Fallout: The Frontier - Released!

Discussion in 'NMA News and Information' started by The_Proletarian, Jan 15, 2021.

  1. DerDoctorSchnabelVonRom

    DerDoctorSchnabelVonRom First time out of the vault

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    Mar 6, 2021
    Why do all of these multiple-years-in-development, high-concept, 100+ developer mods always turn out to be embarrassing dumpster fires, while New Vegas mods made by a handful of people turn out awesome but aren't appreciated?

    Nobody who still plays New Vegas plays it for linear spray-and-pray action, and yet these geniuses sunk 7 years into making a knockoff Call of Duty in the Gamebryo engine and it was the most hyped mod of the year until it wasn't. Meanwhile nobody noticed Autumn Leaves until Bethesda ripped it off to put in Far Harbor. It makes me sad.
     
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  2. megamike15

    megamike15 It Wandered In From the Wastes

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    Mar 30, 2016
    autumn leaves was considered a classic even before Bethesda ripped it off.

    but it is sad that most one or 2 man projects that take one year to make are much better then most of the 7 year ones.
     
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  3. Señor Wally

    Señor Wally Mildly Dipped

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    Feb 27, 2021
    While every criticism you pointed out for Frontier is 100% valid, it's almost given that the big multi man projects die harder. Frontier wasn't a singular vision and the leads for two of the routes had an exact opposite approach to the guy from the NCR route and each guy had their own shortcomings. Generally, they were barely organized and they really needed someone(a project director) to reign everyone in. To filter the good from the bad. It had a project director, but he was essentially just a technical guy by the sound of it. A glorified bug fixer and.... scheduler...?
    In interviews, he seems very uncertain about key details of NV's mythos and even less about the project he himself worked on.

    tldr: The same thing that happens to student films. Weak leadership and the right hand barely knows what the left is doing.
     
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  4. RangerBoo

    RangerBoo Resident Schizo Poster

    Jun 15, 2015
    ^This right here. The project lead for the Frontier, tgspy, is one of the most incompetent projects leads since Hunt Down The Freeman. He pretty much let the writers and devs do and put whatever they wanted in the mod and didn't have anybody playtest or go through the mod to make sure that it was lore friendly. It also didn't help that he hated New Vegas and the OG Fallout's, hasn't played New Vegas in years or has ever played the OG Fallout's. This is the last guy you want being a project lead for a mod for New Vegas.
     
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  5. Señor Wally

    Señor Wally Mildly Dipped

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    Feb 27, 2021
    The lore friendly thing is really funny. After the fact, there were claims that they weren't aiming to be lore friendly. Though, I can't recall if the devs themselves made this claim or not. However, on the very day of the Frontier's release, I was in a Discord voice chat amongst several folks, including a dev. When one fella spoke up and said that that the mod is not lore friendly, the dev snapped back and insisted that indeed, it was lore friendly. He then argued back and forth with the guy. This continued until the first guy got laughed out of the chat for some hilariously ignorant comment about mormons(long story and irrelevant).
    But based on that, I'm confident it was probably meant to be lore friendly, regardless of what anyone tells you.

    Not a huuuge revelation or anything. Lore is the least of the issues. But I think it's funny.

    Even funnier, the guy that got laughed at seemingly returned on the day of the Discord 4chan chat raid. I recognized the voice. I guess HE had the last laugh, afterall.
     
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  6. Señor Wally

    Señor Wally Mildly Dipped

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    Also, tgspy recently did an AMA. Someone asked why he would mod for NV if he thought 3 was so much better. He said it was because 3's engine is worse for modding. So even then, another one of 3's shortcomings is what keeps him from modding 3. lol
     
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  7. Alphons

    Alphons National Beholder

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  8. Norzan

    Norzan So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs

    Apr 7, 2017
    Makes his claim that Fallout 3 is "sleeker" and "better designed" even more hilarious. When a Bethesda game is hard to mod you know that game is a complete disaster.
     
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  9. 0wing

    0wing Все умрут, а я волномут

    Mar 23, 2015
    And people keep saying that Crusaders of Steel questline is this mod's salvation. LoL!
     
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  10. DerDoctorSchnabelVonRom

    DerDoctorSchnabelVonRom First time out of the vault

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    Mar 6, 2021
    Oh god, I had no idea. How does someone like this end up as PROJECT LEAD for the biggest New Vegas mod ever? I'm guessing technical ability, but it's not like there aren't New Vegas modders who are both technically talented and well-versed in lore. I try not to rag on modders too much because I generally admire what they do, but the unbelievable awfulness of this mod is just so fascinating to me.

