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Old 06-24-2008, 11:52 AM   #1
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Default TAC's Dracula: Origin - oddities in the PDF manual

I've found some things in the PDF manual that are either straight out errors, or I missed something;

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To exit this menu without loading a game, click on the silver ring in the middle of the screen, or press "Esc" on your keyboard and you will be returned to the main menu.
What silver ring!? There's a Back button at the bottom of the screen...

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To access your portfolio, simply right click to display it (which contains the inventory, archives, dialogues, documents, Van Helsing' personal notes and the navigation map).
What do they mean by "navigation map"? It's either an odd error or I misunderstand something (by the way, on page 11 there's a picture of the portfolio screen, and it looks just like the one in the game, not an early version of it or something).

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When Van Helsing finds a new document, writes a report or learns something new, an icon is displayed on the top right of the screen. Right click to see the new information. The document is then added to the corresponding section. The icon will continue to display while the document is being read.
What is this all about!? When you receive a new document/report, you're automatically taken to read it in the portfolio! Also, a document is "being read" while you're inside the portfolio, there are no "top-right-corner icons" there...


So, it seems that the PDF manual in my copy is partly outdated.
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Old 06-24-2008, 12:42 PM   #2
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What is this all about!? When you receive a new document/report, you're automatically taken to read it in the portfolio! Also, a document is "being read" while you're inside the portfolio, there are no "top-right-corner icons" there...
This one is semi-accurate. You're not always taken inside the portfolio, other times an icon will be shown.
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This one is semi-accurate. You're not always taken inside the portfolio, other times an icon will be shown.
Hmm... I don't remember that...
So all the rest of the quotes are just simple mistakes?
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Old 06-26-2008, 12:02 AM   #4
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You get the icon in the corner to show dialogues have been recorded. I believe everything else takes you straight to the copy in the journal.

The back button is silver though I don't know that I'd describe it as a "silver ring"

There is no navigation map in the journal.
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Thanks. Usually their PDF manuals are quite accurate, don't know what happened with this one...
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