My Thoughts On V Rising
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- Sharing my thoughts on the recently launched (Out of Early Access) V Rising and why I won't be reviewing it fully.
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One thing to note is if you set up your private game you can up the amount of resources or look at ones you're joining. You can even go as far as starting with the highest gear so many ways to customize if you don't want to play the "normal" way.
Yup thats how i play increased resources, decreased bulding time but combat normal. For me with limited time this is perfect.
While this does help with the tedium you will soon find that there's not much else to do if you remove or simplify the gear progression. As M said, it's mostly about pvp fights and competition or cooperation between players to keep the game fresh, without it you'll be bored long before reaching max lvl unlike sth like Valheim that has the proc gen exploration and a really immersive building system to keep it fresh.
@@ibsmartfitness817 See I had no idea u could decrease resource and building times. The amount of customization in how you want to play does not skimp on options. Love that!
@@kaldo2113 Of course setting your room like this at this point it basically becomes more an arpg with light crafting. You have all the needed resources very easily and can run V Bloods, To your hearts content if that's what you're after.
And there's still a good amount of that content if you're not interested in PVP or coop after that.
I appreciate you did the sponsored vid and offered none of your usual critique and kept it to features. Very ethical.
That’s why this has become my go-to channel for game reviews. He is always super transparent about the review process and lets you know upfront
This American here would not climb very high in a corporate structure
A bunch of my friends and i had a server during early access. Towards the end we changed the server settings to increase resources stacks and reduce research times, this really helped alleviate the boring linearity of the upgrade system.
Something to consider, a dev somewhere mentioned that the game is balanced around small groups of 3-4 people. So if you are doing a solo game, you should up all of the gathering rates and crafting speeds.
is this also apply to battle? fights with V Blood catered to 3-4 playes?
@@iriasu1667 those fights change depending how many people are in the arena... similarly to dark souls bosses with lack of better example
I enjoy this game so much more then Valheim. The level of polish the devs put on this title can not be understated and this is hands down the easiest and fastest inventory management in any survival game period. They allow you to store and organize 1000's of items with a single click faster then any other game in the genre and they launched with that feature and everyone else had to play catch up. The only game that might do it slightly better is pal world which allows you to craft from any storage box. V rising was quite a pallet cleanser after the boring mess that was nightingale.
Yeah but this game cost over a hundred bucks for the full package
@@jmmywyf4lyf You mean for cosmetics?...
I still prefer terraria's storage systems. Store to all nearby chests just feels so satisfying, emptying your whole inventory after a expedition of grinding with one click.
As someone who has beaten the game 3 times now, the new brutal difficulty mode they added, completely makes it feel like a new game, in terms of the combat. Especially if you use a different caster focused build, as opposed to a fighter one, or whatever. It's not just stats, virtually all the bosses have new moves. And things you could just tank through before, you now have to pay vital attention to.
Any tips on Quincey the Bandit King on Brutal mode? Best I did was bringing him down to like 5% but man, it's like 1 or 2 hits and I'm dead.
I forgot this game existed, it was pretty good in the early access. Thanks for letting me know it's fully released!
As a fellow solo player in the game, I have to say I had a ton of fun with it.
I doubt it
What a weirdo comment
@@joeybeannwhat
@@coronic huh?
@@joeybeann what do u mean you doubt it
I have about 40 hours into the game. My biggest gripe is, unless you want to play solo, the castle decay is annoying because it forces you to treat the game like an MMO and log in daily even when you have stuff to do or want to play other games. I understand this is just for server / hosting reasons, but the constant threat of losing your stuff kills it. That being said, if you're into the game, I recommend just playing solo.
Someone suggested playing solo, up the research time, etc., and the game becomes legitimately much funner than its vanilla setting.
every time i put as much of blood essence as i could, i had like 30 days of no worries. It doesnt sound that bad + you can turn that feature off with one tick in server options
@@MrPanGonzo Good to know, but playing PvE or PvP server doesn't give you this option, and we only leveled our base to Lv 3 so we could only get 7 days at a time and still lost 3 bases! The game is fun, but having to keep feeding the base ruined it for the coop players and me. I will have to check out the single-player sever options you mentioned.
@@petersonfamily6223 i assume when it comes to official servers this system is needed to recycle the castle when someone stops playing to give others space
Thanks for the video. This definitely hit on the notes I was curious about. Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.
I really enjoy this game. and play it solo. I find its living world to be incredibly immersive, and its focus on boss fight progression ala terraria to be very enjoyable even solo.
recommend to everyone. 9/10.
decay, and timers can all be adjusted in server settings. and honestly its default is way more forgiving then Valhiem..
about midway you can get thralls, to farm goods for you. and of course, building multiple crafting benches with for the timers speeds those up. so decent levels of automation.
