Vampire Survivors News

Vampire Survivors' 0.6.1 update adds a bonus stage and two new mechanics

Hit roguelite bullet hell extravaganza Vampire Survivors got a new update today, and while its 0.6.0 iteration will feature "less content than usual," there's still plenty of new material and adjustments to sink your pointy teeth into:..
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Patch 0.6.1

New Content

Contains 5 new achievements to unlock:
- 1 bonus stage
- 1 relic to access 2 minor gameplay mechanics
- 2 new arcanas
- 1 more rank for the Skip power-up

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Tweaks:
- Halved base duration of Shadow Pinion and Valkyrie Turner
- Shadow Pinion and Valkyrie Turner striking attack has a damage bonus depending on how long it has been "charged"
- Arcana XIX - Heart of Fire also affects Valkyrie Turner's striking attack and Phiera Der Tuphello
- Every bonus point in Armor now also increases retaliatory damage by 10%. Retaliatory damage is currently inflicted by NO FUTURE and Arcana XIX
- Music and music mods can now be previewd in stage selection screen
- Rerolls can now be used to draft Arcanas

Bugfixes:
- Unfortunately, due to one of the new game mechanics, the time has come to fix the Bone-stuck-in-the-boss glitch
- Tentative fix to items sometimes not leveling up near the end of a run

New minor game mechanics

Due to the amount of work needed to improve on the save data issues with Mac and Steam Cloud, and also for the future patch 0.7, patch 0.6.0 will have less content than usual. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I also hope you have fun with the new little mechanics added in this patch!

One of the new mechanics is mostly for players who simply enjoy playing the game even when there's nothing left to unlock, so please don't feel like you have to grind for these new bonuses.

Future content, unlocks, and achievements will still be (un)balanced on the vanilla character stats and power-ups* and so will not expect you to have accumulated any of these new bonuses.
* Curse excluded

Vampire Survivors patch 0.6.0 notes tease in-game merchant

The new Vampire Survivors patch 0.6.0 notes are here, with all the details on the update for the roguelike game due tomorrow - well, most of them anyway. The notes confirm new Vampire Survivors power-ups and a bonus stage, and the teaser reveals a clock weapon, an in-game merchant... and something weird about to invade.

The 0.6.0 update for the vampire game is due to release Monday, May 23, and the patch notes are now available on the Vampire Survivors Discord. As any fans will have realised by now, the patch notes are deliberately dry and non-specific, so "1 new weapon" could turn out to be swarms of angry cats.

Developer Poncle confirms an additional stage, two new Arcana abilities, another rank to the 'Skip' power-up, and "1 relic to access 2 minor gameplay mechanics". There's a lot unsaid here, despite Poncle suggesting the patch will have "less content than usual" as they prepare for the bigger update 0.7. They also say one of the new mechanics is for people "who simply enjoy playing the game even when there's nothing left to unlock".

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Vampire Survivors, Sniper Elite 5 heading to Xbox Game Pass this month

Game Pass is particularly ideal for two kinds of games: indie games you're not sure you'll like enough to commit to the upfront cost, and decent-not-great blockbusters you know almost certainly aren't worth the cost but would quite like to play for at least a bit.

There are plenty of games that fit into both of these categories joining the subscription service before the end of May, including Vampire Survivors, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Sniper Elite 5 and Jurassic World Evolution 2.

0.5.209 Savedata Recovery Menu

To access the recovery menu, go to Options from the main screen and click Data Recovery.

A few options will show up if the files required for the recovery are on your machine:

Load Last Run : loads the backup made at the end of your last run (synced with Steam Cloud)

Show Local Backups: shows a (possibly very long) list of backups that are stored exclusively on your machine. Click one of the entries to restore the backup from that version/date/time

Load Old System Data: useful to Mac/Linux users only, this should recover the data saved by the old system that got discontinued since Sunday the 8th of May.
Using this on Windows or for other reasons might yield unexpected results, as the old save system was highly fragmented and prone to data corruption.