Mod News Vampire Bloodlines companion mod

[DarkUnderlord]

Tags: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

If you've ever wanted companions in your Bloodlines, <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/vtmbcompmodhome/">you might want to try this new mod</a> built on top of the 5.6 Unofficial Patch:
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<blockquote>VTMB CompMod enhances Vampires: The Masquerade Bloodlines by allowing you to recruit other NPCs to join your party and travel with you throughout the game. Other enhancements include:
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* Ability to possess your traveling companions and use their special abilities from afar (if desired).
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* Ability to embrace select human companions later in the game.
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* Place party members around your haven in an assortment of animated poses
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* Tell party members to change outfits.
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* Supports installable outfit packs.
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* Access to secondary traveling inventory through companion dialog.
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* Over 250 dialog responses were crafted from existing audio to support new transition conversations with companions.
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* Access to secondary traveling inventory through companion dialog.</blockquote>
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There's also a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh9qwRJHx1I">YouTube video of the features in action</a>. <a href="http://files.filefront.com/VTMB+Companionod/;13350196;/fileinfo.html">Version 1.0 of the mod</a> was released a few days ago.
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Thanks <b>ghostdog</b>!

 

[Forest Dweller]

Won't this completely fuck up the game balance?

 

[Jung]

Yay, I can play dolly dressup with the npcs!

 

[Jaime Lannister]

Won't this completely fuck up the game balance?

haha vtmb game "balance"

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

Great, now we need Melirinda to write a romance mod for this one, and the best will finally reach perfection.

 

[Forest Dweller]

Won't this completely fuck up the game balance?

haha vtmb game "balance"

It's a matter of degree, dear sir.

 

[Carceri]

Place party members around your haven in an assortment of animated poses

WTF?

 

[Ogg]

That has always been the problem with VtM. It can be a great RPG with a good setting, an emphasis on politics and player relationships. But it almost always ends up as a game for emo fags.

 

[MetalCraze]

VtmB desperately needed this thing out of all.

 

[Krash]

Real roleplaying at last!

 

[sheek]

LOL, I think it's an awesome idea. Won't help game balance at all but if you've played VtmB before the only challenge is in repetition and this makes it worth a replay.

VtmB desperately needed this thing out of all.

It's already had 56 patches worth of bug-fixing and gameplay improvements. I don't think there's much more it 'needs' until it can be modded with new characters and quests creating a new game (any word on Bloodlines Revival?). This is fun and it's interesting just to know it could be done.

Admit it, you just like to bitch.

 

[Jaesun]

What a fucking stupid mod.

The only mod I have wanted for VtM:B, was for you to make a Male Ghoul (instead of the default Female one).

 

[Xor]

I'm still waiting for that conversion mod that would bring Vtm:B over to the current version of the Source engine, mods would probably start springing up then.

 

[sheek]

That's called Bloodlines Revival.

 

[elander_]

* Ability to embrace select human companions later in the game.

If i recall you need permission from your vampire prince to embrace anyone, otherwise the intro movie shows what happens if you don't.

 

[racofer]

* Ability to embrace select human companions later in the game.

If i recall you need permission from your vampire prince to embrace anyone, otherwise the intro movie shows what happens if you don't.

Hey, keep your coherence away from my mod!

 

[burrie]

Check the videos. The Prince actually grants you permission before you can embrace someone in the mod.

Overall, I like the idea of this mod... the latter stuff just sounds so... gratutious.

 

[Lyric Suite]

a good setting

It's about vampires. Doesn't that make it fail by default?

 

[M_I_C_K_E_Y_M_O_U_S_E]

Only on the codex. Most people are normal though, unfortunately for you.

 

[denizsi]

Now you can totally avoid combat, by using others, heh.

 

[Lurkar]

It's just a matter of time before someone makes a full nudity mod. Then its the worse of Morrowind all over again.

 

[NiM82]

It's just a matter of time before someone makes a full nudity mod. Then its the worse of Morrowind all over again.

Urm, the nude mods for Bloodlines came out days after it's release.

 

[WalterKinde]

Had Troika not gone under and VTMB had been a mega hit i am betting the sequel would have had companions/a party.
So its good to see what might have been.

 

[sheek]

As did it's 'predecessor' Redemption. I think companions do make games less actiony, which was my main complaint about Bloodlines, it was too 'epic' and cinematic (a single newly embraced Vampire killing several thousand people including a few hundred other vampires and several elder generation vamps in, apparently, a week or two). Parties produce their own problems but they bring out the potential for tactical depth.

 

[Double Ogre]

Here's an interesting bit from an Arcanum developer chat, June 26, 2001.

[Fintilgin] Does Troika have a philosophical or other preference for the isometric 3rd person POV (2d/3d irrelevent), or is there any chance we might see a first-person perspective Troika RPG at some point in the future? Personally I prefer 1st person, as it's the difference between ]playing[ a character, and ]being[ a character.
[Leon] it's hard to do parties with a first prson perspective
[shellman] I haven't liked the party controls in any of the first persons so far
[TimCain] I think we will try first-person one day, but it makes for a VERY different game and groups are almost impossible to control
[Leon] but we never rule anything out
[Steve[Troika]] Personally I think each has its own severe limitations, and really its up to the game mechanics to make it come out good.