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

[conan_edw]

 

[Prime Junta]

What was wrong with the character sheet interface in B1?

 

[Wunderbar]

GEOMETRIC SHAPES

 

[rusty_shackleford]

GEOMETRIC SHAPES

circles are shapes

 

[conan_edw]

Spending points wasn't really that pleasant and it could use some space regrouping and have the numbers shown for faster readability.

 

[Black]

Spending points wasn't really that pleasant

Wot? How is exp spending supposed to be "pleasant"?

 

[The Great ThunThun*]

Jeezus men. All he is saying is that it will look better. Might be more graphical i.e. less like a sheet and more visually attractive. Of course you can debate which one is better, the correct answer is it does not matter if you can somehow read the underlying numbers by hovering mouse over the models.

 

[Lacrymas]

Equality at every stat level!

 

[Black]

Calm down, I just don't see how "exp spending" should be pleasant. It already is plenty pleasant, you spend it and your character gets better. That's whack.

 

[Diggfinger]

Brian Mitsoda might appear on Matt Chat in the near future. Here are the words from the man himself:
"So this was the reason I couldn't do Matt Chat previously, but let me ask Paradox marketing if they are cool with this right now. If they aren't, I can make sure it happens when I can more freely talk about the ins and outs of BL2"

(double-post)

 

[Master]

They can make it like blood flowing down a wall, and you directing the little blood trail by skill choices so in the end it looks like your engraved "bloodline" on some ancient crypt.

 

[conan_edw]

Spending points wasn't really that pleasant

Wot? How is exp spending supposed to be "pleasant"?

Maybe I didn't clarify what I meant but going over each attribute or skill and clicking on the empty circle isn't as good as just increasing or decreasing the numbers by arrows. Also, it's not as fast to skim everything in the sheet with no numbers for each stat

 

[Jimmious]

Actually the char sheet in VtM:B resembles the actual char sheet of the VtM pen and paper RPG. The circles were a "standard":

Spoiler

 

[Black]

Spending points wasn't really that pleasant

Wot? How is exp spending supposed to be "pleasant"?

Maybe I didn't clarify what I meant but going over each attribute or skill and clicking on the empty circle isn't as good as just increasing or decreasing the numbers by arrows

It's the same thing.

 

[conan_edw]

Actually the char sheet in VtM:B resembles the actual char sheet of the VtM pen and paper RPG. The circles were a "standard":

Spoiler

Yeah I know that but you are not leveling up every 30-60 minutes in PnP session so it's easier to handle.

 

[Kz3r0]

This looks a lot like that zombie fallout parkour game Avellone has worked on, goes without saying that this has nothing to do with the original, glad that Mitsoda got another shot at AAA games.

 

[Feargus Jewhart]

Yeah I know that but you are not leveling up every 30-60 minutes in PnP session so it's easier to handle.

Your opinion is bad and I think you should be informed of that. Thank you for your time and participation.

 

[conan_edw]

Is this the same codex that was outraged by geometric shapes over numbers?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Is this the same codex that was outraged by geometric shapes over numbers

They weren't outraged because it was geometric shapes.
They were outraged because it was new.

 

[Mikeal]

They weren't outraged because it was geometric shapes.
They were outraged because it was new.

New things BAD.

 

[fantadomat]

They weren't outraged because it was geometric shapes.
They were outraged because it was new.

New things BAD.

They ARE terrible,should be forbidden by law!

 

[Sykar]

They weren't outraged because it was geometric shapes.
They were outraged because it was new.

New things BAD.

They ARE terrible,should be forbidden by law!

What about new games?

 

[Grunker]

They weren't outraged because it was geometric shapes.
They were outraged because it was new.

New things BAD. EVERYTHING SHIT

fixed it for you

 

[cherry blossom]

From the Kotaku article:

[...]player start as a “thinblood” vampire. This limits their early powers to certain ability trees like the Chiropteran tree which allows for levitation or the Mentalism tree, which grants access to telekinesis. It affects how you might deal with exploration. If a door is blocked, you could use your mentalism abilities to remove the barricade. Or maybe you spec into the Nebulation tree, turn into mist, and sneak through an air vent. The goal of this power-focused exploration, according to Paradox Lead Producer Christian Schlütter, is to make sure players “don’t see the world like a human

Turning into bats, into mist, telekinesis; these are way too overpowered disciplines for a fledgling thin blood to have. A fledgling is supposed to be basically like an overpowered human caught up in a whirlwind of primal emotions and hunger, without such high level abilities. It sounds worrying to introduce these as beginner powers.

But perhaps PC's thinblood will be, duh, "special"

 

[Alienman]

Wasn't it because he was shitting on the old style of making characters? Proclaiming it was too hard, when 10 year olds with no English could figure it out.