"Fesco better have some horse lasagna! Sorry, for those who aren't British, Tesco is a supermarket." No, Jon, it's the "horse lasagna" that merits an explanation.
It's been a few years but there was a food safety scandal where manufacturers of lasagnas were found to have been using low quality meat from improper sources to keep their overhead low. One of these sources was horse meat not intended for human consumption.
It was an issue where ground beef produced in one part of the EU was being supplemented with non-beef meats, including pork and horse. This was then sold to food manufactures as ground beef - including the folks who made a number of store-brand ready-to-cook foods, like Tesco Lasagna. While Britain made international news headlines, on account of being the English language country involved, it also impacted Ireland, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Germany, and a series of other European countries. The initial investigations focused on a single corporate group in the food industry - based in Ireland and Britain - but it was found that that group was not at fault. Eventually, as other nations found horse in their beef supplies, it was tracked down primarily to a Romanian company. But the Romanian slaughter house was not at fault, as it correctly labeled and shipped the meat as horse. From there it sent to Draap Trading Ltd. (Draap is actually a Dutch comapny, and the name is literally horse - "paard" - spelled ackwards), who also sold it as horse. Investigations eventually led to Spanghero - who were accused by the French government of falsifying documents and rebranding it as beef. Research found that most people weren't worried about eating horse, but about the fact that the labels were lying, and that they didn't trust the supply chain. he discovery of Spanghero's culpability compounded an earlier E.Coli outbreak in the UK which had been traced to their French based plant.
Theres a joke in german saying: kinder kommt, das essen ist pferdig. Translates to: kids come, the food is horsey Pferdig sounds and is written almost like fertig, which means ready
I went to the Prilladog factory near the Thames River. Based on the terminal entries, they were running out of Brahmin meat so they would have to substitute it with something else. Try to guess what it is.
@@GeertTheDestoyer Heck, I'm not even from the UK let alone London, and even I know that bathing in the one river where all the sewage of 8 million people is collected (which for a while also had its drink water facilities placed DOWNSTREAM from where the sewage was pumped in the river) might not be a good idea. It was called The Great Stink for a damn good reason Jon!
Just to help clarify something on the currency mod as I've finished the mod - from what I believe - The Train Tickets work more like irl Oyster Cards in this version of London, like with them being plastic and not paper. Also, anything that could replicate or produce them are in the possession of the Gentry - the posh twats in Westminster. So they work somewhat as a currency. London is alot more 'civilised' than the US, the pre war government has retained a degree of major control.
That's really cool I'm glad this mod isn't just "Yeah it's just the same as the US but British flavoured" it's actually unique in culture and aesthetic
Mhmm, it's surprisingly really in depth! Oxhorn will eventually make a full lore series detailing it lol but you can find all sorts of things, like down to the exact megatons of nukes launched on London.
I see it as making complete sense from the point of what the currency is backed by. Fallout's caps were (at least in the original interplay title) backed by water trade, which is a commodity needed for survival. Here, granted that the underground is maintained to a high standard, the commodity that backs the currency would be high-speed transportation - Makes sense that the vagabond lads say only the Gentry ride the trains now. Additionally, it wouldn't be easy to counterfeit unless a highly talented hacker was involved in the scheme. Any ticket that the train gates deny would be proven as fake and thus worthless. Even if it's a little odd I think it makes a lot of sense. Hell of a lot more than caps in fallout 3/4 to be honest.
I like how “civilised” is just “capitalistic”. They control the currency, they control the economy. In the US with caps, which no one could effectively hoard or create, the economy was pretty stable.
I would have though that most of MATN's argument against tickets can be used against caps, too? "Caps are pretty tough so they survive being circulated as currency" - i mean, sure, but paper money was still a currency for 1500+ years IRL, being less durable as a currency doesn't make something less viable as a currency. "There is a finite number of them" - I mean, same is true for tickets? They don't grow on trees. "If you found an old ticket machine and broke it open, you'd have 1000s of tickets" - How many caps would have been found in recycle bins, vending machines, Nuka Cola delivery trucks, bottling plants, or any shop or supermarket, etc? Like, sure, you might find more tickets at once in a single ticket machine, but with caps there would be more places to find them in the world - ticket machines wouldn't be found outside of train stations, usually in city centers, which were targeted by nukes? "This is not well thought through" he says, as he makes a not well thought through argument.
@@l0rfTo be fair, Starfield gave us climbable ladders... but yeah, playing through this mod I keep forgetting they exist. Also you can't climb them in combat, which can get pretty annoying when there are enemies about that are only reachable via said ladders...
@@reverse_engineered Well, it is Jon so I suspect most of the audience would die of shock if ladder climbs did not take on a Benny Hill/Monty Python quality. 🤔 the walk into space was a less hazardous option...
Just like the door opening to a pack of ghouls in his Frost playthrough "advertisement" at the end of a lot of videos - oh and the cows! Die you mooing b*stards! ... he has so many amazing reactions - such an awesome channel! (I apologize if you don't get this so out of context and think I'm a madman...Fallout: Frost playthrough Ep.6 6:30)
@@rvatola9170 that clip plays at the end of this very video (and all of the two current FO series currently on) so I think there's a fair chance they've seen it.
"My knowledge of London might just serve me well on this adventure" *30 seconds later after massively irradiating himself* "The Thames is really, really, really cocking radioactive!" Yes Jon. It's the Thames. Did you expect that it would somehow be cleaner *after* nuclear armageddon!?
As a dirty American, I am relying entirely on Fallout London to give me a crash course in all things Britain. The FOLON team has the weight of the world on their shoulders in this regard.
@@PoisonInc iirc, pedigree has never been an English company. It became pedigree after being bought by Mars (like the chocolate bar). It was originally called chappie or something f
I strongly suspect it's a multi-layered reference designed to be understood by most people as Winston Churchill, but by the british as both Winston Churchill and Churchill the insurance dog.
It’s a tad scruffy in parts but overall this feels like an entirely new fallout game, a genuine breath of fresh air. Was looking forward all week to watching this
TBH the main part that shows it being a mod is the sound mixing on all the VA lines, just because it'd be pretty impossibnle for a mod project to actually have a centrallized, standardized sound mixing solution, IE: the quality of this project is phenomenal.
