Why V Rising Is Awesome ... But Flawed 

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Important to remember this game is early access still, hopefully this influx of cash from its initial soft release can help the developers make better updates in the future

About the travelling part, u can easily go get infinite amounts of horses from the 2nd zone even when ur only lvl 1. wich makes the game pretty much speed runnable. use portals and build your base near a rock passage. OH and i absolutely love the game, but my biggest problem is that the servers get crowded when its full pop and nowhere to build and also every server dies within days making you commit hours to wake up next day to an empty server... =/

The funny thing is, everything you mention as being annoying can actually be influenced in the advanced settings of the server creation. You could tweak this game to cover all of those gripes. For example, increase your castle hearts, or teleport with materials, lots of QoL options in the advanced.

you left out some pretty important info in regards to traveling. You get a horse, which doubles your movement speed, and you get access to caves, and bat form, which makes traveling better

I don't entirely agree with this review. My opinion is that the combat is one of the most satisfying combat systems in any currently existing survival game and to add to that, the speed at which your character moves contributes to that. If you're struggling to enjoy moving around the map due to the speed, I usually enter the wolf form when running around early game which is the ability you gain from the first boss or run up to the Dunley Farmlands and get yourself a horse which significantly increases traversal speeds. Overall this is a great innovative survival game that's extremely polished compared to other survival games upon release. The game is beautiful, smooth to play and great with or without friends. 10/10 from my perspective.

"i didnt like the game because a made a low lvl base, didnt move to a final location and now the base is too big to move"

To be fair, valheims dev team consists of 5 inexperienced developers, though it is a weird decision to not hire anyone after earning millions from the explosive success of the game. Maybe they're hoping to keep larger portions of the money by having a small team. I hope that it's more than just money, but modern games are rarely made with passion or soul as a deciding factor.

I think grinding is only fun for some people, and only when you do it like two times, so you have that feeling of mission acomplished. But every time a pvp server has a wipe, you need to do all the same stuff again, on the exact same order, all over again, with toxic hardcore 24/7 playing players on your back trying to steal your stuff, just to have to lose it all again in a few days. That is why everyone abandoned the game, PVE is nice, but it is a one time journey, you wont go trought the trouble of doing it all again just for the sake of doing it, and the PVP is an annoying and stressfull experience, running around the map with valuable stuff just to get killed or get your stuff stolen.

Horses, people. Use them, once you're in the Farmlands. They made moving my castle into the Farmlands very easy and quick.

as a long time Conan exiles/vallheim/grounded player, i have learned this. UR first base is never the real base or u will run into the map crossing problem alot.

I'm glad we have a common understanding with the Valheim thing.

"I play this game for the story, about as much as I play CS:GO for calm and relaxing conversations with the nicest humans in the world" We can all empathize on this one bro 🤣 Nice review!

I'm really loving this game, glad to see you reviewing it well

I'm liking the game but I'm quitting slowly bored because those exact reasons. The sunlight mechanic is just annoying and limiting and travelling times are ridiculous. I feel like I'm wasting my time rather than having fun, because, it's ok that it's grindy but if you limit too much when and how I can grind, it's just empty time waiting. For example, you die in a boss battle, your base is far away, you respawn at the nearest portal and if it's not the correct time of the day you just WAIT to the next afternoon doing nothing because you don't want to walk 20 minutes back to your castle, so you don't farm anything either. I have been so frustrated and bored with that loop that I feel lazy to "play" it more, even despite that the rest of the game is quite amazing

You can use the cave system to bring resources back to your base. Just gotta work out where they lead

You can have 2 castle hearts so technically you can make 2 castles, one at the top and one at the bottom, and while it's a little tedious to move castles it can be done.

Let's be real though. Vampyr was a pretty good game. Sure, tons of dialogue and less eating humans, and even less if you decided not to eat humans. It was honestly a pretty solid game, and the fact that you choose who you will become is a nice touch. Just because you're a vampire doesn't mean you have to be bad. V Rising though looks very nice, I'm hesitant still cause I'm scared it wont be like Diablo 3 which I enjoyed thoroughly until I stopped playing. Which is probably a good thing, but to me the whole Diablo deal is a nice aspect to a game. But it's not that much so I might just pick it up. Great video!

