Fallout: New Vegas' Van Buren remake mod Revelation Blues has a new name and a second demo dropping soon

The modders accidental they're "very precise very close" to releasing a Tibbets demo that'll spell alongside past year's Burham Springs one

If you support an oculus connected the big, ambitious Fallout mods that're ever successful the works, you mightiness person heard of Fallout: Revelation Blues. Its developers person been plugging distant astatine remaking Van Buren - the mentation of Fallout 3 which was successful improvement astatine Black Isle Studios earlier being cancelled successful 2003 - arsenic a New Vegas mod for the past fewer years. While they released a archetypal demo past twelvemonth nether the Revelation Blues moniker, the radical person decided to re-christen their task Fallout: The New West up of releasing a 2nd demo astatine immoderate constituent soon.

Ahead of that, the sanction alteration has been acceptable successful chromatic by the merchandise of the caller teaser supra and the motorboat of a caller website. Why the power from Revelation Blues? Well, 1 of the mod's devs going by the grip Caveman6667 has explained connected Discord that the radical concluded Revelation Blues was "a enigma of a sanction for galore passersby and isn't a grabby title". The New West, meanwhile, they consciousness fits the mod better, arsenic it'll diagnostic "many allusions and references to the Old West".

So, retired with the aged and successful the New West arsenic the modders cogwheel up to merchandise a 2nd demo, this clip focused astir Van Buren's opening sequence. You're successful Tibbets prison, a pen tally by an AI dubbed Odysseus, and you've gotta interruption retired of that associated portion a caller plague's besides connected the escaped successful the conception of American southwest the mod's acceptable in. The modders wrote successful a Discord station enactment retired alongside the teaser that they're "fairly confident" they could enactment a merchandise day connected this Tibbets demo close now, but person alternatively elected to play it harmless and simply state they're "very precise very close" to delivering it.

As outlined connected the sparkly caller website, the New West crew's existent program is to get this "alternate commencement demo" retired of the way, past "follow it up with the entirety of enactment 1 of the crippled arsenic a vertical slice". If you're keen for a taster of what the mod's afloat experience'll beryllium like, they've besides provided the pursuing useful blurb outlining its cardinal tenets and aims:

In galore ways, it tells the aforesaid wide communicative envisioned by Fallout: Van Buren, but restructured and expanded to signifier a cohesive, playable experience. The project’s superior communicative extremity is to instrumentality the disparate crippled threads and unfinished concepts recovered successful the archetypal plan documents, including for example, the NCR–Brotherhood conflict, the Great Tribal War betwixt Caesar’s Legion and the Daughters of Hecate, the combat for the psyche of the Mormon State and overmuch more, and weave them into a satisfying, unified communicative that adheres to the main crippled arsenic described successful the plan documents.

Players presume the relation of a caller protagonist,released from captivity successful 2253, known arsenic "the Prisoner", and the communicative is acceptable successful an alternate continuity that predates and reinterprets the events of Fallout: New Vegas. Unfortunately owed to galore Van Buren concepts being folded into FNV, we cannot acceptable the task successful the aforesaid timeline. Our secondary extremity is to incorporated galore of the modern gameplay conveniences introduced done Fallout: New Vegas and its much than 15 years of modding, portion preserving the distinctive mechanics and plan quirks of classical Fallout recovered successful the archetypal plan documents.

While I'm not arsenic voracious a Van Buren lore sponge arsenic different Fallout enjoyers, the New West's re-creation of a wasteland escapade we ne'er got has surely piqued my interest, truthful here's hoping the upcoming demo's a bully one. If you fancy giving the mod's archetypal demo - Burham Springs - a spell successful the interim you tin find it connected Nexus Mods.