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[IbizaPocholo]

Welcome to the New West.
Fallout: The New West is a fan-made total conversion mod for Fallout: New Vegas inspired by Fallout: Van Buren, the cancelled third entry in the Fallout series developed by Black Isle Studios in the early 2000s.
Fallout: The New West adapts the core narrative threads of Van Buren while expanding them into a cohesive and fully playable story. Built within the Fallout: New Vegas engine, the project blends modern gameplay systems, expanded roleplaying opportunities, and the mechanical depth and tone that defined classic Fallout.
This is a new interpretation of a legendary lost chapter. An unfamiliar wasteland ready to reshape.
The West is changing.
And your sentence has only just begun.

Fallout: New Vegas' Van Buren remake mod Revelation Blues has a new name and a second demo dropping soon

A Fallout: New Vegas modding project aiming to remake cancelled entry Fallout: Van Buren has re-named itself ahead of releasing a second demo.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

The Fallout: New Vegas mod project remaking the cancelled Black Isle Studios game Van Buren has renamed from Revelation Blues to Fallout: The New West and is "very very very close" to releasing a second demo focused on the Tibbets prison escape sequence.

Summary

• The article announces that the Fallout: New Vegas mod team, previously known as Revelation Blues, has rebranded to Fallout: The New West ahead of a second demo release.
• Van Buren was the cancelled version of Fallout 3 developed by Black Isle Studios before its 2003 cancellation.
• The mod aims to remake Van Buren as a total conversion for Fallout: New Vegas, incorporating its original design documents into a cohesive experience.
• The first demo, Burham Springs, was released last year and is available on Nexus Mods.
• The upcoming second demo recreates Van Buren's opening sequence in Tibbets prison, run by an AI named Odysseus, where the player must escape amid a new plague in the American southwest.
• The name change was explained by developer Caveman6667 on Discord: "Revelation Blues" was too mysterious and not attention-grabbing, while "The New West" better fits due to numerous Old West allusions and references.
• A new teaser trailer has been released (embedded YouTube video: Fallout: The New West Reveal Teaser), and a dedicated website has launched at falloutthenewwest.com.
• The team posted on Discord that they are "very very very close" to the Tibbets demo release but avoided a specific date to play it safe.
• Future plans include releasing the Tibbets demo as an "alternate start demo," followed by a "vertical slice" of the entire first act.
• The project's narrative restructures and expands Van Buren's plot threads from design documents, such as the NCR–Brotherhood conflict, Great Tribal War between Caesar's Legion and Daughters of Hecate, and the fight for the Mormon State's soul, into a unified story.
• Players control a new protagonist called "the Prisoner," released from captivity in 2253, in an alternate continuity predating and reinterpreting Fallout: New Vegas events (due to Van Buren concepts being reused in New Vegas).
• Gameplay goals blend modern Fallout: New Vegas conveniences and 15+ years of its modding with classic Fallout mechanics and design quirks from Van Buren documents.

Thanks, mods, for the title update.

 

[P:axMagellanic]

New Vegas was the Van Buren remake...

 

[IbizaPocholo]

"Order in the courtroom, the proceedings will begin."

Today, Tibbets Prison opens its doors.

Step inside a fully realized alternate start for Fallout: New Vegas. Beginning as a Prisoner under the watchful eyes of Odysseus, features include:

An alternate start demo for Fallout: New Vegas set within Tibbets Prison
An optional, never-before-seen player background designed to expand roleplaying opportunities
Serves as an introduction and preview of our remake of Van Buren, Fallout: The New West
Showcases new characters and developing plotlines from the larger project
Introduces new gear and traits tailored to the alternate start experience
Includes a fully featured and polished custom intro movie for the game

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/96644

 

[poodaddy]

New Vegas was the Van Buren remake...

Sometimes ya gotta demake the remake to remake the demake.

Or something.