Since the broadcast of the first season of the Fallout TV series, the games in the license have seen an increase in attendance. Bethesda even said that 5 million players played Fallout in a single day! On Steam alone, Fallout 4 managed to attract 164,190 simultaneous players on April 15. However, the Nexus Mods platform suffered a few days from the explosion of Fallout.
The success of the Fallout TV series has caused problems for the Nexus modding platform
If you've never tried to mod your PC games, then chances are you don't know what Nexus Mods is. This is a platform where communities share their mods. Thanks to very easy-to-use software, players can download mods and install them easily on their games.
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Fallout being an absolutely perfect license for mods, many players flocked to the platform, forcing it to deploy additional resources due to “much higher traffic than usual”.
We're seeing much higher traffic than usual due to the popularity of the Fallout TV series. We have deployed additional resources where possible and are monitoring network availability and performance. We have staff on call at all times to resolve problems.
Please be aware that this additional traffic may result in a degraded experience on the website and our applications.
While the problems have been going on since Friday April 19, it was finally only today that the situation returned to normal.
This incident has been resolved.
There is nothing surprising about this increase in traffic, as all Fallout games have seen traffic spikes on Steam since the start of the month. Fallout 76 even managed to beat its record for simultaneous players on the Valve platform.
The best simultaneous player numbers on Steam since the start of the month
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- Fallout: 3951 players
- Fallout 2: 2194 players
- Fallout Tactics: 243 players
- Fallout 3 – Game of the Year Edition: 11,471 players
- Fallout New Vegas: 43,632 players
- Fallout 4: 164,190 players
- Fallout 4 VR: 659 players
- Fallout Shelter: 8396 players
- Fallout 76: 73,368 players
If you are a subscriber to Xbox Game Pass or PC Game Pass, you can then discover a good part of the games in the license in the catalog. Remember that the next-gen update for Fallout 4 will be available tomorrow on all platforms.