Vampire Survivors' free Darkasso update is now available on Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox, and mobile devices.
"It's been a while since we added a new major feature, so we tried not to spoil the contents of this patch immediately," Poncle teased in the patch notes. "Hope it worked to keep the contents a bit of a surprise."
New additions include nine new extra achievements, a new challenge stage and relic, two new "special character skins", and five new Arcanas to spice up your experience.
We don’t think we are providing blistering insight when we state that the sheer number of Bullet Hell and Vampire Survivors-like games available on Steam nowadays is overwhelming. Honestly, it’s hard to get through a single page of games on Steam without it feeling a bit like an assault course – dodge 20 similar titles […]
Chaos and comedy. Death and rebirth. Luck and, uh, running out of luck. A good roguelike doesn't treat the player like other games do. Roguelikes won't guide you helpfully along a path, or let you cinematically snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. They're more likely to dangle you deep between the jaws of defeat and fumble the rope until you go sliding down defeat's hungry gullet. This is their beauty, and it's a part of why we keep coming back for another go. Next time everything will go right. Next time you'll find the right pair of poison-proof loafers, the perfect co-pilot for your spaceship, a stash of stronger, better ropes. Next time.
Here's our list of the 19 best roguelikes on PC you can play in 2024.
Chaos and comedy. Death and rebirth. Luck and, uh, running out of luck. A good roguelike doesn't treat the player like other games do. Roguelikes won't guide you helpfully along a path, or let you cinematically snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. They're more likely to dangle you deep between the jaws of defeat and fumble the rope until you go sliding down defeat's hungry gullet. This is their beauty, and it's a part of why we keep coming back for another go. Next time everything will go right. Next time you'll find the right pair of poison-proof loafers, the perfect co-pilot for your spaceship, a stash of stronger, better ropes. Next time.
Here's our list of the 19 best roguelikes on PC you can play in 2024.
Slunce svítí a nabízí vitamín D pro zlepšení nálady. Venku chodí spoře odění lidé, skáčou do vody, aby se osvěžili a obecně prožili spoustu letních dobrodružství. Co si to vše dobrovolně zkazit?
Představuji Vám 5 svých oblíbených rogue-like her, u kterých strávíte vícero času, než by bylo vhodné anebo rozbijete ovladače a klávesnice – ale i přesto to bude stát za to.
A začneme z ostra – představuji vám neskutečnou hru, osobníhokrále rogue-like subžánru, který mi doslova sežral nespočet večerů i dní.
Pokud jste doteď o tzv. „bullet heaven“ neslyšeli, v krátkosti vysvětlím – ovládáte postavu tím, že s ní chodíte. A to je vše. Ne, dobrá, ona postava automaticky střílí po nepřátelích, kteří se rojí ze všech směrů mapy. Po jejich zabití z nich spadnou zkušenosti, pro které si musíte dojít, abyste zvýšili svou úroveň a získali nové automatické zbraně či schopnosti nebo stávající vylepšili. Pokud o tomto subžánru chcete vědět více, níže máte video, které jsme o něm udělali.
To jsem tomu moc nepřidal, co? Nenechte se ale oklamat, tahle hra po vydání strhla davy hráčů, kteří nevěděli, do čeho jdou, a najednou po pár večerech vypadali jako hlavní postava – bledí, oči podlité krví, jen ty dva dlouhé bílé tesáky chyběly.
Vampire Survivors has met Contra and given birth to the glorious Operation Guns DLC. Aside from adding a slew of new weapons to the main game, the adventure mode is chock-full of new levels, secrets, and achievements. Here's how to knock out each of the 28 achievements without pulling your hair out trying to find Simondo.
How to complete each achievement in Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns
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Find and destroy the Metal Alien in Attack Aggressively
How to Complete: The Metal Alien will appear after 10 minutes. Survive until then, and the foe will be marked on the map.
Reward: Unlocks level Bullet Biters
Survive for 15 minutes in Bullet Biters
How to Complete: This one is self-explanatory. Stay alive for 15 minutes.
Reward: Unlocks level Neo City Chaos
Defeat the M78 after 10 minutes in Neo City Chaos
How to Complete: The M78 will appear after 10 minutes. Stay alive until then, and it will be marked on the map.
