It is coming as much as a 12 months since V Rising obtained its 1.0 launch, and forward of that anniversary developer Stunlock Studios shared a trailer earlier this week for the sport’s first massive replace, Invaders of Oakveil. The replace itself might be free (good!), and introduces an entire new space to discover, the titular Oakveil Woodlands, a woodsy space the place “corruption” is spreading (not good).
The massive baddie of this replace is Megara the Serpent Queen, presumably the supply of mentioned corruption. She’s bought some minions known as The Venomblades, which feels like an incredible identify for a goth rollerblading group. By way of gameplay additions, there is a new arena-building characteristic to be present in your fort, alongside one-on-one duels that may be came upon within the wild which might be consequence free. Oh, there’s three new weapon sorts to fiddle with, claws, twinblades, and throwing daggers, in addition to seven new spells as well.
Fight can be getting a giant refresh, with stats seeing a rework, gear receiving some stability adjustments, and the addition of “new customization instruments.” Blood sorts have been reworked too, passive spells are apparently “extra impactful”, and unlocking spell factors offers you some passive bonuses too. Plenty of adjustments!
Crafting might be a bit simpler too now as you’ll be able to take substances out of your vault with out having to truly go to your vault to get them. Horse women will enjoyment of the truth that there will be stables to retailer your horses in as effectively, alongside the flexibility to fill your prisons with creatures to take blood from (that one’s not a lot for the horse women).
Alongside a couple of different adjustments that you would be able to examine on the sport’s official web site, there’s additionally the truth that V Rising will even be formally supported on Steam Deck. All of that is coming April twenty eighth, so you have solely bought a few weeks to attend.
