kick attacks

ninjitsubob · Post by **ninjitsubob** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:02 pm

i was wondering and this seems like the best place to ask
are there any kicking attacks in this game

like im wondering for say unarmed
or knives or swords where your character will kick at the guy
instead of punch or slash

just wondering

elnator · Post by **elnator** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:40 am

Some of the unarmed attacks are kicks. Probably not what you're thinking of though. This is VTM, not Karate Fighter 3

Fenris Wolf · Post by **Fenris Wolf** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 2:07 am

Your character will do a punch + punch + jumping roundhouse kick combo if you do it right.

pennypincher · Post by **pennypincher** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:17 pm

Bwwwhahaha! Try using Dominate to make a Hobo army, or Dementation to make them fight.. You'll find one thing is true of all hobos.. They are all highly skilled ninja warriors!
No, seriously, they do jumping roundhouse kicks at each other while running. That takes some serious balance. Once you have your ninja jumping kicking army of drunken hobos, I suggest firing one shot at a random police officer and seeing who wins.. Well armed and fully trained law enforcment, or ninja hobos. I know who gets MY vote!

Maxinion · Post by **Maxinion** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:48 pm

[QUOTE=pennypincher]Bwwwhahaha! Try using Dominate to make a Hobo army, or Dementation to make them fight.. You'll find one thing is true of all hobos.. They are all highly skilled ninja warriors!
No, seriously, they do jumping roundhouse kicks at each other while running. That takes some serious balance. Once you have your ninja jumping kicking army of drunken hobos, I suggest firing one shot at a random police officer and seeing who wins.. Well armed and fully trained law enforcment, or ninja hobos. I know who gets MY vote![/QUOTE]

Not quite ninja's, but close enough. [somethingawful.com]

pennypincher · Post by **pennypincher** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:31 pm

Wow! Thats endlessly awesome! Thats the kinda guy I WOULD dominate to follow me around and use his ninja-fu-hap-judo-jan-hobo powers on hapless passers by and Sabbat vampires!

In other news, while I never used unarmed attacks and we are on the topic of them, and I'm at work so it's hard to rush home and load up Bloodlines to find out.. What are they like? Is your character an insta-ninja, having just popped out of the grave and become instantly a kung fu expert like a Blade vampire? Or is he/she more a buffy-esq.. Jump out from behind grave stones, never protect your heart or head, always hold hands up at your sides and hiss kinda vampire?
What about jumping unarmed attacks? Mega sumo suplex powers?

Maxinion · Post by **Maxinion** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:36 pm

Well, like melee weapons, unarmed works in combos. If you press forward you'll do a chain of three punches, if you press left, a punch+punch+kick, right = punch+punch+kick, back = jump forward to hit someone on the floor, low attack, and jump attack = pretty useless, only usable to hit people above you. If you jump attack at someone at an equal height as you, chances are you'll miss completely. Lame.

As for the skills... yeah, you're a judo master to start out. The animations don't change as you get skills, right away you're doing punch, punch, roundabout, etc. Or a jump and slam attack, etc. Fun, but just what you'd expect-- nothing too flashy or really "wow!" compared to the melee attacks.

pennypincher · Post by **pennypincher** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:49 pm

You know what WOULD have been nice? Activating celerity giving you cooler moves.. Or potence.. Or heck even fortitude. Lemme flesh out:

Celerity: Why should I punch a guy three times in the face when I have enough time to step up onto his bent knee, step off the wall and kick him three times in the jaw while still in the air, stepping off his other shoulder while he is only just falling off his feet, grabbing his failing arm and slamming into the same wal I just stepped off of at 130 m/p/h?

Potence: If I can grab a person at each wrist and pull them in half, or reach through their stomach and grab their spine.. Isn't that just a little more effective for what I want to do then, say, kicking them in the shins and running away quickly giggling like a school girl?

Foritude: Once you have broken all your fingers and toes trying to kick and punch me, I'll just step on your neck.. M'kay? M'kay!