What the weirdest glitch you've ever seen? ***SPOILERS****

[mr_sir]

i've had the griffith park bug before too lol.

this time i had my vampires head sticking out of the top of the taxi during the final missions lol, just the top half of the head though like it had been trapped in a sunroof or something

also, got two masquerade violations with my nosferatu and a hunter behind asylum kept running at me (even though i was using obfuscate) then standing there looking straight at me then vanishing into thin air only to come running down the alley again. i sat and watched the hunter do this 5 or 6 times before i got bored and just killed her. it was like she had some magic teleportation dust or something lol.

[yrthwyndandfyre]

I was in the Society of Leopold making the run for the Zodiac. I didn't turn the corner fast enough on the dock and ran straight into the water. I started looking around rabidly for a ladder, couldn't see one, so I tried jumping into the Zodiac from the water (which didn't work either). Then I ran out of time, the screen went black, and I was back in front of the Venture tower. I got full credit for the quest, just like I'd escaped on the Zodiac. I guess you win if you just get off the dock, not necessarily into the Zodiac.

[yrthwyndandfyre]

Originally Posted by Anaximander

I was playing around with the cheat console last night and I found a very interesting bug. One that you should be able to duplicate yourselves.

Here's what I did: I started a new game as a Gangrel. Opened the console and used vstats sell to sell all the points I had in Animalism. Closed the console and looked at my charater sheet to confirm that Animalism was sitting there with 0 points in it. Opened the console and used the same code to sell one more point in Animalism, thinking it wouldn't do anything. When I looked in my character sheet again, Animalism was completely gone and I had 651 xp points to spend.

Well, I'm using an unadorned 1.2 patch, and this process does work to some degree. The excessive XP gained here was unrealized, so that is probably peculiar to the 1.7 patch, but I started my normal Tremere character in the usual way, and managed to sell Auspex to gain Obfuscate by selling Auspex to -1 and then buying Obfuscate. It appears that the first point in a discipline is worth 20 XP, because I had 3, after selling Auspex from 0, I had 23, and after buying Obfuscate, I was back to three again. Presumably, by judiciously using this hack, you could customize your character's disciplines to any arbitrary degree and wind up with a Tremere with some of the Disciplines of Malkavian, Nosferatu, and Gangrel.
One point, though. Set up your character, and if you are going through the tutorial, finish it before you start messing with your disciplines. You have to finish the tutorial with the correct clan-specific disciplines. Then you can change them.
Nice catch, Anaximander. I know people have been looking for ways to customise the disciplines pretty much since day one.

[mr_sir]

Originally Posted by yrthwyndandfyre

Nice catch, Anaximander. I know people have been looking for ways to customise the disciplines pretty much since day one.

going to have to try that. would love to have a tremere with animalism, dominate and thaumaturgy as they are three of my four favourite disciplines, the other being dementation but that is pointless together with dominate.

[KRose]

I've had a couple of funny ones;

One was in Club Confession where I decided to go on a random killing spree after saving, because, well... senseless violence is a sure cure for boredom. Anyway, my Malk drained Venus and then set on the other people, but after I'd killed the first two guys who had been dancing next to her, things got very odd. I could still kill people, If I caught up for long enough but besides running, screaming, and cowering, they kept... disappearing. One minute some goth girl would be running, then she'd disappear only to reappear on the other side of the room a second later. It was quite funny- I just watched all the terrified people literally coming and going. I couldn't kill them all because for every one I killed, another two appeared!

I've also had a glitch at the Ocean House Hotel [Or whatever it's called.] When I was running about on the third floor, ghost appears as usual, points down the corridor, and then runs down it. This place terrifies me anyway, so I wait until she must have gone and then run after her. My Malk sprints round the corner, and slams into the ghost. Seriously, I nearly had a heart attack! She was just standing there, ignoring me since she'd obviously got stuck- I glanced up and saw her disappearing round the next corner, despite the fact she's still in front of me. While it was quite interesting looking at her, and deciding she must have been stabbed or shot in the stomach, I've crept round that corner ever since...

[yrthwyndandfyre]

Originally Posted by Anaximander

Opened the console and used the same code to sell one more point in Animalism, thinking it wouldn't do anything. When I looked in my character sheet again, Animalism was completely gone and I had 651 xp points to spend.

That should be enough to clue everybody into what I'm talking about, and now it's time for fair deuce. Changing your character's disciplines can have far-reaching effects. More than you would expect. On the down side, it's like playing an entirely different clan, where you have learn everything about the clan and have the Devil's own time doing so. On the up side, it's like playing an entirely different clan, where you have learn everything about the clan and have the Devil's own time doing so.
Having been fairly warned, have a ball!

[TonyMontana1638]

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When I was being put through that guys testing in the Chinatown skyscraper (can't remember his name) I ran into a ton of weird bugs. When I was suposed to bve dodging those laser beams, the lasers themselves weren't there, but I could still see there emitters moving around. I was able to walk through the area totally unharmed. Then when I proceeded to the next area and was supposed to dodge the spinning blades, they weren't spinning; just sitting there... I was able to shoot the electrical boxes and effortlessly proceed, once again, entirely unharmed. Then when you break out of the testing and are supposed to kill the scientist and his guards I dominated the scientist/boss dude, he killed all his guards, died (as per the "posession" ability... I was a ventrue) but didn't leave the key I needed to open the nosferatu's cell. The last part kind of sucked but I found it interesting how seemingly all the bugs I encountered happened all in one area .

