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I like this.
Very much.
Had a major stuff-up when I tried to load in a save game and found that all of them gave ctd's. Ouch. Tried to start a new game and got a ctd. Double ouch.
Uninstalled, reinstalled and got another ctd. Hmm.
Restarted computer then fired it up and it worked just fine.
I'd forgotten that I'd puttered around with (spit) 'Star Trek Armada' earlier in the day and gotten a ctd (as can happen rather frequently with that Activision-spawned piece of garbage), and that I'd fired up VtM:B without restarting.
Oh dear.
Bonehead of the year award goes to ravagon and it's only a few days old.
Many apologies to the Troika crew for all of those less-than-pleasant thoughts I thunk about you.
Well, anyway, restarting gave me a new lease on life, so to speak. ie: I knew to be more careful with the keys this time.
I still don't know quite why they put the 'feed' hotkey adjacent to one of the movement keys - rather disconcerting when you're trying to move and suddenly have security guys blazing away at you after you accidentally try to feed off some hapless passerby ('It was the beast that made me do it officer, honest') and then you have police cars pulled up outside and their guys hunting you everywhere.
I'm still in Santa Monica, which is disappointingly small (I hope the downtown, etc, areas are a bit larger) but still has a surprising amount of depth. Lots of bits'n'pieces to find. The computer hacking and lockpicking skills seem to be invaluable.
(Note: None of the computers in the game seem to use a windows interface.
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After about 12 hours playing time I've wandered through most of the first area, been given about a dozen 'tasks' and completed 3 of them. Several would seem to take me into other areas.
Haven't done too much fighting yet, no other kindred at least - a band of ganger-types being the toughest, but I've met a particularly irritating ghoul (Kine blood-bonded servant) and already heard rumours about a Kuei-Jin (Chinese Vamp - very cool) and a Garou (
You've got to be kidding me! They can't throw neonates against one of those??!!).
I'd still prefer to play as a Lasombra (or perhaps an Assamaite?) but my Tremere witch will do for now. Haven't even used Thaumaturgy yet either.
Again,
I like this.
Very much.
Had a major stuff-up when I tried to load in a save game and found that all of them gave ctd's. Ouch. Tried to start a new game and got a ctd. Double ouch.
Uninstalled, reinstalled and got another ctd. Hmm.
Restarted computer then fired it up and it worked just fine.
I'd forgotten that I'd puttered around with (spit) 'Star Trek Armada' earlier in the day and gotten a ctd (as can happen rather frequently with that Activision-spawned piece of garbage), and that I'd fired up VtM:B without restarting.
Oh dear.
Bonehead of the year award goes to ravagon and it's only a few days old.
Many apologies to the Troika crew for all of those less-than-pleasant thoughts I thunk about you.
Well, anyway, restarting gave me a new lease on life, so to speak. ie: I knew to be more careful with the keys this time.
I still don't know quite why they put the 'feed' hotkey adjacent to one of the movement keys - rather disconcerting when you're trying to move and suddenly have security guys blazing away at you after you accidentally try to feed off some hapless passerby ('It was the beast that made me do it officer, honest') and then you have police cars pulled up outside and their guys hunting you everywhere.
I'm still in Santa Monica, which is disappointingly small (I hope the downtown, etc, areas are a bit larger) but still has a surprising amount of depth. Lots of bits'n'pieces to find. The computer hacking and lockpicking skills seem to be invaluable.
(Note: None of the computers in the game seem to use a windows interface.
)After about 12 hours playing time I've wandered through most of the first area, been given about a dozen 'tasks' and completed 3 of them. Several would seem to take me into other areas.
Haven't done too much fighting yet, no other kindred at least - a band of ganger-types being the toughest, but I've met a particularly irritating ghoul (Kine blood-bonded servant) and already heard rumours about a Kuei-Jin (Chinese Vamp - very cool) and a Garou (
You've got to be kidding me! They can't throw neonates against one of those??!!).I'd still prefer to play as a Lasombra (or perhaps an Assamaite?) but my Tremere witch will do for now. Haven't even used Thaumaturgy yet either.
Again,
Overall, its one of the best RPGs I had the pleasure to play. Unfortunately, like others mentioned, it has technical problems. The loading screens are too frequent and too long. 
And I'm not sure about the melee combat yet. Either I'm bad at it, or its hard to master. I sometimes wish there was a way to lock on your opponent, like in Fable.
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