better buy van helsing 1 or 2?

[PakRy]

i will rep in ur profile for our suggestion :)

[Towel Russian Sleeper]

I found playing through the first one and then continuing with my character at level 30 to be the best way. The first game has a lot less bugs from what I could tell. This game has had multiple new bugs that have occured over the patching process. If you look at the discussions page you will see numerous people talking about getting stuck on a quest or an ability being completely broken by killing everything on screen or by killing you.

Additionally the third game is meant to be coming out soon. We can only hope after that is released the rest of the series will be patched up and made to not have any progression errors at least.

[Mizuki 水城 泰士]

So.. you can continue your character from first to second game?

[Towel Russian Sleeper]

Yes there is an option to import. Last I checked it still works. I've seen some people posting about "too old" files but I didn't look into that. Presumably the next game that is coming out this month will allow you to import your character from this game into it and start at level 60.

In this game you start at level 1 or you can import or start a veteran character and start at 30.

[H.U.N.K]

i found the first one better it seemed to have more story to it but theyr both good.

[pizzapicante27]

OoO so it has a continous character progression from the first game? awesome!, say I know this isnt really the genre for that, but Ive heard they both have a half descent story, should I buy both to fully enjoy it?

[CatHolic]

Just buy the first one, and after that, if you like it, buy the second one. Or you can buy both right now, it's on a great sale (like i did).

[sn00ze]

Don't expect character import to work, it has been bugged for two years and still no fix.

[datguy13]

Originally posted by sn00ze:

Don't expect character import to work, it has been bugged for two years and still no fix.

Worked perfectly fine for me when I imported two characters to test a patch around 4 weeks or so ago.

[sn00ze]

Going through the forums it worked only briefly. You can still find tons of topics from 2013/2014 and even from today since the game is on sale and people wanted to import saves. It still doesn't work.

[datguy13]

Originally posted by sn00ze:

Going through the forums it worked only briefly. You can still find tons of topics from 2013/2014 and even from today since the game is on sale and people wanted to import saves. It still doesn't work.

Van Helsing 2, and importing characters, did not exist in 2013. The game was released on May 22, 2014. So there's no way you saw posts from 2013 complaining about it.

Additionally, quite a few of the import failure complaints are from users who modified their files, creating one of the "Save File is too Old" bugs. You also can't import saves from pirated copies of either game. So although there have been some legitimate complaints concerning this, which the Neocore tech support are happy to help with, there are also an equal number of complaints where it was strictly user error that they can do nothing about.

It also doesn't help that some users were trying to import from a save back-up folder without having VH1 installed. That flags for the "Save file is too old" as well.

Usually this issue is resolved in legitimate games by simply updating VH1 and VH2 to the most current versions, booting the VH1 up and logging into the character you wish to import, then exiting the game as normal by logging out then exiting. The last two patches for each game have also resolved a couple of bugs which caused errors to imports, so if you haven't attempted an import recently, then you may not be aware of these fixes.

[sn00ze]

Posts from 2013 were about VHI save issues, so, as you can see it is something that exists since the VHI.

A lot of my friends had this problem and they had both VHI and VHII originals and updated, even went through the tips/solutions provides by devs, still, nothing helped.

I bought the first game couple days ago, finished it, bought the second and can't import saves, and I'm not the only one, there are quite a lot of new threads about this issue - even addressed by devs that they are aware of it but due to finishing VHIII they can't devote time to fix it.

[No Leaf Clover]

VH 1 is on sale on Humble Bundle.