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The 23rd of October … What do Fallout fans expect from this date?

As Todd Howard would say, it all depends on what kind of a Fallout fan you are

If you like exploring the world and its stories, then the 23rd day of the 10th month of the year will be the day when Fallout 76's B.E.T.A starts on Xbox One

But if you are one of those who thinks that it was better before and you didn't like to hear another FRESH NEW about Fallout 76 at all or something between the first two positions

then you probably know that this will be the day then Fallout: New California, a huge modification which has been developed for 7 years by the team of enthusiasts, is finally going to be released

I spoke a lot about that modification earlier, but now it seems that we are going to get to play, though the public BETA

but already playable BETA and fully passable modification of very beloved Fallout: New Vegas, which shows us the Wasteland before the events of the main game

But, anyway, you'll be able to install that modification only to Fallout: New Vegas

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New California and the Wasteland before the events of New Vegas …

How do you imagine that?

In fact, before i played it by myself I had no idea what to expect as well as you are right now

I imagined many things: the huge map with various outposts in Mad Max style

and exploring dangerous dessert wearing the NCR's mask

But as the result?

Well...We got almost the same … but...

in fact, until you played it yourself, you still cannot visualize the proper picture in your head

Let's order:

The map of New California is truly immense and you can walk wherever you want but … does it worth it?

I've been playing this game for a decent amount of time and have never pushed off the main storyline.

the main storyline is very variable

and your choices really affect your future by turning yoir future gameplay in some way

some people can be against you but the others will become your friends.

saving one - you sacrifice to others or someone definitely one and so on

nut nonetheless, this is the decisions you make in the story quest - not in side quest … there is no side quest …

at least in the first 3 or 4 hours of gameplay

But it actually goes to the project only benefit.

thanks to this, the plot feels holistic and complete

You see, New California mostly concentrates on the main storyline and Lore of the Universe by giving the player an opportunity to explore it

And here everything will depend on your style of play.

If you like to research every single corner of each of the buildings, every single cabinet in the room, then you'll play the only prologue for 2 or 3 hours.

But if you're interested only in gameplay, not on the secrets of the walt 18 and it's lore,

you should just go and sleep, skipping the entire prologue

And then, by the way, your freedom of action is no longer restricted

Fans of New Vegas will definitely like that

Because you can easily say that the Overseer shot himself and continue your way in humble solitude

or just kill none of waltdwellers by cleaning your way to the freedom.

according to the result, what to do next in the gameplay plan is up to you and the game will constantly move the course of events forward

..."By cleaning your way to" what kind of freedom?

Like many previous Fallout games, New California starts in the vault

in vault 18 where the local community divides and the civil war begins.

The survivor having witnessed the division decides to leave the vault.

And since that time YOU decide everything from who of your friends will survive and who are not till who is the villain in the Wasteland.

Once you leave the Vault you'll not find tonnes of content because it's a desert

The only thing that you'll probably gonna do is choosing your path to your destination with which one local raider will help you.

The plot, unlike the usual three-dimensional Fallouts, does not let you out from the beginning to the end, not allowing you to be distracted by side activity.

Because it'd be at least strange doing something else except the main storyline

The slogan of the game is — «You are the object of constant persecutions of this world»

It doesn't matter who you are going to be: raider or NCR soldier,

you'll always be searched for.

And, yes, raiders here do not necessarily bad boys

But they're still fucked up, dirty, crazy …

you can join them.

you can be a raidor by yourself now

One of the storylines will lead you up the career ladder of those very raiders,

there, in the end, you'll be able to decide either join them or...

*spoilers*.

The second storyline will turn you against these raiders by giving you a pretty common, compared to the Raiders' one, story.

As I said, the world of New California is grim, glum and grey — but that's good.

It shows us the very world of Fallout where the Raiders are crazy and drugged;

they hang weak people but the strongest ones will join them.

It shows us the world there NCR is trying to help all the people of the Wasteland, except Raiders and Enclave.

