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CrossWire




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 16:30    Post subject: Vampire Bloodlines
Anyone played this? How do you carry on the game tutorial after jack goes off to the fight and tells you to meet him upstairs, I'm stuck there and can't get though any door. Sad
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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 17:02    Post subject:
Use the blood discipline to boost your skill and lockpick the door at the end of the hallway unless you are already skilled enough to lockpick it without using special abilities.

The lockpick should be on the boxes just after you jump up those shelves near the window where you and jack witnessed that ancient vampire killing of the Sabbat thugs.

Other than that I also recommend the official 1.2 patch and the unofficial 3.8 patch unless you already have them, fixes a ton of problems. Smile
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CrossWire




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 17:29    Post subject:
JBeckman wrote:
Use the blood discipline to boost your skill and lockpick the door at the end of the hallway unless you are already skilled enough to lockpick it without using special abilities.

The lockpick should be on the boxes just after you jump up those shelves near the window where you and jack witnessed that ancient vampire killing of the Sabbat thugs.

Other than that I also recommend the official 1.2 patch and the unofficial 3.8 patch unless you already have them, fixes a ton of problems. Smile


Nothing like that happens. This is right at the beginning of the game just after Jack teaches you to feed of the guy smoking in the ally. Then Jack tells you what kills and doesn't kill you, then there is a noise like gunfire and Jack buggers of and tells you he will meet you upstairs. And that's just it I can't get out of the ally never mind upstairs.
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JahLux
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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 18:08    Post subject:
This game is VERY buggy so i suggest you fully patch it, theres lots of unofficial patches.. Try www.gh3d.com


btw its probably a bug.
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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 18:26    Post subject:
Ahh you mean that the door he stands next to during that sequence doesn't unlock, had that happen a few times but I usually only needed to move around a bit to find the door handle wich allowed me to press the use key and open the door. Smile
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CraweN




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 18:28    Post subject:
Here is the patch.

With this it should be close to bugfree. I didn't notice any when I completed it with an earlier version of this patch.

http://www.gamershell.com/download_19594.shtml

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CrossWire




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 18:40    Post subject:
Thanks Ill give the patches a go and see if it works then.
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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 19:33    Post subject:
That's the previous 3.7 version, the current 3.8 version can be downloaded from here:

http://chtserv.dlh.net/cgi-bin/patdl.cgi?lang=eng&sys=pc&file=vtmbup38.zip

EDIT: 3.8 changelog

 Spoiler:
 


Full unofficial patch readme/changelog.

 Spoiler:
 
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Frant1c




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 20:11    Post subject:
Crosswire I had EXACTLY the same problem first time i tried it, pretty certain I already had patched it up. I just made a new game and it worked fine.
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SpykeZ




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 20:54    Post subject:
god I remember this game, almost beat it, <3
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lordanton




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 22:17    Post subject:
One of the best games imo.. too bad they dont make em like that anymore :[

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CrossWire




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 22:27    Post subject:
Okay, that seems to have worked, I installed the 1.2 then the unofficial 3.8 and the door became highlighted. Really good game, shame that I get CTD every few hours of play.
This game has made me thirsty, I fancy something red to drink.
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geneq




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PostPosted: Thu, 5th Jul 2007 22:36    Post subject:
yeah, this game is great, shame that is very buggy, even after the unofficial patches. my favourite part was talking with the roadsign Smile

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who13




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 02:00    Post subject:
great game..never finished it though...
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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 02:03    Post subject:
CrossWire wrote:
Okay, that seems to have worked, I installed the 1.2 then the unofficial 3.8 and the door became highlighted. Really good game, shame that I get CTD every few hours of play.
This game has made me thirsty, I fancy something red to drink.


