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7:08 Given that so many resources can't be teleported, I would agree with that guy's statement. Hence why I deactivated the teleport restriction. I can only see it being added for PvP reasons, as it would force players to travel around with high value resources on them, and being at risk to lose them.

We grinded brutal Dracula as a duo for 10 hours learning the fight to a tee and when we finally beat him, it felt super rewarding. Maybe I'm old fashion but I would have been disappointed with anything less. The fight IS super long but they allow you to try over and over without any blood loss or corpse running. I mean this is the final thing you do in the game, a culmination of everything you've learned -- I honestly don't get the backlash. IMO Final bosses should be insanely hard, it should be an achievement to beat them and not every player who gets there should be able to.

I have played V Rising since day 1 of early access and love what they have done with it. The one oddity I found was that you have to kill the final V Blood to get the end-game armor. That part seemed weird as I would expect to be able to get the final armor before having to fight the last V blood. Yes, it's called Dracula's Chest piece, but other V Bloods drop the gloves, pants, and boots... so it would only make sense for you to have the full set prior to final V blood.

Am I the only one who thought that Dracula was easier than Adam on Solo? I felt Draculas attacks are super telegraphed and Adam can just do a random Charge that will lead to grab or a 180 slam that removes half your HP.

I have 379.2 hours played - with a good chunk of that in pre-launch. I am thoroughly enjoying 1.0. I’ve been finding the pacing and accrual of upgrades better than pre-launch. It should be noted I play, mostly by myself on a private server with a few friends popping in on occasion. I mention this because I have the luxury of not worrying about PVP and have the ability to set up satellite bases that are essentially just portals with walls. So the traversal complaints don’t resonate with me. I agree 100% with the need for crafting from boxes on site. I get that they will have to almost completely overhaul the crafting system, but I think it’s needed. Lastly, many of the complaints sound like they are coming from people who lack the ability to separate bad game design from a game style that they just don’t enjoy. These players need to ask themselves “is this truly bad design, and I should complain; or am I just playing the wrong game? Thank you for the great content, as always. Glad you’re covering V Rising. I hope you’ll get to Valheim - Ashlands too. Cheers.

what i had a gripe with is that dominate horse comes so late into the game.

Dracula is one of my favorite fights, probably second only to Valencia. It took me 2ish hours to beat him for the first time. No down time, no repairing (I brought the mats in preparation), and no blood hunting. Just 2 hours of dying and dying. If it were easier It wouldn't even make the top 10 on my list. Drac is arguably optional, the amulet is not needed and the armer definitely isnt needed. The whole point is to say I did that and nerfing him would only take away from the purpose of fighting him in the first place. 10/10 boss could be harder

The chest could be linked to the type of floor and thus linked to the production of that room. So we would still have to build chests and physically place the material inside them, but then later use of that material would automatically use it up.

Keep in mind that grinding resources and farming are content for us PvE players. I don't really want to rush to end-game. I wish there were more grinding and roleplaying events.

if you pick out and ignore all the reviews that stem from: - the reviewer not having played the game - the reviewer just being shit at the game - the reviewer being too stupid to understand the game - the reviewer just not enjoying the entire genre of game being reviewed - the reviewer having stupid expectations then most of the reviews i've seen talk about balance (everyone has their own idea of balance - i've done the bosses and i think they're fine) and qol which is pretty solid because then that means people are pretty content with actual gameplay

I can see how a single player may find the game a bit more grindy for research books and if you get stuck on a boss there really isnt much you can do. It really helps to understand the importance of Servants and running missions to decrease the gathering spent. I like goign to Dunley right away to get a horse but a new player wouldnt know to do that. Also until you kill Tristan the Unsullied Heart farming can be obnoxious. OVerall though the good outways the bad.

Dracula is way easier solo, no really. if you solo (and w/o clan probably) no doggos, no vampire curse, no shooting crystal. With 5 (yea i attempt with random players) or even 2 it's pure chaos

For Octavian, the trick is to fight him off to the side in that tight corridor, and when he starts doing his spin, just go back into the main room.

On the same page with the wiping, however I think they could provide the ability for people on the server to download the save for a day or two after the wipe so that people can archive things themselves. I would also like to see something like a permanent cosmetic reward or something for the the clan / players that performed the best in a prior wipe, could even tie it in with a special 'Final seige' event or something whereby its like a battle royal, last castle standing wins and its a mix of defending while also trying to siege down your opponents castles maybe have something like an increasing blood essence drain rate forcing people to head out to get more essence / use the stockpile, perhaps even increase the level and power of the mobs too, and maybe make them able to attack castle walls etc.

The Guy who talked about balancing was on point, bosses are easy until you get to Adam and Dracula.

