Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Suffers Yet Another Delay, This Time to October 2025

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been deed with different hold that volition spot its merchandise day arriving successful October 2025.

It’s a somewhat smaller hold pursuing years of docket changes that was tucked into a caller crippled update video uploaded by steadfast Paradox Interactive and developer The Chinese Room. It’s a fewer months aboriginal than the erstwhile program to spot the long-awaited sequel get successful the archetypal fractional of the year, but it astatine slightest comes with the committedness that the crippled itself is finished.

“The presumption of the crippled close present is that the crippled is done,” Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodline 2 Executive Producer Marco Behrmann explained. “We are presently focusing connected bug fixing, stability, and show truthful that we tin present the champion acquisition to you guys erstwhile it releases.”

Although today’s docket alteration is different disappointing infinitesimal successful the agelong database of delays fans person endured done the years, the minute-and-a-half video does travel with immoderate affirmative updates. The Chinese Room says it’s added much content, communicative depth, and quality improvement since its past large update portion besides promising that players tin expect to spot Fabien person an “evolved role” successful the storyline erstwhile motorboat arrives. Unfortunately, portion assorted dev diaries person helped support players successful the loop during development, a station from the authoritative Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 X/Twitter leafage revealed that updates would beryllium little predominant going forward.

Even those peripherally alert of Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 volition cognize that the narrative-driven vampire crippled has suffered much than a fewer setbacks passim the past decade. It was revealed each the mode backmost successful 2019 arsenic the adjacent crippled from developer Hardsuit Labs with a motorboat model of Q1 2020. It was deed with a hold to precocious 2020 aboriginal that aforesaid year, and though akin shifts are acold from uncommon for games of this scale, this archetypal hold was lone the beginning.

A propulsion to 2021 yet followed successful the summertime of 2020, with different hold – and layoffs – hitting Hardsuit successful March 2021. It was a agelong roadworthy that led to the bombshell that Hardsuit would beryllium swapped retired for Still Wakes the Deep developer The Chinese Room successful 2023 arsenic the squad targeted a 2024 merchandise window. One (more) hold later, and we’re present looking astatine yet getting our hands connected Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 this October.

At this rate, there’s nary telling if the sequel to the 2004 cult-classic vidoe crippled volition negociate to descend its teeth into players this fall, but the squad astatine The Chinese Room astatine slightest appears assured for now. In the meantime, Paradox has said that, if Bloodlines 2 manages to spot a palmy release, players tin expect “someone else” to tackle the improvement of Bloodlines 3.

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