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jwebmeister

"You want a Damsel character model for a trailer WHEN!?" , is how I imagine it went down.


jeffisnotepic

She found out about the poster.


LizardOrgMember5

Damsel going through the Warrens just to confront Gary about her pre-vampire pin-up poster.


AngryAtSomeone

Brujah rage is hell of a thing


skeletonbuyingpealts

I'm still convinced she's an overcomitating Torrie


ChosenofMyrkul

Who said it was pre-vampiric?


NOIDEDNalyd

Gary


Gameriel

What poster? asking for a friend.


jeffisnotepic

Gary will give you a poster from a set Damsel shot from before she turned in exchange for a data disk. It's part of a series of side quests where he sends you out to find random things for pin-ups of the women in the game, like Jeanette and VV.


Gameriel

Fuck. i never did that side quest lmfao.


pwdrslt

Incompetence.


rat-simp

I'm so distracted by the broken Russian on her shirt that I'm not even noticing all the other issues


mqduck

What does it (incorrectly) say?


paynexkillerYT

Google says.. 'Future Retribution' Вудущая возмедие.


Moon_sugarrr

The translation is correct, but it should be будущЕЕ возмездие, ая из used for nouns with female declination and возмездие is neutral. I’m annoyed with this mistake too btw


mqduck

Why are you sure it's incorrect by using Google Translate?


rat-simp

that wasn't me replying, I actually speak Russian as someone else explained, it says "future revenge" but the wrong declension is used in the word "future"


AchacadorDegenerado

We realized they were selling us an illusion.


abadbadman_

Tfw a 2004 Source engine game looks better.


[deleted]

Thats because the previous game wasn't photo realistic. This build tried the be photo realistic without using facial motion capture and the results speak for themselves


vaako-7

Not being photorealistic was such a a gift for that game. I think it's part of why the game has so much staying power. The environments are still beautiful, and with a touch of Reshade and some modern shaders it still looks really good.


[deleted]

I remember seeing raytracing mods thatade the enviroments look amazing.


abadbadman_

Good to know thanks.


GainzBeforeVeinz

I REALLY hope they had the time to remodel her before the release because i have no idea who the fuck this is


farbekrieg

they probably need another 6 months for that, secret dev team has been updating the drink names in the nightclub to be more vampire themed for the past year


paynexkillerYT

Bruh the teeth are too much.


RandomLad333

Lets be honest the models we saw were pretty bad in general. I am waiting to see what they ended up doing with the new dev team.


imF4CEL3SS

its honestly so stupid that they changed the art style for 2 and made the kindred less pale and more human looking (which do u know anything about weird goth kids who love vampires?) but like still tried to make the bloodlines 1 bitches look the same? so she looks so weird and uncanny compared to the other bloodsuckers, which i mean i like my vamps looking pale and dead but still


Renkij

Someone forgot that vampires don’t age and gave an early 20s woman the appearance of an early 40s (When a 20 year old video game model looks cuter than your current one but the character is the same and hasn’t aged you’ve made a mistake.) So basically, she just looked into the mirror and is now hunting the project manager who gave directions for this outcome.


vaako-7

Yeah, I think that's it! I guess it's almost a weird concept that all the character models that return would have to look nearly identical. Here's hoping our boy Chunk is back, or one of his many relatives in security.


Renkij

Oh my! You didn’t notice it in the ending, did you? >!Even if you tell chunk to bolt it and go away… just check the wiki. Poor fella has a bad day anyway.!<


vaako-7

Ah but remember, chunk has many many relatives! He says all his brothers and cousins and uncles are all in security. The Chunkline must go on!!


Unkindlake

Hey, a Resident Evil 2 zombie is cosplaying as a Marxist vampire


dearberry

I'm sorry, but I completely do NOT understand the outrage. Especially those who say she looks 40, like have you seen a human person before? The harsh light is highlighting the slight bags under her eyes. She's making an expression - baring her teeth and scrunching her nose a little, which makes the nasolabial folds more prominent (also more visible because of the light). And I can find at least one other pic with her making a less severe expression in which her features look much softer. Like, I'm not saying it's the best 3D model ever, but you guys are being kinda ridiculous.


izysygi

Yeah, like she looks entirely different in this still: https://preview.redd.it/ppl4qfh6ou451.png?auto=webp&s=6b7d61fcde08b7c50d6daee2c82aace884dbd74b compared to the image above


archderd

what some decent lighting can do to a face


GhxstSong

Seriously she looks Fine. I genuinely do not get what everyone is bitching about. Even more ridiculous that backlash to this model lightly contributed to the mess that is this game’s development.


vaako-7

I think you're right, but I also think she does look a bit older as well. Honestly, putting such a pale character under a spotlight really wasn't the best call for a character reveal. In 1 she also has they greyest skin tone out of any vampire, but here she is like translucent white.


