Fallout: The Frontier 

Some of the footage stolen (borrowed) from AlChestBreach: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BQzo5OZDLXg.html The guy who makes my thumbnails (refugee from Donetsk) would like to eat some Prozac this Christmas. Consider supporting him at: ko-fi.com/sneksock or www.patreon.com/sneksucks

"You wouldn't happen to be The Courier 6 of the Mojave wasteland from Fallout New Vegas? Okay, now it's time to play call of duty. Why? because War. War never changes"

I love how the devs went into the plot so hard they themselves splintered into different factions.

"My name is Tiberious Rancor, and this is my partner, Benedict Betrayal"

Everyone in Portland knows who the "Courier" is but only like 10 people in Vegas know who he is

The way every character in the Frontier glorifies the courier feels like a case of the fan creators spending so much time in the FO:NV community that they forgot that the courier's reputation /in game/ is nowhere near as famous and profound as they are in the fandom.

The devs: “no you can’t play as the enclave they are just fascist power fantasy” Also the devs: “play as the legion bro, grab some slaves”

The ending narration calling this mess "the Courier's magnum opus" is funnier than anything the devs could have done intentionally.

"They gave me the name Dolus" is an incredible line for two reasons: one, it's just a terrific line read, lovely little taste of melancholy; serious Roy Batty energy. Two, it implies that Tiberius Rancor _wasn't_ his Legion name, it's somehow his fucking birth name, and that is amazing

That Wild Wasteland option to challenge Tiberius to caravan is genius and had me cackling

"An alien who learned human culture by playing Metal Gear Solid." That roast is going in the books. I love it. :D

This is just the Hunt Down the Freeman of the Fallout fanbase. Truly a masterpiece.

I did voicework for this. I’m one of the people I think you save early on in the NCR plot and I also play an old teacher in The Legion playthrough. We all had no idea what was happening as VAs, basically they’d do this giant wave of casting calls, we’d get our lines, feedback, retakes, and then we’d just hang around the VA server in case of rewrites and whatnot. I’ll say this, our voice director was very professional in my experience, and through just interacting with them I NEVER would have guessed about the clusterfuck behind the scenes.

The walking to your own execution and then the getting helidropped into battle scenes are straight lifted from Call of Duty Modern Warfare

That Leigon announcer is one step away from shouting "CAN YOU DIG IT!?"

Rancor simply achieved CHIM in the fallout universe

I love the take that Tiberius is meant to be a player that just put some stuff into the name box, and then keeps succeeding speech checks.

15:18 Fun fact; according to the VNN interview, vehicles were 9 months of tireless, sleepless work during which the vehicle dev apparently almost killed himself twice. That's dedication.

"you open up the console and type kill cause shooting it with explosives crashes the game" had me in stitches.

Fallout having cutscenes is the most alien thing since Hunt Down the Freeman

i like how blackthorn's genius retort to Oliver not letting his troops go home is to take them to an untamed frozen wilderness where they'll never see their families again while knowing they'd be shot for treason if they tried to return

I guess the creators had a Fallout.

This is probably one of the most positive reviews of the mod lmao.

I love how they made a snowy map in a region where it barely snows, and then added the legion for no reason.

Writer for the NCR storyline was pretty much, “how much can I recreate from other franchises I like?”

I would like to point out that, in the original game, according to Joshua Graham himself, the NCR was very close to completely destroying the Legion in the first battle of Hoover Dam. The reason they couldn't was that their reinforcements couldn't make it through the Divide, which had just been recently destroyed. So according to this Mod's lore, there were in fact reinforcements, but their leader just decided to fucking leave after throwing a tantrum. Bro literally had to fight one (1) more battle for peace in the NCR (The mod also likes to act like the NCR-Brotherhood War is over when it's still actively going on in other parts of California).

"i wonder who is the spy in the ncr.." TIBERIUS RANCOR

This entire mod seems like some high concept campaign I’d make in high school for a tabletop game that’d come crashing down after one or two sessions

"Are you self-aware?" "Yes." Easily the funniest sci-fi writing i've seen in a long time. No colour or characterisation. Just straight in there like a revolver shot to the brain

This one always makes me sad, a testament to what a community can do, and what one bad leader can ruin.

