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Achilles Newbie

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Hey, does someone know where I can download some skins? I found this website called Paine's Site. But there are only a few skins there..

 

- Ghost Down

99% of all the skins worth having are on Paine's site. If you look really, really hard, you might find a handful of other sites that have skins on them as well, but almost all of them can be found on Paine's :D. At least that's been my experience.

 

tk102 mentioned the music, so I thought I might offer a "suggested playlist" for a homemade music mod (sorry folks, can't make this one available for download):

 

<all of these tracks can be found in X:\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\Vampire\sound\music\licenced>

 

05. chiasm - isolated replaced with Flesh - Tiesto feat. Jan Johnston

aerial - pound and glaze replaced with Kayama Painters - Endless Wave (Ferry Corsten remix)

asp hole replaced with Only - Nine Inch Nails

genitorturers - lecher bitch replaced with Personal Jesus - Marilyn Manson

ministry - bloodlines replaced with My Girlfriend's Girlfriend - Type O Negative

vesuvius replaced with Never an Easy Way - Morcheeba (this has to be replaced in X:\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\Vampire\sound\music\hollywood\asphole also)

 

last but not least

 

music_rock2 less muffled and music_rock2 replaced with Strict Machine - Goldfrapp (these can be found in X:\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\Vampire\sound\environmental\music)

 

Personally, I felt these tracks fit the mood of their locations a little bit better than the default music.

 

EDIT: Also, FWIW, I enjoy playing as a Nosferatu the most :D

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PoiuyWired Newbie

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Well, the only Disappointing thing is that when I choose true Brujah... and its almost the same as a regular Brujah. I mean, they should be quite different from one another, and oh... I miss their time stop ability thingy.

tk102 Newbie

tk102

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Ran into my first bug... appears to be a show-stopper for me. I found Lily and freed her. After she kills the entering doctor and completes her dialog with, my character evidently goes into frenzy mode and gets permanently stuck trying to walk out of the door. I can see the a doctor that Lily attacked standing in the hallway. At first I thought this due to the fact that I already had 10 humanity and that the humanity gain from the dialog was driving me into the frenzy. I tried again with 9 humanity but got the same result. :( Looking for patches...

 

Edit: Found this thread link

so I reloaded the scene and made sure to not touch my mouse or keyboard. Problem solved... :) continuing...

Bee Hoon Newbie

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The Ocean House quest is sooooo creepy! I recommend playing that during the day and/or turning the volume down unless you have nerves of steel. I kept jumping every few moments! I'm playing as a Tremere... Gotta love the billowy skirt:p

SpaceAlex Newbie

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I love this game. Anyone that hasn't picked it up yet (because of bugs or whatever), should get it. The unoffical patch fixes pretty much every bug in the game, so there's no reason not to own the game.

Vaelastraz Newbie

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It's a pretty good game. Bought it the instant it was released.

 

There was a bug though, a critical one where I had to use console commands just to continue playing. That's annoying, didn't the guys even check if you can play through the game? Anyway, there's a fan patch now, but there wasn't when I played the game...

 

Anyway, I played a female Toreador. Speed is just the BEST ability. Dodge bullets in a Matrix like way!

 

Btw can we discuss story here?

tk102 Newbie

tk102

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@beehoon: Stopped playing at the Ocean House last night just after entering the house. Looks like a well-made area. :)

 

@SpaceAlex: good to hear about the unofficial patches... I was a little leary to install them.

 

@Vaelastraz: Which bug is that? It'd be good to recognize it if it happens. And I suppose you can talk about the story line a little, but since there's quite a few of us who are playing for the first time, could you use the

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swphreak Newbie

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I heard about how this game was amazing, but had a crapload of gamestopping bugs. Have they not fixed it by now (officially)? I guess going out of busniess will make things harder. It's been out for awhile hasn't it?

 

Also, is there a demo somewhere? I'm thinkin' of getting it off steam. It's only 20 bucks.

 

SpaceAlex, do you have a link to these unofficial patches' homepage?

stoffe Newbie

stoffe

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@Vaelastraz: Which bug is that? It'd be good to recognize it if it happens. And I suppose you can talk about the story line a little, but since there's quite a few of us who are playing for the first time, could you use the

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I would guess this is referring to the bug where you can get stuck trying to escape from the Society of Leopold at the end of that mission. (It's quite late in the game, after you've been to all four city districts.) To my knowledge that bug has been fixed in the patch though. At least I've never encountered it when playing.

 

You could bypass that bug using the debug console to run a function that sets the "mission completed" variables and warp out of the area. But hopefully that isn't needed any more. :)

 

 

 

As far as I know there hasn't been any demo released for the game.

 

The unofficial patches don't seem to have any homepage of their own that I have been able to find, but you can get them all from here. Since the game engine source code isn't available its mostly superficial scenario bug fixes and modifications though. Nothing essential to play the game, though I suppose they can improve some things if you agree with the changes that they make. :)

 

The patch/change notes for the patches are below, if you want to know what they do before spending time to download a 180 Mb patch. :)

 

 

SPOILER ALERT!

Bob Lion54 Newbie

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The Ocean House quest is sooooo creepy! I recommend playing that during the day and/or turning the volume down unless you have nerves of steel. I kept jumping every few moments! I'm playing as a Tremere... Gotta love the billowy skirt:p

 

I still count the Ocean House as one of my favourite areas of any game.

 

 

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For added creepiness, play through as a Malkavian. You see a few things that the other clans don't.

 

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Malkavians are my favourite class. I just lover their responses and the developers threw in quite a few "extras" for the class.

