I'm coping. Another question. Where can i see ''armor class'' and amulet/weapon effects? There is very limited information in the char/inventory scree. For example, i don't know what the hell are benefits of two rings with ''app +5'' i just found.
app= Appearance, this stat isn't so important but it's required for some useless disciplines like Presence, btw the stat screen shows everything, so the info is not really "limited".
The game is pretty dark at times but not that much that you'll have problems navigating the character. Sounds like a gfx problem. Google "vampire redemption too dark" or something.
https://af.gog.com/forum/vampire_the_masquerade_redemption/brightness/post11?as=1649904300
Where can i see ''armor class'' and amulet/weapon effects?
Certainly you will be able to locate the damage resistance to bashing damage/aggravated damage etc on the char screen? There is no armor class. Armors+Shields give damage reduction.
Too bad it has the best starting dungeon ever created in any genre of a game. What the fucking fuck. I can't see further than 5 centimeters away from my feet, all the interior is just one homogenous blurp of green-brown-black mess and there are no visual ques on pathways. Now i'm stuck in the place, where i get this better armor (than rags) and there are no way further except back to where i have already been. I bet this game have turned off a many of newcomers even if it's really that good as some people here advertise.
You are stuck in the silver mine? That thing is a pretty linear, straightforward affair. What's the location name your stuck at? You're probably missing a junction that leads further down the mine. Or are you stuck at the monastery. (hint: the last level of the monastery you are seemingly stuck but you have to open a gate with iron bars blocking some sort of stairs. There's a secret switch near the bottom of a stone column thingie near the gate to open the bars.)
There will be armors to loot later don't need to buy any in the beginning of the game.
A lot of these tips sound like strategies that induce / deal with buggy behavior. That's a shame. I tried playing this once back in the day and just couldn't bring myself to do it. Hearing shit like attacking a Lord sparks all kinds of retaliation tactics, but just feeding on him makes the AI freeze and do nothing is a bummer. It makes me wish for a community bugfix patch before trying it again.
I deliberately left out all real exploits I'm aware of. Like engaging in ultra-boring degenerate gameplay to get unlimited money early on etc. Feeding on others is not a bug. Enemies will feed on you too and you won't be able to do anything either. You have allies though that can attack and disrupt the feeding process, then again the same is true the other way around. If you feed on someone, you might get attacked by others and the feeding might be interrupted. the only difference is, the AI will never feed you to death, whereas you can just continue to drain them until they die. The game is designed that way, so it's not really a bug. Even ultra-cheese like Obfuscation, is it really an exploit? You can max out Cloak of Shadows and everybody without Auspex (the only enemies that have that are bosses, Tremere, Tzimisce iirc) cannot detect you. You can cast disciplines while being obfuscated. You can go, remain obfuscated and kill them with the disciplines and they can do nothing about it. All in accordance with the actual rules of the setting by the way.
Remeption is a way better then bloodlines even though I put more hours in bloodlines trying out different clans. The gameplay in redemption was superior with all the disciplines and stuff. Graphics were really good for its time. Story was good too the voice acting was funny. Bloodlines is so fucking overrated.
The plot in Redemption is better than Bloodlines. Did BL have a plot? Running errants for the prince. Or was it about Smiling Jack's plan to get back at the Camarilla? Graphics were great for the time in Redemption. But everything else? BL has actual quests for once. With multiple solutions.
And despite the shooter hybrid gameplay the interface worked reasonably well and wasn't rage inducing like in Redemption.
I thought I was the only one to play redemption and bloodlines superconservatively like that. Dominate, feed, and never be out of vitae for boss enemies that can't be fed on. Not that there was any lack of consumables.
The main reason why I play this way is because the game's just woefully inadequately designed to handle a party decently in real-time. The AI of your companions is retarded. The pathfinding is shit. You can pause but can't queue actions when pausing so everything becomes a tedious pause->switch to different character->unpause->initiate action->pause->switch to next character affair. You play in this manner just to reduce the pain and despite that it feels really slow, I'm still convinced it's actually the quicker way of playing the game.
You know, I think I finished this only once. Can't remember if there were actually some minor c&c besides the ending. Like that punk brujah who joined your party and then betrayed you. Could you actually refuse him joining up?
No, you couldn't. You only get a handful of choices during the game, all of which only lead to gaining or losing humanity without any other repurcussions other than the ending. Like for instance, when you meat the Toreador girl she asks for protection in exchange for giving all the info she has and you can say "You better know something worthwhile" (-humanity) or "We offer protection even if you don't know anything helpful" (+humanity). Things like that.
