Today, Paradox Interactive and developer The Chinese Room (TCR) launched a winter update for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, bringing custom difficulty options, Iron Vamp mode, holiday cosmetics, and more.
The update includes:
- Custom Difficulty Mode – Players who have completed the main storyline of Bloodlines 2 can now create custom difficulties for a more tailored experience. Difficulty settings are grouped across HUD, Player, Enemies, and Progression.
- HUD: Adjust the reactive crosshair to increase exploration challenge and tweak conversation reaction UI.
- Player: Fine-tune elixir capacity, starting health, Phyre’s damage, Masquerade sensitivity, ability recharge rates, and targeted time dilation.
- Enemies: Increase or decrease damage dealt and enemy awareness.
- Iron Vamp Mode: Try Iron Vamp mode, or TCR’s version of “Iron Man” permanent death. In this mode, a Masquerade breach or the death of a playable character immediately ends the player’s story.
- Phyre and Fabien Quests: Focus your run on either Phyre or Fabien quests.
- Holiday-Themed Cosmetics – “Sleigh” through Seattle with 28 new customization options for Phyre, including eight hairstyles, eight makeup styles, eight eye colors, and four accessories.
- Quality of Life Updates – Adjust the game’s settings with the new field-of-view (FOV) slider, the ability to toggle motion blur on and off, and more.
For additional information on the winter update, see the blog post.
