V Rising's first big post 1.0 update brings a bevy of additions, combat reworks, and Steam Deck support later this month

And a unchangeable for your horses!

It's coming up to a twelvemonth since V Rising received its 1.0 release, and up of that day developer Stunlock Studios shared a trailer earlier this week for the game's archetypal large update, Invaders of Oakveil. The update itself volition beryllium escaped (nice!), and introduces a full caller country to explore, the titular Oakveil Woodlands, a woodsy country wherever "corruption" is spreading (not nice).

The large baddie of this update is Megara the Serpent Queen, presumably the root of said corruption. She's got immoderate minions called The Venomblades, which sounds similar a large sanction for a goth rollerblading group. In presumption of gameplay additions, there's a caller arena-building diagnostic to beryllium recovered successful your castle, alongside one-on-one duels that tin beryllium recovered retired successful the chaotic that are effect free. Oh, there's 3 caller limb types to messiness astir with, claws, twinblades, and throwing daggers, arsenic good arsenic 7 caller spells to boot.

Combat is besides getting a large refresh, with stats seeing a rework, cogwheel receiving immoderate equilibrium changes, and the summation of "new customization tools." Blood types person been reworked too, passive spells are seemingly "more impactful", and unlocking spell points gives you immoderate passive bonuses too. Lots of changes!

Crafting volition beryllium a spot easier excessively present arsenic you tin instrumentality ingredients from your vault without having to really spell to your vault to get them. Horse girls volition delight successful the information that there'll beryllium stables to store your horses successful arsenic well, alongside the quality to capable your prisons with creatures to instrumentality humor from (that one's not truthful overmuch for the equine girls).

Alongside a fewer different changes that you tin work astir connected the game's authoritative website, there's besides the information that V Rising volition besides beryllium officially supported connected Steam Deck. All of this is coming April 28th, truthful you've lone got a mates of weeks to wait.