News and Updates

Update 4/2/21: We have heard a lot of feedback from the community that the new Detective / Investigator Achievement is too difficult, when trying to find another player of a very specific race / status. We have updated the possible targets to be limited only to a given race, not a specific status. This should make this achievement much more doable, and we hope less frustrating.

Update 3/26/21: Because of the updates in version 5 of the Haunts, the current Voyager / World Travels achievement will be retired to a Legacy Achievement and replaced with Voyager 2 / World Travels 2, which will work identically. Retired achievements are now being referred to as Legacy Achievements, a previous version of this post referred to them as Honors.

Original post follows:

The following changes to Bloodlines achievements will start on 4/1/2021:

1. All of the Tempter / Summoner achievements (a total of 10 achievements) will be retired and become Legacy Achievements. See below for an explanation of what this means.
2. Detective / Investigator will also be retired and become a Legacy Achievement. It will be replaced with Detective 2 / Investigator 2. In order to earn counts of Detective 2 / Investigator 2, you will need to find and scan players with certain statuses and races in a certain order. For example, your first target may be to scan someone who is a vampire. Once you find and scan a vampire, you’ll get a message letting you know what your next target is. It may say that you need to find and scan an Archangel, and once you find and scan one, you’ll get your next target.
3. In order to count towards Voyager / World Travels, all Haunts will need to be updated to Version 5. Soon we will be releasing and auto-distributing an updater box that you can use to update your Haunts to version 5. You should have plenty of time to update your Haunts before the change on 4/1. After 4/1, version 4 and earlier Haunts will still work fine, but if they are checked by your visitors, they won’t count towards the Voyager / World Travels achievement for that visitor.

Legacy Achievements are old achievements that can no longer be earned. So, if you have earned badges on Detective, Investigator, Voyager, World Travels, or any of the Tempter / Summoner achievements, those badges will be permanently moved to the Legacy Achievements section of your profile on 4/1. This will change the total number of achievements that it is possible to get, so you will see the top number of possible achievements drop to 79.

Why are we making these changes?

In short, because the level of exploitation of these achievements is so egregious that they are essentially meaningless. We’ve observed that the challenges of these achievements are being circumvented by the use of large numbers of alts. We’ve tried various measures to try to suppress the incentive to use alts, but these have not been effective, and our last resort is just to retire the achievements. We apologize to everyone who made honest attempts at doing these achievements.