Question: Is it possible to apply the patches to the Steam version of the game, or would I need to buy a physical copy of the game to use them? New copies are ~$60.

trias_e

United States520 Posts

November 25 2011 23:34 GMT

#102

All patches work fine with the Steam version :D

KinosJourney2

Sweden1811 Posts

November 25 2011 23:52 GMT

#103

On November 25 2011 00:58 Sated wrote:

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Guns are good once you get:

a) A good enough skill that they don't wobble all over the place.
b) A good gun.

In the early-game, though, you can usually get by using speech-based dialogue options and the like. I can't think of many early-game quests were you absolutely have to fight (especially not as a female Toreador).

EDIT:

Late in the game, guns like Assault Rifles are ridiculous if you have a high-enough ability to use them. The game basically becomes an FPS with occasional talking. I actually loved how hard the guns are for your character to use - a lot of game understate just how hard it is to fire a gun accurately if you've had no training. I doubt I could hold an Assault Rifle steady my first time of trying.

Thanks for the help!

So i should be putting tons of points in Seduction to get by quests without fighting? I'm helping Venus get this mafia boss off her ass + Show Spoiler +

literally

at the moment. I explored the hotel then saw a book named 'No Means No', i couldn't resist taking it and got jumped by 3 black suited men with automatic weapons making quick work of me then i rage quitted t_t

Manit0u

Poland17799 Posts

November 26 2011 08:23 GMT

#104

You don't need tons of seduction --- 4--6 should be enough. It's persuasion skill that needs serious investment.

Canola

Canada159 Posts

November 30 2011 02:49 GMT

#105

Just finished first playthrough! Such a good game- thanks again for the recommendation!

trias_e

United States520 Posts

November 30 2011 08:56 GMT

#106

Every playthrough, when this song comes on...I realize once again that I adore the game.

Godwrath

Spain10155 Posts

May 24 2013 16:43 GMT

#107

I loved starting the game with the malkavian, but some corrupted save error just stopped me from playing shortly after release. But somewhere i read about the patches (just checked the OP, thank you!). My question is if there is something else i should install aswell aside the patches on the OP ?

I am asking since the thread is quite old maybe there is something else interesting.

SatedSC2

England3012 Posts

January 07 2015 19:50 GMT

#108

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Squat

Sweden7978 Posts

January 07 2015 19:55 GMT

#109

Nossies are annoying as fuck, though the patches fixed a lot of pathing errors and random sneak fails which made the clan almost unplayable in the vanilla version. I'm doing a speedrun atm, trying to beat the whole thing with no kills outside of combat zones, no skipping side quests, perfect humanity and masquerade scores, as quickly as I can.

It's weird, I fucking love the first 80%, then it turns to shit because the devs ran out of time and money and just made you kill 500 dudes over and over. Major shame.

SatedSC2

England3012 Posts

January 07 2015 21:47 GMT

#110

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Squat

Sweden7978 Posts

January 07 2015 22:28 GMT

#111

Yeah the game is pretty obviously the victim of a forced early release. It was basically broken until the fifth or sixth edition of the fan patches. So much potential, I really wish some more stable developer with more resources would pick up the IP and make something with it. The world is amazing, the lore is so rich and diverse.

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

January 07 2015 22:56 GMT

#112

CCP owns Vampire rights. They were making Vampire MMO, but after Eve Online didn't earn as much money as it once did they cut it. For now there is nothing coming out for this interesting world (except books for pen and paper).

Squat

Sweden7978 Posts

January 07 2015 23:07 GMT

#113

Yeah I figured. I can't imagine that CCP would be averse to selling the IP something fronted them a decent wad of cash though. Just seems no one can be arsed. If there was ever a crowdsourcing project worth funding, it would be that.

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

January 07 2015 23:11 GMT

#114

I think CCP bought the whole company White Wolf that made the setting if I am remembering right.

And there was a fan project where a group of Bloodlines modders were planning to redo Bloodlines in a more modern engine (Unreal 4 I think) and give it for free but CCP recently killed that as well

SatedSC2

England3012 Posts

January 08 2015 15:12 GMT

#115

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Andre

Slovenia3523 Posts

January 08 2015 15:51 GMT

#116

I wish Troika was still around. All their games have been masterpieces riddled with bugs, which the community patches have fixed..

Project Vaulderie really did look promising. I doubt there's gonna be a game set in WoD setting in a long time, there's also the question of a worthy developer. Most people who worked on Bloodlines are at Obsidian iirc.

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

January 08 2015 18:28 GMT

#117

Well Vaulderie will continue, it will just have be in original world and have an original story.

VarianWrynn

United States3 Posts

January 09 2015 14:22 GMT

#118

It truly is one of the best RPGs ever made! Thank to unofficial patches it still kicks ass and is just amazing. Who hasn't played - I wholeheartedly recommend you do it - NOW!

Manit0u

Poland17799 Posts

May 01 2015 19:02 GMT

#119

A quick update. Unofficial Patch 9.3 is out and it's massive.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch

FFW_Rude

France10201 Posts

May 01 2015 19:04 GMT

#120

On May 02 2015 04:02 Manit0u wrote:
A quick update. Unofficial Patch 9.3 is out and it's massive.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch

ANd the game is on sale on steam.