@@MichaelWeber5237 Whether or not it makes sense is neither here or there. If Oxford lists it as mainstream British, not a regional slang, not some dumb thing a smaller community of English people made up, it's part of the British linguistic corpus. Chips makes even less sense for fries, where frites with just an additonal 't' is the actual origin, root word of the fried potatoes french-speaking Belgians made, then people spread around the globe. (So the German calling it pommes frites are using it most correctly.) Language is shaped by usage, not just logical consistency. The logical sense of a term is secondary to its historical, cultural, and regional acceptance.
A proper tophat needs to be nicked rather then scavanged off the dead, It dosen't degrade the aura of the top hat. Remember seizure is communisistic robbery is capitalisitic.
this tells me he will not think twice before he tried killing some one in the real apocalypse just for the same thing. specially his low perception, walk by 5, just to kill the boss, for his, turns around and sees the 5 he walked by. But the fact he doesn't think twice makes me think he would become a raider right away. oh there was hats there this whole time, oh well, you live and learn.....except that last bit for Jon, he just lives
Can always watch other content creators. On Joov's Diet channel he has like 12 hours of streams through the game up you can watch. Been watching when I can this past week
i vote on abandoning skys of arcadia until he gets 100k people actually asking for it....I hate how he just abandons the stuff he says hes gonna do...I donated because he said hed play the game I sent. Hasn't played or even mentioned its name, I want a refund.
@@SorchaSublime the Innsmouth vibes are 100% intentional, what with the Innsmouth suite room in the Thesehaven market and the plush elder god dolls in the tube station.
40 minutes is just so short when it comes to a game this scale. 🙃 I hope this either becomes a bi-weekly or longer cause gah not enough content. (Also would love to see you play thank goodness your here on a live stream)
ur 100% correct on the videos being to short. I still remember the Golden era... the days of yor' when Johnathan's fallout motion picture series, be it 4 or New Vegas, where each 30-40 episode "Odyssey" level Epics, with nothing but 1 1/2 - 2 Hour long individual saga's. Until that fateful, godforsaken day roughly mid FallOut 4 "YOLO" Epic, Saga, approximately mid 20's, if memory serves, was the first time in recent MATN history that we were served scraps, barely 58 minutes of barely digestible hogswash. Since that day forward, things aint been the same sense.
@@danielcampbell9457 I went back and watched his Skyrim playthrough, some of those episodes could be short movies with the length of some of them. Hell even the Starfield gameplay was much longer than this at times
Ends up that it takes a lot of time running an entire company instead of just recording himself playing games here and there. Honestly, we may only see 40 minutes, but I have no doubt this take him multiple hours in total. And he has a few other series on top of it. There's only so much a man can do in a day.
I love that Jon mentions HORSE LASAGNA, says “oh I probably should explain further”, then proceeds to describe what a Tesco is, and refuses to elaborate on HORSE. LASAGNA?!?! 😂
@@pixelated.dreams no, you'd top it up at ticket machines / shops and it would deduct from it per trip. They've been mostly replaced by debit/credit card contactless now.
@@pluemaspeople still use oyster cards. Sure you can just tap on with your normal card but having an oyster card is good for budgeting and gives you an emergency fare if money is tight so you dont have to worry about getting stranded half way down a bus route
In defense of tube ticket currency: their value is actually backed by something, though - the right of transportation (because as shown last episode, the gates have forcefields that prevent hopping). Bottlecaps are basically fiat money... in a society with no central bank, where trust is scarce.
It made a lot more sense in Fallout 1. Bethesda just used bottlecaps in FO3 onward because they thought people who played the previous games would remember them.
Bottlecaps were actually backed by water in the old games, presumably representing their use in re-sealing old bottles for transporting drinking water. We can infer that this is still the case, albeit it isn't explicitly spelled out in the recent games.
During pandemic, I was going through a horrible time. I was in a horrible relationship that was breaking down, I was locked down in a country that I just moved in, I didn't know that many people, job was stressful Jon's FO4 YOLO series really one of the high points in my week I swear. I watched all of it, every week, on the day it was released. I was looking forward to it. I am in a much better place now. THank you Jon. I hope you see my comment
Kudos to the voice actors for the Thamesfolk. It makes me genuinely uncomfortable to listen to them talk with all of the gasps and wheezes. No doubt that if this was released by a major studio/publisher, they might have been coached to water things down a bit.
We shall pet him on the beaches, we shall pet him on the landing grounds, we shall pet him in the fields and in the streets, we shall pet him in the hills, we shall never abandon him!
Something very interesting about this mod is that London, despite having several dangerous corners with mutants and raiders, is overall more civilized and connected to its pre-war state than most of what we've seen in Fallout. I really like seeing the little pockets of civilization that utilize existing infrastructure, like the dog food factory here.
@@hamzahsajjad7952 to be fair compared to the Victorian Thames it is basically holy water. Rn sewage in the river is a scandal, back then the Thames was literally just used as the city sewer.
