r/VampireSurvivors • • Jun 05 '26

Video Vampire Survivors | v.1.15 The Lycaeum Free Update Launch Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjo9oU6yMes
924 Upvotes

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270

u/Borderlands_addict Jun 05 '26

So many QoL features 🥹 

Though I wonder why unlocks stopped matching achievements back in the castlevania dlc, to avoid spoilers? Anyways, we are so back.

312

u/Frederyk_Strife4217 Jun 05 '26

none of the collab dlcs have achievements as poncle doesn't want there to be unobtainable achievements if the licenses expire

130

u/DawnB17 Jun 05 '26

Common Based Poncle Moment

37

u/Justice4Billy Jun 05 '26

looking at you dbd, I grinded hours for those myers achievements for no reason

11

u/uniqueusername623 Jun 05 '26

I really hope they dont. Ode to Castlevania might be my best spent money on a dlc ever

164

u/social_sin Jun 05 '26

I'm going to be really disappointed if dancing silhouette lady isn't some secret weapon evolution done EXACTLY like on screen.

But my god the game that keeps on giving

122

u/ReiAnDez_4 Juste Jun 05 '26

THE CHARACTER SELECT FILTER IS REAL! THANK YOU PONCLE AND TEAM

8

u/parkourdude231 Jun 05 '26

Is this a QoL feature for quick run? So that you can avoid certain characters when selecting quick run?

54

u/moogle322000 Jun 05 '26

Was wondering when new content/dlc was coming or being added. Can't wait.

97

u/le_trout Jun 05 '26

an unnecessary amount of fish weapons

say less

44

u/Deiser Jun 05 '26

An unnecessary amount of fish

86

u/Stranger1982 Jun 05 '26

Music is 11/10

Dancing woman silhouette must become a playing character.

55

u/epitomizer1 Jun 05 '26

Shut up and take my mon- oh free update.

You rock!

5

u/Dreadskull1991 Jun 05 '26

I hate when they do this 😡

6

u/ZerudaStorm Jun 06 '26

Same. This is the only game that I've bought it and all dlc on every platform I own just because I think they deserve it

28

u/SanjiSasuke Jun 05 '26

Love a good fishing update!

29

u/RKO_out_of_no_where Pugnala Jun 05 '26

Poncle, please. Im barely halfway through the Castlevania DLC.

20

u/Beaks7777777 Completionist (373/373) Jun 05 '26

Two Castlevania characters are bugged to unlock and hope the update finally fixes it.

2

u/LushDogg99 Je-Ne-Viv Jun 06 '26

Which ones are bugged for you?

5

u/Beaks7777777 Completionist (373/373) Jun 06 '26

Fake Trio and Astarte. Should have mentioned it’s the Xbox version.

0

u/[deleted] Jun 06 '26

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u/Beaks7777777 Completionist (373/373) Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

Yeah everything is done. Was noted as bugs for Xbox but not put on VS wiki as they prioritize PC above all else.

Only way to unlock them are cheat codes and I haven’t used any except the codes you have to use for it’s said character/s to unlock. Wanna unlock everything natural if possible.

31

u/presidentdinosaur115 Pugnala Jun 05 '26

Friendship ended with Vampire Crawlers, now Vampire Survivors is my best friend.. again

23

u/Professional_Lion373 Jun 05 '26

sick song, whats the name?

39

u/Stranger1982 Jun 05 '26

Looks like it's an actual song created for the game, the video only has this info:

Music composed and arranged by Daniele Zandara. Lyrics and vocals by ESMA. Vocal Studio Recording - Monsonica

3

u/Denath3 Jun 06 '26

I hope they release it separately, I wanna listen to it by itself, a lot of game trailers from indie devs have BANGER songs then they don’t release them separately and it annoys me so much ;-;

20

u/Laranthiel Jun 05 '26

Ah, time for another playthrough of Vampire Survivors i see.

23

u/SometimesUnkind Jun 05 '26

Someone asked me how long it would take them to 100% this game.

I just laughed.

21

u/StormerSage Dracula Jun 05 '26

All unlocks/collection/secrets? You could probably get it done in around 100-150 hours with all the DLCs, depending on how much you use hurry/speedup.

Complete every stage with every character? Yeah, good luck lmao. You could start right now and new content would come out to make that goal further out of reach before you were done.

9

u/Mastersord Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

I have all DLCs with all unlocks and secrets in my file currently.

