Fallout UK

[AkiHyperion]

Good evening guys, and girls, this is going to be a long post so hang in there!

 

I'm going to start by saying that I know this has been attempted before, to bring fallout to the UK, and those plans have never been fully realised. However, after having seen what a small team of 17 have been able to do for Fallout Miami, and with Todd Howard, Pete Hines etc saying they would never do a fallout set in the UK, I wondered why not try to bring a Fallout Miami style mod to the UK, and open it up to those that want to traverse the wastelands of Britain.

 

I am going to start off by saying that I am a writer, and over the years I have thoroughly enjoyed playing every edition of Fallout from 1 to 4 (excluding brotherhood of steel), but have constantly wondered what Britian and the UK as a whole would look like after a nuclear war had ravaged the planet. To this end I have planned a fallout fan book based in the UK, though over the 4 years I have been writing it, my scope has increasingly grown and this has led me here to ask for help creating a fallout 4 mod that can stand up potentially as it's own game.

 

I will include details of my ideas later on in this post, but for now I must tell you that although I have made simple mods for my own fallout games (F:NV, and FO4) I have never published them nor made them accessible to anyone other than friends. This is why I need help to create the game I believe a large majority of British fans of Fallout want to play. The scope I have for the game could be called large, and for this I might need quite a few people to help me work on this project, both new and experienced modders are totally welcome to message me and ask if there is anything they can do to help!

 

Over to the type of modders we might need to work on this project;

 

Modders that have experience creating a world map that resembles the real world, for example London has a very famous river that would need to be recreated within the engine.

 

Secondly, modders that are able to create branching questlines, factions, new weapons and armour, and a new pip boy type device that will allow players to look into their inventory.

 

Thirdly, modders that have experience with tweaking key features of Fallout 4 such as faction allegiances (similar to F:NV) and the return of a Karma based system, perks and ideas that could replace the "bobbleheads" in vanilla FO.

 

Fourthly, anyone with experience creating characters, adding potential voice files and creating new and interesting mutated creatures.

 

Lastly, I want to say this already stands for everyone interested in any of the previous posts, but other writers will be needed, not just for side quests or random speech but for us to bounce ideas off and create a world that players will want to spend hours engrossed in even after the content has run out. Writers or modders that have any local knowledge of Scotland, Edinburgh, London, and Northern England will be greatly appreciated.

 

Anyone that gets involved in this project will be able to add their own ideas to it, I want this project not just to be my own but to be something that all of us would be happy to say "we did this". Additionally, ideas will be needed for new mutated creatures missing UK lore and other aspects of a Fallout UK, the attempt is to stick close to known info and the fallout bible entries about the UK.

 

I believe this is the perfect time to attempt this as with the coming release of Fallout Miami, and Fallout 76, what basically accounts to a free update for Fallout 4 would tempt in the single players that wouldn't want to play Fallout 76, and those that having finished Fallout Miami would want a brand new experience.

 

I'm going to finish with a brief over view of the ideas I have for a Fallout UK game:

 

Setting and time frame: Within Fallout UK there will be 3 maps, each one around 1/2 - 3/4 the size of Nuka World. The player will decide which of these will be their starting area. Yet until they proceed a certain way down each areas main quest the other 3 areas will be blocked off. The game will take place somewhere between 100-150 years after the bombs fell. The UK only saw minimal nuclear bombs dropped on it in the advent of the nuclear war, one having struck near the houses of parliament but not exploded (megaton esque) and a few more on the outskirts of London. As you may have guessed one of the 3 map areas will be London, the other 2 include Edinburgh, and one large Northern England city.

 

Protagonist: The protagonist will vary depending on the chosen start point, and ideas would be greatly appreciated on the protagonists backstory for each starting area.

 

Story: The bombs fell, and the UK came out of it fairly unscathed, however due to the EMP qualities of Nuclear Bombs, most computers and electrical equipment in the UK has been crippled, after the advent of Nuclear war and the destruction of everything that allowed everyday life to continue the UK fell quickly into chaos, the government and the Royal family fled to bunkers outfitted from the second world. Most people in the UK had no access to such bunkers and therefore many of the non-irradiated humans are decended from people admitted to these outfitted bunkers. Overall there were only 10 of these bunkers around the UK, 2 in London, 1 in Edinburgh, 1 Glasgow, 1 Manchester, 1 in Cardiff, 1 Belfast, 1 in Liverpool, 1 Bristol, and finally 1 somewhere in East Anglia. Each bunker could house between 150-500 people depending on their size. Nuclear Fallout hit the UK hard as the weather blew it over from the US, this fallout created a nuclear winter that lasted 100 years, during this time not much grew on the surface, and those in the bunkers relied on dried foods and hydroponics. Those unluckily on the surface often had to resort to cannibalism, which has become the norm through the UK, with those eating only fruit and vegetables seen as weird. The population of the UK dwindled, but as stable communities started to be set up, cannibalism declined but is still seen as a major food source. The protagonist must choose a faction to bring to power in their home region, and then potentially bring them to power across the whole of the UK. With multiple ways to "complete" the game.

 

Any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated, anyone who contributes even the smallest amount will receive some credit for this game.

 

Please do not hesitate to message me if you have any questions or wish to be part of this hugely ambitious mod, I know how much work there is to be done, but hopefully the British spirit will pull us through.

 

All of the ideas in this post can change at any point if you feel you have a better idea to portray let me know and join the (potential) writing team.

 

Thank you all for reading such a long post! War, war never changes.

 

 

Update: Discord channel now up and running: https://discord.gg/wkMUsd2