With the lack of long-running official technical support the Unofficial Patch quickly established itself as a de facto standard in the Bloodlines community.
As the patch grew over the years more and more changes and additions were made to the game which are widely considered controversial, particularly by players only interested in fixes to problems still present in the final official version of the game. This even lead to an alternate series of patches known as the True Patch. To counter this the Unofficial Patch was eventually divided into two separate versions, a "basic" version and a "plus" version, the latter of which contains major additions to the game which arguably do not represent the creative vision of the game's original developers.
At this point the patch is distributed in form of a configurable installer and the desired version can be selected during the installation process. Having been in development for more than ten years the patch covers massive amounts of changes which can't all be summarized in a comprehensible list but a brief rundown of the nature of the changes is listed below changes exclusive to the plus patch are marked with a plus sign :.
As a long-running project the Unofficial Patch has several places where it is officially distributed and the project itself represented:. Bloodlines 1. Bloodlines 2. General Info. Kony MK. Kony your monitor might be brighter than mine. Please try going into the settings file and lower the number of strength for HDR, hit save and go back in game.
Experiment till you get it right. Empu View Profile View Posts. I used to own this game and remember it running like a drunk donkey, how does it run on windows 10 with the patches mentioned in this thread?
Resolutions, bugs etc etc? Originally posted by Empu :. Last edited by crim ; 27 Oct, pm. Where do I get the plus patch? Originally posted by ShackmanG :. Per page: 15 30 Date Posted: 31 Jul, pm. Posts: Discussions Rules and Guidelines. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic harassment, fighting, or rude posts. Bloodlines is the kind of game where you can solve things multiple ways, so choose a clan that reflects your preferred play style.
Bloodlines is a vent-crawler, not a full on Deus Ex-style immersive sim, but still the kind of RPG where learning how to pick locks and hack computers is worthwhile. The Bloodbuff power can make you temporarily better at lockpicking and Auspex at hacking, if you haven't got quite enough points in the relevant skills. With a high enough score in Persuasion you can often blue-text your way out of trouble, and stealth is a valid option too. You'll want to explore as well.
Sidequests are easy to miss if, for instance, you don't stumble into the abandoned hospital in the Downtown hub, or if you don't hang out in nightclubs. There's a weapons dealer in each hub, often someone who needs to be persuaded to do business, and it's worth tracking them down.
You'll be stalking the alleys to keep your blood topped up anyway, so poke around any suspicious places you find while sneaking about. Bloodlines is not always great at being a stealth game, however. Your score in Sneaking is more important than sightlines, and a lot of places that appear well-lit have guards who act like they're in deepest shadow. Maybe those tunnels look so bright because vampires can see in the dark? Yeah, let's go with that. While stealth and charm can get you through most of the early game, eventually you'll need to kill a whole mess of people.
Chat with Nines Rodriguez, who hangs out at the Last Round, and he'll put it plainly, saying "a speech ain't gonna save your ass when you're staring down the barrel of a shotgun. Bloodlines hands out plenty of experience points, especially if you're tracking down all those sidequests, and you'll need to start jamming them into combat abilities eventually. Melee will deal with the first batch of fights the fire axe is an excellent weapon at this point , but later it'll be worth going for Ranged Combat as well.
The plus patch does add shortcuts that'll let you skip past the most boring combats—there's a computer you can hack to unlock a door to bypass most of the sewers, and if you make friends with NPCs Yukie and Chunk then max-out Persuasion they'll offer shortcuts too—but boss fights can't be avoided and they really are some bullshit.
That's because with the right weapons they're trivial, and without them they're ridiculous slogs. They typically come at the end of areas which you don't have any way of backing out of to quickly duck to the shops too, so check in with weapon vendors frequently.
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