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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Adds Clans to Base Game After Fan Outcry Over Launch DLC

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Adds Clans to Base Game After Fan Outcry Over Launch DLC

Publishers Paradox Interactive and White Wolf, as well as developer The Chinese Room, have announced that the Lasombra and Toreador clans will be available in the base Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 experience following backlash from players. The team behind the long-in-development sequel revealed its launch shakeup today alongside two new story packs – Loose Cannon and The Flower …

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 adds Lasombra and Toreador clans to base game; ‘Overview’ trailer

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 adds Lasombra and Toreador clans to base game; ‘Overview’ trailer

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will ship with the Lasombra and Toreador clans available in the base game, publishers Paradox Interactive and White Wolf, and developer The Chinese Room announced. Both were previously planned as day one paid downloadable content. The companies also announced plans for two additional Story Packs, “Loose Cannon” and “The Flower & the Flame,” which …

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 to refund all PS5 Premium Editions following backlash over paywalled clans

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 to refund all PS5 Premium Editions following backlash over paywalled clans

From next week, anyone who pre-ordered their Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Premium Edition via the PlayStation Store will be refunded. Community developer DebbieElla told players the refunds were coming as part of recent “adjustments”, and confirmed we’ll get “all the details” on the changes on 17th September. We weren’t allowed to direct capture the preview build but we …

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Good, the grubby paid clan plan for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is being “adjusted”

Good, the grubby paid clan plan for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is being “adjusted”

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 publisher Paradox appears to be rethinking its plan to charge for two of the six playable clans in the game. Community developer DebbieElla told the Bloodlines 2 Discord community last night (spotted by ResetEra): “We are listening to your feedback about the Lasombra and Toreador clan access, and we’re making adjustments ahead of launch …

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Paradox are “making adjustments” to Bloodlines 2’s day-one vampire clan DLC plans, following backlash

Paradox are “making adjustments” to Bloodlines 2’s day-one vampire clan DLC plans, following backlash

Well, there you go. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 publisher Paradox look like they might be sticking a stake in their rather unpopular plans to sell two of the game’s vampire clans as paid day-one DLC. I say “might be” because nothing specific’s been committed to yet, beyond some nebulous making of “adjustments ahead of launch” in response to …

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The Chinese Room defend Bloodlines 2’s paywalled vampire clans: “we have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land it”

The Chinese Room defend Bloodlines 2’s paywalled vampire clans: “we have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land it”

You really have to hand it to the publishers of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. They are the absolute masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the doyens of stepping on rakes, even as they near the checkered flag. The long-awaited RPG got a new trailer and what may actually prove to be the final release …

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The first hours of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 uncloak a slick action game, but a limited RPG

The first hours of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 uncloak a slick action game, but a limited RPG

I feel for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. If it was named something like Fang Bastard: The Punching Of The Many, the trailers wouldn’t have so many views, but those who’d watched them would probably be quite jazzed for that new bitey-talky game that looks a bit like Dishonored with more story branching. It isn’t, and they aren’t. Instead, …

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Bloodlines 2 Locks Core Content Behind Costly Day-One DLC

Bloodlines 2 Locks Core Content Behind Costly Day-One DLC

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been through a hell of a journey to reach us. At last night’s Opening Night Live from Gamescom, Paradox revealed the long-delayed game finally has a release date, October 21. What the publisher didn’t boast about was is that it is locking two out of the six playable clans behind paid day-one DLC, …

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