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Yesterday I wrote about V Rising and noted that over 500,000 copies had been sold. Well, now it has sold a lot more than that, having reached less than a million a week after its release.
The milestone was announced today by Stunlock developers:
That’s a funny fact, but it’s not the only V Rising news today. On more important issues for anyone who wants to play the game alone (or even with friends, but locally), the vampire survival adventure now includes an offline mode.
Previously, the game was only online and, although it includes multiplayer elements (both versus and cooperative), it is also completely fun in single player. However, those solo players still had to play online, which, depending on your situation, was not always possible (or even something you wanted to do).
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Thus, as part of the 0.5.51448 game update, solo players no longer have to do so and can now boot the game in LAN mode. However, as its name suggests, although this will create an offline world to explore, you can still play with your friends if they are part of the same network:
We have now enabled LAN mode, which allows players to play V Rising without an internet connection. Players can activate this mode on the host game screen and when starting the server. LAN mode can be played alone or with friends on the same local network. Please note that we will be working to improve LAN mode as we continue to develop V Rising during early access.
Today we also added the ability for Steam Cloud to save a game’s server history:
Steam Cloud can now store V Rising server history. Auto-save is enabled by default. To turn it off, go to the Steam properties for V Rising. This will resolve an issue with the “lost character” that might occur when joining a server from a different computer.
You can read the full list of changes made to the update here.