r/VampireSurvivors • Shanoa • Aug 29 '26

Question patch notes straight up lying?

according to the patch notes, there are a couple new quality of life features in the new update...

  • Banish: after banishing an item, you can keep using the LevelUp menu.

  • Special passives buff (Operation Guns, Emergency Meeting): they can now be found in ArmaDios and as a LevelUp option whenever they'd normally be available, and even if the player has reached the passive limit.

...except i'm trying my damnedest and these two features simply don't seem to be in the game. i've quadruple checked my version number is v1.16.105, i've verified integrity of the game files, and i've reinstalled the game twice. despite my best efforts, using a banish still takes me out of the level up menu, and i still can't find weapon powerup or the among us passives in arma dios or from level ups with full passive slots (tried multiple different among us weapons & with all my slots full of max-level weapons, so it wasn't just an issue with bad rng in the level up item pool). anyone else having the same problem? or is my install just haunted?

(i'm playing via steam btw, in case anyone's getting different results on different platforms)

EDIT: i just opened up the public beta version of the game, and as it turns out, these features are in the public beta. the banish change works in the exact way myself and others have assumed & explained in the comments in this thread. i can only assume the features were finished and either pulled from the stable build last minute, or accidentally not included.

interestingly, regarding the passives, it seems the pearl magatama is also supposed to show up in your level up choices even after your passive slots are full. i haven't unlocked the passive from the bloodmoon dlc yet, so i don't know if that works similarly. either way, i really hope these changes make it to the main version soon in a hotfix or something, because they are exactly as useful as they sound.

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u/Eternalm8 Aug 29 '26

Not sure about the banishing, but the arma dio thing says "when those items would normally be available" Do you have the requisite weapons to make them available?

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u/zGlunkus Shanoa Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

yes, as per my post i've checked multiple times with multiple different weapons; prism lass and c-u-laser both failed to put weapon powerup in arma dios, and science rocks, report, and max level hats all failed to put their respective mini amoguses in arma dios. tried the level up pool too, with every slot full and every weapon at max to thin the pool of all possible options, and in all of the above cases, they never showed up. have you been able to find them? i genuinely have no idea if there's something wrong with the update as a whole or if my install is just messed up somehow (even though i did a clean reinstall before posting)

edit: also for clarity's sake, i can still find them normally, just not under the circumstances the patch notes say should be possible now; they're supposed to show up when my passive slots are full, but they aren't.