

The five minute timer starts when the canteen is placed in the Courier's inventory (not when a save is loaded) and runs in the background, even while the Pip-Boy is up. There is no way to forcibly take a drink, nor does the canteen ever run out of water. An on-screen notification will tell the player character when this happens. There are more videos over at modder ARCSESO's YouTube channel.As long as the canteen is kept in the Courier's inventory, they will take a sip from it every five minutes, restoring 15 HP and lowering Dehydration by 25 in Hardcore mode. I imagine it'll work well as an accessibly entry point for those who have played Bethesda's Fallout games only and fancy checking out how the post-nuclear series began.

This mod is definitely worth keeping an eye on. Work on The Glow, Necropolis and The Hub has started. Vault 13 and Vault 15 are complete, the modders say. The modders said they hope to keep the look and feel of Fallout 1 intact while making use of Fallout New Vegas' modern features. It includes random encounters and the ability to flee. The Pip-boy is used as Bethesda uses it for inventory management, character stats and maps.Īnd Fallout 1's world map is recreated as a sort of tabletop you can view from above.

Dialogue, movement and combat work as they do in Bethesda's Fallout games (the ropey voice acting is because the modders don't have the rights to use any original content from Fallout 1). The video shows this opening sequence remade inside Obsidian's New Vegas, complete with first-person view. 1997's Fallout 1.įallout the Story, which has a NexusMods page up and running, is a work in progress at the moment, but you can see the early results of the modders' labour in the video, below.įallout 1, developed by Interplay and released in 1997, began by charging the player character with venturing outside his or her vault and into the wasteland in search of a water chip that would save the other dwellers from an impending water shortage. A group of modders is remaking Fallout 1 in Fallout New Vegas.
