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Greetings Vampires!

It’s our hope that the chill of the creeping winter has treated you well and that you’re enjoying the darker, longer nights alongside us. Here at Stunlock Studios, we have been taking advantage of the darker nights, working more comfortably so that we can focus on the intricate and arcane.

That’s right, here in our crypts, we’re hard at work with the darkest and most horrid magic of all… math! Though we’ll spare you the most painful details, as we are merciful, we’ll instead show you the fruits of our labors. Today, Vampires, we’re going to take a nice bloody bite of one of the most integral parts of the RPG aspects of V Rising. As always, everything we share during development is subject to change.

Let’s talk gear, stats, progression, and of course… blood!



Embracing Your Fantasy

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Hello Vampires!

We’ll be adding a small patch to V Rising today that should only affect your client, not your servers, so there shouldn’t be any issue waiting for servers to update or server restarts necessary to play. The only change should be a graphic on the server list identifying our Trusted Server Provider, which has changed from G-Portal to PocketHost.

The size of the update may appear large, but that's really all that's in it! Image files can be funny like that. So don't be alarmed.

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Well, hello there, Vampires.

We’re well into the autumn months, but even as we approach the midway through November, we haven’t completely relinquished our grip on the season of screams! Yes, there’s one more order of business before we finally close out our Halloween celebrations, and that’s the announcement of the winners of the Slashers of Vardoran Art Competition!

For this competition, the challenge we gave to you, our community, was taking one of the V Blood bosses you have lovingly battled for so long and reimagining them with the theme of a horror slasher movie. Judging this contest, we took into account, first and foremost, adherence to the main theme! Whoever best evoked the mood and terror of this beloved genre that is so often enjoyed at the spookiest time of the year. After the theme, we considered overall artistic merit, skill, and c... Read more

Greetings, creatures of the night!

We hope you’re enjoying the fall season. After all, it has everything a Vampire could ask for. The spirits are active, the dead are rising, and with the coming cold and darkening skies, it is becoming more and more tempting to take a seat in your most extravagant armchair by the fireplace flame with a nice glass of blood-red wine. Allow us to give you one more reason to settle in with a little something to read while you get comfortable.

Today, we bring you a dev update. It’s been some time since the full release of V Rising, followed shortly by its launch on the PlayStation 5 just a month later. During this time, we've reviewed the outcomes of 1.0, addressed bugs, and are now well underway in preparing for our next major update.

That’s right, the dark summoning of patch 1.1 has begun! We’re sure y... Read more

Today, on October 21st, 2024, the Legacy of Castlevania Premium pack will receive a FREE update that coincides with Steam’s upcoming Castlevania Fair! In collaboration with Konami Digital Entertainment (KONAMI), V Rising will celebrate all things Castlevania by expanding on our Legacy of Castlevania Premium Pack with some stylish additions.


Perfect Your Palace: New Castle Decor
With this new wall paneling, beautiful gold and blue doors, and…for the first time ever, a new fence option for the discerning Vampire, you’re free to express your elegant and refined taste.



Luxury Stone Wall Panels


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Hello Vampires.

We’re going to be making a few changes to V Rising today to squash a pesky UI-breaking bug, and also add some new items to an already existing DLC pack in preparation for an upcoming event! We’ll be posting more on that in just a few hours. For now, here are the changes in today’s patch.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please make sure you have updated your client! You may experience crashing issues if you do not update your client.

Changes in this patch, which should go live soon, will include:

• Removed the ability for players to name themselves from a certain range of Arabic shorthand codes.
  
• These codes cause the UI to break when encountered in a player name.
  
• Any players who currently have names with these codes should display as “aaaa”, which will no longer cause UI is...

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Fear is in the air, Vampires! Can you taste it? With the month of Halloween upon us, it’s time for Stunlock Studios to put out the call for yet another bone-chilling art competition!

This year, we’re celebrating the vibrant personalities of the deadliest of Vardoran with a new theme: SLASHERS[en.wikipedia.org].


SLASHERS OF VARDORAN
This year’s theme is dedicated to the spirit of the gory flicks that fill our theaters and haunt our dreams during these cool autumn days… but with a little V Rising twist! We want you to take one of our... Read more

Hello Vampires.

Yesterday we patched V Rising with a small update to the Continue function in the main menu. You should now be able to see the name of the server you’re connecting to before choosing to connect to indicated over the button on the main menu. This is a relatively small change, but we’re just letting you know what we did so you aren’t too spooked by an unexplained update.

There will be more V Rising news to be spooked about later this month! Happy Halloween!



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Hello Vampires.

We’ll be patching V Rising today at 11:00 CEST. (EDIT: The patch did not go live at 11:00 CEST due to technical difficulties, but will be updated later today once they are resolved.)

Rising from our crypts once more to bring you a heavier hotfix, today’s patch includes a massive triple-digit grab bag of general, UI, and bug fixes, as well as a hefty dose of game balance adjustments.

We highly recommend restarting the game to ensure you get the latest version.

