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About this mod
You have the choice of playing a few new character variations, clanless, caitiff, thin-blooded, or City Gangrel. Three of the original clans, Malkavian, Nosferatu, and Ventrue can also be played. Each choice offers something unique, sometimes big changes and other times subtle.
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
Overview:
The mod introduces new quests, items, skins but also changes existing quests, game mechanics, and various other details about the game. The mod is built from, and follows the design concepts, of the original Official v1.2 game. What that means is almost all of the new content is introduced as if it were in the original game. The player must talk to NPCs to get the quests, making some choices will lock the player out of getting content, just as making the opposite choices opens options up, etc. To get the most out of this mod, the player must be paying attention... to what the NPC say, to the quest logs, and in general just thinking about what "makes sense" given the details presented to them.
Choices:
CAITIFF: Begins the game with no disciplines. Your character is illegally sired and begins as an outcast without any knowledge of Kindred life other than what you get from LaCroix if you don't skip the opening cutscene or Jack if you don't skip the tutorial.
Your background is Caitiff and thin-blooded. As Caitiff you begin the game clanless and inherit no clan disciplines or clan weaknesses. As a thin-blood you have some qualities of an Inceptor and through that eventually develop a set of disciplines unique to yourself. As a thin-blood your Insight is expressed as +2 Inspection.
CITY GANGREL: Very little changed except the surface is a false veneer of civility, and the street smarts to understand how to make the veneer convincing. Street smarts are represented as multiple permanent perks that the character begins the game with. As a counterpoint to starting with these perks the player selects one discipline at character creation and the other two can be purchased during the game.
V5 (2018) STYLE THIN-BLOODED: As the name suggests, an adaptation of a character using V5 style thin-blooded alchemy, which is much more recent than the game. There is quite a lot of information for this choice in the UC_README file.
PERIOD CORRECT (2004) STYLE THIN-BLOODED: Mostly the same but without the V5 unique disciplines. Does have a type of "alchemy" and has access to and uses the alchemy equipment, but in a slightly different way. Also has a weak form of Blood Buff.
CLANLESS: During the character creation process the player picks disciplines to play from a pool of 6 possible choices. This is the only character that has the possibility of transforming. Their background story is that they want to become a "small town prince" and for that they will need to be accepted into the Ventrue clan. This is however a player choice, not a forced action.
MALKAVIAN, NOSFERATU, VENTRUE: All playable and will follow the mod "story" to various degrees with very slight variations in places.
This mod is based on the Official patch v1.2, it does not use or contain any assets from any other patches or sources. I do however use resources distributed with the SDK that enable the mod to run from its own dedicated directory (Undisciplined_Caitiff).
The mod is not designed to use subtitles; however, subtitles can be enabled but be aware they are primarily the original versions distributed with the game and are not edited except where this mod adds content or alters content.
How much of the mod content you experience depends on your play style and how much attention you pay to what happens around you. For example, there are 10 variations on the Ming Xiao temple sequence, if you get the ending closest to the original you may thing the mod changes very little. Several more "examples" are given in the UC_README file if the player wants more info/hints.
Installation:
Note: In the video tab page there is an install video to supplement these written instructions.
v1.4 is not compatible with any previous versions or Hotfixes so a new install (just this mod not VTMB) and new game are required to use it.
For advance users who wish to install by some other method please read the instructions in the UC_README.txt and proceed accordingly. There is also an article about install options and a video in the video tab page.
Uninstall:
From the directory where you extracted the archive:
Troubleshooting:
The people responsible for the Unofficial Patch
The people responsible for the VTMB SKD and all the tools included in it
Dheu and contributing authors for the Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines Mod Development Guide
Gimp 2
Blender
VIM
Audacity
More detailed credit information is listed in the UCcredits.txt file in the Undisciplined_Caitiff directory.
The mod introduces new quests, items, skins but also changes existing quests, game mechanics, and various other details about the game. The mod is built from, and follows the design concepts, of the original Official v1.2 game. What that means is almost all of the new content is introduced as if it were in the original game. The player must talk to NPCs to get the quests, making some choices will lock the player out of getting content, just as making the opposite choices opens options up, etc. To get the most out of this mod, the player must be paying attention... to what the NPC say, to the quest logs, and in general just thinking about what "makes sense" given the details presented to them.
Choices:
CAITIFF: Begins the game with no disciplines. Your character is illegally sired and begins as an outcast without any knowledge of Kindred life other than what you get from LaCroix if you don't skip the opening cutscene or Jack if you don't skip the tutorial.
Your background is Caitiff and thin-blooded. As Caitiff you begin the game clanless and inherit no clan disciplines or clan weaknesses. As a thin-blood you have some qualities of an Inceptor and through that eventually develop a set of disciplines unique to yourself. As a thin-blood your Insight is expressed as +2 Inspection.
CITY GANGREL: Very little changed except the surface is a false veneer of civility, and the street smarts to understand how to make the veneer convincing. Street smarts are represented as multiple permanent perks that the character begins the game with. As a counterpoint to starting with these perks the player selects one discipline at character creation and the other two can be purchased during the game.
V5 (2018) STYLE THIN-BLOODED: As the name suggests, an adaptation of a character using V5 style thin-blooded alchemy, which is much more recent than the game. There is quite a lot of information for this choice in the UC_README file.
