Fallout 4 Gets Huge New 24-Hour Expansion

Fallout 4 is a very big game in its own right, easily offering hundreds of hours of locations to explore, quests to complete, and horrendous monsters to slaughter in increasingly extravagant ways. That said, it’s over a decade old at this point, and there’s every chance you have already explored everything it has to offer across the base game and DLCs.

Happily, the game has a huge and dedicated community that continues to produce additional content, particularly if you’re playing on PC, and it’s particularly useful given the conspicuous absence of a sequel. Some are a little more ambitious than others, though, and there is a standout option that offers hours of fun for those willing to download and install it.

Bethesda Entertainment

Atom’s Retribution 2 is a hugely ambitious, DLC-sized mod for Fallout 4 that adds over 24 hours of new quests, all tied to the Children of Atom. In this download, they are a considerably more significant faction in the Commonwealth, promoting them from outliers in the Glowing Sea to a genuine force.

The description for the mod reads as follows:

“Featuring more than 30 faction quests, Atom’s Retribution 2 allows the player to rise through the Glow, uncover lost sects, execute divine judgment, and reshape the wasteland through Atom’s radiant will. While other factions such as the Institute, the Railroad, and the Brotherhood offer only small, isolated missions against the Children of Atom, the Atom’s Retribution questline stands as a complete, branching campaign.

“Players may fully embrace Atom and purge every rival faction, or they may side with those factions and attempt to extinguish Atom’s light—each path offering unique consequences and alternate endings. This mod redefines the Children of Atom as a true power in the Commonwealth, giving them the depth, agency, and narrative weight of a primary faction.”

Even better than the overall offering (which is itself very exciting), Atom’s Retribution 2 is also highly compatible with other downloads focused on the cult. This should help to increase immersion significantly, and the whitelisted mods include Atom’s Warrior, SOTS (or Atom’s Storm), Church of Atom Overhaul, and Tinuvia’s Children of Atom Mods, as well as very useful general purpose mods like Sim Settlements 2.

The mod is available to download entirely for free via Nexus Mods, meaning you don’t even have to mess around with Bethesda’s proprietary Creation Club.

Even with the potentially good news that new Xbox head Asha Sharma wants to force through a new Fallout game with additional funding, we are undoubtedly going to be waiting a while for another release. That leaves downloads like the one above as our best bet to fill the time, while we wait to hear more from the developer.

Systems

Released

November 10, 2015

ESRB

M FOR MATURE: BLOOD AND GORE, INTENSE VIOLENCE, STRONG LANGUAGE, USE OF DRUGS

Engine

Creation

Cross-Platform Play

no

Cross Save

no

Steam Deck Compatibility

yes