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

[Space Satan]

Vampires in 2019

 

[Fedora Master]

(((Stein)))

 

[Delterius]

why shoot people if you can make them vomit blood until they die as you drink their blood tbh

 

[Zombra]

why shoot people if you can make them vomit blood until they die as you drink their blood tbh

when youre a call of duty player at heart but wish you were an edgy vampire fan instead

 

[Rahdulan]

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news...em_in_Vampire_The_Masquerade_Bloodlines_2.php

Oh no, not the hands. I'm getting some bad vibes here.

 

[Jenkem]

MALKAVIAN RIGHTS ARE KINDRED RIGHTS!

 

[Beastro]

This is the latest screenshot sis:

Tell me more about these frito pies.

 

[gestalt11]

This is the latest screenshot sis:

Tell me more about these frito pies.

That picture obscures the last question: "Can vampires cum blodd into the frito pie"

 

[Sailor Woedica]

There's a new maybe Bloodlines but maybe just vampire the masquerade twitter hashtag thing!!! And a creepy website!

https://www.bloodfortrade.com/

 

[Delterius]

I don't have enough credit cards for another vampire product.

 

[Infinitron]

This isn't for a new game, I think. It's some sort of ARG. Check out the "Special Event" here: https://www.bloodlines2.com/en/my-account

Seems related to Outstar's Twitch stream: https://www.reddit.com/r/vtmb/comments/e9epmu/the_vtmb_twitter_page_just_tweeted_out_a_hashtag/

 

[HansDampf]

Is Outstar employed by Hardsuit Labs?

 

[Wesp5]

Is Outstar employed by Hardsuit Labs?

No, but she is big in the Bloodlines community and even was invited to the original Bloodlines 2 announcement.

 

[Infinitron]

Oh, missed this: https://www.bloodlines2.com/en/charity-stream-with-outstar-for-the-international-myeloma-foundation

Should have told us you were involved, Wesp5

CHARITY STREAM WITH OUTSTAR FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION

Greetings Vamily! We welcome you to join us on the 14th of December with Outstar at 17:00 - 22:00 CET / 8AM - 1PM PST on Twitch (twitch.tv/outstar) to raise money for The International Myeloma Foundation.

Josephine McAdam will be joining us later in the stream to talk about the foundation, why it's one she has chosen to support and some fun chatter about her current work in L.A by Night.

We'll also be joined by folks from the Bloodlines 2 team. Florian Schwarzer, Senior Product Manager and Rachel Leiker Lead UI/UX Designer, to chat a little about their part in this most anticipated game and perhaps a little vampire lore on the side.

During these five hours Outstar will be our Host for an entertaining look at the new mod for Bloodlines 1, Prelude, with famed modder Wesp5 joining us in chat to answer her questions. Following that up with a play of Coteries of New York, a new Vampire: The Masquerade game by developers Draw Distance, with friend of the Vamily Aavak joining us to lend his lovely vocals for dialogue on stream.

That's not all! A host of giveaways and raffles will be held on stream. For the top 3 donators they'll be sent the following goodies that no one can resist (we're looking at you Toreador):

Top Donator

• Set of Signed Faction posters by HSL
• VTMB Soundtrack Vinyl
• Bloodlines 2 Game Key
• V5 Core Book
• Corsair Swag
• Bloodlines 2 T-Shirt
• Coteries of New York Game Key

2nd

• Set of Signed Faction posters by HSL
• VTMB Soundtrack Vinyl
• Bloodlines 2 Game Key
• Bloodlines 2 T-Shirt
• Coteries of New York Game Key

3rd

• Set of Signed Faction posters by HSL
• Bloodlines 2 Game Key
• Bloodlines 2 T-Shirt
• Coteries of New York Game Key

With raffles on going through the stream for signed posters, T-shirts and more!

Last but not least we will have Twitch Drops* enabled. If you’re still looking for more Blood Points to unlock those goodies on your Bloodlines 2 account then be ready to drink them all up in chat!

If you haven’t started the quest yet, have a look at My Paradox Account section on the website and start collecting Blood Points to unlock in-games rewards at launch.

We can’t wait to see you all on Saturday, let’s spread the holiday cheer and help out a good cause while we’re at it!

-Bloodlines 2 Team

*How to activate Twitch Drops?

When tuning in to the stream you’ll have the ability to activate your Twitch drop. You can find more information on how to activate Twitch drops HERE.

