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The Clan Quest Mod is good. Otherwise not so much.
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GuyDudeBroMan posted:Are there any new content mods that are worth it? I've been looking for an excuse to replay this game. I've already beaten it like 4 times though. Have you done a playthrough as a Malkavian yet?
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Sep 19, 2013 21:34
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Started a Nossie for the first time and they're pretty annoying. You'd think looking like a serious burn victim wouldn't really be a problem in a hospital, but apparently the staff there are easily spooked.
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Sep 23, 2013 12:07
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Ddraig posted:Started a Nossie for the first time and they're pretty annoying. You'd also think that shooting trespassers on sight wouldn't be a policy in hospitals. California's health care is weird.
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Sep 23, 2013 12:12
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steinrokkan posted:You'd also think that shooting trespassers on sight wouldn't be a policy in hospitals. California's health care is weird. loving Kaiser. 
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Sep 23, 2013 17:44
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The plus patch made Fat Larry vanish from the game for me, and multiple reloads never fixed it. Replaying the game obviously isn't a problem and all, but drat, what an unfortunate glitch.
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Sep 23, 2013 18:59
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McSpanky posted:The plus patch made Fat Larry vanish from the game for me, and multiple reloads never fixed it. Replaying the game obviously isn't a problem and all, but drat, what an unfortunate glitch. The patch places him in an alley. Did you check everywhere or just his usual area?
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Sep 23, 2013 19:05
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Yeah, it puts him back in the (more logical) place he was in in every beta and gameplay demo up until release, namely the alley just to the right of The Asylum club that winds around and dumps out by the Tremere Chantry.
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Sep 23, 2013 20:20
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Fuzz posted:Yeah, it puts him back in the (more logical) place he was in in every beta and gameplay demo up until release, namely the alley just to the right of The Asylum club that winds around and dumps out by the Tremere Chantry. To be fair, they moved him in the final version because people were having trouble finding him. You know, like the people in this thread. It may be more logical than having him hang out next to a cop, but he's a bitch to spot if you don't know he's there.
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Sep 23, 2013 20:33
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But ~~~ my immersion ~~
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Sep 23, 2013 21:23
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He's not even hidden in that alley, though.  He's directly in plain sight while walking down the street!Once again I am forced to wonder about the sheer incuriousity of my fellow gamers.
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Sep 23, 2013 22:33
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Stroth posted:To be fair, they moved him in the final version because people were having trouble finding him. You know, like the people in this thread. It may be more logical than having him hang out next to a cop, but he's a bitch to spot if you don't know he's there. The game does this a lot. You get an email, with a quest, telling you to go to the tremere chantry. I'm guessing that players were managing to never go in there, so they put that in to make sure people didn't miss it. And there are conversations in most of the city areas where you can ask people, "Where do I buy guns in this city?", in case you managed not to figure it out on your own. I think almost every place in the game where you pick up a quest, there's some other quest or email that sends you there, so you don't screw up and not notice it. It's probably a necessary design philosophy. Anything which players can screw up, they will.
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Sep 25, 2013 09:11
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Orange Sunshine posted:
This is true of all software. Developers will always assume that their users are going to gently caress everything up.
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Sep 25, 2013 16:11
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I hadn't seen Mimic before. Every time F Murray Abraham was on screen I couldn't help but see Professor Johansen. 
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Oct 23, 2013 04:32
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:I hadn't seen Mimic before. Every time F Murray Abraham was on screen I couldn't help but see Professor Johansen. Jesus. Clearly those giant roaches all had poryphyria.
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Oct 23, 2013 04:42
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I probably missed this somewhere . . . So there's an "official" 1.2 patch, and then there's this Wesp patch stuff. What ones do I want? I'm installing from Steam.
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Oct 24, 2013 04:43
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Both, although I think Wesp's will update you to 1.2 if you're not already updated. I also think Steam might bring you to 1.2 maybe?
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Oct 24, 2013 04:55
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Both, although I think Wesp's will update you to 1.2 if you're not already updated. I also think Steam might bring you to 1.2 maybe? Steam automatically brings you to 1.2. All you need to do is Wesp Patch and then Widescreen patch and you're done.
