It’s been over half a year since Fallout: London developers Team FOLON announced that it’d be getting three bits of DLC adding new quests to post-apocalyptic Blighty. The folks behind the massive mod have been relatively quiet in that time, but they’ve now confirmed that the first of these DLCs, Rabbit and Pork, will require you to start a fresh save game.
Also, one reason it hasn’t arrived already is that the team have been working to ensure other quest add-ons won’t force you to go back to square one, whenever they drop.
“This DLC is a DLC in name only really, it adds in a lot of fixes and some cut/new content,” Fallout: London project lead Dean ‘Prilladog’ Carter wrote on Team FOLON’sDiscord server over the weekend, in response to a user asking if they’d have to start over again when the DLC arrives. “So, it’ll require a new save. One of the reasons it’s also [taken] so long was ensuring any future groundwork for other quests in other DLCs won’t require the new game save.”
A fresh save being mandatory for at least the first of the three Fallout: London DLCs isn’t a huge surprise. Since the mod first started getting updates and patches to fix bugs last year, Team FOLON’s advice for the best experience has been to start a new game each time a new version arrives, with carrying on from an established one being doable, but potentially leading you to run into “compatibility issues”.
The possibility of messing with saves was what led the modders to roll Fallout: London’s bug-fixing version 1.03 patch, originally teased late last year, into this upcoming first DLC. Given that, it’s really encouraging to hear the modders have been working on ways to minimise the impact future updates’ll have in this regard, since starting over in such a huge game every time it gets updated is far from ideal.
As for what you can expect from this first DLC, Rabbit and Pork, Team FOLON’s 2D art lead Emily ‘Saffron-rice’ Kemp wrote in a Discord exchange with another fan immediately following Carter’s that DLC number one will include “various new side quests of different sizes, but no main quest content”.
We do know that extra main questing will be coming in Fallout: London’s third DLC, Wildcard, which looks to be the final one the modders have planned at the moment. As Carter revealed in an interview with me for my old home last year, that DLC’ll add in a whole New Vegas-style wild card arc for the game’s main quest, which’ll let you decide the fate of London without having to side with the three established main quest factions: Angel, Camelot, and the Fifth Column. This questline was originally intended to be in the base game, but had to be cut after the modder taking the lead on it was, in Carter’s words, “basically forcibly conscripted” into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
That leaves the second DLC, Last Orders, which very much looks pub-themed based on its name and the accompanying art. I’ll be keen to give each of them a go, and all the better if I can get away without starting fresh three or four times in the process.
