FOnline/Fallout Online anyone?

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Howdy! Does anybody remember the first real Fallout Online game that ever got released? And by the fans? The FOnline Engine? That spawned dozens and dozens of spin-off servers throughout the years? Well, it's still going strong! And looking for new players!

The latest and most active/consistently updated one is FOnline: 2258! Set in the year 2258 and following the official canon/timeline, it acts as a sequel to Fallout 2 and a prequel to Fallout 3/FNV. It's more of a Fallout 2.5 Online that mixes in a lot of the cut content from Fallout 1/2 and Van Buren (Think Mutated Raccoons and Trent Burham). The devs recently wiped early June 2025 and even brought in Las Vegas! Before Mr. House comes out of hiding! They're working on showing off The Strip and the rival gangs, plus mixing in a lot of MMORPG elements like Player Ran Casinos and a way better economy/crafting system. It's heavily inspired by Ultima Online and its MMO features, including Bulk Order deeds and the Token system.
[https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline#2258]

The story revolves around Vault 24 and the end of life of their vault, unplanned, and being sent out in droves to an unforgiving, post-apocalyptic America already basking in the glory of all the other vault dwellers that came before you. You've got some big shoes to fill, kiddo... or do you? Good Natured is just a starting trait. But you are a Vault Dweller, after all! A pre-war indoctrinated and raised saint tamed to make the world a better place! Right? Right?... Regardless! The people, the cities, the towns, and the NPCs will remember your name... AND your actions! FOnline 2258 is designed around the idea of a more living, breathing, and active post-apocalyptic wasteland. NPCs walk around, have conversations, explore the world, and can even join you on your adventures as a PERMANENT living, breathing, A.I travelling companion! Oh, boy! Never be lonely in a lonely world again! With FOnline 2258! It's Fallout 2.5 ONLINE!

Overall, the whole server is looking great and has been the #1 FOnline Server since June! If you guys are interested in playing Fallout 2.5 but Online and with a friendly community come check us out! The website, wiki, and forum isn't finished yet but the Discord is very active! The game is a continuation of other abandoned/retired servers like 2238, Reloaded, AfterTimes, Fallout Nevada, etc. The current dev team is a diverse team of experienced, previous ex-FOnline /game developers who recently came together to help make FOnline great again! It's Fallout Online, the way it was meant to be played - made by fans - for the fans! FOnline 2258! Legacy of the Vault Dweller! If it ain't canon, it ain't in game.

Includes over 100 unique quests/jobs
Full Competitive PvP Combat & Loot Drop
A Full PvE experience - Dungeons, Main Campaigns, Daily Quests, Crafting, NPC Factions, Player Vendors, Farming, Mining, Slavery, etc
A Fully Interactive Early Game Experience that rewards you for exploring the world and its contents - with a full RPG style mini-campaign as its tutorial
Constant Events!
Seasonal Events!
Town Control!
Pet System!
Base Building!
Player Factions!
Vehicles!
Player Farms
Player Mines
Player Homes
A Main Campaign! (Part 2 Coming Soon!)
Discord/Donation Rewards!
Weekly Content Updates / Remasters!
100% Involved Developers who Listen to the Community!
Active & Fun Community!
100% Pure Canon and Fallout Lore Friendly Content!
A Brand New Vault Experience!
Over 50+ Locations to Explore!
Over 20+ Tiered Difficulty / Reward Dungeons to Conquer & Rip n Tear through!
Competitive Player Stats in your PipBoy!
Highscore Systems!
An Entirely Brand New Unique Build/Trait/Perk System! Classic to Traditional Fallout 2
A Traditionally Inspired Fallout 2 Online MMORPG! Made by Die Hard Fans!
And much, much, much, much more!

Only at...
FOnline 2258! Legacy of the Vault Dweller! 2025 Edition! Season 1!

FOnline: 2258! - A Post-Nuclear MMORPG

Join the FOnline: 2258 Discord Server!