For the non brits, ill try and keep a running commentary of the British references in this mod. 1:59. Ladybirds. These are everywhere in the UK, they're really common, and while not officially a symbol, they def feel quite British to anyone from here. 2:25 Ion Brew. named after the real Iron Brew, a relatively popular Scottish fizzy drink, which like Ion Brew, is bright orange. 5:33 Prilladog. This is a reference to the real British dog food company Pedigree, who have an almost identical logo, of a red rosette on yellow stripe. 7:30 Tommies. Common slang term for a Brit in WW1. naturally their gear and especially the Brody helmet is meant to reinforce that ww1 theme. 8:05. The badge with a crown on It on the Guard armour is the Symbol of the Met Police, Londons police force. 10:29. Churchill. Obviously a reference to Winston Churchill and being a British Bulldog. But also, the Insurance Brand Churchill has a Bulldog as their mascot, and that's absolutely referencing him. 10:37. Perk Animations/ obviously vault boy would feel out of place, so the animations use the style of the 80s "Protect and Survive" Nuclear Information Leaflets. 19:37. Ruined Mini Cooper. Absolutely iconic British car. 19:52. Surrey Quays. Theyre a real place 20:05 Canary Wharf is a London Icon, the financial district at the heart of the city, the triangle roof building is One Canada Square 20:13 Massively Irradiated Thames. Look I'm not saying this is a deliberate reference to the massive scandal around britains water companies criminal negligence and our water quality being a disgrace, but I'm not, not, saying it either. 21:36 Fesco. A reference to Tesco, a massively popular supermarket here, they're everywhere 21:40. Jons "Horse Lasagna" Comment. About a decade ago, there was a massive scandal, when Tescos Findus Beef Lasagna was found to contain horse meat, we've taken the piss out of that ever since. 25:54. Fesco Bag. Yeah that's basically one-to-one with how actual Tesco Branding looks, its a little surreal seeing it in Fallout honestly. 27:06. Randeep. Judging by the name, accent and turban, Randeep is a Punjabi Sikh. Multiculturalism is huge is Britain, especially for people from former Colonies. In 1948, the British Nationality Act gave people from colonies the right to live and work in Britain to help rebuild the economy Post WW2. (In contrast to America, where it more refers to people from East Asia, the term "Asian" in British English is almost exclusively associated with us from the Indian Subcontinent.) 28:40. Thames Water is a real Tube Station 30:21. Computer. Instead of the retropunk scifi look of the American computers, this looks far more like the real 80s Home computers britain had, like the ZX Spectrum or Amiga 500. 31:28. Beans. The can of beans on the desk there is nearly the exact branding as the real company Heinz, 36:54. Bin. This is exactly how british public bins look IRL. with the black and bronze banding 37:21. 005. an obvious reference to James bond, fictional spy and british icon, also codenamed as 007.
I wouldnt say the british computers *dont* look retropunk, its just a different flavour. I think the implication is that alan turing lived far longer after the divergence in this universe so it stands to reason the UK would have ended up with slicker PCs than the US even if other aspects of our economy were in the shit
@@marcelpursche5339 I genuinely hope it helped, I'm sure Americans must have such a completely different impression of the mod, there's so much like this hidden in it.
I quite enjoy the lack of guns. It lends a lot more meat to the combat as you're always up close and personal - no stealth archer shenanigans. It also seems to lean a lot more on RPG style skill-based challenges and having to learn the environment to solve things non-violently. This is what an RPG is about!
Watching this brings me back to watching Many a True Nerd's Fallout 4 playthrough for the first time, the playthrough that got me to go buy Fallout 4 myself so long ago!
Jon, you are the best, most entertaining gamer. On one hand, I don't want to watch too much more and be spoiled before I get a chance to play Fallout London. On the other hand, this playthrough is so engaging that I can't wait for the next episode!
you say that because he talks the whole time. Other games usually don't talk 200% of the time. Some times thats great. But when he talks over the conversations and stuff going on in the game, and he misses so much because hes busier thinking about what he is gonna sex next than realize he walked passed a few top hats so he didn't need to kill some one...hes a raider at heart
The tommy watchman singing God Save the King/Queen makes me immediately think of the bum in Battery Park in the original Deus Ex singing My Country 'Tis of Thee. I really hope that was an intentional reference because that would make my day.
or just maybe he should just not edit them and we can get a full 8 hours of him actually playing a game. I hate how they cut things out, specially games I never seen, so now he only shows off the things no one knows. But this is new, no one knows! stop skipping everything... for that to happen, hed have to stop talking for once in his life
"I'll back your side and get them to fall in line without a pay rise if you give me your hat, because that's a good hat." This is incredibly British, innit?
John you need to upload this faster I felt like i have a drug addiction waiting I'm not watching anyones els fallout London vids till your done best playthrew ever.
sounds like something a hundred people have already done..........but yea, lets be a basic b and try selling a phrase thousands use a year. Sounds kinda like something everyone would ignore...now a ring tone of him saying, lets keep on keeping on....lets keep on keeping on...lets keep on keeping beep think outside of the box for once in your life haha
But it’s not about the ads.. churchills nickname irl was the bulldog. The reason they made those ads was because famously Winston Churchill was said to resemble a bulldog.. Did you think they just called their bulldog Churchill in the ads for no reason?..
@@Yan-tz9pn that's beside the point though. The dog in the mod is very obviously based on the insurance company because of its colouration matching the mascot. The only way it could be any clearer would be for the dog to shout OH YES whenever it killed an enemy. It doesn't matter where that idea originated because they're going for an incredibly specific reference
Is the workers revolt about how hard they're being worked with low pay a reference to how hard you guys worked on this with (I assume) no pay That would be a hilarious reference But this really is probably my favourite fallout game Bethesda could never
just barely, another series to drag out for months if not a year or more. plays skys of arcadia twice a week, but people come here 7 days a week to see if hes uploaded something about fallout. Most those people don't know he has a schedule. For the present, he seems to abandon any future plans at the drop of a hat.
missed some interesting details on the meat situation upstairs in the dog food factory. also check your milk. the various sorts have different features. Magic milk heals radiation.
on the subject of rads, you did pass some glowing fungus on the way into Thameshaven. Its not much but it would help a bit (if its even worth going for at this point).
In my playthrough the Bloatmother was in the manager's office. It spent the the entire time I was in the back of the Fresco just watching me through the windows not making any noise. I completely thought it was some sort of boss mob because it didn't make any attempts to move towards me. It was just watching... waiting... daring me to approach. Ended up leaving because my gear was pretty bad still lol.
First time I saw the bloatmother it flew through the wall and one-shot me. The second time I saw it tried to fly through the wall but got stuck and I spent about 60 rounds putting it down.
The Bloatmother should be locked inside the walk-in freezer until you open the doors via the terminal. She seems to have a knack for glitching through the doors, though...
My playthrough im doing mostly unarmed. I tried punching it with my brass knuckles and almost died so i retreated. Then i managed to get into the freezer and loot. I took a revolver and moved really far away from her. She doesn't have that great a range and for some reason never tried to close the gap. I used all my ammo shooting her and still had to punch her one time to finish the job
Buffout 4 really helps - but what made the game fully stable for me is starting f4se_launcher.exe directly, without the use of the FOLON launcher. No idea why that helps.
sucks to be you. sounds like you're going to have anxiety for the rest of your life, waiting on something that is never going to happen. Unless he plays with god mode...then it would be better if he just didn't
"Fesco better have some horse lasagna! Sorry, for those who aren't British, Tesco is a supermarket."
