Unofficial Patch 7.0 released!

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:52 am

Download: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines : Patches, Updates, Addons, Downloads (The Patches Scrolls)

As always, feel free to comment on bugs found in this release.

Changes in 7.0:

(+) denotes changes only available when you are playing plus edition of this patch

+Repaired Tourette ammo and added XP and redemption for the Gargoyle.
+Removed SM clinic combat zone and added netcafe combat zone switch.
+Added SWAT rifle ammo model and restored several blunt weapon stats.
+Improved Yukie translation and removed GLOCKs from the Hallowbrook.
+Decreased bomb timer to 30 seconds and changed endgame Skelter line.
Fixed Arthur, Lu, Beckett, Isaac, Victor and killer dialogue issues.
Restored about hundred unused floats and removed bad ones for Kiki.
Fixed tutorial blood reset and improved Chunk Gallery Noir sequence.
Opened beachhouse door on combat and moved blanket to Hannah's bed.
Fixed Gary's photo sound, Ricky's glasses and improved emails order.
Removed Grout's trigger after use and Murietta's key if not needed.
Swapped some pedestrians to reduce clones and added Yukie quest log.
Fixed Yukie boots, Sabbat ankh and Barabus feet, thanks to DDLullu.
Displaced two buggy Luckee Star doors and made the sweeper stronger.
Fixed Dane cop, Bertram, Dennis, LaCroix, Venus and Knox dialogues.
Repaired Ox, mugger and Heather dialogues and restored Barabus line.
Corrected Lily cutscene and stalker hair models, thanks to DDLullu.
Fixed Yukie's shop stats, Maria's invitation and Venture tower door.
Added emotions to Ming's Temple lines and fixed Hallowbrook script.
Swapped Mitnick clone with player model and added Temple door sound.
Tried to fix zombies and stalkers occasionally using normal voices.
Fixed female Tremere hair, thanks for the skin to a nameless modder.

Crenshinibon · Post by **Crenshinibon** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:19 am

Thanks for the patch Wesp. Just when I was getting nostalgic and preparing for a playthrough with a Gangrel.

Tricky · Post by **Tricky** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:49 am

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Repaired Tourette ammo and added XP and redemption for the Gargoyle.
Removed SM clinic combat zone and added netcafe combat zone switch.
Added SWAT rifle ammo model and restored several blunt weapon stats.
Improved Yukie translation and removed GLOCKs from the Hallowbrook.
Decreased bomb timer to 30 seconds and changed endgame Skelter line.
Fixed Arthur, Lu, Beckett, Isaac, Victor and killer dialogue issues.
Restored about hundred unused floats and removed bad ones for Kiki.
Fixed tutorial blood reset and improved Chunk Gallery Noir sequence.
Opened beachhouse door on combat and moved blanket to Hannah's bed.
Fixed Gary's photo sound, Ricky's glasses and improved emails order.
Removed Grout's trigger after use and Murietta's key if not needed.
Swapped some pedestrians to reduce clones and added Yukie quest log.
Fixed Yukie boots, Sabbat ankh and Barabus feet, thanks to DDLullu.
Displaced two buggy Luckee Star doors and made the sweeper stronger.
Fixed Dane cop, Bertram, Dennis, LaCroix, Venus and Knox dialogues.
Repaired Ox, mugger and Heather dialogues and restored Barabus line.
Corrected Lily cutscene and stalker hair models, thanks to DDLullu.
Fixed Yukie's shop stats, Maria's invitation and Venture tower door.
Added emotions to Ming's Temple lines and fixed Hallowbrook script.
Swapped Mitnick clone with player model and added Temple door sound.
Tried to fix zombies and stalkers occasionally using normal voices.
Fixed female Tremere hair, thanks for the skin to a nameless modder.

I've been meaning to ask you about this for a long, long time. The trouble is that I don't know what to ask. It is just cool.

Do you have a really high IQ or something, and writing in this style just comes naturally to you? That's a bad question, but it would be awesome if it were true.

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:09 am

Tricky wrote: Do you have a really high IQ or something, and writing in this style just comes naturally to you? That's a bad question, but it would be awesome if it were true.

It started accidentally and now it's kind of a game for me to make it look like that

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Tricky · Post by **Tricky** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:47 pm

Ha. Still quite awesome. I've been wondering for years.

Octarine · Post by **Octarine** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:29 pm

Wesp5 wrote: +Removed SM clinic combat zone and added netcafe combat zone switch.

I thought that was already in the game. Wasn't there a zone switch to combat as you go up the stairs in the back room of the netcafe? What did you change exactly?

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:47 am

Octarine wrote:I thought that was already in the game. Wasn't there a zone switch to combat as you go up the stairs in the back room of the netcafe? What did you change exactly?

