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McSpanky posted: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. It actually has a use already. Tung wants you to find poo poo for him, making the requests through email, and that's one of them. The problem is the quest had a tendency to not always fire properly
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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?
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It always surprises me how this game suddenly always ends up getting reinstalled. So I haven't dealt with any of the new mods before in any of my past playthroughs, just the usual unofficial patches and bugfixes. Are they really worthwhile? It seems like some of them just add some big headaches... Also whenever this game pops into my head I think of this song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoUCyrg5Syo
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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? Check your options and make sure that you don't have your buffs set to automatically reactivate when they run out.
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I randomly decided to play through this again the other day. I have the CD version rather than the Steam one, but I've upgraded to Windows 7 since the last time I played it. It loads fine, but when I get into the actual game the UI is all wrong - it looks 'zoomed in' - nothing is visible along the bottom and the health and blood bars look pixellated and too big. Note that this isn't a question about wide-screen. I don't have a widescreen monitor. It's just that the UI doesn't work properly. A quick trip to Google doesn't suggest anything useful, so does anyone have any ideas? Cropped screenshot below - take a look at the bar. It looks either pixellated or like it's using completely the wrong mipmap level. Same for the inventory beneath.
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Huh. I had the same bug until I installed mods and I thought the game was just that old. But some googling shows it normally looks way better and it's only from 2004, so...weird.
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Kasonic posted:Huh. I had the same bug until I installed mods and I thought the game was just that old. But some googling shows it normally looks way better and it's only from 2004, so...weird. If I remember correctly it came out shortly before Half Life 2, which was interesting because it used the Source Engine, but came out before Half Life 2, which the Source Engine was made for.
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Kasonic posted:Huh. I had the same bug until I installed mods and I thought the game was just that old. But some googling shows it normally looks way better and it's only from 2004, so...weird.
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The blurry UI is a bug that is fixed by installing the Unofficial Patch by Wesp. At the very least I would install the basic version of it because the vanilla game is pretty broken. Concerning the Unofficial Patch, I would skip on 8.0 and use 7.9 for the time being as the latest version has a slew of it's own bugs. There is a beta hotfix for 8.0 though... The Steam Forums are fairly active as far as boards concerning VtM:B goes.
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Killsion posted:If I remember correctly it came out shortly before Half Life 2, which was interesting because it used the Source Engine, but came out before Half Life 2, which the Source Engine was made for. Released on the same day actually. Bloodlines was finished first by a couple of months due to pressure from Activision to release a working build, which is part of why the 1.0 version is so goddamn buggy, but their contract with Valve to use the Source Engine kept them from releasing it before Half-Life 2
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Upmarket Mango posted:The blurry UI is a bug that is fixed by installing the Unofficial Patch by Wesp. At the very least I would install the basic version of it because the vanilla game is pretty broken. Concerning the Unofficial Patch, I would skip on 8.0 and use 7.9 for the time being as the latest version has a slew of it's own bugs. There is a beta hotfix for 8.0 though... The Steam Forums are fairly active as far as boards concerning VtM:B goes. Yeah seriously we need huge blazing signs that say FOR GOD'S SAKE DO NOT PLAY MODLESS ON YOUR FIRST RUN EVEN IF THAT'S HOW YOU USUALLY PLAY GAMES I'M NOT KIDDING.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Yeah seriously we need huge blazing signs that say FOR GOD'S SAKE DO NOT PLAY MODLESS ON YOUR FIRST RUN EVEN IF THAT'S HOW YOU USUALLY PLAY GAMES I'M NOT KIDDING. This. A thousand times this. The beach hotel is one of the greatest maps of any video game I've played. I'm also fond of the Griffith Park level. I'd like to find the guys who designed them and buy 'em a drink or something.
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xyzzyx posted:This. A thousand times this. Griffith Park was such a great level the first time I went through it. Spoilers for the few who haven't gotten there, I guess: At first I thought to myself, "Come on, Nines, I've got loving shotguns and poo poo, I can handle one werewolf." Smashcut to me running for my loving (un)life. I also felt pretty loving great working out how to close the observatory shutters on it. Second time through was still cool, but it lost something without that kind of thrill that running away from an invincible werewolf provides.
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Col. Roy Campbell posted:Griffith Park was such a great level the first time I went through it. Spoilers for the few who haven't gotten there, I guess: At first I thought to myself, "Come on, Nines, I've got loving shotguns and poo poo, I can handle one werewolf." Smashcut to me running for my loving (un)life. I also felt pretty loving great working out how to close the observatory shutters on it. Second time through was still cool, but it lost something without that kind of thrill that running away from an invincible werewolf provides. I was lucky that i didnt discover you could do this until my 3rd run due to sheer panic, i love that the level doesnt let you just find an area of the map to hide and suck your thumb because the AI cant reach you.
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I have the blurry UI and I thought it was normal, too. If I install the basic Wesp patch now, will it mess up my current save game?
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68k posted:I have the blurry UI and I thought it was normal, too. If I install the basic Wesp patch now, will it mess up my current save game? Yeah, pretty much every mod and patch for VtM:B will require a new save game.
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68k posted:I have the blurry UI and I thought it was normal, too. If I install the basic Wesp patch now, will it mess up my current save game? Probably, but there is a standalone fix for that bug that doesn't. It's related to the game thinking that there's less video ram than there is, and there's a modified .exe or ini file or something out there. It's pretty easy to find on google.
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Okay so I finally got the clanquest mod working, but it won't let me zoom out on a char using a custom skin. Is this normal, or did something gently caress up?
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edit: nevermind, I'm dumb.
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I need to update the OP with other mod info, but I haven't tried the Final Nights mod or anything other than Clan Quest... anyone wanna whip something up for me to add in?