Your channel is becoming my favorite one regarding game reviews. Well done and thanks
I love the V rising gameplay. I have over 1200 hours in the pre release version, which I played while going to college. This time around I won't be playing it multiplayer, as I have a job and a life. These kind of base defense games require a lot of time and an open schedule. It works just fine as a singleplayer game or on a pve only server. Its a bit less fun to not encounter other players and have fights out in the open world, but the game is still good without it.
You are always on point with the content and timing of your videos Mortismal, its crazy. Thank you!
Good on you for doing this video. I spent an unsuccesful hour last night looking for a single channel not sponsored by Stunlock (among the ones I watch), and the next day here it is!
Bro you should have a playlist of reviews that are clean from sponsorships
Appreciate the seperate thoughts video, thanks Mort
Thank you for clearing out the replaybility. That was my biggest concern about this game cuz game looked super linear with that Enemy "ladder tree" with its unlocks.
Im 2 days in only playing solo and I’m having a blast. Great game so far.
You can adjust the amount of floors in the difficulty settings, i think max was 7 or so.
Not sure if it was a bug. But I ran into when crafting say a plank, the automation would hang up on the first one and wouldn’t continue. You have to move the wood either to another slot in the sawmill or back to your inventory before it would resume. You have to do this each time, so not really automatic. Bit of an issue.
What about building castles and being creative, can it maybe add to the playtime? Looking at it at an offline solo perspective :)
If you're interested in the building aspect you will be spending upwards of 100+hrs decorating. You have wallpaper, furniture, decorations, statues, lighting, multiple floors of castle, flooring gives different buff to your workstations and etc.
I second this ^
@@cordeliacentauri1737 Suspected that, love games like that, that allows for horizontal progression. Thanks!
Been playing since day one of early access, restarted like 5 times now. Not once has the game felt repetitive, I just know where to get which resource, where the bosses are, etc. I always build in a different location so every castle is different. Highly recommend this game.
I have like 300h, only PvE, decorating.
I was literally looking at this title on Steam just before opening UA-cam, where your video showed up on my home page 😂
Saw this review and just got this. I'm loving it so far! The combat and base building are both so fun and with the stylic aesthetic. Really cool game
Got a few friends curious about this one. Dunno how well it’d work for a small group, though. Dedicated server seems overkill but at the same time it’s a pretty grindy game in small play sessions.
That's why you have the host tweak the server rules so you have stuff like increased gathering yield, increased crafting/refining speed, stuff like that. It's very customizable. I'm playing with just one friend and we don't find it to be overly grindy really.
I played it as a 2-person-co-op a few versions back and it was absolutely fine. One thing to note is that sending out minions on missions only makes sense on dedicated servers where you have offline progress, but you can definitely compensate for that through the gameplay settings.
I've hosted a server for my friends on release and when Gloomrot came out, and we're doing it again now. About 6-8 people usually when we're playing. It works super well, especially with the new brutal mode which I *highly* recommend. The boos fights are challenging enough and scale with the number of players in them, so you're never going to feel like you just mobbed a boss to death. Progression is linear, but since you can share a castle and research it goes by a lot faster, and you can easily tweak server settings.
Personally I advise making harvesting resources faster instead of turning up the amount of resources harvested, I think this is better for balance overall, but that's just me. You can do both, as well as adjusting pretty much everything about combat - player health, damage, and magic power, enemy health and damage, the amount of each stat you get from items, etc.
And if you or anyone in your group likes base building, they're going to have a field day with it.
Brutal is more than it states, apparently it adds new attacks many of which actually made me think about what spells I was taking to a fight. Having Double Block can come in handy when a boss decides to throw truck-stop sized AoE's at you for the next 10s. If you're comfortable with souls games, I highly recommend Brutal Difficulty, it's extremely well made.
There are not a lot of creators that keep an open mind. I do value your points more than any other creator. Keep up the good work.
I started playing V rising. I am enjoying it. It's like Conan and Diablo had a baby. I agree that the gear system could be revisited.
I like how this game is also a “girl friendly”. I can never get into any combat games, because they just don’t appeal to me at all. This one is an exception. It’s pretty, everything in this game looks nice, I love the style, bosses are very charismatic, players on pve seem to get along (except for the rifts), I had very nice interactions and help. I also loved organising the castle and, surprisingly, killing bosses. I played solo a year ago with gloomrot update and finished the game, and this time I played duo with my partner on brutal. As I’m not a skilled player with especially difficult bosses we developed a strategy: he’d start the boss, get him down to low hp, then I come in and finish the boss. Obviously, with some other bosses there was a different strategy, but this worked very well. So I feel like it’s a very nice game to play with your partner, even if she/he doesn’t usually like combat based games.
how did you change the cursor
I absolutely agree that this was made primarily for PVP, so many things you make/do in the world does not have the QOL features a PVE game would have. Big + from the devs to add your own "server" and tweaking all the settings tho as that could alleviate a lot of the annoying pvp grind stuff.
