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V Rising will be free to play this weekend

If you love vampires and survival games, the brilliant V Rising is free to try soon.

Earlier this year, V Rising took the gaming world by storm, and soon everyone can give it a try for zero dollars and zero cents.

On Tuesday, Stunlock Studios announced that V Rising is free to play from Friday, Oct. 28 to Nov. 1, 2022, on Steam. For anyone unfamiliar with the game, it’s an open-world isometric survival adventure with vampires — basically, Diablo meets Valheim. Throw in some gaudy victorian Interview with the Vampire vibes for good measure, too. 

Jokes aside, V Rising is arguably 2022’s biggest sleeper hit, selling over a million units in less than a month. It would shatter that record only a few days later as well. In short: people like this one a lot.

According to SteamDB, thousands of people still log into the game daily, so there’s an active player base months later. There’ll surely be loads of other newbies once the free trial begins, so you will be one of many that are just starting out. 

If you’re new to V Rising, GLHF has numerous guides, including beginner tips, PVP suggestions, how to craft leather, and where bosses are in Farbane Woods. It’s one of those games that isn’t exactly friendly to new players, so it’s worth looking over any helpful write-ups.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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V Rising has sold more than 1.5 million units

Stunlock Studios is planning significant content updates for the future.

It’s starting to look like V Rising could be this year’s surprise smash-hit.

On Tuesday, Stunlock Studios announced that V Rising has passed more than 1.5 million units sold. Not too shabby for an indie title that is only two weeks old. Jokes aside, that’s straight-up amazing.

Stunlock Studios is currently focusing on smaller-scale updates like bug fixes, server optimization, balance changes, and loads of quality of life updates for elements like PVP and crafting. However, the team is hoping for a shift to large content patches.

“Our mission will be to find out what is most important to our players and how to take V Rising to the next level,” Johan Ilves, marketing director at Stunlock Studios, said in a statement. “We currently plan to work on more extensive updates rather than run for frequent smaller patches and minor changes. It’s too early to tell when the first bigger V Rising content patch will arrive, as we will give it the time to make sure it brings something new to the experience.”

V Rising took over Twitch and Steam almost immediately. That momentum isn’t slowing down either, as TwitchTracker shows that V Rising is maintaining an average viewer count of 28,489 by the time of this post.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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V Rising: Greater Blood Essence recipe and crafting methods

The easiest and fastest ways to get Greater Blood Essence and the Greater Blood Essence recipe in V Rising.

We’ve already made an explainer of the different kinds of blood in V Rising, including Blood Essence and Blood Types, but of course that’s not an exhaustive list, just something to get you started. Once you’re past the opening few hours of the game, you’ll have to focus on much bigger resources, and of course, you will be collecting Greater Blood Essence. 

Just like many of the consumables and resources in V Rising, you can get Greater Blood Essence in a number of ways, but if you want to get a lot of Greater Blood Essence, you will need the Greater Blood Essence recipe, in addition to these other methods of collecting it. Just read through our guide below, and make sure to take a look at our V Rising beginner tips if you’re just starting out.

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V Rising: Leather – How to unlock the Tannery to craft Leather

If you need Leather, we’ve got the methods you need to adapt in V Rising.

V Rising is the latest big MMO-RPG-PVP-survival game hybrid and it allows you to form a clan with your pals, build an immense castle, and feed off of both the land and its inhabitants in order to become more powerful. It’s a tough life for a vampire, and we all deserve to take it easy every now and then, and you’ll be able to take it much easier once you’ve got your castle set up. 

After you’ve placed your Castle Heart and started building up your walls, it’s time to focus on getting the materials you need for the next big upgrade. And there is a lot you will need in order to make yourself strong enough to overcome the enemies you’re going to encounter. Just one of those early-game materials is Leather.

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V Rising: Blood – Blood Essence, Blood Types explained

Blood Essence, Types, Quality, Supply… There’s a lot of blood happening in V Rising, and here’s everything you need to know.

When you’re a vampire, blood comes up in conversation a lot. In a vampire game, blood comes up a lot in game mechanics. Your Blood Supply, Blood Essence, Blood Type, and even abilities like Blood Mend… There’s a lot to wrap your head around, but we’re here to simplify things a bit, just as we did in our V Rising beginner tips.

