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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zipB to Gaming@lemmy.zipEnglish · 8 days ago

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 sticks two bloodsucker clans, including the sexy one, behind paid day-one DLC

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 sticks two bloodsucker clans, including the sexy one, behind paid day-one DLC

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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zipB to Gaming@lemmy.zipEnglish · 8 days ago
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Two of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 clans, the Lasombra and Toreador, gated behind paid day-one DLC for the game.
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  • Darkard@lemmy.world
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    Classic Paradox though isn’t it. Drip feed in DLC over the span of about 6 years and by year 7 the game doesn’t even play the same as it did when released.

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    The repacks won’t be that way.

  • 474D@lemmy.world
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    Day 1 DLC is an automatic boycott for me

  • UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I kind of feared this would be a shitfest.

  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    Goddammit of course Lasombra would be DLC. The only clan I ever played, with Gothic Spanish drip and those sick ass Obtenebration powers. I ripped a werewolf apart with em once in tabletop.

    :unhappy growling noises:

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      I once ripped a vampire apart as a Fianna philodox in a werewolf larp

      :happy growling noises

      • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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        To be fair, though, I feel like that’s how the fight should play out lol. Werewolves are (or were, this was original WoD) really good at killing vampires. I got lucky lol

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          Idk WoD campaigns usually operate on story telling principles instead of dice rolling.

          You ripped that werewold in half because it’d be fucking cool, not because the dice decided <3

          • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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            Very true <3

        • Jarix@lemmy.world
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          Oh absolutely, I bet that was a really awesome scene that you got to enjoy thoroughly

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    including the sexy one

    Malkavians are DLC-only? Dross.

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    Brujah Who Thought She’d Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope She Didn’t Even Know She Still Had

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    Reminder that, even with these, there are still 8 less clans than the tabletop.

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      And one less than the original game from 2004, for that matter.

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    Can’t wait to play it a year later, on sale, with all DLC included.

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      Paradox Games knows your tricks and shall simply never stop releasing DLC

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    If you check out the trailers released on the World of Darkness channel. The vast majority of the comments are pissed off.

    Fabien trailer - https://youtu.be/uDjeQUIE054
    Pre-Order trailer- https://youtu.be/TrAVDT7maJE

    Other ways to letting Paradox and the devs know about how fucked up this is.

    Discord - discord.gg/bloodlines2
    Paradox Forum – forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2.1039
    Facebook – facebook.com/VampireBloodlines
    X – x.com/VtM_Bloodlines
    Instagram – instagram.com/vtmbloodlines

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    This game was a write off from the very start. Paradox genuinely hates the WoD brand and they are deliberately trying to kill it.

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    I’m just surprised there are even different clans to play as. Seems like this series has been pivoting away from that for a while

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      It did?

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        yeah, the last couple games were interactive novels with 3 clans each being a storyline. there was a newer one that seemed to remove the clan system all together for you to just pick powers from a tree but they’re overall more of a world building feature now

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          Weren’t they just sort of visual novels and from another team?

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            yes. well, all but… two? and the two that weren’t didn’t use clans as game mechanics either. one was a battle royal. but yeah Troika eventually dissolved and the devs went to other studios like Obsidian.

            so there really haven’t been other games like bloodlines

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