What is absolutely bizarre to me is that the Portland map is really dead on to the real location. I live here. I recognized streets and locations throughout the video. That scene where the landmine gets everyone captured to be crucified? That view from burnside bridge is spot on. I didn't expect or look forward to them doing the area so right, it's really weird.

Important to remember that when shit hit the fan every dev pointed the finger at someone else. Attributing the fall of this mod to specific people is pointless because we have no way of knowing who is lying and who is telling the truth. Everyone wants to be the only person who was just there by happenstance and screwed over by everyone else, but in reality probably shares the blame to at least some degree

“Are you the courier of the Mojave?” is the instant sign that the characters in this mod are themselves fans of the Fallout series

The Half-Life elevator is a set piece that was originally used in the Lonesome Road DLC, so it's not unique to the Frontier. Regarding the vertibird interior, Fallout 3 showed it off first in the Broken Steel DLC as well.

I still remember the sheer whiplash of everyone being so excited for this massive, technically impressive project to drop, then the complete horror of the entire Fallout fan community when they realized how nonsensical and immature its writing is. It's still surreal thinking about how rapidly people turned against this darling project.

Hearing AlChestBreach in a Warlockracy-video was the christmas present I didn't know I needed. Zach & Mike cameo when?

45:24 this is literally one of the endings from the Vigilant mod in Skyrim (Altano ending), where you wake up in a snowy wasteland, not remembering anything about yourself, and then a white snow fox appears and you have to follow it to reach the end of the ending.

This mod feels like some kind of in universe blockbuster movie which would explain the weird hornines amd fetishes. It might have been filmed in New Reno Golden Globes studios for all we know

Everything else aside, Ray "Noctis" Chase put in a really good performance for a role he did purely to be nice and afaik wasn't paid for. As Rimmy said in his Frontier video, paraphrased, "I have a note in the margins of this part of the script that simply says 'what a chad'."

Please do the other faction questlines. You actually made this mod look great. The graphics, tanks, gunship battles, mechs, dream sequences are amazing.

Man it's so nice you got Al's footage. That guy's a NV modding legend who's still consistent to this day. Just a classic youtuber who's funny and does what he likes. Never really changing for trends. His videos are always fun for a quick nostalgia trip

The (remains of) the team that made the original Frontier is actually planning on remaking the Frontier almost from scratch. Their plan is to literally gut the NCR MQ, rework Rancor entirely and even add new settlements. The fact that they're doing this in the face of the mod having such a horrible reputation is pure dedication.

I would usually say: Don't compare this to Duke Nukem with some reasoning Then I remember DNF exists After that I usually start crying.

The problem with the New Vegas modding community is that it's dominated by people who don't understand New Vegas and see it just as a modding platform.

Crazy how I went from "Oh My God This Looks So Good I Can't Wait for it to Release" to "Degenerates Like You Belong On a Cross"

The funniest part about this entire mod is that the people who got shit the most who were part of it weren't responsible for the worst parts. The MLP Porn guy, yeah he did like all of the UI, all of the melee weapons, tons of extra content, etc. The Legion and BOS guys had a similar workload with decent content. The worst and weirdest parts of this mod (smelly feet slave and deathclaw sex) were done by the main part of the dev team.

The plot of the Frontier. Brought to you by the "Disciple of Kojima".

Warlockracy and AlChestBreach in one video, must be a Christmas miracle.

Hunters: you have a 10 second head star. Unarmed 100, implant grx courier: yeah, but it's not for me

'its prefectly enjoyable if you ignore the downbeat tonal shifts & constant references to the holocaust' that's also how I enjoy Marvel content

after 7 years in development, hopefully it will be worth the wait

The Frontier was something I was excited about. It was going back to Oregon for the first time since Fallout 2. And... honestly? There was a lot of good detail done in representing Portland (a city I grew up around). So when the drama hit the fan... yeah it was a downer.

