World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 from Hardsuit Labs and Brian Mitsoda

All Hardsuit need to do is let you put snap clips in your hair and Bloodlines 2 will be the goat of style

And fyi in the latest world of darkness stream Outstar said at least part of the main story is fighting over the blood trade and who controls it in Seattle!

 

Can a martyr suffer through this and see if they say anything worthwile?

 

I watched the bloodlines 2 part on twitch but can't remember anything except the blood trade thing I already mentioned but someone does a recap of the whole thing on reddit!

https://www.reddit.com/r/vtmb/comments/gg0ss5/weekly_world_of_darkness_news_show_recap_3/

 

Since this thread is deader than methuselah in torpor, here - have a picture.

 

I would argue it was:

1. The improperly-managed professionalization that these studios underwent after achieving critical and some financial success
   
2. The poorly-managed increase in personnel that ultimately did not reflect the original talent that made these studios so successful, and could not have produced those old games even if they wanted to
   
3. The adoption of taylorist workflows to accommodate 1 and 2, which were also incapable of capturing the process(es) that lead to the "need" for 1.

 

Judging by the ratings you got, not many people found the dancing wolf thing

 

What we have here is a barely functional but stupidily ineffective way to make hair flow, because Nvidia hairworks is patented shit.

Using tessellation to create hair effects that's so stupid. Only Nvidia.

The open source TressFX works better on their own Geforce cards then their dumbass "tech".

Think about it. Their "hairworks" is such a poorly thought out API, that another API, not even specifically designed for Nvidia GPUs, runs better on Nvidia GPUs than "hairworks".

 

It's the new thing. Discussing tire textures is old hat.

 

Kinda like Nvidia's ray tracing at the moment. One might even suspect that they are deliberately making its hardware implementation in current generation cards shit so that they will have something to market newer cards with...

Still, flowing hair looks great in Witcher 3 even without Hairworks, that cutscene with Geralt and Vesemir after the tutorial is impressive.

 

Man, don't underestimate facial animations. VtMB demonstrates a fine example of how to properly animate human faces. And this example stands out even today, 16 years later. Like, how much of modern games feature lifeless wooden NPCs? Or imagine VtMB characters with that wax unmoving faces of modern games: instant nosedive in immersion. Or better, imagine Bethesda trying to do anything like Theresa/Jeanette confrontation and how awful it'll be. Sadly, it's seems that modern devs are more interested in hair physics and shiny particles than in creating believable NPCs.

 

I agree completely. Also Troika made a system so that the emotions could be triggered by simple commands during dialogues, no special cutscene animations or anything needed!

 

It's a hit-or-miss feature really. It worked the same way in NWN2 but was awful.

 

So will there be any references to Vampire Masquarade: Redemption in this? Christof sword being the strongest melee weapon or a diary mentioning the death of the leader of Society of Leopold's. Would be cool AF in my book.

 

There could be Bloodlines 2 stuff next week!

 

Good. I could use a good chuckle.

 

Was that canon?

 

Midway through LA by Night. Love Nelli G and Cynthia Marie, but Toreador are completely useless.

 

If there was any Bloodlines 2 stuff this week it’s been delayed to show support for BLM!

 

Can we just cancel black people instead?

 

weak

if they really wanted to show support, they'd upload videos of vamps drinking black people's blood and proclaiming they find it as tasty as all other races

 

I swear i've read the same exact retarded "more important voices to hear right now" from ten different companies already fucking pussies

 

Leftwing activists work behind the scenes to give companies the same graphics/statement.

 

Eh, it’s just a cut and paste job. All these companies are trying to keep their heads down, so there’s no percentage in publishing a unique message. Definitely PR language rather than left wing activist language (which would just say black lives matter rather than kinda sorta implying it).

I can’t think of many statements more anodyne than “there are more important voices to hear right now.” Classic PR talk that commits you to nothing. Conveys a tone of respect and deference without actually endorsing any particular message.

 

There is absolutely a group telling all these companies to post this particular message. Nothing happens by whims with these people.

 

I think Paradox is so caring about black people as Disney that pretty much tried at all costs to hide John Boyega on chinese Star Wars posters and placed a mask over the face of the guy that made Black Panther also because of the chinese market. The same John Boyega they supported officially on the Twitter because he supported BLM, in the end, Twitter is for free anyway.