Sorgliga besked för Fallout-anhängare: modden Capital Wasteland är skrotad. Det skriver utvecklarna på Twitter.

Modden var tänkt att återskapa Fallout 3 i Fallout 4. Under arbetets gång insåg man att det finns juridiska hinder för att använda originalrösterna i modden, och projektledaren riskerade att hamna inför skranket. Man övervägde att spela in röstspåren själva, men valde bort detta eftersom man inte trodde sig kunna göra originalen rättvisa. Och därmed var Capital Wastelands öde beseglat.

Så här skriver projektledaren Nafnaf_95 (ja, det är ett nick) på Discord:

Recently we have communicated with Bethesda regarding our planned method to implement the voice acting and other audio from Fallout 3 Into the Capital Wasteland. During this Conversation it became clear our planned approach would raise some serious red flags that we had unfortunately not foreseen .This contact resulted in us changing our methods to attempt to continue working.

After some thought it appears there is no fully Legal way for us to continue developing the Fallout 3 in Fallout 4 Portion of The Capital Wasteland. Projects like these have always existed in a Gray area of the law but we as a team value our connections with many members of the amazing dev team that is Bethesda Game studios.

To Reinforce my point, The Laws around this have not changed. If we were to continue and complete Fallout 3 in Fallout 4 Legally I as the project lead would most probably be Liable for any acts of Piracy and Copyright infringement resulting from the projects release. My self and the Road to Liberty team do not wish to strain the working relationships with other members of the community and Bethesda.

At first we were very reluctant to halt work and decided to start looking into Re recording all the Voice acting. We quickly realised we would have to replace iconic voices like Liam Neeson, Malcom McDowell,Ron Perlman and of course the phenomenal Eric Todd Dellums. Without some of these voices fallout 3 looses its charm and personally I cant bring my self to replace Them.

Även om det ser mörkt ut för detta projekt är hoppet inte helt ute. Man lovar att ta upp projektet igen om Bethesda och ägarbolaget Zenimax ger sitt godkännande. Håll tummarna.