According to Sir_Bumfrey_Diggles, the new seven-minute video showcasing the run from Goodsprings to Primm is meant to showcase the mod in its current (early) state of development. The base building options of FO4 arguably got their start with the Real Time Settler mod for Fallout New Vegas.

It’s particularly fitting to see New Vegas implemented this way, because there’s already some history of idea-sharing between the two titles to start with. The Fallout 4 engine may not have been the clean leap from Gamebryo that we hoped it would be, but it does offer much-improved visuals, and one modder is already working on implementing Fallout New Vegas within Fallout 4.

The game launched in 2010, but the Gamebryo engine it is built on is even older, and there’s only so much mods can do to improve a title (Gamebryo also gets a little grumpy if you try to keep stuffing visual improvements and improved textures into FO3 / FNV). At the same time, there’s no denying that New Vegas is beginning to show its age. The plot of the game takes inspiration from the original, Black Isle version of Fallout 3 (codenamed Van Buren), and it builds on elements of the in-game universe that were introduced back in Fallout 2. Fallout New Vegas is arguably the best of the three modern Fallout games.

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