[yrthwyndandfyre]

This is kind of neat. I was in DMP, and when I got to the gang-banger, I was a bit low on blood, so I hit him with 2 Blood-Strikes before I tried to talk to him.
Well and good, but when I tried to talk to him, he freaked and ran into the next room. I went there, and after a few moments, he relaxed and started to walk back. Then I talked to him, and got the normal dialog. When it was done, he threw a fit, fell on the floor, died and flipped his own corpse over in the air. Looking back at where he originally was, the head-runner was sitting where it was supposed to be. Cute.

[DanAngelus]

Originally Posted by Anaximander

... and I had 651 xp points to spend...

Now it gets even more strange. After spending the last of my 647 ill-begotten experience points, you'd think I would have 0 left. Instead, the game gave me 1047 more. I used them to put a full 5 points into everything and still had over 600 left.

This can also be gotten by using the giftxp command and giving 10000 or so xp points. You'll get around 700 or so and then once these are used, you will recieve more than before.. giving you enough to do the next thing I'm about say..

Originally Posted by Anaximander

At that point I opened the console again used vstats buy to buy a point in Celerity, just to see what would happen. In the character sheet, I now had Celerity as a discipline (A Gangrel with Celerity! Nice) with 0 points in it and still had 647 xp points.

Also this works with any of the disiplines for any of the other clans. It can also be done by using "vstats get [Discipline Name]" meaning you can effectively have a super vampire that can do anything. Using your ill-begotten XP points to up the stats on these new disciplines

NOTE: Protean does not work. It allows you to transform, and gives you the Heat signature sight thingy, but you cant feed or attack or anything.

After reading this I felt the need to go play with the cheats,,

[DanAngelus]

I encountered two glitches that were "weird".

When I got back to the spot where you first meet Beckett. I got the cutscene where he approached in wolf form, but he didn't transform back to his human form. This was on the second time I played it so I noticed it right away... anyway, I got all of the normal dialogue, but I was talking to a wolf.. not Beckett himself.

Another was in the Skyscraper, whilst being tested by the mandarin. As soon as the window smashed everyone ran away. The mandarin however was running in one direction against the wall and not moving at all. I killed all the others. ignoring him, and went through the door to where Barabus' cell was, to find that he had escaped on his own and killed the guard at the bottom of the stairs for me.

[Jonus]

Originally Posted by DanAngelus

Another was in the Skyscraper, whilst being tested by the mandarin. As soon as the window smashed everyone ran away. The mandarin however was running in one direction against the wall and not moving at all.

I encountered this part of the glitch as well, and I also noticed that the two guards (dressed in black) were unmoving and just stationary. Only until I started shooting did they react at all. I was able to jump through the broken glass and move around freely without any movement from them.

[Woozaii]

Sometimes, when i am killing Boris for Venus downtown, i hit Boris with my fists, and he flies into the wall and then kind of ricochets up under the ceiling. Thats funny enough, but the best part is, that he gets stuck in the fan he has up there, and he is just going round and round and round, all at the same time he does the animation that NPCs do when they fly backwards. Try it yourself.

[Katan_01_mirage]

I'm playing with a female Tremere character and the the most curious thing happened. Up to Hollywood you only have 3 different outfits the one you start with, the one you buy in Downtown, the one you buy in Hollywood. Right? Somehow, during the snuff is enough quest I wound-up getting the construction hammer for a weapon then tried changing to lighter clothing so I could lockpick the door to get the tape. Lo and behold I now have the cool black leather coat that I should be getting in Chinatown and the nice,elegant outfit I bought in Hollywood. The oddest thing, is that I can only use those two and won't allow me to get lighter clothing not to mention I still can't fix this glitch. Both are cool outfits but i also need dexterity for sneaking and lockpicking.

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Another weird stunt happenned in the tutorial for the Malkavian. Jack tells you there's a bum in the nearby stairs (go feed) right? When I go down the stairs, there is no bum (or anywhere near the alley) yet Jack insists that I should feed. The next time I restarted I could feed off the bum (go figure)
The most famus glitch is universal. You kill someone near the walls ect. and then they seemed wedged between them. Or closed rooms where thugs seem to peer from within the doors, and you can see their faces plastered in them.

[Evrae]

I've had afew glitches in my game...

First one was extremely annoying, I was playing on the 'Blow up the Sabbat warehouse' mission and while I was beating up afew thugs I fell through the ground so just my head was exposed, I tried to move and attack but I couldn't so the thugs thought it proper to circle my paralysed body and beat it senseless with tire irons.

My second glitch was in the back rooms of Ground 0 (The Internet cafe), this freaked me out as when I came to a corridor with quite afew of those little 'heads with legs' as I call them, they could walk through walls, so every now and
then one would jump through a wall and scare the hell out of me.

My last glitch was one that seems to happen all the time, the character I'm playing likes to jump up and wrap their legs around the person they're feeding off, but sometimes the person I'm feeding on doesn't go with the animation so
they continue to stand upright so my character has their legs wrapped around their knees whilst sinking their fangs into the person's... back. Although they seem to get the same boost in blood so maybe there are just as many vampire friendly nutrients in the back as there are in the neck =D

[Anaximander]

This one's not really a glitch, per se, just some odd AI behavior. You know how if you use Suicide or Vision of Death in public, all the NPC's rush over to the dying one to see if they can help? Well, as a Ventrue one time I used Suicide on the Mandarin right outside of Barabus' cage. Barabus himself came charging out of the cage and run up to the Mandarin saying "Are you alright? Do you need help? What's wrong?"

I thought it was funny.