Just follow my lead, open the game, create a new world (solo play), crank up your power to the max, and everything in your favor to the max. Then play the game and be the BOSS.

Allowing crafting from chest opens up so many technical issues, it can lead to duplication methods, lag from people spamming and it can make defending super cheesy. Just spam buildings when needed with no risk or preparation

To be honest, Dracula WOULD NOT have any chill…that’s why he’s Dracula. I can’t count how many times I died to him on my quest to solo him on Brutal setting…but when I did…amazing. I watched 2 different strategy videos on KZfaq and probably logged in about 4-6 hours of taking him on. The initial win is much harder than afterwards, because of the necklace you get and the last piece of the bat armor, but it was so satisfying taking him down. I take it as the ultimate challenge, but again, I love this game. I wanted a challenge. I found Solarus and Adam extremely hard on Brutal setting, but after a couple tweaks to my kit and build, I soloed both, easily. Dracula is the grand prize! To look on Steam and see the % of people that have beat Dracula is also satisfying as well…and those aren’t true true stats…how many people were “carried” by others. I’d love to know how many people have legit soloed Dracula and I bet it’s even lower. I love that. Exclusive company. But the thing is, I WANTED the challenge. I studied the KZfaq videos closely to watch how the player moved and how Dracula moved then I practiced. If it’s worth it to you, you’ll rise to the challenge. Some players are way better than others. But studying the techniques of Dracula and getting the experience made the fight amazing. Getting that W, made it worth it. I’ll give the critic a nod, because the difficulty “creep” going from Adam to Dracula is indeed insane. It’s not even worth saying that the difference in the fights shouldn’t even be compared in the same breath, but I’m happy Stunlock made it this way. Dracula is the ultimate, and it takes ultimate effort, practice and skill to beat Dracula…on Brutal. If you can’t hack it, don’t play, but don’t slam the game because you refuse or can’t complete it. Be better. If you think you can walk into the fight and breeze through it, take the game on at the cushy setting or try regular. But I’m a veteran of this game and I’ve played it since EA release, then Gloomrot and now 1.0. I love the brutal setting and again, it was worth it to me to invest in studying the strategy, changing my kit, and putting in the time and practice to finally beat him. Even now I’ll probably charge up my necklace and fight him a couple times/week to “stay fresh” in fighting him. Why? Because I love the game and I want to stay up on my skills. Don’t want to? Ok, fine, but don’t hate the game because you can’t handle the ultimate challenge. In terms of the server wiping…join a server that has no wipes. I do exclusively PVE, but I’m also on a server with no wipes, and they fully intend to do “rpg mods” in the future, so the things I plan to do on that server will hopefully last until Stunlock release more updates. I like permanence of this game, especially going through the content and fine tuning mechanics and building a splendid castle…only to lose it all on reset. Now that 1.0 is released I look forward to packing my containers full as I wait for another update. This game has such potential for more qol changes, boss fights and endless new stuff…if Stunlock is willing to explore all that. I think it would behoove them to listen to player feedback and even host a content page for the game. Does Kriig drop his helmet? Do Lurkers drop their masks? Why not add stats to the headgear like the cloaks? When will Stunlock let us run around with maybe 1 servant as a bodyguard? Oh the options, the options! What if we could have one boss-clone as a servant? (minus Dracula) Why not implement a V blood system where you actually farm V blood in the same way you collect prisoners to drain. For example, fighting Adam gives particular stat advantages when you drain him, but when it wears off, you have to fight him again…I like this idea. Also, add in particular holiday event stuff, like they did with Halloween. I’d buy the pack. Ultimately where’s an official 1.0 page that lists all the things in this game and guides? Reddit? F that. I miss the days where games actually spent the time to list “the goods” of the game, in a comprehensive way. FF XI comes to mind. Sure this isnt an MMO, but it has the potential to be even more amazing in of itself and for the players. All in all it’s taken me less than 30 days to do all the content and solo Dracula. I will continue to play and log more hours as I wait for the next thing, hoping any update isn’t tone deaf and makes things better. Gloomrot was a great improvement and 1.0 has been rewarding as far as I’m concerned. Thanks Stunlock. Thanks Legacy Gaming for your video content.

I am waiting for it on ps5 console. Do you think it will play well with a controller on console or should it be pc only ?

My first complaint of the game was wishing I could craft out of chests. With some castle layout modification and learning what resources are what, it gets way better.

