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Become the Ultimate Vampire!

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is now available for pre-order, DRM-free.

Written by the creative mind behind the original Bloodlines, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 brings the ambitions of the first to life and sees the return of a few fan favorite characters.

Immerse yourself in the World of Darkness and live out your vampire fantasy in a city filled with intriguing characters that react to your choices. You and your unique disciplines are a weapon in our forward-driving, fast-moving, melee-focussed combat system. Your power will grow as you advance, but remember to uphold the Masquerade and guard your humanity... or face the consequences.
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I'm not sure what you expected ?

Maybe a continuation of the story of the main character of VtMB1 ?

That was never going to happen.

And the other concept, the one that this thread was started with, we knew that that was thrown out.

IMHO it sucked a lot anyway. No guns, only two disciplines per clan, you start as a thinblood, etc.

Starting as an older generation eight vampire instead is so much better.
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Geromino: ...

I'm not sure what you expected ?

Maybe a continuation of the story of the main character of VtMB1 ?

That was never going to happen.

And the other concept, the one that this thread was started with, we knew that that was thrown out.

IMHO it sucked a lot anyway. No guns, only two disciplines per clan, you start as a thinblood, etc.

Starting as an older generation eight vampire instead is so much better.
Don't know about expected, but I was hoping for something that... felt like Bloodlines. Stellar writing, characters, attention to detail, overall atmosphere, and several ways to do pretty much anything, many ways to play it. So far, this seems to mainly be a first person action game.

Agree on the last point though, nice idea to start as an elder, and the thinblood concept was disappointing to say the least.
Hu.



Well, I never seriously expected VtMB2 to be as good as VtMB1 in the first place. VtMB is, together with Baldurs Gate and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, my top three game ever. There was some exceptional talent at work and to expect that again would have been a bit, well, overly optimistic.

Just like I never really expected Baldurs Gate 3 to be this good, but it can totally keep up with BG1 and BG2. It has different strengths but it has some really good storywriting.

So I was only hoping for a good game in both cases. More than what I got with SWKotoR2, which was simply a very unfinished game which would have been in many ways disappointing even if had been finished. The villain for example was horribly obvious. The characters looked super cool but had zero personality. Etc.



And I'm not sure how you got so much from this relatively short sequence anyway.

VtMB1 was also an action game, after all.

And in VtMB1 many quests could only be solved by combat, too. In fact, I had quite a few walkthroughs that ended in failure because I had misskilled the character too much and the battles just got too hard and too frustrating. No longer happends nowadays though.

From what I've seen so far, this could still be a very good game.
https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2/news/clan-highlight-brujah

"Clan Highlight: Brujah

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Rebels, The Learned Clan, Rabble, Hellenes.

The Brujah are known for their impetuous tempers and defiant natures, and the clan contains some of the most violent vampires. Visionaries and brutes both, the Brujah have fallen from their stature as the Learned Clan to a motley lineage of radicals, troublemakers, and firebrands — all as much at odds with each other as with the systems they claim to oppose.

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Playing a Brujah in Bloodlines 2

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If you’re a player who leaves the shadows to the cowards, knows the frontline is where the fun is, and rebels against the establishment, Brujah is your clan.

In Bloodlines 2, Clan Brujah will offer a brutal brawling playstyle with its abilities (in Vampire: The Masquerade, known as Disciplines), getting you into the fray and rewarding you for staying there. The Brujah control the dance of combat by making enemies drop their defenses, knock them around on the battlefield and increase their damage by feeding for powerful finishing strikes.

In social environments, the Brujah are often expected to have a short temper. In Bloodlines 2, certain characters you meet may treat you differently depending on your clan, and while clans have access to angry, violent or threatening dialogue options, throughout Bloodlines 2 you will find unique dialogue sequences for the Brujah. And if you play against the archetypes, characters in-the-know will react.

As a predator of the night, hunting for blood is always a challenge, but the Brujah can often rely on their ability to influence pedestrians’ rage to make them chase you into an empty alley and have a midnight snack.


Brujah Abilities

When you choose your clan, you will start out with a passive ability unique to each clan. You are then able to unlock abilities from the Ability Tree, starting with your chosen clan. Each ability requires spending Ability Points to unlock, which are earned from completing missions, combat and exploration. At the peak of the Ability Tree, you can unlock the clan Perk, a reward to those dedicated enough to unlock all of the abilities for a clan, giving a permanent passive upgrade.

Brutality
Clan Passive

After feeding, become flushed with vampiric strength, temporarily increasing the power of all your melee attacks.

Taunt

Use your supernatural Presence to enrage an opponent or civilian prey, compelling them to attack you. While enraged, the target takes increased damage.

Charge

Surge forward with preternatural speed and rage, grabbing an enemy you collide with to use as a battering ram to knock down others in your path.

Lightning Strikes

Target multiple opponents and unleash an unstoppable hail of punches, with the final strike dealing increased damage.

Earthshock

Slam the ground with explosive force, flinging surrounding enemies into the air.

Clan Perk

Pulverise

Clan Perk

Killing enemies without feeding still activates your Clan Passive.


Abilities Screenshots

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Customizing your playstyle

In Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, you can play your character in different ways. Brujah are a more brawler type, and the abilities are focused around supporting that. We wanted to make sure that this is not an ability optimization game where you need to go through a multitude of abilities and weigh them against each other. Playing a clan should be straight forward if you want it to be.

While this is true, you can also dive deeper into the customization of your playstyle. This is done by visiting important Seattle vampires that are sworn to assist the Sheriff (you) including offering their Blood to help unlock abilities from their clan. Abilities from other clans may cost more AP depending on how well they align with your clans Disciplines. The Brujah Disciplines are Celerity (speed enhancing abilities) Potence (strength enhancing abilities) and Presence (the supernatural ability to attract, awe, or terrify)) so if another clan has a speed enhancing ability it would cost less AP to unlock than an ability for a Discipline Brujah don’t have, such as becoming stealthier which is part of the Obfuscate Discipline. Unlocking additional Clan Perks will make them stack, so you can collect them all if you wish, elevating your power much closer to elder level.

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Image: Ability tree for Brujah. All clan abilities and the clan perk are unlocked. An ability from Banu Haqim has been equipped. Each clan has hundreds of different ability combinations.

While the activated abilities and Clan Perk can be learned from the other clans, your clan passive can not. This means that you can combine features from other clans in hundreds of different ways, but your Brujah playthrough will remain unique from playing as another clan who branches into Brujah abilities."
Post edited March 06, 2024 by Swedrami