The quest 'Missing Data' = bugged ?

cornoratu · Post by **cornoratu** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:47 am

well i got the e`mail from bertram tung and i have the quest in my quest log but for some reason , he has nothng to say to me except the usual info on clans , people and sects... have i done something wrong ? i use the 5.4 unofficial patch...
i am having problems in the skyline apartments building... i am not too good at programming but i think it may have something to do with the bad scripting of the textures or something like that ( srry if i sound n00b but i really am

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*edit* i`ve played pretty much until i installed the last patch and either i didn`t installed it right ( although i don`t think that`s possible ) or the patch is pretty buggy...

just for the record i also started a new game and played until you met andrei the first time

here are some of the bugs :
1) the 'doors' that lead to the sewers (they aren`t doors but i dunno the english word for them ) sometimes get bugged and you press e to open themand you only hear the sound of them opening , but they don`t actually open so you can`t enter/exit the sewers except by using noclip

2) i am having problems in the skyline apartments building... i am not too good at programming but i think it may have something to do with the bad scripting of the textures or something like that ( srry if i sound n00b but i really am

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Spoiler

when i went down the last stairs that lead to andrei`s chamber , i saw andrei teleporting from one location to another without moving any part of his body ( so it`s not a spell ) ; he is not supposed to do that... and then when i moved a little further from the stairs , the event was triggered and when i was talking to him the screen was showing the ceiling instead of showing andrei and after the discussion was over , he started teleporting like a madman and summoning those small monsters too he was summoning them instantly and then he moves quickly to another location ... he doesn`t stay in the same spot more than 0,3 seconds i think ; i wanted to say that i completed the game before and he was supposed to stay at least a second in the same place and his summoning took a little longer ( like 0,7 seconds or even 1sec but not instantly )

so... can any1 give me a tip if i did something wrong or if these are patch`related problems can any1 tell me which patch is good except the official ones ? ( even those had some bugs but after the 1.2 they were unnoticeable )

also while i`m at the 'requesting help' chapter , i wanted to ask you guys about something... when i go to the downloads section , those in`game footages with the tremere and brujah have a completely different UI then the real game has and i was wondering ... are those some mods or what ? also i saw the tremere was pulling the blood out of her victims using thaumaturgy and the animation of that ability was awesome... any tips as to how i can make my game look like that ?

thank you in advance

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:24 am

cornoratu wrote:well i got the e`mail from bertram tung and i have the quest in my quest log but for some reason , he has nothng to say to me except the usual info on clans , people and sects... have i done something wrong ? i use the 5.4 unofficial patch...

That was a problem with one of the earlier unofficial patches. Did you per chance continue an older saved game after updating? This could be the source of most of the other problems you mention as well because Bloodlines can do a lot of strange things in that case.

also while i`m at the 'requesting help' chapter , i wanted to ask you guys about something... when i go to the downloads section , those in`game footages with the tremere and brujah have a completely different UI then the real game has and i was wondering ... are those some mods or what ?

No, these were earlier versions of the interface in which the disciplines were used as separate weapons. A single casting-a-discipline-hand model and animation is left but there is no way I could restore it to the game without the hardcoded effects connected that are missing completely.

cornoratu · Post by **cornoratu** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:24 am

well ok , thx ( for both your help and the work you put into these patches )

yeah that thing with the bertram tung i loaded a game that i played before updating that`s true... and with the nosferatu ( started it after the patching ) i managed to complete that quest so i guess that was the problem...

however about those things that i mentioned earlier ( sewers , skyline apts, andrei ) those things are kinda messed up even with a new game so... can you give me a hint as to what can be wrong ? i really want to know if i should reinstall the game or not this is big to me because for some unknown reason when i install VTM:bloodlines , it takes like forever... ( i think about 30+ minutes ) and that`s not normal for a game on 3 cd`s. when i installed it the first time , it was installed pretty quick , but since then i got problems with the installer but the game on the official patch was running very well

i kinda liked that casting hand

reminds me of a similar game but can`t remember which one ( maybe nosferatu or blair witch ? ) anyway i like seeing my hands when casting

also that thing with the drawings of runes from the Arx Fatalis game was pretty neat

Wesp5 · Post by **Wesp5** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:55 am

cornoratu wrote: however about those things that i mentioned earlier ( sewers , skyline apts, andrei ) those things are kinda messed up even with a new game so... can you give me a hint as to what can be wrong ?

No idea, this never happened to me and I can't remember other people complaining about things like these as well.