Vampire Survivors Balatro Update Shuffles Out as Patch 1.18/1.014.103
Developer poncle has released the latest major update to Vampire Survivors, and this one brings the Balatro collaboration content. Called the “Ante Chamber” DLC, console gamers will see this as Vampire Survivors update 1.18/1.014.103.
The developers call this patch as version 1.14, and this adds four characters, four weapons with their respective evolution, a new stage, and a remix of the Balatro main theme.
There’s also a new game mechanic called Survarots available in the base game that alter character stats and abilities.
Vampire Survivors Balatro Update Is Out on October 28 for Free and Adds a Slew of Content
Balatro Update Info
- ‘Ante Chamber’ : a little expansion based on BALATRO
- Featuring 4 characters, 4 weapons with their respective evolution, a new stage, and a remix of the Balatro main theme
- Survarots: a new game mechanic, also available in the base game, to alter character stats and abilities
Online Co-op available now
This is a list of gameplay changes compared to a standard local co-op run:
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Batch level up – Depending on the player count you will only see level up after all players have leveled up. So on 4 players the level up screen will only show every 4 levels.
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DLC – You will only be able to use DLC online if every player owns that DLC. We’re retro-fitting Online into an originally single player game written in JS by a solo dev, so there are a lot of technical issues we have to move around or worry about later, one of which is the way that DLC expansions are handled.
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Free Roam – In online you are not restricted to the same screen, you can all freely move around the stage independently. (Note: You will be pulled into a boss room if any player walks into it)
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Spectator mode – When you die in multiplayer you can use the mouse to jump to players who are still alive. You also respawn where they are if you are spectating them.
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Achievements – You will have the choice at the end of the run to carry over any achievements earned in that run back into your own save file.
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Speed up – Disabled in online.
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Pause menu – To help flow, when you pause, you do not pause for everyone else, you just get a small window of invincibility
Vampire Survivors update 1.14 including ‘Westwoods’ and ‘Mazerella” is out now
- A gamba themed stage: Westwoods
- A labyrinth themed stage: Mazerella
- A new relic that lets you play Party Mode (play with up to 4 characters at the same time)
- 2 new playable characters
- 2 new weapons with their respective evolutions
- 1 new Character Morph
- 1 new PowerUp
- 3 new Darkanas
- Survarot game mechanic
What are Survarots?
Survarots are a new form of power creep that is currently usable by the character Secretino and all the Ante Chamber characters. They are vaguely similar to Arcana cards, but are themed after characters from Vampire Survivors and provide different types of bonuses.
Quick content guide
Ante Chamber
– To unlock the content of Ante Chamber: find the special merchant in Moongolow and buy the Joker Disk for 50k gold coins. Proceed with the chain of unlocks that starts in the new stage, Ante Chamber.
Mazerella
- – Find a total of 23 Little Clovers to unlock Westwoods
- – Find the Magi-Stone in Westwoods and get it to Level 7 to unlock it
- – Play/pay the Westwoods fortune wheel to be able to move further and then find a Karoma’s Mana to unlock it permanently
- – Evolve the Magi-Stone (with Karoma’s Mana) to get 500 coins eh
- – Survive 20 minutes in Westwoods to unlock Chula-Reh
- – Find the Masquerade relic in Westwoods to unlock Party Mode
- – Reach a bonus of 999% Luck with Chula-Re to unlock Darkana XVIII – Call of a Mad Moon
Misc
- – Defeat 251096 “shooting enemies” and bullets to unlock the weapon Ammo Appalate
- – Evolve (with maxed Bracer) Ammo Appalate to unlock Zi’Appunta Belpaese
- – Discover 10 Golden Treasure Chests in a single run with Zi’Appunta, by destroying the totems only her can find, to unlock Darkana V – Pale Diamond Incursion
- – Survive 30 minutes in Green Acres with no active weapons to unlock Darkana XVIII – Victorian Horror
This is one meaty update, and it’s free! Once poncle releases another one, expect it here on MP1st.
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