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Is unofficial 2.6 worth patching onto Vanilla?

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Is unofficial 2.6 worth patching onto Vanilla?

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I looked threw the readme and found this some not fixed bug area and its some what off puting and wanted to know how aggravating or detrimental these are to the game if i had 2.6 on?

At the present moment im playing 1.2 offocial and been thinking about the unofficials but some of the things like below look ofputing especialy if say you dont get a reward threw your mailbox...
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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.
Be aware that on dialogue your character will holster his weapon.
Enemies drop only one weapon on death, Romero's trunk spawns ammo.
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.
Vandal will not give his freebie if you already got a blue blood.
Sometimes Beckett stays in his animal form when first meeting him.
Gary's posters appear in all havens, Mitnick's emails dissappear.
Any advice would be nice :D

Side note:- just bought the game yesterday or the day before and im having a blast atm :cool:
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Post by Lucita »

Well....I played the game through with 1.2, but there are so many bugs that could happen especially with some of the sidequests.....so you better make a lot of save games, reloading the game helps with some of them.

My advice...try the game with one of the latest unoffical patches if you wanna get rid off the most depressing bugs, don't know about 2.7, but I think 2.6 worked fine.

The list you quoted, is all that is leftover from what the the original 1.2 patch couldn't solve...
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Ah nice, so how do you set to skip intro screen? as i cant find the option to do so :rolleyes:
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The skip intro option should be a checkbox on your character sheet at character creation. It makes the game skip the intro movie. It's only available if you have a game saved. Otherwise, the game thinks you haven't seen the intro yet and forces you to watch it.
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Ah ok i see, ty very much, now i dont have to watch threw the movie again lol so laborius especialy when making a new characters!

thanks again to you both, im running 2.6 atm so should be ok and have no problems, i think ill let 2.7 have its bugs worked out first before anything like that in the future.
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Hmm still dont see the checkbox by character creation screen :(
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Darksythe wrote:Hmm still dont see the checkbox by character creation screen :(
It is only visible at resolution > 800x600.
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Post by Acleacius »

I would wait 2.8 is about to be released and it has fixed many more things. ;)
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hm i am running the game at 800-600 ;) but maybe ill see whatz 2.8 is like i hope it dosnt have any bugs in.
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