Bloodlines

[Atreides]

Can you actually feed on other vampires in the game?

[Gabrielle]

Can you actually feed on other vampires in the game?

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No. I tried it and it didn't work.

[CoM_Solaufein]

Usefull against hunams in anywhere in the game, but the blood cost is too high.

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A shame that it gives you the feeling of the need to feed once you use it often. Just make sure you don't kill all of the humans when you use it, free blood source.

[Jorian Drake]

Usefull against hunams in anywhere in the game, but the blood cost is too high.

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A shame that it gives you the feeling of the need to feed once you use it often. Just make sure you don't kill all of the humans when you use it, free blood source.

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Tremere-s can get the blood of other Vampires

[Atreides]

Only Tremeres?

[Judge Hades]

Only they have the vampire powers that can feed buggers as a range attack. Personally I just like to use the flame thrower. BURN PRINCE! BURN! You to you ventrue bastard!

[Atreides]

What's the difference with the range thing? Can't a strong melee character feed on vampires the conventional way?

[Berserk]

What's the difference with the range thing?  Can't a strong melee character feed on vampires the conventional way?

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Nope, no Diablerie for you..

[Musopticon?]

Yep, diablerie is not allowed. It's a feature.

[Jorian Drake]

Diablerie is nearly never allowed..but lots of people do it anyway :D

[Atreides]

Too much conflicting information... EXPLODE

[Surreptishus]

Too much conflicting information... EXPLODE

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What do you want to know? Lets break it down.

[Atreides]

Too much conflicting information... EXPLODE

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What do you want to know? Lets break it down.

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Ok, I wanted to know if feeding on other vapires in Bloodlines (just the game, I know diablerie's in the setting) is in, especially in combat (Quest spoilers would be nice info too). Gabs said no, but Hades said Tremeres can.

 

Then people said no, but it's a feature. Helpplskthx

[Musopticon?]

Aah, the only way you can get vampires blood in Bloodlines is either through the Tremere spells(they steal blood each time they hit), vampire vitae(blood bags) or by fighting against vampires and feeding on the blood stored in your artifact.

 

No feeding on vampires, so no diablerie.

[Jorian Drake]

sorry we confuse you here

but many of us are pnp-ers too, and we talk here and there 'crosswise' :D

[Darth Drabek]

OK, time to pile on about how great Malk dialogue is. I love the monikers that they come up with.... ESPECIALLY the conversations with Skelter. Absolutely fantastic...if you're a Beatles fan, play as a Malk.

[Gabrielle]

OK, time to pile on about how great Malk dialogue is. I love the monikers that they come up with.... ESPECIALLY the conversations with Skelter. Absolutely fantastic...if you're a Beatles fan, play as a Malk.

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Good to see someone enjoying their funny dialogues.

[Weiser_Cain]

Can you actually feed on other vampires in the game?

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The short anwser is yes.

[Gorgon]

The voice acting was excellent. Remember one of the fist levels where you had to find whatshisname the psychiatrist Malkavian.

 

The gramophone recordings of his observations and considerations were hilarious.

 

Some really good map areas in there, and some really bad ones as well. This game would have been a classic if they had bothered/ had the time to tie up loose ends and fix bugs. The quei jin slimeball boss was legend. As was the assault on their lair.

Edited January 30, 2006 by Gorgon

[Weiser_Cain]

I like how I seem to constantly be missing out on all these bugs.

[Atreides]

Thanks for the info.

[Weiser_Cain]

I hate to be a downer, but I think the only way RPGs are going to have significantly better combat animations is if the number of base weapon types available are greatly reduced.  That's one reason KOTOR had far superior animations to, say, Neverwinter Nights - there's basically five, maybe six weapons animation sets (One-handed Blade, Double-ended Weapon, Dual-Wielded Blades, Single-handed Blaster, Two-Handed Blaster and Double-Wielded Blasters).  NWN had to support Axes, Clubs, Whips, Exotic weapons and all other kinds of craziness.

 

And, when it comes to animator time, you can either spend time making a lot of different animations for a few base weapon types, or relatively few animations for a lot of different weapons.  Personally, I think the balance will be shifting towards fewer weapons, as the large variety of weapons in a D&D game isn't necissarily that exciting - five different ways to deal 1d6 aren't always necessary, and DR doesn't factor into the equation often enough or in interesting enough ways to make including every single weapon type from the PHB worthwhile.

 

On the other hand, something like Fallout is great because you can have a ton of different weapons that use similar animations.

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Slightly off topic but interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablerie

[alanschu]

Complete with an irrelevant quote!

[Weiser_Cain]

Browser crashed, weird result...

[Jorian Drake]

I hate to be a downer, but I think the only way RPGs are going to have significantly better combat animations is if the number of base weapon types available are greatly reduced.  That's one reason KOTOR had far superior animations to, say, Neverwinter Nights - there's basically five, maybe six weapons animation sets (One-handed Blade, Double-ended Weapon, Dual-Wielded Blades, Single-handed Blaster, Two-Handed Blaster and Double-Wielded Blasters).  NWN had to support Axes, Clubs, Whips, Exotic weapons and all other kinds of craziness.

 

And, when it comes to animator time, you can either spend time making a lot of different animations for a few base weapon types, or relatively few animations for a lot of different weapons.  Personally, I think the balance will be shifting towards fewer weapons, as the large variety of weapons in a D&D game isn't necissarily that exciting - five different ways to deal 1d6 aren't always necessary, and DR doesn't factor into the equation often enough or in interesting enough ways to make including every single weapon type from the PHB worthwhile.

 

On the other hand, something like Fallout is great because you can have a ton of different weapons that use similar animations.

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Slightly off topic but interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablerie

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Yup, now diablerie is even more brutal: you drink your victims soul