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[h2]The Bloodfeast is coming![/h2]

The dying seasons are upon us, and with it, we revisit a fond tradition. This time of year, we celebrate the passing of the leaves, the raising of ghouls and spirits, and human desperation to make the most of their last harvests before the winter comes to strangle the life from the land. Now is the time to crash the dwindling hopes of our prey! Bare your fangs, unsheath your blades, and gather every vampire from every corner of the world!

[h2]Halloween Free Weekend[/h2]

Play-For-Free this Halloween! The Bloodfeast is the time of year Vampires most freely engage in their savagery, and it’s not a private party. All creatures of the night are invited! We’re encouraging everyone who has an interest in engaging their bloodsucking desires to join us the weekend of October 28th through November 1st for a V Rising FREE WEEKEND! Bring all your friends, show them the way of the Vampire, and let them experience Vardoran for the first time.

In addition to the upcoming free weekend, we’re happy to announce that V Rising is going to be available on GeForce NOW on October 27, just in time to take advantage of the event! If you’ve wanted to stalk the night but have been limited by your hardware, now is the perfect time to indulge in your bloodlust..

[h2]Free DLC: Haunted Nights Castle Pack[/h2]

To help you get in the spirit of the season of spirits.

Not only that, but all V Rising players will be able to claim the Free Halloween-themed Haunted Nights Castle DLC Pack up through November 7th! You’ll find all manner of spooky castle decorations to keep forever. Drape your castles in webbing and light your dark corridors with skull candles now and all year long. Just make sure you claim the DLC before the celebration ends!

[h2]The Haunted Nights Castle DLC Pack contains...[/h2]

New interior decor for the season of ghosts and gourds!

Haunted Nights Wall Decor (2x Wallpapers)
Haunted Nights Gourd Lanterns
Haunted Nights Stained Glass Window
Haunted Nights Carpets

Fresh ways to light your lair and… allow your servants somewhere to check their appearance.

Haunted Nights Floating Gourd
Haunted Nights Standing Mirror
Haunted Nights Skull Candles
Haunted Nights Laughing Pumpkin
Haunted Nights Grinning Pumpkin
Haunted Nights Wailing Pumpkin

Cursed caskets, caches, and cobwebs.

• Haunted Nights Web Drapes for Pillars, Walls, and Windows
  
• Haunted Nights Coffin
  
• Haunted Nights Small Stash
  

This DLC will be available October 24th and can only be claimed until November 7th, 2022. After logging in and claiming your DLC, it will be available for you year-round, so don’t worry about losing your sense of style just because the season has passed. Remember that this is only if you claim the DLC first, so don’t miss your opportunity to get your free castle skins!


[h2]Halloween Update: Mad Hunt[/h2]
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On October 24th, we’ll release an update to V Rising with some interesting new additions for returning and veteran players to experience the game in a new way! We’ll introduce a preset to the server defaults called MAD HUNT that will introduce an element of chaos so wild it makes Chaos Volley look like Regular Volley.

When playing in the new preset, V Blood locations, V Blood spell unlocks, and V Blood technologies will be randomized around the map. We’ve put certain limits in place to ensure that you’re still able to acquire certain technologies at certain points so as not to make progression frustrating or impossible, but otherwise, it’s a free-for-all! Have fun chasing Beatrice out of the Iron Mine and running face-first into Terrorclaw’s open mouth!

Please don’t interrupt Styx’s prayer time, he gets very upset.

If you happen to enjoy any of these elements but not the others, we’re also giving you the freedom to apply them as you like! Randomized V Blood locations, randomized V Blood spell unlocks, and randomized V Blood technologies will all be separate settings available to all private servers!

In addition to the new presets, we’ll be making some balance adjustments to spells and weapons, as well as a few fixes and changes to support a healthier endgame castle-raiding environment. This will include reducing standard raid time on Official servers to a 4-hour window instead of a 6-hour window. We’re hoping this makes it a bit easier to defend your territory.

The siege golem, now capable of taking more than two hits.

[h2]Let the Festivities Begin![/h2]

Happy Bloodfeast, Vampires! Celebrate Halloween with us and capture the essence of the season of decay. We hope you enjoy these Halloween treats in the wait for the bigger expansion of V Rising, coming 2023!

Don’t forget to submit your video entry to the V Rising Halloween Video Contest while there’s still time, only a few days left. Someone is going to win that scary powerful laptop, and that person could be you! Entries are closed on October 24th, and we’ll be announcing the winners on October 27th, so if you’re sitting on an entry, make sure you get it in as soon as possible!



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Lots of love and a pint of blood,

/The Marketing Team

Welcome to the V Rising Halloween-themed video competition, sponsored by Intel. Can you make a spooky, dark, and mysterious video?

