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Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines: Colons (UNMARKED SPOILERS, BEWARE)
Mai-Kero
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So I recently discovered that there were several unofficial patches with this, and I'm wondering which I should use.
It seems that one is from the planetvampire.com site and has a bunch of added content that the developers worked on but couldn't finish, while the other is from the tessmage.com site and just fixes bugs but doesn't add much.
Which should I go for?
It seems that one is from the planetvampire.com site and has a bunch of added content that the developers worked on but couldn't finish, while the other is from the tessmage.com site and just fixes bugs but doesn't add much.
Which should I go for?
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I am right and Tube is wrong.
I disagree, considering they made the only single player RPG thats actually fun to play that isn't Oblivion, in recent memory.
The one i currently have loaded claimed to have added a bunch of quests and dialog but i didnt see any.
I've been up to the sewers on a Tremere playthrough but never finished the game.
I vaguely remember hearing something about one of the fan patches unlocking the backdoor to the warrens. Is that true? Because hot damn if that isn't the best addition anyone could ever hope for in a patch.
Also, I'd get the bug fixes naturally, but also theres a mod out there that I really liked. It made all the Tremere spells cost 1 blood point. I played through the Tremere twice, once without and once a year later with. It felt MUCH better going through with that mod. Like there was a reason to get those upper tier abilities. I was real disapointed on my first play through because it felt like the cost was prohibatively high.
But I will state that the bug-fix patches are a good idea. I will also highly suggest that when you play through as a Malk (because it is, in fact, mandatory), ensure you enable the whispering voices. It makes playing that much better. And I also agree that a Malk playthrough should be ideally done after playing through the game once.
You should play as a Malkav.
I've almost finished my first play through as a Tremere and I agree that blood salvo isn't much use at 3 blood, nevermind that dominate plus a good sneak rating is making every encounter a joke. I can suicide everything until there's one guy left and then just trance him to refill.
I am having one game breaking issue though, right at the end:
I thought of that, but if there's some magical way of activating the console it's eluding me. There's no entry to map a key to it and futzing about with the keyboard in game isn't producing any good results. Also, I find it hilarious that nosferatu got flagged for spelling but futzing didn't.
Just remembered. You have to start the game with the "-console" flag enabled, through a shortcut or something. If you're playing through Steam (shame if you're not), just use it to create a Desktop shortcut, and edit that. You can delete it right after if you don't plan on using the console again anyway.
The malkavian ones include
"Ninja."
and
"Completely batshit."
that is all.
That worked perfectly, thanks. I am playing through Steam. I saw it while browing the games available (read: checking out the Orange Box) and thought, "I remember reading good things, surely the bugs are cleared up by now."
Sure, she's the personality I axed, but that's neither here nor there.
That whole thing made me :O when I returned after the gallery fight. I hate to admit it but I didn't figure out what was going on until midway through the conversation and I finally asked myself why the camera kept switching points of view.
I've played through on every clan at least once, but prefer gangrel (it fits me best) or malks (close second).
I used to play this game all the time on my old laptop but I got a new one and it is just not compatible at all with this game. I was swearing for days.
I think it is actually a specific stop sign you talk to, not just any one. Off the top of my head, try the ones Downtown.
My first play was as a Malk, and I stopped for some reason what felt like a good long while after that. Anyway, the house gave me the wiggins, but the more I thought about it, that house was probably a normal, everyday occurrence to the Malk. Which is what makes the game pretty damn great in the first place.
Of course that was with my ATI card. I think I might have to try another playthrough with my 8800GTX and see if it's doable.
Seriously though, this game is amazing. And the haunted house had to be one of the best moments in gaming history.
It always still reminds me of Morrowind though in that "if it only had a combat system that didn't blow, it would be the perfect game" kind of way.
First time through as Tremere, second as Malkavian. Malkavian conversations, and other hilarity is definitely worth it, as others have said, on the second playthrough. Besides, you got to love the Dr. Seuss pimp-costume.
So it makes an already unbalanced clan powerful to a degree that is just ridiculous.
If I had millions of dollars, I would seriously resurrect these guys and fund their games TO COMPLETION. If Troika "finished" all of the games they released before they died, they would all be must-own masterpieces, and I'm sure less people would be yelling about the demise of the gaming PC.
I'll be doing my second playthrough as one, since they're the clan I know the least about.
Thaumaturgy has always been a sick discipline, so that's just the game being true to source material.
I loved the atmosphere and story of this game though. It's a damn shame that they couldn't have a Blizzard timetable to just get shit rocking.