And, yes, there is an Enclave … or rather, remains of it.

In New California, good people get the rewards. Praising you and those people who tested the game before its release

and the bad people are got banned like the testers of this modification who broke off the relationship with the creators of the mod whose names in special termenal were sunk in the feces of the wild ghouls

And, by the way, you might get there too because the modification is not the easy one.

Chose the wrong answer to the stranger? You screw up the whole campaign of the faction and so on.

For example, by being very frivolous you might ruin the storyline of one faction just because you used the ability of your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. and agreed on the posthumous fight with the leader of the organization, turning the whole faction against you.

There is so many spooky stuff in this mod.

there is even a mystic in this mode

I don't wanna spoil your gameplay but there are plenty of cults, sects, mystic monsters and some other creepy stuff

filled with pretentious dialogues and awesome environmental storytelling.

And, of course, by using ENB you can get the good graphics quality, so the graphics are the last thing you need to complain about.

But there is also a thing which I should not hide from you, and it's a negative one — optimization.

The new Vegas itself is an extremely unstable game that works as crooked as possible but there was a complete quintessence of everything

On a pretty decent build of the 1070Ti, i5 4460 the frame rate of the game manages to drop to 15-18 FPS in very hot spots and, obviously, I couldn't turn a blind eye.

with all desire to ignore hat in gameplay - I could not

With the weight of the modification in 8 gigabytes, it uses a huge space for fighting and manages to give an extremely low performance.

Of course, it wasn't permanent but still, it distracted me

Perhaps, only this prevented me to fully enjoy the content of this modification.

So, New California is the whole story which describes the events from different sides, allowing you to be whoever you want to be: the brave soldier of Enclave, NCR, Shi or dirty Raider.

An authentic-looking unofficial prequel of New Vegas, which builds a good backstory for the legendary game, by not breaking the Lore of it but complementing it, making nice adjustments in the right places, telling us new stories.

The stories that you can already try on Russian language, thanks to the team Falcon Lair, which has fully localized the biggest modification of Fallout: New Vegas at the time

Feel free to leave feedback on website in where the New Calefornia came out ( This will help the project to exit the beta stage and quickly get fully released)

Do not forget also to support translators, because we all want to receive long-term project translations directly translated into our native language, which have recently become particularly active and have been demonstrating all kinds of activity lately.

The original files are on the Nexus: just download it from there, then use Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) to install it and only after that download localized files from the official website of Falcon Lair.

Congratulations to the team with the release of the open Beta

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Bye, Bye!

For more infomation >> NEW FALLOUT MOD! Fallout: New California - Events before New Vegas - Duration: 12:51.

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RAW VIDEO: Vintage plane crashes, bursts into flames in California - Duration: 0:31.

For more infomation >> RAW VIDEO: Vintage plane crashes, bursts into flames in California - Duration: 0:31.

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Angelo State Outreach to STEM School in Corning, California - Duration: 1:55.

Hello, my name is Vinaey Sanchez, I'm the office coordinator here in security studies in criminal justice department

and we received this letter and this is the special request. When I received this letter everything was in pencil.

So it brought to my attention and then when I open this letter

everything is perfect and

the right way to do a email or memo and the request it was from a sixth-grade student. Her name is

Andrea Curiel.

So this is the special request for us because she is from California and she was asking for information about

Angelo State University.

So we are so proud and

to provide some information

from our University and of course the head department, the Dean, everyone everyone was

very helpful to provide all this information and all the goodies

for Andrea Curiel

I think that's it.

And it makes it makes you kind of feel good when you get something from a sixth-grader that's interested in looking that far out in the future.

I think that's part of the message here it is

It's never too young to start looking toward what you want to be when you grow up.

What field you might be interested in and kind of narrowing it down.

This student is actually, Andrea is really fantastic

And it's kind of it makes it a big event today for us. We have Roscoe and Bella

come over and that's always a hoot, so that's first time!

