Abstract
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 provides some ways to play.
- Construct your energy set to embody an elder vampire that fits your type.
- Use issue choices to lean into lethal fight encounters or deal with the intrigue and story.
Greetings, Kindred, and welcome to the darkish underworld of Seattle.
In merely seven extra nights, our gamers can lastly reawaken Phyre, the Nomad: an elder vampire who finds themselves in modern-day Seattle. You’ll begin our recreation with a mark in your hand, a voice in your head, and an entire host of unanswered questions in your thoughts. The place issues go from there’ll very a lot be as much as you!
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is a recreation that lets us convey the wealthy lore and distinct, highly effective vampire clans of the VTM tabletop RPG to life in action-based, bloodthirsty fight. It additionally provides a brand new energy fantasy that even longtime VTM gamers will get to expertise for the primary time: enjoying as a strong, legendary elder vampire.
Our objective is for everybody to really feel like essentially the most harmful character within the room – however highly effective characters can take quite a lot of types. Will your elder be robust, stealthy, or seductive? Why not the entire above?
- For gamers who wish to really feel highly effective by plowing their method by everybody of their method, we’ve included the Brujah clan, with hard-hitting lightning-strike punches and path-clearing cost strikes.
- For gamers who wish to take down their foes with out even providing an opportunity to struggle again, there are the silent Banu Haqim, who can snap necks and sever heads earlier than anybody is aware of they’re there.
- For gamers who wish to draw others underneath their spell and use enemies’ power towards them, we now have the Ventrue, masters of management, who can command foes to assault each other – and even take their very own lives.
After all, each participant’s energy fantasy might be distinctive, and for that, we’ve included the flexibility to combine and match vampire talents from all of our in-game clans. Wish to play as an elder who retains their distance and picks off foes from afar? Why not begin with a Tremere, who can burst foes into viscera and hurl blood daggers throughout the room – and dabble within the Lasombra’s fear-inducing Glimpse of Oblivion for anybody who will get too shut? Maybe there are too many weapons in modern-day Seattle on your refined tastes; attempt combining the Ventrue’s Mass Manipulation with the Brujah’s Taunt to get everybody to drop their weapons and struggle “truthful.”
Creating your individual fight expertise is simply a part of making your Bloodlines 2 elder, after all. We’ve designed a narrative wealthy with character interactions and methods to outline your character, whether or not you wish to be revered or feared, to regulate the Vampire Court docket or burn all of it to the bottom. The highly effective figures of the Seattle Camarilla could come to view you as ally, enemy, or alternative, and the waves you make will change town in vastly alternative ways, with loads of potential endings to discover. This isn’t a recreation the place you’ll have the ability to befriend everybody, so make sure that while you decide sides, you’re ready for the implications.
What’s extra, in case your energy fantasy leans extra into intrigue and supernatural politics than blood-soaked violence, we’ve included an array of issue choices so you possibly can benefit from the recreation your individual method. Gamers who wish to stick extra to the story can dial again fight in Informal Mode, whereas gamers who wish to check their mettle towards the worst monsters Seattle has to supply are welcome to tackle Laborious Mode and try to keep away from their Remaining Dying!
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will arrive on October 21, and I can’t wait for everyone to expertise the core fantasy of the World of Darkness: You’re the monster. What kind of monster will you be this time?
Vampire: The Masquerade® – Bloodlines™ 2
Paradox Interactive
You’re the Nomad — an elder vampire awakening from a century-long slumber, new to the fashionable nights. Trapped in your Blood is a stranger’s voice. This mysterious entity, a vampire detective generally known as Fabien, might be your information to Twenty first-century Seattle. In sections of the sport, you’ll discover town by his eyes as you revisit a chilly case from 100 years in the past that threatens undead and mortal society.
Hunt your method by a modern-night Seattle getting ready to an open supernatural struggle in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, the place visceral vampire motion meets a neo-noir homicide thriller. Navigate the vampire Court docket of Seattle and its darkish underbelly on this motion RPG, realized by the BAFTA award-winning studio The Chinese language Room.
You’re the Monster
Blood sustains you and empowers your vampiric Disciplines. You’ll stalk and feed on town’s inhabitants at night time. Use your supernatural powers or uncooked persuasion on unsuspecting mortals to lure them into darkish alleys and slake your Starvation. Nonetheless, be cautious about breaking the Masquerade: revealing your true nature dangers reprisals, beginning with legislation enforcement and escalating from there. Bear in mind, you aren’t the one creature that goes bump within the night time.
Expertise immersive, visceral fight that rewards varied playstyles and approaches based mostly in your alternative of vampire clan. Will you have interaction in shut fight with supernatural power, assault from a distance with blood sorcery, or silently skinny the herd just like the apex predator you’re? Your clan alternative will assist these playstyles and extra.
A World of Darkness
Enter the World of Darkness and rise by vampire society or rail towards it. Expertise Seattle – a metropolis stuffed with alluring, harmful characters and factions, to not point out the mortals at stake within the conflict of powers past their realizing. On this sequel to the cult traditional, your decisions, plots, and schemes will decide the steadiness of energy and what turns into of town and its folks.