A friend of mine showed the rest of our group this video of yours. We are all former developers for The Frontier. We came on after release for the "NCR Rework" that was touted after the controversy with Zu and the general dumpster fire that the mod was(is) after release. The nonsense that went into making the NCR story and Devil'swish's pettiness goes way deeper than what Nazo touched on and goes beyond him. The "Rework" is just the same pettiness with newer developers (with the same, petty developers from Legacy) and the writing is now somehow worse then "Legacy" but not in a way that would make it something fun to see like the original Frontier. It'll be the same dumpster fire, it just won't be fun to watch like last time. Well, if it ever got released, without us, they are kinda boned since most active modders won't touch The Frontier.

The guy who voices the final boss is a professional voice actor who I think voices the main protagonist of Final Fantasy 15. When he learned of this mod's existence, he offerted his services for free if he got to voice the main antagonist and if that character also wears sun-glasses. Even if you didn't meta-game your way into deducing who the final boss is, it's still really easy to figure out the twist. BTW, I've heared that The Frontier is gonna be reworked from the ground up and that the final boss that I've been talking about is gonna get cut.

As someone who has played through this when it first came out... there's a reason people were making MODS for this MOD.

The main NCR campaign was written by an alien who learned about human culture by playing metal gear solid. You had me in stitches my dude.

"I think Swastika Caesar Lover might've sent us into a trap"

God I remember being excited for this watching the trailers in high school then it finally comes out years later and is just a massive mess. The best I can say was that at least it wasn't due to lack of effort.

It’s a monkeys paw situation, I wished Warlock would review New Vegas and this happened instead

I love the idea of the Courier literally just being a mercenary and starting this entire story arc just for the money, and at the end they lose it all anyways because of a bus ticket.

The part of the frontier where you are hunted by rich Russian dudes is based of the story "the most dangerous game" by Ernst hemmingway 24:17

Fun Fact: The Half-Life 1 elevator is actually directly based on the elevator from Akira :D

You are a real human bean for putting yourself through this

"Let them fight their own battles" y-you're the fucking NCR military. You. You are the them.

>Tiberius Rancor Noooooooo way. Nooooo. Sheeet. >Hardcase I give up on life. This is amazing!

Legion/NCR : Ah welcome The courier, The legend Legion/NCR 5 minute later.... treat courier as errand boy

The Frontier is like looking back at your teenage years You liked what you were doing You had fun doing it But oh god was it cringe and do you just want to distance yourself from ever mentioning any of the things you did to your friends

This game was my first big foray into voice over. I got cast as a few characters, mainly generic NCR (basically everyone at the first camp that leads you to the mod) and Hopper ("my mine isnt setting up properly") I got a google doc of 120 individual voice lines they wanted done as generic NPC dialogue, with no directing or retakes asked (which now I think I could've used, but at the time I was proud of my work) I've kinda found myself thankful that my mid, noobie acting isnt the worst part of the mod by a long shot lmao I remember getting an email about them remaking the mod and asking if I'd be okay reprising my roles. I agreed, if only to have better quality work out there. Nothing's come of it now that I think they're just scrapping it. Honesty, totally worth it if I get to see stuff like 8:20, puts a stupid smile on my face even though I know I'd be so much better now.

He actually gets to do an "If I'm going down I'm taking you all with me!" quip! Holy shit, it's been too long since we've seen an antagonist that knows how to end it.

I love 16:23, when you say The Frontier starts feeling more like fallout in those moments, as you're showing off The Skids. One of my very few contributions to The Frontier, along with the Militiamen. The reason whey there are no quests in The Skids is because the town was supposed to be destroyed during the tank battle and all the characters were to die. At least, that's what I was told. I made another location and faction called the Militiamen who had a cave settlement. They didn't have any quests either as I kept hearing from other developers that we weren't adding anymore dialogue to the mod, only to find out later that those same developers would later change their opinion on that matter. Anyway, enjoyed the video as always. Can't wait for more!

I remember following the development of the mod very closely. The weekend it was released I went away on holiday and had no wi-fi, before I left I got a clean install of New Vegas ready for it. Returning from that holiday was simultaneous as a huge disappointment and an incredibly entertaining week. An incredible piece of work, and scripts from it are being used as a base for many other mod projects from what I understand. It's sad that over-inflated ego can ruin something like this. And as entertaining as the drama was it was not healthy for the community.

18:02 You can actually see inside a vertibird in Fallout 3's DLC Broken Steel after blowing up the Enclave's mobile base crawler.

