Facebook
Reddit
Email
Learn essential combat tips for Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, covering stealth tactics, elite fights, and clan power combos.
Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 masterfully balances the need for stealth and head-on fights to reward well-rounded playstyles. Over-reliance on any one approach is liable to make life difficult for beginners who aren’t min-maxing their builds with Brujah or Lasombra powers. Here are some essential tips and tricks to help beginner and intermediate players expand their vampiric potentials.
How To Get Better at Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2
Scout Before Fighting
When facing several enemies unaware of your presence, try to find a spot where you can see most of them. This will allow you to mark their positions with Vampire Sight, understand their patrol paths, and plan a route of attack. Enemies in one room cannot hear you massacring their friends in an adjoining room, so you can easily clear a mission one isolated area at a time.
Also Read: Which Clan (Class) To Choose in Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2
Pick Off Large Groups
When encountering a large group of enemies, do not fight in the open. If there are more than three enemies with elites in the mix, you can easily get overwhelmed in a head-on fight. Instead, try to take out the isolated enemies on the fringes using stealth. If you are spotted, retreat and reposition to face one enemy at a time or return to stealth. Once the group’s numbers have been thinned out, you can safely risk revealing yourself.
Stagger Elites
Elites are larger and stronger enemies who aren’t interrupted by your regular attacks. They can quickly drain your health with ranged firepower or charge and knock you back. You can use regular enemies’ bodies as shields by picking them up and holding them in front of you while closing the distance to a ranged elite. Throw an enemy body, head, gun, or any other object to stagger melee and ranged elites alike. This will leave them open to devastating combos.
Slow Down Time
While you may not have access to the Toreador clan’s Split Second ability to stop time, there is a simpler method to achieve similar results available from the start. When you need time to think and strategize in the middle of a fight, open the Ability Menu to slow down time.
Also Read: How To Unlock All Outfits in Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2
Learn Teleportation
Most clans have their own version of a teleportation power or quick movement ability that allows you to reposition. If your selected clan doesn’t have one, it is worth the ability points to learn one from another clan. Such abilities can serve as a panic button if you are cornered and taking heavy damage. Alternatively, they can simply allow you to get easy stealth kills. Here are all the teleportation or similar evasion powers available in the game:
- Toreador: Blink
- Banu Haqim: Unseen Aura
- Tremere: Recall
- Lasombra: Shadow Step
- Lasombra: Enter Oblivion
Combo Powers
To wield overwhelming power and transcend the status of a beginner, you must create Power combos that synergize extremely well with each other. While there are quite a few synergies you can put together within the powers of your own clan, consider the powers of other clans to see which ones create an overpowered combination. Here are some examples:
- Tremere’s Cauldron of Blood to lure in enemies, followed by Blood Curse to explode the unfortunate target and deal AoE damage to all.
- Lasombra’s Shadow Step to get behind a mortal enemy, and Banu Haqim’s Bladed Hand to instantly decapitate them.
- When surrounded by enemies, use Tremere’s Recall to mark the spot, followed by Toreador’s Blink to move away. Then, use Recall again to cause a detonation at the marked spot.
Thank you for reading the article. We provide the latest news and create guides for new and old titles, including Death Stranding 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Roblox, Destiny 2, and more.