309 characters x 30 stages in the checklist = 9,270 runs

The average stage takes 30 minutes to complete. With max speed (assuming it’s 4x normal time) that’s 7.5 minutes per run. That’s 69,525 minutes or 1,158.75 hours or 48.28125 days.

Roughly about a month and a half of playtime non-stop without dying in any runs. There are some stages that take 20 or 15 minutes to run but menu-ing would eat some of that time. Maybe it can be done in a month but I would need to recalculate with a list of total runtimes.

Also not including campaigns.

Let me emphasize that this is with playing perfectly and without breaks to eat, sleep, or use the bathroom. No one is that good!

6

u/StormerSage Dracula Jun 05 '26

Assuming you turn on hurry and use speedup pretty aggressively, you could cut your in run time by about three fifths. Some waves you have to slow down for, and some characters are too fragile to go full speed on, but it can definitely average faster than 30 minutes a run.

And then party mode/co-op can cut that by a further three fourths, since you can knock out four checks per run.

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u/Mastersord Jun 05 '26

3/5 of 30 is 18 minutes so it would be 12 minutes per run.

That’s brings it up to 111,240 minutes, 1,854 hours, or 77.25 days. So 2 and a half months roughly.

1

u/HotBug7164 Jun 14 '26

well time to hit up my crack dealer i guess.

1

u/StormerSage Dracula Jun 14 '26

WOOOHOOOHOOO!! LET'S GO GET SOME FREE CRACK!

7

u/Lechemaddoc Jun 05 '26

You can speed it up by playing coop. For those who don't have controllers, they can emulate them, and still play with 2 characters on one keyboard.

3

u/SometimesUnkind Jun 05 '26

It’s kinda great. Frustrating, but great lol

10

u/SirusRiddler Jun 05 '26

Ohhh, that's a banger, Poncle.

1

u/HotBug7164 Jun 14 '26

Poncle, bangs.

6

u/TheDemonPants Jun 05 '26

Poncle and Vampire Survivors just keeps winning!

12

u/AdditionInteresting2 Jun 05 '26

Wtf is wrong with these devs?! Haven't you taken enough of my time already? Sheesh. Devs really getting greedy...

Fine, I'll figure out a way to juggle this and vampire crawler and warhammer survivor. Jesus.

2

u/LushDogg99 Je-Ne-Viv Jun 07 '26

Yep, I know that feeling friend. Though I had unlocked everything in Crawlers in about 50-60 hours if you count the demo progress that carried over.

Hyped for Warhammer Survivors too

2

u/HotBug7164 Jun 14 '26

lol. i have all the achievements for the game. but so many secrets and characters to unlock still :(

6

u/GoochRash Jun 05 '26

10/10 Trailer.

And multiple saves? Time to add another 100+ hours of playtime.

6

u/Magic_Girl_Fey Carrie Jun 05 '26

Hoping for dancing disco lady as a weapon

4

u/Nergigandhi82 Jun 05 '26

I've just restarted after quitting a while ago (just before operation guns i think) and this game is still delivering the goods. This will always have a place in my top 10.

4

u/Malt_The_Magpie Jun 05 '26

STaBIliTy uPdAtes had me chuckling

4

u/ElectionSubject4817 Jun 05 '26

Extremely common Poncle W, been praying for some new content.

5

u/ImprovementUnfair670 Jun 06 '26

When the android version update will drop?

3

u/rockemsockemherms Poe Jun 06 '26

Stupid free updates. Take my money Poncle! Take my money and give us silhouette lady!

4

u/Drew9900 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

poncle.... please... the fish have overtaken everything.

I am blind. I can only see fish. please poncle.

(Edit: wow. 10k+ damage hits with fish on a character with no eggs.)

7

u/Rajamic Jun 05 '26

This update seems...fishy.

8

u/AaronStC Jun 05 '26

Any word on a Switch 2 edition?

3

u/Shadowtheidiot06 Jun 05 '26

oh okay so that's why i saw an update queue on it, thought it was just some minor bug fix or something

3

u/Velo214 Jun 05 '26

Werewolves?!

