I accidentally ate the priest during the mary fight, did i fail the not even once achievment

I’m currently on chapter 4 and the game has been crashing every once in a while, I googled about it and it seems like it’s been an ongoing issue for years.

Does it still happen to current players as well? Or is it just me now? All I can seem to do I re-start and after a few tries it finally stops crashing but it’s tiring.

Does it get better?

Can i embrace someone with all hints on chapter 2? And if i advance too much can i embrace people that were on previous chapters?

I have beaten this game before on normal difficulty. So I figured (years later) I’m going to do a pacifist run. “It’s an easy game” I thought.

Holy shit.

I beat Mary HOURS after the first try. I had to stop and eat dinner, watch YouTube, and then pick it back up because I was losing my mind. And it still took about an hour of nonstop retrying after the dinner break.

I was level 14 with basic equipment but I made it happen. Wish you could have heard my heart beat during the final few hits.

I fucking love this game!

I'm a big fan of vampire media and I've watched many shows and movies along the years about it. But Vampyr is one of these stories that even though it's nothing new to someone who has consumed many vampire stories, it hits different because of the quality of the writing.

Not only this game has a very intricate and complex lore about its vampires, it discuss themes and motifs that resonate with real life's political problems using vampire lore.

In this world, we have the classic vampire tropes that we all love and the tragedy of it, but the vampires in Vampyr are terribly human in the worst aspect of the word. They are elitists, prejudiced and influence the political scenario of their country to make sure they keep their privileges. They are eternal but they didn't overcome the weaknesses of the human ethos.

The vampires enslave other vampires and even plan genocides against other vampires just because some of them are different from what the classical British vampires consider to be the "superior race". The writing of this game is so brilliant and nuanced that even the characters that are presented to us as good people are not immune to this kind of prejudiced and distorted thoughts and the narrative challenges their views abut the matter. I love how the game touches these themes without being too pedantic and militant. It leaves many things to your own interpretations.

Speaking of the characters, this is the most brilliant aspect of the game. All of them, even the minor ones, have some interesting story to tell us. They are complex, they are failed people living in a decadent city who has abandoned them. Our protagonist, Jonathan, is such a well-rounded character. He got a interesting personality (he looks like a good wet dog and it made me in love with him lol), a good story and his voice acting is SO GOOD. All the characters around him like Edgar (my favorite!), Lady Ashbury and Old Bridget are equally well written.

I didn't even talk about its gameplay but it's not needed. It's fun and that's all. What really shines is the writing, it's the text and the subtext.

which (in both cases) the 🏭docks district goes to complete shit. 💀So now it's kill him ⚰kill the district or "spare him" and he ⚰kills it. 😕🤔 ...

Does this game have a photomode?

I got the sad ending, Ashbury threw herself into the fire and Reid was alone and in despair, but everything I can find seems to suggest I should've gotten the ending where they lock themselves in Ashbury castle to find a cure.

I spared nurse Crane, I turn Sean Hampton, I charmed Dawson, I spared McCullum, and I let Dr Swansea die, and no place ever reached Hostile.

I did kill 7 people, but I never betrayed Ashbury as she claims. Is seven just too many people? Seems very hypocritical of a woman who slaughtered an orphanage. I get that the game can't take everything into account, but I killed a terrorist who wished to die, a serial killer, a gang leader, two people who weren't long for this world, and the two most despicable human being in the game; Cadogan Bates and Father Whittaker

But I was playing in story mode, and it says that should nullify my citizen killings.

I mean, I enjoyed the game a lot, and will definitely play it again, I'm just confused about the ending, it seems… unfitting

What would happen if Edgar were to become the new primate? Mydrrin says most sinister if you kill Usher Talltree and that it’s potential dangerous. What is it about that position that is so highly coveted that Vampyr isn’t telling us about?

Recently, I decided to replay Vampyr, and I came upon an interesting secret involving the Primate of St. Paul's Stole, Usher Talltree. Something Usher will bring up often is that the Guard of Priwen suspects him of being a Vampire. Which he thinks is stupid because he is obviously aging.

However, if you embrace Usher, and look at his info afterwards, Johnathan reveals that, while Usher Talltree isn't an Ekon... he is also not exactly human.

"Usher Talltree, 45 years old(?), male. The man who seemingly knew everything and told no one. When I claimed his life, he granted what memories he wished. Yet, I cannot know whether what I found was the truth or a vision he wanted to share with me. Was he human? Unlikely. Vampire, maybe, but from a rare species or branch. He acted as a fortune-teller, but held powers bestowed upon the leader of the Brotherhood of Saint Paul's Stole, a group of so-called neutral observers who study vampires. However, Mr. Talltree relied too much upon the untouchable reputation of his Brotherhood. He could not foresee my attack, even less his death. His last thoughts sounded like a judgement."

Now, Vampire mythology in Vampyr is rather deep. There are various species or types of vampires. However, what's interesting is that there doesn't seem to be much that could relate Usher to vampires. He doesn't seem like he needs blood. His mesmerize level is at 5, which is far lower than the other vampires you meet in the game.

Usher's two main abilities are that he is immune to Johnathan's commands and that he has uncanny foresight. Using Tarot Cards to tell the future, or for you to learn hints about npcs. But how much of this is just Brotherhood secrets or his vampiric abilities?

