Thread 725332173

Each minor shitpost like a grain of sand, each night I inherit the VTMB thread.

>>725332173 (OP)
good evening

hi deb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyRzRTLvhg8
I miss those few weeks in 2019 when everyone was genuinely excited or at least carefully optimistic about Bloodlines 2. We had a lot of good threads full of OC and speculation. Who would have thought it'd turn out like this...

I just can't stop playing this game. I know almost every secret, every hidden line of dialogue, how to cheese the quests and combat, and yet I still keep coming back to it like a beaten girlfriend, desperate for more of the same.

>>725333779
It was a good time when Mitsoda and Rik were on board. Was looking forward to it.
And then we get the development hell radio silence; from that moment I knew whatever abortion crawled out of whatever developer got saddled with it would be abysmal.

>>725332173 (OP)
another uncslop thread?

>>725332173 (OP)
Just finished playing VTMB 2 and now I'm starting a new VTMB 1 playthrough as a palate cleanser.

>>725337303
>and Rik were on board
I genuinely felt nothing hearing Rik Schaffer was back for the sequel. Disappointment, if anything. I'm happy to hear the dude was doing much better in his life by the time they asked him to return for the sequel, but a lot of the beauty from the original game's soundtrack explicitly comes from the hardships he admitted he went through in life. The story of the Hollywood theme, for example.

As awful as it sounds, this is kind of key for coming up with good music. Like Jeremy Soule making an amazing Oblivion soundtrack after a car accident. Rik just wasn't going to have the same success twice without that traumatic muse in his life.

I binged some wod books recently, they have some cool art.

>>725337808
I see where you are coming from and it probably would have turned out a somewhat worse copy from the first one, but it would still have been very good I'm sure. This theme at least seemed promising enough. https://youtu.be/4e_RAsns1o8?si=P_8dFO7orJyN-FtA

>>725337459
The sequel was doomed from the start because it refused to be horny.
>"but the final boss--"
Didn't get my dick hard, wasn't horny enough.

>>725338495
Safia was the worst part of the whole fucking thing. Terrible character only made worse by not being able to call her out on her bullshit at any point during the entire ending sequence.

>>725338552
Safia was someone's player character. Calling out Safia means you're calling out the person who created her, specifically, and only a disgusting, hateful creature would try to insult someone's mastercrafted storytelling.

>>725333779
>Who would have thought it'd turn out like this...
me, it was already a fluke that the first vtmb was as good as it was despite the jank, i had zero faith that any development team could ever capture that lightning in a bottle again.

>>725332173 (OP)
>Antagonize Anarchs
>Get in bed with Kuei Jin
>Assassinate Primogen
>Incriminate an Anarch
>Scheme Diablerie
>Antagonize Werewolves
>Repeatedly back stab the only sap keeping all this going

It was a nearly perfect plan, the only flaw was literally every part.

>>725333779
>Who would have thought it'd turn out like this...
anyone with a brain

>>725333779
>I miss those few weeks in 2019 when everyone was genuinely excited or at least carefully optimistic about Bloodlines 2.
The moment CCP sold the IP, anyone with a brain knew it would be shit.

>>725338846
You knew that it would change developers three times, momentarily become a battle royal and then come out 6 years later as planned? I understand that doomposters were confirmed right, in hindsight, but still, the sheer scale of a trainwreck this became I think nobody really foresaw.

>>725339178
>momentarily become a battle royal
Isn't that a different game that did come out before VTMB2? Bloodhunt.

>>725338896
Desperate times call for desperate measures...

>>725339178
obviously i didn't foresee the development hell that it would go through, but i had no doubts that whatever came out would be bad. even had they assembled the entire original dev team of the first back together i wouldn't have had faith in it being good.

>>725338896
I still wouldn't call him stupid per se, just insanely arrogant. Also, to his defense, the player character was unexpectedly overpowered.

