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we need voice acted quests tho, would be so nice for CDPR to allow geralt's voice to be used .

Eyy, I got two callouts. Someone commented about your video on one of mine lol

Thanks for sharing this video! It's really interesting to hear about the point of view of someone who is experienced in quest design, it gives a nice insight on the little things we aren't necessarily aware of as players. I hope to see the next episodes of the series

As far as a demo goes, it certainly shows the massive potential of what REDkit has to offer. I can see how the shelf life of The Witcher 3 has been impressively increased, quite significantly. It'll take some time for us modders to come to terms with the tools and master the intricacies but it will happen eventually.

Id love to see actual bloodlines in the game, salubri or samendi

now imagine with the launch soon of Red kit . using the Witcher 1 examples and assets ( recreating it using W3 assets ) to make a remake of Wyzima town with new missions

Do you know if I can import a full kit? it seems it can only do one at a time, and there's not even a queue, that's quite annoying.

The high punches aren't actually that weird if you're familiar with some martial arts. In boxing and other sports, you are taught to hunch and protect your head with your arms and shoulders. Not sure if that is executed well on a technical level but the arms would be exactly at eye-level if you do that kind of punching. Just tested this myself in front of a mirror. Though of course you would see more of your body in first person and like this the arms seem disembodied. And admittedly, the arms are still a bit high.

Positive thing: Saves you money! BTW, the power used in this video is Mental Maze. So it is both a vampire skill and it is in the books. However, it is malkavian power, not nosferatu. I don't know why they decided to play with malkavian powers when you have a Nos boss when Nos have some of the scariest powers (at least on flavour department).

I think that every Vampire fans would really love to be able to only say good things about Bloodlines 2, except it's really hard to. For instance, in their presentation, they describe Brujah as people who sometimes lose their temper... that's like describing everybody on planet Earth. To me, the game looks very cheap, almost like an indie game. I've played Like a Dragon not that long ago, so maybe I'm spoiled on that end, because in my opinion, Ryu ga Gotoku studio really nailed it, making you feel like everything is real and like you are living the game itself. It's so beautiful and with incredible acting and motion capture. Here though, the character design don't help me get into the game at all, it's way too cheap for today's standards. Whatever they are trying to do, they wasted so much money on failures, and they don't seem to want to fully commit on Bloodlines 2 to make it the great game it's supposed to be. About your videos, I really enjoy your input, but about the saying nice things part, I think being fair and just, acknowledging both what's good and bad on the same flow is more interesting. (like a mix of this video and your last). Thank you for your great vids!

I really don't understand how their cargo pro works ! so i can just pay 99 USD for a month and download all their assets and use them in my commercial game and don't renew my subscription later !!! i guess it is too good to be true ! so maybe they asking us to pay each month to have commercial access to the library ?! well this one is awful then ! because making games takes years !!! so it makes no sense to pay for monthly subscription when u can buy the specific package

Thank you for the video. I will try this plugin out, since I'm currently working on a point and click game. It seems like a no-brainer to use a tool like this 👍

This has been an absolutely wonderful watch! So much information in an easy, laid-out form - a great way to refresh the basics and get introduced to some new concepts. Definitely recommend watching in full! And waiting for even more parts to come :)

The only interrupting voices inside my head should come from the fact that I'm Malkavian. OH RIGHT, there's only 4 clans, 50 shades of Phyre and if these mofos are Goth then I'm a fokken Queen of Sheba. Can these baboons even make a Malkavian dialogue that won't turn out to be an utter (what's that modern word? oh yeah -) cringe? Cause I'll bet you right now if you think this is ever gonna evolve into a satisfying Bloodlines sequel. I'm sorry, but all I see is red flags here.

Compared to the trailer we got last time, before the game was delayed, it actually looks great! I remember the characters in that one looked very uh... idk, bad? But they clearly worked hard to improve them and it shows. The story was interesting, combat looks smooth (and considering that Brujah is like a warrior class, it still felt like there were intricacies that could be interesting which you dont always get with the pure melee build in games so that's good!) I know a lot of people are going nuts about the character having a name and the voice in their head - did we travel back in time and get all the same people who hated Navi in ocarina of time or something? lol! But seriously, it doesnt bother me at all and people should really cool off! A companion character can add a lot to the feeling of the game. Some games feel empty, mindless. Maybe these others like those empty feeling games? But bloodlines is a character and plot heavy game, not just a sandbox. Characterization and personality is the bread and butter of this genre, so these choices are very appropriate. I think that Phyre is probably also chosen as a gender neutral name so that it can apply to either gender if we go with male. :)

The surprise I had when I saw this video on your feed, I actually thought they were never gonna finish it and ship it out! Great video:) I’m trying to collect all the different versions of the book of nod, I’ve managed to find few copies of all of them but most were too expensive with all the shipping stuff included, so I current only own 2 out of 6 (that I know of)

I just got mine and absolutely love it! I expected it to be some good quality, but very mass produced and it instead feels very high end. I love it.

Looking good man!!!!

thanks so much!!