1. what holds the combat back, is the easily lost target reticle and some of the spells requiring you to move the reticle over your character to cast on yourself, or hold down right click, which makes your reticle disappear. It's fairly janky, along with not being able to see key tells because of the pure magnitude of visual clutter. The rest of your points are valid. 2. This one is 50/50. Some bosses require different builds and boring kite styles, but overall, these bosses come down to skill issue. 3. 100% let us build from chests. I'm so tired of having to pull things out of 20 different chests, and not being able to type in the number of items I need, leading me to have to return stacks to the chest or spend loads of time splitting items manually. 4. The game is very grindy, that is a fact. You will spend a lot of time farming mobs and standing around waiting to craft. As for time traveling in the early to mid game, he's spot on. Even in end game, you spend a good 30% of the game traveling, especially if you have one of the legendary necks or don't have teleport with materials turned off. 5. Dracula is doable, but he's also a big f*king off when it comes to design. If he had just a few more seconds of downtime before he jumps around and starts another attack you have to avoid, he would be just fine. 6. The comment here is pretty valid. I really have nothing to add here. 7. Whips HAVE to happen in this game. This game is brutal on PVP servers if you enter late. You will just get griefed to the point that you give up. All of this is said as 130 hour player. Overall I really like the game, but I would like to see some changes, and one major change would be how the right click movement works.

I just want to be able to take my character between servers. I always start solo so i can get a feel for a new game. But the grind in V Rising is so involved that i want to just keep going with my solo character and not start over on another server. So now im stuck playing by myself on brutal and some of these bosses push me dangerously close to uninstalling the game.

Crafting and refining stations not fitting nicely with the castle tiles is my biggest pet peeve for building creativity. I often have to build *much* bigger than I want to for pieces that look like they were designed to only fit in one specific way.

Great vid, I agree with everything, but the part about Dracula.. TL&DR : There is a NoHit Challenge on Brutal Dracula (Pre-Nerf) done in 6:22 and you can dodge most of Octavian's attacks by repositioning your camera and walking perpendicularly. I think - much like Battlerite - this game is supposed to be hard.. and since they removed the option to tweak bosses I've been finding it way too easy, even tried to change the server settings manually, but it ignored the string it created itself (weeird).. usually, when I see people complaining about Spongy bosses, it is not because they are Flappy Bird masters who have dominated the game and just need to wait for the boss to die, but because they get overwhelmed, use their Defensive Skills at incorrect timings and die before they can burst it down. Most boss fights feel quick to me, they are only a few minutes long.. you can even search people first-timing bosses and they take like 3~8min, of course, learning the boss takes way longer (I'd compare them to a match in an online games or a raid in an MMO).. On why I disagree that Dracula is spongy and unfair, a nice example is : Virdult has done a No-Hit Challenge on Brutal on Dracula (PRE-NERF), without being full build (he was lacking better Weapons), he DIDN'T USE COUNTERS until the last Phase of Dracula and it took 6:22.. If that is not a major git-gud, I don't know what is.. jokes aside : I'd say a boss is not unfair if someone can do a no-hit challenge without defensive skills.. Btw, you can dodge a lot of Octavians' attacks just by walking sideways (I see a lot of people spending dashes and counters), but you need to walk it perpendicularly, so you need to adjust your camera position before doing it

I have been a solo player on a duo/trio/squad server almost entirely when playing V Rising... and I can attest to the grind being just... too much. Paper grind was like 2 hours... Scroll grind was like 6 hours... then the schematic grind was like 10 hours. As you get further in the game it just becomes... too much. Having to craft my end-game set was just a chore... then with 12% durability loss per PvP death? I actually several times ended up with broken gear and having to farm resources 10-20 levels under what I should of been.... me dying as a solo can be a sentence to community service for 5-10 hours... I like that resources are everywhere, and you have to go back to previous parts of the maps because you need something... mutant greese... silk worms... etc... but as a solo this can be quite daunting... and getting excess resources just never really happens as a solo. I only have enough for what I am doing right at this moment, or maybe a few days of content and then I HAVE to go back to these areas, and I think you have to go back just a little too much. Some of the bosses are just NOT tuned correctly for solo players also... three bosses in particular stand out - Dracula, Adam and Belmont. 90% of the game is a cake walk as a solo necromancer style build but good god these guys are so hard and have so much going on that it makes it near impossible to defeat them. I tried build after build after build after build... nothing worked for me. But as SOON as I had a duo? Adam and Belmont first try. Dracula? Third try. I was banging my head against a wall... just getting more and more angry then luckily someone came along and helped. Now in this playthrough (probably my last until some more content is added) - I am doing brutal mode on a squad server with some friends I found along the way. And I am utterly bored... from a solo player who had to do everything himself and deal with challenges alone? When you are in a squad all the bosses become easy mode. They sponge up damage for me while I take none, allowing me to just unload my entire kit constantly and finishing bosses with ease. Don't get me wrong I don't think every boss is this way... but the balance is all over the place. And I totally agree that the game needs some hard tuning for both Solos and Groups. I am over 300 hours into the game and I love the game but it most definitely has flaws that could be improved... but this is easily game of the year and a survival game pulling over 300 hours out of me? 120 hours in the last two weeks? That's unheard of... and they really hit it out of the park.

so i want to set up a solo world and up the material gain not by alot but more will tht cancel my steam achievements

The only thing i hate is when u have a boss like adam or drac that will grap u like teleportation across the room then drop u in a dot that just kills u from full hp when the boss has like 10% hp... feels so bad to get ccd to cc to death like why?