16:00 "My favorite way is to get a stone golem to follow me while I dodge the attacks"... (gets hit by attack) Also you may be interested to know that a lot of the things you say you didn't enjoy actually have super easy solutions that you just maybe didn't discover yet. Travel is annoying and slow? You can go from one side of the entire map to the other with a horse and wranglers potion in about 3 minutes. I'm honestly not sure making travel any faster would be a good thing, it wouldn't make sense to just zip from one side to the other in a minute. It would make the world feel small. Also there are teleporters you can get for your BASE, and cave passages. So you can build your base near a cave, then teleport out to the map, collect resources, and take the cave passage back and be right back near your base. The combat: I'm honestly flabbergasted that anyone can dislike this combat. It's one of the most slick combat systems of any game I've ever played. I think the combat system makes this game, and I can't wait to see SL studios flesh that out more. Keep in mind, the game isn't at version 1.0 yet. It's still not a finished game. It's one of the best games I've ever played, and it's not even finished yet. You can tell I'm a huge fan.

This is funny, because when I fought Nicholaus the Fallen, there was another boss ranger nearby and I somehow aggroed both and they started attacking each other. The ranger won btw.

You can fast travel by changing the settings in the saved files. It would help you travel from your base to the next portal and from there you can run to your destination, it is a little bit better than running there. You can also use the portal to go back to your base with items if you have that option enabled. I tried to find settings allow increase movement speed but I can't but horse does help

"Why haven't we seen more Vampires in gaming nowadays?" CASTLE F-ING VANIA my dude...

Pretty spot-on on... everything, actually, especially 12:57. The game is awesome but having to spend majority of playtime traversing burns me out so fast and I am not even done with the bosses yet.

bro I'm watching your videos one by one and I still can't belive how honest and accurate you are, it's amazing

The game is an indie game at 20 bucks, it is an absolute steal.

Travel gets significantly better when you get a horse. You can find them in the farm area and they're pretty fast

You should try using horses and wranglers potion if you have travelling so much, really helps cut down on the time! A decent review of the game though, I was kinda of the same sleeping on the game at the start but seeing that it has a lot of potential

Quick travel tips, map out the fast travel cave points. They go from the more northern zones down to the south. Most of the south exits are up on cliffs and you jump down.

thats why as a lvl10 I build bases in farmlands or silverlight LOL! But this game is pretty great!

I've got a castle at the East side of the starting zone with all the cave exit points leading to it which works out to be beneficial since I built my own waygate so not only is it easier to move round and cut valuable minutes off your travel but combined with the cave system that allows you to bring back loot I can probably turn a 30 minute job into a 7 minute job.

I think that the game wants to push you to move especially because most base locations in Farbane woods are small and cramped. You can't expand your base. I just wish they made dismantling your base easier. The small thing I've found annoying is that without looking at the map traversing can be a little counterintuitive

Great review and very solid points, personally I really get invested into base building and dont like the idea of someone destroying it Xd so im mostly a pve player and have rented a server with my friends and it has been amazing, Im super excited for upcoming expansions as well (we can already see 2 potential future areas, one being the ruins in the center of farmlands that we cant enter and the other blackened out snowy part of the map which is only accessible with 2 bridges that have been cut off)

i mean unless you're on a server that only lets you have one base, just make another one? idk why that's so difficult lol... i was playing with 3 others and by the end we had 4 bases in hot spots on the map. lot easier to do it that way. even if you're solo, you should at least be able to make two castle hearts, so just make another base further north or in some area that you plan on farming resources in. regardless though, i do agree that traveling across the map is annoying as fuck, but that's why i just made another base.

There are no vampire games anymore "Cries in Castlevania"

"Nothing with longevity" Really throwing Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines under the sun here, dayum.

Ty! I wanted to know more about this game but couldnt find any decent review

Every Single Server Dies

The movement/traveling aspect isn’t flawed actually. You just gotta use horses and waygates. It becomes pretty fun once you do that Good video tho. Rly enjoyed it

u say traveling sucks but it really doesn't, it takes 2mins to travel from cursed forest to fairbane woods on a horse, you can even use cave passages to save even more time, u can tp with ur horse to any waygate, to a boss or farm location, you only have to think about the run back

Horses for travel, theyre in dunley farms, many of the spots are easy enough to access once you have appropriate gest to go into that area. Get a fast horse, run around unlocking all the teleporters in dunley, and then you'lle always have a tp close to a horse spawn when you lose it

Two things annoying the f out of me with this game. The first is that it's keyboard only, my brain doesn't compute having to press multiple keys while also having to continually press a mouse button to readjust the camera while having to change 'wasd' to compensate for the direction the camera is pointing while also having to reorient the cursor just to attack where you want to attack. The second is that to even get to a lot of the boss you have to go through countless enemies first and a lot of the enemies you fight can summon enemies of their own. Then you have to fight multiples enemies who do insane damage all while your fingers get knotted up trying to remember which key is which, lol. That you can can't/barely heal while fighting too is also annoying AF.

