Vampire Survivors Releases New Update

Key Takeaways

Vampire Survivors Patch 1.12 brings the Ode to Castlevania DLC with 20+ new characters and 40+ guns and evolutions.
The collaboration with Konami contains 36 Castlevania music covers and the biggest map within the sport with distinctive biomes.
High quality-of-life adjustments in Patch 1.12 come with complex tune variety, map zoom, and reminiscence utilization optimizations.

Vampire Survivors printed the patch notes for its 1.12 replace, along the Ode to Castlevania crossover DLC. The collaboration between Vampire Survivors and Castlevania led to probably the most better patches for Poncle’s hit indie identify, which incorporates a number of new characters and remixed songs from Konami’s iconic franchise for gamers to revel in.

The Ode to Castlevania growth is the 3rd crossover DLC for Vampire Survivors, however it isn’t the primary time that Konami and Poncle have labored in combination. In Would possibly 2024, Vampire Survivors crossed over with the Contra collection to release the Operation Weapons growth. The DLC incorporated fan-favorite characters like Invoice Rizer, Lance Bean, and Brad Fang, and taken a number of explosive firearms and guns to mow down hordes of enemies. Guns such because the Lengthy Gun, Sonic Bloom, and Blade Crossbow may additionally evolve into extra tough firearms and provides gamers extra choices for his or her persona builds.

Comparable

Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania Weapon Evolutions

All of the merchandise and weapon mixtures for the Vampire Survivors Ode to Castlevania DLC, together with ones with more than one evolutions and distinctive prerequisites.

Whilst Castlevania crossed over with video games like Lifeless By means of Sunlight in 2024, its collaboration with Vampire Survivors was once probably the most latter’s maximum asked initiatives. According to the patch notes, Vampire Survivors Patch 1.12 contains over 20 new characters, over 40 guns and their evolutions, and 36 music covers from the Castlevania collection, together with “Vampire Killer,” “Bloody Tears,” and “Requiem.” The Castlevania level is the biggest map in Vampire Survivors thus far and contours other biomes and power-ups for gamers to assemble. Then again, Poncle said that because of the sheer dimension of the growth, an Journey mode for Ode to Castlevania was once no longer incorporated at release, however left the door open so as to add one if given the danger. The obtain dimension for Vampire Survivors Patch 1.12 and the Ode to Castlevania growth is a blended 345 MB on Steam, with the DLC clocking in at roughly 282 MB.

Poncle famous that the Transfer model of Vampire Survivors will obtain any other replace in two weeks to handle some particular late-game problems. Along with the Castlevania crossover growth, Vampire Survivors Patch 1.12 will introduce some quality-of-life adjustments for all gamers to make use of. A complicated tune variety menu, the power to zoom out and in at the pause menu’s map, and optimizations to cut back reminiscence utilization have been a few of the adjustments gamers will see as soon as Patch 1.12 is put in.

Poncle added that extra loose updates for Vampire Survivors are within the works, as a part of the Chaos Roadmap for 2024 and 2025. With the long-awaited crossover between Vampire Survivors and Castlevania in any case right here, it is still noticed how this may form the way forward for each franchises.

Vampire Survivors Patch 1.12 Notes (October 31, 2024)

Our desires have come true and Castlevania is now formally a part of Vampire Survivors. Thanks such a lot to KONAMI, the staff at poncle, our companions, and the entire enthusiasts for making this a truth ultimately!

And take into accout: it is giant. IT’S BIG.

20+ new characters
40+ new guns and evolutions
30+ new tune tracks
1 HUGE CASTLE

How you can leap into Ode to Castlevania

Achieve Stage 20 within the first level to release Inlaid Library and subsequently Degree Variety.
On the backside of Degree Variety, make a choice “Ode to Castlevania”.

Issues after you have Ode to Castlevania

Proper Click on the Steam icon -> Go out Steam
Wait a couple of seconds.
Restart Steam.
Cross to Downloads, see that VS is getting up to date to the newest model (1.12)

Gameplay in Ode to Castlevania

All characters from Ode to Castlevania be able to in finding particular pick-ups, in any level. To start with that is restricted to Wall Rooster (that’s the giant brother of Ground hen in fact) however 3 extra sorts of pickups shall be unlocked whilst progressing during the Ode to Castlevania level.
All characters have a minimum of 1 unlockable Weapon Selector, that may be selected from Personality Variety by means of clicking/urgent a button at the persona’s icon on the backside of the display. All Weapon Selectors should be unlocked; to do this, each weapon in a particular Weapon Selector needs to be unlocked first.
There are a large number of bosses within the Ode to Castlevania level, however you will have to actively search maximum of them as a substitute of looking forward to the precise minute for them to look. You can in finding new icons at the map that will help you navigate the level.
Evolutions are easy and paintings similar to within the base sport: in finding the precise passive to pair with an lively weapon (some may require the passive to be at Max Stage).