Record and cut together a 15-45 second Halloween-themed short video in the spirit of V Rising. This video could be anything from your take on a haunting V Rising movie trailer, to a creepy horror story set in the Cursed Forest, to a spooky short about trick-or-treating in the world of Vardoran.

The ideal submission is original, evocative, and interesting!

• Your submission needs to be entered into the Playerstate portal by 23:59 UTC on October 24th, 2022. You will be required to make a profile on Playerstate to enter.
  
• Your video can be no longer than 60 seconds in length..
  
• Must be submitted in a QuickTime, .mov, or MP4 file format.
  
• Video must be at least 1280x720 HD 720P.
  
• Video file size cannot be larger than 500mbs.
  
• Video cannot contain pornographic or excessively gory content. Think rated R as your limit.
  
• Content included in the video must be recorded or made by you. This can include anything from recorded V Rising in-game footage, V Rising press kit assets, drawn or animated content, or live-action recordings. No other copyrighted materials can be used.
  
• To have the prizing delivered to you, you will be required to enter a delivery address for us to ship to. This does not have to be your place of residence but does need to be able to receive shipments.
  

Feel free to include art assets, video material and logos from our press kit: HERE



You’ll have your shot at a variety of fantastic prizes, including a Razer Laptop brought to us by our friends at Intel, a gaming keyboard, and a set of rare V Rising merch!



1st Place: Razer Laptop courtesy of Intel, V Rising Hoodie, V Rising Shirt, V Rising Mug, V Rising stickers!

2nd Place: Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, V Rising Hoodie, V Rising Shirt, V Rising Mug, V Rising Stickers!

3rd Place: V Rising Shirt, V Rising Mug, V Rising Stickers!


Enter your submission here!

The season of dark imagination is upon us, and we look forward to all your twisted visions. Check the submission site to keep up with your current competition! We’ll be announcing the winners a week after submissions close on October 24 so keep an eye out!

We will be patching V Rising today at 13:00 CEST / 11:00 UTC.

The following improvements will be added to V Rising with this patch:

GENERAL

• Broken structures can no longer be repaired when the castle is under siege.
  
• Siege Golem
• stomp ability* can no longer hit structures located two height levels above the golem.
  
• Siege Golem
• projectile ability* will now stop at cliff edges.
  
• Players can no longer repair buildings while under attack or breach.
  
• Attacking enemy fences now triggers “Castle Under Attack”.
  
• Attacking an enemy Castle Heart will now always trigger “Castle Under Attack”, even though the Castle Heart doesn’t take damage.
  
• While being a Siege Golem, you can no longer use Way Gates or Cave Passages.
  

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where Wilfred and Terah could be duplicated.
  
• Fixed an issue where some types of servants had 0 costs for converting and resurrecting.
  
• Potentially fixed an issue where black voxels would cover the screen.
  
• Fixed an issue where loot on the ground could sometimes not be picked up.
  

REMINDER! You can report any issues after the patch here. Please include the patch number in the title so we can easily identify it.

ADDITIONAL REMINDER! Make sure to make backups of your server saves regularly!
How to backup saves.

See you in Vardoran, Vampires!

//The V Rising Development Team.

We will be patching V Rising today at 11am UTC / 1pm CEST. The patching process is expected to last up to an hour.

The following improvements will be added to V Rising with this patch:

UI UPDATE

• Saves with invalid game settings will now be marked as “Corrupt” in the Continue screen to help players identify potential connection issues
  

BUG FIXES

• Various cases where saved data could become corrupted should no longer occur.
  
• Fixed a bug with carpets beneath castle hearts that made it impossible to move/dismantle either the carpet or the castle heart.
  
• Fixed various issues allowing players to build inside cliff regions.
  
• Fixed a bug with plantable trees and plants that did not correctly attach to your territory. Now it is no longer possible to dismantle a territory with a plantable tree on it. Existing planted trees without any supported territory will be removed.
  

GENERAL

• Save files will now become one single file instead of a folder with multiple files.
  Example: A save would previously become a folder ( “AutoSave_56”) containing various files, while now it instead becomes one single file (AutoSave_56.save) in the location where the folder previously would be placed.
  

ADDITIONAL REMINDER! Make sure to make backups of your server saves regularly!
How to backup saves.

See you in Vardoran, Vampires!

//The V Rising Development Team.

There will be a patch during the week of Monday 19th of September (no date has been set yet) that will help address some of the issues that some server owners have been having with Corrupted Saves. The change is going to involve altering the way that saves are recorded, so these will be incompatible with previous saves.

To prevent the possibility of having an issue with the patch that causes you to irrevocably lose your save, PLEASE CREATE A BACKUP OF YOUR SERVER'S SAVE FILE.

Information on how to back up your file can be found here.