especially now it's becoming the most profitable area of entertainment.

If Bethesda was smart they would contract these guys for an official release.

Wow, didn't expect to find this interview here. This is so big for BBC.

This mod should be on creation club with official Bethesda support. I don't like paid mods but this is one I would pay for because of the sheer effort of it.

very common to at least notify a project of this size, maybe not with Bethesda but other games have supported this communication given a certain level of trust (and with even smaller projects). Bethesda probably will not admit it, but this points to a clearly unplanned update especially given all the bugs as well already. Rushed out per corporate demands to get something to bring in players when they saw how effective the show was.

"Fallout london"... So just london

Bro I can’t wait for Pyro, Asmondgold, Penguinzero and SomeOrdinaryGamers to have a panic attack thinking the BBC is gonna take their jobs.

you don't need a video game to experience an apocalypse in London

Excited to see a mod set in a near-future London!

BBC tapping into the fallout zeitgeist.

You guys got on BBC News!?! Jolly ol Fallout

Power to the team that is developing Fallout London. These are the fans that develop a franchise they love. Some companies recognize that.

The fact that they have no problem delaying the mod when a problem arises is a good thing to me

I really hope Bethesda sees this and decides to do an Enderal and let this be a standalone

Its weird, because Bethesda has done it before. they already have a "mod/game" called Enderal for Skyrim, that has its own steam page, and it works absolutely wonderful.

We'll have to play a smaller mod in the meantime. Maybe Fallout Croydon. Or reach out to Deadpool to see if he wants to fund Fallout Wrexham.

seeing the BBC acknowledge fallout London is crazy

In Fallout London you can wheelie electric bikes and ride around in balaclavas yielding knives and cigarettes

do i need a tv license to watch this?

Which fallout fan at the BBC is pissed off... imagine if its the director General just like "gad damm it Bethesda!!"

It's a pleasant suprise to see a mainstream outlet like the BBC covering gaming media stories. Most major broadcasting companies would never.

The right thing to do would be to have a compatibility mode of sorts. Maybe even allow the mods to run in experimental mode where the community can contribute to bug reports etc.

Bethesda can't even release a functioning game on launch day, they aren't going to be able to help modders

I didn’t expect to see this on bbc news when I searched to check its progress 💀

Bethesda announced a next gen update was coming back in 2022......

Didnt expect to see such content on BBC but I'm positively surprised!

Fair play Prilla for getting on the BBC. Real shame that BGS didn't just reach out and stop to think what this update might do. It's a full sized game for free. Could only help drive their sales.

BBC is covering this? British fans must have been more excited to play this mod than I realized.

Hilarious how the professional BBC guy has a worse mic than the guest being interviewed.

you're delusional if you think Bethesda, or any company, would contact the modders for an unofficial mod

One very important thing, they have monetized mods, as in they will add them to the main menu for you to buy, both console and PC, they even advertise in game for you too buy these mods, just adding that in as some people may think he has no right to be informed or be part off development. Fallout London has been very sought after for years now.

Imagine the news reporter like in their 60s with glasses, giving a summary and handing this story over to these guys, it's so weird them covering this 😂

Genuinely thought this was a fake account. So weird seeing the BBC cover a Fallout 4 mod

Bro why is the BBC covering this, like, im actually surprised lmao

I really wish Bethesda would make a deal with fallon to make this a proper DLC . Its to big for consoles , so even when its released will be PC only . That's a shame because I'm 100% more interested in this than any other game or announcement .

This is the closest I’ve ever been to thinking about paying my TV license.

They do have a patreon with over 767 members, so hopefully that's helped Dean to an extent.

This feels so... surreal, seeing BBC covering this.

Surprised BBC is covering it but quite pleased I suppose, it’s a shame but I am so excited about Fallout London

i must be seeing things, i am amazed that the bbc is covering a fallout mod

Can someone tell if it was broadcast on their TV channel, or was it only on their UKposts?

I respect Bethesda for supporting this mod to a degree. If this was Nintendo they would be kicking the door down!

I had to look 5 times to make sure BBC was covering a fallout mod... .The hell.

i love how no one is actually talking about the video lmfao

Kind of weird BBC are covering this but the update was announced 18 months ago. Did they not foresee this happening back then? 😅

I was sad to see the mod delayed but its hardly Bethesda fault. They want to make money and they have to update the game to keep doing so

What is perhaps not clear to people, is that 90% of ALL mods for Fallout (there are literally thousands of them) will not work after Bethesdas release of the Fallout Update. Those enthusiastic new players of Fallout who started to play after watching the TV series and installed a mod or two (not unusual) will find their game will most likely crash after updating. I am sure there are going to be a lot of unhappy campers. Certainly not good for Bethesda or Fallout.