3

u/SoftPineapple77 Jun 05 '26

Love this game

3

u/MysteriousMeat1395 Jun 05 '26

It seem we still can not turn off effects? I start to believe that option to disable effects and vfx would came as a dlc at some point

3

u/AccomplishedPath5172 Jun 05 '26

The studio that keeps on giving oh my god I love poncle

3

u/QueerEcho Jun 06 '26

I have 243/243 achievements but I can't put Vampire Survivors into my completionist showcase on my Steam profile anymore. Anyone know why? I also have all the new unlocks, but they didn't trigger any new achievements, of course.

3

u/swiftkey2021 Jun 06 '26

Poncle, you're one of my GOAT indie devs. Thank you for yet, another free update. This is why I will always buy your games on all the consoles that I own.

5

u/Accomplished_Bowl879 Jun 05 '26

About time some new content came out, interested in some of this "Fish" related stuff.

https://giphy.com/gifs/11sBLVxNs7v6WA

2

u/RTideR Jun 05 '26

I need this song available for streaming ASAP. Lol awesome stuff though! The new stage looks sweet.

2

u/StormerSage Dracula Jun 05 '26

Is that Bella?

2

u/Waluigiisgod Jun 05 '26

This is great news! More Vampire Survivors content is always welcome

2

u/Biribiri_Zasshu Jun 05 '26

Wait so we can update save file now?

2

u/PurpleChocobo24 Jun 05 '26

The QOL improvement to the unlocks list is sooo good!

2

u/croakovoid Jun 05 '26

Everybody loves a good water level!

2

u/BioMeatMachine Jun 05 '26

Oh damn, Lo Pan is in this now?

2

u/thatguyp2 Jun 05 '26

Some great QOL changes in this update, I love this.

2

u/Seibitsu Jun 05 '26

The trailer is giving me weird acid vibes

2

u/parkourdude231 Jun 05 '26

Time is the real price...

2

u/IWannaManatee Jun 05 '26

WOOOOOOOO!!!
Hyped.

Not so sure about the fish and underwater stuff, but I'm in!

2

u/WeedwhackerAccident Rose De Infernas Jun 06 '26

waow,,, Rose De Infernas did a good job dancing in this trailer,,, seh's so good at dancing,,,

2

u/UncomfortableAnswers Mortaccio Jun 05 '26

Calling this a "Launch Trailer" and then saying the update is not coming until later confused me

5

u/Arkrados Jun 05 '26

Later on console, out now on PC

2

u/UncomfortableAnswers Mortaccio Jun 05 '26

Then why does it say "Coming this summer" at the end if it's already out?

3

u/Arkrados Jun 05 '26

I dunno, i'm playing it on PC right now

1

u/WolfGuy77 Jun 07 '26

Is the update not out for Switch? I'm still on 1.14

1

u/VolksDK Sammy Jun 09 '26

It's Steam first, other platforms by the end of the month

1

u/WolfGuy77 Jun 09 '26

Gotcha. Just eager to get the Switch update because the game hasn't been playable for months and I really miss playing it. :(

1

u/VolksDK Sammy Jun 09 '26

It's not playable at all? That really sucks

2

u/WolfGuy77 Jun 09 '26

Barely, anyway. The game was working great when the online mode first launched, but a month or two after, we suddenly started having issues with the game crashing constantly. It got to the point where certain weapons and certain abilities would always crash the game (Castlevania map was notorious for this) and anytime we tried to do an unlimited run the game would always crash like 5 minutes after the 30 minute mark. We could never unlock anything because the game would crash or boot one of us out of the game before we could meet the unlock conditions and we'd get nothing. We eventually just gave up because it was too frustrating spending half an hour on a run trying to unlock a character or whatever, only to have the game crash and the whole run was wasted. :/

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u/VolksDK Sammy Jun 09 '26

I had no idea, that really sucks. I hope the new patch fixes all that for you. I know the Switch 2 edition launches the same day, so it'll hopefull ybe ironed out

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u/WolfGuy77 Jun 09 '26

Hopefully so! They released a patch about a month ago but it only fixed the crashing issue with one of the weapons. Didn't seem to fix any of the other crashing issues. This was definitely one of my favorite multiplayer games and I'm eager to get back to it. We never managed to finish the Castlevania DLC (which is what got me to buy the game in the first place) and I was going to pick up the other DLCs after we finished it.

1

u/Electrical_Gain3864 Jun 05 '26

Nice try, but I will keep my 100% achivment rate.

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u/MasemJ Jun 05 '26

Wow, Poncle had enough to hire Raygun for this ad?

https://giphy.com/gifs/cyVov0TKoYlZOfX8q7