No, Jon, it's the "horse lasagna" that merits an explanation.
It's been a few years but there was a food safety scandal where manufacturers of lasagnas were found to have been using low quality meat from improper sources to keep their overhead low. One of these sources was horse meat not intended for human consumption.
It was an issue where ground beef produced in one part of the EU was being supplemented with non-beef meats, including pork and horse. This was then sold to food manufactures as ground beef - including the folks who made a number of store-brand ready-to-cook foods, like Tesco Lasagna.
While Britain made international news headlines, on account of being the English language country involved, it also impacted Ireland, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Germany, and a series of other European countries. The initial investigations focused on a single corporate group in the food industry - based in Ireland and Britain - but it was found that that group was not at fault.
Eventually, as other nations found horse in their beef supplies, it was tracked down primarily to a Romanian company. But the Romanian slaughter house was not at fault, as it correctly labeled and shipped the meat as horse. From there it sent to Draap Trading Ltd. (Draap is actually a Dutch comapny, and the name is literally horse - "paard" - spelled ackwards), who also sold it as horse. Investigations eventually led to Spanghero - who were accused by the French government of falsifying documents and rebranding it as beef.
Research found that most people weren't worried about eating horse, but about the fact that the labels were lying, and that they didn't trust the supply chain. he discovery of Spanghero's culpability compounded an earlier E.Coli outbreak in the UK which had been traced to their French based plant.
There is nothing wrong with Tescos value beef if it is cooked well.
Lasagna, and Lasagne The Second!
So many Polish Nobles.
Theres a joke in german saying: kinder kommt, das essen ist pferdig. Translates to: kids come, the food is horsey
Pferdig sounds and is written almost like fertig, which means ready
"I just got addicted to dog food. My day's not going as well as I'd hoped..." this was peak humour lol
I went to the Prilladog factory near the Thames River. Based on the terminal entries, they were running out of Brahmin meat so they would have to substitute it with something else. Try to guess what it is.
ya i explored the basement of the dog food factory not eating that stuf i rather eat the free range mutated animels around
I did this on accident and was soooooo mad I was like is code for heroin
London resident needs to learn the hard way that you don't swim in the Thames.
John, are you sure you know London?
I would never dare jump into that poopriver, doubt anyone likes swimming in an open sewer.
@@GeertTheDestoyer I mean, it's the post apocalypse. How much pollution can there still be when all the polluting people and industries are blown up?
@@GeertTheDestoyer Heck, I'm not even from the UK let alone London, and even I know that bathing in the one river where all the sewage of 8 million people is collected (which for a while also had its drink water facilities placed DOWNSTREAM from where the sewage was pumped in the river) might not be a good idea. It was called The Great Stink for a damn good reason Jon!
And these ppl colonized india smh 🙄
@@codexmachina1358 In post-British India, India colonizes you.
"We're just, we're just, we're just, SORRY CHURCHILL EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF"
-Vichy France, 1941
NAA as an Aussie I have to say "Fuck Churchill' Gallipoli Veteran.
Typical Jon perception moment in not seeing the lunch box Churchill found and instead picking up something completely different.
Ah yes,a true Jon Perception -100 moment...
Jon beating his dog for failing to kill a leech... shame on you, sir, shame!
"How does London work"
We may never know the answer to this.
Jon: "Next week I am going to have to throw myself into an elevator shaft with no escape!"
Right ... OR, you could just use the ladder.
Just to help clarify something on the currency mod as I've finished the mod - from what I believe - The Train Tickets work more like irl Oyster Cards in this version of London, like with them being plastic and not paper. Also, anything that could replicate or produce them are in the possession of the Gentry - the posh twats in Westminster. So they work somewhat as a currency.
London is alot more 'civilised' than the US, the pre war government has retained a degree of major control.
That's really cool I'm glad this mod isn't just "Yeah it's just the same as the US but British flavoured" it's actually unique in culture and aesthetic
Mhmm, it's surprisingly really in depth! Oxhorn will eventually make a full lore series detailing it lol but you can find all sorts of things, like down to the exact megatons of nukes launched on London.
I see it as making complete sense from the point of what the currency is backed by. Fallout's caps were (at least in the original interplay title) backed by water trade, which is a commodity needed for survival. Here, granted that the underground is maintained to a high standard, the commodity that backs the currency would be high-speed transportation - Makes sense that the vagabond lads say only the Gentry ride the trains now. Additionally, it wouldn't be easy to counterfeit unless a highly talented hacker was involved in the scheme. Any ticket that the train gates deny would be proven as fake and thus worthless. Even if it's a little odd I think it makes a lot of sense. Hell of a lot more than caps in fallout 3/4 to be honest.
I like how “civilised” is just “capitalistic”. They control the currency, they control the economy. In the US with caps, which no one could effectively hoard or create, the economy was pretty stable.
I would have though that most of MATN's argument against tickets can be used against caps, too?
"Caps are pretty tough so they survive being circulated as currency" - i mean, sure, but paper money was still a currency for 1500+ years IRL, being less durable as a currency doesn't make something less viable as a currency.
"There is a finite number of them" - I mean, same is true for tickets? They don't grow on trees.
"If you found an old ticket machine and broke it open, you'd have 1000s of tickets" - How many caps would have been found in recycle bins, vending machines, Nuka Cola delivery trucks, bottling plants, or any shop or supermarket, etc? Like, sure, you might find more tickets at once in a single ticket machine, but with caps there would be more places to find them in the world - ticket machines wouldn't be found outside of train stations, usually in city centers, which were targeted by nukes?
"This is not well thought through" he says, as he makes a not well thought through argument.
There's a ladder in the elevator shaft Jon! You dont have to yeet yourself off the edge.
Shhhhhhhh
Ladders in a Bethesda engine are a mind-boggling concept to begin with.
Given the FO4 engine, how many times do you think he falls off the ladder anyway. :D
@@l0rfTo be fair, Starfield gave us climbable ladders... but yeah, playing through this mod I keep forgetting they exist.
