V Rising is now 30% off on Steam for a limited time only! wehy.pe/y/2/IronPineapple As a quick channel update, yes, I'm still playing the Elden Ring DLC and I'm finishing up a challenge run for it. I'll probably make one or two more videos on the DLC? Just depends on if I think they're entertaining enough. But yeah, super fun doing another video with the Keebler squad (Raz and yakko) for a game that's actually pretty good, hope you guys enjoy! Also I mention it briefly at 7:33, but you can easily tweak the server settings for V Rising and it's seemingly encouraged by the community. So if you're like me and wanna focus more on the combat, just increase the drops from resource nodes and reduce crafting times. We did x2 resources and x6 crafting/refining speeds. Felt like a sweet spot that didn't upset the balance/progression, highly recommend.
A mechanic I think you might have missed, that makes Octavian's spin dodgeable, is that when you dodge you leave behind a clone, and that clone pulls aggro on things. Meaning when you hear him start the ability you run away as much as you can and then dash back through him. He will continue to attack the clone as long as it exists while you run back the other way. There are a bunch of abilities you can dodge by doing this. The other major one, especially in brutal difficulty, is that enemies will track you a lot more aggressively so walking and then backstepping to trick the prediction is a mandatory skill in brutal. I think you would love brutal difficulty, would be a great video if you have time some day. The final 4 bosses will kick your ass repeatedly.
This game can be very rage inducing when playing solo. I was fighting Simon Belmont and had him down to a sliver of health. He did his crazy AOE attack knocked down all the trees. I dodged everything while trying to stay in the shade and I accidently aggro a group of enemies and get killed by a stray arrow
"Fuck it, Rat Mode" followed by the explanation "it means when you eat something you probably shouldn't and then don't shower for an extra day" is one of the funniest and most relatable things I've ever heard.
I really love how some of the bosses are basically just regular jobs, but super powered. Like, we have the fisherman who can fish up sea monsters to attack you, and the glassblower who shoots molten glass that can cool into shrapnel bombs. Makes me wonder what they could do with weirder stuff like a cobbler(shoemaker).
The biggest issue I've got with the bosses is that they keep running away, I mean it's happened so many times now that they'll be below 50% HP and they'll just run away with an instant HP reset...it's VERY annoying!!
You should definetely do a playthrough on Brutal. It's not just a harder game mode, the bosses actually get new mechanics as well, and a lot of them are actually really cool. Brutal makes you feel like you're playing a souls like, you have to dodge every hit from bosses, as it takes two or three shots to die in a fight.
I concur. Brutal Dracula is one of my favorite fights in any game ever. Took me probably 40-50 tries to get him but it’s such a fun fight once you learn it.
that would be cool if the dash wasnt on an 8 second cooldown. it should be half that, dodging things on brutal is an absolute chore and isnt fun at all.
@@smurfdaddy420 there are only like 2 or 3 attacks in the game that cant be dodged with basic movement so the veil cooldown isn't to big of a problem. you can reduce through blood types and stuff too if you really want to.
@@Thebees21 Many spells can be used while moving. I never felt like I was just walking around during a fight that much. Especially when you get more CD, there's always some form of damage coming out.
Love this game. I adore how they let you change pretty much every setting, to make things as easy, hard, grindy or relaxed as you want. I jacked up all the item drops to reduce resource grind and pretty much turned off the castle heart decay to give myself a really relaxed adventure. I put about 60 hours into the game before I beat the last boss and finished with it. Highly recommended.
Funny, i played vrising on brutal with one friend of mine, the grandama that keeps running from you actually turns into a demon when reachs 50% health, kinda sad that this doesnt happen on normal mode, the brutal add alot of mechanics to bosses
Yup! I switched my server from default to brutal and share the pain with others. If you're really into the game dont waste more time in default mode, go Brutal!
I started on Brutal and it's pretty tight. Watching normal is pissing me off, bosses don't even have all their moves and the moves they do have are nerfed. Pineapple should restart on Brutal to get the whole package.
