Fallout 3 remake Capital Wasteland shut down thanks to legal advice

Update, March 13: The Capital Wasteland mod isn’t going to happen.

Capital Wasteland was an impressively ambitious effort to recreate all of Fallout 3 in the Fallout 4 engine. I say “was” because the development team has chosen to shut down the project after speaking with Bethesda about the legality of the mod. The Fallout publishers didn’t mandate the mod be shut down - after all, mods have helped keep those open-world RPGs lively for years - but after contact with the official team the mod is now no more.

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The issue seems to stem from Capital Wasteland’s use of Fallout 3 voice files in remaking the game. That would require the modders to either distribute the voice files with the mod, a definite legal no-no, and a proposed solution that would allow players to rip from their own copies of Fallout 3 was similarly untenable.

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