How far along can you have a save and actually get the different endings? I guess it has to be right before hopping into the cab in Santa Monica but doesn't a lot of things throughout the game affect which endings you even have available, like being nice/not nice to Ming Xiao for instance?

Yes there are major decisions in the cab, of course, but I’m pretty sure there are other decisions you can make throughout the game which might change the ending you get. Those I was stuck with because obviously going back that far was a bit out of the question.

Think I never got to choose to side with the Camarilla or the Lone Wolf, but I might be wrong. Did I really just get the Anarch ending every time but the first??


Yeah, first time I blew myself up because I was so curious what was inside the sarcophagus despite Beckett warning me not to open it. Plus I didn't want to give the key to LaCroix

Brigitte ended up lone wolf. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten the ending that sided with Max and the Cam.

That seems to have the coolest Indiana Jones kind of ending with the warehouse

Yeah.
“It belongs in a museum!”

Don't know if I've mentioned this, but I always thought the music from Society of Leopold sounded like the cathedral music from Deus Ex. At least enough to heavily remind me of it.

But instead of Gunther we got Bach (both Germans! ) whom we had to shoot at because he didn't have a killphrase for us to use as a cheap way to avoid a bossfight

I don’t remember the SoL music.

Usually the Downtown music is the one that is stuck in my crow head

Just saw a video where someone got a fourth Discipline from Beckett!


But apparently that's from the plus patch, something I never used. Never used the unofficial either, just used the Camarilla Edition

I play through GOG and I want to say that the unofficial patch was installed with the game itself. May be misremembering that though as it’s been a while since I installed it.

Well, I seem to have found a mod at Nexus that makes the Malkavian font look normal i.e flipping readable. Don't think I can download it though as I think I'm banned there. Also, not gonna play anyway.


Also, actually understanding the Malkavian lines, when you can read them, is another thing...

I didn’t have trouble with the Malk font, lol

I actually think it's suitable, it gives some form of immersion. But it's annoying to read and since that mod exists, this is one instant where I'm not alone


Btw, has Khajiit played Nos or Ven? Polar opposites; quite different playstyles.

Khajiit’s first ever character was a Ventrue (Raven ). I chose Ventrue because the clan description sounded like they would play similarly to the Imperials from Elder Scrolls.

Never have played a Nossie. Not being able to be seen sounded a bit tedious.

What I don't understand is how you're supposed to deal with those early quests as a Nossie when you have to speak to humans in Santa Monica.

I guess that would be a draw to playing a Nossie; seeing how that is handled. I thought it sounded tedious though.

Well I know for a fact the lady at the Diner goes batshit and drops to the floor

Saw a video yesterday showcasing all the Disciplines at lvl 5, pretty interesting. I never bothered with Fortitude when playing Gangrel but that thing at lvl 5 is OP! In the video he was hit by knives and shotguns over and over and the healthbar barely budged! Combine that with Protean War Form and man - you got a fighter! Also Pestilence for crowd control. Seriously, I didn't do my Gangrel justice.

Also I think I've misjudged Celerity. I tried it at lvl 2 and 3 when playing Toreador and I was unimpressed. Yeah the world slowed down but my character did too and it felt like moving through molasses. But at lvl 5 it seemed to be better because the character moved around pretty well while the enemies were almost frozen!

I was even impressed by lvl 5 Auspex because you could see all the enemies in an area through the walls at a great distance which was very cool.