If you do not have a Paradox account you’ll need to create one in order to activate the Twitch drops for this stream and collect Blood Points. Those with a Paradox account will use their existing credentials.

p.s We hear there's something going down at via bloodfortrade.com hmm... Suspicious.

 

[Orma]

We're like the weird friends wesp wants to leave behind, now that he's famous

 

[Wesp5]

We're like the weird friends wesp wants to leave behind, now that he's famous

LOL! I think I only discovered RPGCodex after I was already famous . Remember I came from the FPS side of things to Bloodlines. Anyway, I will only be a guest in the chat of that event...

 

[Vincente]

Greetings Vamily!

 

[Ismaul]

Greetings Vamily!

Don't worry Fincente, it's gonna be all right.

 

[Roguey]

Tzimisce: What kind of body do you want?
Fledgling: Just fuck my shit up, vam

 

[Sykar]

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news...em_in_Vampire_The_Masquerade_Bloodlines_2.php

Oh no, not the hands. I'm getting some bad vibes here.

 

[Infinitron]

Well, the Outstar thing is live: https://www.twitch.tv/outstar

 

[Infinitron]

Here's where the devs came in:

 

[Wunderbar]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-bloodlines-2-alpha-and-the-holidays.1298103/

Dev Diary #8: Celebrating Bloodlines 2 Alpha and the Holidays!

2019 is nearing its end, and with it comes our last dev diary for the year. It’s been a wild time for us, from the announcement at GDC in March, to meeting you at PDXCON. All throughout, we’ve been blown away by your enthusiasm. It’s now more than three years since Andy, Brian and Ka’ai pitched the idea of making Bloodlines 2 to Paradox. You and your support have made this real in a way that’s difficult to describe.

As Andy mentioned in the November dev diary, we’ve turned our attention inward for a bit. Right now, our number one priority is development, with the goal to make Bloodlines 2 the best game it can be. That’s starting to bear fruit. For example, we recently passed our Alpha!

This is one of the big milestones in game development, although in different places, Alpha can mean slightly different things. For us, it means that we are “systems-complete”; we’re done adding gameplay mechanics and features to the game. By contrast: Beta, which’ll happen next year, is “content-complete”. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the core game is done and ready to put in a box (“systems-final”). There are still quite a few people busy tweaking, balancing, and art-ing up the gameplay. It’s actually quite possible that our final game will ship with a few less mechanics than we had in the game at Alpha. In the end, we want to offer you really compelling, smooth gameplay. If over the coming months we find that something sticks out, we’d much rather put one less bullet point on the back of the box than shoehorn things in.

As you may imagine, work changes after Alpha. For some of us, it becomes much more about keeping the details consistent. For example: Earlier this year, some of our engineers and the UX team had come up with a better, more natural-feeling way of using elevators and choosing floors in the game. What this means is that we’re now going through all of our virtual Seattle and make sure all elevators fit this new logic. Not a big thing - but still, it involved diligent work by our technical designers supported by lighting, environment and UI artists.

In other places, systems-complete means that we get to add that extra in art that we didn’t want to risk spending time on before. Finally, we had time to invite everyone to the 'dismemberment meeting' - just another day in game dev. At the same time, the audio team are having a blast recording weapon foley, to make everything from picking up, to loading, stashing away and y’know, firing each individual weapon feel another bit more real.

Audio is also involved in completing the lines in the NPC Bark system - they work closely with engineering and narrative on that one. Barks are all those words and short sentences you hear AI utter in a video game. Often, that’s connected to AI states, like for example “aggressive”, “searching”, or “hurt”. Sometimes, it’s also tied to the NPC’s role in the world - a policeman will have different barks than a drunk barfly. Good barks are useful without drawing too much attention from the player, and it is not a piece of cake to find 15 different ways to say “I think I’ve seen something odd in that back alley”.

Of course, not all of us are chasing gameplay details towards that elusive “Final”. A big chunk of our team, our level and narrative designers, animators, environment, VFX and lighting artists are hard at work on the quests you will experience that gameplay. We’re looking forward to talking more about that race to Beta in the coming months. For now, to conclude this blog post, we’d like to share the work of our VFX team on blood effects. These are research prototypes created by Wesley Eldridge and Tracey Landau.

Time to put down the quill and wish you all great Winter Holidays! See you in 2020!

The Team at Hardsuit Labs

This ridiculous, no wonder it was delayed.
2020 now seems like a very optimistic date, maybe 2021?

 

[Nano]

I'm waiting patiently. Give them all the time they need to make a good game.

 

[Delterius]

I fucking love using elevators in bloodlines and hopefully its gonna be awesome again!