It's not like we all didn't see this coming from a mile away. Updates break mods. This rather huge mod schedule overlapped with a rather large update. Just roll back the update, block the update and continue to play. We've all had to do this at some point.

BBC covering the “London mod” for fallout is 🔥 becuase now they’re getting more exposure

With something this big that's been worked on and discussed in the community so long, it really feels baffling. But. Larger companies are not really as in touch when it comes to this stuff; and being corporate really just adds a dimension of being almost forced to be at arms length. So on the one hand you have the company probably not thinking about it, and being occupied with other things; on the other hand, you have all the distance, and all the rules, from being a big company- and then all the stuff we have no idea about, internal policies, etc. Game development really is complicated on a lot of levels... I really feel for this team. Regardless of the reasons, it really sucks.

This is kinda wild for multiple reasons. Firstly, given everything happening in the world right now I wouldn’t have expected the BBC to cover this. Secondly, why would you expect a heads up from a company that you are in no way shape or form connected to. I appreciate mods as much as the next player, but unless they are coming out of creation club they are essentially pro bono add on’s. Don’t get me wrong it would be nice for contributing member of the community to be given some heads up but unless you are going to have every mod author sign an NDA or exists in some capacity under the Bethesda banner it makes no sense.

Surprised this is being covered, BUT I'm so glad they did. This is a big deal and a massive project that so many have poured countless hours into. I don't want this to go quietly into the night like so many other mods. This deserves to be out.

Anyone remember that Fallout New Vegas: Frontier mod? Not saying this mod is gonna be like that but its understandable why Bethesda would maintain distance from mod dev teams

damn, bbc. you covered this? This is a win move

bro i thought i was tripping seeing this uploaded by the BBC of all things.

Interesting to see the BBC covering what's essentially a giant bold letters callout to Bethesda that's basically "GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER" re: modding and respect and communication for their modding ecosystem.

Wow, how often do you see a video game mod get coverage from a major world news corporation? This feels pretty unprecedented.

We've known the patch has been coming for ages, I don't know what they expected. For them to just not ever release it?

The mistake was thinking you can count on your mod being valid in this way. They don't have quite the incentive to keep your mod viable the way you think they do.

I think the recent life being breathed into the fallout franchise will help the success of Fallout: London. It's been a long time since the release of Fallout 4, its DLC, and Fallout 76. The TV show created a welcomed opportunity for more fallout content and brought a lot of new eyes to the fallout world. I'm sure the bethesda update will incentivise people to upgrade to next gen consoles, buy Fallout games, and their DLCs. Still got some time before season 2's release. Fans will flock back to the game to see what bethesda did. New fans might check it out. A nearly 10 year old game will live on for another decade due to the community engagement. When fallout london comes out, all of the passionate players will make it the biggest success of modding history. It's a great time to be a fallout fan.

Massively popular video game franchise with a popular and well-reviewed TV series features features London, made by fans of the franchise. Four years in the making, fan project featuring London is delayed due to official publisher involvement, which doesn't include anything British at all.

"We knew this update was coming as of 2023" "It came as a complete surprise"

Didn't this next gen update get announced over a year ago? I know modders didn't know the exact release date but they did know it was coming and most likely alongside the release of the show. Or at least I was expecting next gen update to come around the release of the tv show. The Modders should take the time they need to have the game they want. But saying Bethesda told them nothing or they were blindsided seems just weird imo.

I wonder if beans on toast would be a food item.

They're probably covering it because of the recent success of the Fallout TV series and this is vaguely Britain-related.

They “didn’t tell us” But the update has been known of and in the works for years. Why do non employees feel they have the right to be informed of the exact date before any other consumer? Makes literally no sense to me

Finally something worth while on the BBC I got my Jimmy Fix it wish afterall

Hope to see it released soon, Bethesda should liaise with the big modders, they ultimately rely on them and a mod in development as big as London WILL have been known to Bethesda and the impact it will have had on the London team must have been known.

why is this on BBC I mean I've been excited for years and I'm sad about this but why is BBC talking about it?????

Someone needs to let the guy who was interviewed know something very important. He just had an interview for what amounts to a full Fallout game that he and his team made and intend to put out for people to enjoy on BBC. He is a professional in every sense of the word, they are all now professional artists, the lot of them. They have the characteristics of both Artists and Game Designers, and they should never undersell themselves on that ever once they release Fallout London. They should be very proud of what they have done.

It's such a damn shame they didn't correspond with the FOLON team. This was not something under their radar. That said, so many more people are discovering or rediscovering Fallout now and may well finish Fallout 4 just in time for this shiny, juicy new mod to pop on the scene. FOLON is going to be twice as big of a deal now, lol, in terms of purely number of downloads and amount of enjoyment/playtime. Thanks to BBC for covering this, btw!

We got BBC covering Fallout before GTA 6

That's the Special Relationship at work.

This being reported by BBC is such a surprise!