V Rising News

If you want to lose countless hours to a survival game, you're spoilt for choice these days. Rust continues to dominate on Steam. Subnautica remains a genre classic. Minecraft has just overhauled its visuals after more than a decade. For my money, though, V Rising remains the quintessential choice. With the Invaders of Oakveil update finally launching earlier this year, the vampire-focused game has become the experience I'd always dreamed of. With version 1.1 now out in the wild, however, developer Stunlock Studios is finally looking at what's next - and I have high hopes.

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• [p] Added a confirmation request to the “Kill Prisoner” option in prison cells.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where units spawned through objects like Spider Cave cocoons could sometimes disappear after being imprisoned.[/p]
• [p]Fixed Unholy VFX on the enemy “Skewering Leap” ability.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where queuing up irradiant gruel in a prison cell could remain in que even if the unit mutated, causing the next inserted prisoner to instantly get fed irradiant gruel.[/p]
• [p]A few areas that did not properly animate or remain interactable while in the pause menu should now be working properly.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where Dracula could sometimes get stuck in a phase 1 to 2 transition during very specific scenarios involving server restarts. He may still get stuck this way, but it will be temporary, and should sort itself out within a few hours.[/p]
• [p]Destroying a floor under a disabled item should no longer cause it to remain suspended in the air. I curse your items with gravity.[/p]
• [p]Under rare circumstances, a weapon could receive two coatings. This should no longer be possible.[/p]
• [p]Inflicted horses with a fear of chaos and illusion damage from weapon coatings, which they were previously indifferent to.[/p]
• [p]Players can no longer teleport while affected by the Golem buff.[/p]
• [p]Added support for sorting blood potions, as well as adjusted the bag sorting on several item types.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where one Expose Vein animation made the Vampires intersect oddly.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where dead Vampire Steeds could block dismantling elevated floors.[/p]
• [p]Fixed some issues with camera collision.[/p]
• [p]Added protections to prevent certain calculation errors from occurring, which should prevent some crashes related to daggers and horses.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a Night Maiden animation bug.[/p]
• [p]Fixed some visible gaps in doorways with wallpapers.[/p]
• [p]Added collision to prevent clumsy Vampires from falling into holes and getting stuck, which was just embarrassing for everyone.[/p]
• [p]Fix for the “wash basin” which was not fading properly when obscuring the camera.[/p]
• [p]We changed the way the game remembers Emotes and Shapeshift positions, which should help solve an issue where player Emote and Shapeshift choices would get reset between games.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where you could get dagger stacks when not having a dagger equipped, which would stay permanently.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where some small sun rays could sneak their way into the vineyard boss arena.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where Arena Health Orbs could remain as indestructible objects after a castle is destroyed.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where arenas and duels could become invisible when too many were taking place in one area. Removed the restriction that you can only see arena areas while in the same territory.[/p]
• [p]Fixed some typos! Always.[/p]
• [p]Rejoice, Vampires. Dark Silver Longbow is now written the same as the other Dark Silver weapons.
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• Did some slight reworks to Mace Q, Claw Q, and Whip Q rotation curves that should significantly reduce the potential jankiness of casting them in the opposite direction of your walking inputs while having latency.
  
• Solved an issue where items would in some cases be taken from non-treasury chests when crafting/building.
  
• Fixed some minor issues with jewel/legendary names.
  
• Speaking of names, fixed some typos!
  
• Fixed some spacing overflow issues in crafting stations in several languages to bring them in line with other localizations.
  
• Fixed an issue where chain lightning could trigger on floors above or below a player while in a castle.
  
• Added a safety check to prevent waypoint impaired users from teleporting, though they can still open the menu to check potential teleport locations.
  
• Fixed an issue where replacing a floor when moving a Castle Relocation Heart would recollect resources that were never spent.
  
• Fixed an issue where the order of load game saves might not match the last connected.
  
• Fixed a bug where Veil of Illusion jewels that were supposed to summon an additional illusion on recast did not properly spawn one.
  
• Fixed an issue where the gear level of servants would be set to zero upon revival.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Blood Homogenizer and Fusion Forge could be dismantled while having items in them, causing the items to be lost to the shadow realm.
  
• Fixed an issue where doors that had no floor attached would not fade properly on upper floors, leading to some very annoying raid defense designs.
  
• Fixed an issue where the incursion hud could get stuck on the screen if the eye of mortium is dismantled.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could enter a bugged state and not be able to send Charmed units home using the Duskcaller item after being polymorphed into a sheep.
  
• Fixed an issue where the music player UI could break.
  

• Glow-in-the-dark eyes that will look directly into your soul from across the room no matter how dark it gets!
  
• Finely embroidered details to display his immaculate style and dedication to the Church of the Light.
  
• Detachable sword and crossbow so that he can appear threatening in a large variety of ways! Both pieces attach to either his hand or back, so he will always have a free hand for threatening gestures or throat grabbing.
  
• A sense of grim justice.