For more infomation >> Angelo State Outreach to STEM School in Corning, California - Duration: 1:55.

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With 14 days until the midterm elections, all eyes turn to California's District 10 race - Duration: 5:05.

For more infomation >> With 14 days until the midterm elections, all eyes turn to California's District 10 race - Duration: 5:05.

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How California public employees fund anti rent control fight unwittingly US news - Duration: 7:09.

How California public employees fund anti rent control fight unwittingly US news

Documents reveal Blackstone is quietly funneling investors' money into its campaign against Proposition 10

Documents reveal Blackstone is quietly funneling investors' money into its campaign against Proposition 10

When San Francisco's local government endorsed a state ballot initiative to permit rent control measures earlier this month, it appeared to be a victory for housing rights advocates in a city where stratospheric prices have sown social unrest and class animosity. The measure has found similar support from other California cities and unions representing public employees who can't afford to live in cities where they work.

Those advocates, however, may be unwittingly financing the opposition to the rent control measure. Documents reviewed by Capital and Main and MapLight reveal a private equity giant with ties to Donald Trump has boosted the campaign to defeat Proposition 10 with money taken from real estate investments funded by California public employees and the state university system.

Campaign finance records show entities controlled by the private equity giant Blackstone have been among the biggest sources of cash for opponents of the ballot measure. More than $5.6m has come from a Blackstone holding company and four of its investment funds.

But unlike typical corporate political donations, the Blackstone contributions didn't come from the firm's executives or corporate treasury. Instead, they came from pools of capital from investors, which include dozens of state and local pension systems, and public university endowments. The move has been described as the equivalent of mutual fund executives taking money out of customers' accounts to make political contributions.

In effect, Blackstone's maneuver means the opposition to the rent control initiative is being bankrolled by everyone from San Francisco municipal workers to university employees to public school teachers – all of whose retirement savings are in the Blackstone funds that have been tapped for the Proposition 10 fight.

"What we have is the largest Wall Street landlords in the country who are the very people profiting off of the housing crisis leading the opposition to Proposition 10," said Amy Schur, the campaign director for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, which supports the ballot measure. "It's adding insult to injury that they're using the pension funds' dollars of hard-working families to beat back an essential policy to provide relief to working families."

Michael Bustamante, a spokesman for a committee opposing Proposition 10, didn't answer questions about Blackstone's contributions. He said the measure is a "bad public policy that will make it harder for those looking for a safe, affordable place to live and is a perfect example of a well-intentioned law with disastrous consequences."

Blackstone didn't respond to a request for comment.

The rent control initiative was prompted by anger over California's housing costs. The median home price in the state has topped $600,000, double the national median. Californians pay some of the highest rents in the nation, and retirees have been hit hard.

A coalition of community organizations, tenants rights groups and unions have lined up behind Proposition 10, which would repeal a 1995 state law that blocks municipalities from imposing rent controls on new apartment units or single-family homes.

"In my district, teachers, firefighters and nurses often can't afford a place to live," said Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat in California. "Cities should have the right to provide apartments at affordable rents. Any effort to kill Proposition 10 hurts not just the working class but also undermines the ability of local communities to determine their own destiny."

Opponents of Proposition 10 have cited an analysis from state legislative auditors that said the measure would probably reduce state and local revenues in the long term. The auditors estimated revenue losses could be "in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year." Critics have also argued reduced profitability would deter developers from building more housing.

"There is no doubt we need to make housing more affordable for Californians, but Proposition 10 will make our current situation worse, not better, by constricting future development of affordable units," the former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said last month.

More than $60m has been donated for the Proposition 10 fight, with most of the money coming from landlords opposed to the measure. Blackstone and its affiliates have donated more than $6.8m to two organizations opposing the initiative.