@@dreamhaze9123 surely its waaay better for a casual playthrough, me and my friends are always stuck at one boss for 1 day and the next days we get stuck at another boss
The shade mechanic is good because survival games always have the "good" time of day and the 'bad" time of day. AKA night. This game flips the script. Night is the best time to be out. Day is a bad time to be out but unlike other survival games, there's counter play. You're not bumbling in pitch darkness. That's why it's super satisfying as a mechanic.
To be fair, some games do make it so that you can opt to counter night by, for example, giving up your shield/two-handed weapon to carry a lightsource, or some other relatively passive stuff like that, but yeah, slinking from shadow to shadow seems much more active and engaging.
@@reanamet1901 I think most games counter the night by allowing you to sleep through it and skip time. I saw the vampire coffins in the video, though I'm not sure if you could skip daytime with them. Anyway - WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE A CURSE.
@@Lernos1i can confirm sleeping in the coffin doesnt pass time - because its fully designed as an online multiplayer game the time is tied to the server. it seems to be meant more as an afk idle spot from my guess. thankfully as a tradeoff if you make a private server you can change length of full days and how long daylight lasts
@@dumbsterdives Well, in a lot of multiplayer survival games (Minecraft, The Forest etc.) you can still skip the night if every single player on the server goes to bed. I'm guessing that doesn't work in V either? A shame if that's the case, but yeah, I guess there's that server setting.
I love how they're wondering what kind of vampires they are WHILE they chase and terrorize what is clearly a somewhat elderly woman around watching her cower in fear
For some reason I find it mad infuriating that Pineapple doesn't rotate the camera during combat to keep the target in sight lol. It was one of the first things I started doing when I played. It certainly is a fun game. The survival/crafting mechanics are not everyones cup of tea but you can adjust them. In fact the entirely game is amazingly adjustable to be how you want it to be, eg if you're playing solo turn off the limit on teleporting with stuff in your inventory.
"If you wanna see more you can play the game yourself with the link in the description" (everyone laughing) (fades away) "...ummm, do you guys believe in god?"
Fun times Mr. Iron P. Apple. For those that would be irritated by the occasional sun waiting (Im in the camp of these folk that I think its just on the right side of annoying that I enjoy playing around it) you can adjust how much of the day is sun in your world/server settings. Regardless on your sun feelings, I would recommend disabling the teleport limitations on items, feels bad unlocking the buildable waygate and not really getting to use it cause of what you're carrying most of the time.
It really is such a weird fucking descision that makes no sense to me. Why block a player from using a teleporter if they have something in their inventory that is so goddamn easy and plentiful to get, even when not actively trying to gather it??? Is it some kind of anti-gank measure??
@@roddygonzalez2017 It is a PvP setting and can be turned off on the settings as well. They really just do not do that good of a job telling solo players that.
@@roddygonzalez2017 It's so when you're playing on a PVP server, there's actually people jogging around with valuables that you can ambush. Otherwise pvp would be worthless and impossible with everybody teleporting everywhere.
@@almond5284 I also figured it was so if someone like, snuck into your castle and got access to your unsecured chests, there were limits on what they could just sprint to a waygate with, etc. ... Though realizing it was specifically a PvP thing definitely made me go into my server settings and switch that right the heck off.
@@roddygonzalez2017 Yeah probably a mixture of pvp balancing and its just a really common mechanic in survival games with teleports, but I think their answer to pvp vs pve balancing is giving you a lot of control over your server settings. Sometimes Im down with the limit... like in valheim I think it enforces the intended gameplay of going on a long journey and getting back with your ill-gotten gains (plus they just added an improved portal without limits). I've played V rising with and without the limits, without feels better imo.
Oh this game is great! I don't usually like survival games at all, but the perspective makes building good looking bases relatively easily, and it's so customizable you can get rid of some survival game elements you might not like that much. Besides, it's the best way to experience the classic "lives in a Fancy Castle, raids villages, has a weakness to garlic" fantasy which not even Vampire the Masquerade does justice.
VtM is set in the modern day. This game is set in the 'Golden Age' of vampirism. It's literally a plot point in the original Dracula novel that the golden age of vampirism is slowly ending because it's 1893 and you can no longer buy a fancy castle without a paper trail and some form of government ID. You can't have Fancy Castle vampirism in the modern day, and VtM knows that so it's not even trying.