I found Drac to be way easier Solo. It still took me a ton of times, some great RNG on free casts, and finally got him. But solo, you lose vampiric curse debuff, tons of wolf adds, and the blood crystals shooting at you when in their circle. I used Ward of the Damned, Chaos Volley, Legendary Scythe, Scholar Blood, and ever potion under the sun lol

lol, the game is amazing and the crafting system is SO rewarding. The final 2 boss fights are extremely hard which gives you a reason to truly learn combat tactics and find a build and spell combo that works for you! you can also change A TON of settings if you're playing a private solo server. 9/10, cant wait for more content releases in the future.

Totally agree on the comment about letting us craft from resources in storage. Feel like maybe a good compromise would be to let us pull from storage boxes that are in the same room as the crafting station being used.

I think at the main core of a lot of these issues is that the game at default is set to server difficulty and grind where a solo will find it extreme teadiousness for a group its about at the limit where it starts to get really boring unless you have someone deep into the base management side of the gameplay. unfortunately the people who got trained by the soulslike git good and you only really beat the game if you played on hard mentality of gaming along with the refusing to tweak the settings for fear of removing all challenge hurts this game because even these negatives can be removed by out of gameplay settings and mods the game would suffer less by having in world ways to turn off teleport restrictions and add build from chest, resource multiplier and production reduction based on how many people are part of your group, its all quality of life that might take some research to get the settings right but it would be great for quality of life without putting it on the play to mod that in

Do I have to buy the dlcs to fight the Castlevania enemies?

I felt the review about the chest resources in my soul. I literally have 3 teleporters just to get around my resources and structures and it's still tedious

About the build from chest thing... I have NEVER spent more than the needed time of opening the exact chest I need. There is this handy rename feature, and if you're like me and often forgetful, this makes it easy to know exactly what chest to open. I also rename all my refinery items as well. So each forge has their own purpose, the same for looms or tanners. The system is the way it is to make you engage in the game instead of just rolling with it. I am nearing the 500 hour mark, and and my only real complaint is that due to such small clan sizes, there should be some sort of alliance feature. I'm not saying this for the trade aspect because you can literally just drop things on the ground. But people from different clans can hinder eachother frequently. Trying to heal an ally intercepted by another clan to no benefit to either. Trying to hit the boss, intercepted by another clan, wasted spell or skill. There needs to be an alliance system. Otherwise playing with others outside your clan hinders both parties.

Btw there is also a problem that there is no solo player official servers neither for brutal or normal difficulty

My review right now with 80 hours between EA and 1.0 would be: Love the combat, the spell combinations and the boss fight design. Grinding resources is satisfying. However the servers seem to lose a player base quickly as the people who race to endgame get bored and leave, and the more casual people leave because they cant compete with the OP end gamers. My current server is a duo pvp server that ive been on since 1.0 launch and i havent seen a single other person other than my Duo partner in the last 30 hours of play. We are both currently level 55. When i go into higher level areas all we find are half dead bases in decay. Stunlock needs to find a way to keep these servers active. I absolutely hate the inventory management system. I recently started playing No Rest For The Wicked, which like V Rising didnt have craft from storage, but within 3 weeks of launching in EA they added it. V rising had multiple years in EA, no excuse for not having it. I will finish my current run on my now dead server, but after that, i dont know if ill play it again unless they give me a reason to.

I’ve been playing on a private server with my buddy and I made it so we can still use the teleporters while carrying loot and that made the progression feel a lot better

The only things I did not like was the boss drops where shit and underwhelming. All the weapons from Copper to level 30 legendary look more or less the same and that felt shit cause I did not feel like I was getting a more powerful weapon. Also I think all the bosses should have a unique weapon that they can drop and not that looks different from any of the other weapons and has a unique passive would make grinding bosses far more fun! The other thing just let us teleport with resources-_-.

id just like to add, if you are trying to beat dracula, i advise using reaper pistol combo with ward of the damned then roll a lvl 4 gem for ward til you get heal when blocking projectiles and the fight becomes SO much easier. btw solo is way easier because otherwise there are added mechanics that add a damage check for groups. but solo doesnt get drac blood. GL fellas.

