Modders Making Fallout New Vegas Sequal Fallout New California Beta Sign-Ups in July

Fallout New California will be released in October 

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Credit: Bethesda, Fallout New Vegas

Fallout is one of the most popular series of all time. The series was started off by Black Isle Studios and later it was bought by Bethesda. Bethesda released Fallout New Vegas back in October 2010. Fallout New Vegas is one of the best Fallout games of all time many players even say that Fallout New Vegas is the best Fallout game of all time. Since 2010 modders have been working on many cool mods for Fallout New Vegas. Fallout New California a mod for Fallout New Vegas has been in the works for years now. Good news for fans of New Vegas Fallout New California is coming in October!

Thaiauxn wrote, 

That said, the mod is now art locked! We have a our BSA files set, the story works, bugs are minimal…

…so why October and not now?

Because something is missing — and all the testing guys noticed — is side quests. Again, not the end of the world, but you hit this story with huge replete branches 16,000 lines of dialogue deep and you expect some little moments with characters off to the side of the big arcs, and there just aren’t that many of note. Again, because there was no one to code it! I’d also like to take time to revise some plot holes and gaps in the open possibilities that appeared in testing, and more streamlined opportunities for branches that aren’t so hidden in past decisions that you’re locked into a tunnel til the next major turn.

So we will code that ourselves the hard way, and provide a lot more support in optimizing the engine side of things. Our art is just running up against the limits of what this old engine can do. We need source code. Or, we need to do tedious work to work around limitations on both low end systems and high end ones that can handle all the pretty stuff at 60fps.

Side quests are definitely one of the most important aspects of Fallout. A Fallout game without side quests will be like Fortnite without battle royal.

It seems like the mod is pretty much finished but there are still a few things left to finish. Optimization is a very big issue for many of these big mods. Many big mods make it basically impossible to play the mods as even a high-end system wouldn’t be able to run the mod at 1080p 60 FPS. Since New Vega’s engine is very old the mod will not look very good but perhaps other modders will be able to release graphics enhancing mods to make Fallout New California look better. 

Thaiauxn also wrote, “We’ll be having BETA sign ups in July if anyone would like to come test the mod — the Main quest is now feature complete in the core narratives, and we have a cap over the parts that aren’t accessible — yet.” If you are interested in Fallout New California you should get ready to sign-up for the beta. 

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