Mod:Fallout: The Frontier/Fallout: The Frontier



Fallout: The Frontier is a fan-made modification for the 2010 action role-playing video game Fallout: New Vegas initially developed by Maybenexttime and JoshBadWriter, later led by Tgspy, along with many members of the Fallout Modding Community and Frontier Development team.

Setting
As the Courier, you start a new adventure centered around a conflict between the NCR and the Legion in the snow blasted remains of Portland, Oregon.

Gameplay
To begin the mod, a character will approach the Mojave Desert after waiting a couple days. After some discussion, the Courier will go on a truck to the Frontier.

The mod features a map around the size of the base Mojave Desert map. It also features hundreds of interior locations.

Features

 * Climbable ladders
 * Vehicles
 * NPCs who animate using a lot more body language, such as crying
 * Multiple companions who can follow the Courier at the same time

Development
The mod has been in development since around 2015 or 2016. It released on Nexus Mods on January 15, 2021.

Rework
In May 2021, the Frontier team addressed criticisms and announced their intention to rework the mod "from the ground up", including entirely rewriting the game's NCR questline, which drew criticism due to many players feeling it was linear and like Call of Duty. With this announcement, they also began recruiting new writers, artists and developers for the project. Project lead Tgspy stated in a blogpost "we hope that this new story will do better justice to the characters, and to the Frontier as a whole". In 2022, the team announced that because some developers were in Ukraine's conflict zone, this would halt some progress on the mod.

Some things confirmed that will be changed:
 * You are no longer automatically enlisted into the NCR before arriving in the Frontier. Instead you go to the Frontier as a "nobody" with no set affiliation to the factions there. The "Courier worship" by others will be toned down, as well as some of Elias' decisions.
 * There will be more realistic interactions between the factions. The player will see the NCR fighting a war outside the main quest.
 * Legion and Crusaders will see some level of adjustment to prevent lore conflicts or quality concerns.

Trivia

 * The following locations have a basis in reality:
 * Arlington Heights
 * Goose Hollow
 * Hillside
 * Hosford-Abernathy street
 * Irvington
 * Kings Heights
 * Lincoln Park Elementary School
 * Lloyd Center
 * Oregon convention centre
 * Pearl district
 * Providence park
 * Slab Town
 * Sunnyside street
 * Burnside and Marquam Bridges