The 0.5.4 update arrived for V Rising, and here’s the complete list of changes and fixes added with this patch. Stunlock Studios released the latest patch today, and it’s for the Halloween Bloodfeast event, starting 28 October through 1 November 2022. Besides, today’s version brings a bunch of bug fixes, improvements, adjustments, and more. Here’s everything new with the V Rising 0.5.4 update.
V Rising 0.5.4 Update Patch Notes
General
- The Servant Resurrection timer has been increased to 10 minutes from 15 seconds (Primarily to tackle PvP scenarios where the short resurrection timer could be abused).
- We have rebalanced how Siege Golem health is calculated and have updated the Siege Golem health settings. By default, Siege Golems will have 250% more health (represented as shield value) than before. The Golem’s health also scales based on the player’s current health to a minimum of 50% of the total health (should the player transforming have less than 50% health, the golem’s shield value will be reduced accordingly).
- The default time-slot setting for when PvP raiding is active has been reduced to 18:00-22:00 local server time from 17:00-23:00.
- The maximum height travel for Mist Trance has been reduced; this fixes an issue where players could reach unwanted heights using this ability.
- The mirror visuals of the Gothic Mirror and the Cabal Mirror have been updated.
- Chandeliers and other rotating buildable objects no longer flicker when “temporal anti-aliasing” and “motion blur” is active.
- The chat message that printed “We are experiencing technical issues on some hardware setups…” every 90 minutes, prompting users to restart their game has been removed periodically.
- Old saves are now automatically backed up when they’re loaded in a new game version. The backed-up save is placed in <Save Directory>\.BACKUP\<Old Game Version>\AutoSave_X.saveAdded rocks north of the Farbane Bear Cave so that players in the future cannot build in such a way that it blocks the cave exit, trapping players. Also added a new route to take if there is an actual castle blocking the normal path.
- Fixed a glitch in the Silverlight Silver Mines that allowed players to jump into the mountain.
- Fixed a bug where some world teleporters could stop working for new players.
V Rising Update – New Game Presets
Two new Game Presets have been added:
- Mad Hunt – PvP
- Mad Hunt – PvE
These preset enable three new server settings:
Shuffle V Blood Locations
- Shuffles the location of all V Blood units and alters their faction to reflect the faction of the V Blood they replace. V Blood units are shuffled using three pre-defined groups based on difficulty level.
- When this setting is active, all V Blood units have their portrait and lore hidden in the V Blood Menu until they are defeated.
- Note that the technology unlocked to progress is still unlocked in the same order and level, but a new V Blood unit will take its place and level.
Shuffle V Blood Abilities
- Shuffles all V Blood ability rewards randomly across the board. Some units will end up with one ability reward, others with two, and some with zero.
Shuffle V Blood Tech
- Shuffles the technology rewards of all V Bloods. Technology is shuffled using many pre-defined groups to ensure that players may progress with essential technology regardless of how rewards are shuffled.
Note: When Shuffle Tech & Shuffle Abilities are activated, some V Bloods may end up with no rewards.
Note: Enabling any Shuffle settings may only be done when starting a new server. These settings cannot be modified on a running server, nor can these settings be deactivated.
V Rising Update – Halloween Free DLC
Accessing the Contents
The Haunted Nights Castle Pack DLC can be redeemed by navigating to the DLC section of the steam page, clicking on the Haunted Nights Castle Pack, and then redeeming it for no cost. By unlocking the DLC and by completing the Journal Quest “Lord of Shadows” you unlock access to the following new items:
- Haunted Nights Coffin (Skin variation of Wooden Coffin)
- Haunted Nights Stash (Skin variation of Wooden Stash)
By unlocking the DLC and by completing the Journal Quest “The First book in the Library” you unlock access to the following new items:
- Haunted Nights Carpets
- Haunted Nights Stained Glass (Window)
- Haunted Nights Wall Decor (2x Wallpapers)
- Haunted Nights Web Drapes (Wall / Window Wall / Pillar attachments)
- Haunted Nights Gourd Lantern (Pillar attachment Light)
- Haunted Nights Floating Gourd (Flying Light)
- Haunted Nights Lanterns (4x Standing Lights)
By unlocking the DLC and by completing the Journal Quest “Expanding my Domain” you unlock access to the following new items:
- Haunted Nights Standing Mirror
V Rising is available exclusively on PC. For more information regarding this update, check out the official Steam post.