Reward: Unlocks level Operation: Gun City
Defeat Big Bot Gordea after 10 minutes in Operation: Gun City
How to Complete: Big Bot Gordea will appear after 10 minutes. Stay alive until then, and it will be marked on the map (now I have a craving for a gordita).
Reward: Unlocks level Run & Gun
Find a new ally in Run & Gun
How to Complete: Go to the coffin marked on the map and free your ally.
Reward: Unlocks level Alien Revengeance
Defeat Taka after 25 minutes in Alien Revengeance
How to Complete: Taka will appear after 25 minutes. Stay alive until then, and it will be marked on the map.
Reward: 10,000 gold coins
Find a Weapon Power-Up
How to Complete: These are most easily obtained on the Attack Aggressively level as they're near the spawn point.
Reward: Unlocks character Lance
Evolve the Long Gun
How to Complete: Bill starts with the Long Gun. Collect a Weapon Power-Up, max out the Long Gun, and collect a chest to get the evolved weapon.
Reward: Unlocks character Lucia
Find Ariana in Attack Aggressively
How to Complete: Ariana can be found napping in a coffin. Check the map for her exact location.
Reward: Unlocks character Ariana
Survive for 20 minutes in Attack Aggressively
How to Complete: Don't accept Death's collect call for 20 minutes on the first level to complete this achievement.
Reward: Unlocks character Brad
Evolve the Homming Miss
How to Complete: The Homing Miss evolves when you have it, a Weapon Power-up, and a Duplicator. Level the weapon and passive item up, find a chest, and collect the evolved weapon.
Reward: Unlocks character Stanley
Evolve the Blade Crossbow
How to Complete: The Blade Crossbow evolves when you have it, a Weapon Power-up, and a Clover. Level the weapon and passive item up, find a chest, and collect the evolved weapon.
Reward: Unlocks character Sheena
Evolve the Sonic Bloom
How to Complete: The Sonic Bloom evolves when you have it, a Weapon Power-up, and Armor. Level the weapon and passive item up, find a chest, and collect the evolved weapon.
Reward: Unlocks character Browny
Defeat Kimkoh
How to Complete: The Kimkoh is most commonly found in Chapters 5 and 6. They are brown, squatty creatures with red eyes.
Reward: Unlocks character Newt
Defeat Big Fuzz in the Northeast of Neo City
How to Complete: Big Fuzz is the alert you'll receive in Chapter 3. Head to the portal that contains him when you receive the alert. The fight itself isn't difficult as you only need to avoid his telegraphed attacks and nuke him.
Reward: Unlocks character Bahamut
Find Probotector in Run & Gun
How to Complete: Go to the coffin marked on the map and free your ally.
Reward: Unlocks character Probotector
Rescue Zi'Assunta in Bullet Biters
How to Complete: Go to the coffin marked on the map and free your ally.
Reward: Unlocks character Zi'Assunta
Rescue Lama in Neo City Chaos
How to Complete: Go to the coffin marked on the map and free your ally.
Reward: Unlocks character Lama
Rescue Dommario in Operation: Gun City
How to Complete: Go to the coffin marked on the map and free your ally.
Reward: Unlocks character Dommario
Rescue Krochi in Alien Revengeance
How to Complete: Go to the coffin marked on the map and free your ally.
Reward: Unlocks character Krochi
Defeat Simondo
How to Complete: Simondo is found in the Neo City Chaos level. He'll appear around the 15-16 minute mark inside the warehouse with the door to Big Fuzzy.
Reward: Unlocks character Simondo
Evolve the Short Gun
How to Complete: The Short Gun evolves when you have it, a Weapon Power-up, and the Bracer. Level the weapon and passive item up, find a chest, and collect the evolved weapon.
Reward: 10,000 gold coins
Evolve the Spread Shot
How to Complete: The iconic Spread Shot evolves when you have it, a Weapon Power-up, and the Empty Tome. Level the weapon and passive item up, find a chest, and collect the evolved weapon.
Reward: 10,000 gold coins
Evolve the C-U-Laser
How to Complete: The C-U-Laser evolves when you have it, a Weapon Power-up, and a Tirajisu. Level the weapon and passive item up, find a chest, and collect the evolved weapon.
