Vampire - The Masquerade

kuddles wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

Well, that depends. Do the unofficial patches work on the Steam version?

Yes, and the Direct2Drive version.

armedbushido wrote:

Anyone know of a why to get the game into widescreen? Found a little patch off Fileplanet but does not seem to work.

For starters, if you're talking about the widescreen patch, it needs to be in the "bin" folder to do anything. I have no idea why it doesn't tell you that.

Still, to get it looking the best, follow the advice on this page. It's a bit of a struggle, but it's worth it.

Thanks a ton!!! Worked like a champ once I figure out where to execute the patcher...

I beat this a few weeks back with the Unofficial patches, and it's a good game, but one that, to me, basically defines "Unfullfilled Potential".

The best I can tell the STEAM version is at 1.2 - now to try some of the unofficial stuff...

Prederick wrote:

I beat this a few weeks back with the Unofficial patches, and it's a good game, but one that, to me, basically defines "Unfullfilled Potential".

You see, I have to differ, as usual. My last run through a few months ago, I discovered if one maxed out their Stealth skills, one could just skulk about in dimly-lit areas, continually bump into enemies who in any other game would have seen you, and just stab them through the back. The final levels were insanely easy because of this.

I really liked it the first time through, until the ending. I played as a Tremere and pretty much had to cheat to survive the last few levels. I wanted to replay as a Malkavian but I think they're even less suited to combat.

I know the answer must be really dumb and obvious, I can't seem to find the install folder for V-TM, I bought it through steam, actually, no steam game install folder is to be found anywhere in my computer, only the steam one...I have no idea what to do in this case to run the widescreen patch, I'm tired of fat Jeannete already, but the answer beats me, no idea what to do... there is a "bin" folder in steam, i copied the patch in there and double click on it with no apparent result...

Edit:nevermind, found it

feeank wrote:

I know the answer must be really dumb and obvious, I can't seem to find the install folder for V-TM, I bought it through steam, actually, no steam game install folder is to be found anywhere in my computer, only the steam one...I have no idea what to do in this case to run the widescreen patch, I'm tired of fat Jeannete already, but the answer beats me, no idea what to do... there is a "bin" folder in steam, i copied the patch in there and double click on it with no apparent result...

Edit:nevermind, found it

Look in STEAM/steamapps/common

Is there an easy way to tell if the unofficial patch was installed correctly? I just found a typo and I thought that was the kind of thing fixed by the patching. I got the 4.2 patch

This game is freaking amazing now that it's all fixed up, I'd like to take a moment to pour out a 40 for my homies at Troika. They made one amazing game then went under before it had a chance to get fixed and make money on Steam

PyromanFO wrote:

This game is freaking amazing now that it's all fixed up, I'd like to take a moment to pour out a 40 for my homies at Troika. They made one amazing game then went under before it had a chance to get fixed and make money on Steam :(

I love Troika, you would have thought that by their third game they would have learned not to let their ambitions overtake their funding and development cycle. Mind you, releasing the game on the exact same day as Half-Life 2 was a stupendously stupid move by their publisher.

This game has given me good RPG action that I was missing from games like Oblivion or Gothic. I like the p&p vampire game and you can easily see the amount of effort that has been put into the game to give a different experience depending on the character you have. Still it could be so much better. With no good modding tools the community is struggling to release mods. They even produced a multiplayer option that was hidden in the release, but buggy and with no real purpose.

I am now finishing my second round (first nosferatu, now gangrel) and looking for a third one.

Mind you, releasing the game on the exact same day as Half-Life 2 was a stupendously stupid move by their publisher.

I think that was pretty much dictated by Valve as they were both using the Source engine and Valve didn't want a game out that used Source to take the blunt of the graphical "wow" comments and take the edge off the Half-Life 2 graphical/physical "coolness" factor. Which is somewhat understandable but still a dick move, IMO.

PyromanFO wrote:

I think that was pretty much dictated by Valve as they were both using the Source engine and Valve didn't want a game out that used Source to take the blunt of the graphical "wow" comments and take the edge off the Half-Life 2 graphical/physical "coolness" factor. Which is somewhat understandable but still a dick move, IMO.

I think they actually didn't want the first Source game to be that flawed. Vampire has some nice touches, but Half-Life 2 looks much better. It definitely messed up Troika's whole development schedule, though. It was awful watching that unfold.

Nyles wrote:

I think they actually didn't want the first Source game to be that flawed. Vampire has some nice touches, but Half-Life 2 looks much better. It definitely messed up Troika's whole development schedule, though. It was awful watching that unfold.

Yeah, if that's true, it's hard to hate Valve for doing that because allowing Troika to release their game earlier than that date doesn't sound like it would have been a better thing.

On the other hand, why didn't Troika take the extra month or two to actually polish the game? Or were they all fired by the time game went gold for the lack of funds?

Atari wouldn't let them I think.