LOL Laughing

I have play it ... for 5-6 times now ... Very Happy
The cool part in the game is the Hotel at night ... Wink


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SpykeZ




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 02:04    Post subject:
who13 wrote:
great game..never finished it though...


ya neither did I, I got to the very end and somethign else caught my attention....btw...get back into he scene chat...what are you doing out of your cage, I don't remember letting you out Razz
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Immunity




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 04:38    Post subject:
The combat in this game felt very choppy/sloppy but the roleplaying elements, story, and dialog more than made up for it in my opinion.

Such a shame Troika had to close its doors Sad

On a sidenote - anyone remember the big prelaunch party Troika threw for gaming press/journalists before the games release? They went all out and even hired models to pose in vampire outfits to serve drinks while they were playing. The pics still have to be floating around somewhere.

One has to wonder if Troika knew they were going down hill and decided to go out with a bang? Very Happy

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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 04:59    Post subject:
The source engine was a bad choice I think. The constant loading really pissed me off, and of course the combat sucked. Still played it to completion though.

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SpykeZ




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 05:15    Post subject:
Ya I'm not a source engine fan, it has nice models but that's it. Everything else sucks. The melee combat wasn't half as bad as the gun combat was.
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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 05:31    Post subject:
SpykeZ wrote:
Ya I'm not a source engine fan, it has nice models but that's it. Everything else sucks. The melee combat wasn't half as bad as the gun combat was.


Really depends on the developer, Dark Messiah was great (SP) as far as combat goes. MP developer was total shit though.
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CrossWire




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 08:37    Post subject:
This game as heart, something sadly missing in today's game making efforts where a army of developers work on different parts of the game then clue it all together in the hope there may be some gameplay in there somewhere.
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s_hole




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 09:16    Post subject:
it wasn't a wrong choice
it was a too early choice
the version of the source engine the game was released with was an alpha build of the engine
unoptimized and buggy
and by the time they started doing the game, there was no script engine in place in source so they integrated python themselves, resulting in slow script execution and thus gameplay performance
and further bugs
it's a miracle the unofficial patches have fixed as much as they have without access to the source code
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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 10:43    Post subject:
Immunity wrote:
On a sidenote - anyone remember the big prelaunch party Troika threw for gaming press/journalists before the games release? They went all out and even hired models to pose in vampire outfits to serve drinks while they were playing. The pics still have to be floating around somewhere.


Yep, here they are... Jeanette Smile





There should be at least one more image but I can't find it on my hdd...
EDIT: Found it. The last image in the first row.


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SpykeZ




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 10:49    Post subject:
Only a true geek woudl still have those pictures on their HD...and for that I commend you
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WhiteBarbarian




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 11:51    Post subject:
SpykeZ wrote:
Only a true geek woudl still have those pictures on their HD...and for that I commend you
Well, unfortunately... I am a Bloodlines fan / Troika fan in general Sad Still play it sometimes. Smile
P.S. Found one more party image and updated my previous post. For some unknown reason the image was on my PowerBook
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CrossWire




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 13:17    Post subject:
Can't see nowt.
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s_hole




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PostPosted: Fri, 6th Jul 2007 23:40    Post subject:
wasn't that just e3 booth babes?
before they neutered the whole expo
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Immunity




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PostPosted: Sat, 7th Jul 2007 00:22    Post subject:
s_hole wrote:
wasn't that just e3 booth babes?
before they neutered the whole expo


They used them at E3/GenCon and also during the game's launch party in LA where they rented out a real bar to let the game reviewers play. Great marketing, albeit a bit pricey.

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fawe4




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PostPosted: Sun, 8th Jul 2007 05:32    Post subject:
One of the things I hated about bloodlines was design of all male player characters was crap. You had rat one, gay one, gorilla one, rasta one, heck even juppie was there.
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PostPosted: Sun, 8th Jul 2007 05:37    Post subject:
fawe4 wrote:
One of the things I hated about bloodlines was design of all male player characters was crap. You had rat one, gay one, gorilla one, rasta one, heck even juppie was there.


Yeah, no character to represent you idiots. Sorry.
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