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RagnarokAngel posted:Bloodlines animation is good because its art style is not all that realistic. It seems to be but the faces and hands are in very large proportion to the body, it's just not so over the top. This allows them to do very exaggerated animations that are more expressive than something that could be done in say Deus Ex: HR.
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The Dark One posted:You might be thinking of Sega and Obsidian, with Alpha Protocol. The developers had handed in the code and moved on to other projects, and Sega just sat on the game for months before releasing it.
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Apr 30, 2012 09:03
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A shame really, it could have done with those 6 months to actually make the ending both make sense and to freaking have it so that you didn't have to be a combat powerhouse come the end. What is COBRA insurance? And is all insurance in the USA named after 80's villainous organisations?
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Apr 30, 2012 09:28
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Josef bugman posted:What is COBRA insurance? And is all insurance in the USA named after 80's villainous organisations? I can't recall what the acronym stands for, but COBRA is a thing where, if you lose your job, you can keep your employer-provided health insurance for something like two years afterwards (though you have to pay the full premiums yourself). Since getting insurance when you're (a) not getting it through a job and (b) have had a gap in coverage can be really difficult, this is a necessary thing. I'm guessing from context that it doesn't apply if the company you used to work for no longer exists, though. Most 80's villainous organizations aren't really evil enough for insurance companies to be named after them.
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Apr 30, 2012 19:16
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I have the clan mod installed and I'm having this weird problem in the Chinatown hub; every so often as I make my rounds I get frozen in place for a few seconds and a pink mist overcomes me. I also seem to be losing blood at a rapid pace and looking at my character it seems as if I have some skill being used automatically at regular intervals. It's not game breaking but it's pretty annoying and it only happens in the Chinatown hub. I'm also playing as Malk if that has any relevance. Any ideas what's going on here?
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May 1, 2012 18:29
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:I have the clan mod installed and I'm having this weird problem in the Chinatown hub; every so often as I make my rounds I get frozen in place for a few seconds and a pink mist overcomes me. I also seem to be losing blood at a rapid pace and looking at my character it seems as if I have some skill being used automatically at regular intervals. It's not game breaking but it's pretty annoying and it only happens in the Chinatown hub. I'm also playing as Malk if that has any relevance. Any ideas what's going on here? That happened to me, once, using my Ventrue with the CQM. I don't remember where, but it was probably in either Hollywood or Chinatown. It passed, eventually.
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May 1, 2012 18:46
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All my save files just disappeared for fucks sake. I'm not starting again.
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May 1, 2012 18:50
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Is there a glitch with the More Fun With Pestilence mission? The bum that you're supposed to talk to to set the whole thing off won't spawn for me, and I really want my swank-rear end chantry pad 
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May 1, 2012 18:51
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Well, there's 2 bums you've got to talk to. There's the old lady one and then tin can bill. The old lady one is near the fire at the end of the road the last round is on.
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May 1, 2012 19:10
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Dixie Flatline posted:Well, there's 2 bums you've got to talk to. There's the old lady one and then tin can bill. The old lady one is near the fire at the end of the road the last round is on. Turns out the walkthrough I was using to resolve mystery events like this had terrible directions, I was literally one alley away from finding Tin Can Bill but stopped just short of turning the corner. loving Gamefaqs. PS: Thaumaturgy loving owns. I've got four points in it now; between Blood Purge, Blood Salvo and a good ol' shotgun, the final Ninth Circle fight was incredible. McSpanky fucked around with this message at 21:21 on May 1, 2012 |
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May 1, 2012 20:25
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Okay, so after hearing nothing but positive things about this game, I went ahead and bought it on steam. I d/led the clanquest 3.0 mod, extracted it to the specified folder, and installed it with camarilla and arsenal. I vaguely remember reading that if it installs correctly, it will say something to that effect in the opening menu. If the opening menu is just normal, with no mention of mods, does that mean it didn't take? Also this game rules so far. I'm glad I found this thread.
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May 2, 2012 16:53
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I'm using Wesp's mod only and I can't find Fat Larry anywhere, did it just glitch him out of the game entirely or something? I've been noclipping all over downtown LA and that dude just won't show.
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May 2, 2012 16:56
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Playing this again it feels like I'm missing something hugely obvious with the museum quest and doing it nonlethally as any clan without obfuscate. Getting around the cameras and guards is just a complete pain in the rear end without running around having them shoot at me the entire time, and with these mods added in even the security guards are doing a fair job at blowing me to pieces. Right now playing a Ventrue and got by it by chain-trancing the guards, but is there something I'm missing here that gets that first guard at the basement level out of the office so you can hack the camera controls?