I’m praying they add some sort of dlc to extend past Dracula and give us more things cuz I’m greedy and addicted

Combat great, but not for solo/singleplayer experience. Later bosses just start doing too much damage and spamming egregiously wide reaching abilities, or just stunlock you. I was having a good time up until maybe the last 4-5 bosses, got frustrated (General Valencia is AWFUL), turned down the difficulty and boosted the damage. Some bosses still just nuked me, and the firstborn guy was insanely ridiculous to the point I console commanded them down because it felt like that one REQUIRED a party+ to defeat in any reasonable way. But the holy paladin, chimera thing, and cursed forest bosses were EZ PZ, and I fought them BEFORE I boosted my abilities. Dracula was meh, there was like zero buildup. Once you beat him you got an amulet, unlock chest armors, and a massive throne that doesn't do anything but let you sit... and I instantly realized there was nothing else to do, and put the game down. The game really falters towards the end.

I've only played it for a few hours so far, I'm having fun but haven't attempted a boss first. I'm slow when it comes to resource gathering and my OCD has me making sure the resources are in the right chest.

I don’t understand the the automatically using your chest loot to build things issue. Plus atom is way harder then Dracula

Enshrouded has a chest that crafting can use items out of the chest...much better than V-rising but behind in getting out of early access and not so polished. Games that lock everything behind boss fights to me is so frustrating I rage-quit.

The devs should think about adding ways to access nearby chests from crafting stations. That should really help with base management

Build from chest feature I loved from games like Grounded and Palworld. Now any game that lacks that mechanic feels annoying to manage items and crafting. V rising does have item specific chests and compulsively count, but building from chests would make it less tedious.

dracula's near impossible to clear is the perfect reason why this game is good. he is the final boss of the entire game. what did you expect?

Me personally the game looks really good. Now when you take into account that they're not many good vampire games out there. Exceptions being Legacy of Kain and Vampire The Masquerade from back in the day, to Vampyr that came out few years ago. Lord forbid I talk about Redfall, lol. But all joking aside the game looks fun, especially with friends. I do hope they put V Rising on Xbox after they launch on PS5, me and my friends play mostly on Xbox and would love a chance to play this game for ourselves.

The second last comment was kind of strange and I don’t fully understand it. I’m just wondering, how does Dracula spawn aiming down sites?

Requiring you to have every item in a recipe on your person in order to build or craft it is the most annoying thing to me. I know where all of my shit is, but running around grabbing it out of storage and putting it back has made up like a quarter of my time playing. Feels like a massive oversight or a deliberate attempt to force more play hours.

"I was forced to hold W, grind for resources and fight bossfights." I mean yea. I think the game you're looking for is Fortnite. V Rising isn't something for you in that case.

Review 2 has definitely gotten stuck in the Level 53 weird yeti thing boss I can tell lol. I get the frustration of facing those bosses that wander around in side roads, especially because of the lack of space and the fact that if you move away off their wandering route while fighting them, they reset, and some of them get a bit unfair in terms of CC and amount of projectiles and mobs they summon once you dig deeper through act 2 and onward. However that for me has been nothing but a plus as I love challenges and this game definitely delivers in that department especially if you go solo, which is the way I prefer to play so far. But complaining about having to craft things in a survival crafting game? Bro has been playing the wrong game for him for 48 hours lol.

From a solo PvE player perspective, it would have been nice to be able to recruit one of your servants to aid you in combat, since now they just wonder around your castle to be sent out on daily missions or be drained for blood.

I feel that your experience was more colored by the server and pvp experience. I personally would give the game a 3 or so as a solo player that only had a world active when I was playing. This game is great when it’s great for sure but unless you play on a dedicated server then even with tweaks there are some timers that are annoyingly long and design decisions that are clearly designed with pvp or persistent worlds in mind. Loved the game when it was good but there needs to be more settings around servant times and shard decay rate to support smaller and host only groups

I'm playing on an official PvE server, the wipe is 6 months not 3. Maybe the setting are different on others, it's possible. Octavian - couldn't agree more. Him and Duke are a pain in the rear.

