Can you play Fallout: London on Xbox and PlayStation consoles?
It's a question you might well have about the highly-anticipated Fallout 4 mod, and we're here to answer it.
Massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London is finally releasing today, July 25, following over five years of development and a number of delays. If you're wondering whether you can play Fallout: London on your Xbox or PlayStation console, then you're very much in the right place.
If you're somehow unfamiliar with Fallout: London, it's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 set in a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests. Basically, it stars Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon and even a former Speaker of the UK's House of Commons, and it's a Fallout thing. What else could you want? So, here's a rundown of whether you can play it on console.
Can you play Fallout: London on Xbox and PlayStation consoles at launch?
Sadly, the answer, at least at launch, is no - at least not in full. As the mod's team has written in the FAQ section of its website: "We do not plan to bring Fallout: London to any platform other than PC at this time. Specific standalone items may be released separately. The community has the permission to convert said standalone items to other platforms."
So, basically, you can grab some of the mod's unique weapons and gear that individual modders on the team have chosen to create console ports for. A prime example is this Lewis Gun from modder Neeher - who we interviewed about their work on Fallout: London earlier this year - which is already available as a standalone Fallout 4 mod on Xbox One, via Bethesda.net.
Though, the full version of the mod - as you might expect - relies on a lot of script mods and other frameworks that would make it very difficult to make available on either the Xbox or PlayStation you can play Fallout 4 on. Especially the latter, given that Sony's consoles typically only allow console mods that use - or rework - existing assets and textures from the base versions of games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim - a bit of a hangup given lots of good mods use custom external assets to make things look unique.
Will Fallout: London be coming to consoles in the future?
However, all hope isn't lost in terms of Fallout: London possibly coming to consoles in some form down the line. Well, provided Team FOLON can get a bit of help to deliver such a thing.
"What we want is to speak to a decision-maker," the mod's project lead said on the subject in a recent interview with The Metro because if we could make it a standalone thing with their [Bethesda’s] permission, that means that people on gaming consoles could use it, which they currently can’t."
So, it is still on the table, though it would take a bit of a change in modus operandi from Bethesda when it comes to the massive mod, with Carter previously having lamented a "lack of communication" between the two parties around the release of Fallout 4's next-gen update.
So, there you go, now you know. If you're open to buying a PC copy of Fallout 4 via GOG or Steam in order to play the mod right now, all the instructions you'll need to get playing are right here.