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

[Tao]

Hot take: VtMB2 already released and it's called VtM: Night Road]

It wasn't bad. And so far it is the best among the VtM visual novels released. But to me it feels like is the bare minimun one can do. Like buying the script writing of a game or a movie.

Tbh if they weren't like 5€ i would not buy them. But yeah, i agree Night Road is so far the best they have done with the ip until we can play Swansong.

 

[Storyfag]

border patrol fort turned into a concentration camp ran by feds, state police, local sheriff and actual Ku Klux Klan and unnamed neo-nazi militia

Can they be recruited to serve the protagonist? The inmates would be an ideal Herd.

 

[Alphons]

It's already operated by Camarilla (if you play as Ventrue, by your sire), but Inquisition is coming to purge it with flamethrowers.
You can help relocate it to another border patrol facility or help cool Anarch Julian steal some data to open your own Mexican blood bank, but without blackjack and hookers.


For Poles: Prince of Tucson is a Polish noble that reads Olga Tokarczuk.

 

[Storyfag]

cool Anarch Julian

Can xe be subjected to Vicissitude?

 

[Alphons]

Nah, he's there to annoy you throughout the entire game, even if you tell him to fuck off.

If you help Camarilla or Inquisition you can finally get him offed at the end, but the game requires you to pick the option 2-3 different times, as if the author grabbed you by the wrist when you decided to kill his OC.

 

[Storyfag]

Nah, he's there to annoy you throughout the entire game, even if you tell him to fuck off.

If you help Camarilla or Inquisition you can finally get him offed at the end, but the game requires you to pick the option 2-3 different times, as if the author grabbed you by the wrist when you decided to kill his OC.

Game sounds like shit.

 

[Alphons]

It kinda is.

At the core it's still a Choice Game with all their problems.

Writing has it's moments (the abandoned biolabs for example), but it also has moments where an author's OC lectures you about cop killing someone and media sweeping it under the rug and how they're true monsters.

Don't buy it, unless it's on sale and you crave the VTM fix. Or just acquire it through other means (my friend loves the CGs, buys almost every game they release and she shared this one with me because I liked VTM). There're 2 or 3 other VTM games they made, but I haven't played them.

 

[ColaWerewolf]

If VtMB2 ever releases it will be further (tonally) diverged from VtMB than Night Road is and you will all be ashamed of your words and deeds.

Screencap this.

 

[Roguey]

Spotted via 4chan

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bria...ue-official-activity-6876471209022910464-HZzc

Brian Milligan

Lead Programmer at The Chinese Room
5mo

With a heavy heart I decided to leave Rocksteady for an opportunity I just couldn’t turn down. For the last 3 years I have had the most amazing experience of working for the studio that has made my favorite games. The talent I got to work with was off the charts, and the studio was magical. The community at Rocksteady though was the hardest thing to say good bye to. I went through a lot of life challenges over the last 3 years with a major international move, a new baby and mental health challenges through the pandemic. The people of Rocksteady were with me and supported me through every step, and I’ll be forever grateful for how they live their value of “Treating People Well”. I’m going to miss working with them immensely, especially my homies on the combat team! I can’t wait to play Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League!

On the happier side I am so excited to announce starting at THE CHINESE ROOM LTD as Lead Programmer on an incredibly exciting unannounced project. I can’t wait to talk more about it soon

Guy left a triple-A capeshit gig at a respected studio to work at the "Who?" company. He's either really excited about their original thing or he's a massive fan of the licensed title they're working on.

 

[Vincente]

Spotted via 4chan

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bria...ue-official-activity-6876471209022910464-HZzc

Brian Milligan

Lead Programmer at The Chinese Room
5mo

With a heavy heart I decided to leave Rocksteady for an opportunity I just couldn’t turn down. For the last 3 years I have had the most amazing experience of working for the studio that has made my favorite games. The talent I got to work with was off the charts, and the studio was magical. The community at Rocksteady though was the hardest thing to say good bye to. I went through a lot of life challenges over the last 3 years with a major international move, a new baby and mental health challenges through the pandemic. The people of Rocksteady were with me and supported me through every step, and I’ll be forever grateful for how they live their value of “Treating People Well”. I’m going to miss working with them immensely, especially my homies on the combat team! I can’t wait to play Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League!

On the happier side I am so excited to announce starting at THE CHINESE ROOM LTD as Lead Programmer on an incredibly exciting unannounced project. I can’t wait to talk more about it soon

Guy left a triple-A capeshit gig at a respected studio to work at the "Who?" company. He's either really excited about their original thing or he's a massive fan of the licensed title they're working on.

He's been working there for the past 6 months then? November 2021. When did Paradox announce that they have new devs to work on the project?

 

[vortex]

Guy left a triple-A capeshit gig at a respected studio to work at the "Who?" company. He's either really excited about their original thing or he's a massive fan of the licensed title they're working on.

Hey, I actually wanted Rocksteady makes VTMB2.

 

[whydoibother]

Hot take: VtMB2 already released and it's called VtM: Night Road

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Is this a Choose Your Own Adventure HTML book, and can I play it on an Android phone?