That goreswine + chaos archer moment is peak V rising. I love that the world feels dynamic and the bosses would have actually fought each other because they're different factions so you can actually manipulate bosses into killing each other
Fun Fact: in the pre-1.0 update, the "Deposit All" button used to be "Compulsively Count", referencing an obscure piece of old vampire lore in which they have arithmomania! (the obsessive compulsion to count)
Me and my friend just dove into this game two weeks ago, it’s surprisingly a blast. I had mixed thoughts before playing but then after playing it with friends it’s amazing. Never thought this kinda game would be up my alley but I can’t stop playing it 😂
I am really happy you guys went for this, this is my so favorite game, extra long, PvP, PvE good boss fights and fully customizable and can play just with friends, just love this, first playthrought took me 70 hours, so definitely worth it
Absolutely loved this game while completing it, glad to see you guys enjoy it. The endgame bosses are some of the more fun pve ive played in a game for a long time, enjoy!
Our friend set up a server and it was a ton of fun to play. Finally ended up beating the last boss with like 6 people, it was a hard fuckin fight but I really like the game overall. (we also turned up resource drops by a bit, just to spend less time farming and more time killing bosses)
I played this game when it initially started its early access, but back then stopped during act 2 because some things were really annoying / bothering. This video and lots of comments got me hyped again, gonna start a new run tomorrow
Probably the best combat out of any survival crafting game. It amazes me how many of these games there are and how pretty much all of them have the most basic combat imaginable.
Brutal mode adds a ton of fun mechanics to the bosses. Beatrice in particular is a nice change. Highly recommended. It really makes you learn the mechanics. There's no face tanking. You just die if you screw up. Also makes you learn how to use counters and blocks. I solo'd the entire game. Some bosses like Octavian, you equip two shield or counter spells. Helps with his 4 charges too. You can do like dodge counter counter dodge. Also you guys definitely should've learned alchemy...you can make healing potions.
I played this from day 1 of the 1.0 release up until Shadow of the Erdtree release, and is exactly what I'm going back to once I'm done with Elden Ring. Well... that and Darkest Dungeon 2. I'm in heaven this year
7:35 Same dawg, I've been playing the game in early access for a long time, and I've almost always had resources and refinement max boosted. On the other hand, I also have my own HP turned down a lot, and Boss HP + Damage turned up to make it more spicy and terrifying. Weapon damage down and spell damage up, cause I felt like there's no real point to juggling my spells into my combos when weapons out-damage in the long run. I also made the nights longer than the days so that I can walk to and from areas without too much trouble, enabled use of portals whilst carrying all items, and turned the effects of silver and garlic way down. That's really something I adore about V Rising. My experience is probably way different from most, because you can just edit so many settings about your little world. 59:32 Here's a few tricks for avoiding damage, if you don't mind spoiling yourself a little. It's fun to find these things out for yourself, but I just wanna point out that, even in 1v1, he's not an unfair fight. I've only played the game solo, so I had more of a defensive playstyle. When you go to Feed on a low enemy, you become invulnerable whilst traveling towards the enemy. You can then attack to execute the enemy and end the Feeding immediately on arrival. This essentially allows for situational dodging. Keeping enemy minions alive at low HP is a good trick to keep in mind. Like you noticed with your sword, your actual dodge ability is not your only dodge. Having a dodge or a shield ability is very handy, but even outside of that, make sure to hold your dash, and hold your weapon abilities that allow dodging. Abilities like that spin are usually balanced by making turning around difficult for the boss. You are often dashing away from him, but that won't really help you. Instead, you should be dodging through him. I recommend keeping one of the dash abilities that allow you dodge twice in quick succession, such as the Chaos Dash. That way, you can dash through him, and then when he turns around, dash through him a second time. This buys you a lot of time to outlast him. If you then also have a shielding ability, such as the frost or unholy one, you can buy more time, then weapon dodge, and then your dash should be up again, if he isn't yet done spinning. The Slashers are pretty objectively the best weapons for defense, is what I've found. When you go invisible, instead of benefitting from the damage, just stay invisible. The boss will lose track of you, and just kinda stand there looking stupid. This buys you a few seconds of cooldown on your other abilities. This is especially useful with stuff like that spinning attack, as he just spins in place when he has no target to follow. This allows you to focus solely on dodging the projectiles that come outta him.