Check out the FOnline: 2258 community on Discord - hang out with 213 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

discord.gg

[Attached are some random screenshots and the very beginning of the game after character creation. Players start off inside of Vault 24 as the chaos unfolds. Very exciting stuff, then they can choose to play the Tutorial, Continue the Intro, or choose their own advanced star adventures. Once players reach Level 2 the Main Campaign begins!]

 

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I'll try to post better screens, it really is a great game but the screenshots and videos don't do it justice. This is my undecorated, un-upgraded tent, with my 50,000 cap Hummer (So proud) and my 3 NPC Best Friends with Miniguns and Plasma Rifles! They can be upgraded even more by giving them Mr. Nixon dolls from Fallout 2.

The timers on the top screen show that there's players doing the active PvP/PvE content. These locations usually have some of the best loot in the game available and need to be fought over or shared.

 

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My brand new 300,000 cap Player Farm that requires hours and hours and weeks and weeks of grinding to max out
Gotta collect Wood, Water Bags, Meat, Brahmin Shit (yes, handfuls of shit), and Barley seeds to maintain my crops and farmhands. It's also the largest map in game and your own private little dungeon that contains critters to fight and resources to gather for your farm! All self-sustaining! If you can survive...

 

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Some of the Worldmap with my horrible personalized resolution settings which I love

 

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Killing Myron in the New Reno Stables for his "resources" Great alternative to having to gather things yourselves when the NPCs do it on their own...

 

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My beautiful little 300,000 cap Faction Outpost/Base! And yes! We have Power Armour! Fully working Player Faction systems too, but POWER ARMOUR!!!!!! That's the good stuff

 

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Pre-Vegas Lost Vegas Only exists now as a T4 merchant area and event zone until further notice.

 

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Also high octane and rewarding Lost Caravan Stagecoach Robberies!

 

[gnarlong]

Can I get a fresh discord link?

 

[Mr Fish 2.0]

Which version is worth playing now again?

 

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Sure! https://discord.gg/EZs5chqd8Q FOnline 2258 is the best version if you want classic Fallout 2.5 online. We do everything 100% by the lore and official timelines. Currently working on the return to the vault and player ran casinos in Las Vegas (before Mr Houses annexes everybody and brings his tribal families)

 

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website recently got a bit of an update too - wiki will soon follow with a better website

FOnline: 2258! - A Post-Nuclear MMORPG

 

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bump bump bump!

Check out our latest update! We looked into the future and realized that the Ghost Farm slags would've been mutated by now and unhinged So! See for yourselves!

**The End Of September Harvest!**
Massive Update! Welcome to FOnline 2258! Legacy of the Vault Dweller! 2025 Edition version 2.1!

```*Restored The Entire Police Campaign! Brand New Chapter Coming Soon!
*Scavenging Improvements and QoL Smart Cursor Updates! (Higher chance of success, fixed Scavenging skill being stuck, improved odds of getting quality rewards, smart cursor works on all items with tool/etc in hand - will remove the need to have tool in hand soon)
*Restored and Improved the Independent Caravan Job from Hub to NCR and NCR to Hub! (1 in 8 chances of getting a puppet or deck of tragic cards upon completion)
*Improved End Game Loot Tables!
*Buffed and Nerfed Westwood!
*Buffed Vertibird Job (now includes chance of combat implant spawns)
*Several Bug Fixes (typos, crafting, jobs, quests, exploits, maps, items, junk barrels, resource spawning issues - all fixed!) [Hub trees still aren't respawning but all other resources are now respawning all over the wasteland including trees]
*Restored New Reno! (Now with gambling, hookers, boxing, comedy, gang wars, roulette, food, vendors, etc)
*Slot Machines in The Hub's Maltese are now working as intended!
*Added dozens of new floater texts to the Hub's NPCs!
*Buffed Deathclaw/Raccoon companions
*Added the foundation for Tragic The Garnering! (Full card game coming soon! Hoard your deck of tragic cards!)
*Added the foundation for the return to Vault 24! (Includes one defense job we can test during events - spawnable by GMs only)
*Added more GM powers and in-game automated bug/event fixes!
*Vault Runner can now be completed competitively as intended! Fight and die over the statuette! The first person to bring that statue to the finish line and turn it in wins the prize! And is declared the day's Champion!```