PERIOD CORRECT (2004) STYLE THIN-BLOODED: Mostly the same but without the V5 unique disciplines. Does have a type of "alchemy" and has access to and uses the alchemy equipment, but in a slightly different way. Also has a weak form of Blood Buff.
CLANLESS: During the character creation process the player picks disciplines to play from a pool of 6 possible choices. This is the only character that has the possibility of transforming. Their background story is that they want to become a "small town prince" and for that they will need to be accepted into the Ventrue clan. This is however a player choice, not a forced action.
MALKAVIAN, NOSFERATU, VENTRUE: All playable and will follow the mod "story" to various degrees with very slight variations in places.
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This mod is based on the Official patch v1.2, it does not use or contain any assets from any other patches or sources. I do however use resources distributed with the SDK that enable the mod to run from its own dedicated directory (Undisciplined_Caitiff).
The mod is not designed to use subtitles; however, subtitles can be enabled but be aware they are primarily the original versions distributed with the game and are not edited except where this mod adds content or alters content.
How much of the mod content you experience depends on your play style and how much attention you pay to what happens around you. For example, there are 10 variations on the Ming Xiao temple sequence, if you get the ending closest to the original you may thing the mod changes very little. Several more "examples" are given in the UC_README file if the player wants more info/hints.
Installation:
Note: In the video tab page there is an install video to supplement these written instructions.
- The mod needs Game Mod Loader support to launch the mod.
- Game Mod Loader is not updated or supplied outside of the Unofficial Patch.
- The only way to get Game Mod Loader support is to have some UP or some UP based mod installed.
- There is no reason to have a separate install, this mod will run alongside any GML mod without conflict.
- Extract the main mod archive archive into some VTMB install directory where an Unofficial Patch is already installed. UP version is unimportant, v1.4 was developed/tested using UP 10.8 Plus. Whether UP Plus or Basic is installed is unimportant. GOG already has UP installed by default.
- Verify the directory location and extraction by looking for the Vampire.exe (application) file, the "Undisciplined Caitiff Install.cmd" (application) file, a Vampire directory, and an Undisciplined_Caitiff directory. If the directory you are extracting to does not have all these, then it is not the correct location. There is an image showing how the files should appear. The application extensions may or may not appear as this depends on your OS settings.
- Run the "Undisciplined Caitiff Install.cmd" file, it will be found in the VTMB install directory you extracted the archive to.
- If the mod is extracted into restricted folders, run the installer by: RMB->Run as administrator (in a File Explorer window).
- If not extracted into restricted folders run the installer by double clicking on it (in a File Explorer window).
- Answer any questions the installer CMD file may have and resolve any errors that it may report and run it again until it reports success.
- Launch the mod from the shortcut it creates.
v1.4 is not compatible with any previous versions or Hotfixes so a new install (just this mod not VTMB) and new game are required to use it.
For advance users who wish to install by some other method please read the instructions in the UC_README.txt and proceed accordingly. There is also an article about install options and a video in the video tab page.
Uninstall:
From the directory where you extracted the archive:
- Delete the Undisciplined_Caitiff directory.
- Delete the Undisciplined Caitiff Install.cmd file
- Delete the VTMB Undisciplined Caitiff Shortcut/s.
Troubleshooting:
- If the mod will not start using the Desktop Shortcut, make sure you have Game Mod Loader support by installing some UP before you extract this mod. Refer to the Installation: section above.
- I added an Article as well as a video for people needing or interested more detailed installation instructions. The video was made for v1.3 of the mod which needed XP SP 3 Compatibility set to work properly. However, v1.4 WILL NOT work with any Compatibility setting so ignore the part describing how to set Compatibility unless actually using v1.3 (or earlier). Using v1.4 DO verify no Compatibility setting are checked.
- When you enter the Warrens and are faced with a gate that will not open it is not a bug, it is a puzzle to solve.
- If the barricade bar in the Temple 2 map is stuck and will not slide make a save where your character is standing up (not crouched) then load that save, that will correct the problem. I know it sounds silly, but it works!
- If playing a V5 style thin-blood character and the Profane Hieros Gamos spell will not activate, or the scroll wheel will not select any discipline: pressing the o key (by default) will reset the Profane Hieros Gamos discipline. Opening the console and entering resetPHG() will perform the same function.
- If the character is stuck in some cutscene pressing the DEL key (by default) will clear the cutscene and allow the character to move again. Opening the console and entering resetPC() will have the same affect. Warning, don't use this for simple things like character stuck on objects or terrain, noclip function should be used for simple cases like that.
- In 1.4 there were bugs If playing as Caitiff or clanless which have been fixed in Hotfix 1.4.1. If not playing as Caitiff or clanless, the Hotfix is not needed. Or there are workarounds listed under the BUGS tab for both issues if not wanting to apply Hotfix mid playthrough, although there should be no serious issues in doing so.
The people responsible for the Unofficial Patch
The people responsible for the VTMB SKD and all the tools included in it
Dheu and contributing authors for the Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines Mod Development Guide
Gimp 2
Blender
VIM
Audacity
More detailed credit information is listed in the UCcredits.txt file in the Undisciplined_Caitiff directory.