This is an unofficial patch for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
by Troika Games. It is built upon Dan Upright's great unofficial oma
patches and works for english retail and Direct2Drive versions only!
To install it extract this archive into your game folder keeping the
directory structure intact and backup any files being overwritten if
you want to remove it later. A complete reinstall is another option.
This patch attempts to fix many bugs and improve other things but no
guarantees are made, since not everything could be tested. It can be
installed easily on top of the official 1.2 patch from Troika Games.
The more basic changes are listed at the top of the version history,
then bug fixes and more. It is recommended to start a new game after
patching to avoid odd behaviour, like e.g. humans becoming vampires.
Because of the restoration of the histories the patch comes with the
original config.cfg, so change all the options to your liking again.
If you get problems with the histories in the tutorial just skip it!
Tips and Tricks:
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When using the console, be sure to activate it from the menu only.
To reinstall clean up registry and remove vtmb.ini from /windows.
On start crashings force refresh rate override or use -dxlevel 80.
If you freeze during a cutscene type frenzyplayer in the console.
Don't save or leave maps with disciplines active to avoid crashes.
Game may hang on Beckett's "wait" cutscene, reload or use sewers.
Sometimes the game will crash on entering the pawnshop, try later.
In Ming's temple do really push the bar instead of just using it.
If you can't read papers re-bind "use" away from the mousebuttons.
At high Obfuscate levels use attack to stealth kill without fail.
Some feed victims stay in Trance so don't bite quest-related ones.
Enemy death may open doors and give items, which Trance does not.
If a container auto-closes right-click the objects to choose them.
Have four inventory slots free when getting Imalia's Tawni quest.
Buying and reading the lg computer and firearms books works twice.
Taking long for history selection is prone to crash, don't do it.
Game may crash in cutscenes if you are Obfuscated, so turn it off.
Romeros' chest spawns ammo, so check it after changing your mind.
Opening sounds in WMP may change them, so they don't play anymore.
Do not cheat using the histories, you'll not get far that way ;).
Stuff not fixed:
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"Skip intro" and special fonts only work at resolutions > 800x600.
It's not possible to escape to the menu during cutscenes or load.
Prof. Johansen's christian name is stated to be Ingvar and Anders.
Enemies will drop only the weapon on death that they used before.
Be aware that on dialogue your character will holster his weapons.
Sometimes "Skip intro" will not work although the box is checked.
Occasionally mailboxes do not receive rewards or objects drop out.
Female and male Gangrel show different stances in the background.
During some cutscenes your character will look and move strangely.
Bodies may dissappear and dead people may re-appear in cutscenes.
There are invisible blocks at the Theatre, the Museum and Fu Labs.
Sometimes your appartment will be full of furniture, just reload.
Same objects in containers and inventory will not show up in both.
At Confession third person view zooms in when being on the cross.
Rats will not squeak while gently being drained by female players.
Blood Shield stays on until exhausted or removed, this is no bug.
Sometimes Beckett stays in his animal form when first meeting him.
If museum trip beams leave a door locked, search guard for a key.
Vandal will not grant his freebie if you just bought a blue blood.
Gary's posters appear in all havens, Mitnick's emails dissappear.
v2.6
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Added missing xp for plague quest and fixed Hannah quest state bug.
Made Tseng not offer blood as he doesn't even know about vampires.
Venus will now give you a constant $250 payment when you visit her.
Removed another double Malkavian line and clarified two quest logs.
Fixed a bug that reset Yukie's quest if you spoke with Ming again.
Made Chunk not be in the Asylum anymore after you met him downtown.
v2.5
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Made Mitnick mail his reward already after the first schrecknet hub.
Raised chances for Jeanette and Therese peace and Jeanette winning.
Lowered Persuasion requirements for all Giovannis to the same value.
Hacking and lockpicking powerup models centered, thanks to DDLullu.
Modified xp and log for one plague quest state, thanks to Acleacius.
Made Mercurio morphine quest update if you already had some on you.
Fixed xp gain for entering Gallery Noir by seducing Chunk once more.