```*Improved the Toxic Caves dungeon!
(Now contains 3x Tier 2.5 Magic Lockers, 3x Resource Lockers, and a few more enemies - Tier 2.5 Dungeon)

*Golgotha is now a small T4 Dungeon! Be careful!
(Now contains 2x Ranged Minions, 2x Melee Minions, 1x Big Gun Boss, 1x Small Gun Boss, and 1x Tier 4 Magic Locker!) [can find combat implants]

*The Ghost Farm is now a medium sized T4 Dungeon! Be very careful!
(Surface contains 2x Warehouse lockers, 3x Westwood Shelf lockers, lots of Ghouls! And the Underground contains 2x Westwood Magic Lockers, 2x Warehouse Lockers, 5x Westwood Shelf lockers, 4x Resource lockers, an Advanced Workbench, and HQ Minerals/Ores/Gold/Uranium/Basic Resources spawning in the cave) [can find combat implants]```

 

[Kohno]

From what I remember, it was fun for a while in 2013 or something, but became too much a chore after a while.

We had a team and an base and all, but the basemant dwelling grinders did not leave much room for newer players to progress.

 

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From what I remember, it was fun for a while in 2013 or something, but became too much a chore after a while.

We had a team and an base and all, but the basemant dwelling grinders did not leave much room for newer players to progress.

That was years ago and on a different server lol our community is friendly as heck and very supportive of new players - whom we get all the time.

This is a brand new server built from the ground up using a classic version of the engine. I was one of the original late devs in 2238 (who showed up near the end and as a simple writer), I then joined Reloaded and helped them design/create their 3rd season (which ended up having their devs go behind my back and remove loot drop despite the communities complaints/my own) and now I've created my own server to continue my original work and design plans.

FOnline 2258 is the true vision of what Fallout 2.5 Online was supposed to be and completely 100% based off of the true lore and timeline. We might've changed a few tiny things (Charles Ringhold is alive and well but a ghoul. Van Buren's timeline happened much later, etc) but it is a true, proper, well made and actively developed FOnline game unlike any other.

It's also the only Western designed and maintained English dominated FOnline server with a large international team and community. I'm Canadian, but we've got some American and European contributors/devs, etc. It's for everybody, for gamers, by gamers, but it is primarily English based and designed.

There's a very large well-written world by professional game developers and artists, so hey, hey! What can I say?
FOnline 2258! Legacy of the Vault Dweller! 2025 Edition! v2.1! Can speak for itself. Come check out the Discord, website, or the actual game itself for more info.

Wiki and forums are coming soon! Same with a massive advertisement campaign and social media presence, pages, etc.
If you like the original Fallout then you'll love FOnline 2258. We've got tons of new great quality content coming in the months to come as well, including an entire new chapter to the Detective/Police Campaign, and the 2nd Half of the Main Campaign! Also... the return to Vault 24!

 

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If anybody has any questions, concerns, etc, let me know I'll respond when I can Don't be shy! A lot of the NMA staff know my name and work Heck, I used to work with Lexx!

 

[broneslav]

2238 was good before the armor split and perks were reworked. 2012. Now all these fonline attempts are hopelessly outdated. Can cars still be stolen with lockpicks?

 

[Mr Fish 2.0]

Wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't be. The whole point of it was to be brutal and to allow the Fallout mechanics to be used on other players. The experience is going to be neutered if you remove things like that.