Everything you’re saying about traveling, sounds like you didn’t play into any of the systems that the game provides for you. Yes the game could be better at showing how to utilize Cave Passages, and the personal gateway, but you don’t have to play for long to discover them on your own eventually. The further you progress in the game, the further away you have to travel on your adventures, but at the same time the game introduces new and better traveling methods. In tier 1 you will most likely obtain the wolf form, and you will have the abilities to utilize the waygates you discover. By the end of tier 1 you can unlock the ability to build your own waygate, by defeating the feywalker, making the waygate network accesible from home base. In tier2 you will find yourself mostly in Dunley Farmlands, where you will most imoortantly notice horses everywhere. You now have the ability to use the waygate from you base, to teleport out, and ride your horde home. In dunley you will also have acces to the first cave passage entry, which has an exit in the middle of farbane, allowing you to effectively tp out with waygate, and tp home through the cave. In tier3 you will have even more cave passage options, silverlight also has horses, and as the cherry on top you can unlock the batform, by killing Styx, which allows you to literally fly across the map. Important note: you can bring horses through waygate and caves. You can even bring seduced enemies through caves. As you reach the late game, you might very likely also have unlocked wrangler potion, for increased horse speed, or have a prisoner with high quality worker blood, for increased horse speed. I personally think the traveling in this game is amazing. There are plenty of options, but not to a point where you teleport whereever you want, whenever you want. This in my opinion is what makes it interesting to pick a good spot for your base. I do However agree, that the game is a little lazy at educating the player on these travleling systems. Edit: Sorry for errors, types this on my phone with a non-english dictionairy activated ❤️

Yo, just a heads up, experienced players have no issues with traveling. If you know all the cave locations, and if you build a teleporter in your base, you can easily teleport next to anywhere you need to go, and then use caves to get back to your base quickly with resources. You can teleport with horses, and then ride them back, using the caves as needed as well. Trust me, traveling in this game actually needs a NERF, it is part of the reason servers die in like a day, because experienced players can finish the game that quickly using these tricks. Edit: east farbane is the most OP base location for speedrunning the game.

Hey Robo. Just wondering when are you gonna touch upon Rhythm FPS roguelike game called BPM? We got Metal Hellsinger next too another one like it but would be nice if you touch upon the first one of its genre

God I hate this thing that if you have resources on you, you can't use teleporters, why lately every survival use this thing?

I was looking for a survival crafting game and saw this but i'm not really into vampires so didn't get it. Then I later decided to get it and give it a try and i LOVE it. I like grinding and this game seems to do it right.

A friend gifted it. I played for an hour & I fell for its charm. I bought the dlc & really enjoy it, it's got quirks & gifts. Very balanced enjoyable grind with a noticeable touch of annoyance but still enjoyable. Vast map & lots of potential that could come.

Love the review. Good representation of the game. Progress isn't so linear though. I got bored after my first play through so now I just do speedruns. And ALL of the speedrunning stratergies involves skipping certain bosses.

I recently started playing this solo on a pvp server and it hasn't been a bad experience at all. PvP isn't always fair but it can be easy to avoid. Players in the servers are actually less toxic then I am which is hard to imagine.

i really like the game but i need it to have controller support, is that going to be in the full game?

What really rubbed me the wrong way about this game is that the developers took every attack animation of their previous game (that i loved) and they abandoned and neglected that game and just copy pasted those animations onto this game. Feels like a total middle finger to fans of their previous game. they're just into it for the short term with every game it feels like because they done this before.

The game is really fun and keeps things fresh! The thing that annoys me is the decay of the castle. Not sure if I am missing something, but the castle decays even when I'm not playing. I can't play this everyday, life does not allow that 🤦🏻‍♀️

regarding the traveling you need to use top horses, wrangler potion, and teleporters in your base to go where you need you can also take horses through teleporters, I hope you knew that...

@RoboKast Have you tried Dragon's Dogma?

ngl the when I heard the word “wipe” I was turned off of the idea of playing the game it just doesn’t seem like the type of game that should have a wipe to me especially if everything stays the same every time.

I'm really enjoying this, and this video is excellent in making me stick around to play more. I love Valheim and it's a shame the team at Irongate aren't on the same progression rate as this one is.

love ya robokast, but unless i missed something, have you forgotten about horses, makes travling a lot better

I hate being able to siege bases in these games. I usually love pvp but I'd like to actively play it instead of "oh, did you go to work today? sucks to be you, build a new base."

Played on 4 servers and finally on the 4th I maxed out on day 4. The servers all seem to die after a few days and after finally maxing out I think my time is done. Was a lot of fun, first time playing survival but once you hit the end for me it was indeed...the end. There isn't enough PVP or set ups for PVP for it to keep me entertained. Almost wish it was a MMO instead.

the travel is fun for me tbh. Same as it was in valheim.