Reward: 10,000 gold coins
Evolve the Firearm
How to Complete: The Firearm evolves when you have it, a Weapon Power-up, and a Candelabrador. Level the weapon and passive item up, find a chest, and collect the evolved weapon. I do love a good play on words.
Reward: 10,000 gold coins
Evolve the Diver Mines
How to Complete: The Diver Mines evolve when you have it, a Weapon Power-up, and an Attractorb. Level the weapon and passive item up, find a chest, and collect the evolved weapon.
Reward: 10,000 gold coins
Evolve the Metal Claw
How to Complete: The Metal Claw evolves when you have it, a Weapon Power-up, and an Empty Heart (calm down, emo kids). Level the weapon and passive item up, find a chest, and collect the evolved weapon.
Reward: 10,000 gold coins
Reach level 80 in Alien Revengeance
How to Complete: This one is tough and should probably be tackled last. Turn yourself into the Horseman, Death, and slaughter everything in your path until you reach level 80. You have 30 minutes, which goes by quickly. I recommend using Simondo, as he's an untouchable beast once he's leveled up.
The Vampire Survivors DLC, Operation Guns, lives up to its name with a slew of guns and other weapons. While each of them is fantastic for slaying undead and aliens alike, obtaining the weapon evolutions is your winning ticket for completing levels and tasks. To do so, players will need to make use of the new Weapon Power-up items in addition to the usual combos. Here's how to evolve each weapon.
How to upgrade each weapon in Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns
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Long Gun -> Prototype A
Long Gun + Weapon Power-up
Homing Miss -> Multistage Missiles
Homing Miss + Weapon Power-up + Duplicator
Blade Crossbow -> BFC2000-AD
Blade Crossbow + Weapon Power-up + Clover
Sonic Bloom -> Wave Beam
Sonic Bloom + Weapon Power-up + Armor
Short Gun -> Prototype B
Short Gun + Weapon Power-up + Bracer
Spread Shot -> Prototype C
Spread Shot + Weapon Power-up + Empty Tome
C-U-Laser -> Pronto Beam
C-U-Laser + Weapon Power-up + Tirajisu
Firearm -> Fire L3GS
Firearm + Weapon Power-up + Candelabrador
Diver Mines -> Atmo-Torpedo
Diver Mines + Weapon Power-up + Attractorb
Metal Claw -> Big Fuzzy Fist
Metal Claw + Weapon Power-up + Hollow Heart
After getting the initial weapon upgrade, I haven't seen a need for the Weapon Power-up on subsequent runs in terms of being a necessary ingredient. Once it's in the grimoire, you should be good to go with other characters, maps, etc. That being said, it's still a good idea to collect them as they'll give +1 to a random equipped weapon in addition to a Revive.
As for procuring the upgrade, I found it easiest to pick the corresponding Contra character that starts with the weapon you want to upgrade and load into the "Attack Aggressively" level. There are two Weapon Power-ups fairly close by you can pick up. As for the Passive Power-up, make sure to save a slot for the item you need, and don't be afraid to use your Rerolls or Banishments. Once the weapon and passive item are upgraded, it's only a matter of getting a chest to drop with the evolution.
It shouldn't take too long to find each weapon evolution this way, and you'll then be set up for success in other modes. One last tip is to avoid collecting too many of the base Operation Guns weapons when trying to unlock the evolutions. This way, you'll avoid the chance of burning a Weapon Power-up on an evolution you didn't want.
Vampire Survivors - still vampire-free before you ask - has surprise-launched its brand-new Laborratory update - a "hyper realistic holiday themed" content drop so mindblowingly spectacular, developer Poncle is even going as far as to herald it a "AAAA" release.
The free Laborratory update (yes, with two 'r's) plunges players deep into the dark halls of a science lab - a "former pinnacle of weapons science, now overtaken by the forces of evil and a corrupted milk magician" - where one new character, one new secret character, three new weapons, and two new stages, including a bonus go-karting stage (because of course), await.
It's an update that - and I'm quoting the developer directly here so don't blame me if your sky-high expectations aren't met - "pushes Vampire Survivors to such wild new heights that Poncle are calling it their first 'AAAA' update". Expect such "industry-defining innovations" as "fully rendered running animations, mind-blowing train physics... and doors that open."
