V Rising News

It’s been almost nine months since V Rising launched into early access on Steam but Stunlock Studios has yet to release its first major update for the multiplayer vampire survival game. The update was originally set to roll out sometime before the end of 2022 but was delayed to this year to give the studio time to polish the base [...]

V Rising might not be as popular as it once when it first launched in May, but it still seems to be making good money. Stunlock Studios reports that the game the vampire MMO has sold three million copies since its early access launch. “We’re delighted by the community’s response to V Rising and we are working hard to give [...]

Trying to make a vampire survival MMORPG spookier for Halloween isn’t exactly an easy task, which is probably why decided to just give away a DLC to celebrate the season. The Haunted Nights Castle Pack can now be downloaded for free on Steam which includes a bunch of themed castle decorations including a new coffin style, carpets, drapes, light sources, [...]

After its meteoric rise to fame earlier this summer, V Rising’s popularity is slowly fizzling away from a 24-hour peak of 150,000 concurrent players at launch to an average daily peak concurrency of just around 5,000 players. Its waning popularity, however, won’t be helped by the fact that its first major content update has just been pushed back to next [...]

As announced earlier this month, Stunlock Studios has wiped several V Rising servers clean as part of the vampire MMORPG’s new Scheduled Wipes feature. The feature is designed to avoid stagnation and keep players on their toes by regularly wiping all progress in selected public servers. Players now have around three weeks to get back on their feet and build [...]

Among the things that MMO players dread the most is a server wipe. There’s nothing more frustrating than losing everything you’ve worked hard for in one fell swoop. V Rising, however, has just added a surprisingly highly-requested feature called Scheduled Wipes that’s designed to wipe the servers after a set amount of time so that everyone starts from scratch every [...]

Stunlock Studios continues to roll out updates and fixes for V Rising even as the launch rush begins to die down. The latest patch is a small one but it does add a welcome feature for privately-hosted games, specifically the ability to save progress through the Steam Cloud. Players can now also move saves to and from the cloud as [...]

V Rising isn’t exactly flying off the shelves anymore but it’s still making good numbers as the vampire survival MMORPG hits 2 million copies sold in its first month in Early Access. Unfortunately, the game’s playerbase has taken quite a hit this past week, dropping from over 67,000 players last weekend to a peak of just 39,000 players on Friday [...]