the game is good but on a pvp server it left us rather burnt out very quickly, despite being a huge fan of the game. there is soo much grind and not much action! playing on a full pvp server (in fact the most popular and even a 2x!!!! that has 0 space to build after day one) People dont leave their castles often enough or just run from pvp/hide. There arent any events until the very late game, so for us, the majority of the game was just spent grinding for mats and upgrades for an entire week (on holliday, so we spent about 10-15 hours of play per day), without much action. Ontop of that, the game is NOT tuned for PVP fights. most servers get around that by introducing weird pvp rules but in my oppinion they ruin pvp even more. Bullying lowlevels who cant fight back doesnt feel fun, but armor in the later levels is so imbalanced that for example a level 91 can absolutely SHRED an 83 without the 83 being able to do ANY damage. So that leaves you being unable to pvp most encounters in the game because the levelrangers make it impossible mostt of the time for either party. The pvp aspect in this game is heavily undeercooked. The entire raid aspect too. Don't get me started on shardholders. Shardholders without any leveladvantage do so much damage, its not even funny. Now take four of them and now take those four and have them just 6 levels on your group each. You will just sit in your castle and watch them take everything. I remember literally laughing out lout in discord, because I had the highest damage ultimate equiped (520% or so - that Static dash n slash (yellow)) and that guy ate the entire ult standing still, with only taking 1pixel in damage on his bar. There is no counterplay. No nothing you can do. Shards should either not be in the game or obtainable by everyone. Its literally just a way for nolifers to bully the server. Good on paper and very excusable with yeah but you can also obtain them, but no, thats not true. First come first server, unlike with everything else in the game.

Ive got 1,111.30 hours on this game, and I do enjoy it a lot, but I agree that halfway through the game the grinding for schematics is getting a bit boring. I do use vendors and buy books, but there are many people in the official servers doing the same thing. All I can say is, I highly recommend hosting your own server with friends who enjoy the game, it would probably work better. I do love that now you are able to fly with the resources you cannot teleport with, that alone cut the travel time in half since you fly faster than you run lol I havent gotten to dracula yet, because im trying to pace myself, because I dont want finish the game already, but Ive heard awful things regarding his fight. The new zone isnt bad, but it can def use some work.

The only complaint I have with V rising is that once you finish all the bosses, there's nothing much to look forward to in solo, so I'm taking my time and going through it slowly. Otherwise, the game is excellent. The rift system is great, and I wish they add more like it in the future. All the bosses are very well made and the progression is smooth and well-polished. That being said it's a one-time purchase, so I guess we have to be content with the limited content.

I beat Drac on brutal solo and I think he is easier alone, because there is no Vampiric Curse to deal with. I like phase 1 and 2, while phase 3 is more a stupid dps-check and phase 4 is plain stupid. There is 1 boss i never liked, not on brutal and not on normal and this boss is Adam. Some of the negative reviews never found the "auto-move" button, nor understanding server settings, servants and many other mechanics from this game.

I do feel like this game feels like an MMO though, with the item system the way the bosses telegraph attacks. I like that tbh, and when my friends watched me play they thought it was Lost Ark at first.

love the boss design for v rising but the only boss i have a problem with is Talzar hes really easy i wish he would be reworked

Regarding the auto-craft from chests.. I do see the "abuse" potential in pvp etc. But it would be so much easier if they atleast made it so the crafting is done auto from chests in the same room. Or if you could "LINK" say 5 chests to a crafting station. That way you wont need to spend 20hours just moving items and fast dumping to go out and play more. I do agree that the "moving" items from X-Y-Z within your own base is not that "fun". Also if you have lowkey forgotten in what chest you did put that one thing. Still loving the game.

I just wished that the npc's like farmers, nuns, etc. had more diverse voice's

I don't know where this opinion that Dracula is insanely hard solo came from lol He's bar none easier than Adam simply because his arena isn't anywhere near as bad as Adams. Took me several tries to kill Adam with peak gear, and I second tried Dracula, missing the one-shot only because I didn't have enough blood to eat one of his grabs

They make the bosses any easier they're wont be any sense of accomplishment left at all, I remember when getting bear form was actually hard. Game now feels so tuned down from pre gloomrot that its not untill mid dunley that fights feel slightly challenging again. Hoping brutal modes is really brutal cuz they made normal way to easy with a few exceptions.

i've been playing on Brutal PvE server since 1.0 dropped and i do need to agree with Dracula complains i really like the fight because i'm MMORPG player and i'm used to progress a single boss for hours on hours on hours but last big 3 bosses (sorry winged horror) is maybe too much i can see the majority of players never finishing the game because of how much it takes to beat Act 4+ bosses I can't imagine what is going on on PvP servers with it's soul shard system

Complaining about the dracula fight is nutty. I beat him in 7 tries. Actually 7 tries solo. Adam took me way longer to solo the first time lol

Hot take here: You should be able to pick what you unlock with schematics. Its so damn annoying having your final piece of armor set locked behind RNG. I just hate the RNG of it not the farming. I would be ok with farming schematics if it wasn't extremely RNG based.

Tbh, I even think 3 months per wipe is too long. I joined a 40+ player pvp (brutal) server about a week ago, and people have already left. We're like 10 people most nights now. I think people get discouraged and leave, if they feel they're too far behind.

I've been playing solo since EA. The bosses can be challenging but you need to change your build for some of them.