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May 2, 2012 17:02
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Agreeable Badger posted:Okay, so after hearing nothing but positive things about this game, I went ahead and bought it on steam. I d/led the clanquest 3.0 mod, extracted it to the specified folder, and installed it with camarilla and arsenal. I vaguely remember reading that if it installs correctly, it will say something to that effect in the opening menu. If the opening menu is just normal, with no mention of mods, does that mean it didn't take? You shouldn't be playing with all those mods the first time through. Just install the fan patch and choose the bugfix install.
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May 2, 2012 17:08
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One thing I didn't work out until the last time I played is that you can actually shoot out the cameras, which helps, a bit. It's still a pain in the rear end, though, probably my least favorite section of the game that doesn't take place in a sewer system.
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May 2, 2012 17:11
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Agreeable Badger posted:Okay, so after hearing nothing but positive things about this game, I went ahead and bought it on steam. I d/led the clanquest 3.0 mod, extracted it to the specified folder, and installed it with camarilla and arsenal. I vaguely remember reading that if it installs correctly, it will say something to that effect in the opening menu. If the opening menu is just normal, with no mention of mods, does that mean it didn't take? I had the problem, too. I believe the instructions say to install it into the Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines folder in Program Files, but it wouldn't work for me. When I did so in the folder Program Files 86x, it worked. Though it's a good thing it didn't work for you, this time around, since you really should play a vanilla run, you're first time around.
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May 2, 2012 17:45
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McSpanky posted:I'm using Wesp's mod only and I can't find Fat Larry anywhere, did it just glitch him out of the game entirely or something? I've been noclipping all over downtown LA and that dude just won't show. Wesp's mod does move him to a less conspicuous location. Face where Larry used to be, with Lacroix towers to your left, and the parking garage to your right. Now turn around, walk until the street turns 90 degrees to the left, and look to the right. He should be in that alley right there. If you don't see him then you might have to reinstall the mod. RagnarokAngel fucked around with this message at 18:31 on May 2, 2012 |
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May 2, 2012 18:07
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If you have trouble following directions, just face Confessions from in front of the gate, then turn right, where you should be facing an alleyway with good ol' Fat Larry there. In my experience, you'll be alerted to the alleyway by a street brawl occuring.
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May 2, 2012 18:19
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TychoCelchuuu posted:You shouldn't be playing with all those mods the first time through. Just install the fan patch and choose the bugfix install. This is stupid. The additional content improves the game, as does the rebalancing. There is no reason whatsoever to have an inferior experience by not installing it.
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May 2, 2012 20:43
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RagnarokAngel posted:Wesp's mod does move him to a less conspicuous location. Face where Larry used to be, with Lacroix towers to your left, and the parking garage to your right. Now turn around, walk until the street turns 90 degrees to the left, and look to the right. He should be in that alley right there. Followed the directions just fine (alley to the right/east of the Confessions club, behind the thugs that had a fight), reinstalled, still nothing. I think the Sabbat got to him Aside from that, the game continues to own. Somehow I've ended up with over $2000 despite not going particularly out of my way to extort anyone for cash, and thaumaturgy continues to be a hilarious win button in fights. I'm about halfway through the game and I already can't wait to replay it with other clans to see how the dialogue/combat options vary.
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I bought this game based on what I have read throughout this forum and so far have really not been disappointed! I installed the CQM because from what i can work out it just adds new quests in so I am not losing any content, and other than that I only installed the bugfix, although I fully intend to play a second run with arsenal etc. I have just ran through Ocean House hotel for the first time and can safely say it is one of my favourite parts of a video game ever, it felt like being in a horror movie more than any survival horror game I have ever played and quite literally made me jump at a few points! I think the only way it should be played is late at night in a dark room with headphones for the full experience especially with all the creepy music and whispers  If Ocean House is anything to base the rest of the game on im sure I am going to love it as a whole because I have not been made to feel that immersed by a game in a long time!
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May 2, 2012 23:30
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KamiTsurugi posted:I had the problem, too. I believe the instructions say to install it into the Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines folder in Program Files, but it wouldn't work for me. When I did so in the folder Program Files 86x, it worked. I actually did install it into the program files 86x one. Oh well, I'll figure it out after this playthrough I guess.
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Agreeable Badger posted:I actually did install it into the program files 86x one. Oh well, I'll figure it out after this playthrough I guess. Have you tried both? I just assumed that it was 86x that did it, because the normal install, which defaulted into program files, didn't do anything. So, as an experiment, I copy/pasted what was already installed into the 86x one and it worked.
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Fat Larry is down an alley by the church bar; look for his van.
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Badger, it's been awhile but I believe my installer kept installing things to a subfolder of the VtM directory instead of the main folder, so check that. Or just install the mod and search your computer for a file you see get installed and see where it went.
