Developer poncle has released a fresh free upgrade for Vampire Survivors giving extra content, along with the Legacy of the Bloodmoon DLC annoucnement.
They said they’ve been working behind the scenes to improve how the game is made to allow them to keep making more content, increase stability, and improve performance.
Vampire Survivors Update 1.15 (The Wet One) is also out now on Steam with all these changes:
Major QOL improvements
Multiple Save Slots (about time!)
Character Setup panel for skins, egg selection, etc…
Content filters in Character Selection and Unlocks menu
Stability improvements for late game and low-end platforms
Reduced loading times (more noticeable on other platforms than PC)
New content
1 New Stage: The Lycaeum
2 New Characters
either 2 or 10 new weapons 🤷♂️
3 New Darkanas
1 New Music Track
3 new Relics, of which 1 Secret rather than Unlockable
Other tweaks and features
“Random LevelUp” can now be toggled during a run if it is already unlocked on the Stage menu
Added option to Unbanish a weapon when picking it up from the stage
Buffed a few weapons like Magi-Stone and Mille Bolle Blu
Rendering fixes for a few weapons, including birds, Prismatic Missile, Runetracer…
As for the Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Bloodmoon DLC, which they said is an “accidental” expansion and serves as the evil twin of Legacy of the Moonspell. It will cost around $1, and they’ll be dropping the price of Legacy of the Moonspell to match.
Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Bloodmoon will contain:
12 new villains friendly characters.
16+ new weapons and evolutions, including a FireBall.
8 savage new music tracks.
1 new adventure.
1 new very large stage.
Interesting bits and bobs I won’t spoil at this time.
Sounds like we’re getting more games like Warhammer Survivors, the upcoming Warhammer themed Vampire Survivors standalone game. In the announcement developer poncle said “Among the many projects we’re working on (approximately 15 projects, not 15 games, please don’t panic) there is also a lineup of Survivaton games. It’s definitely a meaningful word that means “survive a ton” and nothing else. These are games like Vampire Survivors, developed internally at poncle, tied to IPs that might need unique game mechanics, a different graphic style, or are so expansive that ultimately deserve their own standalone game (compared to making a DLC for VS)”.
It will be interesting to see what happens with all of those.
Additionally, poncle just opened up a brand new studio in Japan headed by Sawaki Takeyasu, known for his work on Devil May Cry, Ōkami, and El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. They’re not ready to say what poncle Japan will be working on just yet with the studio due to fully open by the end of 2026.
Nice to see such a huge indie success story from what started as such a tiny game.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