Followed exactly and it can't locate my 3D software even though I have everything set up right.

Since you mentioned Russian indie games, I'm obligated to recommend Pathologic 2, a truly beautiful and deeply fascinating game. Anyway, I enjoyed your video and I look forward to seeing your game when it's ready.

One thing that upsets me in vampire games, is when they fight like humans. I miss the fighting style in Blood Omen, where you use your claws. In other games I've seen them use guns, and here with fists. I have to ask, what's the point of being a none human Vampire when you are stuck with human limitations.

It would be cool to see a spiritual successor to bloodlines that centers around Mage the Awakening.

I am the only one who hates white diamond symbols all over the place signalling doors and stuff? I hate that kind of intrusive UI...

I don’t like how limited the dialogue options are I understand how it’s an early trailer but where in the first bloodlines you had to go through a conversation the fact it appears theirs only 3 options in each part of the conversation makes it appear very limited. Truthfully we don’t really know a lot of what the game is gonna be like since this is pretty much the first in game video we have seen I hope the next trailer that we get isn’t a quest, but just how Seattle looks and how you interact with it, and the ability to explore it, that we will be able to see and the atmosphere of it has. I think it’s too early to get a good impression because we just don’t know enough or have even seen enough yet. But they need to take the time they need to make it really all come together the franchise cannot have this game bomb if we want them to progress and have more games like the original bloodlines.

Given the troubled development process, I feel people are being a little rough on the game. I get wanting it to be the best it can be, but it can't be easy "finishing someone else's homework" so to say. Especially when we don't know how much had to be changed because of the feedback given when hardsuit was having a rough go of it. I remember seeing a lot of upset at playing a thinblood, as well as pretty much everything else that hardsuit had showcased at the time. Now people are mad a thinblood has been hamfisted into an elder plot and now ** I wonder how much of that shift in story the community may actually be responsible for. ** Yall hated EVERYTHING about the game hardsuit showed off in 2019, and ya wonder why it all got scrapped and replaced to be the OPPOSITE of what it was going for. Also: "Why are we getting cyberpunk in bloodlines" Idk all it took was a cartoon commercial (edgerunners) for everyone to forget Cyberpunk was shitty soooo i can see why paradox thought copying them was viable.

Its unfortunate that ultimately Paradox is the author of this miasma of negativity that won't go away. Picking an inexperienced developer to resurrect a 14 year dormant game series, unleashing several extremely expensive pre-order tiers and over marketing a return of World of Darkness themed games with Bloodlines 2 as its crown jewel, crudely throwing off that dev when they couldn't meet an unrealistic deadline and then inflicting a year and a half long silence of their replacement has done nothing but dig a 1000 mile deep PR grave for Chinese Room to dig themselves out of. Which only seems to sinkhole deeper into the earth with each passing video, probably because much of these growing pains could have already transpired back maybe in 2022 instead of people just now decrying the protagonist's silly name who knows how closer we wander towards a still nebulous release date. Yes, I do think Chinese Room in its current incarnation still likely doesn't have the chops to deliver the exact flavor of Immersive Sim Bloodlines calls for; however, like Hardsuit Labs, I think they were put into a position they couldn't win, at least in a way everyone wants. I sympathize with them even if I don't agree with decisions they took for their version of the game. Because if this was just another VtM game without Bloodlines 2in the name, they wouldn't receive half of the hate they're getting. But then again, they wouldn't have as many eyes on them as they do because I didn't know Vampire the Masquerade: Justice Just released.

No way I'm going to support this thing. This is nothing like Bloodlines.

I heard depending on which clan you choose that’s the clothing options you get

I am looking forward to the final product, it looks very good in my book! Is it really the tongue in cheek Bloodlines we all love? Maybe, maybe not, but it is definitely VTM and if it's got a good story, lore, and gameplay that's all it takes to get me onboard!

The game is something different for me. I like the fact they trying to do different things

I liked the trailer and gameplay

Oblivion with vampires. The combat looks worsre then the first bloodlines . Hell, at this point I would be happy with a crpg akin to the first vtm game….

It is super confusing when you constantly interrupt to say something about "your game". Is this a reaction to Bloodlines 2 or a marketing video for whatever game you are making?!

1:01:58 They were referring to the code of conduct, vampires must adhere to, to keep their society mostly hidden from non vampires. Failing to do so, draws hunters, which causes lost assests. I don't blame The Chinese Room for this, but, I don't think they know how to justify the Bloodlines tag. Management, Ip holders, and investment tycoons, are responsible. Also, these writers need to back off on the whole, " character talks to themselves in full conversation mode" routine. That's my bit, and lemme tell you from real world experience, it gets hella annoying.

I'm sure Trent won't mind if you use this on the game for free

is there a way to get the paradox people to get the legasy version back on track and just have them make that one as well ? i would love to play that one it looks way more intresting and actually rpg then this new version . that one looks more then a action browler

i dont know who they are going to complte now. it could have been good when it was suppose to release but they have good competetion now, and based on what happend behind the scenes theis game was not even being worked on after it was cancled so no idea how much dev time it actually get to make it current gen

I for one are looking forward to the game like a lot of people I'm disappointed that they went with a named character how I did like what I had seen from the game footage here's hoping for good character customization.

