I don't know anything about the mod other than the fact that it was recently released, and I happened to glance over an article on Gamespot talking about it. Not sure how much I trust their colouring of the issue, though. Something about one of the devs being a pedophile and putting questionable content in the mod?
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Eurogamer ain't much better this https://archive.is/TmAlm
Would like to know what was actually posted before judging given how quick these fucks are to straight up lie about stuff.
If anything, that Eurogamer article's main flaw is that it takes the devs at their word when they scapegoated the furry pedophile. The latter really did fuck off from the original websites he infested because they didn't allow him to post NSFW work with minors but, from what I've read on the /v/ threads they unfolded, his contributions were mostly UI/Pipboy icons/armor.
That means he wasn't the guy who wrote the 'Enclave are fascist paramilitaries so why would you want to join them' while also allowing you to enslave & mindbreak a teenage girl, nor was he responsible for the occasions where you could have sex with Deathclaws and talking snake drugfiends. The rest of the devteam are just throwing him under the bus to save their own skins, and undoubtedly have equally vile or even worse skeletons in their closet. /v/ was figuring out the team lead's links to another furry pedo last I checked, and has already found a 114-chapter ghoul rape fanfic by one of the other writers.
Well, I can't say I agree with the first half of your comment, but I do agree with the latter half. In the context of The Frontier, ZuTheSkunk (the artist in question) actually doesn't seem to have done anything wrong - his artwork, while distasteful (in my opinion, and that's putting it mildly), was made entirely on his own time and separate from the mod. What work he did for the mod was just UI and armor graphical stuff, not anything to do with the writing, so he's unironically not the guy responsible for all the fetishy bullshit in there.
What happened here was that the actually guilty parties, the ones who turned a previously-hyped mod into their personal magical realm loaded with their creepy fetishes while hiding it from the players until release, are trying to use him as a scapegoat and blame him for everything they did. That's plainly scummy behavior, they aren't even man enough to own up to their own work when the controversy blew up (and I'm sure they must have seen it coming, nobody who's not already in a mental hospital could be so socially inept as to not see it) and instead fished around for the most convenient fall-guy they could, someone they previously had no issues with and who considered them friends. Truly there's no honor among thieves.
Re: the rest of the fetishy stuff, I actually agree with you that there wouldn't be anything wrong with it if it were honestly advertised, as I said in another comment here. Loverslab exists and hosts much more explicit content, which is fine because that content is openly advertised and won't fool anyone into thinking it's something it's not - you download a tentacle rape mod, you can get & enjoy all the tentacle rape you want, that's your choice as a responsible adult while people who don't want tentacle rape in their game will know not to get it.
But of course that's not what happened with The Frontier. The devs straight up lied about their mod being lore-friendly for 7 years, and they hid all of their fetish content up until release too, so loads of people were fooled into thinking they'd get a fun lore-respecting mod without a bunch of fetishes they may not be interested in. Then SHTF when their fans actually got their hands on The Frontier only to find out that they'd been lied to about quite a bit of what was & wasn't in the mod, but these devs were too chickenshit to own up to their mistakes and have varied between making up excuses like 'oh it was totes supposed to be gated behind Wild Wasteland!' and scapegoating ZuTheSkunk to take the heat off themselves.
see for yourself
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dont let me
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I've never really been into mods and that certainly won't entice me. Leftism that I totally expected aside, I just don't get off to sexual fantasies in my video games or TV or whatever for that matter. Would rather not play Fallout written by porno writers.
Whoooof. All the cringey sex scenes remind me of Wise Man’s Fear.
Unexpected Rothfuss, hilarious.
True story, I got into an argument with multiple people on the Kingkiller Chronicles reddit after I claimed some of the sex scenes COULD be read as cringey.
I don't know why, but the Rothfuss fans are the biggest spergs ever.
after pissing on his fans for years, the only people left are his dicksuckers.
Kingkiller 1 and 2 are p good, but Rothfuss is far from a writing god that he thinks he is, and it's hard not to feel strung along after all these years.
Yeesh, yeah that writing is pretty abysmal...
It's a shame, with the right context and buildup I can see the slavery line actually fitting in a Fallout game. It is all about being able to be absolutely evil, after all.
The rest is more or less what you might expect from a team of sexual degenerates though. Heck, that porn artist character reeks of modder self-insert.
Rimmy did a vid on the fallout
Actual playthrough Not worth playing.
Speaking of as well, 4chan /v/ asked if Beyond Skyrim was going to suffer from the same fate. I'll let these images show if there is an obvious agenda.
cast all these faggots out
Your image link doesn't work.
Imgur link https://imgur.com/a/7c1tPzK
What is with modding teams and being 90% mentally ill?
Autism is a mental illness, and you need to be autistic to make large scale quest mods that take years of time to develop for free.
Who else would join a modding “team” for free
Healthy people get paid for healthy work.
They work for me.
If you are interested in a longer interview from someone who got direct access to the Devs and interviewed them, you can watch this one Here.
But the TLDR is like a lot of people have already pointed out in this thread. Self-insert furry shit, some underage characters having sexual dialogue thrown at them, the stuff with the Enclave*, the main dev being an absolute control freak who would never let anything be changed, little to no communication between branches (which is how a lot of the really egregious stuff slipped by). And on and on, to the point that the mod was probably doomed from "Go". Even before one of them got outed at a pedo.
/*My own two cents on the stuff said about the Enclave: It sounds like it was only one Dev and the communication problems are why it was never handled, as the other Devs thought it was unacceptable in the above interview I linked. My bigger beef isnt even with the "Enclave is evil, and so is Trump." I have heard that a million times, and the Enclave are unironically evil, so I will just roll my eyes at that and move on. My issue is, like usual, the rest of the mod lets you do extremely evil shit and they dont say anything or care about those.
I think it was one of the devs being a pedophile which actually caused them to hide it.
But the mod isn't free of SocJus stuff, fetish stuff, and trying to transform New Vegas into CoD but AFAIK that was intentional.
I saw something on one of those youtube videos, this line something like 'I'm a sick fuck so I like a quick fuck'.
Wtf is that shit?
Basic upshot I've gleaned from other articles sounded like there was some shit in there, like one of the modder's self-insert fantasies around enslaving women and sex with underage females. Granted, that could be hearsay, but I don't think the mod would have been yanked if there wasn't some grain of truth to it.
Seems like the modmakers were coomers who tried to force their magical realm on the players, and one or more had really spicy (read: loli) mods.
No real opinion aside from liking the developing drama around it but I don't like how it's gotten erased from Nexus. To my knowledge they pretty much have a monopoly on mod releases and I hate how they can just take one down and boom it's gone and no one can access it. Yeah it's """"fine"""" with this but if they can do that with Frontier they can (and have) done it with other mods.
Now the dust has settled, see for yourself.
I was thinking about dling it out of morbid curiousity but I already have like a tb worth of mods installed already and I think my pc would explode.