>mom comes home
>can't RP out loud anymore
life is pain

>>725339130
And still, it gave rise to a lot of anons replaying the original and near constant threads around the release of the trailer. It was a good time and I pity the pople who had nothing better to do than to doompost and shit on everything from the start.

>>725339782
I got some enjoyment out of the combat and parkouring around the city, jank as it was, but overall it was a pretty awful game even disregarding the Bloodlines name and considering it as its own stand-alone thing.

>>725332173 (OP)
Why didn't he just jump out the window?

>>725340173
He put all of his points into Domination instead of Fortitude and would not have survived the 950-foot drop propelled by an armament explosion.

>>725340173
He could barely walk after you attacked him

>>725332173 (OP)
>We'll never get kino like this every again
>Fucking decade long hiatus after Troika died trying to push WoD games
>We'll have another decade long hiatus after 2 flops
At least the CYOA games are good enough

so why didn't they make this game
vampire the requiem: nomad
?

>>725340982
they did

https://www.moddb.com/mods/frankenpatch-vanilla-fixedrebalanced

Finally finished up my fix+rebalance patch, a couple Anons said they were interested in it

>>725333779
VtM died in 2004. Everything related to the franchise that has come out since has been doomed to mediocrity.

>>725342884
Can you give a general gist of what bugs are left unfixed in this?

For me, it's the female Brujah.

>>725342884
Should this be installed over or in lieu of the UP?

>>725337459
Wow, I've actually never seen art of the fem Brujah before. fukken saved

>>725344216
Beautiful. Got any more?

>>725343927
Vendors will keep playing their random floats during trading if you're close to them, I came up with a fix for it but it was janky. The animation when you run up to Nines in the park, I didn't seem to be able to fix that so you're still running sideways. There are probably still some typos in dialogue and various missing sounds that need to be fixed for the maps and weapons. I don't think there are too many other issues left though.

>>725344165
You can have both or just this. It installs into its own folder, and you don't need the UP installed for it.

>>725344374
Cool, I'll give it a try without the UP installed and see how it goes. I've gotten sick of the constant UP changes even in the basic version.

Hyped to play hollywood!

https://youtu.be/HiSWsSA4grQ

>>725344707
Yeah soon before releasing it I decided to make it standalone since I figured not everyone would want the UP installed. Let me know if you find any bugs or have suggestions

I can't feel too butthurt about vtm2 turning out bad as the series never really belonged to gamers. It belongs to the ttrpgs people, and have zero interest in playing ttrpgs. I hope they are at least satisfied with current Vampire TTRpgs.

>>725345440
They're not, it's gayer than D&D 5th

>>725345486
Are the d&d people happy with their board games. I imagine most of the people who actually play them are s-o-y faced, quirky reddit folk.

>>725333779
>Who would have thought it'd turn out like this...
Anyone with half a brain could see it was never going to live up to the original. The development hell and info we'd get just cemented how much nothing the sequel was going to be.

>>725345617
dnd is fine for people who already played it because its fundamentally different than video games. we run a campaign, and have for years. new stuff came out thats tremendously gay and retarded so we just talk shit about it and then simply do not incorporate it in our games. we also do not give the company any more money as it continues to make trash. the state of the industry is not as important as is the state of "do I have a good table to play with"

>>725345617
I'm a d&d guy that's been running games for years and WotC have fucked it up so bad I've sworn off all their shit and have changed to running older editions from 30 fucking years ago instead. BG3 of all things ended up less gay and shit than anything WotC has published for 5e D&D.

>>725345440
the fun thing about tabletop is that you don't need to care about anything the parent company does at all

>>725345440
lol

>tfw get a game with best clan
>its shit
shadowbros.... not like this

>>725339178
>momentarily become a battle royal
what

I was thinking about VtM a bit the other day and I remembered that the City Gangrel existed and that they were the most retarded munchkin shit around (assuming you wanted to play VtM as a combat game).

>>725345486
troons are happy with it. vtm has just become a troon echo chamber. nearly everybody that plays it is a troon.