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Dug the game out again only to find there's all these new mods and stuff! I'm excited to play again but, as always, paralysed with indecision about how to play. Does the plus version of the unofficial patch make social stats other than Persuasion useful? What's some good stuff to look out for? I never did a Nosferatu character because I thought being unable to be seen would mean missing out on a lot of content, was I mistaken?
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Dr Snofeld posted:Dug the game out again only to find there's all these new mods and stuff! I'm excited to play again but, as always, paralysed with indecision about how to play. Does the plus version of the unofficial patch make social stats other than Persuasion useful? What's some good stuff to look out for? I never did a Nosferatu character because I thought being unable to be seen would mean missing out on a lot of content, was I mistaken? Seduction is still only useful for getting free drinks at bars. I've only played a little bit as a Nosferatu, while you have to avoid being seen by regular people, it's fine if quest NPCs/shopkeepers see you. All you'll usually get is a comment on how hideous you are, similar to the comments people make about Malkavians being crazy.
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It's also not very sensitive. I can run through the streets in Santa Monica and not get a humanity drop.
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UltraRed posted:It's also not very sensitive. I can run through the streets in Santa Monica and not get a humanity drop. Have you ever been to real world Santa Monica? Working as intended.
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Fuzz posted:Have you ever been to real world Santa Monica?
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I have not. hahaha
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Alright. Clean install, install unofficial patch 8.0 beta 2, set compatibility for XP SP2 and disable fancy desktop things. Now I'm getting about a second and a half of source engine grey loading screen before being booted back to my desktop. Anyone know how to get this working on Win7 64-bit?
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wiegieman posted:Alright. Clean install, install unofficial patch 8.0 beta 2, set compatibility for XP SP2 and disable fancy desktop things. Now I'm getting about a second and a half of source engine grey loading screen before being booted back to my desktop. Anyone know how to get this working on Win7 64-bit? 1. Make sure you are opening the game from within Steam. 2. Make sure Steam as well as the VTMB executable are set to run as administrator. 3. If you have a widescreen monitor, use the resolution patcher. 4. Disable the automatic updates and live community stuff in the game settings in Steam, or it will detect the changes and reset the game data, thinking its corrupted or out of date. I found this walkthrough very helpful: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2025035 Might want to uninstall and then follow the guide with a clean install.
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This is probably been asked and answered before, but does anyone know why, when I launch the game, it'll only appear on the left side of my screen (the right side just being the grey loading screen). Game was working fine about 6 months ago, so I'm not sure what would cause this.
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I'm not installing it through Steam. I still have my discs.
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wiegieman posted:I'm not installing it through Steam. I still have my discs. Did you install the official 1.2 patch before the unofficial one? It's included in the Steam version but not on the disc version.
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I'm trying to get CQM to work but it's not  I followed the instructions in the second post (not the steam version): 1) Clean install of VtM:B 2) installed patch 1.2 3) ran CQM 3.0 installer to /vampire with the following options: Wesp 7.9 Plus Camarilla 1.4 Arsenal Music mod by martdms Toreador - Latex Ventrue - Fishnet 4) respatch utility Launch Vampire, no mods. Reinstall CQM, same thing. Do I need to downgrade to the CQM 2.1 or something? I really don't want to do another fresh install of VtM  edit: got it. It's very confusing that the OP and the vampire planet page say to install to the vampire subdirectory when in fact you have to install to the main game directory POWERBALL fucked around with this message at 21:25 on May 19, 2012 |
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BUTT CONSPIRACY posted:edit: got it. It's very confusing that the OP and the vampire planet page say to install to the vampire subdirectory when in fact you have to install to the main game directory Yeah, this bit is really weird. In some parts, it will say "it used to be like this, but now it's this," or "all previous versions did this, while all the other mods did this." I probably did about 5 reinstalls before I finally got the drat thing working.
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I installed the "sexy" heather skin...I'm not sure what I was expecting but now she looks like some creepy gothic Japanese sex robot 
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Maximum Planck posted:Did you install the official 1.2 patch before the unofficial one? It's included in the Steam version but not on the disc version. Yes, even though unofficial 6.0 and later have it included. I'm ready to give up on this, it's just not co-operating. I get the same grey "loading..." source engine screen then get booted back to desktop.
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BUTT CONSPIRACY posted:I installed the "sexy" heather skin...I'm not sure what I was expecting but now she looks like some creepy gothic Japanese sex robot That drat thing is absolutely hilarious with the Comp Mod Lite (probably with the Comp Mod, in general). Though I think it fucks up her goth outfit when you embrace her, since it doesn't carry over and it causes the makeup to be misplaced... Which is probably what you were talking about.
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Pretty much all of the character reskins are terrible. I find it strange that no one has created high resolution versions of the default skins though.
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Upmarket Mango posted:Pretty much all of the character reskins are terrible. I find it strange that no one has created high resolution versions of the default skins though. White suit LaCroix.  Other than that, yeah, they are either not that great or pretty unnoticeable. I put almost all the skins on for my Clan Quest Mod playthrough because I wanted to do as much as I could with it. I think I got my time's worth when seeing how ridiculous the Heather skin fucks up when moving.
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Just completed it for the first time today. Sided with the Anarchs and let LaCroix open the sarcophagus while I walked away. Absolutely hated the ending, expected something dramatic after all the talk of "Don't open it." Good game overall though.
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FelixMeOneMoreTime posted:Just completed it for the first time today. Sided with the Anarchs and let LaCroix open the sarcophagus while I walked away. Absolutely hated the ending, expected something dramatic after all the talk of "Don't open it." I've noticed a lot of people agree that the ending segments of the game are where it all sorta goes down south. Mostly because it just goes really fast between combat section to combat section.
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