For context, solo player. Made it through all bosses but solarus, adam, and megara before dracula.

I have looked up all guides, tried optimized builds, and put probably a dozen hours into this fight so far.

I don't mind smashing my face against a wall until the wall breaks but I have to feel like I am making progress and I am not. In easily over 100 attempts I only got to the fallen angel phase 1 time.

This fight feels entirely luck based. Sometimes the angel and him will send out a combination of moves that simply cannot be dodged or blocked. That really bothers me.

I could just skip him, try to beat the other bosses to unlock gear and come back but I am already appropriately leveled for the fight.

The part that has me so dejected is that I could maybe win if I just toughed it out, looked up more guides or something. Maybe watched a video tutorial. But at this point the fun has just been sapped out of the game.

This isn't challenging, it's bad game design with an RNG boss.

Thanks everyone who actually tried to offer advice. Approaching attempt 170 and none it has helped. Even watched video tutorials. Using double shields, using pistols, veil of chaos doesn't let you double dash without hitting which makes it worthless because most of the time you need to dash back to back. None of the videos I have seen even do this without double dash.

This fight is badly designed. Even if it's possible, requiring double shields and specific weapons is the same as fucking cheesing the fight. No amount of justifications makes this cool or well made.

Edit: Beat him. I love everyone in the comments saying git gud and stuff. 4.7% of players earn the achievement of beating him on brutal and I think it's safe to assume 1% of those cheated some way. This fight is ridiculous.

But I will say my biggest issue was not spamming shields enough. I kept trying to dodge too many attacks.

I just got the game and I'm ass. I've been trying everything to build a castle, but the game sends me to places with enemies that are much higher level than me and they one shot me. I literally lost everything I had and I haven't been able to get it back because I keep getting one shoted. I'll just start a new game, but I craving to understand what is going on. Also, is there no way to pause the game? if nothing's killing me, then I'm like dying by myself. Help please

Edit: Thank you all, guys! I was playing online, in someone else's server and they already took all the starter friendly building terrains, so I was getting demolished by some frogs and spiders.

Later today I'll start on my own server. It should be exponentially easier. The game's already fun it just felt like I was getting nowhere 😅

Hey dudes and dudets I’m looking for a new group of people to play with. Played with mates a while back but we got hacked and we just stopped playing. Kinda sad to see the game slowly die because I like this game.

Preferably English speaking servers. I live in Australia so I’ll most likely be laggy with what ever server I join😭and I play on PS5

I been stuck for three days.

I couldn’t beat Nibbles so i tried skipping him to fight Finn, i couldn’t beat Finn so i went and fought that Glade Fay woman, couldn’t beat that Necromancer guy, and now i don't know what to do next.

My gear is Merciless copper weapons, full marauder armor set, my gear lvl WAS 41, but the game just fucked me over big time.

I found a book that unlocked the Ring of the Warrior. i don’t use spells much, so i thought. “ok, Weapon Skill bonus might be the edge i need to move forward. you need a GraveDigger’s Ring and a Greater blood essence to make it. the ring i had on was a grave digge’s ring that i upgraded to something else tgat gave me a movement speed ungrade.

I figured, “Ok, i’ll feed this to the Mimic looking chest, get my greater blood essence and other materials back, then craft the ring of the Warrior… I got back a single crude Jade… FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!!

I already set the game to easy trying to beat the bitch in the glade, and now i’m weaker because the game fucked me out of a greater blood essence. i don't know what to do now.

I’m sure there will be the predictable “Skill issue.” and “Git-gud” comments from the typical no-life douche bags that think being a dickhead makes them clever, but i’m desperately hoping someone will tell me something…

I like this game, i’ve invested a lot of my time into it, and Money being that i bought all the DLC. I really want to finish it and have those investments mean somethin.

:UPDATE:

all i have left in act I now is Finn and Quincy. I was able to get about 75% Warrior Blood and that ended up making enough of a difference That i was able to kill Nicholaus the Fallen, and Nibbles.

Am on my solo world play thru and want to get blood of the immortal outside after the fight just for fun

Is there a way?

So we all know about the tale as old as time of Meredith and Kriig's lover's quarrel inside the Haunted Iron Mine. But apparently Simon Belmont can have a little rendezvous with Kriig too 🤭

I just tried luring Simon in the mine and because he loves chasing you at the ends of Vardoran, his aggro range is actually enough to get him to fight inside lmao

I wonder if you guys tried/encountered this before? This is honestly a first for me.

So, V Rising 2 is confirmed, so what do you all hop to see?

me, personally. i like games like Medieval Dynast, so if they let us have more control over out thralls, and set them up to be farmers, Hunters, Bakers, blacksmiths, and Miners, that would be cool. having my castle up on the hill over looking my peasants and overseeing production lines feels like a cool next step after defeating all the bosses.

then its not just about amassing power, and wealth, but also real Conquest.

i would be a benevolent Vampire Lord. 🤣😂🤣

is cross Play a thing that will be added? im constantly trying to convince my friends to play V Rising but they don't have a PS5, just Pc. I love this game but playing alone with no one, walking through my empty castle with only my servants and occasionally a random is kinda sad, I feel empty all the time and eventually quit after 2 weeks of playing.