Almost $1.3m has come from Invitation Homes, a Blackstone subsidiary that bought foreclosed single-family homes in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and converted them to rental properties. Invitation now owns about 13,000 rental homes in California. Invitation tenants have complained of toxic mold, leaks and black widow spider infestations, and some have alleged they are victims of excessive and illegal late payment fees.

Another $5.6m has come from Blackstone Property Partners, LP; Blackstone Real Estate Partners (VI-VIII); and BREIT MF Holdings LLC. Government records show that the four Blackstone investment funds are controlled by the company CEO, Stephen Schwarzman, a billionaire Trump ally. The funds have received investments from dozens of state pension systems, local pension funds and public university endowments.

Real estate funds typically pool institutional investors' cash, use it to buy properties, and return profits from rents and asset sales to the investors. The agreements governing public pension investments – which are usually exempted from open records laws – typically give Wall Street managers wide discretion over investor money. Blackstone appears to be using that latitude to direct investors' cash into an election battle.

"Private equity fund investors – pension funds, endowments and others – are limited partners, and these private equity funds are in effect 'blind pools' which afford investors with very proscribed legal rights and with surprisingly little insight into and information about the funds' investments," said Leo Hindery, a New York-based private equity executive. "The investors would have no idea, if some of their money is going into partisan or activist political campaigns."

Blackstone has warned investors they could face losses from "fluctuations in occupancy, rental rates, operating income and expenses" as well as from "changes in legal, fiscal and regulatory regimes", corporate documents show.

Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Washington DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research, said the donations are probably legal, but she argued that pension managers should steer clear of private equity firms that use retirees' money for political causes.

"It would be bad enough if Stephen Schwarzman and [executive vice chairman] Tony James of Blackstone were spending some of their own billions to oppose legislation that will put a brake on their ability to drive sky-high rents even higher in the Bay Area," Appelbaum said. "But it is unconscionable for them to use millions of dollars taken from properties in which they have invested the retirement savings of police, firefighters, teachers and other public employees to deprive these workers of affordable rents in the communities in which they work."

Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, said last month that teachers spend as much as half of their salaries on rent. "We need to say enough is enough and implement measures that better protect students, teachers and families. Implementing rent control is a strong first step," he said.

Even so, some of the retirement money those teachers contribute monthly to the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is invested in the Blackstone funds that are financing the campaign against Proposition 10. Those investments were valued at more than $715m last year, according to the CalSTRS website.

"As a public entity, CalSTRS does not participate directly in electoral politics," said a CalSTRS spokesperson.

Similarly, San Francisco's board of supervisors last month voted to endorse Proposition 10. But in 2015, the city employees' pension system committed $150m to a Blackstone fund that has donated to the measure's opponents.

Then there is the University of California system. Proposition 10 was endorsed by the University of California Student Association, which represents student governments at schools throughout the UC system, and by the city government of Berkeley, which is home to one of the largest branches of the UC system.

At the same time, though, the UC Retirement Plan, which provides benefits for university employees, has invested $35m in the Blackstone funds used to finance the Proposition 10 opposition.

"The University of California does not make donations to political campaigns," said UC spokesperson Dianne Klein. She added that the UC system's Blackstone investments only include a small amount of California real estate.

In recent years, pension overseers have faced increasing pressure to generate solid returns for retirees while ensuring their investments reflect environmental, human rights and other social values. For example, pension fund managers in New York and Chicago have announced plans to pull investments from private prison companies, citing their impact on poor and minority neighborhoods. New York City pension officials are also attempting to divest from fossil fuels.

Lou Barberini, a former San Francisco police officer whose retirement system has invested in the Blackstone funds, said his fellow retirees should be concerned that Blackstone's move will set a precedent that allows Wall Street firms to use pension money for pet political causes.

"It is morally wrong that they are using our retirement money to fund a political campaign," Barberini said. "It is also a slippery slope. Where does this stop? What if a money manager wants to take our retirement savings and give it to a candidate?

"Once you start taking money out of pensions to fund political campaigns, where do you draw the line?"