Fallout: The Frontier is one of the biggest Fallout: New Vegas mods to date, yet it has been embroiled in controversy since it released on January 15. The controversy centers on NSFW content that was included in the mod, which led to its temporary removal from Nexus Mods. Now it is back, but several of its contributors have pulled their content to distance themselves from the project.
Fallout: The Frontier promised to be the biggest Fallout: New Vegas mod ever created and was so highly-anticipated that fans briefly crashed its Nexus Mods download page the day it was launched. But the hype turned surrounding the game turned into controversy as players began to accuse it of being a “fetish mod” for its NSFW content. The controversy grew four days ago when it was revealed that one of the mods’ contributors posted “inappropriate content containing anthropomorphic minors” on Instagram. This led to the mod being temporarily banned from Nexus Mods.
Now the mod is back, but much of its controversial content, including the contributions from the expelled developer, has been removed. According to a post from tgspy, the leader of the mod’s development team, several characters’ voices were also removed after their contributors “requested that they not be affiliated with the game.” The composer who created the music for one of the mod’s in-game radio stations also asked for his music to be removed, as well as several artists.
The unsettling content that most fans took issue with involved a character named America, who the player had the option to enslave by passing a skill check. There was also inappropriate dialogue with an under aged character named Mae. This content was created by the expelled developer and has been removed from the game. The development team also removed other content considered inappropriate, including a dialogue skill check to have intercourse with a Deathclaw, though it did not detail all the content that it changed.
The Frontier will still come to Stream, though its release has been pushed back. Its icons have also been removed from its Steam and Nexus Mods pages because the artists who created them asked for their art to be removed.
Despite the fact that The Frontier has returned and will still come to Steam, it seems that the mod has been permanently tainted by the controversy. Still, it is difficult not to empathize with the development team, who worked on The Frontier for three years only for it to be ruined by one of their own developers less than two weeks after launch. However, it also seems likely that at least some of the developers may have noticed his unsettling posts and inappropriate content and decided to keep silent.
Fallout: New Vegas is available on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
Source: Eurogamer