Summary
- Fallout: Nuevo Mexico mod for New Vegas canceled due to small team, overwhelming workload, and prioritizing mental health.
- The Fallout series has a vibrant modding community, with ambitious mods like Fallout: London showcasing the creativity and dedication of modders.
- With Fallout: Nuevo Mexico's cancellation, the legacy of ambitious mod projects not coming to fruition is not uncommon in the Fallout modding community.
After years of development, the highly anticipated Fallout: New Vegas mod set in New Mexico, Fallout: Nuevo Mexico, has been canceled. This disappointing update is a sad end to one of the most promising Fallout: New Vegas mod projects in some time.
The Fallout series is known for its massive, ambitious modding community. This helps keep these titles alive long beyond their initial release dates, allowing gamers to download even more community-created content for these games. Mods range from small quality-of-life fixes to transformational new lands. For example, mid-2024 saw the release of Fallout: London, a standalone mod that is even getting a massive DLC of its own. It's impressive what Fallout modders have managed to achieve over the years, and long may it continue.
The Next Fallout Game Needs to Keep This Option Open to Players
The next Fallout entry should give fans more possibilities for one type of style and approach to roleplaying their characters in the Wasteland.
One mod that won't be continuing is Fallout: Nuevo Mexico. The mod was announced several years ago, and now, in a statement posted on its Discord, the creator has announced that it is canceled. In the statement, they described the anticipated Fallout: New Vegas mod as "my passion, my obsession, and a huge part of my life for years," but stated that "I need to prioritize my mental health," while claiming that "The team is small(less than 4), the workload enormous, and the costs ahead, both financial and personal, are too great."
Fallout: Nuevo Mexico Mod Canceled Years Into Development
It remains to be seen if the mod will be passed on for someone else to complete, although that doesn't seem likely at this point. Fallout: Nuevo Mexico was previously put on indefinite hold back in June 2024, but it seemed to have been back on the right track as of late. It's a shame for it to eventually reach this conclusion, even if the reasons are more than understandable. Ambitious mods not getting over the finish line is nothing new, though. Fallout: Nuevo Mexico isn't the first in this regard, nor will it be the last.
On the video game side of things, the Fallout series is being kept alive by modders. The success of the TV adaptation means that the franchise remains in the public eye, but there has been no mainline game in the series since 2015's Fallout 4. Bethesda has yet to speak publicly about Fallout 5, and with The Elder Scrolls 6 up first, it could be some time before gamers get their hands on the title. Some even think that Fallout 5 could be a partial sequel to New Vegas, which would be an interesting approach. For now, though, gamers will just have to be patient for a while longer.
Fallout: New Vegas
- Released
- October 19, 2010
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
- Developer(s)
- Obsidian Entertainment
- Publisher(s)
- Bethesda
- Engine
- Gamebryo
- Franchise
- Fallout
WHERE TO PLAY
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas.
It’s the kind of town where you dig your own grave prior to being shot in the head and left for dead…and that’s before things really get ugly. It’s a town of dreamers and desperados being torn apart by warring factions vying for complete control of this desert oasis. It’s a place where the right kind of person with the right kind of weaponry can really make a name for themselves, and make more than an enemy or two along the way.
As you battle your way across the heat-blasted Mojave Wasteland, the colossal Hoover Dam, and the neon drenched Vegas Strip, you’ll be introduced to a colorful cast of characters, power-hungry factions, special weapons, mutated creatures and much more. Choose sides in the upcoming war or declare “winner takes all” and crown yourself the King of New Vegas in this follow-up to the 2008 videogame of the year, Fallout 3.
Enjoy your stay.
