Thin bloods are occasionally rewarded with the opportunity to diablerize another vampire: this thickens the blood enough that they lose thin-blood status and behave like a normal vampire. It also means they gain the clan of whoever they just diablerized.So that's how you'd get to be able to choose your clan: you gain the clan of whoever you diablerize to escape being a thin-blood.
I couldn't really tell if it was an open world type style either, or more linear.
(And yes, it means you can get a weird case like your actual sire being a Brujah but you yourself are a Ventrue.)
Canonically:[...]So that's how you'd get to be able to choose your clan: you gain the clan of whoever you diablerize to escape being a thin-blood.(And yes, it means you can get a weird case like your actual sire being a Brujah but you yourself are a Ventrue.)
Is that an official confirmation? It still looks a bit rough from a storytelling perspective to me (granted, I've seen nothing yet) - the patsy will have to either be insignificant enough to be able to swap clans based on a player's choice, or if we're gonna diablerize an actual character there has to be a vast array of them - for every sect/clan combination there has to be at least one potential target. It would stand to reason that Camarilla would let me diablerize a Brujah Anarch but Anarchs probably won't.Ed: Of course, there's a simple route of player doing the tutorial and then being led into the faction cellar where every clan representative is served in an individual cell with a glass and corkscrew, but that's just lazy.
Maybe they'll take you to a cell, but make you pick the clan before you enter, and change the guy inside to fit the choice. Honestly, there are probably many ways, I just don't get why we start as a thin blood if they then change it. Feels like a big deal quickly changed to become inconsequential early on.
I admit I am not completely up to date with V5, but this seems...weird to me. The Camarilla generally frowns on diablerie quite a lot, so it would be strange, to me, for them to offer it as a reward. Unless this isn't exactly "on the books" or perhaps not even done with the Camarilla's knowledge, that's also possible.
Is that an official confirmation?
I think that you might have to put some solid game hours before you pick the clan.
Quote from: YamiRaziel on March 23, 2019, 06:41:41 PMI think that you might have to put some solid game hours before you pick the clan. That's the impression I got. I'd imagine that, to use a Bloodlines 1 analogy, you'd spend Santa Monica as a thin-blood, and then after getting Downtown -- maybe after the Elizabeth Dane -- you'd get the opportunity to pick your clan. Pretty much the whole of Santa Monica was low-key an extended tutorial area anyway.
The Camarilla does sanction diablerie in some cases, for example as a reward for taking part in a Blood Hunt, you get to diablerize the target of the hunt. And while it may not technically be allowed when you're running-and-gunning in Sabbat territory, they'll often look the other way.
Quote from: IanW on March 23, 2019, 06:57:06 PMThe Camarilla does sanction diablerie in some cases, for example as a reward for taking part in a Blood Hunt, you get to diablerize the target of the hunt. And while it may not technically be allowed when you're running-and-gunning in Sabbat territory, they'll often look the other way.But what happens if you meet a Camarilla vampire afterwards that can see the diablerie aura? Wouldn't they kill you or at least question you? Also what about the new disciplines you get in Bloodlines 2 at the start: fog, bat swarm and telekinesis. Have these any base in V5 and are they available to thin blood caitiff?
I couldn't find any 100% confirmed documented proof they were using Unreal 4, but Florian Schwarzer confirmed it to me in a Twitter thread. Also sounds like the game was literally built from the ground up with modding in mind.