Not being able to craft while having mats in storage is a fair point and its my main point as well but the game is really fun

I just started the last act. Ive been playing really slow, just enjoying building and grinding and doing rifts about 140 hours in. None of the fights have been difficult so far. Really fun game.

so nobody really gonna talk about paper presses for early and midgame, as a first timer yes it does take a while but if you figure out how to utilize pollens, grass, gradening and stuff and replayed it again its not that long anymore and i think papre press is more overlooked that the merchants themselves

The one that stands out to me is the hitbox indecators being wrong as soon as you get past the clother pretty much wvery boss gas a hitbox thats a lie or way bigger then shown

Really honest and professional review here man! anybody would think your getting paid for this ! xD I so far have 45 hours in V rising, most of them building a sweet castle, it definitely has slowed down, and the numbers have thinned out right now after 1.0 release, but overall it's been better than most games, I would give it a solid 8.5/10 and and extra 1 point if you have a sqaud, because it is tough solo on basebuilding/survival games if you know your not going to be there tomorrow, but the no raid servers have already been catered to, Overall a pretty good gaming experiance.

The most accurate take about these comments is it is true that some bosses have huge design flaws like aoe lock down and melee combat it becomes a problem especially about Fun, also progression design is beyond the level of bad it feels like random someone designed who had zero experience about progression because even with 1.0 they literally added new type of armorset for final boss like you can't be that amateur man it is meaningless to gain progress after final boss like it is literally why final boss term exist and I don't even mention about how dumb the research system is which needs complete rework I have 400+ hours btw this combat mechanics single handly carries the whole game with the support of building but lack of these flaws of progression really reduces the true potential of this game which makes me sad because progression is so crucial that effects all other mechanics in the game in a bad way

i want them to put a servant who arrange items putting it on the right box. plus legacy of kain soul reaver crossover

for the auto pull from chest comment please just organize you base correctly. even if you have loot rooms just fucking put shit in right spot believe it or not you dont have to search the whole base for stuff, yes its a QOL thing that would be nice but like its not game breaking if you actually put shit in the right spot so u dont have to search 600 chests

The single most egregious thing in this game imo is the camera, i hate the fact i have stop to rotate my camera in a high intensity combat game, you should be able to aim move and keep track of your target simultaneously without stopping any of those 3 to do the other.

i find more annoying adam than dracula, if you die fighting dracula he leaves you at the entrance of the fight with all your items and it cost me only 7 tries to kill him (normal), maybe the player mentallity of having easy final bosses is the problem

Idk I do agree with the mid to late game really drags on like act 3 really drags and takes alot of time to progress compared to the rest of the game

Dracula is perfecting tuned IMO can be beated with all weapons all spells all bloods just need to sit down and take the time to learn the fight and once he dies you feel amazing best feeling in gaming

I’ve just started buying the early access edition on ps5 ,I’m playing solo on private server,although it is hard the game is a real gem I’m loving it can’t stop thinking about it which I need right now has I lost a loved one on Saturday

gotta disagree on the dracula topic. I did him solo on brutal took me a total of 1,5 hours (while adam took me over 5). you require a more defensive aproach and swapping of spells for each phase. almost all hits are shield/counter able so just take time to learn the attacks and you are golden.

Wish i could get gear just by grinding and not crafting every single thing. Also i wish there was a crafting servant that would bring me the materials to craft lol

630+ hours. I see people coming to the game with very different hopes for what the game will bring them. In one end we have the people looking for a survival & base building something alike Minecraft creative mode & in the other end we have the people looking for impossible pvp & boss battles. I do think "normal" mode only applies to group play only. Because in a group you can get somewhat carried by your friends & your weapon & skills/playstyle is less importent. But as a solo you quickly notice that "normal" actually means "very hard" and requires you to play in a certain way using certain weapons & skills as you (usually) can not just fall back & pop a blood rose potion or blood heal. Like a group of 3 can probably kill Voltatia in 2 minutes, but a solo player HAS to use patience, timing, certain skills, know the boss attack rotation, save your "ultimate", i mean ive never killed Voltatia solo in less than 7mins ish because a single error is "unforgivable". As a solo you need to spec into defence. Anyways, for solo players i strongly suggest the "relaxed" mode first.

Tbh I don't agree with Dracula being overtuned. Maybe only on brutal, but that's the very reason people play that difficulty. On normal he does significant damage but his attack pattern is very learnable. Takes a few tries to get used to of course but it's nothing too crazy and considering he is the final boss it shouldn't be expected that he can be easily beaten first try.