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Oct 24, 2013 04:56
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Thanks! I had another question ... So this game has lots of options for non-traditional combat or avoidance of most combat right? A break from the typical video game shooting and slashing would be pretty awesome. Are there any first timer friendly builds that would be good for that kind of play?
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Oct 25, 2013 00:49
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Does the Camarilla mod bring back histories too or not? I remember getting clan quest mod about a year back (with camarilla 1.4 included) and getting them, pondering about doing another playthrough again but i don't want to get the whole of clan quest mod since i wasn't terribly impressed with their added quests and they're not using the latest camarilla version anyway.
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Oct 25, 2013 01:01
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HondaCivet posted:Thanks! I had another question ... So this game has lots of options for non-traditional combat or avoidance of most combat right? A break from the typical video game shooting and slashing would be pretty awesome. Are there any first timer friendly builds that would be good for that kind of play? Brujah with Celerity and Guns statted up. There's a lot of talking and whatnot but the final part of the game is combat heavy with no way around it.
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Oct 25, 2013 01:03
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HondaCivet posted:Thanks! I had another question ... So this game has lots of options for non-traditional combat or avoidance of most combat right? A break from the typical video game shooting and slashing would be pretty awesome. Are there any first timer friendly builds that would be good for that kind of play?
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Oct 25, 2013 01:21
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Yeah, unfortunately there are some fights that you just can't avoid. Even if you're playing a Nossie or Malkavian with Obfuscate you will eventually have to beat someone down, even if you spend most of the game avoiding people.
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Oct 25, 2013 02:11
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The only thing that annoyed me about the plus patch was when I was newer to the game and I was reading an FAQ to do a min-maxing play through. For some reason, the guy who makes the patches moved a bunch of books and other things, or replaced them with items instead, and I spent inordinate amounts of time horribly confused as to why this thing the guide said to get wasn't there. Otherwise, I play with the plus patch every time, just to get more out of the game. I avoid the library level, though. It's ugly, short, and pretty dumb. The first time I played it, I was doing some kind of ridiculous min-maxed potency build, and already had the ultra-katana so I just killed the Tzimisce in 3 hits anyway. :/
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Oct 25, 2013 02:35
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I didn't mean JUST avoiding combat altogether. It sounds like you can defeat enemies other ways too like scaring them away or making them kill themselves?
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Oct 25, 2013 03:12
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Basically many standard areas are filled with baddies you can sneak past or diplomatic answers, but there's several areas that are NOT, and in these places you need some form of direct attack. You WILL have to either shoot things, punch things, hit them with a fire axe, or make them explode into blood with magic. Also the magic is weaker then the other two options when taken to their max. It's long been considered the main weakness of the game, really.
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Oct 25, 2013 03:20
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Those are the disciplines (spells) and they're combat use and generally single-target. Go through your first run loaded for war. And melee. Firearms are horrid compared to hitting poo poo with other poo poo.
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Oct 25, 2013 03:20
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OK I must be thinking of a different game . . . Deus Ex maybe? Thanks though, I will be sure to make a very punchy/shooty guy then.
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Oct 25, 2013 03:24
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HondaCivet posted:OK I must be thinking of a different game . . . Deus Ex maybe? Thanks though, I will be sure to make a very punchy/shooty guy then. you don't even need to min/max it. you can have moderate skills in both say knifing and shooting and you will be more than OK. (though guns are weaker at first). Go into every situation thinking non-violence first (but always be paranoid in case things so south) and it will be a more interesting experience. and yes be prepared, the end game is a rushed hack and slash gallery whereas 3/4th of the game can be sneak/RPG talk/adventure game style. CatchrNdRy fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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Oct 25, 2013 03:28
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There's one area of the game that I loving hated. It's filled with incredibly annoying enemies. I tried to go powerhouse through it, and it was a painful experience. Apparently you can sneak through there fairly easily, though, as the enemies are supposedly near blind.
