V Rising, the opposite vampire survival hit of 2022, goes unfastened to play for Halloween

V Rising

The Bloodfeast is coming to the hit indie vampire survival sport V Rising (opens in new tab), and whilst that sounds ominous and doubtlessly horrific, what it approaches in sensible phrases is that you’ll play the sport without cost this weekend.

Beginning on October 28 and operating thru November 1, V Rising—to not be puzzled with Vampire Survivors, which is an entire other factor and, mockingly, no longer if truth be told a survival sport (within the standard sense, a minimum of)—will probably be unfastened to play (opens in new tab) for all creatures of the night time. An afternoon earlier than that, October 27, V Rising can be added to Nvidia’s cloud gaming provider GeForce Now.

Ahead of the unfastened weekend, developer Stunlock Studios may be freeing Halloween-themed DLC for V Rising referred to as the Haunted Nights Castle Pack, which contains an array of the latest cosmetics, light choices, and furnishings. 

To get right of entry to the brand new content material, first set up it (opens in a new tab) (you’ll be able to want to have V Rising put in as neatly, naturally) after which an entire trio of magazine quests:

Lord of Shadows

• Haunted Nights Coffin (Skin variation of Wooden Coffin)
• Haunted Nights Stash (Skin variation of Wooden Stash)

The First Book within the Library

• Haunted Nights Carpets
• Haunted Nights Stained Glass (Window)
• Haunted Nights Wall Decor (2x Wallpapers)
• Haunted Nights Web Drapes (Wall / Window Wall / Pillar attachments)
• Haunted Nights Gourd Lantern (Pillar attachment Light)
• Haunted Nights Floating Gourd (Flying Light)
• Haunted Nights Lanterns (4x Standing Lights)

Expanding My Domain

• Haunted Nights Standing Mirror

There’s additionally a new replacement (opens in new tab) out nowadays that makes numerous steadiness and gameplay adjustments to V Rising and provides a brand new Mad Hunt sport provides for each PvE and PvP motion. The complete patch notes are beneath:

General

• The Servant Resurrection timer has been higher to ten mins from 15 seconds (Primarily to take on PvP eventualities the place the quick resurrection timer might be abused).
• We have rebalanced how Siege Golem well being is calculated and feature up to date the Siege Golem well being settings. By default, Siege Golems can have 250% extra well being (represented as protect price) than earlier than. The Golem’s well being additionally scales in keeping with the participant’s present well being to at least 50% of the entire well being (must the participant reworking have not up to 50% well being, the golem’s protect price will probably be lowered accordingly).
• The default time-slot surroundings for when PvP raiding is energetic has been lowered to 18:00-22:00 native server time from 17:00-23:00.
• The most peak trip for Mist Trance has been lowered; this fixes a subject matter the place avid gamers may achieve undesirable heights the usage of this talent.
• The reflect visuals of the Gothic Mirror and the Cabal Mirror were up to date.
• Chandeliers and different rotating buildable items now not flicker when “temporal anti-aliasing” and “motion blur” is energetic.
• The chat message that published “We are experiencing technical issues on some hardware setups…” each and every 90 mins, prompting customers to restart their sport has been got rid of periodically.
• Old saves at the moment are routinely subsidized up after they’re loaded in a brand new sport model. The backed-up save is positioned in <Save Directory>.BACKUP<Old Game Version>AutoSave_X.save
• Added rocks north of the Farbane Bear Cave in order that avid gamers sooner or later can’t construct in this type of method that it blocks the cave go out, trapping avid gamers. Also added a brand new path to take if there may be a real citadel blocking off the standard trail.
• Fixed a glitch within the Silverlight Silver Mines that allowed avid gamers to leap into the mountain.
• Fixed a computer virus the place some global teleporters may forestall operating for brand new avid gamers.