Over the past while a few games have had post-launch patches, the exemplars being Starfield and Stardew valley, which have post-launch patches of different kinds and for different reasons. We take some time on the Electronic Wireless Show podcast to talk about this patch of patches, and what it was like in the good ol' days, where a broken game came out and stayed broken, gosh darn it!
Nate isn't here today, which means I can make fun of him for owning fish, or whatever it is he does, but in his stead James steps up with an RGB lighting-themed game where I have to guess what accessories people stuck lights on to turn into gamer accessories. This is because Razer stuck RGB lights on a pandemic mask and are in trouble over it now. Naughty Razer. Plus, we talk about the games we're playing right now, and dish you up some juicy recommendations at the end of the show.
Unveiled last night at the IGN x ID@Xbox Digital Showcase, Vampire Survivors has received a free new update called Laborratory (yes, with two 'r's). It includes one new character, one secret character, three weapons, one stage, and a bonus go-cart racing stage. But perhaps most importantly of all, Poncle say they'll answer the question that's been on everyone's lips: "Why is it called Santa Water?". This is something that's puzzled me since the game's inception, and therefore, I will be thrusting myself back into the game where there are, in fact, no vampires at all. I need to know.
Vampire Survivors received yet another update this past week. The Space-54 update adds two new characters, four new weapons, a new relic, and a new bonus stage. It also introduces cross-save support between Steam and Android to the Steam public beta branch.
Is the update at all related to Final Fantasy? Hmmm, no. It doesn’t look like it. However, for some reason, the team decided to release a trailer alongside it that is a shot-for-shot remake of the 1997 Final Fantasy VII trailer. Well, as shot-for-shot as they can manage with Vampire Survivors.
https://youtu.be/koUnycR7a64?feature=shared
What? Well, according to the press release I received, an insides says, “Because we had the original trailer on a PlayStation demo disk and watched it on loop so now it’s scored into our brains. Plus the team is extremely hyped for Rebirth. What better way to celebrate than with a trailer of our own?”
As for the actual update, I don’t think you’re going to be seeing any buster swords. It looks to be more sci-fi-themed. This is what Poncle has highlighted for the Space54 update:
7 New Achievements
2 New Characters:
Bat Robbert – When falling below 20% health, he gains +16 MaxHP (max +400) and recovers 30% health. This ability recharges every time the character is fully healed.
Space Dude – Every few seconds fires all weapons regardless of their Cooldown. The cooldown of this ability is affected by the Cooldown stat.
New Weapons:
Pako Battiliar – May retaliate when losing health.
Vampire Survivors might continue to be suspiciously devoid of vampires, but it does now have a bunch of new cosmic sci-fi bits (clearly last year's Among Us collaboration just wasn't space-y enough), courtesy of its latest free update on Steam, Switch, Xbox, and mobile.
Space 54, as the update is known, introduces a new bonus stage going by the same name - officially described as a "cosmic border-realm between this plane of existence and a sinister, third dimension" - as well as two new characters to deploy.
One of those characters, Space Dude, is the star of developer Poncle's energetic Space 54 trailer (or Space-54, or Space54 - the studio doesn't seem to have entirely made its mind up), and there're also four new weapons, a new relic, and seven new EXTRA achievements.
Poncle released both a free Vampire Survivors Space54 update for all players, as well as a new teaser trailer inspired by FFVII. The update adds a new stage, as well as characters and weapons.
As usual, the new characters are tied to the new weapons. Bat Robbert comes with Pako Battiliar, a weapon that can counter when health is lost. That character also has a health recovery mechanic whenever health gets below 20%. Space Dude is the other character, which comes with a Phas3r. The Phas3r fires a laser beam through a straight area damaging anything it touches. Meanwhile, Space Dude fires all weapons even if they are on cooldown at set intervals. The new stage is the space-themed Space54, while the relic lets you randomly level up items instead of picking.
There’s a new trailer Poncle shared with us to see the Space54 update in action.
Vampire Survivors is available for the Switch, Xbox One, PC, and mobile devices, and its free Space54 update is live now. The last paid DLC was the Among Us crossover add-on Emergency Meeting.
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