People complain about bosses being spongy but for me its the opposite they always felt too weak, since I play pve I always set 200-300% hp on bosses and 150% dmg so they are actually challenging and not die in 30 seconds

2,800hrs here, on and off… played this since first early access release. Honestly can’t find another game as fun and addictive as this. The wipes never get old, castle designs change and PvP combat combos change. To those who are having issues with research, remember the paper press and vendors are your friends :) My biggest feedback for this game is the amount of zergs roaming on official servers. There’s not been a single server where there isn’t multiple clans of 4, roaming around protecting each other and out hunting anyone who aren’t their friends. How can you expect end game to have a fun PvP battle for the shards/stigian when it’s a clan of 4 vs 2-3 clans of 4 clearing the area together sitting on discord together sandwiching the team trying to contest? At this point it isn’t even skill based, they just win with numbers. Then tries to justify themselves by calling even more friends to join because the server decided to group together to fight(Zerg) back. To the point the server cap 60/60 filled with zergers. Kills the server then calls the game dead lol Honestly shoutout to those solo players out there who is at end game and not giving up when constantly fighting multiple gangs when trying to farm some mats. Private servers with active admins and rules against teaming is prob the only way to really enjoy the game to its full potential.

V Rising is just amazing, I love it and I just want more !!! I play solo mostly and I don't have any issue with any V Blood (have you tried Octavian with necromancy?) also, you can change game's parameter to get an easier experience, knowing I was mostly alone but didn't want to play the easy mode, I doubled the life of my character and I don't have any issue. I still die once or twice on some bosses but once you're prepared with all the potions, it's just fun and worth it. Grind is just good, not too much either... Played a lot through EA, through patch 1 and right now 1.0 and I always found the game to be amazing. Combat is amazing, I wish we'd have more powers even and more active keys... I just wish we could use our servants to come with us and that there would be more options for the servers (like the amount of 100% blood, removing timer on those special items and whatnot) I also wish the curses forest was bigger !

The only boss I've had an issue with is Adam. All the others I can deal with easily and solo. Given how many changes they have made to the game based on player feedback it is clear they listen. They don't talk as much but for me the proof is in the pudding.

V Rising is so refreshing. Because it’s completely different from what’s out there rn. Also, yeah you have to group up sometimes, but in a world where ppl don’t really talk to each other anymore this game really brings everyone together and the V community is really great. But overall this game is good. Those one stars aren’t worth a review. I can’t wait for more V Rising content. So excited! ❤

Im about 40hrs in on a solo playthrough on easy mode and I am enjoying it. I don’t normally play these types of games. I prefer playing games like stellar blade and RDR2. But I am finding its nice to take a break from those types of games for a few hrs every week and play V Rising. Very easy to play this game wile listening to a podcast or KZfaq videos.

Wilfred from the server here, i've played v rising for basically 1.8k hours and its just a absolutely great game, there are issues that I do acknowledge fully but that doesn't mean that you drop 7 hours max on a game that can be as fun as this. Yes the grind is crazy, but 60% travel????? that's way crazy, mobility is crazy late game so its actually mostly combat now early on i'd say its maybe 40% travel but the rest is really just farming. Overall don't have a bad opinion on v rising unless you have 100+ hours. now I don't mean you have to play 100+ hours to rate or review it, but if you have more than 100 hours that means you've tried a good amount of everything and can put out a actually nice review

while i wouldn't personally rate the game a 1/10 or anything subpar, i do think the game do suffer from some issues, the stun lock in the game is absurd, true to the name of the company, in certain situation it feels like the game sort of cheats you, anyone will know this when they fight a bunch of summoned banshee or draculine's stun's, charms etc, its absurd. Range units autoaims to the point it feels like their bullets curve. The dracula fight also needs some tweaking its way too overtuned and some down right bugs, at times you know you dodged an attack but the game still registers it as damage, its so wonky sometimes they suck you in his attack. The repair costs are also ridiculous. The legendaries are way too rng, and they should make a system where you can get them in a more reliable even if that means you have to grind more, we beat dracula before we even got legendaries of ones we want.

LH: “It’s not an MMO because it’s not tap target or third person.” ESO: 👀

Gotta disagree with the Dracula claims. Just finished a Brutal pvp server with my homies and I’m no God Gamer but Drac only took maybe… 10 - 11 tries? The bosses are hard sure but I never felt that they were completely unfair…

The only part that I can see looking like an MMO is the guild system. The combat plays out and feels more like a hybrid between a MOBA and and action RPG in my opinion.

The combat is one of the best part of the game. It sets the bar for isometric RPG - it's an evolution of LOL/DOTA mixed with the likes of UO and little bit of top down action games like hades and secret of mana. The combat is better than all those IMO except maybe Hades. The games is good however it needs more quality of life improvement: I want one item management screen (linked to all my chest) with my production screen (linked to all my machines) side by side when im inside my castle. There is no need for me to walk all over my castle to get production going. Disable this when the castle is being invaded - not impossible to code in.