Could someone explain how Melee/Ranged Combat Requirement, Lethality and Feat Adjustment work for weapons?

 

Plus how say melee combat proficiency is calculated. Is it that different from d20?

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

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Yum... Soul food. (w00t)

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Tastes great and less filling.

 

 

Diablerie is a wicked nasty thing, even I wouldn't do that to a vamp.

Could someone explain how Melee/Ranged Combat Requirement, Lethality and Feat Adjustment work for weapons?

 

Plus how say melee combat proficiency is calculated.  Is it that different from d20?

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I'm not sure of it my self but i found this:

 

http://dlh.net/chtdb/chtview.php?lang=ger&...p=e31758&page=2

 

It may be of some help.

i just bought the game and wanna play it, but when i am finished installing (which may i add goes perfectly) i launch the game, but i get a dialouge box titled engine error and it contains the text "unable to init shader system". i have all the up to date system requirements, have reinstalled it many times, and have visited the tech support page which told me that i had to have the correct system requirements (which i have).i have even changed my display setting to 800*600, it still has the same error no matter what i do, i have even installed the patches and installed it in different languages. how can i get the game to work? please someone help!

New player coming, I just ordered the game.

The system requirements are a lie onthe box.  The actual minimum requirements were the recommended system.

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the thing is that i have way abouve the minimum syte requirments i have a gig of ram ewen it recomends 200

etc,,

The system requirements are a lie onthe box.  The actual minimum requirements were the recommended system.

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the thing is that i have way abouve the minimum syte requirments i have a gig of ram ewen it recomends 200

etc,,

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Try reinstalling DirectX, updating your DirectX version, or installing newer video card drivers. If you have an ATI card, try the latest Omega drivers.

 

You could also try the -dxlevel command line switch. For example, place -dxlevel 70 after the target of the exe in your bloodlines shortcut to run in DX7 mode. So that if it's installed to your C:\ drive under English Windows, the target would be

 

"C:\Program Files\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\vampire.exe" -dxlevel 70

The system requirements are a lie onthe box.  The actual minimum requirements were the recommended system.

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the thing is that i have way abouve the minimum syte requirments i have a gig of ram ewen it recomends 200

etc,,

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Try reinstalling DirectX, updating your DirectX version, or installing newer video card drivers. If you have an ATI card, try the latest Omega drivers.

 

You could also try the -dxlevel command line switch. For example, place -dxlevel 70 after the target of the exe in your bloodlines shortcut to run in DX7 mode. So that if it's installed to your C:\ drive under English Windows, the target would be

 

"C:\Program Files\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\vampire.exe" -dxlevel 70

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tried all that and have the l8est drivers so i dunno wat 2 do i just unistalled it again and now while im reinstalling it it says that a file os missing

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Sounds to me like your video card is incompatible with Source. What kind of video card do you have?

Sounds to me like your video card is incompatible with Source. What kind of video card do you have?

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RADEON 9200 SE is it compatible or have something 2 do with y it dont work

Edited February 3, 200619 yr by lordodark

Given the fact that Source supports TNT2 chipsets, it should run.

 

I'd suggest contact Valve and perhaps ATI.

I'd suggest contact Valve and perhaps ATI.

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how do i contack them?????????

ATI is easy. Just go to:

 

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894

 

You can contact folks from there or just go through the self help areas.

okay my latest problem is with installing it i unistaled it to try and fix some problems a while ago recently i have attempted to re install it when i insert disk two i get an error alerting me that dialouge is missing and that i need to verify it exists and is useable when i eventually find it on the disk i try to launch the audio anly to have windowws explorer crash to the desktop i try to install it but the game is now uninstallable how do i fix this i have 2 days left to return it should i get a new copy

Is your disc damaged?

For the "shader" thing....

 

Check to see if your graphics card supports Shader Model 3.0, which I believe is the newest one out there and it comes with Direct X 9.0.

 

I ran Bloodlines with a integrated GeForce 4, 512 MB of RAM (even though the video card was stealing 64 of it) and a 2 ghz processor. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but it installed and ran correctly when I used all the fixes on the vampireplanet forums. I don't think you need top-notch Shader support (b/c that integrated card sure didn't have it), but you might need some sort of support.

True. I guess Bloodlines could have different requirements than Half-Life 2.

 

THe Source engine should work with DirectX 7 cards though.

A quick noob question - I just picked up the game. Er, any idea on what patches to install, or where to get them from?

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A quick noob question - I just picked up the game. Er, any idea on what patches to install, or where to get them from?

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Install the official patch. I heard the unofficial patches cause problems.

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A quick noob question - I just picked up the game. Er, any idea on what patches to install, or where to get them from?

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Install the official patch. I heard the unofficial patches cause problems.

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The official patch leaves LOADS of bugs unsorted, because Troika closed soon after. Unofficial patches are still being released on the official forums. I think 1.5 was a good one. My 1.6 turned almost every NPC in the game to kindred, making it impossible to feed or successfully obfuscate. Only bums and hookers were still human, and since the patch also messed up my blood gauge they'd always die. Corrupted my savegame and messed up my hilarious Malk playthrough.

 

This was in the middle of last year, though - I've since uninstalled the game and a new patch was in the works even back then. Either way, it's a member of the forum who does the patches, so any problems would be highlighted in a thread. I'd still be playing it now, but my load times were often up to 30 minutes for just for entering new areas. At least I'd get useful things done while playing the game.

1.2 is the only official patch all the other patches just change superficial things according to the author's opinion.

Unofficial patches should just be that, patches. While fixing bugs is appreciated, making unrelated and arbitrary changes to the game is not. Giving the PC more than 20 experience points per solved quest or having every female vampire dress like Jeanette is not bug fixing. Might as well call them fan modifications because that's mostly what they are.

...having every female vampire dress like Jeanette is not bug fixing.

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That's what they've done with it now?! I know they'd moved some weapons around and such, but that's just stupid.

 

*Considers reinstalling Bloodlines and downloading patch*

...or having every female vampire dress like Jeanette is not bug fixing.

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Some people are pathetic, haven't they got anything better to do than ogle a pair of pixelated breasts. Really. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm in the middle of installing Better Bodies for Morrowind.