Month: July 2024

Fallout: London devs will “downgrade” Fallout 4 to save their massive mod

The game’s “next-gen update” threatened to upend years of work on the “DLC-sized” mod.

Fallout: London as it looked back in December, when its planned April 23 release was announced.

After years of work, the third-party modders at Team Folon announced over the weekend that their long-awaited (and recently delayed) "DLC-sized" unofficial fan mod, Fallout: London, is now in "QA testing" and awaiting the "final green light" from release partner GOG. But that release will apparently need to make use of a "downgrader" to work around a recent Bethesda "next-gen" update that upended all of the team's modding efforts.

Back in December, Team Folon announced that its work on the Fallout: London mod would culminate in a planned April 23 release, lining up with England's widely celebrated St. George's Day. Then, just weeks before the planned launch, Bethesda announced that its own planned "next-gen" update for the 2015 game would be coming out on April 25, two days after Fallout: London's launch target.

"That has, for lack of a better term, screwed us over," Team Folon Project Manager Dean Carter said in an interview with the BBC shortly after Bethesda's upgrade announcement. In a separate video, Carter said that the next-gen update "requires many of our internal systems to be updated," since the content they created in the Fallout 4 Script Extender likely wouldn't work under the updated code. That turned out to be a valid concern, as the next-gen update did end up breaking many Fallout 4 mods and saves after its release.

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Congstar Refresh: Kunden können Datenvolumen wieder aufladen

Die Telekom-Tochter startet mit der Sommeraktion und führt die neue Option Refresh ein. Für 8 Euro können Kunden ihr Datenvolumen monatlich zurücksetzen. (Congstar, Telekom)

Die Telekom-Tochter startet mit der Sommeraktion und führt die neue Option Refresh ein. Für 8 Euro können Kunden ihr Datenvolumen monatlich zurücksetzen. (Congstar, Telekom)

Europe’s long-delayed flagship rocket is about to launch for the first time

“One of the main innovations on the launcher is the upper stage.”

The first Ariane 6 rocket is pictured inside the mobile gantry on its launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. The gantry will wheel away from the rocket during the countdown Tuesday.

Enlarge / The first Ariane 6 rocket is pictured inside the mobile gantry on its launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. The gantry will wheel away from the rocket during the countdown Tuesday. (credit: ESA-S. Corvaja)

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket is finally ready to fly, four years late but vital as ever for European governments backing the more than $4 billion project.

Set for liftoff from French Guiana, the new rocket will be Europe's flagship launcher for the next decade, providing rides to space for European science probes, navigation satellites, and military payloads. Ariane 6 also has a toehold in the commercial market, with a contract for 18 launches to deliver satellites to orbit for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband network.

The first Ariane 6 rocket has a four-hour launch window opening at 2 pm EDT (18:00 UTC) Tuesday to depart the European-run Guiana Space Center in South America.

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AMD Zen 5: Ryzen 9000 führt in ersten Benchmarks

Kurz vor dem Start zeigen die ersten Leaks, dass AMDs offizielle Angaben zutreffen dürften. Die Desktop-Prozessoren belegen jeweils die oberen Plätze. (Prozessor, AMD)

Kurz vor dem Start zeigen die ersten Leaks, dass AMDs offizielle Angaben zutreffen dürften. Die Desktop-Prozessoren belegen jeweils die oberen Plätze. (Prozessor, AMD)

Bank greift nicht ein: Hacker leeren Bankkonto mit 137 Überweisungen

Das betroffene Konto gehört einem Unternehmen, das durch den Vorfall etwa 2,9 Millionen Euro verloren hat. Die Überweisungen sind wohl an Privatkonten außerhalb der EU gegangen. (Cybercrime, Phishing)

Das betroffene Konto gehört einem Unternehmen, das durch den Vorfall etwa 2,9 Millionen Euro verloren hat. Die Überweisungen sind wohl an Privatkonten außerhalb der EU gegangen. (Cybercrime, Phishing)