 

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You can still steal cars (we have license plates now and an anti-theft system for 15 minutes while you're in a town), rob players (using steal), suicide bomb, take towns, do faction wars, pvp, etc. It's a hardcore experience just like Fallout/FOnline retro was. But we also have more private zones and content for people that want to escape the pvp. We also have a pretty fun and addictive tutorial zone, brand new fresh vault experience from the night the doors open up until your return almost a year later, etc.

It's 2025
FOnline 2258 is a much more modern day and remastered experience from the old days of FOnline 2238. The staff is made up of older devs from other FOnline games that came together to "restore" and "rework" the original idea. It's all very well made and balanced. We even have a class system at Level 27. All the old bugs/exploits have been patched as well rofl, and we aren't wiping any time soon so the economy is going great.

Old school players will recognize the game and fit in, there's a little bit of a learning curve for min/maxing the game and your character build, but the discord server has tons of info you can use for that. We also update weekly to bi-weekly with new content, community recommendations, bug fixes, etc.

This is true Fallout 2.5 Online. I've been playing Fallout 1/2 on repeat since I was a child, for me FOnline 2258 is the continuation of that. I can't play Fallout 1/2 anymore without just booting up FOnline 2258 immediately after. It's a true successor by a true fan since birth. I've melted all of my 3 dozen hard copies worth of Fallout 1/2 disks into this, and you can sure as hell tell

I just finished coding a massive Night of the Living Dead inspired zombie invasion for the Necropolis Hotel for Halloween. The patch is already up live and we're just waiting for the proper day to hit that "Halloween Season is on" event switch. Up next is another chapter of the main Vault 24 campaign storyline, and the next chapter in the FOnline Police Quest campaign but this one will be set in Las Vegas (Map is already in game) before Mr House comes out of hiding.

This is also a westernized server, so we have strict anti-trolling/abuse/exploit/cheating rules. You can't base rape, you can't d0x, etc. We enforce our rules and keep a very clean house. Our discord is also constantly booming with Fallout/FOnline discussions and dialog, etc. It's a great place for true retro Fallout fans. Ya'll should come join and PvE or PvP it's your choice

 

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We're also the most popular FOnline game on the market, and have attracted most of the generic old school players and community. All your old buddies are probably either in our Discord or playing the game again We've re-designed the entire experience as a free dopamine release providing fun, free to play, rewarding experience much like gambling (we have gambling), but one that doesn't require so much grinding rather than "account/character progression". You/Your friends can own a Farm together, plant crops, etc and build your own private treasury, earning you XP/Caps/Etc (Take you almost 6 months to max it out with a team of 4).

We have a premium currency called "cute little puppets" based off of the Mr Nixon doll. You can use those to unlock character upgrades, npc companion upgrades (Yes! You can have permanent npc companion followers, slaves, cows, deathclaws, raccons, etc and upgrade/level/customize them! My build uses 3x which is the max. I like my Fallout Tactics as well hehe) buy loot crates, unlock private fancier/harder dungeons, imbue your items with SPECIAL stats/bonus damage stats, etc. You can find puppets all over the world simply by playing the game, coming to events, doing dungeons, bulk order jobs, bounties, etc.

I love Ultima Online just as much as I love Fallout I used to work on UO f2p servers while I was younger before FOnline came about. Once FOnline came out I switched my development interest. But that doesn't mean I've forgotten about Ultima Online! A lot of the MMORPG features found in UO I've tried to incorporate into Fallout/FOnline. So there's a lot of UO in FOnline. In my mind, FOnline 2258/ Fallout 2.5 Online has become the post-apocalyptic version of Ultima Online.

I'm also a long time lurker of NMA. LONG TIME. FOnline 2258 Legacy of the Vault Dweller truly is a game for us, by people like us, from all over the world. If you're reading this, then you owe it to yourself to come play Fallout 2.5 Online. We're growing and evolving every day!

We aren't just hopes and dreams, we design, we code, and we love doing it! It's Fallout after all! True, retro, real Fallout! The way it was meant to be continued!

See you in the wasteland! Mention NMA for some free puppets!