I think the most impressive 3rd party engine implementation is FOnline. It has been under development for over a decade and has been used by plenty of actual games for almost as long. FOnline combines Fallout 1 & 2, with some additional stuff from Fallout: Tactics. It doesn't aim to be an exact copy, instead it's an evolution of the original games. It combines them all together into a single game and provides MMO level multiplayer. Lots of fun to be on the same map with thousands of players, scavenge for loot and participate in PvP. <a href="http://imgur.com/a/t6qCm" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/a/t6qCm</a><p>Currently the most active game built on top of the engine is FOnline: Reloaded. <a href="http://www.fonline-reloaded.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fonline-reloaded.net/</a><p>As I write this it has 100 people online. Not as active as the FOnline community was 8 years ago, but it's not abandoned yet.<p>There are also a bunch of other FOnline games, a selection of them and their status can be seen at <a href="https://fonline-status.ru/en/" rel="nofollow">https://fonline-status.ru/en/</a><p>For development resources there's <a href="http://fodev.net/" rel="nofollow">http://fodev.net/</a> & <a href="https://xp-dev.com/sc/76003/HEAD/" rel="nofollow">https://xp-dev.com/sc/76003/HEAD/</a>
I love Fallout 2 and would love to see where this goes... However, the main site doesn't work (<a href="http://www.falltergeist.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.falltergeist.com</a>).<p>Also, commits that say "F*ck this shit" don't build confidence in a project. :)
Fallout 2 was the source of many joys and frustrations, I even did some work on the pt-BR translation.<p>It was very upsetting that Van Buren [0] was not actually the expected Fallout 3, I very much prefer the pure isometric turn-based system instead of the hybrid that was subsequently developed by Bethesda.<p>Hope this project reaches a high-quality stable release so that the community is able to create great storylines and mods based on it.<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buren_(video_game)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buren_(video_game)</a>
I'm a little younger then most who are on this thread. I grew/am growing up playing Fallout 3/NV. Projects like this give me hope that I will one day see similar things happen with my favorite games.<p>What I'd give for an open source Fallout 3/NV with some kind of coop feature....