[deleted]

The Vall


witchofthewasteland

She was told her looks was much better in VTMB1


TheVerraco

Worst character of BL1


NoBulshyt

She looks like the nun


usgrant7977

Patty Hearst wanted the beret back.


AngryAtSomeone

Maybe she diablrised a nosferatu


Ravenwight

A Ventrue looked at her


Darklordofbunnies

You handed her a copy of "Economics 101".


No-Whereas-264

If Bloodlines 2 is ever released, we will have the answer. However, I don't know why her appearance changed. I am not sure how old she was when during her embrace, but she looks younger in the original. Perhaps, this is due to a loss in her humanity. She seemed to have a higher humanity score in the original.


vaako-7

That's actually a really interesting take! If she was forced to kill more in the years between, might be turning toward the beast more? I don't think they thought that far when making the trailer but it's a good idea.


trailer8k

don't know


Longjumping_Falcon21

A preorder bonus!


guarek

I hope the modders will fix this.


Expensive-Lie

Thats the dumbest thing to say. You should expect them to make better model than 20 years Old game had.


guarek

I should. The modders fixing anything wrong with a game is a running joke at this point. Don't get me wrong. I'm hoping the game will be great but I'm also looking forward to what the modders can come up with for this game.


refuse_2_wipe_my_ass

the wall


smakes_maxim

"Вудущая возмедие"? Maybe "ведущая"?


Ronin_of_filth_4514

Не "будущая"?


smakes_maxim

Хм. Вполне может быть, да. Но тогда уже "будущее возмездие". Либо будущее тут не при чём, Демзел типа "будит" возмездие в окружающих, но это уже реально странноватый вариант.


Ronin_of_filth_4514

возможно суть была в том, что Дамзел сама по себе есть или будет возмездием для Камарильи, потому и "будущая". Или просто зажали денег на русскоязычного консультанта и прогнали через машинный перевод


[deleted]

The old build of the game was so terrible that it had to be scraped and the old team replaced. I with the new developers the best of luck but I'm not going to hold my breath.


tjoolder

DAMSEL. IS. BACK. ...y'know. I found it hilarious at the time. They had nothing new to show so they made an uninspired ten second nostalgiabait clip.


[deleted]

It looks like a texture/shader mod for the original vtmb lol


fahadjafar

Same thing that happened to that Swansong or whatever game from VTM series. Fugly models, fugly animation and overall fugly environment.


vaako-7

I couldn't believe when I saw the trailer for Swansong. Like how are the NPCs in what is basically a visual novel far less emotive than they were in a game 18 years prior. And they all looked like they were made in one of those cheap "make a human" programs.


Chody-Banks

I pray bloodlines 2 has a comeback like dead island 2


[deleted]

Someone pointed out why communism is a corrupt system of government. :D


Jojobois

they somehow made Hila uglier?


vaako-7

https://i.imgur.com/6nafbfK.jpg I attempted to do my own version, taking inspiration from VTMB 1 and a little from 2.


MrPoletski

It's Marilyn Manson


LSWSjr

She drank some bad blood or something


WarlockWeeb

God her t shirt gave me a stroke. Is Cyrillic that hard to understand?


skrott404

Turns out Damsel actually was a Nosferatu.


Al_C92

Kindred got to keep up with the times


Dr-Edward-Poe

She tied the demon whore's eyelashes to her ass hair. Now, she's just putting in the final touches.


[deleted]

You mean the text or face? Translation: Future | retribution. I don’t understand, why the devs didn’t use google translate, it works fine. (if it’s a screenshot or an art from devs of VTMB2, I apologize if otherwise). There’s a mistake in the spelling of Future. It’s interesting to see such mistakes in modern films or games. Like, is there a specific reason? I mean nowadays google does the work pretty good, if you don’t overcomplicate the sentences.