Indie developer poncle has released Vampire Survivors update 1.14, bringing with new stages, new characters, and more.
The new update is now available for Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and smartphones, with Nintendo Switch and Epic Games Store versions arriving on October 31st. The free Balatro DLC “Ante Chamber” is also out now.
Here’s a rundown on the update, plus a new trailer:
Free Balatro Collab for Vampire Survivors is out now!
- ‘Ante Chamber’ : a little expansion based on BALATRO
- Featuring 4 characters, 4 weapons with their respective evolution, a new stage, and a remix of the Balatro main theme
- Survarots: a new game mechanic, also available in the base game, to alter character stats and abilities
Online Co-op available now
This is a list of gameplay changes compared to a standard local co-op run:
- Batch level up – Depending on the player count you will only see level up after all players have leveled up. So on 4 players the level up screen will only show every 4 levels.
- DLC – You will only be able to use DLC online if every player owns that DLC. We’re retro-fitting Online into an originally single player game written in JS by a solo dev, so there are a lot of technical issues we have to move around or worry about later, one of which is the way that DLC expansions are handled.
- Free Roam – In online you are not restricted to the same screen, you can all freely move around the stage independently. (Note: You will be pulled into a boss room if any player walks into it)
- Spectator mode – When you die in multiplayer you can use the mouse to jump to players who are still alive. You also respawn where they are if you are spectating them.
- Achievements – You will have the choice at the end of the run to carry over any achievements earned in that run back into your own save file.
- Speed up – Disabled in online.
- Pause menu – To help flow, when you pause, you do not pause for everyone else, you just get a small window of invincibility
Vampire Survivors update 1.14 including ‘Westwoods’ and ‘Mazerella” is out now
- A gamba themed stage: Westwoods
- A labyrinth themed stage: Mazerella
- A new relic that lets you play Party Mode (play with up to 4 characters at the same time)
- 2 new playable characters
- 2 new weapons with their respective evolutions
- 1 new Character Morph
- 1 new PowerUp
- 3 new Darkanas
- Survarot game mechanic
What are Survarots?
Survarots are a new form of power creep that is currently usable by the character Secretino and all the Ante Chamber characters. They are vaguely similar to Arcana cards, but are themed after characters from Vampire Survivors and provide different types of bonuses.
Update to the Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania expansion is out now
An expansion for the Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania Expansion! Our Castlevania Collab DLC is getting even bigger, at no price change, and you’ll be able to find all this new stuff after the update:
- 16 new secret characters
- 3 new weapons + evos
- 13 new weapon unions
- 1 new adventure
- 12 new music tracks
Quick content guide
- Ante Chamber – To unlock the content of Ante Chamber: find the special merchant in Moongolow and buy the Joker Disk for 50k gold coins. Proceed with the chain of unlocks that starts in the new stage, Ante Chamber.
- Ode to Castlevania – To unlock the new content of Ode to Castlevania: the conditions to unlock the new characters will appear in the SECRETS menu after you have ‘completed’ the main UNLOCKS of the dlc.
Vampire Survivors has been available for Windows PC (via Steam and the Microsoft Store), Xbox consoles, both Xbox and PC Game Pass, Switch, PS4, PS5, and smartphones.
