A strange-looking character in the Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London

Surprise! Massive Fallout 4 Mod Fallout: London Is Available Now

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Published: July 25, 2024 8:40 AM

Team FOLON and GOG have announced the Fallout: London release date, and, well, it's today. That's right: the hotly-anticipated Fallout 4 mod, which lets you explore post-apocalyptic London, is available right now.

The mod is technically downloadable via GOG; Team FOLON says it's hosted on GOG because the project was "incredibly massive" and "too large for popular mod hosting sites". GOG offered to step in and provide a custom launcher for the experience, so you'll need to download it via GOG if you want to play.

However, you don't need to worry; the mod is compatible with both the GOG and Steam versions of Fallout 4, although if you're playing Bethesda's open-world RPG on Steam, you might have a few more hoops to jump through before you can play.

A misty and evocative vision of post-apocalyptic London in Fallout: London, a Fallout 4 mod
Post-apocalyptic London awaits you in Fallout: London.

If you're playing the GOG version, you won't need to do anything else, because the infamous next-gen update, which broke many Fallout 4 mods, hasn't been applied to the GOG version yet. You also won't need to worry if you haven't patched your Steam Fallout 4 version beyond v1.10.163.0.

Unfortunately, if you have applied the next-gen update, you'll need to follow some pretty detailed steps to get Fallout: London to work with your Steam copy. A next-gen version of the mod is in the works, but its creators haven't revealed a time frame for that version's release yet.

How to downgrade Fallout 4 on Steam so you can play Fallout: London

While the steps to downgrade Fallout 4 on Steam are pretty involved, they're not too difficult, and you should be able to achieve them without any kind of external tools. Here's what you need to do.

First, open the Steam console in your browser. You can do this by typing "steam://open/console" (without quotation marks) into your web browser.

After doing this, download Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition by entering the following commands.

  • Part A: download_depot 377160 377161 7497069378349273908
  • Part B: download_depot 377160 377163 5819088023757897745
  • Executable: download_depot 377160 377162 5847529232406005096
  • English version: download_depot 377160 377164 2178106366609958945

You can also use the following commands to download any Fallout 4 DLC you might own. Bear in mind you'll need these DLCs to play Fallout: London.

  • HD Texture Pack: download_depot 377160 540810 1558929737289295473
  • Automatron: download_depot 377160 435870 1691678129192680960
  • Automatron English-language pack: download_depot 377160 435871 5106118861901111234
  • Wasteland Workshop: download_depot 377160 435880 1255562923187931216
  • Far Harbor: download_depot 377160 435881 1207717296920736193
  • Far Harbor English-language pack: download_depot 377160 435882 8482181819175811242
  • Contraptions Workshop: download_depot 377160 480630 5527412439359349504
  • Vault-Tec Workshop: download_depot 377160 480631 6588493486198824788
  • Vault-Tec Workshop English-language pack: download_depot 377160 393885 5000262035721758737
  • Nuka World: download_depot 377160 490650 4873048792354485093
  • Nuka World English-language pack: download_depot 377160 393895 7677765994120765493

Whew! That's all the files. These files will be downloaded into your Steam library, which, by default, can be found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\content\app_377160. You'll find the files in a series of folders numbered after the six-digit strings following "377160" above.

Create a new folder on your desktop, then copy and paste the files from each of the above directories into that folder, replacing files as you go. Once you're done, you'll have downloaded Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition as it was before the next-gen update.

Now, all you need to do is delete everything in your current Fallout 4 installation folder and replace it with what's in the folder you just created. Et voila! You're now ready to play Fallout: London.

This project has been a long time in the making. Originally revealed in 2021, it's a huge passion project that aims to recreate the city of London as it would appear in the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout.

The mod is such a huge undertaking that one of its lead writers left in August 2021 to join Bethesda, which should give you a good idea of the pedigree behind the mod. Fallout: London is available to download right now via GOG.

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Game Page Fallout 4
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Platforms
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Release Date
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