My issue might be the constant need to collect essence and you can’t take a break to play something else

The battle system is cool. Battling a group of mobs in daytime under a road giving shadows under one tree is cool. Its like a movie grand dual

The absolute underated game,this game almost didnt need to be an mmo,i played it with one other friend and it does not feel like an mmo.if they go to the coop path and not mmo then i cpuld have been the absolute best game

I was interested, but haven't played it because of the lack of controller support. My PC is hooked up to my TV, I have no PC monitor and can't really play mouse and keyboard on my couch, so if they ever support a Controller, I might give it a shot.

You get 2 castle hearts so you can build a new castle in a higher level regions. Just a little tip xD

Tell me you've never been to bright haven without telling me you've never been to bright haven.

Paused the video when he said data 2 RuneScape thing??? wtf do those two have in common and what the f does that have to do with this game???

Starting this game as a solo player, do you think I should play on PVE first to learn the systems etc. or just jump right into PVP servers??

it would be awesome if the devs could add pvp for pve servers. for example you recieve a fighting request from a player and now its on you if you accanpt or decline this request.

13:55 this is incorrect. There are teleporters and cave systems. The caves allow you to hold on to loot. You don't get a bit closer through teleporting, you get a lot closer. You make it seem like you have to walk on foot back when you can actually ride a horse. Riding a horse is very quick. It takes me like 30 sec usually to get from my base to where I'm going.

Theres now a lot more to this game. Though weapons are still pretty same after a while. Theres also now caves to shorten some distance, also you eventually get second castle. Also i dont know how it was back then but bosses arent that liniar. Ive beat tons of stage 2 bosses before beating Fay boss cause it was giving too much trouble. Also some bosses are equal level so interchangabe. And some bosses need you to beat higher bosses to even craft their stuff.

what anime was the girl counting the sunglower seeds from?

God I missed robocraft when I was younger

they should do a castlevania thing with the castle where you can teleport the castle to different locations

Travel is perfect, when they added mini copters to rust it changed everything.

Iron ore can be found in a lot of places, not only in the iron mine.

You either only played 5 hours or you're being negative for views... 1. You can have multiple castles 2. You can get several sun resistance items 3. There's literally teleporters around the map and horses that move at the speed of sound 4. The combat isn't annoying in any way, except for fire archers, it has amazing variety and makes you feel like an actual vampire with all the awesome things you can do, and the downsides (being able to execute mobs by ripping out their blood vs standing in the shade during the day) If you are baiting people that actually played this game to comment on your video, congratz..

This review needs a TL;DR

WORTH PLAYING! Hope for Harry...fun. I was skeptical too. Hard to believe it is early access. This game has so much promise.

This is like a Legacy of Kain MOBA

I would play this if it came to console

Was playing solo, about 30-40 hours in I hit a wall where i couldnt solo any of the bosses I desperately needed to up my gear score, ended up gettin frustrated bouncing between the spider queen and big ol frog and just said F it and quit [Edit] another aspect that could have helped me that I knew about was potions, I didnt make any. Why? I didnt know any recipes for them. Why? I spent 10 hours trying to grind scrolls and got none of the recipes I needed. Random reaserch sucks.

"...more grinding than a shitty high school dance" Well someone sounds bitter lol

:D there are cave systems that let you fast travel around.

Gonna review again after the massive reworks gloomrot added?

I am in that vid. My name I use is Godfrey!

Waiting for a good vampire game since Fkg Vampire the masquerade... (yeah im old..)

I just about only agree with one negative thing and that's about not being able to teleport with items in inventory, otherwise i like everything except the camera angle being too steep ^^

I Find v rising too awesome

Traversing the map is annoying at first but after you get a horse....oh i really love my horse.Shame is beige and white and ruins the gothic jam..... but every single black horse i get is slow AF.... dont know if its intentional or just RNG playing a prank on me...... The Map is Beautifull

14:40 I've heard enough, thank you.

Anime name of vampire girl obsesively counting seeds?

Not everyone wants Roguelikes or looking to have several playthroughs. Having to fight the same bosses every time you start a new game sounds like the norm of most games...

You should make a video on terraria of why its so awesome but if you havent played ot before definitely try it, one of my all time favorite games and its only $10

did you forget about our morb and savior Morbius? How could you???

Is the game worth playing without building a castle? I don't have enough time to deal with the castle decay. That's probably the reason why I'm gonna have to refund the game, unless there's a way to not play for a month and still not lose the castle.

Having a lot of fun with it. Good game!

WHAT IS THAT GAME when he"s flying trough the sky I NEED TO know xD

It's Morbin' time

Its great but I hate that progress is tied to servers and not characters like in valheim (yes, i know its because of pvp)