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Ahead of Early Access Exit, Stunlock Details 1.0 Version of ‘V Rising’
With V Rising leaving Early Access on Steam and arriving on the PlayStation 5 later this year, Stunlock Studios has updated players with a new blog entry detailing what’s in store for the open-world action-adventure game. The upcoming 1.0 patch for V Rising will allow players to fully customize their character’s armor appearance, as well as include enhanced equipment sets with multiple new looks. Cosmetics aside, the patch will also sport new weapons with enhanced abilities, and necklaces that come with enhanced powers, but that carry additional risks that you’ll need to balance.
“Players have long since been asking for more options in player expression, from a need to show your unique slaying style to a desire to specialize your gear with more focused and themed stats to match your combat preferences,” reads the post. “Tapping into ancient powers and unlocking their secrets, we’ll craft an entirely new tier of armor and weapons to elevate yourself into feeling your true mastery of the Vampire arts.”
The team will also be making changes to Shards, which were buildings you can place in your castle that provided stat buffs to friendly Vampires who attune to them. Now, Shards will be a necklace item with those same stat buffs, and will also provide a unique ultimate ability that overwrites your currently equipped one. However, to use it, you’ll have to risk it. There will be a running timer on the shard, and recharging it will require you to replenish its energy at events that spawn in the final zone.
“It’s our hope that this encourages a more active and exciting experience for everyone while also providing interesting perks and innovative gameplay for Vampires who like to play it a bit more friendly. You might not like PvP, but you probably DO like a novel piece of gear with exciting abilities!”
As for when the 1.0 update for V Rising will arrive, Stunlock is aiming to have it out “sometime in the second half of Q2.”
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‘Vampire Survivors’ Receives “Laborratory” Update Ahead of ‘Operations Guns’ Next Week [Trailer]
Ahead of Contra arriving in Vampire Survivors with Operation Guns, developer Poncle has released a new free 1.10 update for the roguelike entitled the “Laborratory” update. The update adds new achievements for those of you who love that sort of thing, as well as a new character, new stages and new weapons.
“Since the early days of VS, people have been asking important questions like ‘Why is it called Santa Water?’,” reads the update. The Laborratory update aims to address that, introducing the Santa Ladonna character to Vampire Survivors, who starts out with nothing but a temporary cooldown bonus, and automatically triggers a Rosary when reaching critically low HP.
For weapons, you have the new Santa Javelin, which evolves into Seraphic Cry. Starting out, the Santa Javelin aims for random enemies, can critically hit and turn the Duration stat into additional Amount for itself. In order to evolve it into the Seaphic Cry, players will need a maxed out Clover. The evolution uses Luck to deal additional damage. Picking up Rosaries while it is equipped turns them into a quadruple screen clearing explosion that will turn enemies into XP gems.
In addition to the new patch, Poncle has dropped some progress updates on a couple of topics. Cross-saves are currently in beta branches on Steam, while progress on online co-op is going well, but it’s “still too early for more details”. The developer is also working on a new feature which will allow for new Adventures, which are standalone campaigns that were introduced in previous updates. “We had planned to make new Adventures more often, but then realized that while they work very well to isolate new DLC content, the base-game ones are missing something. So we’ve been working on adding a new feature to the game (that will remain a little secret for now) after which we’ll be back releasing new adventures.”
Meanwhile, Vampire Survivors:Operation Guns will launch May 9 across PC and consoles, and will head to the PlayStation version once it’s been released.
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