This update brings the following fixes:

General Fixes

• Increased the strength of haptic feedback by 60%.

UI Fixes

• Fixed stuttering that can occur when scrolling through the player list on servers with a lot of players.
  
• Fixed stuttering that can occur when usin...

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Vampire Hordes Abound!
Darkness descends on Steam as V Rising will be available to play for free starting Thursday, September 12th at 10:00 AM PST/1:00 PM EST/5:00 PM GMT and will continue to be available to play for free until Monday, September 16th at 10:00 AM PST/1:00 PM EST/5:00 PM GMT. For this limited time, anyone with a Steam account can dive into the dark, gothic Vampire adventure of V Rising!

Never has there been a better time to take a bite out of your unsuspecting mortal friends and infect them with a love for Vampire mayhem!

Should you be taken in by our midnight allure as millions before you, there has never been a better time to make the experience everlasting! Play beyond the free weekend with V Rising 30% off on Steam and all cosmetic DLCs 20% off starting September 12th and lasting until the 24th... Read more

Vampires.

A small fix today to get rid of a bug that snuck in on the last Hotfix.

This hotfix will feature the following changes:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug which prevented the player from adjusting their camera while holding down the button for Spell Slot 2.

If you're having issues with the game, make sure to take a look at our known bugs and fixes[guides.playvrising.com] to see if there's a potential solution to get you back into Vardoran as quickly as possible!
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Greetings Vampires!

Today we bring you a series of quality of life and usability fixes, a new optional gamepad layout, a whole host of bug fixes, and a ton of V Blood changes to make the visuals on fights more clear, as well as adjust the difficulty just a bit to be better in line with our expectations.

This hotfix will be going live shortly and feature the following changes:

General

• A number of FX have been updated with new visuals to improve performance.
  
• Soul Shards will now automatically be destroyed if not picked up from the ground after 60 minutes.
  
• Server Details window now displays castle pvp times.
  
• Soul Shards can no longer be spawned using the console command unless the shard has already dropped (to avoid admin mistakes by spawning shards that are not bound ...

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Greetings Vampires!

Another week of our covert war against sinister forces wages on (because the only sinister forces should be us), and with that, we bring you another list of fixes and adjustments to better perfect your experience of those lovely, blood-soaked Vardoran nights.


This hotfix will feature the following changes:

General

• A number of visual effects have been updated to improve performance in combat.
  
• Optimizations for doors in castles to improve performance in big castles with lots of doors.
  
• Made doors fade out in front of the player.
  
• Optimizations have been done to a number of UI elements to improve performance.
  
• Added a 2 second immaterial buff to players when exiting Dracula’s Throne Room.
  
• Some objects in Cur...

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Greetings Vampires!

Here are a few quick fixes to try and help out those Vampires who might be at risk of unraveling.


This hotfix will feature the following changes:

• A fix that will “repair” journal quests that were not progressing the “Leave Crypt” quests.
  
• Several crash fixes to various uncommon but significant events.

If you're having issues with the game, make sure to take a look at our known bugs and fixes[guides.playvrising.com] t... Read more

Greetings Vampires!

The war on bug-kind continues unabated as our elder Vampires set to massacring those who would disrupt our mission to conquer Vardoran! We are doing our utmost to ensure you, or kin, can build your legend uninterrupted. Consider this one more step towards the most perfect Vampire experience we can offer.

This hotfix will feature the following changes:

• Fixed a rare bug where players could get stuck in combat once they leave a fight.
  
• Fixed a rare issue where players could get stuck outside of the map with a “blue screen” on login, as their character was not synced properly to their client.
  
• Fixed a potential server crash issue.
  
• Fixed an issue where players would technically still have a weapon equipped after dragging and dropping it into the upgra...

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Greetings Vampires!

We give the dust no time to settle on our coffins! We’re hard at work slaying the first round of bugs following our full launch. We’re doing everything to make your bloody massacre across Vardoran as dignified and bug free as it should be, and in the spirit of that we offer the following bug fixes.

The hotfix, which will begin at 7 UTC and will be rolled out over Official Servers over the next 30-60 minutes, will have the following changes:

• Fixed an issue where players were unable to mount horses when using a gamepad.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Incursion Events would not run correctly on select PvP servers, causing all events to stop running for an additional 24 hours+.
  
• Fixed an issue where cosmetic items could be salvaged into high tier materials than intended.
  
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There has never been a better time to be a Vampire! V Rising emerges from its Early Access coffin and rises into its full 1.0 release, and you can get it in all of its fully realized glory right now!


READ THE PATCH NOTES[blog.stunlock.com]



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Server Maintenance

Greetings Vampires!

In preparation for the full launch of V Rising, there is going to be server reorganization and maintenance taking place over the weekend leading up to the patch.


CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE 1.0 UPDATE[playvrising.com]

Servers will be CLOSED starting at 12:30 UTC on Monday, May 6, and will remain down until May 8, fully reset and ready for you to strike out into Vardoran fresh!

IMPORTANT NOTE! Player-run servers will not be affected by this downtime.
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