This is an unofficial patch for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines by Troika Games. It is build upon Dan Upright's great unofficial oma patches and is only intended for the english versions of Bloodlines! 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. But reinstallation is recommended then. 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, below are bug fixes and minor things. Continueing saved games from a previous patch state may potentially result in weird game behaviour. Because of the restoration of the histories the patch comes with the original config.cfg, so change all the options to your liking again. Try them out at your own risk and on tutorial problems just skip it! Tips and Tricks: ---------------- When using the console, be sure to activate it from the menu only. To reinstall clean up registry and remove vtmb.ini from /windows. If you can't read papers re-bind "use" away from the mousebuttons. Blood Shield stays on until exhausted or removed, this is no bug. Some feed victims stay in trance so don't bite quest related ones. At high Obfuscate levels use attack to stealth kill without fail. If a container auto-closes right-click the objects to choose them. Have four inventory slots free when getting Imalia's Tawni quest. If the Skyeline apartment's elevator won't work use vents instead. In Ming's temple do really move the bar instead of just using it. Be aware that on dialogue your character will holster his weapons. Enemies will drop only the weapon on death that they used before. Don't save or change maps with disciplines active to avoid crashs. Enemy death may open doors and give items, which Trance does not. Vandal will not grant his freebie if you just bought a blue blood. Do not cheat using the histories, you'll not get far that way ;). Not done (help needed): ----------------------- "Skip intro" and special fonts only work at resolutions > 800x600. Characters may be invincible to normal weapons or at wrong times. Sometimes Beckett stays in his animal form when first meeting him. Game may hang on Beckett's "wait" cutscene, reload or use sewers. 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. At Confession third person view zooms in when being on the cross. Sometimes the game will crash on entering the pawnshop, try later. Occult hacking and lockpicking models are not centered in window. There is an invisible block at the Nocturne Theatre, just jump it. Bodies may dissappear and dead people may re-appear in cutscenes. Rats will not squeak while gently being drained by female players. Sometimes your appartment will be full of furniture, just reload. Same objects in containers and inventory will not show up in both. Playing around too long with history selection is prone to crash. v2.2 • 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 loose a humanity point for 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, Ventrue and Giovanni's. • You will loose humanity for taking money after solving Tawni quest. • Making love to Jeanette is now possible regardless of the storyline. • 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 story state continuity bug after talking to Chang brothers. • 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 give money instead of 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 for Gimble, Jack, Regent, 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 on leaving for all occasions.