I still remember being in middle school and reading the fourms when the announced it. So much time. And this is what happened to it

Love Alchestbreach so much

Sorry you had to do this

I feel like this video is the closest thing I'll get to a crossover of Warlockracy and Alchestbreach, and I don't know if I'm happy or saddened by that fact.

Rewatching this again, I noticed - Legion doctor guy talks about how much pain Benny caused the player, but as far as I know the courier just kinda woke up okay after immediately losing consciousness...

The absolute best thing about this mod are the vehicles, I wish there was a standalone mod with just them

Alchestbreach is one goofy guy I can always get behind. Genuinely got me into modding on Xbox and PC in 2011. Puts out so much content, approaches every level of mod the same, and even fixes mods on the fly if they had a really obvious problem.

"The vehicle controls don't feel like something that's hacked in." Considering that New Vegas runs on the TES4 Oblivion engine, I wouldn't be surprised if that was actually the invisible player character riding a car-shaped horse with customized handling. (there are mount mods for both F3 and FNV so this is kind of a charted territory)

If this was like an Operation: Anchorage deal where you basically played another story from the perspective of another character throughout the mod, it may have been... not necessarily better but more focused.

Man, those cuts with the AI pictures of stuff just killed me, absolute peak humour

Aside from what the mod was taken down for, this is what TR would have been if in 2006 they had gone through with their main quest. Capped off with becoming a giant Dremora and toppling Firewatch's lighthouse.

Funny catching Alchestbreach's footage here. Gotta commend Warlockracy for his efforts towards fixing the issue, and Al for the donation of footage. Though I had some people I was in touch with from the development team, of which, I feel bad for all the hate they got, I do value a lot of the critiques made in this video. Doesn't feel unfair, and has it's research done right. Good work Warlockracy.

"A motherfucking T-55 tank. I have no idea how it got to Portland." This is the USA. We consider that a starter tank in these parts.

You've Made A Great Sacrifice For Esoteric Gaming Today.

I genuinely love the funny caravan battle option at the end. Now I want a mod that allows you do that to the legate in the main campaign Great video. I always love learning about fascinating games that I will probably never play myself

While I have no idea how a T-55 tank ended up in late 21st century pre-War America, I do appreciate that someone on the vehicle team remembered NV's loose rule about not using technology or cultural references from after the early 1960s, and made sure to choose an appropriate tank for the period. (Personally I would have gone for a Type 59 tank to keep that Sino-American war flavor, but given everything else that's in this mod, we should appreciate the small gestures.)

So glad I found this channel. "My name is Quenf and I'm the Nerevarine" had me laughing so hard I woke my cat up.

The best part about the mod is when Rancor said "It's Rancorin time" and he Rancor'd everyone.

I ADORE that you left in some of Al's surprised wailing lol

NCR: "Yes, we are NCR, not to be confused with The NCR from NCR" Me: 😕.....

The random sss from the lizard creatures is what pisssssessss me off the most about them.

It's weird to think that the same person who voiced Noctis in Final Fantasy XV had an voice acting role in this. I avoided most of the news about The Frontier for so long, it's strange to see it now. Also the lizard people look... uncomfortably detailed compared to some of the other critters in new vegas.

3:00 No... The reason you have a uniform is so that you become... Well, uniform. You are to be one in a group and be easily recognized as one of them, through insignia and colors. It is a matter of discipline that you wear a uniform. Lastly, if it is uniform, it is easy to mass produce.

YOU'RE THE COURIER. YOU'RE THE COURIER? OH MY GOD YOU'RE THE COURIER. COURIER. COURIER 6. COURIER! Summed up the whole game.

2:09 you literally talk to the dude who made a ghoul rape fanfiction back in 2015 😂

I found your channel just a few months ago in June, but you have very quickly become one of my favorite video essayists. Your insight and humour is always a joy to watch, and I appreciate the consistency in your projects. And at this point, I'll always watch your videos as soon as I get the notification. Can't wait to see what next year has in store!

I think when the lizard is saying that they used to subjugate us, it's a reference to the "lizard people" conspiracy theory.

The imagination and ambition of this project really is incredible. Seeing combined arms operations with heavy armor in Fallout New Vegas, a game that felt held together with duct tape already, is almost unbelievable.