Also you can't climb them in combat, which can get pretty annoying when there are enemies about that are only reachable via said ladders...
@@reverse_engineered Well, it is Jon so I suspect most of the audience would die of shock if ladder climbs did not take on a Benny Hill/Monty Python quality. 🤔 the walk into space was a less hazardous option...
I really hope the “addicted to dog food” moment at 21:14 becomes part of a new outro for Jon’s videos in the future. 😂
Just like the door opening to a pack of ghouls in his Frost playthrough "advertisement" at the end of a lot of videos - oh and the cows! Die you mooing b*stards! ... he has so many amazing reactions - such an awesome channel!
(I apologize if you don't get this so out of context and think I'm a madman...Fallout: Frost playthrough Ep.6 6:30)
Dog food is also a name for heroin which is funny
@@rvatola9170 that clip plays at the end of this very video (and all of the two current FO series currently on) so I think there's a fair chance they've seen it.
"My knowledge of London might just serve me well on this adventure"
*30 seconds later after massively irradiating himself*
"The Thames is really, really, really cocking radioactive!"
Yes Jon. It's the Thames. Did you expect that it would somehow be cleaner *after* nuclear armageddon!?
I mean to be fair it couldn't really get much/any dirtier...
Best part of the weekly UA-cam calendar! Keep your eyes out for as many cultural references as you can, Jon. Some are a bit obtuse!
Accurate profile picture.
Bri ish boddles of wada 🧐🧐🧐
greetings from the United States
As a dirty American, I am relying entirely on Fallout London to give me a crash course in all things Britain. The FOLON team has the weight of the world on their shoulders in this regard.
Ngl matn is on fire, fallout london, sim settlement, and skies of arcadia we have been eating good for a good while
20:23 ahhh, so the nuclear war barely changed the Thames, good to know!
Think the nuclear war made it less irradiated 😂😂
Yeah Jon being surprised he can't swim in the Thames was rather amusing
Only 250 rads a second now.
seems way cleaner than last time I saw it
“Churchill I feel like you’re not contributing” *whacks with pool cue*
This man’s poor perception is going to get him cancelled.
Churchill being a bulldog (ohhhhh yes), the dog food factory having a not-Pedigree logo... oh man, the UK references come thick and fast in this mod.
Pedigree has been an American company for 100 years
@@Yan-tz9pn Huh... the more you know!
@@PoisonInc iirc, pedigree has never been an English company. It became pedigree after being bought by Mars (like the chocolate bar).
It was originally called chappie or something f
I like how Jon chose to explain what Tesco was but not the horse lasagna comment
Jon, if I may suggest trying to put the bowler on Churchill.
I was literally thinking it would be amazing if you could give the dog who’s named after Winston Churchill a bowler hat
@@Lady_Amelia-Eloise I think he's actually named after Churchill the bulldog bobblehead from an insurance advertisment lol
@HelFrostKara who is himself based upon Churchill the PM
I strongly suspect it's a multi-layered reference designed to be understood by most people as Winston Churchill, but by the british as both Winston Churchill and Churchill the insurance dog.
OHHHH YES!!
finally we get a prewar fallout game, its cool to have it set in current day London.
It’s a tad scruffy in parts but overall this feels like an entirely new fallout game, a genuine breath of fresh air. Was looking forward all week to watching this
TBH the main part that shows it being a mod is the sound mixing on all the VA lines, just because it'd be pretty impossibnle for a mod project to actually have a centrallized, standardized sound mixing solution, IE: the quality of this project is phenomenal.
@@QuantumButler Having played a few Bethesda games in my day, that just makes it feel more authentic.
Haha, I was immediately like: "THAT'S A LADYBIRD!"
What's next? Calling toboggans sleds? smh
Round ere they call em Bishy Barney Bee
Ladybird is a particularly dumb Britishism though because they are bugs, not birds, so the more common Ladybug name makes more sense.
@@MichaelWeber5237 Whether or not it makes sense is neither here or there. If Oxford lists it as mainstream British, not a regional slang, not some dumb thing a smaller community of English people made up, it's part of the British linguistic corpus.
Chips makes even less sense for fries, where frites with just an additonal 't' is the actual origin, root word of the fried potatoes french-speaking Belgians made, then people spread around the globe. (So the German calling it pommes frites are using it most correctly.)
Language is shaped by usage, not just logical consistency. The logical sense of a term is secondary to its historical, cultural, and regional acceptance.
@@MichaelWeber5237 tbf, the full name is 'ladybird beetle', but I think that might only be a recent thing used by entomologists
@@dominic.h.3363 I've always called them ladybugs down here in kent, never even heard of Lardybird before.
It's Jon running around in Mad Max meets Eastenders!
I suspect even Max would have found EastEnders too Mad...
@@JamieCameron-Mackintosh-z7c Post-Apocalyse Australia? Yes.
Modern day Walford? Fuck, no!
Jon criticizes ladybugs now but how much you want to be there's a more terrifying version called a Ladybird later on like a glowing version. XD
@@Xecryo The Radgers are pretty terrifying the first time you meet one. 🦡
@@sarahhillary7698 im sorry RADGERS??!?!?!
Oh my god I'd forgotten about the horsemeat scandal. Spaghetti boloneighs!!
This is the best London tour I’ve had, and I’ve been through it in a cab twice. John definitely has a fallback as a foot guide😂
I've just noticed that despite this being set in England the date on the ATTA boy (the pip-boy) is still in the American format.
The terminals did say that the UI is just stolen from the pip boy basically, so to me at least it makes sense
@@AHoardyBoi Oh, sorry, I completely forgot about that.