I love this game , I hope it keeps progressing in the future and don’t die
Great video thank you for your insight!
Looking forward to this on ps5
I really need to revisit this title since it is out of early access. Last time I played was way back at the beginning before they started nerfing chaos magic and whatnot. I do remember some silliness, like chasing the seamstress halfway across the map.
They fixed most of that. I was dreading the seamstress fight but it was way better this time lol
@@fitz394you got better* so she felt easier
Did you try it on Steam Deck? How was it there?
Can you play on your own server and on someone elses at the same time? Or only one at a time? With different characters?
Characters don't transfer between worlds/servers but you could have multiple characters on multiple servers
You are my favorite reviewer and this game is absolutely fantastic!
It looks good, no interest in the building so I'm glad you can move your castle.
How do you move your castle.. I'm not exactly getting it ingame
@@rounakmanna5916 You have to build the "relocation castle heart" in the new location and then it gives you the ability to "rebuild" your castle. The key thing here is to understand it DOES NOT automatically move your castle for you. It just gives you the option to manually rebuild it without having to haul all the crap back yourself.
@@Eastwood69 so, this means I can build all the equipments but they will not require any resources... they will be automatically transported through that chest ??
Brutal difficulty adds new tricks to the boss fights, so there's a little replayability there
Appreciate you covering this one! I've beenback and forth on whether or not I wanted to invest any time into it, but seeing that it is highly customizable, really is pushing me to pick it up. Also have zero interest in the MP aspects myself.
They should add yearly features, mods etc... for replayability.
Thanks Mort. I appreciate your thoughts. Cool concept, but the idea that official server wipes occur every six months gave me pause. Really helped answer my questions.
This was exactly the type of "review" I was looking for. As V Rising I would play exactly as you did - pure solo
Saved again by the thoughtful, insight rich Mortismal Gaming. Uniquely you understand what people need to know and you present it in an entertaining and ethically rigorous fashion. The value is powerful, as in a case like this I was considering V-rising for purchase. I have zero interest in multi-player and I'd not understood the game was bent that way. Thank you for all your fine work.
Unlike a lot of other reviewers and “professional” game journalists, Morti is a really skilled gamer and you can just tell that this man has a deep understanding and a great passion for games in general. His early reviews when a game launches point out things that almost nobody else is talking about. Most importantly he’s giving you the info to decide whether you would want to buy the game now, not what he thinks of buying the game for himself, he talks about that in the 100% completion reviews. Always transparent, objective and doesn’t waste your time with BS - super helpful when I’m looking to buy a new game!
I would play game in coop once more, cuz before 1.0 relese bosses had addatively increasing difficulty the more players are fighting it. And it includes not just health and damage increase, they implement new abilities and mechanics. 100% recommend
I enjoyed the game quite a bit, though I did hit a bit of a dead end w/ the final group of endgame super bosses that I couldn't take out solo. But I a lot of fun building out my castle and hunting for that perfect human to turn into my minion or keep locked in my dungeon, and most of the boss fights were pretty cool. Though I agree, its def a one and done kind of game. Which is perfectly fine, not every game needs a reason to keep playing perpetually. In fact I would so no game needs that. I had my fun this one and now I can move on to the next fun game. Maybe I'll revisit again in the years to come the same way I do with other great games in my library.
Thank you so much for talking so extensively about the PvP / multiplayer aspect of this game! I've been very curious about V Rising, but haven't bought it because the info around everything multiplayer was too scarce for my liking to blindly spend 35 € on it. This video showed me that while there are strict PvE servers, these servers get a wipe every so often. And that's not what I enjoy in my games. Setting up a server for myself seems like a waste of money too, so I will sadly put this game away. It's a real shame, but oh well. Thanks again, Mortym, for your top-notch "review" :)
Played the game with a friend in coop, greatly enjoying it. I do not like however how linear gear progression is.
I'm digging it both solo and with a couple friends on a private server. I do think we'll eventually 'finish' it, but that's fine. I'm getting my money's worth and having a good time.
One thing that goes understated here is the huge variety of builds that open up toward the mid to late game. Ancestral weapons are infused with schools of magic, and spells can be modified significantly with jewels. Add a large amount of status effects that can interact in many ways, and you can construct very unique builds with synergies specific to your play style. It becomes very in depth.
