Vampire: Bloodlines Weekly Update #11

Activision’s Shane DeFreest has sent us another weekly update for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines via email. Straight from my inbox:

Q: Will the friction of certain surfaces affect player movement/combat? For Example, will fighting on dry blacktop be noticably different from fighting on wet grass?

A: No. In the past we,ve found things like this aren’t always understood by players, and the feeling can be difficult to convey.

Q: There’s been mention of secret items and paths that provide an experience increase, are these items functional or are they more like easter eggs or maybe just props?

A: The quest paths you’re speaking about are not purely Easter Eggs in the classic sense of the term. Extra experience is given in a number of different situations, mostly for paths that are hard to discover/execute. No items give you XP per say, but sometimes finding them does.