    I'm pretty sure it was advertised as such on the Nexus page. I'm wondering when they were going to mention the giant helicarriers and Wolfenstein enclave space station. You see about four vertibirds in the entirety of Fallout 2, and one in the whole of New Vegas. Apparently 90% of the entire US arsenal was stored in Portland.
     
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  11. 1Punman

    1Punman It Wandered In From the Wastes

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    Jan 29, 2021



    Only thing that numbnuts was honest about, but even then I am not sure.
     
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  12. cordelionreaver

    cordelionreaver Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?

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    Nov 29, 2015
    Apparently The Frontier youtube channel found the videos because they are arguing with commenters.

    Its under the Blujay58 comment.
     
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  13. RangerBoo

    RangerBoo Resident Schizo Poster

    Jun 15, 2015
    They deleted all their posts after getting roasted in the comments and tried to silence and false report anybody criticizing them. LOL!
    :lol:
     
  14. Big No

    Big No Watch as I open and close this door

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    Oct 28, 2014
    I believe that one fella was TK-Mantis, or he was at least in a similar boat.
     
  15. Dayglow Drifter

    Dayglow Drifter Mildly Dipped

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    Sep 25, 2018
    I've been thinking about this and I think that the main reason is that much of the mod is already teased and marketed before it gets made, which is somewhat necessary when you want to attract volunteers, but this generally results in them realizing early on in development that they've bitten off more than they can chew. From there it's a series of sacrifices that gradually deteriorate the quality of the mod; the worldspace is either filled out with nothing or with whatever garbage they can get people to contribute, likewise the writing often suffers from lacking quality or consistency as this huge team of volunteers with little to no structure all kind of cobble something together, additionally management problems can arise when the more technically skilled modders kind of hold more or less all the power regardless of whether they have any leadership.
     
  16. megamike15

    megamike15 It Wandered In From the Wastes

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    Mar 30, 2016
    it does not help that the mod community is fragmented.

    the frontier team seems to hate other peoples mods. they would out right call someguy's mods bad [ going through them again and so far besides red bear's bounty going on to long they are fine.] with one of it's member even doing a whole video essay about how bad they are because it dares to have references.

    this was nazo and like the coward he is deleted the video.

    tgspy ran a modder trying to add actual legion content from the nexxus.

    and this is not even getting into the tkmantis bs.
     
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  17. Señor Wally

    Señor Wally Mildly Dipped

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    Feb 27, 2021
    At first, one could easily be sympathetic to the Frontier and its devs, even despite all the bs behind the scenes and the weird content because "it's a labor of love".
    But it wasn't really. The Frontier began as a vanity project and as time passed, it became bloated with different, contrasting people with no central vision. And then some the devs were kind of transparent in how little they seemingly cared for the series at large. Now it's hard to see the Frontier as anything BUT a vanity project.
    On one hand, you don't have to pay for it but it would also cost a person nothing to NOT play it so...
     
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  18. Señor Wally

    Señor Wally Mildly Dipped

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    Feb 27, 2021
    It wasn't. The guy I'm thinking of had a nasally high pitch German sounding accent, which is why it was easy to recognize later. Far off Mantis' chill dude low pitch North American voice. lol

    Similar situation, though.

    And he was arguing with the "Enclave and Legion are Trump supporters" guy.
     
  19. cordelionreaver

    cordelionreaver Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?

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    Nov 29, 2015
    It wasn't a "labor of love" it was a "labor of ego." Devilswish wanted to flex and the whole mod suffered for it.

    I heard they ran TommInfinite off Nexus for awhile, but I never heard how or why.

    For TKmantis it didn't help that he whined about not getting to voice a character. He was going to voice a legionary but he wanted to do his own voice, didn't want to take voice direction and took months to send voice lines.
     
  20. Señor Wally

    Señor Wally Mildly Dipped

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    Feb 27, 2021
    Exactly, I don't like to throw names around but Devilwish definitely had an ego going into it. I guess he wanted something for a resume or wanted to be seen as a technical wiz.

    Unfortunately, technical prowess isn't something hardcore Fallout fans are interested in seeing in their ROLEPLAYING SERIES about an interactive environment and web of action and reaction. Whoda thunk?
     
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