Ah, found that text at the very bottom.

Though I wonder if Activision is out of distribution terms for other operating systems, why can't GOG produce Wine based Linux package as well?

Good point.

The general sales for GOG might not reveal numbers but it has moved theoretically from page 31 to page 26.
It's a long way to the top, and it has already beaten the BIT.TRIP games that were released at the same time with a huge discount (87% if you bought the whole pack)

https://www.gog.com/games?sort=bestselling&page=26

Bloodlines! How did I miss the announcement until now? Now that's another long-wishlisted game that I'll never but. But at least now I can not buy it at GOG!

WHOA!!!
I just had to return to the forums for this!
Excellent release!

Excite. Much.

Should we understand from this that the patching was done on GOG side?
If so that’s great, thank you for that! Well, as long as you keep doing like you did here and keep an option to run the vanilla game ;)

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Are you using the fglrx driver?
If you do, well… you shouldn’t ;P

The open-source radeon driver has very good performances (I play The Witcher 2 with all settings maxed with amdgpu, another open-source driver sharing a lot of code with radeon), and is *way* more stable.

Here I don’t remember any crash with a Radeon HD 6670 with the radeon driver, and a Radeon R9 380X with the amdgpu driver. I’ve played Bloodlines on multiple version of WINE, ranging from 0.9 to 1.8, and there seems to be no problem with the recent releases of WINE ;)

That I would like to know too, this guys deserves my Money more than Activison ever did.

Been looking around a litte and couldn't find any donate link or some such right away.

I guess Activision just wanted to be absolutely clear on that they released a game that was extremely much more buggy and broken than this version.

What's installed is the basic "unofficial patch", pared down to just the fixes for a lot of semi-broken quests, some missing lines, environment changes that clearly should have been there, lack of journal updates, missing objects, I think some animation once in a while in the dialogues that never triggered, a pause here and there, and so on, that the original "restore" project started out with. Played through the entire thing a while ago and only actually noticed some cleaning up on a quest with the prostitute assassins in the strip-club, and got some extra clicks here and there, while practically all of it was invisible - it's well done now, you really don't notice any flow-changes or anything like that. You used to get a lot of "creative" weirdness, but it's mostly moderated and put in the plus patch now.

Some of the "restored" content floating around was a bit much, I thought.. The "lost" content alternated between being just new threads that weren't fleshed out yet, so they were missing from the release on purpose, I think. And then that was mixed in with segments that basically were complete, but didn't have scripting done, etc. It could be interesting to look at, but it never was entire dialogue trees that were there, that never triggered, or full quests for suspicious looking characters like in Sith Lords, for example. So that there was some value to actually putting it back. But some of this makes sense and fits in. Some of the new mechanics are all right, I guess. So it's well done from a certain point of view. But adding text and extra lines and so on was a bit weird.

So I kind of preferred the entire "True Patch" offshot thing, because it just didn't add any extra stuff.. at least in the beginning.. But all the unofficial patches started doing that at some point, which probably makes the basic/pared down Unofficial Patch best one at this point.

The release with the 1.2 patch wasn't exactly so terrible it required a fix, though. All of the unofficial patches, while good work in their own ways, is a bit like finding Shakespeare's extra crumpled notes with cuckhold-jokes that never made it into the play, or Ibsen's extra 1/3rd of each play that he and his wife would cut out in the finalization process. Or, the game isn't broken without it. But kind of think it's worth it to play with the Unofficial Patch for some of the side-quest options (Pisha, for example), or the Chinatown segment bridge bits, some of the less.. ugly camera transitions, and things like that.

Would you care to elaborate on that by including a few examples?

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just angry nerds grasping for a reason to bitch about something, like always.

I would have hoped that anyone interested would spare me the time necessary to google this again, but oh well. Here are the Basic version changes, quoted from http://vtmb.wikia.com/wiki/Unofficial_Patch: Only the first two are actual fixes, widescreen and multiplayer don't interest me, but between those two, we have the two offenders. Or so you might conclude from this. In reality, the first bullet point is not that innocent either - they've "fixed" stuff in there that wasn't broken, such as changing item locations. Arbitrarily. Because wesp5 knows best. Which I assume was the guiding idea when "improving" balance as well.

@Fairfox

Ah yes, you haven't read my previous post. Can't blame you, it's a huge topic. Anyway, preempting such replies as yours - I called this quest for a vanilla experience "vanilla as practical". Not "possible". I obviously don't want the original bugs. But there's no question that wesp5's patch goes far, far beyond that even in the "basic" version. However, that's what I care about. If you care about widescreen more (or perhaps entirely), then you already know what to do. Hopefully, though, you can understand that people can have different views.

IMPORTANT!

Go to the route: VTMB\UNOFFICIAL PATCH\CFG\USER.CFG

The first two lines are very useful!

Fist one allows you the choice to skip the long intro movie, upon new game, if you change the value from 0 to 1!

Second one allows you to choose history for your clan member, different roleplay elements with various bonuses and tradeoff penalties! You HAVE to check them out, they add a lot of spice and variety! Simply change the value from 0 to 1 and start a new game, creating a fresh new player!

Installing patch+ enables hisotry as well during character creation.