MoonDragon wrote:

On the other hand, why didn't Troika take the extra month or two to actually polish the game?

hmm... In one word? Activision

It's really sad, this game is so good it deserved a smarter publisher to make it big, or at least better than it did. I'm quite happy about this Halloween revival, It's my guess that last year they weren't selling it through Steam, am I rigth?

armedbushido wrote:

Playing Vampire The Masquerade, grabbed it off STEAM this weekend for the first time $9.99. Really a good Halloween game... Love it so far!

How are you enjoying that new covert Steam marketing job, armedbushido They should give you your copy for free considering how many $10 copies of a long retired game you just sold.

I haven't tried this game out since it first launched and was buggy as crap. Buying it now.. again. I hope it has hookers.

I liked Redemption but was afraid of all the bugs and the lack of patches for Bloodlines. Now that I know there's hope, I also bought it yesterday for $10.

Shawnosaurus wrote:

I haven't tried this game out since it first launched and was buggy as crap. Buying it now.. again. I hope it has hookers.

It does, but not nearly enough.
. . . what? I get thirsty.

Pfft, hookers. Rats are where its at!

I heard the game should be played as whatever clan you want, but should be replayed as a Malkavian. Truth?

wordsmythe wrote:

I heard the game should be played as whatever clan you want, but should be replayed as a Malkavian. Truth?

Indeed, the malkavian dialogue tree is perhaps the funniest game writing I've ever seen, and if you use the girl it gets even better.

feeank wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:

I heard the game should be played as whatever clan you want, but should be replayed as a Malkavian. Truth?

Indeed, the malkavian dialogue tree is perhaps the funniest game writing I've ever seen, and if you use the girl it gets even better.

Besides, you hear "voices" from time to time. Sometimes they can be very insightful or completly crazy stuff. Also there are some funny stuff that will happen only to Malkavians, like this time my Malk girl had an argument with a STOP sign.

I've tried to play this game twice, but I just couldn't get hooked. I'm willing to try again based on such positive "re-buzz" (I'm going to copywrite that word), but I have 2 questions:

1. When I get home from work will I be able to register my boxed-copy serial number on Steam?
2. When people say "All Patched Up", what does that mean? Do I need some unofficial patches? Is the Steam copy "All Patched Up"?

Lex Cayman wrote:

I've tried to play this game twice, but I just couldn't get hooked. I'm willing to try again based on such positive "re-buzz" (I'm going to copywrite that word), but I have 2 questions:

1. When I get home from work will I be able to register my boxed-copy serial number on Steam?
2. When people say "All Patched Up", what does that mean? Do I need some unofficial patches? Is the Steam copy "All Patched Up"?

1. No you can't. Well, at least about couple months ago I tried that with my boxed version and the CDKEY was not compatible with Steam system. Bummer.

2. Steam version is 1.2 Official pach. I think the game is very playable like that, but there are unofficial patches that fixes some balancing issues, add a few conversation lines here and there and there are other unofficial patches that fixes only bugs left from 1.2. But I remember I finished it for the first time with 1.2 and I didn't have any issues tbh.

Damn you, Goodjer Enabler Squad, at least this is a title I already own on disc and can reinstall when I get home.

KillTrash wrote:
Lex Cayman wrote:

I've tried to play this game twice, but I just couldn't get hooked. I'm willing to try again based on such positive "re-buzz" (I'm going to copywrite that word), but I have 2 questions:

1. When I get home from work will I be able to register my boxed-copy serial number on Steam?
2. When people say "All Patched Up", what does that mean? Do I need some unofficial patches? Is the Steam copy "All Patched Up"?

1. No you can't. Well, at least about couple months ago I tried that with my boxed version and the CDKEY was not compatible with Steam system. Bummer.

2. Steam version is 1.2 Official pach. I think the game is very playable like that, but there are unofficial patches that fixes some balancing issues, add a few conversation lines here and there and there are other unofficial patches that fixes only bugs left from 1.2. But I remember I finished it for the first time with 1.2 and I didn't have any issues tbh.

Great. Thanks for the heads-up. Would you, or anyone else for that matter recommend the unofficial patches? Do they make the difference between "very playable" and "how it was meant to be played"?

Lex Cayman wrote:

Great. Thanks for the heads-up. Would you, or anyone else for that matter recommend the unofficial patches? Do they make the difference between "very playable" and "how it was meant to be played"?

I would highly recommend one of the unofficial patches, because KillTrash is in the minority as far as having a non-buggy experience goes. My only suggestion would be to read all the info and readmes on each patch. Personally, I used the "true" patch because I find anytime an unofficial patch for a game that purports to fix the "balance issues", I find whether those issues to actually exist to be highly subjective to the player, and almost always seems guided by making the game more difficult. But some people swear by the other ones so I'm not sure.

KillTrash wrote:
feeank wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:

I heard the game should be played as whatever clan you want, but should be replayed as a Malkavian. Truth?

Indeed, the malkavian dialogue tree is perhaps the funniest game writing I've ever seen, and if you use the girl it gets even better.

Besides, you hear "voices" from time to time. Sometimes they can be very insightful or completly crazy stuff. Also there are some funny stuff that will happen only to Malkavians, like this time my Malk girl had an argument with a STOP sign. :D

Also all of her dialogue choices are entirely different than any of the other classes.