Regarding replayability, this game gets lumped in with live service slop due to its multiplayer component, when in reality it should be judged more like any other game that _ends_. Nobody cries about Elden Ring or Cuphead having finite content, and this is no different. If you're looking for a forever game, go play Minecraft. ;)
Great bid. How is this game co-op PVE? Sharing a castle and fighting with the bosses and progressing through the story? More of a question for comments than author.
This game looks like a fun trip and I will probably pick it up when I find some free time.
Is the game playable offline without internet?
Never got super late game; but to me the biggest thing was even in solo the lack of shared inventory. I get why in multiplayer it would break things, but not going to lie my power fantasy is somewhat broken by running up and down my stairs to grab some more resources because I didn't have enough to build what I wanted. Otherwise had a fun time, loved the blood boss variety especially.
Build your castle in a more practical way then, put all the crafting rooms on the same floor or some shit nothings stopping ya lol
@@Lockz1111 Oh of course; I can plan everything out as well, meticulously put every storage in the appropriate location. I guess if that's the genre of game it is that's fine. Doesn't mean I like it. Maybe Palworld and other games' shared inventory just spoiled me is all.
The Muliplayer aspect echos my thoughts on it, I came in with the full release having seen a few reviews and it looked like a really cool Vampire game, I knew it had some form of Multiplayer but I thought it was like 4 player coop with light PvP, I should have looked further however as its very much been designed as a 24+ player server game and that's just not for me (I did give it a try, first server was a guy waiting to gank people, the next a guy waiting to gank people)
If you are new join an official pve server or start on your private server. For pvp domt join an official this goes for all these types of games. Look up a God community server, those have player moderstion
I like this. Thank you
I'm actually the 0.1% who's just playing this solo, for the heck of it.
What I do is I normally switch on some UA-cam video in the background or listen to a podcast and just go about playing the game. And frankly, I'm having quite a bit of fun unlocking everything and getting new weapons etc. I do agree though that it's likely a much better game when you have mates to play with and a clan etc but I do prefer my lazy lassez faire way of playing.
Though now that I think of it, maybe I will ask my buddy to come play with me...
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Brutal difficulty on a PvE server with low ping is the best way to play the game. Things you do have more weight (gear upgrades are meaningful and a must). decisions mean something and winning against a boss is always a dopamine rush.
I bought it forever ago it looked fun I guess I can reinstall it. Who knows might be fun
like it but hate the controller camera control.
Good show sir
The only thing that is preventing me to jump into the game is the decay.
Decay is a non issue, in private simply adjust sertings or it doesnt drain when server is offline. In other servers its still not an issue, blood essence is found plentyful and you can craft/save up your own with the blood press and fill the heart for days in little time, with like 13+ days as max or so, can me more depending on server too. Decay is there to make sure public pvp and pve servers wont be stuck with dead castles spots nobody can take
With the new Brutal difficulty, I'd recommend starting on an Official PVE server. Beat the game once, then play pvp on a custom server
Can a server turn off the castle decay? Does anyone know? Pls :)
Yes you can. There's a bunch of options if you make your own server.
@@eriakuswiftwindz7041 thanks heaps, am very likely to get the game.
Oh I kinda was interested in this for building but I don't think so if stuff is going to degrade over time.
You can make your own session and making it not degrade.
it dosnt, you need to place castle heart and need to feed it with blood to not degrade, when you making private you can even turn that off and if you play multiplayer on some one always runing server once you feed heart full with blood it takes weeks to start degrade.
@@giovanniivan Oh that's good, thank you!
Oh so this game is fully solo’able? That has my interest
I played this for a bit in Early Access, and even though I played solo, I still had a bit of fun with it. (I stopped playing once they announced the multi-floor patch would reset all progress.) The big approach that I took that I think helped with it is that I considered it to be more of a sandbox. I didn't worry too much about what you could argue was the linear flow. For example, if the next named entity with V Blood was over in the east but I thought the area up in the north looked niftier -- even though it had a tougher named guy -- I went up north anyway! I know I ran into that Chaos Archer at one point, and that fight took a while of dodging and attacking. I also went and killed that Bandit King and the Armorer because it sounded like fun. (I think there was a quest too?)
This game kind of reminds me of Vampire the Masquerade Bloodhunt but as a moba
Can we finally get controller support?
was added with 1.0
@@MortismalGaming is it an in game option? Or down I have to use steam controller options to set it up? To my understanding last thing I heard from devs it would most likely be added when game comes to console. Ty
Edit: I haven’t played since early access launch. I really enjoyed, I’m just bad at keyboard and mouse.
