The team behind the ambitious mod aiming to bring the world of Obsidian Entertainment's Fallout: New Vegas into the updated Creation Engine 2.0 of Fallout 4, have today announced a new HUD via a video on their Facebook page. The update shows a HUD designed to be more representative of that in the original title and seems to be an unexpected development for both fans and the modding team alike, who until recently had been intending to retain the original HUD from Fallout 4.

Since the projects announcement in August 2017 the team responsible for its development has grown immensely, progressing at a pace rarely seen in the vast modding scene. The video below is a brief demonstration of what the developers are trying to achieve; creating as faithful a rendition of Fallout: New Vegas as possible. To do this the finished mod will import the map in its entirety, as well as weapons, characters and quests. The creators of the mod also retain a large team of artists who regularly release updated art for the features from the original game.

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The HUD itself retains bars for HP and AP but brings back weapon condition as well as generally re-configuring the features away from the stripped back HUD of vanilla Fallout 4 and towards the more feature-heavy display of New Vegas. Whilst this feature is still in the embryonic phase of development, it shows a distinct move towards the secondary aesthetics of the project and will go a long way to making the mod as immersive as possible.

It seems the creators of the mod are more than willing to retain features of Fallout 4, if they offer a distinct improvement over the system employed in New Vegas, and they are not intrinsically game altering. The latest example of this is the decision to include animated karma and reputation icons, instead of the stationary symbols of the original game.

Only time will tell if this huge project can be a success but early signs are encouraging. At the time of writing there is no release date for a usable version of the mod but the devlog and updates can be accessed on the official Fallout 4 New Vegas ModDB page.