World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 from Hardsuit Labs

[2menLeefs]

Anyway, the puzzle is just uncovering piecemeal info.
The links to images correspond to this one.

Likes this for example, they are 'corrupted' before date x.
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You could potentially bruteforce the numbers after teh date, ie /2019/01/????????/ if they are guessable in a certain range. And the get the files right after they are uploaded.

This one is cute. Figth the Tzimice again

 

[Zer0wing]

Figth the Tzimice again

Fighting off shitslamists and assamite vampires in DA/modern Constantinople (reclaim the fucking holy land and make Dream real already! Death to Erdogan) would be more interesting and inline with sjw agenda ridden VtM 5E but good old flesh architects is fine too.

 

[Twiglard]

Figth the Tzimice again

Fighting off shitslamists and assamite vampires in DA/modern Constantinople (reclaim the fucking holy land and make Dream real already! Death to Erdogan) would be more interesting and inline with sjw agenda ridden VtM 5E but good old flesh architects is fine too.

But then SJW would have to admit that Syria looked worse before the bombings. And we both know this isn't going to happen.

 

[Zer0wing]

But then SJW would have to admit that Syria looked worse before the bombings. And we both know this isn't going to happen.

OK, another story to tell is to leech on the current hip thing among 'murrica news - China-US trade war. The premise is simple - after the second inquisition usual vampire clans have suffered major decline. The Kuei-Jin seeks world domination through economic domination (trading with first-world fuckholes, crediting third-world shitholes in Africa and Latin America aka Neo-Colonialism, you name it) dominance in old continent while american vampire clans gather their last bits of influence to hamstring China region in claws of unfriendly neighbours, essentially doing USSR 1991 2.0. They are stretching claws through the famous from Fake Newz 'One Road-One Belt' thingy through Russian Federation and with all the traitorous support from the latters goverment. VtM WoD leeches off historical events and current news for ages so why not?

Spoiler

I can sit here spewing nonsensical premises all day.

 

[Space Nugget]

stuff

Mmm... New York, maybe? What do you guys think?
I kinda like what I'm seeing, but still not sure we're getting a proper Vampire game announcement anytime soon...

 

[Space Nugget]

Random thought: the closest thing we're ever got to a Telltale World of Darkness game was The Wolf Among Us.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

What if it's a Bloodlines REMAKE? Those screenshots look familiar, especially the one where you fight the Tzimisce in Bloodlines. Eerily identical even. Are all Tzimisce lairs constructed like that or is it just a coincidence?

 

[StrongBelwas]

What if it's a Bloodlines REMAKE? Those screenshots look familiar, especially the one where you fight the Tzimisce in Bloodlines. Eerily identical even. Are all Tzimisce lairs constructed like that or is it just a coincidence?

Kotick would laugh at whatever price Paradox could offer for the rights

 

[Cael]

I'll take an hand crafted, small world with no filler or bullshit like VTMB over an huge open world, filled with filler bullshit, like a lot of open world games seem to have these days. A lot of the content seems completely disconnected from each other and some of it seems completely pointless and superfluous.

Some devs seem to think that a world needs to be filled with content, no matter how pointless it is, instead of just using dev time to perfect what they already have.

That is the point of open world. In order to show that the world is open and living, it has to have things that are completely divorced from what you are doing and the story is about. By definition, an open world has to have lots of stuff that is disconnected from each other and is pointless and superfluous to you (as the game's protagonist). That is why the open world concept is actually an antithesis to RPGs.

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[Space Nugget]

Reminds me of Nu-Deus Ex cluttered interiors.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

^ That one almost looks like that weird guy who collected limbs lair from Bloodlines. I really hope this is not a remake. :/

 

[Lacrymas]

If that's a medical bed in the corner, Fluent might be onto something. The last screenshot's ramp leading into the watery floor is also a giveaway, but it lacks the Tzimisce's ...preferred aesthetic. Anyway, since they already mentioned the Nosferatu, the Brujah and the Anarchs, I think it's obvious it's a VtM game?

 

[conan_edw]

I think it looks more like the building where you fight Bishop Vick in the quest of the plague.

 

[garren]

Sooo am I getting this correct, we're getting a bloodlines remake?

 

[thesheeep]

Ugh, please no remake.
While they are not necessarily bad, they are almost always entirely pointless.

 

[Zero Credibility]

Jokes aside, I always thought San Francisco would make a good place for Bloodlines 2. From what I remember, it was invaded by the Kuei-jin, just like LA. Unlike LA, invasion succeeded fully here and the city is under Kuei-jin control, with the remaining western vampires under their thumb. Meanwhile, the Camarilla has placed the city under siege, and while a very temporary truce is in effect, both sides are consolidating and massing forces for the inevitable showdown. Kind of like New Vegas, only with vampires. Add the Sabbat with their own plans of sticking it to the Camarilla, Anarchs looking to survive this whole mess, and a thousand different vampire plans-within-plans and I think we would have a decent setting here.

 

[Wesp5]

Those screenshots look familiar, especially the one where you fight the Tzimisce in Bloodlines.

No way! The Tzimisce lair was full of blood and guts and tortured people, the concept art here just shows some old basement or ruins. And the second one above is from the VtM V5 rulebook and has nothing to do with whatever Paradox is teasing here. Also as far as I know a Bloodlines remake would never work, as Activision owns the rights to the specific content and they just don't care enough. Why should they? Bloodlines still makes them good money for nothing...

 

[vota DC]

It is just a loading screen. They will do Age of Vampires since they own Triumph too.
Then Crusader Masquerade, then Hearts of Blood, then Transilvania Universalis.

 

[ColonelTeacup]

What if it's a Bloodlines REMAKE? Those screenshots look familiar, especially the one where you fight the Tzimisce in Bloodlines. Eerily identical even. Are all Tzimisce lairs constructed like that or is it just a coincidence?

No, he was underneath the mansion, in the pseudo sewers there. Unless you mean his minion who wanted to eat you and corrupt you, that you find by talking to the hobos.
Like another person pointed out, the pic looks a bit like the broken down complex in downtown where you find the preacher creating zombies. The annoying super fast one, with the shotgun.

 

[HansDampf]

He is talking about the boss fight in the Hallowbrook Hotel.

 

[Lacrymas]

Fluent means the ending fight with Andrei, not the sewer battle with him. It looks very suspiciously like that area, down to the ramp leading into the watery floor. It's just missing the gore, but I think that was intentional to not give it away too easily.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Fluent
Faithful remake with new graphics, gameplay rebalance, restored cut content bug fixes probably would be better than a sequel.

 

[GrainWetski]

Fluent
Faithful remake with new graphics, gameplay rebalance, restored cut content bug fixes probably would be better than a sequel.

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A good remake is not happening. The best one could expect is another Beamdog-tier abomination for way too much money(anything more than 0 being too much) like all the other "enhanced editions" and "remakes".

On the other hand, the best you can expect from an entirely new game is some generic console action crap. We already have a billion of those, so not entirely sure why anyone would be excited about that.

 

[Lacrymas]

There is literally no point to a generic console action crap because VtM:B's reputation is built entirely on atmosphere and writing. And does anyone play it like a shooter at all? I've always taken the stealthy approach up until it doesn't work anymore.