New Game Presets

Two new Game Presets were added:

• Mad Hunt – PvP 
• Mad Hunt – PvE

These presets permit 3 new server settings:

Shuffle V Blood Locations

• Shuffles the site of all V Blood gadgets and alters their faction to replicate the faction of the V Blood they change. V Blood gadgets are shuffled the usage of 3 pre-defined teams in keeping with problem stage.
• When surroundings is energetic, all V Blood gadgets have their portrait and lore hidden within the V Blood Menu till they’re defeated.
• Note that the generation unlocked to growth continues to be unlocked in the similar order and stage, however a brand new V Blood unit will take its position and stage.

Shuffle V Blood Abilities

• Shuffles all V Blood talent rewards randomly around the board. Some gadgets will finally end up with one talent praise, others with two, and a few with 0.

Shuffle V Blood Tech

• Shuffles the generation rewards of all V Bloods. Technology is shuffled the usage of many pre-defined teams to make sure that avid gamers might growth with very important generation without reference to how rewards are shuffled.
• Note: When Shuffle Tech & Shuffle Abilities are activated, some V Bloods might finally end up and not using a rewards.
• Note” Enabling any Shuffle settings might best be accomplished when beginning a brand new server. These settings can’t be changed on a operating server, nor can those settings be deactivated.

Balance Changes

Weapons

• Axes
• Frenzy
• Casttime higher to 0.35s from 0.3s.
• Hitbox radius lowered to 4 from 4.2.
• X-Strike
• Range lowered to eight from 10.
• Sword
• Spinning Strike
• Damage in keeping with hit higher to 35% from 30%.
• Reaper
• Howling Reaper
• Duration lowered to two.2s from 2.5s.
• Total space harm lowered from ~180/200% (this might range relying on vary earlier than) to 160% (word that the preliminary projectile hit nonetheless offers 50% harm).
• Spear
• A Thousand Spears
• Reduced spear channel period to at least one.1s from 1.35s (successfully reduces the time a unit is surprised through the assault through 0.25s).
  Damage in keeping with hit lowered to twenty% from 25% (from a complete of 200% harm to 160%).
  The assault now hits all enemies within the space reasonably than just one.
• These adjustments cut back the wear and stun period for single-target assaults however make the spear general more potent when hitting a number of objectives (basically affecting PvE).
• Slashers
• Camouflage
• Incapacitate period lowered to 2s from 2.5s.

Spells

• Mirror Strike
• Hit Collider higher (now has the similar hitbox as Merciless Charge and Heart Strike).
• Arctic Leap
• Freeze period on vampire objectives lowered to 2s from 3s.
• General Freeze
• The protect part of Freeze has been modified from a static 5 well being protect to a spell-power-based protect. Freeze now shields the objective for fifty% of the landlord Spell-Power leading to a protect that scales from ~5 – 20.
• General
• Shields now correctly use the landlord’s spell persistent when calculating the facility of a protect this is carried out reasonably than the usage of the objective’s protect persistent.
• Crimson Aegis
• Duration lowered to 3s from 4s.
• Crimson Beam
• Reduced period to 3s from 4s.
• Increased harm in keeping with 2nd to 200% from 150%.
  Increased therapeutic in keeping with 2nd to 150% from 100%.
  Corpse Explosion
• Radius higher to a few.2 from 2.8.
• Volatile Arachnid
• Increased motion velocity to 4.8 from 4.5.
• Reduces solid time for self-detonate to 1s. from 1.2s.
• Detonation harm higher to 120% from 100%.
• Spectral Wolf
• Bounce harm aid in keeping with hit lowered to 85% from 75% (successfully will increase the wear general from hitting a couple of objectives).
• Spectral Assassin
• Damage higher to 140% from 125%.
• Spectral Assassin assault solid time lowered to 0.9s from 1s.
• Chaos Burn Effect
• Reduced to five ticks from 7 (reduces harm to 50% from 70%).
• Veil of Chaos
• Knockback tier lowered from phantasm detonation to now not have an effect on vampire avid gamers.
• Aftershock
• Cooldown lowered to 10s from 12s.
• Damage higher to 125% from 100%.
• Void
• Damage higher to 75% from 70%.
• Fixed a subject matter the place Void would eat Chaos Burn if it was once energetic on a goal.