Impressive Fallout 4 Mod Gets Taken Down In One Day After 6 Years In Development (2024)

An impressive Fallout 4 mod that took 6 years to develop has been taken down a mere day after launching. Since its launch in 2015, many modders have taken to Bethesda's retrofuturistic apocalyptic title, either adding new features such as weapons, levels, or armor or seeking to completely overhaul the game with massive mods such as the now-delayed Fallout London, which takes players to new locations entirely.

In the case of modder Tamler's Mass Effect Evolution - A Total Fallout 4 Overhaul, this would have seen Fallout 4's Wasteland transformed into a futuristic space adventure in the world of Mass Effect. The mod was uploaded to Nexus Mods (as captured by archive.org) with an impressive 71 images and a video showing some of the incredible changes to the game, to the point one might not even recognize Fallout 4 is at its core, with one commenter calling it "Amazing". Unfortunately, this was pulled within a day, prompting Tamler to take to the Russian social media platform VK - where they'd already set up a Mass Effect Evolution page - to address this.

Why Was Mass Effect Evolution Pulled So Quickly?

And Will It Be Reuploaded?

As per Tamler's post, the Mass Effect Evolution mod was pulled from Nexus Mods due to its use of several animations. The post explains that while all links were given and credits were provided, this was done without the permission of the authors. Fortunately, Tamler has reached out to these authors to negotiate, and some have already agreed. Once all of the permissions have been granted, Tamler has stated their intent to reupload the mod to Nexus Mods.

In the meantime, Tamler pointed out that the mod will be updated on VK more often than anywhere else, and encouraged people to follow the project news on the Mass Effect Evolution group for information. Hopefully, this will be resolved quickly, as a further VK post from August 16, 2021, that was shared on the Nexus Mods page, detailed just how much work Tamler had already put into it by that point.

Tamler's Fallout 4 Mod Would Have Been A Must-Play For Mass Effect Fans

With Its Own Story Rooted In The Mass Effect Universe

The post detailed the Fallout 4 mod's standalone story, which looked to have many ties to iconic Mass Effect locations and organizations while introducing new characters of its own. The story would have taken place 5 years after the Reaper War and would have seen society return to normal, turning from the violence of the war and focusing their efforts upon venturing to the unexplored corners of the galaxy.

The "Evolution" in the mod's title refers to a small mining corporation owned by a character named Ashland Thar that has been present since before the First Contact War. During a mining expedition, the group uncovered a device containing information about the technological innovations of an unknown, but very highly developed race that had apparently gone extinct.

Instead of transferring this new alien technology to representatives of the Alliance, Ashland secretly assembled a group of scientists, engineers, doctors, and technical personnel on the far side of the galaxy, each of whom had a past conflict with the Alliance, classifying the data as "Top Secret" and using it to create new, more advanced technology. Therefore, Evolution quickly gained an undeniable advantage in the military and civilian markets and became its own separate state, with its own private planets populated with its own new resorts to appeal to the masses and facilities to continue its research beneath the surface.

Mass Effect Evolution would have also shown other factions taking advantage of the fallout of the Reaper War with a criminal asari nicknamed "Blue Devil" using the Black Nova Cartel to wipe out all existing criminal groups, emerging as a force to be reckoned with. Following this, Blue Devil seemed intent on going after Evolution and taking their resources, resulting in a full-scale war between the two groups on the planet Nakhodka. This war resulted in a very Fallout-esque moment, where Ashland had to overload the central power circuits of the zero reactors, causing a series of thermonuclear explosions that almost completely destroyed all life on the surface, with only those who were in the vaults below surviving.

Tamler's post described this as just the "background" to the project before going into the technical details of how they fully converted Fallout 4 into a Mass Effect spin-off. With so much lore and story, this could easily have been a way for Bethesda's RPG fans to scratch a new sci-fi itch while they wait for Starfield's Shattered Space expansion to finally release this Fall.

Sources: Nexus Mods, Mass Effect Evolution/VK (1, 2)

Fallout 4

Bethesda's action RPG Fallout 4 puts players into the vault suit of the Lone Survivor, a pre-war soldier from an alternate future cryogenically frozen inside Vault 111. After their infant son is kidnapped, they venture out into the irradiated wasteland of the Commonwealth to scour the ruins of Boston for any sign of him. In doing so, they encounter various factions and companions and use an array of skills and abilities to navigate the apocalyptic remnants of society.

Franchise

Fallout

Platform(s)

PC , PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S

Released

November 10, 2015

Developer(s)

Bethesda

Publisher(s)

Bethesda

Genre(s)

RPG , Action

Engine

Creation

ESRB

M FOR MATURE: BLOOD AND GORE, INTENSE VIOLENCE, STRONG LANGUAGE, USE OF DRUGS

How Long To Beat

27 Hours

X|S Enhanced

No

File Size Xbox Series

51 GB (December 2023)

Metascore

87

PS Plus Availability

Extra & Premium