Paradox delay Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 yet again because technical quality is "more important" than sticking to a date

Chinese Room bleeder present coming successful October

"Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this clip until the archetypal fractional of 2025," Graham wrote successful August past year. Today I write: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this clip until the 2nd fractional of 2025.

Going by Bloodlines 2's vocation to date, I powerfully fishy that successful the 2nd fractional of 2025, I oregon immoderate different mislaid psyche volition beryllium writing: "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this clip until the archetypal fractional of 2026." Let this quality portion basal arsenic a Meeting of the Ways, the profane axle moving done past, contiguous and aboriginal arsenic the Nine-Eyed Wheel of History bears america down into the mulch.

I would similar Bloodlines 2 to bash well. It was primitively successful improvement astatine Hardsuit Labs, but Paradox gave them the footwear successful 2021. The task is presently successful the hands of The Chinese Room, who are seemingly treating it arsenic a “spiritual successor” alternatively than a sequel. I similar The Chinese Room’s stuff, and portion the action-RPG they’re making sounds alternatively trim and tidy adjacent to the archetypal Vampire: The Masquerade’s scrummage of systems, it besides sounds similar a crippled I would enjoy: a moody play escapade with plentifulness of bloodsucking.

The crippled is present slated to merchandise successful October. According to the supra video, Bloodlines 2 is efficaciously finished and they’re present moving connected "bug fixing, stableness and performance". It seems imaginable that the hold has much to bash with launching it astatine the opportune clip than a question of tasks leftover. October is, aft all, the period of Halloween. That said, the video blurb powerfully emphasises the polishing of the tech, which is accordant with Paradox's past statements astir underestimating however overmuch players cared astir bugs successful Cities: Skyline 2.

"Paradox Interactive and The Chinese Room are committed to delivering this game, and we judge that ensuring large method prime is much important than sticking to a circumstantial date," the video commentary explains. "The crippled is presently successful a precocious improvement stage, and feedback from the assemblage has been taken into relationship during this time. TCR is moving hard connected prime assurance to guarantee it is unchangeable and escaped of bugs that could disrupt the subordinate experience."

Bloodlines 2 remains 1 of our astir anticipated games of 2025. We told everybody that you’d vessel it this year, Paradox. Don’t marque america liars. Do not marque maine usage the Mean Girls header again. “It's hard to beryllium assured astir a high-profile sequel to a beloved crippled erstwhile it has been truthful publically troubled,” writes Brendy successful that 2025 round-up, “but we won't cognize until it's successful our hands, and I liked what The Chinese Room did with their Scottish lipid rig fearfulness successful Still Wakes The Deep. So I tin indulge a small cautious optimism.”