Speaking as a programmer it's probably an engine limitation
The original British format Was the American format. Where we got it from 😉
The dates on the computer are day first though. So it probably just for the ATTA boy
Jon passed like 3 corpses wearing tophats in the train station, but will sell out a quest giver in a heartbeat to take one from them
Guys a dbag anyway. If you side with top hat guy he docks 50 from the 100 he promised cause "you took too long"
This is the way
A proper tophat needs to be nicked rather then scavanged off the dead, It dosen't degrade the aura of the top hat. Remember seizure is communisistic robbery is capitalisitic.
this tells me he will not think twice before he tried killing some one in the real apocalypse just for the same thing. specially his low perception, walk by 5, just to kill the boss, for his, turns around and sees the 5 he walked by. But the fact he doesn't think twice makes me think he would become a raider right away. oh there was hats there this whole time, oh well, you live and learn.....except that last bit for Jon, he just lives
I dont think i can handle only 1 upload of this a week i need moarrrr
Can always watch other content creators. On Joov's Diet channel he has like 12 hours of streams through the game up you can watch. Been watching when I can this past week
i vote on abandoning skys of arcadia until he gets 100k people actually asking for it....I hate how he just abandons the stuff he says hes gonna do...I donated because he said hed play the game I sent. Hasn't played or even mentioned its name, I want a refund.
As someone born in South East London, I can confirm that this is pretty much what growing up was like. 10/10 for accuracy 👏
I feel like it has to be said, the skill animations are AMAZING!
the thamesfolk are excellent, their voice with the breathing makes me genuinely uncomfortable
Definitely a "fish out of water" vibe. It sounds like they are suffering and I feel for them.
Theyre an excellent and reasonable lore detail, and also give me innsmouth vibes which is a plus
@@SorchaSublime the Innsmouth vibes are 100% intentional, what with the Innsmouth suite room in the Thesehaven market and the plush elder god dolls in the tube station.
@@SorchaSublime the whole time they’ve been talking about the Thamesfolk I’ve just been thinking about the Innsmouth people
This is the best Fallout London playthrough!
as opposed to......
40 minutes is just so short when it comes to a game this scale. 🙃
I hope this either becomes a bi-weekly or longer cause gah not enough content.
(Also would love to see you play thank goodness your here on a live stream)
No it's fine as is, there's no need for more than that.
@@donovanfaust3227 that's your opinion and mine is mine.
ur 100% correct on the videos being to short. I still remember the Golden era... the days of yor' when Johnathan's fallout motion picture series, be it 4 or New Vegas, where each 30-40 episode "Odyssey" level Epics, with nothing but 1 1/2 - 2 Hour long individual saga's. Until that fateful, godforsaken day roughly mid FallOut 4 "YOLO" Epic, Saga, approximately mid 20's, if memory serves, was the first time in recent MATN history that we were served scraps, barely 58 minutes of barely digestible hogswash. Since that day forward, things aint been the same sense.
@@danielcampbell9457 I went back and watched his Skyrim playthrough, some of those episodes could be short movies with the length of some of them. Hell even the Starfield gameplay was much longer than this at times
Ends up that it takes a lot of time running an entire company instead of just recording himself playing games here and there.
Honestly, we may only see 40 minutes, but I have no doubt this take him multiple hours in total. And he has a few other series on top of it. There's only so much a man can do in a day.
The bulldog being called Churchill is a throwback to the Churchill insurance adverts on TV.
Ohhhhhh yessssss 😂
I'd forgotten those, thank you for mentioning it 😆
I love that Jon mentions HORSE LASAGNA, says “oh I probably should explain further”, then proceeds to describe what a Tesco is, and refuses to elaborate on HORSE. LASAGNA?!?! 😂
The tickets in this universe seem to be plastic cards or something, so they'll be harder wearing
They look vaguely like Oyster cards, which were our plastic travel passes we used to use.
@@pluemas Charge Card?
@@pixelated.dreams no, you'd top it up at ticket machines / shops and it would deduct from it per trip. They've been mostly replaced by debit/credit card contactless now.
@@pluemaspeople still use oyster cards. Sure you can just tap on with your normal card but having an oyster card is good for budgeting and gives you an emergency fare if money is tight so you dont have to worry about getting stranded half way down a bus route
In defense of tube ticket currency: their value is actually backed by something, though - the right of transportation (because as shown last episode, the gates have forcefields that prevent hopping). Bottlecaps are basically fiat money... in a society with no central bank, where trust is scarce.
It made a lot more sense in Fallout 1. Bethesda just used bottlecaps in FO3 onward because they thought people who played the previous games would remember them.
Bottlecaps were actually backed by water in the old games, presumably representing their use in re-sealing old bottles for transporting drinking water. We can infer that this is still the case, albeit it isn't explicitly spelled out in the recent games.
it's mentioned in one of the tooltips that the tickets were used for water, and that normal money went through hyperinflation
@@yetanother9127old games? It was just one game.
@@GeneralCodeBlue FO1, FO:BOS, and FO:NV featured the Hub's water-backed caps front and center, and FO2 mentions them in passing if I'm not mistaken.
The coins are actual British pound coins and charisma is actually useful.
Wow a fallout game where charisma is useful
@@Lady_Amelia-Eloiseits almost like theyre making an RPG or something
@@Lady_Amelia-Eloisein fairness charisma was useful in normal 4 as well because they got rid of speech and replaced it with charisma
The in-game currency should be Sports Direct mugs.
Oh yeah. The fact you're uploading this right after i get off work on a Saturday, will make me gladly watch this series. Cheers my guy.
Oh, the quickslot wheel is the London Underground. I love that little touch, it's fucking great.
During pandemic, I was going through a horrible time. I was in a horrible relationship that was breaking down, I was locked down in a country that I just moved in, I didn't know that many people, job was stressful
Jon's FO4 YOLO series really one of the high points in my week I swear. I watched all of it, every week, on the day it was released. I was looking forward to it.
I am in a much better place now. THank you Jon. I hope you see my comment
Kudos to the voice actors for the Thamesfolk. It makes me genuinely uncomfortable to listen to them talk with all of the gasps and wheezes. No doubt that if this was released by a major studio/publisher, they might have been coached to water things down a bit.
Heh, "water things down".
We shall pet him on the beaches, we shall pet him on the landing grounds, we shall pet him in the fields and in the streets, we shall pet him in the hills, we shall never abandon him!
Well, not until things get a little too sticky anyway...
Something very interesting about this mod is that London, despite having several dangerous corners with mutants and raiders, is overall more civilized and connected to its pre-war state than most of what we've seen in Fallout. I really like seeing the little pockets of civilization that utilize existing infrastructure, like the dog food factory here.
"Children of the Thames" is SUCH a good nickname.
