Vampire Bloodlines Fan Patch

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SimpleMinded

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Hey, so I was over at the Gamespy forums and they were having a big talk about Vampire Bloodlines. One person mentioned a fan made patch that is now up to version 2.3 that was supposed to fix bugs for the game. Has anyone tried it out? Is it worth using?

http://www.3dgamers.com/games/vampirebloodlines/downloads/

According to the text file,
Included the unused histories so that each clan has seven plus none.
Swapped trouble making history conditions with similar limitations.
Provided twenty places for Malkavian voice whispers during dialogue.
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I thought these especially sounded interesting, as it adds histories that supposedly act in the same way as Arcanum's trait things. Likewise, making Malkavians even more insane seems a nice plus.

Anyone try it? If this was mentioned somewhere else in the forums, sorry, didnt't see it.
 
havent tried it. seems cool though. (but buggy if you read the warnings :s)

as for making malkies more insane? the insanity level ingame is good enough tbh. all malkies are slightly different in their insanity.

i'd say a tv talking to YOU personally (and telling you bad jokes), weird insight, totally wack dialog options & so on is plenty already.

i really do love how you can make a maffia thug believe his friends are salmon & he a bigass hungry poppabear...

i think i'll patch it & play the nosferatu line when i have some time, never did that.

(my favs are the girl tremere & the gangrel dude)
 
RPGCodex has extensive coverage of the progression of this fan-patch.

I've never used it, though I might try it out in the future. The problem with this patch is that for every problem it fixes, it add dubious and unwanted "fan improvements" (not to mention, when they seem to find a cut item or piece of dialogue, they seem to automatically restore it for little good reason).

Some examples (and I'm ignoring every time they added an unused model for no purpose or useless cut dialogue):
Making love to Jeanette is now possible regardless of the storyline.
Made Empire clerk bisexual, responding to Seduction from either sex.
Granted occult hacking powerup as reward for doing Mitnick's quest.
Made cemetery quest easier and fixed Romero raising female firearms.
Lessened the sway of zoomed weapons and balanced with magnification.
Replaced some male hunters at the Leopold Society with female ones.
Made Yukie give you the Ra blade instead of taking it from Chastity.
Provided 1 xp for keeping Zhao alive and modified quest accordingly.
Awarded 1 xp for killing Bruno Giovanni and changed log accordingly.
Re-branded Uzi, Mac 10, Glock 17c, Ithaca and both Remingtons guns.
Awarded 1 xp for getting Imalia's magazine to compensate money loss.
 
I played a earlier version of the patch, I found Yuki giving you the Ra blade a bit odd. Better than finding it in an abandoned hotel, but they'd taken out the speech options for you to ask her about the sword and trying to buy it when you first meet her (IIRC) which made her then turn around and give it to you (out of the blue) a bit odd. Otherwise typical fan patch, for everything they'd added or repaired there's something else that had been changed as Kotario pointed out.

Worth downloading and playing if you've got bored of playing the default game perhaps, but there wasn't any major changes or fixes that I couldn't live without.

IIRC you could enable the histories without this patch, but some of the descriptions are up missing/corrupted.
 
Last fanpatch I tried was 1.8, the one after that was bugged so I couldn't play it.
All in all it added some stuff that made the game better. Making the Romero quwst easier is the best thing IMHO, as that quest was too hard (especially on a slower PC).
Histories are also interesting and worth a replay.
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
Last fanpatch I tried was 1.8, the one after that was bugged so I couldn't play it.
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last i had was 2.1
cant really complain about anything.

i find it rather logical that you get the Ra blade from ze jap schoolgirl tentacle rape demon hunter.
some other fixes were really needed, but some stuff is a bit over the edge... getting a pendant that increases lockpicking just by finding it in your own downtown safe haven? bah...

but then again, you can buy amulets from a certain vendor as well...
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
All in all it added some stuff that made the game better.
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agreed.
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
Making the Romero quwst easier is the best thing IMHO, as that quest was too hard (especially on a slower PC).
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ye bloody pantsie! learn to play!

was it really that hard? cant remember it was... probably easier for chars with firearms and certain spells/abilities of course, but while i remember failing it with some less 'ranged' characters, i do remember completing it without too many tries in the end.
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
Histories are also interesting and worth a replay.
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i just hope the histories dont make it buggier.
 
ye bloody pantsie! learn to play!
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you know you can finish that quest in a much easier fashion, right? :look:

And if you go with the hack the zombies option you have to have either good ranged capabilities or at least an average alacrity, otherwise you just get swarmed in the last minute...
 
yeah, but fun.

i like a good challenge... dumbing it down doesnt bring much to the game, does it? if i want a simple walk-over i'll do a "giftxp 1000; impulse 101;" thank you very much.

keeping Holywood safe from a wave of zombies for a ghoul called Romero, you simply gotta love it.

with a serious character, you either have firearms skill or advanced spells when you hit Holywood, so it's fine. if you're fooling around with a speech or pure melee guy, you'll have some trouble, but it's not a required quest, it's optional.

anyhow, i've been playing with 2.3 for a while now & havent met any bugs or annoying stuff yet. looking good. i'm not playing with histories though.
 
There's a new fan patch out, and unlike these previous ones it doesn't add questionable content. All it does is fix bugs and makes the game work like it was supposed to. Allegedly. Also, note teh drama! around it: NSFW Link. Apparently they also host some nude patches, but ignore those.
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
Apparently they also host some nude patches, but ignore those.
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That's one way to say that as soon as you open that website you will be bombarded by nude game characters of questionable quality.

The drama around the patch is sort-of interesting, in a pithy internet ego sort of way. It was created by Tessera (apparently famous in the WoW community for being a drama queen) and Acrimonious, the latter of which did all the technical work. Tessera simply hosts the patch, does some testing, and creates all the associated drama. You can read this thread at the Codex to get a sense of that; Wesp5, the creator of the other patch, also makes a special guest appearance. Tessera is also apparently the one responsible for all the nude stuff.
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
There's a new fan patch out, and unlike these previous ones it doesn't add questionable content. All it does is fix bugs and makes the game work like it was supposed to. Allegedly. Also, note teh drama! around it: NSFW Link. Apparently they also host some nude patches, but ignore those.
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I can't believe she's offended that Bethesda removed links to nude patches, especially after developers got into trouble for having a lingering boob skin lying around in the game somewhere.

Also, why do videogame tits always have to be insanely huge?

PS: Whoa, the drama!
 
Unkillable Cat said:
To make the drama even funnier...Tessera is a man.
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Wait, somebody involved in creating gigantic, bulbous breat modifications for CRPGs is male?

Get outta town!

Alternate punchline: Wait, somebody with a female(ish) name on the internet is male?
 
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