Fallout: Cascadia – Fallout 4’s unique mod takes gamers to a whole new world

The Cascadia mod emerged a few years ago as a bold fan-made project based on the game Fallout famous of Bethesda. Experiencing an unstable implementation process, the production team suddenly released an overview teaser, introducing an open world with a completely different setting from the post-apocalyptic desolation of the original game.
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Context in the games Fallout of Bethesda usually stops in the Northeast region of America, excluding New Vegas. Even the Obsidian spin-off didn’t reach the West Coast. Only this mod – Cascadia is different from the setting of Seattle, a city in the Northwest. The production team created a unique twist by replacing the dull gray-green color with a scene filled with sunlight and the resurrection of vegetation. Cascadia’s timeline is several decades after the events in Fallout 4, the scene seems to have begun to transition from hopelessness to hope, expressing a desire to explore the less murky side of the post-apocalyptic world. The idea is that nature still exists next to the remnants of human civilization, mutant species have adapted to the new environment.
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As revealed by Mr. Weird – project implementation director, vegetation is the biggest visual difference, creating subtle signs that the natural world is starting to reappear. The new landscape includes tall conifers covered with vines, ferns and saplings sprouting from cracks in the ground. The Cascadia mod transforms all textures and objects present in the environment in one way or another, but the trees alone are completely rebuilt.

Cascadia is a brand new map of 80 square kilometers, completely separate from Boston’s map Fallout 4. Although the mod requires to be run on an original version of Bethesda’s game, Cascadia is not an expansion at all and has nothing to do with the storyline of Bethesda. Fallout 4. The mod is an indie adventure. The release of the teaser shows that the production team has finished one part of the stage and has begun to move on to the next stage.
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After the exterior, the development team started building the world Fallout: Cascadia in more detail. Realistic shots of the city of Seattle were used to recreate similar objects in the game, especially the iconic buildings of the city.

Mr. Weird said the project is coordinated like the process in the game studios. Screenshots and mock-ups are posted daily, as a way of affirming to work to the end, not giving up halfway like some other fan-made projects. However, the team will need many more years before the Cascadia mod can be completed.

Anyway right now fans of Fallout was able to enjoy a bit of the new atmosphere in Cascadia’s teaser. Interspersed with the green of life are dry bones under the roots of trees, traces of death peeking behind the winding vines. The mod does not completely remove the Fallout world, but only creates a new environment for gamers to wander, forgetting for a moment what happened to the world but still maintaining the perception of a post-world. Apocalypse.

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