I added a switch that turns it off again when entering the computer room, because otherwise after it once got activated by meeting the headrunners you could kill all the NPCs there without a penalty.

][_aVey · Post by **][_aVey** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:49 am

Something strange happened... I installed the v7.0 patch on a fresh VTMB and after the tutorial, when I first checked my mail in my haven, I found a message from Mitnick thanking me for getting an item for him and got the respective EXP points for completing such task. I closed the game in disgust and didn't even bother to check if my reward was in my mailbox. Has this happened to any of you too?

Maybe I'll give it another try soon, I hope that was just a one time bug and that it was not patch-related, but right now all my enthusiasm for playing has just faded away.

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:51 am

][_aVey wrote:I installed the v7.0 patch on a fresh VTMB and after the tutorial, when I first checked my mail in my haven, I found a message from Mitnick thanking me for getting an item for him and got the respective EXP points for completing such task.

This is a known bug of patch 7.0 which is caused by a new plus version quest accidentally ending up partially in the basic version. I already fixed that for 7.1, for your current playthrough just ignore these emails!

][_aVey · Post by **][_aVey** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:19 pm

Wesp5 wrote:This is a known bug of patch 7.0 which is caused by a new plus version quest accidentally ending up partially in the basic version. I already fixed that for 7.1, for your current playthrough just ignore these emails!

Great, guess I'll wait until the new version comes out to play again. Thank you for your quick response.

sunsmountain · Post by **sunsmountain** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:50 pm

First post here, played this game start to finish 3 times in 2005 (toreador, malkav, gangrel), and returning to the game in 2010 to finally play nosferatu.

Wesp5 is da man, so here goes:

Excellent work, and a big thanks and thumbs up to the Unofficial patch and all the joy it brings. I did indeed also notice the e-mail bug, and decided I wouldn't let that stop me from playing so they're still waiting in my box to be opened. I found 2 more bugs much later in the game though, and the second one did stop me for now:

Unofficial Basic patch 7.0 , official patch 1.2

- 1: Chastity drops Shin Gunto. I'm pretty sure she didn't drop this in previous games, I was like: wtf? But continued to play with it in my inv, as it's not unbalancing or really changing anything. Am I mistaking, or is this "the + patch accidentally ending up in basic"? Confirmed.

- 2: No matter which option I choose - how I accept this quest, order of things, talk to strauss first or not, be nice to strauss or not - I can't rat out Strauss to Isaac about the Gargoyle. When you want to tell him about the Gargoyle and what you've learned, you get only 2 options, in all cases:
1. Sorry, I think I'll deal with it first.
2. It's nothing. Forget it. I have to go.

And I love to rat Strauss out.. creepy Tremere. Though my next char will be a female Tremere.. be nice to him then :devil:

ed: Update to this bug, I may be mistaking, as I'm now getting the option to betray Strauss to Isaac after telling Isaac what you did to the Gargoyle (the killed option anyway). I'll investigate further and compare with original.

I'm also running through the entire FAQ by vampyri_lestat to spot for minor corrections, and mostly Nosferatu tips because it's confusing to be able to speak to some humans, but not to others.

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 4:20 pm

sunsmountain wrote: - bug 1: Chastity drops Shin Gunto. I'm pretty sure she didn't drop this in previous games, I was like: wtf? But continued to play with it in my inv, as it's not unbalancing or really changing anything. Am I mistaking, or is this "the + patch accidentally ending up in basic"?

You are right, everyone overlooked this all these years! I restored her to not drop it for the 7.1 basic patch version.

- bug 2: No matter which option I choose - how I accept this quest, order of things, talk to strauss first or not, be nice to strauss or not - I can't rat out Strauss to Isaac about the Gargoyle.

There seems indeed to be a problem there. I hope I can fix it for the upcoming patch 7.1, thanks for the feedback!

sunsmountain · Post by **sunsmountain** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:07 pm

Wesp5 wrote:You are right, everyone overlooked this all these years! I restored her to not drop it for the 7.1 basic patch version.

There seems indeed to be a problem there. I hope I can fix it for the upcoming patch 7.1, thanks for the feedback!

You're welcome! I'm considered a very precise individual, perfect for stuff like this (ed.: or i'm just the only one choosing basic AND precise while all the other precise ppl chose Plus). Hope lestat will react similarly to the FAQ feedback, haven't finished it though.

I'm definitely gonna try the Plus patch though, as I have a double install of winxp and win7 (both home editions OEM). But in windows 7 the blood bar and life bar are washed out, as well as the picture you see when you interact. Are those bugs solved by those .dll files mentioned under DX 11 (DX 9 emulate)? (i went straight to winxp after seeing the screwed up pictures in win7).

ps.: gonna leave my male nossie named Dobby for now, and start a female Treme. Guess what I'm gonna call her?

