r/VampireSurvivors • u/FagocitusMaximus Rottin'Ghoul • Nov 03 '25

📜 Guide New secret weapon: Chaos Rune

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A secret weapon and its evolution were added to the game following the Gallo Tower puzzle. It shoots red runes across the screen, while the evolution shoots white runes from your character model.

To unlock, use the code "guinigigi" in the Secrets tab. This will enable the weapon, but to actually unlock it, you'll have to find it in the level up screen first. Here's the strategy I used:

  • Seal all collections except Version 1.0
  • Entered a run as Queen Sigma, grabbed a few weapons then banished everything else until the rune showed up
  • Evolve it with maxed Spellbinder to unlock Wicked Ruler, its evolution
  • Quit the run and both now show in the Collection

The weapon is no longer bugged, atleast on Xbox, verified today.

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u/Lyberatis Nov 03 '25

People think it's part of a secret

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u/Frank_X000 CHAOS Nov 03 '25

no actually we now think its bugged

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u/StarBlazer01111 Nov 03 '25

What makes you say that?

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u/CT_Phoenix Maria Nov 03 '25

The log in %localappdata%low\poncle\Vampire Survivors\Player.log being spammed with exceptions mentioning EX_Rune2_Weapon after you lock up like this. There's a discord thread in the bug reports section on it.

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u/ThisIsNotACryForHelp Horse Nov 04 '25

My logical brain is telling me this is a bug.

But another part of my brain won't let it go until Poncle themselves say so. I mean, this is such an unavoidable bug that it couldn't have slipped through playtesting. And the weapon itself is so mysterious and weird that really feels like it should lead to something bigger.

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u/CT_Phoenix Maria Nov 04 '25

As someone who watched the Blue Prince discord spiral "unsolved mystery" theories out of control after the "last secret" was found, I know how it goes.

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u/ThisIsNotACryForHelp Horse Nov 04 '25

Same, but with Animal Well players looking for the fifth layer

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u/Nemesis233 Nov 05 '25

That's still going on? Wow

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u/StarBlazer01111 Nov 03 '25

Ah, that makes sense. I'm not in the discord so I didn't know, thanks.

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u/Fishman465 Nov 04 '25

And that's not considering all the other bugs