'Everything's held together with duct tape': Fallout London's project lead discusses all the bugs, including the infamous train crash

Fallout: London is a truly impressive mod, according to PCG writer Joshua Wolens—that is when you're able to actually get it working and navigate all the performance issues and bugs. 

Since the mod's release, players have reported a few game-ending crashes, including one fondly named the «train crash,» which has plagued most players. Not only will boarding the train to navigate apocalyptic London likely lead to your game crashing, but it will also cause a strange bug that halves players' HP. 

«The issue with the train crash is quite a known one, and it's been reported on quite a lot,» project manager Dean Carter says in an interview with VG247. «We never had that. We wouldn't have released if we had that. None of our testers had that. So we're not sure if something actually happened with the final upload or something, but it’s those sorts of ones that have been a bit of a surprise to us.»

«You put your heart and soul into anything, and eventually you sort of realise, no matter how hard you've worked, everything's held together with duct tape. So, [Fallout: London's] held together better than we thought, but lots of the issues that we've had, or people have been reporting rather, they’re not ones that we had.»

Fallout: London devs Team FOLON has promised to release a huge hotfix ASAP, but in the meantime, the only solution for the HP bug after the train crash is to complete some math homework. 

«I believe the order we're going to do it in will be a hotfix that should basically include things like [the] Buffout 4 [mod],» Carter says, «So, the sort of systems that people have said are almost a requirement to run, we went and got permission for those. We didn't have permission before, which is why we never really mentioned them, and they were things that people had to go and get. Since we've released, obviously, they're more inclined to want to work with us now, so now we're gonna do a hotfix that should include things like Buffout 4, which will help stability and those