This game is amazing I played through all of it twice in a month and had a blast. They have come so far from when early access launched to the state the game is now. They finely tuned everything. Highly recommend trying it for yourself and coming up with new builds. I did a lot of chaos magic and Illusion magic in a sorcerer build for my first run, then an attack speed, lightening man for my second.
@@elyrienvalkyr8167 I don't think y'all understand what a dead game is, but it's not dead lol and it's certainly not a bad game either. Maybe just not for you and you should realize that's okay lmao
I'm so glad you bring that game, i loved so much and really liked the video, you guys showed a lot of the mechanics in the game and believe it or not there is even more cool things, algo if you are wandering, there is a harder difficulty and it change bosses moves and add a lot
It makes me so happy seeing folks enjoying V Rising! I played it back in early access before it was officially released and it's come so far with all of the content they've added for it. Definitely one of my favorite isometric survival/crafting games :3.
Thank you Pine and Friends. I've been thinking about getting this game and then you posted this and I fell in love with what I saw. I just bought it!! So hyped!
As someone who has over 200 hours in this game, has played through all of the recent major updates on release I can safely say that this game is some of the most fun I've had playing solo as well as with friends. I would highly recommend it.
This was such a fun watch, much like your Remnant 2 video. You guys have such great chemistry and it helps that you genuinely appreciate the game design. Thanks so much for all the work, it was a wild ride!
This was on my list of games to check out because I wanted a new survival crafting game. With how cool some of these bosses are I'm probably going to pick it up next
The bosses are much cooler on Brutal mode. There are even bosses in Brutal mode that aren't in normal mode. Like Beatrice Demon or the ice serpent from the Fisherman.
"how do you deal with this in solo ?" well, there is a few ways :P - Getting your gear to the correct level - keeping your dash to get out of the spin - using a barrier to block projectiles - healing potions - a high quality blood of the right type will help tremendously too You guys are making it a challenge for yourselves though, so that's fun to watch. Hopefully you guys will eventually check out the hardcore mode when you get more experience with it, so you can truly feel the difficulty of the bossfights :P Fun video btw, can't wait to see the the part 2 (fingers crossed, at least !)
Ive put in over 500 hours since its 1.0 release, about 100 hours spent on playing through the game twice on Brutal, the rest just building several castles on a private server. One of the best games i've played in years and probably the single greatest vampire game outside of the Legacy of Kain franchise for me.
as a longtime stunlock fan, im so fucking happy that this game is getting more love and publicity! i've been playing since some of the earlier EA versions, and it felt like a complete game even then, but comparing the amount of content and refinement of some systems between then and the release version is like night and day; the love and care the devs have poured into making VR is so apparent i really want the game to be succesful; it allows for such an incredibly customizable experience i can't help but recommend it to everyone and their mothers
I'm surprised you managed to miss this game until now :D I really think you would enjoy a brutal playthrough. It actually also gives the bosses more mechanics, some of which are just really really cool!
Me and my friend discoverd a cool souls like called "perennial order" Its a boss rush, one shot kill souls where you only fight bosses, do some puzzles and light platforming
Love this game. A bit slower and tactical Hades-like combat with about 50 or so bosses to get through. Best part is you can make it as grindy as you want by adjusting the resource drop rates, crafting cost and crafting speed.
Yea this is a great game. Especially if you like vampires. But even if you don´t the combat system is fun (Battlerite devs so thats where that comes from), and the bosses, progress and exploration are very nice. Loved your rat-mode stealth segment :D
Hell yeah, glad to see you also like this game Pineapple. I honestly enjoy it fully despite it gets a bit tricky for how much you have to do for like mid game and late game gear. The bosses are really unique but the only one I’ll complain is one where they call reinforcements (I normally play solo)
The spam attacks and spinny moves are counterable with any kind of shield abilities (not the bubble +hp ones, the other kind of shields), even while being solo. Also - the bosses are scaling according the number of players participating in the combat. Love the showcase!
