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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Launch Plagued By Bugs—Here’s What’s Broken and What You Can Do
October 24, 2025Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 landed with a loud thud. From persistent crashes to key features that just don’t work, the launch has been anything but smooth. Paradox Interactive and developer The Chinese Room are in damage-control mode, listing the most pressing issues and handing out official workarounds, crude as some of them might be.
Let’s get right to what’s broken, what’s being fixed, and what you can (maybe) do to keep your un-life moving in Seattle’s dark underbelly.
Locked Clans, Crashes, and Bare-Bones Fixes
The headline problem? Some players still can’t access the Lasombra and Toreador clans, which were once hyped as coming DLC but were promised in the main game at launch. Instead, these clans remain locked behind a digital door. The fix, according to the devs: update and completely reinstall the game. Not exactly player-friendly.
If you’re on PS5 and the game keeps crashing, there’s not even a Band-Aid solution right now. All the studio can say is: “We are also working on some platform-specific performance issues, such as crashes on PS5.” If you’re experiencing this, you’re stuck waiting.
Other players have bumped into a string of technical snags, with official workarounds that feel more like temp fixes than real solutions:
- No option to turn off motion blur? Drop post-processing settings to “Low”—that’s it for now.
- The game won’t launch or freezes at the opening screen? Try running both the game and its launcher as an administrator.
- Seattle’s streets are eerily empty during quests. The city isn’t filling up with NPCs as it should. Solution: reload your last save. It’s annoying, especially since manual saving isn’t possible. Prepare for lost progress.
- AZERTY keyboard or rebinding keys doesn’t work? Switch your Windows keyboard layout to QWERTY, at least until a real fix is in place.
Missing Features and Unanswered Requests
The problems don’t stop with bugs. Fans have flagged missing quality-of-life settings, including a field of vision slider, options to disable specific HUD elements, and more facial hair choices in character creation (apparently, stubble can only take you so far). None of these has workarounds yet. The message from Paradox and The Chinese Room is just: we’ve heard you, and it’s on our radar. There’s an open invitation to keep sending feedback through their bug report form. For now, player patience is the main tool in your arsenal.
Early Impressions: Thin Blood or Undead Potential?
All these rough edges have taken a toll on early reviews. In one candid take, the Eurogamer review summed it up: “Every area of the game felt thin and lifeless to me… though I didn’t have an entirely horrible time with it.”
That’s not to say there’s no fun to be had. Some questlines and action sequences shine once you push past the technical muck, and the “elder vampire power fantasy” does peek through now and then. Still, for a world as rich as Bloodlines was meant to be, the current version feels like it’s missing more than just bug fixes; lively cities and small details feel MIA, and frustrations outnumber fresh moments of excitement.
Paradox, The Chinese Room, and Bloodlines IP holder White Wolf have all thanked fans for their support and asked for continued bug reports. Right now, that’s about the only call-to-action that actually works.
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