Spoiler

Yep, Hermione

. So you don't have to hurry that 7.1 patch for me cos she has to side with Strauss to get / keep her haven, although I am looking forward to 7.1 now

.

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 3:45 pm

sunsmountain wrote:But in windows 7 the blood bar and life bar are washed out, as well as the picture you see when you interact. Are those bugs solved by those .dll files mentioned under DX 11 (DX 9 emulate)?

Sorry, but I don't have Windows 7 so I don't know...

sunsmountain · Post by **sunsmountain** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:24 am

found solution to washed out graphics

ed 4: The unofficial patch turns out to be pretty important for Windows 7 users, due to:

Patched engine.dll and shaderapidx9.dll files are included to repair
refresh-rate, no-coronas-after-load and bad-or-missing-textures-with
-more-than-2-GB-memory bugs, also the downloadable vampire.dll file.

Without engine.dll, Windows 7 will still load the game correctly, but without shaderapidx9.dll , all HUD graphics are washed out and ugly.

ed: By the way, when Vandal confronts you, can you Dominate him? FAQ by lestat says you can, Dementate too, but I can't remember if I dementated him with my Malkav 5 years ago. Testing now with Dominate 3 and no luck. All I get is the first persuade option, and if i take intimidate 4 i can make him give me a blue blood pack, but no discipline options are shown.

ed 2: Same problem for the upper class victim. Dominate 3 does nothing. Should I have 4 in Santa Monica? Persuade and Intimidate options work fine.

ed 3: ah, no bugs as Tremere get no Dominate dialogue options. Ventrue get those, and Malkavians get Dementation of course.

Shizz · Post by **Shizz** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 3:48 pm

Domination in Conversation only works vor Ventrue, iirc... either for all dialogues or just for a few, not sure. So with a Tremere you still have to rely on being honeytongued, creepy or violent.

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 3:58 pm

sunsmountain wrote:Testing now with Dominate 3 and no luck.

Same problem for the upper class victim. Dominate 3 does nothing.

Tremere Domination in dialogue only works in the plus version of the patch!

sunsmountain · Post by **sunsmountain** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:17 am

ah, so they're not bugs as Tremere get no Dominate dialogue options. Ventrue get those, and Malkavians get Dementation of course. And lestat does mention this, I forgot to re-read the clans closely.

Makes game balance sense. Tremere are already powerful enough as it is.

Shizz wrote:So with a Tremere you still have to rely on being honeytongued, creepy or violent.

All three!

3. Found something new I think. When you successfully persuade Milligan to go down to the hospital, you still lose HUMANITY. I think that's ok though, since you know what will happen to him. But in the original game if the faq by lestat is correct you didn't lose HUMANITY.

ed: bug 3 is confirmed, this should only happen in the Plus patch. After all, you didn't kill Milligan yourself, and the Beast takes no pride in that...

Will keep hunting for dem bugs...

4. If you ask Imalia for your money after you place the camera's at Tawni's place using dialogue option 1 or 2, you don't lose HUMANITY anymore in Basic Patch. You did in the original, according to lestat faq. I'll check.

5. Ehmm, the 4th Network Hub - Kamikaze Zen, the vault no longer contains $500, should contain a NAME PLATE according to lestat, but in 7.0 contains a Web Camera instead, selling for $0. The XP works though (don't know what was broken?). Note: I did combine the 2nd hub (theatre) and Imalia's quest at some point, gaining 4 stackable WEB CAMERA's. But I used them all 4.

ed: Can I ask what the bug was with the $500 from the original game? Did it award XP for finding the money, or should it have? I never noticed a bug with it on 3 playthroughs...

hal900x · Post by **hal900x** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 2:25 pm

Basic patch 7.0 spoiled this game for me

Well, "Basic" patch 7.0 really ruined some of the enjoyment of my very first play through of this legendary game, and that hurts. Those emails from the plus version that pop up have some titanic spoilers in them. I am in the very first part of the game, only an hour's playtime or so, and now I know who the killer is, thanks to an email about a certain blood type obtained by "the tabloids" that I just read. And there isn't any way to see who the email is from and thus avoid it. And I'm not about to skip ALL the emails, because for all I know one of them is critical to the game. Honestly, what a downer. My very first playthrough. I guess I will reroll a different clan and play unpatched/true patch, or wait until 7.1 and hope there are no more glaring bugs like this in it. Bah.

I guess the other thing I could try is the plus version. I'm assuming that it handles the timeline better so these additional emails don't become spoilers? I haven't found the plus version on the web yet though.

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:16 pm

hal900x wrote:I am in the very first part of the game, only an hour's playtime or so, and now I know who the killer is, thanks to an email about a certain blood type obtained by "the tabloids" that I just read.

Sorry, but you are mistaken. I assume that you mean the quest for the werewolf blood, which is from the original game and has nothing to do with the patch or the serial killer...