I continue to adhere to my refusal to participate in Steam, and therefore, have not purchased FONV. I do not want to participate in Steam, but I would like to purchase a license to play FONV. Whether I am arguing against a Steam business practice, or against a publisher decision really is not the key point however, and my core question remains: WHY does Fallout New Vegas have to require Steam? While a decision to effectively "not support their games themselves" might be facilitated, and seemingly attractive to a publisher, I like to get my support from the closest source to the designer as possible, and have found that these middle-man arrangements actually tend to create additional ambiguity and forms of evading customer problems.
Given that the auto-updates seems to generate problems in its own right (see the post immediately preceding this one), and that patches also tend to break saves and mods, one could argue that these features represent as much of a burden on tech support as they do an asset. The nearly idiot-proof self-install through Steam helps as well. It’s set before the events of the Battle of Hoover Dam, so that places it within the overarching Fallout timeline, but apart from the familiar factions, The Frontier is a wholly new Fallout story to explore and experience.I would suspect that automatic updates and ensuring all your customers are patched to the latest version is a huge draw for companies as it would (normally) cut down drastically on tech support. This is a truly astonishing mod – not only does it add a new map that’s roughly the size of New Vegas’ Mojave, it also adds drivable vehicles, loads of new armours and more than 150 new weapons, and a thoughtfully written, mature storyline that doesn’t shy away from showing players the horrific ravages of nuclear war. However, many of the players remain the same: You’re a Courier, and you find yourself in the midst of a conflict between the New California Republic and the brutal Caesar’s Legion factions, and its three main questlines will take you beneath Portland’s streets to discover the city’s pre-war secrets.
The Fallout modding community is buzzing today thanks to the release of Fallout – The Frontier, a gigantic mod project for Fallout: New Vegas that adds a full new game’s worth of content to Obsidian’s iconic RPG game.įallout – The Frontier moves the action to the snowy streets of Portland, Oregon.
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