I'll reiterate what others have said and give a huge thank you to you! I missed this game on release (sounds like that might not have been a bad thing! ;) ) despite playing and enjoying Redemption.

I only really learned of Bloodlines here due to its sort of "cult following" status and the high praise I've seen it receive. I'm super excited that I'll get to play it here one day soon and it sounds like a ton of that has to do with you.

So, thank you and much appreciated.

Any chance you can integrate TruePatch in the same way? Or offer a version of the download without the unofficial patch fixes? Or just tell me how to fixx it? Apparently they're horribly Incompatible (and i haven't been able to get it to work with TruePatch yet which seems to confirm that.)

Is it actually a non-issue and I'm simply doing it wrong? I get memory or permissions errors if I try to patch the vanilla game with TruePatch or just overwrite the unofficial patches files with truepatch, and the vanilla version is all kinds of broken (hence the need for the extensive patches you helpfully included.)

It's just that I'd prefer to play vanilla and I'd prefer that vanilla to actually work. Nothing against the other modifications it makes, I'd like to use them, I may even decide I like them better, it''s just not what I want for a first play through.

That version is provided as vampire.exe.12 - you can apply the "true patch" to it.

Oh, is it that simple? That would be nice. I'll give that a try, thanks.

Just rename it to vampire.exe first (and back up the previous one).

Tried. It won't even start now. It doesn't crash or hit either of the errors I mentinoed as far as I can tell, it simply won't start.

Do I need to go through changing the names of all the other .12 files in the vampire folder too?

Yeah.

Maybe I screwed up the install of the patch, I'll kill it and try again.

I hope you appreciate this GoG, I could probably have the steam version working with it by now but I like you and want to support your vision even if it gives me a bunch of trouble. (Though this is the first time I've had any trouble with your games, even with modding)

Ok, I got it working I think. Not 100% on the how.

I downloaded and installed the patch into the vampire folder like I was supposed to, moved the exe, renamed the .exe.12 to just .exe, and then had GoG verify/sync the games files, told galaxy to launch the legacy version, and then activated the .exe manually anyways.

Kinda happened on accident, so I don't know which of those steps is necessary. I'm stumbling around in the dark here. If anyone wants to experiment to see what of that is necessary and what isn't and wether it's working properly or not, please post the results here for myself/others. I will too.

I'll update if I run into problems, but it's running and will actually play the game instead of crashing on launch or on selecting newgame.

So that step was probably fixing something I broke when I tried in the first place, and can probably be ignored.

It's easy to confirm if you succeed though. A couple textures i have installed in the patched vampire file (and only the vampire file) are showing up in game and I have the regular bloodbuff (+5 to several stats) instead of the weaker UP version. Like I said, If I can figure out what I did (or what I screwed up when I tried the first couple times) then I'll post that. Probably in it's own topic.

I still hope you will consider contacting Tessera about including a functioning True Patch Gold version as well. I like the option to play the vanilla game for people who want the vanilla experience instead. I don't mean to sound ungrateful because you guys/gals did work you don't have to so we could play several versions of the same game with minimal effort (basically allowing NMM/FOMM style mod profiles accessible via command line) and I am grateful for it. But the vanilla game is made by ex black isle employees and almost everything they (troika, obsidian, inexile) do borders on unplayable without major patches.

It's a weird conflict of feelings you know? I recognize that you did more than you had to in order to get the game running properly but I also feel I've put in more work than I should have had to in order to play a fully functional version of the vanilla game.

though the reason for the extra effort might just be that I'm incompetent.

Edit, new method: You can grab this , provided by Thiev in another [url=https://www.gog.com/forum/vampire_the_masquerade_series/vote_for_a_vanilla_v12_build_of_vtm_bloodlines/post12]thread, to revert the GOG version of Bloodlines to a vanilla state. Then you can install TPG according to its included instructions. You might also need to follow the advice provided by Forum_Pirate below if your system has been patched with the anti-DRM Windows security update.

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No promises, but:

Wesp5 isolated his content changes to a subfolder, and most of his engine changes seem to be overwritten during the installation of True Patch Gold. Here is the procedure for installing TPG to the GOG version of Bloodlines:

1. Install the game.

2. Open the game folder (C:\GOG Games\VtMB) and delete the folder "Unofficial_Patch".

3. Extract the True Patch Gold archive to your desktop or another location.

4. Inside the extracted folder, find and open the folder "TRUE_PATCH_MAIN". Copy the contents (the folders "Bin" and "Vampire" and the file "vampire.exe") to the game folder (C:\GOG Games\VtMB). When asked if you want to merge folders, check the box "Do this for all current items" and select "Yes". When asked about files, check the box "Do this for the next 226 conflicts" and select "Copy and Replace".

5. Right-click on the "VTM Bloodlines" shortcut on your desktop and click "Properties". In the Target box, delete this part of the line: "-game Unofficial Patch". Click "Apply", wait, and then click "Okay".

6. (Optional but recommended) Enable Clan histories:
a. Open the game folder (C:\GOG Games\VtMB).
b. Open the folder "Vampire".
c. Open the folder "cfg".
d. Open the file "autoexec.cfg" in Notepad.
e. Delete the two slashes before "vchar_edit_histories" and save the file.

This seems to be working for me on Windows 7 64-bit. I don't have Windows 8 or 10 to test.

Move and look seem just a bit off to me, but that's probably because Bloodlines is older game, and it's been about 3 years since I last played it.

That dude is so paranoid and full of himself that I really doubt he'll strike some kind of deal wih gog.
Just read his site/forums to see how he thinks he's the center of the world.
Luckily, the community will surely find a way to get a working gog tpg-ed vampire version.

I didn't want to enter into this discussion but I'll just step in to clear up a misunderstanding. The version of the unofficial patch that comes with the GOG game is the basic one, not the plus. Basic is pretty much vanilla with bug fixes. I'm pointing this out to you because you seem to think some things are part of basic that are not actually in there. The changed blood buff, for instance, is only in the plus version of the patch, not in basic.

Sweetie, I have exactly 0 interest in drama. He created the (so far as i know) only proper "vanilla" patch, and he's been kind enough to point me in the right direction for getting it installed on the gog version. That's all I need to know.

Just like all I need to know about Wesp is that they, similarly, do their very best to get/keep a version of VtMB up and running, on modern hardware while restoring cut content and attempting to give people what they consider the best possible experience.

Nothing else matters.
Lots of stuff is just in the plus version, but the basic version is more than simple bugfixes. Unless it changed while I was testing without my knowing it, the nerfed blood buff is part of the basic package, I know that because it's what I started with and I was surprised to see the much more powerful vanilla version.

But hey, I'm downloading a second copy as we speak so that I can play aorund with a second instalation without risking screwing up the one I have that seems to work, so I can double check.

I just finished a playthrough with the basic patch, and the blood buff nerf is definitely not included. I am certain, since I installed the plus patch just afterwards to start another playthrough to see the difference, and then it was nerfed. So unless GOG is including some weird version of it (I don't own the game on GOG yet) the nerfed blood buff is not part of basic.

Good luck, I hope you manage to get everything working the way you want it to.