 

[Serus]

For Poles: Prince of Tucson is a Polish noble...

ok...

...reads Olga Tokarczuk

<facepalm>

 

[Herumor]

He's either really excited about their original thing or he's a massive fan of the licensed title they're working on.

Here's a simpler possibility: he's a fucking idiot.

 

[Roguey]

He's been working there for the past 6 months then? November 2021. When did Paradox announce that they have new devs to work on the project?

February 2021 was when the vampire reset happened.

 

[Cricket McBangle]

Spotted via 4chan

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bria...ue-official-activity-6876471209022910464-HZzc

Brian Milligan

Lead Programmer at The Chinese Room
5mo

With a heavy heart I decided to leave Rocksteady for an opportunity I just couldn’t turn down. For the last 3 years I have had the most amazing experience of working for the studio that has made my favorite games. The talent I got to work with was off the charts, and the studio was magical. The community at Rocksteady though was the hardest thing to say good bye to. I went through a lot of life challenges over the last 3 years with a major international move, a new baby and mental health challenges through the pandemic. The people of Rocksteady were with me and supported me through every step, and I’ll be forever grateful for how they live their value of “Treating People Well”. I’m going to miss working with them immensely, especially my homies on the combat team! I can’t wait to play Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League!

On the happier side I am so excited to announce starting at THE CHINESE ROOM LTD as Lead Programmer on an incredibly exciting unannounced project. I can’t wait to talk more about it soon

Guy left a triple-A capeshit gig at a respected studio to work at the "Who?" company. He's either really excited about their original thing or he's a massive fan of the licensed title they're working on.

He's been working there for the past 6 months then? November 2021. When did Paradox announce that they have new devs to work on the project?

Paradox announced that Hardsuit were kicked off in February 2021 but they had stopped working on it a few months prior and spent that time documenting the code and zipping up the game to get sent off to The Chinese Room.

 

[Roguey]

Paradox announced that Hardsuit were kicked off in February 2021 but they had stopped working on it a few months prior and spent that time documenting the code and zipping up the game to get sent off to The Chinese Room.

Merry Christmas to them, huh? Mandryka was brought on in late August to assess the project, so I guess it didn't take him too long to tell Paradox it was FUBAR'd.

They hired Wallschlaeger in late October so looks like the kill order came either November or December (seems unlikely they'd hire her if they knew they were a dead studio walking, though maybe whatever she was assigned to was some kind of Hail Mary pitch).

 

[Vincente]

Well they missed the window for PAX East which was apparently 4-5 days ago, is there any other big name event where they might possibly reveal what they were working on, or is 2023 our best hope?

 

[Roguey]

Well they missed the window for PAX East which was apparently 4-5 days ago, is there any other big name event where they might possibly reveal what they were working on, or is 2023 our best hope?

If it's scheduled for late 2023/early 2024 at the most, don't expect a reveal until June (E3 or summer games fest) or August (gamescom) of 2023.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

How the non-existence of this game is going for you people.

 

[PlacidDragon]

Well they missed the window for PAX East which was apparently 4-5 days ago, is there any other big name event where they might possibly reveal what they were working on, or is 2023 our best hope?

ParadoxCon is September 2nd and 3rd, that is the only one that comes to mind.

 

[Cricket McBangle]

Paradox announced that Hardsuit were kicked off in February 2021 but they had stopped working on it a few months prior and spent that time documenting the code and zipping up the game to get sent off to The Chinese Room.

Merry Christmas to them, huh? Mandryka was brought on in late August to assess the project, so I guess it didn't take him too long to tell Paradox it was FUBAR'd.

They hired Wallschlaeger in late October so looks like the kill order came either November or December (seems unlikely they'd hire her if they knew they were a dead studio walking, though maybe whatever she was assigned to was some kind of Hail Mary pitch).

iTs aLl aBoUt oUr pEoPle

She was there to to help the studio get some sort of new sci-fi fantasy thing game (one of the team members who did work on Bloodlines 2 was creating some fictional alien language thing for it, IIRC). That Ghost of Tsushima guy did some stuff on Bloodlines 2 but it wasn't a priority. By that point, they were all moved on to a Hail Mary pitch, as you said. I wish I had more details on the timeline.

I know of two HSL staff , who were there since the Zombie Studio days, that have said that it was completely justified that Mitsoda was fired and it was for good reason but I never was told why. The two things that were told to me were:

"If they only knew..."

and

"You don't fire someone unless it's for a good reason."

But it's okay now. HSL's big thing now currently is doing Fortnite shit

 

[J1M]

Those quotes provide less than zero useful information.

Dangerhairs have no setting between zero and excommunication. They'd say the same thing whether he murdered someone at a company picnic or accidentally misgendered someone's cat.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

"You don't fire someone unless it's for a good reason."

*remembers that time a gamedev publicly said he supported a Texas law and lost his own gamedev company over it*

yeah, sure.

 

[Roguey]

As I've posted here before

Chair-kicking moment is additional evidence that my ancient source who told me that Mitsoda was an egotistical primadonna who was difficult to work with was on the level.