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Oct 25, 2013 03:31
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Ddraig posted:There's one area of the game that I loving hated. It's filled with incredibly annoying enemies. I tried to go powerhouse through it, and it was a painful experience. Apparently you can sneak through there fairly easily, though, as the enemies are supposedly near blind. I've sneaked (that's the correct past tense apparently) through it multiple times. It's possible, but it's just as fun as the area is normally.
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Oct 25, 2013 03:48
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The easiest route through the endgame bits is to just grab the flamethrower. Who needs tons of combat skills when everything including the last bosses die to fire?
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Oct 25, 2013 04:50
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I don't know, I burned (ha?) through all the ammo you could carry at one time and one or two of them still had health to spare.
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DeathChicken posted:The easiest route through the endgame bits is to just grab the flamethrower. Who needs tons of combat skills when everything including the last bosses die to fire? This or (With the patch) The dragon's breath shotgun. Loud, distance of a melee weapon and slow reload, but it gets the job done in a hurry. Been thinking about modding this up and giving it another go. HondaCivet posted:OK I must be thinking of a different game . . . Deus Ex maybe? Thanks though, I will be sure to make a very punchy/shooty guy then. In terms of shooters, this would be DeusEx. The only other game to have that 'diplomacy through your enemies' feel and really nail it was Planescape: Torment.
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Oct 25, 2013 08:35
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Yeah, the flamethrower really didn't do much for me. Especially annoying when you note how fast and how hard fire fucks you the PC up.
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Oct 25, 2013 08:48
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Aaaugh now I'm having a problem getting the game to run right . . . It's playable but I'm getting really ugly N64-era textures all over. I'm running Win7 64-bit with 4GB of RAM, NVIDIA video card. This isn't my pic but this is how it looks: I've been googling for a couple hours. Apparently the game hates it when you have more than 2GB of RAM so I artificially lowered it in msconfig to 2048 but somehow that didn't help. I ran the Wesp patches and those seem to have performed the shaderapidx9.dll fix for me already, so I can't try that either . . . Any other ideas? I haven't upgraded my machine at all for at least a year or two so it isn't like I'm running some brand spankin' new gear that's messing it up. Edit: Pretty sure no one even knew what I was talking about or cared but I thought I'd note that I managed to fix this . . . I'm not sure if it's the unofficial patch to blame for this or what but for some reason, files are being redundantly stored in two places - in the usual Steam folder and in an "Activision" folder. Maybe I made a mistake in setup somewhere or the fanpatch is putting stuff in that folder for some reason but anyway, turns out I tried to "fix" the wrong DLL. I found the one in the Steam folder and fixed it and now everything is 2004-era pretty again, hooray! HondaCivet fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Oct 26, 2013 |
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Oct 25, 2013 09:08
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For the record, you should pick either firearms or melee. As someone already mentioned, firearms are weaker when you first start off, but then become the best route for loving poo poo up later on in the game. For example, I recall a particular boss near the end of the game that was absolutely horrible even with maxed/nearly maxed melee, but handling the situation with firearms was a cinch. I mean, this is assuming you don't want to dump all your hard earned experience into the typical fighting skills. What makes this game great is all the other poo poo not revolving around combat (or at least non-magic combat), so by focusing on only firearms or melee you give yourself some leeway to have fun without screwing yourself for the end game gotta-fight-everything extravaganza.
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Just do what you want and cheat yourself some XP to buy combat skills if you hit the endgame and don't have any.
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Oct 25, 2013 12:58
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I still advise against cheating your first play simply to get the purest experience. As unfortunate as the end game becomes, I feel it's way worse and lessened when you don't experience it at least once "as intended." Also, don't do that quest for Beckett at the library. It's from the fan patch and it's kinda lovely.
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As a Dark Souls fan who actually bothered to complete Blight Town once, I think I know what you mean by not robbing myself of the full experience even if it's painful.  Also I fixed my graphics if anyone cares. Maybe it would be a good idea to put something in the OP about how to get this game to run on modern systems? If there's interest I could put something together since it's all fresh in my mind right now.
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