Dontnod, creators of the story-driven 3rd person action game Vampyr, released the second update to the game This time focus lands on performance improvements.
Yesterday Dontnod, developers of Vampyr, the vampire narrative-driven action RPG, released a second update to the game. Along with it, came the announcement of a major update later this Summer, bringing two new difficulty “story” modes for both new and veteran players to be able to enjoy.
The patch from 26th of July introduces a couple of new features to the gameplay of Vampyr – the ability to scroll through documents with your mouse wheel and the ability to move your camera position around during dialogues. Below you can find the full patch notes.
New Features
- Scrolling docs with the mouse wheel is now possible when first viewing a doc
- Players are now able to move the camera during dialogue using movement keys (default: WASD)
Fixes
- Performance has been addressed, players should now experience fewer performance issues.
- Targeting enemies – The Auto-Lock option has been modified. Set to “On”, the mouse can be used to switch targets. If the binding to switch targets is already used (default: mouse wheel up/down), this option will be disabled. Set to “Off”: The mouse won’t be usable to switch targets. Only the binding to switch targets will be available (default: mouse wheel up/down)
- The issue where players would be unable to enter The Morgue is now fixed.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from crafting more serum than they could carry, which would result in serum not being refilled when dying. Excess serum will now be stored in the stash, and if there is serum in the stash when dying, the player’s stock will be refilled. This also applies to ammunition.
- The stash now properly indicates the quantity of items store in it.
Next update to the game…
… will be a bigger patch. It is scheduled for later this Summer and will allow you to choose from two new difficulty game modes. One will allow you to tone down the combat and experience the story, while the other one, simply referred as “hard mode” will present even the most hardened veterans of the game with new challenges.
As well as bringing a host of optimisation tweaks, the upcoming update will introduce a ‘Story’ mode that de-emphasises combat and a cranked-up, more challenging Hard mode. The Story mode places a greater focus on narrative, allowing players to experience Dr. Reid’s journey with less challenging combat. On the other end of the scale, Hard mode makes combat much more difficult. Players will receive less experience from killing enemies too, forcing them to rely even more on embracing citizens to grow in power.
In the meantime Vampyr is on a 25% discount at the moment on Steam. You can also check its pricing and availability on Amazon (affiliate link). If you want to sink your teeth into some of the citizens of 1918’s London, now would be a good time to do so!
If you have not yet tried Vampyr or are just beginning your life as a vampire, I strongly suggest you check out my live stream video below. It will give you beginner tips and help you better understand and quickly learn the basics of the game plus some more advanced tricks.