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May 3, 2012 18:15
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Pope Guilty posted:Fat Larry is down an alley by the church bar; look for his van. Right, I found where he should be, he just isn't there. When I bring up the console it says something about not finding the character file at line 401 or something when I walk by, I think something's screwy with the latest version of Wesp's mod.
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May 3, 2012 18:28
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I thought Wesp moved him to the truck next to the parking garage where he has you steal the briefcase. The one next to the Prince's tower.
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May 3, 2012 19:05
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I'm sorry, I couldn't read the whole thread, so this may be an old question. Has anyone run this on a Mac with Wine? I never played this, and I'd love to get this on Steam and just use Wine, but I haven't read any confirmed reports of it running that way. There was a small thread on Portingteam, but it seemed inconclusive so I'm still not sure the deal. If there are any resources or a Wine wrapper already floating around, please let me know. I'd love to finally get to play through this
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DemonNick posted:I thought Wesp moved him to the truck next to the parking garage where he has you steal the briefcase. The one next to the Prince's tower. No, that's where he is in the default game. Right out in the open on a main street. I think they probably did it that way because people got confused on where to go for the briefcase quest, so they wanted to idiotproof it.
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May 3, 2012 21:26
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Lemon Curdistan posted:This is stupid. The additional content improves the game, as does the rebalancing. There is no reason whatsoever to have an inferior experience by not installing it. Yeah, the argument about the game as it launched being the original artistic vision of the game, and any tweaks diluting it? Bullshit - the moment you consider that large, major features (like the trait system) were cut out at the last second as they just didn't have time to bugfix and test them properly suggests that there was more wrong with the game than just initial crash problems and broken scripting.
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Fuzz posted:No, that's where he is in the default game. Right out in the open on a main street. I think they probably did it that way because people got confused on where to go for the briefcase quest, so they wanted to idiotproof it.
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Dominic White posted:Yeah, the argument about the game as it launched being the original artistic vision of the game, and any tweaks diluting it? Bullshit - the moment you consider that large, major features (like the trait system) were cut out at the last second as they just didn't have time to bugfix and test them properly suggests that there was more wrong with the game than just initial crash problems and broken scripting. Does anyone know of a good post mortem about this game? Because I played through it recently and to me most of the game's flaws seem to come from the fact that the vision for the game appears to have been a little over ambitious.
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Something I've never encountered before; in Chinatown, like every 5-7 seconds my character comes to a dead stop when a haze of pink mist clouds around me. This lasts for a second or two, no damage or any other ill effect (Other than coming to a standstill), and I have no idea what is causing it. Using the Clan Quest and Camarilla mods mainly.
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DemonNick posted:Really? I could swear it was the other way around, and he's there right now in my game with Wesp's patch installed. When I first played I played with 1.2 vanilla, and he was where I said, by the garage. I always wondered why he wasn't in the alley when it's the more logical and obvious place for him to be.
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DemonNick posted:Really? I could swear it was the other way around, and he's there right now in my game with Wesp's patch installed. Did you install the basic version of the 8.0 patch? If so Wesp removed a ton of stuff from it and reverted even more back to how it was originally when the game shipped due to a bunch of people bitching about how he calls his 'mod' a patch.
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Started my third playthrough. Digging that blood magic. In other news: Get back in the car, dude, you're violating the masquerade.
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Upmarket Mango posted:Did you install the basic version of the 8.0 patch? If so Wesp removed a ton of stuff from it and reverted even more back to how it was originally when the game shipped due to a bunch of people bitching about how he calls his 'mod' a patch. Actually it's an older version of the Patch, conceivably it might be from before he moved Fat Larry, or something. He just needs to let go though. Earlier versions of Plus were pretty much perfect. I think the limit was passed when he started playing with quest states. That's when he really ran out of things to legitimately improve or tweak.
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a 16 year old girl posted:Does anyone know of a good post mortem about this game? Because I played through it recently and to me most of the game's flaws seem to come from the fact that the vision for the game appears to have been a little over ambitious.
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DemonNick posted:Actually it's an older version of the Patch, conceivably it might be from before he moved Fat Larry, or something. The next version of the patch is most likely going to include a cut level, the Los Angeles Public Library, and an entirely new quest to go along with it. Personally I don't mind him adding more poo poo to the Plus version of the patch, and it's good he's cutting more and more changes he's made out of the Basic version so there's something for everyone.
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Upmarket Mango posted:The next version of the patch is most likely going to include a cut level, the Los Angeles Public Library, and an entirely new quest to go along with it. Personally I don't mind him adding more poo poo to the Plus version of the patch, and it's good he's cutting more and more changes he's made out of the Basic version so there's something for everyone. Son of a bitch, I was wondering what that library card was for! And here I was hoping I'd at least be able to uncover a secret cache of vampire lore in the basement or something.
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