 

 

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I also love how many of the other vampires respond when they find out you're a Malkavian.

 

About the unofficial patch: Their is a bug fix that many people think is a bug introduced by the patch. Its concerns Heather Poe.

 

 

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@stoffe: Love your avatar, by the way!

igyman Newbie

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Yeah, the Malkavian is the most comedic clan to play with. I forgot most of the characters' reactions to him but I do remember Jack's first comment was extremely funny and as for the TV guy, I'd say ''Hello TV'' was one of the funniest lines I've seen. :lol:

stingerhs Newbie

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well, i just got this game at y'alls recommendation off of Steam for $20. it took me 2 hours to download it at 425KB/sec (approx. 3 Mbps). so, it had better be good or i'm holding you guys accountable. :xp:

Jae Onasi Newbie

Jae Onasi

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well, i just got this game at y'alls recommendation off of Steam for $20. it took me 2 hours to download it at 425MB/sec (approx. 3 Mbps). so, it had better be good or i'm holding you guys accountable. :xp:

 

Don't worry. The question is, will you be mad at us when it sucks up all your time and you won't be able to sleep at night after the creepy parts. :D

 

I was playing through Grout's mansion last night and got scared so bad by one of the guys nearly jumping on top of me that I jumped and startled the kids who were across the room playing on the desktop. :D

stoffe Newbie

stoffe

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I was playing through Grout's mansion last night and got scared so bad by one of the guys nearly jumping on top of me that I jumped and startled the kids who were across the room playing on the desktop. :D

 

Did you listen to all the tape recorders scattered about the mansion? Not exactly the happy-crazy type of Malkavian your own character can be. :)

 

At least you can feed on the poor (non-burning) lunatics to help you get through the place.

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Yeah, I did listen to them. Not much help for the quest itself, but it was interesting to hear. I was amused by the talk about phrenology. :) I did feed on them--the hard part was hitting them enough but not killing them with the fireaxe so I could feed on them. Seems like what works best for me is to use a couple buffs, kill all but one, and feed on the last one. A couple of times I just waited in a safe spot for the hit points to regenerate because I didn't feel like using up a blood pack. :)

It drives me nuts that I can't pick up all those knives--100 bucks worth of weapons just sitting around doing nothing....

tk102 Newbie

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I was playing through Grout's mansion last night.
Me too :) Looks like I caught up with you.
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Btw, Achilles thanks for the music tips... I might try those soon. Still liking "Isolated" everytime I walk into Asylum. :)

 

vv--- yep :)

Jae Onasi Newbie

Jae Onasi

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I finally finished the Plague victim thing, too. You definitely need the buffs, and definitely need the fireaxe. When Strauss asks if you want the item or the money as the reward, take the item.

tk102 Newbie

tk102

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Just read this interesting tidbit from the Vampire wiki regarding "Histories Mode" during character creation.

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There was supposed to be one more character creation mode in the final version of the game: the histories mode. This mode allows player to give his character a specific history rather than just set various attributes by hand. The choice of history has a large impact on the game, as it basically gives players a bonus effect in certain areas and a negative effect in others. For instance, if players choose "Eldritch Prodigy" (Tremere specific history), he gets a 40 % bonus thaumaturgy duration, but loses one XP point every time he gains three as a penalty. Histories are disabled by default in the final version due to instability issues. They can be re-enabled manually, and have also been re-enabled by the unofficial patch.
stoffe Newbie

stoffe

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Just read this interesting tidbit from the Vampire wiki regarding "Histories Mode" during character creation.

 

The standard histories give some additional variety, but are not all that useful in my opinion. Fortunately they can be modded so you can add your own histories. All the histories data with their benefits/penalties and descriptions can be found in the histories000.txt data file (and the referenced bonus/penalty effects are in traiteffects000.txt) if you feel like making your own history. :)

igyman Newbie

igyman

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I finally finished the Plague victim thing, too. You definitely need the buffs, and definitely need the fireaxe. When Strauss asks if you want the item or the money as the reward, take the item.

Killed the Plague cult, did we? If you hadn't done it already, don't forget to do the quests for Venus at Confession, they'll provide you with a continual source of income, if you do them right.

tk102 Newbie

tk102

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^^--- after finishing Fat Larry's quest, picking up my cut from Venus, and seeing Heather Poe at my apt, I found myself suddenly rich in the span of 5 minutes. Too bad there's not much for me to buy yet.

igyman Newbie

igyman

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I guess it depends on whether you prefer melee or ranged weapons. I prefer melee, so I've been in a similar situation, a bunch of money and... err... not so much things to spend it on, but I'm guessing that if I used ranged weapons more, that money would have come in handy for the ammo expenses.

stoffe Newbie

stoffe

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^^--- after finishing Fat Larry's quest, picking up my cut from Venus, and seeing Heather Poe at my apt, I found myself suddenly rich in the span of 5 minutes. Too bad there's not much for me to buy yet.

 

You'll get access to more weapons both of the melee and firearms variety as the game progresses. Keep checking back with the vendors (Mercurio, the guy in the Santa Monica pawn shop, Fat Larry etc) as their stock of goods is expanded after you complete certain quests. There are also one guy in Hollywood and one in China Town you can buy from.

 

Though I agree that if you primarily use melee weapons you'll eventually get more money than you know what to do with. Ranged weapon users will have more use for their money to buy ammo for the guns. If you didn't piss off Vandal in the blood bank in Santa Monica you can buy bags of blood from him throughout the game as well, which can be useful. :)

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