Vampire Survivors got a great quality-of-life feature (and a secret novelty character)
Patch 0.7.3 for Vampire Survivors is out today, and you know what that means: more characters, weapons, relics, Arcanas, and achievements to unlock. I’ve never fought so hard to maintain 100 percent completion in a game, but that just goes to show how quickly these updates are coming. I grind and grind, and the developers grind right back.
This trailer is a nice hazy attention-grabber, and I’ve got specifics below.
Characters
Relics
Arcanas
Tweaks and fixes
After highlighting a fan-made evolution chart, it’s nice to see that in the game proper. I’m about 50 hours into Vampire Survivors and I still need to double-check some of them.
In a Steam post, the creator of Vampire Survivors, poncle, spoke about the growing team.
“We had a team for some time now, but I’m taking the opportunity to talk about it only now that one more developer, David, is finally joining me in working full time on the current version of the game. This doesn’t mean we’re going to reach version 1.0 of the game faster than expected, but it means we’ll be putting in the game even more features and be faster in polishing rough edges. One of the new relics from this patch, the Grim Grimoire, is a good example of what kind of extras to expect!”
There are also a few developers working on porting Vampire Survivors to an “industry-standard engine” without losing the game’s very particular look and feel.
They’re aiming to have “a version of Vampire Survivors that plays just like the current one, but that is free of hardware and controller compatibility issues and that performs well even when there is an unreasonable amount of projectiles and enemies on screen.”
If all goes well, that’ll be done this summer, but it’s ultimately “ready when it’s ready.”
“We might
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