I would be all over this game if I didn't have to deal with the dumb base/lair busy work. I just want to enjoy the combat and ARPG aspect.
Im loving this game playing solo 9/10 hands down
Gonna pick this up to play with my gf, thanks Mortym!
Anyone miss Legacy of Cain?
This is the closest thing we are going to get to a Blood Omen; Legacy of Kain remake. Boy did they take a lot from that game.
Vae Victis!
So it is basically Valheim with vampires, got it!
The Devs really wanted to make this game a Multiplayer PVP thing, but it's simply unplayable on a PVP server. PvE with friends is fun, or solo with droprates x4. Otherwise feels too grindy.
They really shot themselves in the foot with how massive they made buildings. The map feels dead with even 50 players, but at the same time, there is virtually nowhere to make home when there is more than 50 players.
free comment on v rising.
Just to add to the "review", the brutal difficulty mode is actually how the game is meant to be played in PvE. Bosses have improved AI and new mechanics kn top of better stats.
That new difficulty mode came after 2 years of feedback from the veterans players, so don't miss on it.
I didn't like that they were selling dlc in early access
Hope they add more updates.
Story quests with voice acting
Arena mode
Or arena mode on map where you can stake items
Rng weekly bosses
Leaderboards
Puzzles
Parkour
This game can stay alive if they have consistent updates aside from cosmetics. Adding new bosses will only bring so many people back. They need to have something for players to come in weekly.
Maybe world/server raid bosses, lol pretty much make it like RuneScape.
There are community servers that meet this criteria. However with the new update broke all the mods and so every server that uses mods are waiting for them to be fixed. This game was mostly made for PvP in mind, not PvE.
Parkour? Really? You gotta be joking lol
@@Lockz1111 game already has parkour buddy
PVE raids would be perfect
I miss Battlerite :(
Have you ever played encased? Mortismal? I am so curious if you think its a good game. It definitely looks interesting on steam storepage trailer
He reviewed it back when it came out.
@@Biouke oh ok cool thanks
Gronk!
Thanks for making a video free of the sponsored “clutches”
Can someone tell me, why theirs not more Vampire games, when thats what people want, we love Vampires 🧛think CastleVania💙
I bounce off the game every time I lose track of crafting materials in storage... without the ability to craft from storage it becomes nothing more than a chore for me. If crafting gear weren't so critical to the flow of the game, I could understand it... but this sort of thing is so incredibly irritating to me, I cannot see past it.
this clip made me subsrcibe to you. Honest good review. You tell your view of it, and what you like and not. I agree with a lot of it too!
Nice voice to listen to, no ADHD screams etc. yet had a feeling of personality. Maybe slightly more personality and thoughts. Just aaa tiny weeny bit..
Thank You!
Hi
I play this offline and enjoy it very much. The online aspect sounds more annoying than fun imo.
I think you'll be doing multiplayer reviews as soon as your son is old enough to play some of these games with you :)
@@Z3r0Pa1N Your comment has to be a joke.
@@Z3r0Pa1N You sound like someone who isn't thinking on their own but just regurgitate what society dictates. If your life has no meaning without offspring, you probably are a pretty bad person to be around.
What I don`t like about the game is that your gear is everything. I prefer is by researching and practicing magic, my magical power goes up, instead of crafting a higher tier ring.
I really wish these kinds of games were designed first and foremost around solo play, and THEN the devs worked on how these games work in multiplayer/co-op. It's kinda convoluted and off-putting trying to work out what settings I need just to play by myself
All you need is refinement time and maybe resource stuff thats it
As a casual player I'm worried that I'll play multiplayer and get attacked by much higher lvl players and keep getting everything taken from me. Is this the case?
If you're on a pvp server yeah its a possibility
I don't no this game is awesome and way more fun single player , you get surevents you can change everything before you start a private session
The Best Part of Vrising is NONE CLONE BOSS. YES, NONE CLONE/SKINCHANGE boss
the game feels too slow for me. its fun for like 45 minutes then i get bored and it sucks because it looks really cool. i just cant get into it even though i have tried several times
I'm the opposite of you, I am only interested in multipalyer and that part is super lacking in this game.
It seems like there is so much to do but when you look closer for a while it's really just a brawl.
Will you go back and 100% fallout 4 with all dlc. Game is so fun and I think it's aged particularly well
Yeah its on my to do list
@@MortismalGaming sweeeet
Man, I love this game for its offline mode and gameplay customizations. Love increasing the resource rate and drop rates for the enemies, as well as tweak their health to truly make me feel like a vampire mastermind, ha, ha, ha, ha.