Removed a surplus Malkavian line and altered some answers to Venus.
Restored missing Masquerade redemption for ways to get rid of Patty.
Fixed Glock walking animation and changed the Ra blade description.
Repaired VV and Jeanette sending you their emails at the wrong time.
Corrected a condition when telling Damsel about the Chang brothers.
v2.4
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Visible fangs added to all vampires missing them, thanks to DDLullu.
Raised Obfuscate frame rate with autoexec.cfg, thanks to Acleacius.
Made it possible for all clans to get the secret info from Johansen.
Fixed a stats condition issue that may result in several new lines.
You will receive a point of humanity for warning Wong Ho about Ming.
Gaining the Tremere haven is now independent from the quests order.
Restored Jeanette encounter that somehow got lost in recent changes.
Changed conditions and text for entering gallery with Chunk's help.
Corrected two lines to Isaac and Knox and changed a Muddy quest log.
Fixed speaking to LaCroix before going to the Society another time.
Removed double Masquerade redemption gained by taking care of Patty.
Added variable for Vick's death that may clear up connected quests.
v2.3
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Put ten 'Jamie Sue' rounds in Romero's trunk for the cemetery quest.
Lowered humanity points gainable during the serial killer dialogue.
Standardised key names in options, loading tips and tutorial popups.
Made charity money stay available after the paintings were slashed.
Decreased kick of Mac 10 and Steyr Aug and restored Ra blade damage.
Removed illogical player@directory prompts from computer terminals.
Altered an Imalia line and a quest state for "bonus" magazine quest.
You'll lose a point of humanity for giving the pendant to Jeanette.
Stopped VV sending her poster so you won't miss out on Gary's email.
Repaired 2.2 bug of Giovanni and Hitman quests not being recognized.
Persuading Jeanette and Therese to make peace is like intended now.
Checking of texts and subtitles concluded by RobinHood70 and myself.
Fixed a double answer to Gary and modified Viktor/Maria Persuasion.
Altered some histories that made no change, no sense or added items.
Shortened a line of Strauss that wrongly claimed moving your stuff.
Changed a Pisha line to reflect the possibility you killed Milligan.
Added the missing graph files for the modified Venture tower level.
Corrected one last name on the Santa Monica busstop and sewer signs.
Stopped dead Malcolm sending mail and Adam repeating a line of his.
Fixed small bugs in Damsel, Knox, Beckett, Venus and Ming dialogues.
Restored lost lines of Flynn and moved some Malkavian lines around.
Removed bug allowing all clans to move using one downtown sewer map.
Correctly stated Brujah Unarmed bonus and Nosferatu Seduction zero.
Made speaking to LaCroix before going to the Society possible again.
v2.2
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Included the unused histories so that each clan has seven plus none.
Swapped trouble making history conditions with similar limitations.
Provided twenty places for Malkavian voice whispers during dialogue.
Restored welcome lines of Bertram including xp gain and log update.
You will lose a humanity point when making Ash exchange his clothes.
Fixed graphics of baton, VV photo, Megahurtz card and Gary's tapes.
Restored xp gain for entering the Gallery Noir by befriending Chunk.
Made Bruno attack on lockpicking the Giovanni Mansion meeting-room.
Removed respawning at Lotus Blossom, Temple, Venture and Giovanni's.
Making love to Jeanette is now possible before taking on her quest.
You will lose humanity for taking money for solving the Tawni quest.
Moved Giovanni loading tips up and added lost lines of the sweeper.
Removed Gallery Noir key after use and made several items droppable.
Lowered additional damage done by all weapons using the zoom modus.
Renamed flaming crossbow to Kuei-jin and lowered the bow accuracies.
Repaired 2.1 story state continuity bug after talking to the Changs.
Checking of text and subtitles continued by RobinHood70 and myself.
Corrected one occasion where Mr. Ox would not give the right reward.
Fixed missing state and xp for bad luck Talisman quest from Mr. Ox.
Changed text of Isaac, Beckett, Romero, Knox and Bertram's postures.
