The map is full of points of interest, from mines to bandit camps, caves to crypts, small villages, and so on. V Rising’s map is large, split into five different areas. It’s extremely well-paced, which was welcomed as survival games typically suffer from information overload when you first boot them up.īy now, you’ve probably left the cemetery and ventured into the open-world proper. You can do all of the above without anything equipped, but as you’d expect, equipping an axe will make you more proficient at woodcutting, and, interestingly, a mace will make you a more efficient miner.Īll of this is drip fed to you in the first thirty minutes or so of the game via the top-left tutorial. In V Rising, you use your left-click to attack, chop, and mine. Like any survival game, you’ll need to collect resources to build your base and craft new items. With the bones, you’ll create your first weapons and armour, and then you’ll be introduced to a part of the game you’ll become very familiar with woodcutting and mining.
Your first task will be to collect bones, and, as you’re already in a cemetery, this won’t prove too difficult. You’ll notice that V Rising gives you clear goals in the top left corner these act as a tutorial and steadily introduce you to the game’s systems and mechanics. The game starts in expected fashion you awaken in a gloomy crypt and head out into the cemetery. Some of the face options are nightmare-fuel, others are hilarious, but if you want to create your very own Dracula, you can do that too. The character creation tool won’t blow you away, but it’s perfectly functional and there’s good enough customization options to make something unique. Once you’ve selected a game type and a server, it’s time to create your vampire. Alas, I’m going to be covering V Rising from a PvE perspective. However, a friend and I did create characters on a PvP server and played for the night, and it was a whole lot of fun. I chose PvE mode for the majority of my time with the game I was playing solo and didn’t want to get ganged up on by other clans. In the PvP modes, anybody who isn’t in your clan is fair game. You can choose PvE mode, where you’ll be able to group with players to suck the realm dry, regular PvP mode, full loot PvP mode, and duo PvP mode. When you boot up V Rising, you’ll be given a few options.