Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines

Discuss any and everything related to this cult classic.

On a personal note, here's what I think of all the female NPCs in V:tMB.

Goddess-tier:
>VV
>Heather Poe
>Jeanette/Therese Voerman
>Deb of Night

Hot-tier
>Damsel
>Ming Xiao
>Venus Dare
>Misti
>Tawni Sessions
>Nadia Milliner
>Mira Giovanni
>Snuff tape victim
>Junkie girl at Brotherhood crackhouse
>Asylum/Confession/Asp Hole blood dolls
>Citizen in party dress
>Carson's poster of Imalia

Low-tier
>Lily
>Samantha
>Rosa
>Jezebel Locke
>Kerri
>Chastity
>Yukie
>Red Dragon blood doll
>Raver girl
>Goth girl

Imalia-tier
>Patty
>Pisha
>Kiki Ho
>Maria Giovanni

What will bomb harder?
CDProjekts cyberpunk game or Obsidians VtM sequel?
Discuss.

A vampire sequel, probably. Cyberpunk has a broader appeal.

Is the vidya that good? The tabletop rpg is quite shitty, someone gifted it to my role playing group

Nah, if you didn't like the tabletop then the game wouldn't interest you either. Is pretty much a streamlined and simplified version.

What Generation was the PC?

Most likely, he was a 7th Gen Kindred (or at most, 8th). The PC's blood is very strong, which explains why he survives with virtually no initiation from his Sire.

Obsidian can't write for shit. So a Vampire sequel.

8th if we go by the blood pool. He survives because it is convenient for the plot, not enough lore or clues to why he survived and did what he did other than he was a neonate in an areas full of them.

Hey, drawanon from If you're still around, I'm not picky about the resolution. Would be grateful for anything, pretty much.

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This is not how you start a Bloodlines thread OP

Now, what the fuck was LaCroix smoking at the beginning of the game?

>Preaches about the importance of maintaining the Masquerade
>Releases a recently embraced childe into the greater LA area
>no idea wtf they are
>no clue about the powers they posses
>could accidentally frenzy in the middle of nowhere because they weren't taught to feed

Seriously if Jack wasn't there to mentor the player they'd have hunters and news outlets on their ass as soon as they landed in Santa Monica

What are the best weapons? Just started the game as a brujah.

>He survives because it is convenient for the plot, not enough lore or clues to why he survived and did what he did other than he was a neonate in an areas full of them.

The Prince got greedy and, rather than execute the bastard childe as intended, figured he had a powerful underling willing to achieve all his ends no matter the means, figuring the spared one would owe dandy prince his unlife.

Katana and the Tal'Mahe'Ra sword. Brujah is made for Melee and Gangrel brawl.

>The Prince got greedy and, rather than execute the bastard childe as intended, figured he had a powerful underling willing
He would have the PC killed if Nines didn't intervene. LaCroix is in a very fragile situation, he can't really maintain his domain and the possibility of a rebellion by the anarch's was getting higher as the nights passed.

Fuck you Imalia is best girl!

So the story goes. Yes, even the Regent agrees this was the case, but if LaCroix was resolute, he would've told the Anarchs to fuck off and let business proceed as intended. They lost San Francisco and were in no position to lose Los Angeles.

The Anarchs certainly saw opportunity once LaCroix allowed PC to live, but it was still his decision.

This
How could anyone dislike Imalia?

>CDProjekts cyberpunk game
>bombing

So don't go guns at all? Just melee?

>Obsidians VtM sequel
it will not bomb, but it will be utter shit

Some points, but not as your focus. Brujah has potence which makes them killing machines with melee. Guns get OP at the mid-end, but as Brujah you'll get more out of swords.
Toreador for Guns, Auspex is perfect for that(you can go up to 15 points in ranged).

I'll never understand this meme. I liked every game Obsidian's put out.

>Toreador for Guns, Auspex is perfect for that
and celerity

No account for shit taste.

>animegirl posting lorefaggot isn't here

Just stake me in my torpor already.

PoE and Tyranny are pretty divisive. For a lot of people, Obsidian haven't released anything good in the last 5 or so years.
I can't stand those two, partially because you won't get anywhere good when you're just mimicking an already mediocre game. And this is coming from someone who loves Obsidian and Sawyer personally.

>Seriously if Jack wasn't there to mentor the player they'd have hunters and news outlets on their ass as soon as they landed in Santa Monica
if jack wasn't there there'd be on screen instructions or something

>vampires are weak/scared of fire
>bullets in general suck against them

Why not just use tracer rounds? You can buy them in 9mm.

>buying tracer rounds against vampires
Vampires aren't real, Gomez.

Well obviously, but you'd think hunters would be packing tracers or even pic related for when they're going after fangfaces.

There's a Masquerade for a reason. Vamps are quite aware that they'd get their fangs kicked in if humans ever wised up.

>vampires are weak/scared of fire
>some of them smoke cigarettes

Even vampires like to live dangerously user

The funny thing about hunters is that they're still bound to the laws of the land and most law enforcement agencies don't look too highly upon discharging dragon's breath rounds in crowded urban areas.

Anyone ever try a no XP run (as in can't spend it on improvements)? I imagine it'd be an immense slog, if not outright impossible later on, but after so many playthroughs I need something fresh to keep things interesting.

Motherfucker hunters regularly break the law. They dont give a fuck.

He was expecting you to die.

Is the new plus patch out?

If you were a vampire how would you deal with crazy catholic LARPers trying to give you final death?

The Beta for 9.7 is.

call in the local crazy orthodox LARPers

If the writing is anything like Dracula's 'update' for a VtM fiction story, then... yes. 'Full ass-rape stiffness' and 'gagging on my bleeding junk'. Oh joy.