Added infos for flaming crossbow bolts and made vendors offer them.
Removed Barabus line calling you a Cammy and fixed a line with Mira.
Fixed Venus giving you a quest twice and a question about Jeanette.
Awarded xp for killing Bruno Giovanni in the second mansion map too.
Fixed quest state reset on drop and re-pick up of the Salvage card.
Added Pisha line about quest item and checked state for another one.
Corrected a warrens sign and added lines for Malkavians and Kanker.
Removed an endsequences taxi bug and added some missing level names.
Made Strauss offering you money or taliman and fixed a Chunk error.
Repaired not working Muddy quest fix and modified plague quest logs.
Mr. Ox will react correctly when you already have aquired the eyes.
Restored Yukie to shop from the start and set lock difficulty to 10.
Prevented activating hubs a second time and revisiting Ocean House.
Made Tseng talk only of known people and Johansen scream more often.
Deleted invisible blocks at the warehouse to provide stealthy exit.
Fixed wrong conditions of Gimble, Jack, Strauss, Bertram and Slater.
Wong Ho and hostess will be gone from the Red Dragon for all clans.
Removed bonus for stealth killing Johnny and made guards more aware.
Changed Grout quest log, sewer key description and a Mitnick email.
Modified Milligan's Intimidate dialogue so that it makes more sense.
Many Malkavian responses and Dementation uses fixed by RobinHood70.
Fixed Protean tutorial text, body armor description and a quest log.
Corrected Tawni quest failure warning to work for all quest states.
v2.1
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Moved occult items from warrens and Tseng's to be rewards of Mr. Ox.
Made everybody lose a humanity point for sending Milligan to Pisha.
Swapped damage of Desert Eagle / Colt Anaconda and SPAS-15 / Ithaca.
Moved one Tawni quest camera into the kitchen to fit Imalia's text.
Made letting Julius go free for money end up with humanity balanced.
Lessened damage for frenzy check and corrected shown armor ratings.
Added line so you can give the CD to Bertram if you already have it.
Made CDC guys leave later and Chunk not send you up again at times.
Stealing charity money will not cost humanity if you know its usage.
Made vendors sell SWAT rifle bullets and lowered price of fire axe.
Created new braid icon and placed the cut chewing gum in Ramen shop.
Corrected typos, mapname LA to downtown and subtitles to fit speech.
Removed npctemplate* files, delete those if found in /vdata/system.
Renamed Sabbat Thug speaker name to Thug and a few Trips to Vandals.
Redid lost changes to Wong Ho dialogue about the silver haired man.
Made Giovanni guard at the rear entrance of the mansion speak again.
After giving Ash the bloodpack it will be gone from your inventory.
Fixed Damsel recognizing Malkavians and Romero offering them pimpin.
Repaired more problems in Hitman quest and added a new quest state.
Added plague bearer quest log hint and allowed sewer-warrens detour.
The morgue computer will now mention Crumb only after he is around.
Restored sounds for the Ra blade and made killing Lu lower humanity.
Fixed dialogues asking Flynn about Castity and Wong Ho about glaze.
Made Dane cop acknowledge quest and repaired sending Patty to Pisha.
Added a line for Skelter and deleted a tutorial answer for Ventrue.
Replaced wrong use-icons in Venture Tower and lower Giovanni levels.
Fixed Strauss dialogue about Gargoyle weakness and one quest state.
Plugged Ash introduction hole and Therese knowing ghost item riddle.
Restored a broken Vandal line and conditioned a response for Nines.
Fixed telling Damsel of the alliance and corrected feed loading tip.
Deleted icons of unopenable doors at Lotus Blossom and Luckee Star.
Fixed Mitnick's reward and corrected text on three inventory models.
Modified discipline options for Kerri and removed a line with Knox.
Changed Ji's superhero and Johnny's asshole lines to reflect gender.
Removed taxi driving you to Mercurio in the end game if he is dead.
Deleted imperfect threat to LaCroix and fixed three wrong xp titles.
Added conditions to Beckett's Assyrian dialogue and removed a loop.
