Bloodlines CTD Game stopper HALP! Spoilers.

Mr. Hand · Nov 20, 2004

Okay guys heres the dealeo
Im at the Society of Leopold monastary, and Grunfeld Bach or whatever just hit the
detenator on me. I run to the boat at the pier then loading screen then BAM.
Crash to desktop.No error message. Retried the thing 5 times still happening. Any ideas?

Whipporowill · Nov 20, 2004

You're pretty SOL on this one - this is a gamestopping bug which has been reported over at the dilapidation boards. Steve Moret has gotten savegames for it and Troika are aware of the bug - probably the one with the highest priority. It doesn't happen to everyone though, or even a majority - don't think there's a way to avoid it once it's occured though.

keeks · Nov 20, 2004

There's a workaround to this bug.

Steve Moret said:
We think we've found the bug, but to truly fix it we'd need to release a patch. In the meantime if you run the game -console, load your save, and before you jump aboard the boat to escape the society bring up the console and execute the following command:

If you saved Johansen:
SaveJohansen()

Then to level transition if you're anybody but a Nosferatu:
changelevel2 la_hub_1 taxi_landmark

And if you're a Nosferatu, instead use:
changelevel2 la_hub_1 sewer_map_landmark

It should do what getting in the boat trigger was intended to do without all the unnecessary crashing.

I had the bug and this worked fine for me.

Taken from this thread.

Whipporowill · Nov 20, 2004

Yup, it hit me and yes this works.

HanoverF · Nov 28, 2004

CAn you use that change level command to skip the friggen sewer?

Andyman Messiah · Nov 28, 2004

In order for the above work-around to work properly and not screw up your game, you have to be as close to the boat as possible. Otherwise you might end up losing you inventory and fucking up some future quests. Just thought I'd say it.

Energy · Dec 2, 2004

Can't bring up the console!!

Hey guys, I was looking for a solution to the "Leopold monastry escape bug" and I find one here but when I go to try this solution I can't bring up the console. I don't know if something's wrong with my keyboard Im from Spain and I think the keyboard here is diferent than the USA keyboards. In Half-Life 2 i can down the console but in Bloodlines i can't. Any idea?

Whipporowill · Dec 2, 2004

Have you edited your shortcut? I had an accidental space between "-" and "console", which didn't work. Make sure it's: -console

Energy · Dec 3, 2004

OK!

Ok! Works!! Thank you all!!

ONININJA · Dec 5, 2004

console-command don't work!

this is really quite annoying, since I got the same bug-problem as those above, but the console won't show up.. maybe I'm doing something wrong.. or, the whole game is completely messed up.. :cry:

please help!

Otaku_Hanzo · Dec 5, 2004

You need to right-click on your VTM:B desktop shortcut and in the Target area type -console at the end of what's there after the quotation marks with a space before it. It should look like this:

"F:\Program Files\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\vampire.exe" -console

Of course, the above will look different depending on where you have VTM:B installed on your computer.

Then just hit ` while in game to bring up the console. Make sure you use ` to close it again as sometimes the X won't close it all the way.

ONININJA · Dec 7, 2004

thanks

...but I managed it to work after a while. seems like windows moron edition needed me to re-write ALL the text, then just add -console... I just snapped and did something that was so lame that it worked!

but now is a new problem; I'm playing a malkavian, a vampire-type I guess is full of bugs inside and outside of the game, and this malk is unable to open the barred door in ch_temple_2!!

I have tried bloodbuffing, pushing, shooting, axing.. even tried to torch the hellish door! to no avail.. the plank won't move and that leaves me stuck once anew.

thanks for the help with the console you've guys have written here already.

btw... I've tried to noclip myself past the door, even changelevel, but three things happen:
1. I turn into a newbie nosferatu with my character's name.. but the code works... I lose my equipment as well...
2. the game freezes
3. i pop out into desktop, maybe even changing the properties along the way.

I really love this game. just hope the next will be bug-free and finished when they start selling it..

Vault Dweller · Dec 7, 2004

I'm sure you tried that, but just in case. You don't push the beam when you are in front of the door. You move to the right and push on a little handle and that would move the beam.

Jinxed · Dec 7, 2004

Initially I couldn't open the door and went WTF!? But it took around 5 seconds to figure out that complex mechanism.

ONININJA · Dec 8, 2004

yeah, I tried to push the little handle as well.. nevertheless, I finally got the console to not freeze the game and removed the door.

as a sidenote; is there any difference between siding with the anarchs as siding with the camarilla? seems like both fractions want to remove Lacroix and the chinese..

Azael · Dec 8, 2004

Different ending, but otherwise there's no big difference. Same thing with duking it out yourself. The only paths that differ are if you side with the prince or with the Kuei Jin, as far as I can tell.

Otaku_Hanzo · Dec 8, 2004

Anymore news on a patch, by the way? I've looked and couldn't find anything.

Bloodlines CTD Game stopper HALP! Spoilers.

Mr. Hand

Novice

Whipporowill

Erudite

keeks

Novice

Whipporowill

Erudite

HanoverF

Arcane

Andyman Messiah

Mr. Ed-ucated

Energy

Novice

Whipporowill

Erudite

Energy

Novice

ONININJA

Novice

Otaku_Hanzo

Erudite

ONININJA

Novice

Vault Dweller

Commissar, Red Star Studio

Jinxed

Liturgist

ONININJA

Novice

Azael

Magister

Otaku_Hanzo

Erudite