Thanks to its wildly moddable and customizable nature, Bethesda’sFallout 4is still relevant in 2022, much like the remainder of the studio’s original output, such asThe Elder ScrollsRPGs. Since the franchise has fostered a sizeable community of modders, players still get to enjoy exciting new content drops on a weekly basis.
While the majority ofFallout 4mods are reasonably small and contained, some of them go far beyond the scope of some of Bethesda’s own official DLC. In fact, one team of modders has taken it upon themselves to port the entirety ofFallout 3’s Point Lookout DLC over toFallout 4, and the project seems to have just been successfully launched.
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As Bethesda fans will already know, the community’s insistence on porting content from older games into new releases is a proper tradition by now, withprojects such asSkyblivionpromising to rebuild an old game on a new one’s engine. More often than not, these projects either fall through or take a very long time to launch, butFallout 4: Point Lookoutis fully finished, playable, and content complete, according to the modders who worked on it.
This mod is, in effect, a remarkably faithful recreation of the entirety ofPoint Lookout, featuring the main quest line and all side quests, all NPCs, and virtually all the other content that first came out as part ofFallout 3, recreated with great fidelity. The only adaptations to the narrative relate to the fact that there’s a different protagonist this time around, and modders also needed to hand-wave the fact that10 years pass betweenFallout 3and4.
The Point Lookout porting project seems to be effectively finished and fully playable. This is great news for fans of the franchise, of course, but it’s also worth pointing out that this project is related to theFallout 4Project Mojavemod, which is attempting to translate significant chunks ofNew Vegasover to the newer iteration of the franchise. The team of modders is working under the unified umbrella of “Capital Wasteland,” with the implication being that there may be more of these ports coming in the future.
ThoughBethesda already has plans forFallout 5, it’s unlikely that the game will be coming out anytime soon. BothStarfieldandElder Scrolls 6should be coming out before the nextFalloutgame gets its time in the spotlight. But with such a comprehensive and dedicated modding community, fans shouldn’t be too worried about the game’s staying power all that much.
Fallout 4is available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
