Bloodlines 2 is losing a drinking buddy as spinoff Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt plans server shutdown

In further grounds that the Vampire crippled bid is arsenic cursed arsenic its toothy goreguzzlers, the developers of troubled conflict royale offshoot Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt person announced that it’s shutting down for bully – specified days aft Bloodlines 2, the long-delayed (yet seemingly inactive okay-ish) mainline sequel yet released.

This mightiness not beryllium astonishing if you’ve followed Bloodhunt since its ain motorboat successful 2022, with debased subordinate counts starring to the extremity of progressive improvement conscionable a twelvemonth later. Devs Sharkmob said astatine the clip that its servers volition stay online arsenic agelong arsenic an "active subordinate basal and community" continued to exist, but today’s blog station confirms those servers volition beep their past connected April 28th 2026. I conjecture that’s inactive a decent chunk of clip to get immoderate past Winner Winner Human Dinners in, though the announcement timing is funny – is the Bloodlines 2 timing a coincidence, oregon were Sharkmob hoping for a bump successful interest-by-association that ne'er materialised?

Either way, and arsenic the station states, "the existent subordinate colonisation has reached a level wherever keeping the servers moving is nary longer sustainable." Bloodhunt has besides been taken disconnected merchantability immediately, and existing players tin nary longer bargain tokens – Bloodhunt’s in-game currency – done its shop. Any tokens near successful your leather trenchcoat’s tattered pockets volition inactive beryllium bully for virtual purchases until the server shutdown, mind.

We ne'er reviewed Bloodhunt, and Alice B’s (RPS successful peace) 2021 preview was based connected excessively embryonic a physique to justice the multiplayer experiment’s chances. I bash retrieve playing a spot for hardware reasons, but wasn’t terribly compelled: the inclusion of the 'masquerade' dynamic, wherein you’re encouraged to fell your vampiric powers and/or murders from the eyes of an ignorant public, mightiness person made for a amended conflict royale twist if the game’s rendition of Prague wasn’t truthful empty. Which, dissimilar the accidental abandonment of Bloodline 2's Seattle, wasn’t the effect of bugs. And I cognize I bring up this deity damned crippled each clip I constitute astir BRs, but Apex Legends was already doing highly agile last-man-standery astatine overmuch higher method and presentational calibres.

Thus, Bloodhunt’s dilatory undeath is yet acceptable for an end. At slightest Bloodlines 2 seems to beryllium doing, again, okay-ish, peaking astatine a respectable #3 successful the Steam Top Sellers charts past week and already siring an progressive modding community.