Guide to Blood Sucking(Vampire)

[TheMaveran]

My own opinions, feel free to attempt to change my mind.

Pre-Full Power

Scour maintenance for loot, you're looking for a full tool set, insulated gloves, and a trashbag. If you manage to find an AI detector, great. If you manage to find no-slips or blood reds, even better. This is a good first thing to do as ANY Antagonist in the golden three, and even for Wizards and Slings. 

Identify ways you can make use of your job to start kidnapping people. Chemists/Scientists can make Perfluorodecalin and Capulettium plus, Doctors have access to a plentiful amount of blood, Miners can sabotage their tele-comms for total silence, and Engineers/Atmospherics have engineering closets and the easiest way to make hidden rooms.

Keep in mind even though you have glare, you should only glare as a last resort, do not give anyone a reason to think you're a vampire unless you NEED to. You should gather a stun-prod, cuffs, and tape for your boots and the mouths of victims. Keep in mind some incredibly cringe people will choose to endlessly scream, and the only thing that can stop this is a muzzle.

Blood

Familiarize yourself with how blood works although its quite simple, if someone doesn't have A, B, or + then they cannot receive those types of blood. Ideally your first kidnapping victim will be AB+, which can receive any blood, and Diona, because Diona can survive somewhat longer thanks to their innate regen. 

If you have approximately 7 bags of blood, along with Iron and Saline-Glucose, you can enable a single person to give you full power WITHOUT killing them.

In arrivals maintenance, you can grab a few free blood bags, as well as sleeper that can allow you to dialysis blood out of monkeys for you to use. You can then gather the blood of someone with O- and create stable mutagen clones of them, this will then allow you to manufacture blood any blood-type can use.

Combat

Borgs are your biggest weakness, every opportunity you get to make EMPs, take it. You have no innate way of stunning them, unlike Changelings, and Traitors so they should be avoided at all costs.

You have an instant stun, and a stun cleanse as well as built in healing. Your stun lasts long enough for you to stun three people, cuff 1, stun the other two with a prod, and then cuff them. Keep in mind that once security starts getting re-booters your glare will become much less potent and you will struggle to fight multiple enemies. Once security starts getting CNS re-booters, you will need to glare, then put them into stamina crit with a disabler, or they will get back up.

Your screech ability is an additional stun on top of your glare, HOWEVER, earmuffs completely negate it. Shadowstep is an instant NOPE get the fuck out button of any bad situation, however its usage is finicky at times. Jaunt is probably the most powerful ability in the game and costs surprisingly little.

Gateway Explorer

Best job for vampires by far, every gateway allows you to easily kidnap and drain poor explorers, ALSO gateway often comes with medical and chem setups. This allows you to get ALOT of SUCCing done with only a single person, you will find that Russian Gateway is your best friend.

Traitor Vampire

This antag is nearly as strong as a wizard in my humble opinion. You gain access to chameleon kit and ID, letting shapeshift become a god tier ability. You gain access to EMAG, DEsword, No Slips, etc. The first time I got this guy I choked and died nearly instantly, but second time was incredibly easy green-text. You have so many tools and avenues to use them it may be overwhelming, but stick to vampire basics and you cant go wrong.

Niche Information

List of niche tricks and stuff you can use as vampire that I will add and edit in as I remember them

• You can safely go into surgery/cryotubes even when wanted by sec, because even if they find you, you can rejuvenate the sleep away
• You cannot Shadowstep while asleep
• Vampire bats will attack everything, including other vampires
• Diseased touch is surprisingly unlethal, but will cause the victim to collapse frequently

TLDR

• Avoid Borgs
• Make Hidey Holes
• Use stunprod before glare (hide your vampire identity)
• Abuse blood bags
• Hypnotize is bad
• Only GLARE when their damn headsets are off or if you need it to survive

Kill security officers who fully implant themselves or people who endlessly *scream, they deserve no mercy.

As a P.S. of playing lots of vampire, I think a change that would make vampires a lot more healthy gameplay wise and thematically, is if Jaunt costed a lot more, and thralling costed a LOT less. Most of your power as a vampire comes in the form of jaunt, and besides, making a vampire clan would be pretty cool, but isn't possible at the moment. Also getting the suck and becoming a thrall is a way better alternative to getting the suck and being left there dead, from the victims perspective.

Edited September 16, 2020 by TheMaveran
Added information about CNS, screech, vampire bats, and diseased touch.

[Trololiver112]

I need to add to this aswell as i play vampire a lot and can't stress this enough.

 

The reason vampire games go to red so quickly and people always find out about vamps early is often because a vampire walks up to a person, glares him - cuffs - then takes the headset off(sometimes even ignoring this completely).

The number one tip from me if you are ever gonna mug someone as a vampire:

Stun prod them first, alternative stuns also work here as long as they last long enough - take their headset off - when the headset is off NOW glare - after the glare cuff and move to your hideout and start eating.

Alternatively if you use muting chems like perf you could just cuff then headset, but keep in mind that if someone screams HELP MAINTS while stuttering, that just screams vampire straight away.

 

oh, and i will do the pun before someone else does it. This guide sucks. (actually good guide though)

 

Edited April 16, 2020 by Trololiver112

[Johanot]

This question's been haunting me for weeks now. Why do you need a trash bag as an antag?

[TheClosetMailman]

You can use it as belt storage, or put it on someones headslot to strangle them

[Johanot]

37 minutes ago, TheClosetMailman said:

You can use it as belt storage, or put it on someones headslot to strangle them

Wow! Didn't know about the killing part. Is it a viable strategy for a vamp to strangle a person this way rather than doing it with your bare hands? Is its purpose to mute the victim?

[TheMaveran]

@JohanotPlastic Bag is just the best belt till Belt of holding. It doesn't kill faster than blood sucking or strangling, but you can just put it on their head and run around with them slowly dying.

Edited July 21, 2020 by TheMaveran
RIP Trashbag of holding