Can I still earn this achievement if I let the pillars live but kill everyone else?

Anyone know how I can make sure to save Harvey’s arm???

What do you think is the reason the game, albeit great imo, flopped and never really became well-known?

I really like the graphics, the music, the lore, and the style of the gameplay - how you can talk to characters in different ways and get info dependent on what you ask

Any advice for a new player? So far I’ve spared Dorothy and embraced Thelma and Darius. I love the unforeseen consequences these choices can have

So tempting to just drink my way thru London

I was expecting worse. I have an RTX 4090 7900x 64GB DDR5 6000 Mhz desktop but I don't game much these days, I'm bored of vidya.

Anyway, I decided to try it on GFN because Ive been a Founders for years, and damn, it's very smooth, consistent 60FPS on Ultra preset, only slightly gets worse when in the hospital

Honestly, positive surprised.

I just finished getting "Not even once" achievement, and now I want to send london into darkness. But I don't want to eat Nurse crance until I have max mismer

I've just started (lvl6) and my next thing to do is the morgue. but I was hoping to explore and loot, it's just that all the vampire hunters I've come across are like lvl12+. I can handl3 them 1 or 2 at a time but they're in groups.

also the couple of...ummm.. vampires(??) I came across just one-shot me out of nowhere and I barely even scratched them? not the ones near the hospital, but I crossed over to the white chapel or whatever it was called.

do I just gotta do the missions in order to level up? there's so much more I'm struggling w this game. For example, I bought both the upgrades for lvl2 axe and now can't switch to the stun one. and if I can't even free explore, what's the point in playing 😅

This is my third attempt at getting through Vampyr and I'm determined to do it this time. But the combat is, once again, really getting me down.

I've decided to embrace everyone, which the game says will make things easier but it doesn't seem to. Sure I have a few more XP to spend but after embracing Dorothy and like one other person, Whitechapel is now just rammed full of enemies above my level in packs of 4 or 5. So it hasn't really made things any easier.

I don't understand why Jonathan has a stamina bar when enemies don't. They just attack relentlessly. I'm regularly finding myself in groups of 4 with no time to recover. I have to spend all my stamina dodging far enough away to have enough time to heal and it's fucking tedious. Also, every enemy seems designed to stun you or continuously break flow.

Skags: Just the worst. Erratic combos, attack through my combos with no warning. Can leap halfway across the screen to stunlock and take a quarter of my health bar. Loads of health, always in packs. Not to mention the one that can teleport and dodge away after I get a single hit.

Basic guards: Randomly hit me with fire mid-combo which stuns me and opens me up for their friends to get hits in. There seems to be no way of anticipating this; sometimes it's after one hit, sometimes they just sit there and take hit after hit.

Ranged guards: Raising their guns is a telegraph but they seem to actually fire at random. Closing the gap is often countered with some bullshit stun move that leaves me watching them just run away again, then shoot me before I can dodge.

Shotgun guards: So much health. Seem to home in with that running spear attack unless I dodge 3 or 4 times around them. Randomly attack through my combos without any sort of learnable pattern. The shield ones are fine when I have Claws mapped but even then I break the guard, get one hit in and they either attack me immediately or just run away.

Cross staff guards: Currently my highest frustration. Staff combos that last random numbers of moves and hit such a wide range even dodging behind doesn't always avoid it. It's also easy to get stunlocked by the first 2 or 3 hits. I got once and they pop a stun on me and push me back. The cross light move that breaks my lock on and makes me super slow has insane range and width.

I suppose what I'm saying is, I'm struggling to find any joy in fighting any of these fucking enemies or any elegant way to do it. Jonathan regularly misses attacks, especially with the stake, even if the enemy doesn't move. Every single enemy attack stuns me, while most of the enemies can attack through my combos. Despite having half the health upgrades I'm getting hammered. Despite having half the stamina upgrades I'm running out too fast.

I have Blood Spear (for enemies super resistant to melee and ranged), Claws (for block breaking), healing and Coagulation (for stopping at least one enemy for some breathing space) mapped but that means I have no tactical gap-closer move. The best weapon I have is the saw, which I've upgraded to level 3 but still doesn't seem to do much damage to all the spongy enemies.

Is this just the combat? I'm on Normal and I'm generally ok at melee combat games but I'm struggling to see how anyone thinks this is 'way too easy'. I'm just starting Chapter 3 and I'm already wanting to put the game down because the combat is getting tediously difficult for all the wrong reasons.

Edit: Awesome responses, thanks everyone. I've decided I'm going to restart. I'm not that far in and have made some terrible choices so far that I can't take back. I'm going to focus on one or two powers I actually like at first, be much more diligent about 'working' a district before I start embracing the neighborhood and be more patient with combat. I do absolutely love the setting, atmosphere and storyline of Vampyr so I'm determined to figure out a way to enjoy the combat!

Edit 2: Well, starting again was a good idea. I'm now maining the 2h club and focussing on stun/bite and direct damage powers. It's working a treat. The club doing both damage and stun is very useful, a few whacks and I can bite, get that bit of invincibility, refill my blood and heal a bit. Using Claws and Blood Spear regularly is working great too. I am finally enjoying the game!