​Dev Update #32: The Next Era     ​

Greetings Vampires!It’s been a while since we last checked in, a bit longer than usual. First and foremost, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude for your patience and faith in us.The V Rising community, while certainly having its faults (like draining the blood of the living to sustain its unholy existence, participating in dark magic rituals, and eating uncooked rats), has always been a bastion of earnest excitement united around the things we all love. We are all monsters for our passions.Today, we’d like to share a bit of what we’ve been crafting and offer some clarity on the direction of Stunlock Studios and V Rising. We can’t reveal much just yet, but we don’t think even creatures of the night enjoy being left completely in the dark.So with that in mind, let’s talk a little about what we’ve been up to in the Stunlock Studios crypts these past months.Pour yourself a glass of blood and get comfortable, Vampires! It’s that time again.Will There Be A V Rising 1.2?As foretold in Dev Update #31: Midnight Reflections, we’ve already unfolded all of our initial plans for V Rising. Since then, we delved into darkness to search the shadows for new and unexplored paths. In the end, we’ve come to the conclusion that V Rising, in its current form, is something we’re proud of, and the journey to Dracula is a complete one as it stands. As you, a clever Vampire, might guess, this statement will undoubtedly raise some questions that we’ll try to clarify. For one, we are not currently developing a new content update for V Rising. This also means there should be no requirement to start a new save anytime soon, as is normally required with major content updates.We intend to continue supporting the game with balance and bug-fixing patches whenever we feel it’s necessary. To help find those moments, we’ll be holding regular polls to take the temperature of the game’s state based on your feedback. For bug fixes, we’ll be focusing on patching when a major or particularly impactful issue appears. When we do, we can usually fit in a few smaller fixes at the same time as well!Alongside this upkeep, working deep into the winter nights fixing dangerous bugs as they rear their ugly heads, and keeping tabs on the state of the game balance, we also spent some time investigating what more official modding support could look like. After digging into it, we came to the conclusion that the game simply isn’t structured in a way that would allow us to provide mod tools at the standard we’d want for the community. The time spent exploring it wasn’t wasted, however, and what we learned will prove valuable for our future schemes and our new focus.This might have you, that ever-clever Vampire, asking… focus on what, if not a V Rising update? What is going on in the crypt? The Next EraPut plainly, Stunlock Studios is working on a new game set in the beautiful, strange, and gothic world of V Rising. This will be our most ambitious project