I like the idea the tickets are oyster cards effectively
I'm loving the fallout weekends Jon, London on Saturday and Sim settlements on Sunday.
I’ve heard the Thames was extremely dirty like a century or more ago, so I’m surprised a Brit would think nothing of trying to swim in it.
mate its extremely dirty today, weve got a whole nationwide scandal about water quality
@@hamzahsajjad7952 to be fair compared to the Victorian Thames it is basically holy water. Rn sewage in the river is a scandal, back then the Thames was literally just used as the city sewer.
He has poor perception. No one I know in the UK would try and swim in the Thames.
I found a Never Ending Musket. Turned it into a junk blunderbuss and now currently just annihilating all of London 😂
If no horsemeat in the fesco i will revolt
@@mikey-wl2jt The Bloat Flys ate it all.
will bloatfly- and leech-meat do?
For the non brits, ill try and keep a running commentary of the British references in this mod.
1:59. Ladybirds. These are everywhere in the UK, they're really common, and while not officially a symbol, they def feel quite British to anyone from here.
2:25 Ion Brew. named after the real Iron Brew, a relatively popular Scottish fizzy drink, which like Ion Brew, is bright orange.
5:33 Prilladog. This is a reference to the real British dog food company Pedigree, who have an almost identical logo, of a red rosette on yellow stripe.
7:30 Tommies. Common slang term for a Brit in WW1. naturally their gear and especially the Brody helmet is meant to reinforce that ww1 theme.
8:05. The badge with a crown on It on the Guard armour is the Symbol of the Met Police, Londons police force.
10:29. Churchill. Obviously a reference to Winston Churchill and being a British Bulldog. But also, the Insurance Brand Churchill has a Bulldog as their mascot, and that's absolutely referencing him.
10:37. Perk Animations/ obviously vault boy would feel out of place, so the animations use the style of the 80s "Protect and Survive" Nuclear Information Leaflets.
19:37. Ruined Mini Cooper. Absolutely iconic British car.
19:52. Surrey Quays. Theyre a real place
20:05 Canary Wharf is a London Icon, the financial district at the heart of the city, the triangle roof building is One Canada Square
20:13 Massively Irradiated Thames. Look I'm not saying this is a deliberate reference to the massive scandal around britains water companies criminal negligence and our water quality being a disgrace, but I'm not, not, saying it either.
21:36 Fesco. A reference to Tesco, a massively popular supermarket here, they're everywhere
21:40. Jons "Horse Lasagna" Comment. About a decade ago, there was a massive scandal, when Tescos Findus Beef Lasagna was found to contain horse meat, we've taken the piss out of that ever since.
25:54. Fesco Bag. Yeah that's basically one-to-one with how actual Tesco Branding looks, its a little surreal seeing it in Fallout honestly.
27:06. Randeep. Judging by the name, accent and turban, Randeep is a Punjabi Sikh. Multiculturalism is huge is Britain, especially for people from former Colonies. In 1948, the British Nationality Act gave people from colonies the right to live and work in Britain to help rebuild the economy Post WW2. (In contrast to America, where it more refers to people from East Asia, the term "Asian" in British English is almost exclusively associated with us from the Indian Subcontinent.)
28:40. Thames Water is a real Tube Station
30:21. Computer. Instead of the retropunk scifi look of the American computers, this looks far more like the real 80s Home computers britain had, like the ZX Spectrum or Amiga 500.
31:28. Beans. The can of beans on the desk there is nearly the exact branding as the real company Heinz,
36:54. Bin. This is exactly how british public bins look IRL. with the black and bronze banding
37:21. 005. an obvious reference to James bond, fictional spy and british icon, also codenamed as 007.
You are doing the King's work. Keep it up...
THIS NEEDS TO BE PINNED JON!!! LIKE YESTERDAY
I wouldnt say the british computers *dont* look retropunk, its just a different flavour. I think the implication is that alan turing lived far longer after the divergence in this universe so it stands to reason the UK would have ended up with slicker PCs than the US even if other aspects of our economy were in the shit
Thanks a lot.
@@marcelpursche5339 I genuinely hope it helped, I'm sure Americans must have such a completely different impression of the mod, there's so much like this hidden in it.
I quite enjoy the lack of guns. It lends a lot more meat to the combat as you're always up close and personal - no stealth archer shenanigans. It also seems to lean a lot more on RPG style skill-based challenges and having to learn the environment to solve things non-violently. This is what an RPG is about!
There's a lot of guns later on, its just early on not many. And a majority of guns are from shopkeepers or factions with them
2:59 “Punks not dead” on the left wall is perfect
Watching this brings me back to watching Many a True Nerd's Fallout 4 playthrough for the first time, the playthrough that got me to go buy Fallout 4 myself so long ago!
I knew Marvin would die for his hat the moment jon walked pat him the 1st time.
I feel like Jon will regret having used this pun so early
To be fair. Iron-Bru is fairly common in England too.
And Australia.
Throughout the UK
@@myth4751 Aye, but I can only speak for England and Scotland. Never been to Wales or N. Ireland.
@@RainMakeR_Workshopit’s also in other EU countries
Jon, you are the best, most entertaining gamer. On one hand, I don't want to watch too much more and be spoiled before I get a chance to play Fallout London. On the other hand, this playthrough is so engaging that I can't wait for the next episode!
you say that because he talks the whole time. Other games usually don't talk 200% of the time. Some times thats great. But when he talks over the conversations and stuff going on in the game, and he misses so much because hes busier thinking about what he is gonna sex next than realize he walked passed a few top hats so he didn't need to kill some one...hes a raider at heart
20:21 It’s almost as unhealthy in game to swim in the Thames as it is IRL.
The tommy watchman singing God Save the King/Queen makes me immediately think of the bum in Battery Park in the original Deus Ex singing My Country 'Tis of Thee. I really hope that was an intentional reference because that would make my day.
Murder in exchange for a top hat and dogfood😅
The speed of the attacks with the Balisong will make it more useful for utilizing vats to fight multiple targets. The damage is not bad either.
