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Posted April 25, 2016
There will be blood. Delicious blood.



<span class="bold">Vampire&reg;: The Masquerade - Bloodlines&trade;</span>, the timeless RPG masterpiece that has sucked many a gamer's time, is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com.

Intoxicating. Macabre. Vital. These are both traits of blood and of Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™, the RPG that forever changed expectations on how the creatures of the night should be depicted in videogames. Was it the ridiculous replayability? The versatility of our vampiric abilities? The gripping visual and sound design? Perhaps the memorable NPCs and stellar writing. One thing is for certain: much like the daunting Antediluvians, this is a game whose allure only grows stronger with time. No point in resisting it any longer.



Sink your teeth into the definitive bloodsucking experience that is <span class="bold">Vampire&reg;: The Masquerade - Bloodlines&trade;</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com.

Note: This version includes third-party technical fixes, courtesy of Wesp5. The full unofficial patch, which also includes additional content, can be found over at <span class="bold">Patches Scrolls</span>.


Twitch alert
Want to watch some entrancing nightly exsanguinations? Join Memoriesin8Bit as he launches a series of Bloodlines streams on <span class="bold">twitch.tv/gogcom</span>, starting Monday, 6 PM UTC.
Posted May 02, 2016
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Forum_Pirate: 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.
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FearfulSymmetry: 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.
which basic patch? as in which version?
Posted May 02, 2016
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Forum_Pirate: which basic patch? as in which version?
The most recent unofficial basic patch, 9.5 I think.
Posted May 02, 2016
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SeduceMePlz: 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.
Tried this install/mod method twice. Once I got the same permissions errors as before, once it worked. No idea what the difference was, but this can work. Windows 8.1, 64bit.

I do *not* recommend trying to use TruePatch as a seperate folder via a command line (that bit at the end of the launcher shorcut that targets Unofficial Patch by defualt.) Not once have I got that to work, and I've tried a bunch now. Might be possible, but to be frank it would probably be simpler to just install the game twice (in 2 different places) than to try to figure it out if you intend to use both patches.
Posted May 02, 2016
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Here is what I would do if I wanted to install the TPG on the GOG version which of course I would never do ;);

1. Ignore the fixed vampire.exe and the fixed dlls in the bin folder, they just make Bloodlines run on modern systems.
2. Copy the vampire subfolder of the TPG into the GOG installation, so it overwrites the vampire folder already there.
3. Run the game without the -game Unofficial_Patch parameter. Theoretically it should be possible this way to switch between both patches just by using a shortcut with the parameter and one without. Then you'll see any differences...
Post edited May 02, 2016 by wesp5
Posted May 02, 2016
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wesp5: ...
Thanks so much for all the work you've done on the patches, by the way. Had two awesome playthroughs on basic and am now trying out plus.
Posted May 02, 2016
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wesp5: Here is what I would do if I wanted to install the TPG on the GOG version which of course I would never do ;);

1. Ignore the fixed vampire.exe and the fixed dlls in the bin folder, they just make Bloodlines run on modern systems.
2. Copy the vampire subfolder of the TPG into the GOG installation, so it overwrites the vampire folder already there.
3. Run the game without the -game Unofficial_Patch parameter. Theoretically it should be possible this way to switch between both patches just by using a shortcut with the parameter and one without. Then you'll see any differences...
Cool. I was wondering if that might work. I'd planned to test it as a second method, but I didn't get around to it last night, and FP was having trouble, so I went ahead and posted the TPG-only procedure.

Thanks for the tip, and thanks for the UP! :)
Post edited May 02, 2016 by SeduceMePlz
Posted May 04, 2016
Both as an update and because I'm spreading this as far and wide as possible to make it easier for people (and by people I mean google) to find:

If you're on windows 8 or higher this step will be mandatory to get TruePatch to run ( the mod author doen't use windows 8 or 10 and so can't implement the fix with engine changes).

If you have windows 8 or 8.1 do this

1)Hit the windows key from your desktop
2)go you your apps (the down arrow at the bottom of the screen
3)scroll to the windows section (far right)
4) Rightclick command prompt to run as administrator
5) copy and paste this (without the quotes) EXACTLY and hit enter "sc config secdrv start= demand"

You can now play VTMB with truepatch on windows 8 and 8.1

It is, apparently, a minor security risk so I'd recommend you turn if off again whenever you stop playing, simply follow the above directions and copy/paste this instead "sc config secdrv start= disabled"

If you don't care about the differences, keep in mind that mods are version specific which means it may well be worth the extra work of getting TruePatch working on modern systems just for mods (there are fewer for truepatch, and no gameplay overhuals that I'm aware of, but the mods I've seen for it are all high quality.) The same is true of UP if you're a TruePatch user, just with more mods of more variable quality.


Just to be clear, this is a windows 8+ problem caused by microsoft and DRM, not GoG or the Unofficial Patch or how they were put together. In fact, I think the reason it's DRM free is because GoG/the unofficial patch are circumventing the original disk based DRM with engine changes so it works on a newer OS, and the reason truepatch has problems is because it hasn't been updated since microsoft removed the drm from windows which means it's built to fool DRM that isn't there/active and so doesn't run.

This is also why it (truepatch and unmodded versions of VTMB in general) won't work on windows 10. Windows 10 is missing the DRM entirely, which the game requires to function. You'll HAVE to dualboot or switch to an older OS.
Post edited May 04, 2016 by Forum_Pirate
Posted May 04, 2016
Always nice to see a game that was highly demanded appear on GOG...regardless of the personal interest.
Posted May 04, 2016
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Forum_Pirate: You'll HAVE to dualboot or switch to an older OS.
Not really. You can use up to date Linux and run the game in Wine ;)
Posted May 04, 2016
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Forum_Pirate: You'll HAVE to dualboot or switch to an older OS.
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shmerl: Not really. You can use up to date Linux and run the game in Wine ;)
Correct! :) I confirmed this on my home install that has no Windows whatsoever on it :)
Posted May 04, 2016
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Forum_Pirate: You'll HAVE to dualboot or switch to an older OS.
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shmerl: Not really. You can use up to date Linux and run the game in Wine ;)
Or wait until the current Win10 insider build is pushed to public and run Wine in Bash in Windows. I think we already have a goglodyte running such bottles.
Posted May 04, 2016
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shmerl: Not really. You can use up to date Linux and run the game in Wine ;)
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JMich: Or wait until the current Win10 insider build is pushed to public and run Wine in Bash in Windows. I think we already have a goglodyte running such bottles.
I doubt you'll get good performance from that. And even more doubtful is support of all OpenGL backend that Wine makes calls to. Windows Linux integration from MS is limited only to certain APIs which they implemented, and I doubt they cared about graphics.

What I find stupid however is MS not providing easier way to run legacy applications in similar to Wine fashion. They easily could create such compatibility tools.
Post edited May 04, 2016 by shmerl
Posted May 05, 2016
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shmerl: What I find stupid however is MS not providing easier way to run legacy applications in similar to Wine fashion. They easily could create such compatibility tools.
Even just shipping each new version of Windows with all previous (compatible) versions of Direct X pre-installed would help.
Post edited May 05, 2016 by SeduceMePlz
Posted May 06, 2016
Clash of Titans in page 24... My bet is on the Malkavian...
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Posted May 06, 2016
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Epitaph666: Clash of Titans in page 24... My bet is on the Malkavian...
They are just lucky Blade is not on gog. :)
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