The event of DLC-sized Fallout New Vegas mod Fallout Nuevo Mexico is not on maintain, with a member of the workforce telling VG247 that the undertaking is at present “in a superb state” as work on the mod has resumed.
Fallout: Nuevo Mexico has been within the works since 2021, and guarantees a Fallout journey set in and across the state of New Mexico simply 5 years after the occasions of Interaction’s unique Fallout sport, with loads of traditional Fallout mechanics and vibes weaved in. The mod was placed on hiatus earlier this yr, having ‘gone darkish’ again in April, with its social media and YouTube presences being largely set to non-public. Its creators now say the undertaking is again on the highway, however aren’t promising when it’ll come out.
After Nuevo Mexico’s head of public relations J.Ok-Serling posted a quick replace to the mod’s Discord server on July 10, stating “undertaking is not on maintain”, and adopted that up with a picture of a field with a Vault-Tec emblem washed up on a seaside (captioned “a saucerful of secrets and techniques”) on August 8, we reached out them for extra info.
“Zapshock is again to engaged on Nuevo Mexico, and the undertaking is in a superb state,” the modder said. “Even earlier than being placed on maintain, it was in a superb state.” In addition they confirmed that the picture of the field on the seaside is meant to be a teaser, saying that it’s “meant to let folks know in a refined, impactful method that we do have one thing within the works”, however including that “it is not likely to hype something up, although”.
“We do have one thing coming, however we will solely ask folks to be affected person, let the devs cook dinner,” the modder continued. “We do not need to maintain saying ‘one thing is coming’ and never have something to point out but, we have now picked up on the truth that we’re human beings which have a restrict, we want our sleep and burnout is an actual factor.
“I believe we overestimated in some methods how lengthy all this may take, particularly contemplating [project lead] Zapshock has been the one one actually engaged on the worldspace, scripting, getting issues to take a look at least respectable in an engine from 2008. It is taught us to attempt to be much less showy and extra affected person with hyping up something associated to the undertaking’s launch date and even trailers. If folks left our Discord or unsubbed from our YouTube, good! We should lose that religion from folks. We favor folks to not be too connected, as a result of we will not assure the undertaking will launch, we will solely strive our greatest with the little assist and workforce we have now. We’ve got religion that the undertaking will launch, and if folks want to wait til it does after which assist us, we do not blame them in any respect.”
J.Ok-Serling went on to clarify that having to fee and purchase recent property that aren’t within the vanilla sport is “what has stored us from revealing something.
“We need to have actual iconic landmarks and new buildings and props,” they stated. “That issues, I do not assume many individuals would discover the identical FO3/New Vegas property [very] interesting, they’re simply too recognisable at this level.
“We promised to point out one thing off this yr and reveal stuff we have not proven in years. Huge reveals which were the core draw for us to make this, however we solely get one probability to point out one thing off, and we would like it to be what all of us take note of.”
They concluded: “I’ve seen what the workforce has carried out, and I believe the hold-up might be price it. It might appear to be we do not have something to showcase, however all I can say [as] somebody who solely helps write or give you concepts, [is] that you can be pleasantly stunned by what the workforce has carried out from an environmental standpoint within the New Vegas engine. The garments, the narrative, the brand new property and worldspace – it will make sense why we took this lengthy to point out it off, and why it is not a simple activity given the variety of folks engaged on this.”
VG247 additionally reached out to some voice actors who had been pencilled in to work with the mod’s workforce (or had already begun doing so previous to the undertaking happening hiatus). One, going by the deal with Ally Katz, informed us that they’d reached out to Zapshock to want the modder properly after the stoppage was confirmed within the Discord server, and had acquired a response in early July, which included a sign that mod’s workforce had been hoping to have them document some extra voice traces at some juncture.
One other, going by Strigoi, stated that previous to the undertaking happening maintain, they’d been ready to listen to from the workforce about some voice traces, and that they hadn’t reached out themselves or been reached out to by the mod’s workforce for the reason that undertaking was paused.
“It is largely been a bunch of ready on phrase and discovering out about issues after they already occurred,” they stated of the latter interval, “I am not pressed about it, although, I figured they’d tug my sleeve when the time got here for recording. I do know sufficient in regards to the dev course of to know that normally comes nearer to completion.”
So, that is the place this bold Fallout modding undertaking is at proper now, and it will be fascinating to see the place it goes from right here, particularly for many who had been impressed by what they noticed of Nuevo Mexico previous to the hiatus. For now, being affected person and letting the modders crack on till they’re prepared to point out off extra of what they have been constructing looks like the factor to do.