Install the Unofficial Patch...

The first time I played the game this happened to me, too. It's a known bug.

Just reload at the end of the tutorial.

unofficial patch is installed

oneeyed: what do you mean at the end of the tutorial?

If the patch is installed, just start a new game until you get fists. I thought we had fixed that though, do you get short messages at the start of the tutorial about given things like fists? Do you run the game from the shortcut the patch created?

i run it from the steam library, the only message about ti is the tutorial message on how to equip the fist, but i never received one about receiving them.
i found a way to sorta bypass this, i made a new character and completly skipped the tutorial, and went and bought a baseball bat, i still dont have fist but at least i can play :)

i added a coommand line to the library

Originally posted by Slick:

i added a coommand line to the library

You need to add -game Unofficial_Patch to activate the fixed game. Check that the version info is displayed on the options/gameplay page! Also a baseball bat is fine as a replacement for the fists but you need to have hands to move objects otherwise you will get stuck latter!

-game Unofficial_Patch -fullscreen

thats the command line i have in library
Bixarly enough once i reached downown the fists appeared

Originally posted by Slick:

Bixarly enough once i reached downown the fists appeared

Okay, then the patch fix finally triggered :)!

:D

Can confirm that this still happens. Running the unofficial patch v11.4
On the second character I got the message that fists had been added to the inventory, but I also checked "Skip intro" for that one

I can also confirm this is still happening. Running the unofficial patch v11.5

Which exact version of 11.5 is this happening on and if you open the console with the ~ key from the menu, are any Python errors listed? Because a Python script should have fixed it!

Almost a decade passed, and no one, not even Wesp acknowledges that this is an issue related to the dbghelp.dll file shipped with the game, for no reason. Wesp also fails to ask the user if they're using linux. It's a common issue for Wine to use the default dbghelp implementation, unless overridden. What gives? Is Wesp, the all powerful, all-knowing god of VTMB missing on basic stuff?

First of all, I am no programmer and all the dll fixes included in the patch were done by other people. Second, those people made me delete dbghelp.dll during installation so it can't be the cause of the problem. Last not least, if people use an unsupported OS like Linux without mentioning it when they ask about issues they have, it's their own ignorance to do so ;)...