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Fallout: London's developers couldn't tell you its current release date if they wanted to, project lead says

The project lead of massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London has said that the reason its developers haven't revealed its latest release date is due to them having signed non-disclosure agreements.

This explanation follows the team revealing last month that it had locked in a new internal release date for the mod, after a delay neccessitated by the arrival of Fallout 4's next-gen update forced it to abandon its planned release date of April 23. Though, this time around, unlike the previous ones the modders had pencilled in for their creation, the exact date of the intended release wasn't made public.

Now, in an interview with The Metro, Fallout: London project lead Dean 'Prilladog' Carter has provided more information on the reason for this change in the handling of release dates for the mod as the team's navigated "a bit of a nightmare in terms of trying to release" due to the next-gen update's arrival.

Bethesda's "next gen" update for Fallout 4 didn't change much about the game itself, but it did manage to cause problems for pretty much every mod out there. The most high-profile casualty was the hotly anticipated Fallout: London, an enormous project that was initially set for release on April 23 (St George's day, of course), but was subsequently delayed while the team set about fixing things...
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Fallout: London won't be available for Epic Games Store players initially thanks to Bethesda's mod-breaking update

Bethesda's "next gen" update for Fallout 4 continues to cause problems. Released in April, two years after it was announced, the 14GB patch was impressive due to how little it actually changed, aside from breaking everyone's precious mods. The timing couldn't have been worse, either, coinciding as it did with the planned arrival of the gargantuan Fallout: London mod. The team had to then delay the mod's launch while it figured out how to fix what the update broke...
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Forget Astarion, Fallout: London claims to have nabbed one of the UK's most memeable political figures to voice a robot that yells "Order!"

This is not a drill. UK political memes look set to inflitrate the Fallout universe via Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London. Having already confirmed some pretty huge names voice acting-wise, the mod's Project Lead now looks to be suggesting a former MP known for yelling things is also on that list.

Back in February, we learned that the mod's cast includes Neil Newbon - the voice of Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion - and A Plague Tale: Requiem’s Anna Demetriou, with their names slotting in alongside the likes of the already announced Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker. Yes, that's the sixth and seventh doctors from Doctor Who.

Now, over on the mod's Discord server, project lead Dean 'Prilladog' Carter looks to have revealed perhaps the weirdest addition to a mod's cast in the history of, well, modding via a "Little Amusing Update".

A spokesperson for GOG.com, the PC storefront which is set to distribute massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London, has confirmed to VG247 that it's currently not in line to be playable via Epic Games store-bought copies of the game at launch.

If you're out of the loop, Fallout: London's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 that's set to let us explore a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests. After Fallout 4's next-gen update forced its creators to abandon their planned release date of April 23, the mod has been left in a bit of a purgatory.

Following the recent announcement that the version of the mod now in line to be used for the initial release will require players to downgrade their copies of Fallout 4 to an iteration prior to the next-gen update, GOG has told VG247 that this switch will, at least in the short term, unfortunately have an effect on plans to try and offer the mod to PC players regardless of where they've bought the game.