V RISING Solo Experience In 2024 Is .... - Early Game Review

In this video, we preview the singleplayer experience of V Rising, its opening hours as well as full final release version of this survival action RPG. V Rising takes the bread and butter sandbox survival game idea and turns it up a notch with its heavy emphasis on combat and the somewhat controversial day&night mechanic in the game. You are indeed a vampire in V Rising and thats all pros and cons included so does it do enough to warrant a playthrough as the king (or queen) of the night or is it doomed under the light of day (its a vampire reference, please dont leave)
...Broski how should I know so here are my first impressions on the opening hours of VRising
WARNING: Minor story spoilers in the gameplay and commentary ahead! You have been warned by broski..
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[@NeillSmith]

Played in EA to completion on default settings and returned with the full launch to dip in for bit. #1 thing that stands out to me having played the game across multiple versions and in both single player and co-op is for a single player playthrough there are a couple settings you should 100% tweak in the 'server' settings when creating your world to have a better experience going solo: 1. Inventory stack size - should be set to max IMO. With a coop group you can raid together and share mats across multiple inventories but solo it's just you so crank it up. Honestly I think even in group play the default stack size is too low. 2. Crafting rate - should be set to max IMO. you mention it in the video about the speed of the crafting stations and it is an issue because the game was designed around online play with dedicated servers where you'd put a stack of stuff in the machine and let it run *while you're offline*. For a single player game with no dedicated server that's only running when you're in the game tweak the crafting rate to be much faster. 3. Mission Rewards - similar to crafting rate these were balanced around always being online with the high end missions taking hours to finish. On a dedicated server you'd fire one off and come back to the rewards the next day but playing solo it will be multiple play sessions before some of the longer high end missions will finish. So, IMO, you can work around this somewhat by cranking up the rewards multiplayer on missions. 4. Fast Travel Limits - should be turned off IMO. You mentioned this too and it's because the game is balanced around ganking players while they travel back to base with resources. In a single player environment it doesn't really do anything to have this limit but add a bunch of extra traversal time. 5 Resource Gathering Rate - if you don't want to punch as many trees and rocks for mats crank this up. 1 feels like it was intended for group play IMO where you have multiple people working to gather multiple stacks of mats at once. Personally I think in as a solo player 1.5 or 2 feels best. If you really don't like the resource gathering parts of games like this max it out.

[@eloeden2056]

thanks for the tips !!

[@gamerstroveTV]

Damn I love this!! Thank you so much for the tips brother! All amazing things that fix pretty much all the "issues" I found during my early hours 👀 I forget that this game is build around online play so thats why there are certain "features" in the game but amazing! Pinned!

[@HppyP3m]

Completely agree. Glad someone already mentioned this. The fact that we can just fully customize the difficulty & amount of grinding in a solo game made it playable & enjoyable for me. The game default settings are a "playable" middle ground for both PvP coop & solo PvE, so ofc it won't be perfect gameplay experience for both cases unless we tweak it to our liking imo.

[@ShaddoII]

servant hunts work offline now. No need to crank it imo. I had it at 3x but tuned it down once I figured out it still works as intended in private games

[@gamerstroveTV]

@@ShaddoII Servant hunts!?! Brother this game keeps on giving huh

[@s0lace462]

Well made video, but the title is a little misleading. I thought you were going to talk about playing solo, not give a basic overview and review for someone who has never played the game…

[@gamerstroveTV]

I get that broski... but I am playing it solo 😅 This does give me an idea on a future video of trying to survive in a online world as a "solo" player 👀

[@ShinForgotPassxXx]

I made the night longer and set the loot drop rate to x2. The game works perfectly great like this. I play on normal and beat every boss with my scythe, blood rain and chaos volley. The Mission waiting time is absolutely ridiculous for single players and you SHOULD be able to reduce the time to any ammount you like. It should not make you wait longer than 2 hours at the best prepared settings. Apart from this, game works great and I do not need to grind that hard. I think you can get all the schematics in 6 or 8 hours if you do grind for them easily.

[@gamerstroveTV]

Ooh okay thats good to know! Can I tweak the settings on an existing save file then or do I need to start a new one? Because a few people have said to change some world settings 😅

[@oserus999]

200 hours in, and still loving it.

[@gamerstroveTV]

Thats awesome broski 😁So after 200h what are some things you would like added/changed in the game? 🤔

[@oserus999]

@@gamerstroveTV Maybe something post end game? Basically once you beat Dracula, you're done. Except for just making your castle pretty, there isn't anything to do after that. I'll come back to the game when they add more or have a DLC (which I'd happily pay for), but for now....

[@gamerstroveTV]

@@oserus999 hmm okay, kind of a bummer that there is no end game content 🥲 but I know if the base is this damn good then they will for sure add some more stuff in the near future 😄

[@oserus999]

@@gamerstroveTV I don't doubt they will add more stuff. The dev team has been great all through this journey.

[@StupendousFool]

Funny and informative video, underrated content brother!

[@gamerstroveTV]

Thank you bromigo! (*sees your name, gets sudden urge to start speaking finnish 😁)

[@StupendousFool]

@@gamerstroveTV I'm impressed you recognized it as finnish :D

[@gamerstroveTV]

@@StupendousFool Brother lemme tell you something.. oon asunu melkein koko elämäni suomessa🤣

[@BlenderHmn]

Bought v rising shortly after it came out on steam. And like so many I waited for full release. And I can say they made the game so much better its almost uncompareable, especially how you earn spells its very rewarding.

[@gamerstroveTV]

I think they have mastered the gameplay loop of craft, hunt & upgrade because its just so damn rewarding and the sense of progression is constant. There have been only a few occasions where I didnt know what to work towards next!

[@Omnidestrophic]

Bruh. I love this game.

[@gamerstroveTV]

Its very good 😬

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[@valompel1339]

you can fast travel with wood and stone, but not with ores, ingots and crafted items. I don't why they did this because it is a Viking mythology thing. This is only for waygates. When you discover the cave tunnel system, you can fast travel with everything.

[@gamerstroveTV]

@@valompel1339 Okay thats very good to know broski! Thank you for this because I was scratching my head over why 😁

[@PerfectGameQuest]

I got a couple plane rides coming up, and if I can play this on the Steam Deck then I think I'll get it. Great video as always broski!

[@gamerstroveTV]

Ooh since hitting 1k you've become mr worldwide I see 🤣 It IS very much playable on the Steam Deck as I have been planning on trying it out too! Apparently there might be some control scheme issues dou so it might require some tinkering.