V Rising

The game is good, don't get me wrong, but I'm struggling to recommend it. It's got a lot of good gameplay, but then they follow it up with some really dumb design choices that make the game super frustrating to play. As an example, there is NO WAY to turn off "Medium core", aka drop items on death. Now by default you don't drop your gear, so that's good, but by dropping the rest of your items on death, it means that if you die on a boss with anything on you (like consumable health potions to heal before re-engaging the boss) you're screwed. Now you have to pull the boss while on low health, then try and loot your ♥♥♥♥, then reset the fight. This gets made all the worse if you decide to use the late-game amulets, which also drop on death. And because Item Level is everything, now you're 25 item levels lower than anything on the run back to the boss and will die in one or two hits. Speaking of Item Level, I think it's a really questionable system. I get the idea, it's a way to scale enemies while allowing for flexibility in gear. But in practice what it means is that later on in the game you settle on one weapon, because it becomes super expensive to have separate weapons, and if you ever switch off of that weapon, it'll lower your item level and you'll now take a lot more damage. There's more, like the game being impossible to play with anything higher than 60 ping. I played with a friend on 120ms, and I had so many times where I was dodging abilities on my end, and then the game saying "no ♥♥♥♥ you, you got hit". Anyway, if you're looking to play solo or with low latency, look at changing some server settings. Otherwise you're gonna be in for a bit of a rough time. I had fun the first 25 hours of my re-playthrough for 1.0, but then it started getting super frustrating.

I just haven't found a game with this level of PvP skill expression anywhere before or after V Rising. Its a bit difficult to learn, since you need to swap between 8 weapons with 2 abilities each (on a shared cooldown) with 3 spells and a dash, but its so incredibly satisfying when it clicks. At the same time, the PvE content is good, the bosses are fun and challenging, the progression always feels fresh and the game really hits the fantasy of being a vampire and all the tropes. I would recommend against starting your first playthrough on an official pvp server, as those are a lawless wasteland of ganking and teaming, but if you are interested in PvP, there's tons of community-hosted servers that actually try to make things as fair as possible (obviously nothing can change the skill gap that a huge diffference in experience/hours will create). The game also allows you to change most settings when hosting a server, so for solo play, you can fine-tune the experience for your exact needs.

вампирчики

i hate how i love playing this game

Tried twice, stupidly linear fetch, craft and fight game with limited exploration, which gets incredibly repetitive.

Игра очень детализированная. Потрясающий опыт, 63 часа провели с друзьями не напрасно. И самое главное - я смог закончить от этой игрушки

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