Mod:Phobos

Phobos was a developer who worked with the Fallout: The Frontier development team on Fallout: The Frontier.

Background
Phobos joined The Frontier team in January of 2020. With most of the mod already complete, he mainly playtested but wanted to become a content creator.

He jokes he had to "sell his soul" and write up as many possible interactions/skill checks with a Wild Wasteland deathclaw as possible, as a task in order prove his worth as a developer. He wrote plenty of hostile and combative dialogue for the deathclaw, but somehow, only the sexual lines made it in (because he speculates another developer didn't want the deathclaw to be killed because they were too attached to the character). At the end of the sexual encounter which results in the Courier's limbs being broken, a textbox was supposed to say something like "Battered and broken, you walk out of the cave and every god in heaven is looking down on you with disdain... well, except for maybe two of them." (referring to two other developers who also designed the encounter) This punchline didn't get implemented in somehow. He laments the encounter didn't go as he imagined because it added more to the mod's controversy and made the sexual encounter look nastier than intended, when it was meant to be a joke. Even worse, the Wild Wasteland check apparently didn't get implemented correctly.

In March 2020, he tried to communicate to the other developers that America had some unfortunate implications regarding her dialogue, saying calling her a "little slave girl" is a bit much, but nothing happened regarding it because the other developers tried to justify it with "Yeah, but it's meant to make the player feel disgusted about themselves." He was also not a fan of Mae Caufield's original lines due to her being under 18, and considers it a bad move on Nazen's part.

Contributions

 * He helped Nazen with the Sandlot tribes.
 * Breach Outreach quest design.
 * Wrote the breach outreach terminal entries and expanded their characters.
 * Contributed a lot of time to playtesting.
 * Voiced these people:
 * Bob Frost
 * Generic scavs
 * Some random dude who runs up to you and dies choking on his own blood

Trivia

 * He likes playing Fallout 76 and seeing its evolution.
 * He received a T-shirt with the Fallout: The Frontier logo on it, as merchandise meant for the developer team. He says he will never be caught wearing it, but jokes in 2050, he'll sell it for a high price.
 * Reflecting back on the mod, he felt that were was a bit of elitism with the team depending on each member's role, and this contributed to its downfall, saying what core team members said would go, and side-content developers/playtesters such as himself would often get little influence. He feels like he can't really play The Frontier anymore, saying he feels dread and a pit in his stomach about the idea of booting it up. Despite this, he feels the mod's good content does outweigh its bad aspects. He feels people need to be mentally prepared about joining group modding projects and to be prepared for contributions to be dropped, as well as negative reaction.