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NecroLord
Dumbfuck!
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I think Mercurio is actually almost 60.
It's the vampire blood he gets fed with that keeps him fresh.
Even faithfully upscaled textures that 100% match the originals will often visibly contrast with the still lower resolution meshes, effects and animations. In a way it can actually make the game look older compared to the original where you might stop noticing the lower texture resolution after getting used to it whereas the dissonance of high resolution textures with low poly models remains noticeable. It's a similar effect to 1080p remasters of old TV series where what used to be rocks are now clearly paper props.
And I'm not even saying that this means you shouldn't use upscaled textures (I often use them myself) but its worth keeping this in mind instead of blindly following a bigger = better mindset. Heck, it might even be a desirable effect when replaying your old favorites.
I too agree. The game has aged rather well, and at any rate, trying to modernize some of its parts... I feel it's as if the game were a good bread, and someone added several layers of butter to it, sprinkled it with sugar, and presented it as a cake. Sure, skills were used and all, but it inevitably falls flat, with the modernized parts sticking out sorely.
Forsooth, with HD textures, the cake is a lie yet again.
Btw, my attempt to reshade the game into kind of an SVGA look came, obviously, from nostalgia. I believe it's 'an allowed' attempt because it doesn't follow that bigger=better blind mindset, but goes at it the other way around as in making the game look even older. Not towards the horribly angular 3D beginnings, but towards the beloved SVGA adventures, or Blood FPS, that kind of stuff. I understand that some would find it ugly all the same, but at the very least, the idea doesn't try to build that fake cake at the expense of the game's initial charm.
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Old One
Arcane
I made a simple Reshade profile that made the shadows darker so vampire abilities that allowed you to see things in the dark became more valuable.
Nice!
Since we compare our dicks here with ReShades, I post two more. Have been working on those for the last two days. I mean it in a friendly way, your dick is cool for sure!
Visual Novel Cel-Shaded VtM:B
Toggleable Flashlight (ReShade based)
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La vie sexuelle
Learned
14th generation thinbloods can still sire, but 15th generation ones cannot, because no vampire can have more than 13 generations between him/herself and Cain.
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I might be mistaken here a little bit, I think 14th generation vampires have a 50% chance of being thinbloods, and the half which isn't thinblooded can still sire, but the half which is thinblooded cannot. 15th generation vampires have a 100% chance of being thinbloods, making them the final generation. Also, thinbloods can occur at any generation, but the ones above gen-14 are vanishingly rare.
Plus, I remember reading about a Tremere blood ritual that can temporarily raise (or lower) another vampire's generation, to reduce (or increase) their power. If this ritual ever causes a vampire's generation to go up to 16 or higher, that vampire instantly dies, because a 16th generation vampire cannot exist.
"Math!" - Count Chocula, or whatever that muppet is.
SixDead
Scholar
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Just want to share cool moment I had right now, playing for the 1st time.
I came to fight with the China-man vampire, I didn't invest in melee and suck in combat, spent all my blood and bullets on him, he had about 25% of health, and so did I.
I was sneacking from him, thought I'm fucked, but then BAM! I lost control on my character, and he ran out from the hiding and killed the motherfucker on his own!
It was a realy fun moment, thank you for reading my post.
I came to fight with the China-man vampire, I didn't invest in melee and suck in combat, spent all my blood and bullets on him, he had about 25% of health, and so did I.
I was sneacking from him, thought I'm fucked, but then BAM! I lost control on my character, and he ran out from the hiding and killed the motherfucker on his own!
It was a realy fun moment, thank you for reading my post.
Lifesaving frenzy, eh? Happens, happens.
Ivan
Arcane
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