Vampire Survivors News

No matter which indie game you look at, Among Us seems to be everywhere, as the violent beans are now making their way to Vampire Survivors.

It's no secret that Vampire Survivors was one of 2022's best games, and the last year has just seen improvement after improvement, like the new free story mode. Yesterday, during Day of the Devs' Game Awards stream, developer poncle announced its next bit of DLC, and it's a bit of a doozy: aptly titled Emergency Meeting, this next bit of paid content for the unique bullet hell game features the tiny, funny cast of Among Us. You'll have nine "totally trustworthy new characters" to choose from, which are basically just different coloured Among Us beans, and there'll be 15 new weapons too. You can check out the amazingly animated reveal trailer below!

Each Among Us character has unique abilities, like Ghost Lino who can float through walls, and can't receive damage, though apparently can't deal damage either, and Guardian Pina, who boosts the defence of all nearby allies. Weapons wise, there's the Report! weapon which blasts enemies away with "supermassive sound waves," and you can "drop duplicitous foes to their doom with Just Vent."

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The patch is available right now and contains:

• 1 relic, Atlas Gate: Enables base game Adventures. Found in Boss Rash, minute 7, only after seeing the Yellow Sign.
  
• 1 new achievement for obtaining the Atlas Gate (in-game only. Will be added to the list on Steam together with the next content patch, your 100% is safe for the rest of the year!)
  
• 2 base game Adventures
• 1 Adventure for the Legacy of the Moonspell DLC
  
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Adventures are self-contained, mini story-modes that remix the game's content.

FAQs: https://poncle.games/adventures-faq

Aside from providing deep lore 💀, their main goal is actually to give you an excuse to play VS when you feel like it, but have already unlocked everything the game has to offer.

Or maybe because you want to have the feeling of starting fresh, with a different set of weapons, without actually remaining behind with the progression of the base game.

Or maybe because you just got a new DLC and would like to do a full-immersion experience in it, as a standalone piece, rather than a part of the main game.

Because of all these reasons, please keep sharing your feedback in the Discord, so we can make tweaks and see how to evolve the feature going forward!

Please know that there are no platform (Steam, Xbox, etc.) achievements for Adventures, but you can unlock base game content from them as normal (eg. if an Adventure sends you to Astral Stair, you can loot the relics in there and unlock them ahead of the standard game progression)

Things that unlock new game mechanics, like Relics, Arcanas, unlocked Power-Ups, and pickups count, carry over to Adventures.

We have 2+1 adventures for now:
- Two are unlocked by collecitng the Atlas Gate relic mentioned above.
- Then there's the Legacy of the Moonspell adventure that gets unlocked if you have the relative DLC.
DLC Adventures becomes accessible only after visiting the Dairy Plant once.

For more information and details on Adventures, for example on how and why to Ascend an adventure after completing it, please refer to the FAQ: https://poncle.games/adventures-faq



We didn't add a Steam achievement just for the Atlas Gate, your 100% is safe for the rest of 2023!
Our future free content patch -that is still top secret- will add a handful of achievements instead, and we'll bundle the Atlas Gate platform-achievement with those.

- Locked characters can now be previewed in Character Selection (Secret characters aren't shown until the Forbidden Scrolls relic is found)
- Added filters to the Collection page. You can now see easily what you need to unlock Queen Sigma for example.
- Tweaked Whiteout bosses' HP pool
- Fixed Whiteout treasure chests not containing evos
- Fixed Celestial Voulge not being available in Super Candybox II Turbo
- Reduced self-harm from Muramasa
- Fixed Millionaire's projectiles not being affected by the direction faced by the player


The Vampire Survivors are desperate to find the vampire, but are running out of places where to look. Only one option remains, the last frontier: be the bullet hell... in space!

We shoot them to the moon, but landed just slightly off target... Oh well, since we're here we might as well investigate this carefully crafted knockoff mysterious purple world of Polus Replica and stock up on friends, weapons, and floor chicken as usual. You never know when or where you might get lucky and stumble upon a vampire, so better keep those EYES open anyway!

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Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting is our first collab DLC, made possible by the wonderful Among Us developers, Innersloth! We took elements of Among Us that most fans of the game will recognise and freely re-interpreted them in a Vampire Survivors spin, for some outrageous, ridiculous, and hopefully fun, combinations of characters and weapons.

Common daily questions at poncle HQ are among the lines of "How would I survive 30' in the videogame Vampire Survivors if I only had an ID Card to defend myself?" and it was pure bliss to be able to give an answer to those important questions. Huge thanks to the folks at Innersloth for making all of this possible!


Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting contains:

• 9 playable characters
  
• 15 new weapons (of which 7 evolutions)
  
• A new large stage
  
• A new Adventure
  
• 6 brand new music tracks
  
• 20 in-game-only achievements
  

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Launching December 18th - $2.49 / €2.49 / £1.99[/h2]

DLC FAQS
While most of the contents of the DLCs are straightforward, being a collab there are some differences. For example, there are no Steam achievements, so please read the FAQs here for more info: https://poncle.games/emergency-meeting.html


You can Wishlist Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting now by clicking the link below.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2690330/Vampire_Survivors_Emergency_Meeting/

(Nintendo Switch and mobile versions are coming soon, so stay tuned to our Discord for more info)

It's been another crazy year here at poncle working on Vampire Survivors, and as usual it's thanks to you all if we can keep doing that while also having fun!
This year isn't over yet anyway, we still have update 1.8 to release, together with a (very little) extra bit of content that isn't even available in the public beta version yet.

If you think we've done enough, it would be great to get a nomination for "Labor of Love" in the Steam Awards please!
If you think we should do more instead, no problem, hopefully in 2024 we'll get there! I'm going to share our Chaos Roadmap just below, to tease how much more we're planning to add in the future 👀

When it comes to planning new content, I'm not a fan of big, perfect, highly detailed roadmaps, as it's often straight up impossible to foresee all problems that might occur during development (did you happen to hear about a huge software company trying to screw over game developers recently?)

Even internally, we use a big list of stuff we know we want to do, but we don't put that in order or on a timeline. So here's our Chaos Roadmap, a highly cryptic list of all future updates that are getting cooked behind the scenes:


Wondering what the heck MAZERELLA is? Sorry, my lips are sealed.

Wondering which one will be next? Me too haha

Thank you all once again, and hope to see you in here again soon for the Adventures update!

- Luca

Vampire Survivors, one of the best indies of 2022, is apparently getting a story mode, and it'll cost you nothing at all.

No one could have predicted Vampire Survivors, a pretty simple game that predominantly involves you walking around trying not to get hit, would still be here almost two years later pushing out continuously good updates. Yet here we are, with the latest announcement that the roguelike is getting a story mode called "Adventures." According to an FAQ, Adventures are "self-contained miniature story modes that reset and remix the game's content, following the Survivors cast on a series of wacky sidequests.

"Each Adventure will offer a unique progression path, giving players an opportunity to start from scratch and face custom challenges with a limited arsenal - without losing precious unlocks in the main game." No specific release date was provided on the Adventures 1.8 update, though it is meant to be coming soon, and will be available on all platforms. Best of all, it's free (other than a redacted line about your soul, or something)! Though there is a note that "some Adventures are expansions to DLC content, and require you to own the relevant DLC on the platform you're playing on."

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