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

[Lacrymas]

This has been a talking point since Bloodlines came out.

 

[Roguey]

If that is true,then why are you even arguing? It is clear who the cab driver is.

Troika's intent is irrelevant when it's not their license, setting, characters.

 

[hello friend]

lol why can't bloodlines just be non canon

Troika's intent is absolutely relevant to the plot of their own game. If they made Caine the cab driver, then he clearly is the cab driver, regardless of whether or not it breaks the lore.

 

[Delterius]

lol why can't bloodlines just be non canon

do you want to sell more games or not

 

[Infinitron]

That makes me think: Unlike the first game, this time the owner of the World of Darkness is also the publisher of the video game. So Bloodlines 2 might potentially do crazier things with the canon.

 

[jungl]

Things are crazier now. https://youtu.be/LHs30YPRtGo

Dales backstory explained.

 

[Wesp5]

Wesp5 so i read somewhere that the cab driver's files are with prefix caine,is that true mate?

Yes, the Cabbie's dialogue file is called Caine and he is also called Caine in the Python scripts and the maps themselves. So it's certainly not just a joke one of the developers pulled on the others! Also regarding to the question "And what exactly is he testing by empowering the PC?", you all overlook that he is testing the player too. Like what will a common freshly embraced vampire do if he gets such powers as the player has in the end? And both Cabbie and Jack even included a safety precaution for this, because if the player succumbs to the power the C4 explosion will kill and remove him.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

God bless you, Wesp5.

 

[Prime Junta]

You know what'd be cool? If they built on the Bishop Vic questline, there could be a plaguebearer and it could break out into the general kine population and there could be a pandemic and everybody would need to stay locked in and there would be a general economic collapse and mass unemployment and and and

 

[fantadomat]

Wesp5 so i read somewhere that the cab driver's files are with prefix caine,is that true mate?

Yes, the Cabbie's dialogue file is called Caine and he is also called Caine in the Python scripts and the maps themselves. So it's certainly not just a joke one of the developers pulled on the others! Also regarding to the question "And what exactly is he testing by empowering the PC?", you all overlook that he is testing the player too. Like what will a common freshly embraced vampire do if he gets such powers as the player has in the end? And both Cabbie and Jack even included a safety precaution for this, because if the player succumbs to the power the C4 explosion will kill and remove him.

You are over thinking it,it just an easter egg for the players to find,or part of some cut content.

 

[Storyfag]

If that is true,then why are you even arguing? It is clear who the cab driver is.

Troika's intent is irrelevant when it's not their license, setting, characters.

Au contraire, as the creators of Bloodlines, their intent has the highest relevance when considered within the scope of Bloodlines. In the scope of the wider body of canon, I still prefer Bloodlines over the Gehenna novel.

 

[fantadomat]

Wesp5 so i read somewhere that the cab driver's files are with prefix caine,is that true mate?

Yes, the Cabbie's dialogue file is called Caine and he is also called Caine in the Python scripts and the maps themselves. So it's certainly not just a joke one of the developers pulled on the others! Also regarding to the question "And what exactly is he testing by empowering the PC?", you all overlook that he is testing the player too. Like what will a common freshly embraced vampire do if he gets such powers as the player has in the end? And both Cabbie and Jack even included a safety precaution for this, because if the player succumbs to the power the C4 explosion will kill and remove him.

You are over thinking it,it just an easter egg for the players to find,or part of some cut content.

you're confused, he's referring to the possibility of you opening the sarcophagus

I know what he is talking about,i have replayed the game quite a few times. Devs most likely put him in because he is cool and mysterious. Not because there some hidden meaning of testing the player and the protagonist lol. We are taking about people that made their dream game,and was called outer worlds. While the writer still wears fingerless gloves in his 40ies lol.

 

[Comrade Goby]

lol why can't bloodlines just be non canon

Troika's intent is absolutely relevant to the plot of their own game. If they made Caine the cab driver, then he clearly is the cab driver, regardless of whether or not it breaks the lore.

Especially when new canon is straight trash.

Its why KOTOR 1 and 2 are the only old republic things and the new Disney stuff can fuck off and doesn't exist no matter how canon they call it

 

[Storyfag]

but at the same time it also does the "I am beyond your comprehension" bit in an attempt to leave Caine's reasons alien and vague and have it both ways, it just is what it is

Cryptic maybe. But not beyond comprehension. Just pay attention to Beckett. Maaaaybe some more Noddist loredumps would be in order to make the comprehension of Caine/bbe easier.

 

[Roguey]

Troika's intent is absolutely relevant to the plot of their own game. If they made Caine the cab driver, then he clearly is the cab driver, regardless of whether or not it breaks the lore.

Had they actually had Jack namedrop Caine at the end, they would have received a note telling them to delete it. They wanted their OOC Gambit Roulette-playing Mary Sue but had enough sense to know that they would have been slapped if they were open about it.

 

[Wesp5]

Had they actually had Jack namedrop Caine at the end, they would have received a note telling them to delete it.

As far as I know Bloodlines was always supposed to be canon so somebody at WW knew about this. Also "Beckett's Jyhad Diary" even made it canon for the current V5 version!

 

[Child of Malkav]

You know what'd be cool? If they built on the Bishop Vic questline, there could be a plaguebearer and it could break out into the general kine population and there could be a pandemic and everybody would need to stay locked in and there would be a general economic collapse and mass unemployment and and and

But that's the current plot in the real world right now.

 

[Sailor Woedica]

 

[Prime Junta]

A vampire would NEVER put his friends at risk. That’s just not what vampires are like.

 

[Harthwain]

Despite what the tweet may suggest, there are no sunrises in the game (at least not as a game mechanic).

 

[Sailor Woedica]

This is totally fierce Outstar was hired by world of darkness and played Bloodlines 2!!!

The only thing that sucks tho is i was totally expecting her to do like a youtube video about Vein Pursuit with stuff about who all the vampires they met could be in Bloodlines 2 so you wouldn't have to watch the episodes...but now I don't think she can do that anymore since she knows everything about the game. It's still so cool tho that she has her dream job

A vampire would NEVER put his friends at risk. That’s just not what vampires are like.

I could not agree more sis they also have all night every night to get their tiktok dance choreography perfect together!

 

[throwaway69420]

Please stop posting Outstar guys, it is constantly reminding me of my sick desire to put a baby into her toxic womb and spawn a sludge demon with her after a night of disgusting copulation, and I don't like it.

 

[Roguey]

Please stop posting Outstar guys, it is constantly reminding me of my sick desire to put a baby into her toxic womb and spawn a sludge demon with her after a night of disgusting copulation, and I don't like it.

She's already married with a kid, you'll have to live vicariously through her husband.

 

[d1r]

Shouldn't this game be out by now? Q1 2020?

 

[Harthwain]

Shouldn't this game be out by now? Q1 2020?

Cyberpunk 2077's release date was moved closer to Bloodlines 2's release date. People responsible for Bloodlines 2 decided to move their release data away from Cyberpunk 2077's new release date and didn't specify the exact time this time (officially it's 31st of December, 2020). That way CDPR can't interrupt their release this time.