V Rising beginner’s guide: 5 tips and tricks to get started
V Rising had little hype before it came out in 2022, but quickly become one of the year’s breakout hits on PC. Combining elements of the survival genre, action RPGs, and wrapping it all up in a gothic vampire tale has resulted in an incredibly deep and addicting game that is sure to suck hours of your life away. After creating your own unique vampire, you’re almost immediately let loose in a world that, understandably, wants nothing more than to see you dead. You have a lot of ways to fight back, but that amount of choice, and multiple progression systems you need to balance, would be hard for even an immortal creature of the night to keep track of.
Not only do you have your own vampire’s stats, abilities, gear, and other RPG elements to keep track of but also your own castle to build, upgrade, and advance research in to unlock new tools. That’s not even mentioning the multiplayer elements you can engage with. V Rising proves that, despite what you may have thought, taking over the world of Vardoran won’t be easy. If you want to become the apex predator of the night, here are the most important tips and tricks you need to get started in V Rising.
Choose your game mode carefully
Before you rise from your grave as a new vampire, you must first pick one of the four game modes V Rising offers. These don’t change how the core game works, but will make your experience playing it very different depending on which one you choose. The options you have are: PvE, PvP, Full Loot PvP, and Duo PvP. Here’s how each one works.
- PvE is the one we highly recommend new players start with. V Rising comes built with multiplayer in mind, though this is the only mode you can go to if you do want to play a solo experience. This mode can also allow up to three others to join your world, but without any way for the other players to attack you or your structures. Consider this the standard single-player or co-op mode for V Rising.
- PvP puts you in a server where any other vampires can, but
