2004-12-18

Troika's Art of Patching

Looks like Troika is taking it's sweet time patching Vampire: Bloodlines. I got to a point where the game consistently crashed. After looking around I found some console commands that would set the flags and get you out of a level (as the inbuilt one failed to do). This has been an issue that has affected quite a few people and you would expect a quick patch. A month down the line and still nothing though a fan created an unofficial patch that fixes a few bugs. This isn't the first time this has happened Temple of Elemental Evil also had the same situation. I understand that building fairly open roleplaying games can lead to all sorts of scripting issues but I think they need a better post game release bug management, or better testing before a game is brought out.

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