The tune of Ode to Castlevania

There are 36 new covers and a greater than 50 authentic Castlevania tune tracks to choose between. The covers are all to be had at the VS playlist on YouTube (minus 2 tracks that shall be launched on Nov 07 because of… causes…)

As enthusiasts of Castlevania and its tune ourselves, we have been anticipating folks to be excited for the covers, however we in fact could not await all that hype!

We had at the start deliberate for twenty-four covers, however then requested all musicians to do extra if that they had spare time. That is how we ended up with a complete of 36 tune covers!

Simply as for the remainder of the contents of the DLC pack, we attempted to steadiness the covers between homages, reinterpretations, experimentations, and undeniable remixes.

The one actual rule I have installed position to select tracks was once “tracks that have already got an reliable model that will are compatible with VS, we will be able to additionally come with that model” (which is solely arbitrary, stylistic selection by means of me, Luca, sorry!) and so I do know we ended up leaving out a number of tracks that will were superb remixed in a single the brand new types. In hindsight what we can have accomplished is… get started previous to have the time to do much more!

I truly could not business any of the present tracks for a special variety.

We will’t make any guarantees now, however we would love to hide and upload extra tracks sooner or later if we’re going to get the danger.

Within the intervening time I am hoping everybody will be capable of discover a new favorite, perhaps a few of the extra area of interest tracks that were given picked for this collab! Thank you such a lot to Daniele Zandara, Filippo Vicarelly, Evelyn Lark, and KEYGEN CHURCH for this fantastic soundtrack!

Extra FAQs

Whilst many of the contents of the DLCs are easy, being a collab there are some variations. For instance, there are not any Steam achievements and the tune covers may not be to be had within the paid Soundtrack on Steam (however we can submit them on YT as standard), so please learn the FAQs right here for more information:

Patch 1.12 High quality-of-Existence

Complex Tune Variety There are such a large amount of tracks within the sport, particularly if in case you have some DLC packs, that the little menu was once truly suffering to be purposeful anymore. And it comes from any individual who is aware of the order of the tune tracks by means of reminiscence… so we now have added a sophisticated menu to simply navigate via other albums and tune tracks to choose between.
MEGA SEAL After purchasing any of the Seal Energy-ups, you’ll be able to additionally release the Mega Seal panel within the Assortment menu. This panel means that you can simply seal the content material of a complete DLC, and even of the entire base sport. Who wishes guns anyway?
Pause Menu Map ZOOM You’ll now zoom out and in at the pause-menu map. 2024 ho!
Pause Menu Arcana Data You’ll now get a reminder of what your selected arcana do. Affected guns also are highlighted. Every other giant step for humanity.
New Passives in Preview mode So as to entire the evos for Ode to Castlevania, we would have liked 2 passive guns from the long run to be to be had nowadays! So, whilst the patch to correctly release them will arrive someday subsequent 12 months, for now it is going to be conceivable to get entry to those 2 new passives, Parm Aegis and Karoma’s Mana, during the Arma Dio’s variety menu.
Reminiscence utilization enhancements A number of optimisations were made to cut back reminiscence utilization, that are meant to lend a hand the late-game working higher on console and cellular.

Different platforms

So as to release concurrently on all platforms, we needed to compromise a bit of on patch variations. This merely implies that the sport model shall be moderately other throughout other platforms, however we are running to get parity throughout variations once conceivable.

A unique notice for the Nintendo Transfer model: it’s already scheduled to obtain a patch in about 2 weeks to handle some very late-game problems.

The document dimension of the growth is round 260MB, which is so much larger than our moderate (all the ones tune tracks upload up briefly), so if you are on cellular you may need to obtain via wifi.

What is subsequent

Because of the large dimension of this replace, our subsequent patch will take a bit of longer than standard to be launched, however it is going to include loose content material as at all times. We’re going to attempt to make much less updates, however larger, so that there is much less achievements-related pressure and a bit of extra stuff to experiment with. Which content material replace is subsequent precisely? Simply take a peek on the up to date Chaos Roadmap to uncover the answer.

Hope to peer you all on our annually recap publish later within the 12 months, the place we’re going to additionally duvet the standard suspects: cross-save, on-line, and experiments (the whole thing is continuing however nonetheless no longer able for complete release atm).

(who am I kidding, the following Steam information publish shall be about hotfixes for this monstrously huge growth)

Thank you everybody on your reinforce and hope you’ve got amusing with the completely surreal Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania!

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