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V Risinggot its 1.0 patch, meaning many players are new vampires heading into Vardoran for the first time. Like most other survival games, you’ll be exploring, building a base, gathering materials, and hunting beasts to get as strong as possible. But some of this can be somewhat daunting when getting started in V Rising for the first time, so here are some starting tips to help new players become the strongest vampire in all the land.
Where Should You Build Your Castle?
One of the biggest decisions you have to make at the start ofV Risingis where to start building your castle. If you are playing by yourself, this choice isn’t going to be as daunting. You canteleport your baseandrebuild it repeatedly, finding better and more ideal locations as you progress through the game.
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Some of the best locations for easy travel in a co-op or single-player, for instance, will be in thecenter of the map. They’ll have some bigger locations ideal for building a bigger base and make it easier to travel throughout the map in general. Castle locations are going to be some of the bigger areas on the map that are empty, with typically1–2 entrances to the opening.
If you are playing on a multiplayer server PvE or PvP, it might be a little harder to find a new location to brood in as a vampire lord. Castle locations are going to be on afirst-come, first-served basis, and you may need to travel quite a bit to find one. For a bigger server, you may want to stick to making a castleout of the way of other players.
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Suppose you’re trying to avoid attracting another player’s attention. In that case, you will want toavoid building near the starting areasor thecenter of the map, as other players will most likely have a castle there and will beready for any raids. Building a castle in some of theelevated areasis also going to be a big help inmitigatingwhat comes knocking on your doors. It’ll force anyone with malicious intent to come throughnatural choke pointsand risk only being able to move forward or back when attacking.
Blood Types and Their Buffs
Hunger inV Risingis unique compared to other survival games, and it’s great. When you go out on a food run, you’ll notice that each enemy has atypeunderneath their name along with apercentage. Thehigher the percentage, the moreblood type tiers you get, which means more buffs you’ll get from feeding on that creature. There are a lot of choices you may make when hunting down creatures for your sweet blood buffs.
The different blood types available are:
Tier I - Increased Movement Speed
Tier II - Increased Sun Resistance
Tier III - Damage Reduction
Tier IV - Increased Health Regeneration
Tier V - Boosts all effects provided by 30%
Tier I - Increased Resource Yield
Tier II - Increased Damage against Resource Nodes
Tier III - Increased Mount Gallop Speed
Tier IV - 3% Chance to Instantly Destroy Resource Nodes
Tier I - Primary attack Life Leech
Tier II - Increased Primary Attack Speed and gain 1 Gear Level
Tier III - Healing received increased by 15% - 30%. Heal yourself for 4% of your victim’s health when striking a killing blow.
Tier IV - I6% chance per relative health recovery to boost movement speed by 20% and damage of primary attacks by 20%
Tier I - Chance to Critical Strike on Weapon Attacks
Tier II - Increased Movement Speed
Tier III - Reduced cooldown on Travel Skill, 100% chance to critical strike on the next physical attack after using a travel skill
Tier IV - Chance on Critical Strike to expose victim’s armor, increasing damage taken from all sources by 15% for 4s
Tier I - Increased Physical Power
Tier II - Reduced cooldown on Weapon Skills
Tier III - Reduced damage taken and 25% increased damage when striking enemies at full health
Tier IV - Chance to parry an attack reducing damage taken by 50%. Parrying an attack increases your damage by 25%.
Tier I - Increased Spell Power
Tier II - Reduced cooldown on Spells
Tier III - Spell Life Leech
Tier IV - Chance to reset spell cooldown on cast
Tier I - reduced Blood Drain rate
Tier II - Increased All Resistance rating
Tier III - Increased movement speed while Shapeshifting
Tier IV - chance to convert the victim to a random Mutant when killing them with a Bite
Tier I - Increased movement speed during the night
Tier II - increased damage against enemies below 30% health
Tier III - increased healing received from Blood Mend
Tier IV - Grants 1 additional Bite charge and heal for 5% of your maximum health when killing an enemy using Bite
Tier V - Boosts all effects provided by 25%
OnceVincent the Frostbringeris defeated, you are capable ofcharmingandimprisoningmultiple enemies within your castle tofarm blood off of themto keep a variety of high-end blood types on hand at all times. Depending on your build or activity, you’ll want to always keep an eye out and have the right blood type for the moment.
Make Use of More Refinement Stations
As you progress throughV Risingmore, you are going to have to craft a lot more as well. Mitigate what you need to craft by setting up multiple stations. Depending on the size of your castle, you might look at having2-5 refinement stationsyou’ve unlocked.
For example,two furnaceswill help you get more materials, of course, but you can also eventuallysplit upwhich one is making certain materials so that you don’t have to wait for copper ingots before your glass bottles have been made. The same goes for all the refinement stations, split up the jobs for faster work or use multiple to pump out more of the material you need.
Each Tool Has a Different Job
Each tool can be effective against different enemies, of course, but they will also beeffectiveagainstdifferent gathering nodes. When it comes down to gathering materials, maces will be great againstrocks, swords or slashers are best forgathering vegetation, and axes or greatswords are best forgathering wood.
While those are all useful for gathering, they also all have unique combat abilities that make them effective for fighting, but some of the other weapons also have some bonuses for fighting creatures. Spears will have a bonus for being used oncreature-typeenemies, while Reapers are going to have a bonus againstundead enemies.
Use Wolf Form or Horses to Travel Quickly
There are going to be multiple forms for you to use inV Risingafter you beat certain bosses. One of the first ones you’ll encounter is going to beAlpha the White Wolf. This boss will give you the ability toshapeshift into a wolfand allow you to run around the world evenfasterthan normal.
As you go deeper into the map you’ll also findhorsesinvillagesorbandit encampments. You can steal the horse and provide it with somePlant Fibreto keep it from starving. Once you snag a horse, it’ll be there for you to use as long as you’d like. Do be careful though, enemies will most certainlykill your horseif you start a fight near it.
In Stunlock Studios’ V Rising, players take on the role of a vampire rising from his slumber. Survival is key as players explore V Rising’s open world where they can discover villages, craft items, combat fantastical creatures and bandits, and find other secrets to aid them on their journey.
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