Fallout is so popular again that even the world's largest mod site is on its knees

Fallout is certainly not the first successful serialization of a game series, but we have never experienced such an interaction from one medium to the next. The enormous success of the Amazon series is currently ensuring that across the board All the games in the series are as popular again as they haven't been for a long time.

On Steam, for example, it can be seen that almost every part of the series attracts tons of players. Fallout 4 has smuggled itself back into the best-selling games of the week. However, this huge rush for Bethesda's role-playing games doesn't just have advantages. Over the weekend, the modding website Nexus collapsedprobably due to too many downloads from Fallout fans.

Fallout fans flood the modding site

If you tried to download a mod for one of the Fallout games yourself via Nexus over the weekend, there's a good chance you encountered some performance issues. These were first detected on April 19, 2024 and lasted throughout the weekend. Even on Monday, April 22nd, According to Nexus Mods, problems were still found.

Nexus provided regular updates on the website regarding the ongoing performance issues.

Nexusmods itself assumes that the increased user volume is due to the Fallout series, which is currently luring droves of fans back to the wasteland. This is of course particularly annoying on a website where large amounts of data are often downloaded.

A look at the data shows how enormous the increased user volume actually is current network statistics from Nexusmods. The website is currently recording significantly more downloads compared to the previous two months. On April 21, 2024, the number reached a peak of an impressive 24,548,119 downloads.

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What are people downloading?

Of course, it's not just Fallout mods that are downloaded. In fact, games like Skyrim are generally more popular than Fallout. However, a look at the most common downloads in the last seven days shows that Fallout and Stardew Valley are currently at the top. These include many mods that have a specific connection to the Fallout series.

These are the currently most popular mods for Fallout 4:

• KARMA: This mod brings back the karma system from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
• Hot Diggity: Adds tons of new skills and perks to the game.
• Viper's Lucy Preset: If you want to play with the heroine of the Fallout series, this is your mod.
• Lucy Okey Dokey Icons: Changes Fallout 4's desktop icon to look like Lucy giving a thumbs up.
• Psycho LUT: Reworks the color scheme in the game to make it look more natural.

If you're looking for more exciting mods for Fallout 4, you'll find them some of the best also in our top list. Or you can read a few further articles on the topic of Fallout:

Even though Fallout is currently experiencing a huge surge in popularity, we will probably have to wait a long time for a real successor to Fallout 4. Before Fallout 5 appears, Elder Scrolls 6 will be released, and that is also still many years away from a release. But at least the Fallout series should continue. A second season has already been officially confirmed.