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Fallout Tactics Conversion Mod Gets Funded by Canadian Government
A modder successfully gets their total conversion of Fallout Tactics, Nous Aurons, funded by the Canadian government after numerous rejections.
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The Canadian government has recently funded a full-blown modding production of the old Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel game, it would appear. While it's not outright unprecedented that a government would fund a video game project of some sort, several unique features of the anarchist-leaning Nous Aurons, or The Sum, make it stand out even in this admittedly niche category.
While the Fallout franchise has never shied away from modding and community-driven projects, especially after Bethesda picked it up, none of its innumerable mods are quite as strange at face value as that of Nous Aurons. Penned by developer Hugo Nadeau, this mod was originally launched back in 2017, but its funding has only been greenlit just recently, which is why it's been making rounds once again as of late.
While mods such as Fallout: London introduce major new features and extra batches of content to their respective games, Nous Aurons has always had its sights set on something entirely different. Nadeau attempted to use Fallout Tactics as a platform to explore a completely anarchist post-apocalyptic society, and though it's taken years for its funding to be approved, the Canadian government has finally signed off on paying its budget. In his talks with Kotaku, Nadeau explained that the responsible government body was well aware of the mod's anti-government sentiments, but that the projects are approved by a council of artists rather than an actual government representative.
