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V Rising developers talk about the 'journey' to full release

Thrilled that their game has reached over one million copies sold, the developers of V Rising have posted a blog outlining their next steps towards a future release for the indie survival-RPG-but-you're-vampires game. "The Stunlock team could not have possibly imagined how many of you were out there, ready to awaken from your crypts and step into this little world we’d created," they said...
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V Rising developers post update on their next steps

Vampiric survival crafting game V Rising has been a runaway hit since it entered early access a couple of weeks ago. The developers over at Stunlock Studios have now laid out their current priorities for the game's progress, emphasising that it still has a "journey" before its full release.

Where are the stairs in V Rising? That's a question many players of the new vampire survival game have apparently been asking, because the new update moves them to a more visible location. There are also several performance tweaks available for the open-world game, which has been skyrocketing up the charts with over 1 million copies of V Rising sold on Steam in its first week.

The V Rising patch 0.5.41591 notes include the line "Stairs have been added to the castle floors tab in the build menu to make it easier for players to find them." So if you've been wondering how to get upstairs in your castle, now it should be a little easier to do so! Sliding threateningly up staircases has been a key tenet of being a vampire since the days of classic 1922 silent film Nosferatu - that's where all the juicy people sleep, after all.

Among the performance improvements added are a texture quality setting and an FPS limit option, which should both come as welcome additions for players with less graphical oomph in their machines. A performance issue caused when fighting night marshal Styx the sunderer has also been rectified.

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V Rising's latest patch makes it easier for vampires to find stairs

V Rising crept up on us this month with its blood-sucking monsters, and within three days 500,000 players had already started new unlives. For developer Stunlock Studios, that's meant a lot of feedback to sift through, and the latest update makes another dent—albeit a small one—to the list. If you've had trouble finding stairs, you're in luck...
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The ultimate V Rising guide for beginners

After a V Rising guide to help you through your first few days outside of the coffin? Blending the base building of Valheim with the PvP raiding and persistent multiplayer of Rust, V Rising is, understandably, proving very popular with fans of survival games. However, that mix of gameplay styles means new players may struggle with the slew of systems and mechanics. On top of all that, you've got to pay attention to all the threats that face a fledgling vampire, like garlic and the dreaded sun.

After creating your vampire lord, emerging from the crypt, and battling through a cemetery, you find yourself in the relative tranquillity of V Rising's starting region, Farbane Woods. But what to do next? While developer Stunlock Studios provides a thorough introduction to the vampire game's systems in the form of a main questline, it can't beat a definitive V Rising guide as there's still a lot left unexplained, making your first steps pretty daunting.

So, join us as we help you over V Rising's early hurdles, answer some frequently asked questions, and set you on the path to vampiric victory.