Longer episodes please! ❤
or just maybe he should just not edit them and we can get a full 8 hours of him actually playing a game. I hate how they cut things out, specially games I never seen, so now he only shows off the things no one knows. But this is new, no one knows! stop skipping everything...
for that to happen, hed have to stop talking for once in his life
Really enjoying this, great playthrough so far
Already looking forward to “you only live once” on this one!
I've been watching your fallout series for years, ever since FNVKE and God it's so nice having another one I cam look forward to every week
"I'll back your side and get them to fall in line without a pay rise if you give me your hat, because that's a good hat."
This is incredibly British, innit?
I love that Churchill is literally just the Churchill dog :D
I love this mod!
Yeah, you're gonna want that blacksmith sooner or later.
31:20 I did not expect to hear Pepper Coyote today. lol
John you need to upload this faster I felt like i have a drug addiction waiting I'm not watching anyones els fallout London vids till your done best playthrew ever.
And here I come, crawling back to MATN after years apart because I'm going through the Sim Settlements 2 playlist and watching this playthrough.
Fallout sunday turns into Fallout weekend!!! WOOOOO!!!
Churchill must be protected at all costs, Jon
How hasn't Jon turned "Let's keep on keeping on" into a t-shirt is anyone's guess
sounds like something a hundred people have already done..........but yea, lets be a basic b and try selling a phrase thousands use a year. Sounds kinda like something everyone would ignore...now a ring tone of him saying, lets keep on keeping on....lets keep on keeping on...lets keep on keeping beep
think outside of the box for once in your life haha
@@ravinraven6913 wow someone had vinegar with either cornflakes this morning lol 😆
Halfway through and I have to say this is all very clockwork orange
Hate it when I go down to Fesco looking for some horse lasagna and run into The Bloatmother
I really like how everything’s just a little bit off since the timeline drifted off in the 50/60s so London isn’t perfectly how you know it ❤
Churchill the dog is such an on the nose reference. However it would be improved if occasionally the dog said the slogan from the ads
Would be a fantastic 'Wild Wasteland' type of option
But it’s not about the ads.. churchills nickname irl was the bulldog. The reason they made those ads was because famously Winston Churchill was said to resemble a bulldog..
Did you think they just called their bulldog Churchill in the ads for no reason?..
@@Yan-tz9pn that's beside the point though. The dog in the mod is very obviously based on the insurance company because of its colouration matching the mascot. The only way it could be any clearer would be for the dog to shout OH YES whenever it killed an enemy. It doesn't matter where that idea originated because they're going for an incredibly specific reference
@@greg_mca no
Good to see they clean up the Themes in the future.
Fun fact: The NPC's in the Dog Food Factory are named and designed after members of the team, like yours truly. 🙂
Isnt Prilladog also the username of someone on the team, or am i misremembering?
@@SorchaSublime He's the project lead! 😁
Is the workers revolt about how hard they're being worked with low pay a reference to how hard you guys worked on this with (I assume) no pay
That would be a hilarious reference
But this really is probably my favourite fallout game Bethesda could never
Nice to see that the Thames became LESS radioactive in the post apocalypse
that spikey ball plushy is a quest iteam 31:22
Woooooo more Fallout London
just barely, another series to drag out for months if not a year or more. plays skys of arcadia twice a week, but people come here 7 days a week to see if hes uploaded something about fallout. Most those people don't know he has a schedule. For the present, he seems to abandon any future plans at the drop of a hat.
This is it, the good stuff. My new favourite series!
Prilladog is people! Prilladog is people! Doesn't flow off the tongue as well as Soylent Green.
The rads you get from swimming in the Thames wasn't even an added thing for Fallout, the river is just like that.
missed some interesting details on the meat situation upstairs in the dog food factory.
also check your milk. the various sorts have different features. Magic milk heals radiation.
Damn I thought this was going to be a one-off! So happy to see this will be a series.
I think he pretty much decided to make it a series at the end of last episode
New fear unlocked: Bloatmothers
Cool Punks Not Dead spelled wrong sign at 3:01. Amazing mod! I love your deducting British points counter. Churchill may be > Dogmeat!
on the subject of rads, you did pass some glowing fungus on the way into Thameshaven. Its not much but it would help a bit (if its even worth going for at this point).
Skimmed milk also removes some rads, and I'm pretty sure he has some but never looked at the effects. At least in the footage we've seen.
what an absolute masterpeice of a mod. its almost hard to believe its a mod at all
In my playthrough the Bloatmother was in the manager's office. It spent the the entire time I was in the back of the Fresco just watching me through the windows not making any noise. I completely thought it was some sort of boss mob because it didn't make any attempts to move towards me. It was just watching... waiting... daring me to approach. Ended up leaving because my gear was pretty bad still lol.
In my playthrough there was no bloat mother but a legendary bloatfly with a chameleon leather right arm
First time I saw the bloatmother it flew through the wall and one-shot me. The second time I saw it tried to fly through the wall but got stuck and I spent about 60 rounds putting it down.
The Bloatmother should be locked inside the walk-in freezer until you open the doors via the terminal. She seems to have a knack for glitching through the doors, though...
@@kosmamoczek Ah see I don't do terminals I'm dumb dumb
My playthrough im doing mostly unarmed. I tried punching it with my brass knuckles and almost died so i retreated. Then i managed to get into the freezer and loot. I took a revolver and moved really far away from her. She doesn't have that great a range and for some reason never tried to close the gap. I used all my ammo shooting her and still had to punch her one time to finish the job
The Thamesfolk sound like lifelong smokers with a stoma.
I know have a fear of Tesco's because of this game...
You should anyway tbf. Tesco has.. some really weird amount of pull politically.
After two extra mods and changing the page setting the game actually runs well.
I found Buffout 4 made a good difference - I've included it in the mod list in the description.
Yeah, that's number one. I also installed faster load times mod. Mine took about 3 minutes to load the outside.
Buffout 4 really helps - but what made the game fully stable for me is starting f4se_launcher.exe directly, without the use of the FOLON launcher. No idea why that helps.
@@ManyATrueNerdtheyre apparently just going to package buffout 4 in with the mod in the next update which will be sweet
can't wait for the fallout london yolo run
sucks to be you. sounds like you're going to have anxiety for the rest of your life, waiting on something that is never going to happen. Unless he plays with god mode...then it would be better if he just didn't