Fallout: the Frontier is one of the biggest and most anticipated Fallout: New Vegas mods ever created, but since its release on January 15, the mod has been at the center of several controversies.
After some criticized the mod’s writing for “fetish” and inappropriate content, one of the developers was accused of posting “inappropriate content featuring anthropomorphic minors,” resulting in the mod’s temporary removal from Nexus Mods. The mod is now back online, but not only has the ousted developer’s work been removed, it appears that a number of other contributors have pulled their content as well.
According to a message from project leader tgspy, “the value of multi-character voice acting” has been removed from the mod after contributors “requested not to be associated with the future project”. In addition, some artists have requested that their content be removed, while the music for the radio station “Breaking Outreach” has also been removed at the request of the composer. So while the mod is available for download again, you may notice a few missing speech lines – something the team apparently wants to replace in the near future.
The main reason for taking the mod offline, of course, was to remove content created by the ejected developer, mainly their “icons and self-inserts”. As for the controversial rules and content previously slated for removal, we now have a little more detail: the rules about enslaving a companion named America have been removed, along with an inappropriate rule from underage girl Mae. The team apparently changed and removed “a few bits of questionable content mod-wide,” although the team didn’t reveal exactly what had changed.
“We recognize that these topics were not handled tactfully, but there was never any malicious intent behind the writing of the rules,” said tgspy.
I haven’t played Fallout Frontier yet, but I’m absolutely amazed that this one character is just a surrogate for the writers’ barely disguised fetishes pic.twitter.com/pi4UOl2X9p
– C-Gay-Y (@seinfelddahog) January 21, 2021
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Those strange lizard people you could have sex with are meanwhile “locked up” in the current build of the mod, but will be reintroduced in an optional file at a later date. So then you really only have yourself to blame for downloading that.
It looks like the mod has another future on Steam, with the promise of further updates to the Steam build “to allow for a more independent start”. The mod’s Steam page is currently hidden, but the Steam release is apparently getting finalized after some issues with the launcher. The project leader previously stated that the new upload would be The Frontier’s “final build”, but with voice lines to be replaced and work on the Steam build, it appears the team’s work is not yet complete.