VtM: Bloodlines 1 Year Anniversary Q&A

[Judge Hades]

The Graphics card I am running with is an X700 Pro with 256mb DDR VRAM.

[Gabrielle]

Okay, I found Bloodlines in the bargin bin and now I am installing.  I will be playing it soon enough.  Got it and Septerra Core at $10 each.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

$10??? And I spent $39 for mine. But it was a Best Buy special that came with a soundtrack cd.

[Judge Hades]

It was the Post Christmas sale done early. Hey, does anyone know any good modsites for Bloodlines?

[Haitoku]

It was the Post Christmas sale done early.  Hey, does anyone know any good modsites for Bloodlines?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

There aren't many.

 

There is this Pen & Paper mod floating around. It's a lot of rubish in my opinion though... Makes the hole game seem unbalanced.

Edited December 24, 2005 by Haitoku

[Gabrielle]

I don't have any mods nor do I know where there are any at, but you should play the game as is first.

[Judge Hades]

i always do but you should always planfor the future.

[Gabrielle]

I was just browsing PlanetVampires forums, you might want to give that a look over for mods.

[Judge Hades]

Thanks.

[Blodhemn]

Wow. This end game really blows.

[Judge Hades]

So do most games nowadays.

 

Anyway back to the grind. There are a few glitches here and there, but nothing game stopping. I do like this game... so far.

[Haitoku]

So do most games nowadays. 

 

Anyway back to the grind.  There are a few glitches here and there, but nothing game stopping.  I do like this game... so far.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

It will be a good game until the end for the most part.

 

... though, I found some of the idealogy of the game was kind of stupid.

[Haitoku]

Don't bother with any of the unofficial patches... They mess up Chinatown.

 

I had to reinstall the game because of it.

[Yst]

Yep, as far as I can tell, the fanmade 1.8 and 1.9 patches create more problems than they fix at present. Which is a problem that's been growing ever since the earliest unofficial patches, as more and more gets changed and added.

 

Which is why I play with just the official 1.2. At least the bugs that can still happen under 1.2 (e.g., the barred door in the kuei jin temple sometimes requires a noclip to get past) are known and easily bypassed, if they do happen. But in my last playthrough, I experienced no game-stopping bugs whatsoever under 1.2, so it wasn't even a matter of lesser evils.

[WITHTEETH]

I haven't had a single problem with 1.9 so far. i about 1/3 through China town so we'll see i guess. I'm really dissapointed in the memory leak though....

[Gabrielle]

Damn it make up your minds everyone. Are the fan made patches good or not? I keep hearing that they fix problems others say it creates more.

[Surreptishus]

The fan patches dont fix any bugs or code problems, they just make superficial changes. You can see the list of bugfixes and judge for yourself whether it is worth it.

[Atreides]

Is there any way to fix the memory leak?

[Krookie]

I don't think so.

[LoneWolf16]

Is there any way to fix the memory leak?

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It'd be nice if a few Troika employees would just...I don't know, take some time out of their busy schedules, in the spirit of the season of course, to make a few amendments to their code...and distribute said modifications through some third party websites... " *Hint, Hint* *Nudge, Nudge* *Wink, Wink*

Edited December 25, 2005 by LoneWolf16

[Atreides]

[SteveThaiBinh]

It'd be nice if a few Troika employees would just...I don't know, take some time out of their busy schedules, in the spirit of the season of course, to make a few amendments to their code...and distribute said modifications through some third party websites... " *Hint, Hint* *Nudge, Nudge* *Wink, Wink*

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If they didn't have the necessary skill to get it right before, why would they now? Surely the problems in VtM:B run deeper than a few glitches in the code.

[Surreptishus]

The game was rushed... and then troika shut down.

[Judge Hades]

With the glitches I had to deal with so far this is the best troika game I have played.

[Pidesco]

Is Bloodlines buggier than Arcanum?

[SteveThaiBinh]

Is Bloodlines buggier than Arcanum?

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Neither game is buggy once you've installed all the available patches. The problem with Bloodlines is that many (though not all) players experience very low framerates, stuttering sound and other issues on systems that can handle visually similar games without a problem. And the 'minimum system requirements', more than in most games, is verging on the dishonest.