Telepaty is thin blood magic. Very possible that her mark have something to do with that

Pretty much every voiced game gives the player a name or is known as a very specific set of nicknames. The lone wanderer, the courier, the sole survivor/(blue), the witcher/Geralt, the nerevar, hero of kvatch, the dragoneborn, V, Shepherd. I suppose in this game they could have used Sheriff. I think Phyre just seems so... cringe to a lot of people they really want something different. Perhaps a reminds a lot of people of their teenage selves, maybe. It comes across very... vam-pyre with a y. There's almost no way they'll change it, they've probably recorded too much dialogue with it.

Okay, what is going on with comments? I'm seeing the same thing you mentioned in your video: comments are getting cut off with ellipses ("...") instead of having a "Read more" option or the like. Hmm...

I enjoyed your video. Thanks for making it! Did you notice the four-directional empty user interface stuff above the healthbar in the lower left corner of the demonstration footage? I'm wondering what that's going to be. My first thought is that it will be the directional controller buttons (since the devs seem focused on gamepad gameplay over keyboard/mouse), but what will go on them? My theory is that we'll have blood bags on one of those buttons (even though an elder's Blood Potency should be too high to use it) for healing, and other consumables or highly situational items automatically slotted to (and not modifiable from since there's no inventory in the in-game menu shown (during the newspaper parts)). Maybe they'll add weapons, but all of the footage only has barehanded physical combat, so I'm highly doubting the player will be able to wield guns or melee weapons. If they don't have that in a Bloodlines sequel, I'm going to be very disappointed...

Contrary to what you said about the developers making up the Discipline that Wilem uses, it does bear some resemblance the fourth level of Melpominee from older editions of VtM. Although, it would be kind of odd for a Nosferatu to posses the powers of a rare bloodline like the Daughters of Cacophony.

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About coments part ... aka, the only part i could actualy hear. Yes, we obviously know there are games where you play as a pre-set characters ... but its also true that in most (i would say all, but if i would somebody would surely find some obscure game where its not true) RPGs, when you play some pre-set character, that character have some history ... and you often WANT to play as those characters. You used Geralt as an example ... that is character that is appealing, bcs you can play as that big hero you want. When you look as somebody entierly new ... its Elder Scrolls, its Dragon Age, its Mass Effect, its i dunno dozens and dozens other games ... you cant just come in with entirely new character and expect people to be exited about "becoming" someone they never heard about five minutes ago. :-/ I mean ... okey you can, and sometimes it can work (as it did for Cal Kestis in Star Wars) ... but there at very least it was part of the plan from very beginning. Problem of this game is that we had some promises, lots of promises, and character creator was big one, and people were very exited about it ... when you remove such thing, any protagonist no matter how awesome (and to be honest Phyre dont even seem so awesome) will suffer for just that, bcs all people see is that Chineese Room took away one of their toys. Its true its just design choice ... but it was still bad choice. :-/ As for Josh ... i also believe (as the autor of that coment) that nobody from the Devs played the first game ... And to be perfectly honest ... since he (as you said) isnt developer ... and since he was hired after the game (allegedly) was allready done ... I dont really see how is his presence relevant to the coment. :-/ You say its "simmilar" to Bloodlines ... simmilar how? A little later you mentioned that Bloodlines 1 was very focused on allowing people to make full Stealth playtrough ... And i agree with that statement. Except i dont see it as positively. :-/ One of my problems with Bloodlines 1 was that there was several missions (some of them were even main missions) that were only solvable in one way ... either only stealth (museum, imalia quest, elisabeth dane, etc.) or only combat (mostly sewer labyrith, but basicaly whole ending was made this way) but there was litterally no use for Social character in those segments ... One of things that was promised by HSL was that except bosses (wich is understandable) whole game will allways offer direct aproach (aka combat), stealth aproach, social aproach (wich branch futher to persuation, intimidation, seduction, bribing, etc.) and some random stuff you can do just for fun of it ... While in this version, all Chineese Room is talking about is action, combat, action, combat, action, combat ... it makes me worried. :-/ Agreed ... Chineese Room inherit the peoject, bcs they (reportedly) directly asked for it ... People allready expected something, i dunno whos bright idea was to throw it all away and rework everthing, but it was simply bad call. :-/

Honestly, I'm not a fan of this whole 'we should be grateful we're getting a game set in the VTM universe that isn't a visual novel' attitude I see on the BL2 discord and from CZcamsrs. Paradox is not doing us a favour by making this game, paradox is doing it so they can line their pockets with money. They are a business, it is not because they care about the fans or the legacy of bloodlines, it is simply just a pay day for them. The spiritual successor to bloodlines is dead in the water, this is hot garbage.

The combat looks good, but, The Chinese Room has ZERO experience making RPGs, and, it definitely shows. The stupid trope of not showing what a dialogue option is actually going to say is SO stupid, and, over-used.

Really hard to hear you over the gameplay