Unofficial Patch 8.8 released!

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 7:25 am

Get it as usual from The Patches Scrolls: http://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/4647/59318
It may be necessary to rebind your Use Discipline key in the options.

v8.8 24.10.2013
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+Added animations for all active disciplines, thanks to EntenSchreck.
+Made new elevator arrows light up and stealth work on clinic guard.
+Fixed LaSombra teleport death and made new occult items undroppable.
+Added Humanity for keeping Zhao alive and restored two feed sounds.
+Fixed getting new discipline, grenade, divine light and Vandal line.
+Restored jenny_cries sequence on SM hub for Jeanette near Mercurio.
+Removed buggy Command schedules and fixed Vision of Death and Sleep.
+Restored animal movement for new warform and swapped some MP items.
Made King's Way door consistent and fixed a Society of Leopold lock.
Restored Muddy fighting killer animation and so fixed the cutscene.
Fixed warehouse thug with long range eyesight and minor text issues.
Restored sounds at Society of Leopold and made others more audible.
Fixed SM and Hollywood hub club music and restored a Vesuvius sound.
Added or removed doorknobs to make it obvious which doors are real.
Restored unused floats of Larry and five civilians, cops and guards.
Removed histories, skip intro and Nosferatu/NPC changes from basic.

Sergio1992 · Post by **Sergio1992** » Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:51 am

Hi Wesp, thanks for the wondrous job

May I ask if you could upload the patch on another place ? The website where you uploaded the patch is so slow I need 8 hours to download the patch.

And another thing: I've played many times bloodlines (I never ended it), would you advise me to go for plus or not ? I always reached hollywood then stopped playing. Thank you for help

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:03 am

If you already played Bloodlines several times, I would suggest you should go with plus. Maybe the restorations and changes are enough to make you play further

. As for The Patches Scrolls, I will contact them and ask them where the problem is. From which country are you downloading?

Sergio1992 · Post by **Sergio1992** » Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:54 am

ok, thanks. I'm from Italy

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I'm able to download to a fullest potential of 450 kb in download

, so reading 19 kb is strange.

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Sun Oct 27, 2013 11:28 am

I have informed The Patches Scrolls about the problem...

GawainBS · Post by **GawainBS** » Sun Oct 27, 2013 11:50 am

Thanks again for the patch, Wesp.
A small bug: the Toreador history "Starving Artist" (or something to that effect) doesn't have it mechanical details listed, just the background description. It does give an extra point in Perception, but I don't see a disadvantage. I'm assuming some sort of penalty to Finance, given the fluff text.

P.S.: I'm still playing 8.7. Perhaps it has been fixed?

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:43 am

GawainBS wrote: A small bug: the Toreador history "Starving Artist" (or something to that effect) doesn't have it mechanical details listed, just the background description. It does give an extra point in Perception, but I don't see a disadvantage. I'm assuming some sort of penalty to Finance, given the fluff text.

This works fine in 8.8 so it should be fixed. The penalty is maximum appearance of 4 because of ugly clothes

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As for slow downloads of The Patches Scrolls, it seems the bandwidth was completely maxed out in recent days.

GawainBS · Post by **GawainBS** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:53 am

Wesp5 wrote:This works fine in 8.8 so it should be fixed. The penalty is maximum appearance of 4 because of ugly clothes .

As for slow downloads of The Patches Scrolls, it seems the bandwidth was completely maxed out in recent days.

Nice to know! Thanks!

Tenser · Post by **Tenser** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 4:59 am

My download ran 1-2 Megabyte / second , so the bandwidth problem should be fixed now.

Sergio1992 · Post by **Sergio1992** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 1:35 pm

I installed the patch..

Edit: is there a way to verify the integrity of the unofficial patch I just downloaded? I wonder if it could be corrupted, even if I was able to install it without any errors...

Edit 2: the skip intro button doesn't work

Edit 3: another thing. I've met jack outside. Could you add a option for the +plus patch to make him give you the two xp points you would get during the tutorial ?

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 2:28 am

The skip intro button is still a mystery to all of us, sometimes it just does not react. Otherwise I guess if the patch installer works the patch should be fine. You should immediately see some new effects on the main menu screen!

Sergio1992 · Post by **Sergio1992** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 7:36 am

Thanks for help Wesp

Great patch.

Sergio1992 · Post by **Sergio1992** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:16 am

Well, I've got a bug. I can't seem to be able to save therese and jeanette, even if I got a persuasion of 4.
How do I do it?

Edit: oh well, after some research on internet I found that if I don't have seduction it seems unlikely I can save the twins.
What I wonder is: why did you bugfix that part of the game, Wesp?
I remember your debate with Octarine about the sabbat ending. Isn't this the same thing?

how can you know that you won't save them both unless you seduce jeanette from the first time ?

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:45 am

That's probably not a bug, but a feature. You must have treated both very nice all the time, otherwise you can't do it!

Sergio1992 · Post by **Sergio1992** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:50 am

Wesp5 wrote:That's probably not a bug, but a feature. You must have treated both very nice all the time, otherwise you can't do it!

I wonder, without seduction I can't save them, am I wrong ? What if I'm aiming just for persuasion ?

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 10:02 am

It has nothing to do with the final dialogue, your Persuasion is fine there. But there are variables set in each earlier dialogue that need to be right too...

Sergio1992 · Post by **Sergio1992** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 12:50 pm

Wesp5 wrote:It has nothing to do with the final dialogue, your Persuasion is fine there. But there are variables set in each earlier dialogue that need to be right too...

okay, Wesp5, you ready? I've got a gift for you

well, not exactly a gift, but a bug.

I'm not able to enter the Elizabeth dane. As soon as I step into the little canoe, the game will start loading the new scenery but it crashes to desktop and gives me this error.
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Hope you can give me some tips on what I've gotta do

Edit: can't seem to find in the readme any info about this bug. Is there a section for it ?

Edit 2: I solved the culprit by using the info I found here : http://planet-vampire.net/forum/index.php?topic=6169.0
I saw that you claimed that inside the readme there should be more info, but I'm not able to find them ?

?

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 2:30 pm

There is a line for this in the readme: "In case of "no precache error" crashes try alternate vampire.dlls."

Sergio1992 · Post by **Sergio1992** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 5:00 pm

kk

I've got a question:

I'm inside the library. I've inserted the card and it is said I gotta find a switch, but I'm not able to find it. Where is it ? xD

Edit: I've checked around internet and it seems that the globe should be the switch. But in my playthrough if I move the cursor around\over the globe, no switch highlight will appear

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:15 am

The globe was the switch in an earlier version. Right now look around the backroom for a texture on the floor and then try to remember where you have seen it before!