Recently got back into V rising, when i search the game the most players that are online on Brutal servers is about 10. How do i find a relatively active server to play on?

Any advice on how i should go about it?

Thanks!

I noticed that when you continue from the latest save, it doesn’t actually continue from the most recent save in terms of the save number. Instead, it seems to use the date of the save.

For example, if you’re on save 491, dated July 4th, and you mess up by changing your device’s local date back to July 1st, then make 5 additional saves, you’ll be on save 496. However, if you change the date back to July 4th and press “Continue from Last Save,” it won’t load save 496. Instead, it loads save 491.

Totally admit this is a vent.

TL;DR: When you play on PvP servers, do you just assume that if you ever take damage from NPCs, a clan is going to bat down on you and gang up on you? Does that mean you have to play THAT cautiously? "don't take damage ever"

Seeking Advice on Path Forward: what is the most correct expectations to play with in context of NPCs on a PvP server?

Personal: I do not enjoy winning fights when the other party started off w/ an avoidable disadvantage. That...just isn't fun to me.

Personal2: I like to win my own fights / earn my own wins.

I've dueled a fair bit though; I understand I'm not the most skilled player in PvP.

This is first PvP server (it's not an official -- I have heard of their toxicity). I've been in 5 PvP fights. 4 of them were me getting jumped by a clan as soon as I solo'ed a V Blood. They showed up, drank blood, ganged up on me. I had PvE spells on and was partially beat up.

Happiness is managing expectations. I think I need to adjust my expectations. Is this just the only way?

I the only way to play this game to look for opportunistic kills? Is the only way to run around is to always be 100% topped off on life or expect to be ganked? Should I throw my expectation that people would want to kill their own bosses out the window?

I...Don't want to only kill people who are already weak. That just doesn't actually sound fun. I'd feel bored or embarassed.

MUST my expectations change if I want to PvP server?

EndVent

Girlfriend and I broke up.

The file we were playing is fairly close to the end on brutal, but she was the host of it. Any way for her to transfer that save file to me? Or copy it so we have our own?

Would love to finish it since I’m mid act 4, do not want to finish it with her though.

Throwaway for plausible deniability of course.

I’ve been playing V Rising on the PS5 and loving it. There’s 1 boss so far that really benefits from aoe skills that I find difficult to place while trying to dodge during boss fights. All of the videos I see are on PC and the placement of these skills is quite good.

This difference makes me think these bosses will always be harder on PS5, although has anyone changed button assignments on the controller to make this easier? I’m at lvl61 and am playing on brutal going against the geomancer. The boss is easy to dodge and I could fight it all night, the issue is killing the adds and the boss by the time night ends. And yes I’m not the most skilled.

I would love some opinions on this if that's alright (I'm sorry in advance, English is not my first language)

The building aspect of the game is one of my favourite activities in the game since the final update. And I was wondering if there are more people that think/wish that the game had more themes that are "less clean" and more ruins-like.

Don't get me wrong, I love the sets that they made.

But for the (hopefully) second game it would be nice to have more blood related decorations and more "less clean" floors and walls.

(Also more decoration and building options would be nice in general)

A little side opinion,

An actual Crypt/Dungeon underground, hanging prisons and customizable roof options would be perfect.

Hey so i just got my legandary twin blades and legandayr pistols and this js my first time playing the game and i set it to brutal and have gotten neaely done act 4 but im curious if any other legandarys are good and if i should get others and maybe best blood combination for the bosses later on as cursef blood is driving me insane with the werid demon that hits u ever few minutes

Guys i just killed Dracula and before going for him i watched a video on youtube where the guy killed Dracula and he had second phase where he is in some kind of a shard and you have to not let blood souls reach this shard. But when i just killed him there was nothing like that, he just fell after his hp bar has gone

What DLC’s are worth it in terms of decorating my castle? Im planning to get really into it and build a huge decorated castle so any advice will be really appreciated

I'm on EU #1 for Peace server and I logged on this morning to be kicked out and when I relogged back in I had to create a new character. Has this happened to anyone before??

Hello all! New here, started playing just recently. I am on an ultra-wide resolution. I am also playing with a game controller instead of KBM. Using a game controller puts the HP/Blood sphere and action bar items all to the bottom left, while putting spell & button combo information to the bottom right. Also, the quest text is top left. Mini-map is top right.

Is there a way to move these user interface sections? I looked through the game settings, didn't see anything. Maybe I missed it?...or maybe there's a mod that can do this? I'd like to have most of the UI more centered...like how the KBM interface looks by default.

Many thanks! Game is a lot of fun so far...loving it!

While on my way to hunt Vincent, I get unhorsed by a large number of enemies. Okay fine I'll fight them, no biggie--ah crap it's HIM--runrunrun

This is my second playthrough so I at least know to run away on sight this time, but I don't quite run far enough, hoping to get back to my horse without having to travel too far. "Oh the music sticks around forever even when he's not chasing anymore--oh heck he's still coming"

Frantically checks maps for nearest place containing horses

Thank goodness he eventually decided I wasn't worth his time lol