Why is Jonathans eyes always red?

[Byeah]

been playing for a couple of hours and since the beginning of the game, his eyes have been bloodshot red since the beginning of the game. is it graphical error or am i just missing a mechanic in the game?

[HoboProBro]

Personally I would have found it really interesting if Reid would look more and more like a vampire if he chose to NOT kill anyone. The lore in the game mentions that Lady Ashbury looks younger and healthier after feeding and that would have been a nice touch to force him to be more of a monster to look like he's human. After all being a vampire is clearly a horrible thing to him and that would just be the cherry on top.

[MoofieMagic]

Originally posted by HoboProBro:

Personally I would have found it really interesting if Reid would look more and more like a vampire if he chose to NOT kill anyone. The lore in the game mentions that Lady Ashbury looks younger and healthier after feeding and that would have been a nice touch to force him to be more of a monster to look like he's human. After all being a vampire is clearly a horrible thing to him and that would just be the cherry on top.

Ooh, good point! It's been a while since I've read the books, but the Anne Rice series, the vamps always looked more gaunt and paler if they went a while between feeding - I remember Lestat always talking about how he (and whoever he happened to be with at the time) would feed intensely before having to go somewhere that required heavy interaction among humans...

That said, when Lady Ashbury said she was 27, I laughed out loud. Her character is pretty, but she looked a bit more...'mature' to me. ~_^

[Cat of Ulthar]

Ok but how many people do you have to kill to get the red and black eyes? I've killed 3 people so far, and I don't want to really go crazy through it on this playthrough, but I wana try an get the black eyes...

[Sheppard]

Originally posted by catofulthar:

Ok but how many people do you have to kill to get the red and black eyes? I've killed 3 people so far, and I don't want to really go crazy through it on this playthrough, but I wana try an get the black eyes...

From here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vampyr/comments/8pqkvh/spoiler_the_three_stages_of_different_eye_colors/

There's actually four eye colour stages:

1. 0 people = normal.
2. 1-9ish people = red eyes, light blue iris, pinprick pupil.
3. 10ish -18 people = red eyes, light blue iris, slit pupil.
4. 19+ people = black eyes, red iris, slit pupil.

Get killing!

[Al]

Originally posted by Faust87:

Originally posted by Owen:

I get that this is meant to represent your descent into darkness from a gameplay perspective but this really annoys me. I wouldn't even mind it so much if your eyes changed back after enough nights of improving the neighbourhood but no you are stuck with them.

Every other vampire you meet is a killer and they all have normal eyes.

This alone is a terrific point.

Ditto.
And also... none of the humans seem to notice/care that you have red eyes with black cat-slits? "Oh hello again Dr Reid, How nice to see you..."
If it was somethng only Vampires could see... OK... but then it'd be nice if that was explained, and you should see it in other vampires as is mentioned above.

[Al]

Originally posted by HoboProBro:

Personally I would have found it really interesting if Reid would look more and more like a vampire if he chose to NOT kill anyone. The lore in the game mentions that Lady Ashbury looks younger and healthier after feeding and that would have been a nice touch to force him to be more of a monster to look like he's human. After all being a vampire is clearly a horrible thing to him and that would just be the cherry on top.

Yes that would have been an interesting way they could have designed the game.... it would make more sense too that humans would not suspect him if he was feeding (right now, how do they NOT miss the red eye thing?). And the more of a 'good' vampire/doctor he was, the worse he would look which would make peopel maybe more wary of him (either that he looked more monsterish, or that he just loooked more sickly which would fit right in with the historical setting- they might fear he had the flu and would be afraid to interact with them.... that would put a bigger 'do I or don't I' to the whole question of feeding on NPs

[Al]

BTW FWIW after getting London's Burning, I revisted Swansea, and it does look like he has the stage 2 eyes: red eyes, light blue iris ... but the pupils look more slit like than pinprick? Unless its just the lighting in the scene... IDK why we wouldnt see it with any other vampires. Especially the hostile ekons on the streets- should have red eyes just by default.

[Vampire Detective]

Originally posted by ser Voltborb:

I did, i didn't think it would cause Jonathans eyes to be red the entire game.

It's the Mass "Effect." ;)

[Riddley Walker]

He has an eye infection from rubbing vampire bat seed into his eyeballs. It's hard to get an appointment for an Ophthalmologist in the city since they are all booked with bat seed related issues.

[Al]

Originally posted by It's Squanchy!:

He has an eye infection from rubbing vampire bat seed into his eyeballs. It's hard to get an appointment for an Ophthalmologist in the city since they are all booked with bat seed related issues.

Yes, just allergies, and i dont think there were Opthalmologists back then... or there were, no doubt they were all boooked up as you say when our dear Jonathan was tasked with saving the world! :-D

[kick-ass-dude]

i'm new to this game and noticed that the Sclera changed red but i never embraced anyone yet. I even spared clay when it taught me how to feed. So i want to know does just feeding on ppl cause jonathan to change or is there something else also effecting that.

[Smaddeus]

Originally posted by MoofieMagic:

Originally posted by HoboProBro:

That said, when Lady Ashbury said she was 27, I laughed out loud. Her character is pretty, but she looked a bit more...'mature' to me. ~_^

If you didn't figure it out, she was saying she was 27, but indicating that she is much, much older person, and she wasn't saying how much older. She might as well be 50-80, or 100.