Summary
- Fallout: Nuevo Mexico was cancelled earlier this week.
- After this, rumours were spread about the creator being reported to ICE by others in the Fallout fanbase.
- The creator calls this “pure fiction”, and calls out the racist abuse they have received.
Fallout: Nuevo Mexico, an incredibly promising expansion mod for Fallout: New Vegas, was cancelled earlier this week. Speaking in the project’s discord, lead developer Zapshock said that work on the mod wasn’t “sustainable” for themself and the team, and they instead needed to prioritise their mental health.
Since then, viral social media posts have claimed that the “real” reason the mod was cancelled is because Zapshock was reported to ICE by others in the Fallout community. Screenshots of an apparent Discord conversation, in which Zapshock appeared to dox themself and admit to entering the United States without a Visa, were used as evidence. These posts were a magnet for further racism against Zapshock, and many shared the story believing it was true.
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Now, Zapshock has issued another statement in the Neurvo Mexico Discord server. Here, they say that these claims are “pure fiction”, and calls out the modding community for their “twisted narratives, and manufactured drama”.
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“A free mod project, that’s what these racist clowns are losing their minds over,” says Zapshock. “A project that cost them nothing, that took nothing from them. A project made with passion, skill, and vision, something they could never build themselves.
“They saw someone of a different nationality making it, and suddenly, it became ‘woke’ and offensive to them. Suddenly I’m an inferior human being that has less rights.”
Zapshock goes on to address the claims being shared online, calling it a “manufactured controversy”.
“For years, other modders in this community have spread bulls**t, twisted narratives, and manufactured drama all because they couldn’t stand someone else doing something better than them,” they write. “I know deep down that they’re the same ones who invented this story, who fed it to an audience desperate for something to cling to. They didn’t have anything real to go off of. Every lie they’ve tried to push over the years has failed. And just like those? This one is pure fiction.”
Fallout: Nuevo Mexico started development in 2021. It was going to be a huge undertaking, similar to other fan-made expansions like Fallout: London, which launched last year. It got a big trailer last October, giving us an idea of what we could have expected if it had launched, as it imagined Mexico in the Fallout universe.
Fallout: New Vegas
- Released
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October 19, 2010
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs