VtM Bloodlines v8.8 unofficial patch by Wesp5

http://gamebanshee.com/news/112552-vampire-bloodlines-v88-unofficial-patch-released.html

 

Wesp is my hero.

 

Ok

 

I wonder if he will ever stop.

Also, I must finally try the game with all these fixes. Only played vanilla, actually.

 

I wonder too. I'm not sure if I should commend him for his dedication to the game or refer him to a psychologist.

 

Wesp is still working on this???? Holy fuck, thats dedication!

 

Doesn't sound like he plans on stopping anytime soon:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...he-story-of-vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines

 

This dude is a total autistic bro.

Time for another VtmB playthrough

 

Ah shit, just when I said I'd never replay vampire any more. Oh well! Here we go!

 

On another note, what does this Free-roaming mod do ? (I'm guessing it enables free roaming during endgame) Has anybody tried it ?

 

Just created a new character to play in a new VtM chronicle with my old p&p group... Guess I'll take the opportunity and give him a spin in Bloodlines then.
Time to replay this shit for the 7th time !

 

Didn't one of the previous updates 'restore' a Sabbat ending? Has anyone tried that out?

 

That was the clan quest mod i think.

 

There was (is) a dumb bug in bloodlines that prevents a great deal of voice-acting from being heard.
You know how most non-combat areas have little environmental audio sections? You pass through a place the first time, audio plays, like the cops on the exit of the parking lot. Turns out, a lot of combat maps have the similar audio binded to npcs conversations, but it is naturally turned off when entering combat mode, which is fine.
What is not fine, is that it is ALSO turned off when loading a savegame on that map. The saveload process jumps over a part of the npc/map initialization i suspect.

Wesp managed to 'fix' this for the audio during the gang briefcase retrieval quest if you go stealth, but i think that the way it was 'fixed' was by placing audio triggers outside of npcs, so i was avoided and the same solution is probably not viable for all the many many voiceovers on combat maps.

BTW, this means that to hear some audio in bloodlines you have to ghost levels without reloading once

 

You don't sound certain. Can anyone confirm? It'd be a blast, you know

 

What about that Resurgence project or what it was called? When is it ready and will it be Wesp-compatible, anbody know?

 

They seem to be still alive.

 

You're expecting a bit too much of what would basically be a hackneyed cutscene re-purposing animation not intended for the situation is very badly done stuttering in-engine cutscenes, if it even has the decency of affecting the endings in any way instead of only adding some mid-game *nudge-nudge* unvoiced or voice 'shaped' very uncanny valley conversation with Andrei. Forget about a full-fledged mid-game faction with a Elysium, questgivers and C&C, would be horrible to insert animations for believable monstrous sabbat. Playing some quests on Clan Quest mod made me give up on a general faction expansion of the game (a few quests are really nice though, mostly those that don't require new animation in anyway or touch original npcs in plot-affecting ways).

Bloodlines has the 'distinction' of being frustratingly close to being a very moddable continuously supported engine with plenty of modders tools but being very far indeed (just the valve cutscene animator thing would work great for modders). Nothing can solve the voice problems though, except what multimillion dollars companies regularly do when expanding a game whose actor is unavailable: they hire another actor to revoice everything or make the expansion not have a fucking thing to do with the main game npcs. Which is a bit silly for a bloodlines Sabbat fan expansion.

 

Would the patch work on an existing save? I started playing a week ago with the previous patch.

 

If you have to ask that question the answer is always 'definitively not'

 

It worked for me though.

 

I was right, it was from the unofficial patch. From the 8.7 patch notes:

 

Any special steps to use this with the steam version of this game?

 

No.

 

Playing Camarilla mod that's based on Wesp's 8.5 patch, is it worth it to just uninstall it and play only with latest wesp (8.8)?