V Rising is a game that revolves around resource management, in addition to a bit of crafting and combat. You’ll need different kinds of blood to fuel pretty much everything – yourself, in addition to your castle and all the items you fill it with. In this guide we’re breaking down everything you need to know to use different kinds of blood effectively in V Rising.

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V Rising PvP guide: How to succesfully attack or defend a castle

If you’re playing on a V Rising PvP server, to defend yourself. Or maybe you’d rather attack? Either way, we’ve got tricks and tips for you.

Games like Rust and Minecraft’s anarchy servers have shown that there’s a lot of fun to be had in building up a grand base, only to have people try and break down the doors. If you want to play V Rising without the threat of coming under siege, then the PvE mode is right for you, but there are plenty of people out there who enjoy the thrill of battle with other players.

If you’re one of those players, then you’ll want to know not only how to keep yourself safe, but how to get all the juicy loot other players have stored away. In this guide, we’re going to take you through the best ways to keep your castle defended and fight off intruders on V Rising PvP servers. Then, we’re going to teach you the best ways to break down those defences when you attack.

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V Rising beginner tips to get you started

Being dropped into an open world with little guidance is daunting, that’s why we’ve got these tips to get you started in V Rising.

V Rising is a lot of things; an MMO, a survival game, and an RPG all rolled into one. It’s an expansive experience, but like all games as big as this, it can be hard to know where to start. Getting dropped into the world with little more than the shirt on your back is going to leave you scrambling around for a while before you find your footing, feeling more like a survival horror game.

To help you on your way, we’ve put together these tips which will walk you through your first couple of hours in the world, pointing out all the important things you need to know. We’ll give you tips on where to place your first castle, how to stay safe during the day, and what the hell V Blood is.

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V Rising passes 1 million units sold

Vampires and crafting go together well, it seems.

It’s always wild when something comes out of nowhere and is instantly a sensation. Crafting games go through this often, and V Rising is the latest contender.

On Tuesday, Stunlock Studios announced that V Rising has sold more than 1 million units since its launch on May 17, 2022. Accomplishing that in just over one week is quite something, especially for an early access title. It’s not terribly surprising, though, since V Rising has been tearing up Steam and Twitch consistently in the past week.

For those unfamiliar with V Rising (most people), it’s an isometric survival-crafting game all about vampires. Take Diablo, smash it together with Valheim, and throw some Castlevania for good measure. Boom, that’s V Rising.

Time will tell if V Rising can maintain its popularity, but thus far, Stunlock Studios seems to know what fans want. Community manager Jeremy Fielding certainly didn’t expect this level of success coming. The team began working on V Rising three years ago and revealed it in May 2021 to relatively little fanfare.

“It’s been a slow ramp-up,” Fielding said via IGN. “A very small company with a brand new IP? It took a lot of people a long time to start to take notice.”

Things didn’t really begin picking up until people could get their hands on V Rising.

“We really started to get a lot of attention when we went into closed beta, when people really got an opportunity to get their hands on the game,” Fielding continues. “I think that’s when they started paying attention, which makes sense. When you’re just hearing about the concept it’s really hard to grasp what it is.”

‘Dark fantasy survival action RPG with vampires’ is certainly a mouthful, so I get what Fielding is alluding to here. Seems like a winning combination, though.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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V Rising is already a massive hit on Steam and Twitch

The vampiric survival title is already shattering milestones.

Every so often, some little indie title comes from out of nowhere and takes the world by storm — stuff like Among Us, Phasmophobia, Valheim, and now V Rising.

On Friday, Stunlock Studios announced that V Rising has already amassed more than 500,000 players on PC. The gothic, open-world survival game with vampires didn’t have much hype before its early access launch on May 17, 2022, and just like that, it’s enormous! The studio did not explicitly state how many units of V Rising have sold yet, though there’s an up-front fee of $19.99. So yeah, it’s likely surpassed more than half a million in sales.

According to SteamDB, V Rising‘s all-time peak concurrent player count is hovering around 100,000 as of May 20, 2022, firmly placing the game in Steam’s top 10 most played titles. That number will likely skyrocket over the coming weeks as word of mouth travels around. It’s also sporting the ever-illusive “Very Positive” user review rating on the platform too.

It’s huge on Twitch as well. As of May 20, 2022, TwitchTracker indicates that V Rising boasts an average of more than 37,000 viewers. That may not sound like much, but keep in mind that the game has only been out three days.

Maybe all of this success is a flash in the pan, or maybe V Rising is the next big thing. We’ll find out soon enough.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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