V Rising is getting a free expansion this spring

The developer of Early Entry vampire survival sport V Rising has revealed new particulars concerning the main free growth coming this yr, together with some welcome information about its anticipated launch date – it’s not all that far off, arriving in Might quite than later within the yr, regardless of the most important additions and adjustments it’ll be introducing.

The newest V Rising dev weblog focuses on some alterations the group has made to the jewels system mentioned late final yr. The unique design had jewels slotting into particular person weapons and magic gear, the builders discovered that this was too restrictive for gamers.

“It discouraged vampires from being adaptive and from exploring the entire lethal potentialities afforded to them,” the builders write. “It’s essential to us that this technique gives extra freedom in spell selection and selection to fulfill your darkish wishes.”

As an alternative, jewels will match into every spell, and whereas they’re geared up, you gained’t drop them whenever you die. You solely get to make use of one jewel per capability, however they’ll keep there till you pop them out to swap them for an additional bonus.

The replace may also apply a significant rework to V Rising’s 5 prime faculties of magic, giving spell subdivision a stronger id and higher cohesion by including results that stack with one another. Stunlock says it needs to encourage “leaning into the person magic archetypes” with out making it overly helpful – there ought to nonetheless be room for mixing and matching spells from completely different faculties.

Since everybody’s taking part in as vampires, it is sensible that Stunlock is upgrading blood magic with an automated leech impact. Every of the opposite magic faculties has gotten some consideration too, so you should definitely take a look at the weblog put up for the complete rundown.

The studio says it’s additionally experimenting with a brand new system that permits gamers to assert plots of land quite than increasing their castles tile-by-tile from the preliminary coronary heart. The main points for this are nonetheless a bit up within the air, as the brand new idea means you’ll solely have the ability to construct on present factors of curiosity quite than wherever you need.

Lastly, Stunlock says the Might replace is not going to imply that V Rising is full – the complete launch remains to be scheduled for launch someday in 2024.

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