Neither do most meth dealers but they don't start screaming "I got the drugs in my car, bitch!" when driving past a cop.

There's a difference between having a disregard for the law and casually flaunting it. The Kindred have the cops in their pocket, anyway.

>If the writing is anything like Dracula's 'update' for a VtM fiction story

I'm probably gonna regret this, but what happens there?

Thanks a bunch mate!

He added a bit of a short fiction to the end of an anthology. It's horrible. Here are two choice lines:


>So we whiled away the long gloom of anticipation before the hunt pretending to fuck like a suburban couple, red satin sheets and plastic tarps under the mattress hiding the blood-cum stains... She screamed as I sucked and threw me straight through the solid pine wall as she came.

>Screaming in lust from the concentrated spunk in my groins- blood, the Akalia started to wriggle out of its dirty jeans, still gagging on my bleeding junk. It let go only to suck in air, preparing to turn its centuries- dormant sexual organs into full ass-rape stiffness.

Man, they're not even bothering to tone this retarded shit down anymore, are they?

This was his plan the entire time. He didn't kill just because Nines stepped in

Eh, a bit too silly. He seems to be trying too hard.

It's just Dracula. He wants everthing to be mature-dark and be able to use real-world tragedies in vampire for catharsis. People have literally had to run damage control on thing's he's said after Paradox bought WW.

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So if there was going to be a new VtM vidya (which they have stated they want to release by 2018), what do you want to see in it?

Myself?
>Core 7 Camarilla Clans
>A Camarilla-controlled city showing the normal mode of play for VtM: prince, seneschal, court, etc.
>More social options late-game
>More character customization

I want a game in Rio de Janeiro with Gangrena Gasosa as the soundtrack.
Rio mostly because you don't need to be constrained by sect and it would give the player more clans and choices, as well as being able to construct more lore. Maybe something on Amarildo disappearance would be neat.

Has anyone played this? Playing through it for the 3rd time, its very solid desu

A Sabbat ending just because I want the option of being an evil bastard. Let the Tzimisce fucking Vicissitude me into a fleshy golem. I don't care. Just let me do it.

Was my first vamp rpg - Loved the story.

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Fuck off cancer.

>replying to bait

Literally a general on Sup Forums, please kill yourself, you have one thread on /vg/ already.

>want to play dark ages
>want to be a byzantine tzimisce
>can't because sascha memekos exists
suffering

>finally get guns
>they're shit
getting to the modern times was neat but the new weapons never outclassed the old ones.

I've seen it done before as Tremere. Never done it myself. I'm sure it's possible if you have enough patience.

>Tyranny

Holy shit, I have completely forgotten that Tyranny came out. Did you guys play it, how was it?

It's decent and comfy.

>its very solid
Except for the most retarded AI that has ever been in a video game.

>Obsidians VtM sequel

AYO HOL UP... *drinks blood* LEMME GET DIS STRAIGHT... *isolates* YOU BE SAYIN.... LIKE..... *gets shat on by sabbat* WE BE GETTIN SUM... *obfuscates* LIKE... SUM FINNA... *hires prostitute* YOU TELLIN ME... *hears fucked up voices* SO WHAT YOU SAYIN IS.... *opens it* WE BE GETTIN A SEEKWULLLL?

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I'm kind of afraid Obsidian is just gonna pigeon hole themselves in making exclusively isometric rpgs.
Their strongest game was a mediocre fps with really good world building and writing.

What did he mean by this?

Fire Axe will get you through most of the game.
That and the brush hook and sledgehammer.

blood splatter

Is this guy tremere?
I thought tremere never joined the sabbat.

Reference to Gallagher

Goratrix took his whole lineage and joined as the Tremere Antitribu. The big thing is they were almost completely destroyed, in the book metaplot, in like 2000. There's very few left (one book says none at all).

Goratrix defected to the Sabbat during the sect formation(although house Goratrix was killed in 1999, some did survive though), there's also a bunch of baltic tremere without the traitors mark.

there's some antitribu

>obsidian can't write for shit

this is actually true now.

That's an interesting shirt.

Probably one of the cool cats that followed Goratrix.
There's also that cooky Tremere offshoot branch from the Baltic.

It's the light leather armor you get in Hollywood.

This. Without Jack's intervention, the PC would have died the following morning when the sun rose.

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Was staked, has a thirst for blood and "master" that transformed you by sucking your blood was killed by beheading... Naw, I think any smart MC would have avoided the sun.

Nah, they would've fear frenzied and ran for cover, since that's what the Beast does when faced with rotschreck. May have still died, but would've run for it in bestial frenzy of OH FUCK THE EVIL DAYSTAR.

>Lily
>Low tier

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>two hours later
>new patch still downloading
thanks patches-scrolls.

Been playing it a shit ton over last few days. How far in is the werewolf encounter? I just crushed the thing, but I have classes tommorow so I don't know if I should stay up and finish it or wait.

You're right near the end of the game.

I don't know why he doesn't just put alternate links to shit like mega.nz and such. It's faster than the patches site.

Anybody need a ride?

He probably has a deal with them, they're slow as balls but they do work. I think Mega kills links for a bit if they get too much traffic.

Caine-sama!

Yes, away from here.

>oWoD game made by CDPR

I have never felt this much want.

Fun fact.
This is referenced in the Gehenna novel, when Kapaneus/Caine talks about 'projecting his spirit out of Kaymakli' where he's been in self-imposed exile for the past four centuries.

How do vampire hunters even survive longer than a week in WoD?

Stealth, Subterfuge, never attacking a vampire/sueprnatural fuckface unless they hold a massive advantage (it's daytime, they know where the creature's lair is, they have proper tools and items prepared).
It's basically all about preperation. And luck

They're basically Batman
Gadgets, dedication and perpetration.