Sometimes you just have a rather strange day in V Rising. There are a lot of strange things that go on a lot of the time without much thought given. Then you just have days where you look back, and between dealing with different game mechanics to encounters, I'd have. It was just strange.
There are strange things even I don’t know much about, despite how much I've played the game. Early in the lower regions, you would see these random holes high above cliffs that you could not reach. They made you think they went somewhere.
Turns out those caves did, in fact, lead somewhere. After downing a boss, I noticed an opening in some rocks. Sure enough, I could go inside it. Instead of it being some kind of passageway. I found myself across the map.
I always suspected these things were some kind of shortcut around the map. If I were playing with a bunch of players on a PvP world. Such a thing would be quite important in knowing. As in those cases, you have to run back with your loot that can drop if you get killed.
Since, however, I'm playing on a realm that allows you to use the teleports even with many items that tend to be blacklisted from teleportation travel. So such a spot while cool to see. Has very little use, if any, to me whatsoever.
I also make me wonder what other odd things like this I was missing out on by not noticing them. This one stood out quite early on as something I simply could not access yet. This game can surely surprise you out of nowhere. Other times like this, it felt like I finally was able to put an end to something I had been wandering about for far too long.
One thing I don’t talk about a lot is the amount of grinding to unlock new armor sets. Rather, the ones where you have to buy the recipes from vendors. At this stage of the game, I'm loaded with silver coins but gold not so much. I, however, decided to return an the silver vendor to see if anything was interesting I might buy. After all, I had loads of silver just sitting in my base.
These recipe books can also drop. Which is also why I had a templar recipe known to me. Despite the fact that I went with the blood hunter set. The blood hunter set was such a pain to get all the recipe books for. As it’s the set, the vendor would only have one of each time. What seemed random. It’s also 60 minutes before the vendor would restock with goods. So, yes, it took over four hours just to get the recipes for a single set of gear. Not including the ability to craft it and gather those materials.
As far as if I got nothing further from this vendor. The answer is no. I also was not carrying any silver on me at the time. I just happened to be in the area. This I found to be just fine with me.
Every boss fight seems to have some rather unusual thing it likes to toss at you. Albert, the Duke of Balaton, was no different. As you can see, after I defeated him, his rather odd-looking tongue that rather creeps me out. He also would do an attack where he attempts to swallow and then spits the player out.
It was bad enough that I already wanted to acid wash my armor after being in a swamp. After fighting that duke, I can’t imagine the kind of frog slime I'd be covered in. You can just tell this creature would have smelled horrific.
Up till this point, there was perhaps only one other place where I could not just go through the front door. Discovering that there was a silver mine, I could not wait to go inside. It also looked massive, and I could and hoped I'd be lost in there for quite some time.
After I took out the two guards. I was just expecting to open the gate and walk right in. Turns out that was going to be a hard no. I’d shortly discover the gates could only be opened from the inside, and they only remained open for a short while.
After failing to find any way in near the entry of the gate. I started to walk around the outside of the mine. This led me up a hill where I found an opening that I could jump down from. While that was kind of strange, I really wanted inside the mine, so I just went for not. Not knowing if I'd now be trapped forever inside the mine. As I still had no idea how to open the front gate, and it was clear there was no way of getting back out the way I jumped down from.
Inside the mine, it was filled with slaves. Usually, in other areas of the game, they would attack me. I, however, noticed that unless I engaged first, they left me alone. Even more strange if I killed the wardens, they then would start rushing towards the then locked gate.
Opening the gate would end up being far more challenging than I was expecting. There was a boss there that I forgot to get any screenshots of. By that point, I had quite a little army of freed slaves, and they went right up to the boss. They did not last long. They, however, weakened the boss enough for me to defeat him. If it were not for them, I don’t think I'd have beaten the Overseer silver mine boss in my first attempt.
After a long day of adventuring in strangeness, I decided to head back to my castle. There were some crafting stations I never really spent much time on or worried about trying out. One of them ended up being the summoning circle. Where I could, at quite a high cost, summon prime bloods to farm for shards. With how expensive the summoning costs were and how frequent the Incursion Rifts were. This just felt like a strange thing to waste resources on.
There are other odd things like this, where I used to summon the rat boss quite a long time ago. I find myself not really using resources to use these different kinds of summoning devices. When I can just go out into the world and farm whatever creature that drops what I need in the first place. I could, however, see on quite a packed server with PvP that being able to do some things from inside your base would be the smarter option. That is just not the case for me.
In the end, I decided to call it a day after spending some time walking around my castle, crafting some stuff up. I also needed to sort out my storage room. I had outgrown it quite a lot. I also just had a bunch of stuff taking up space that I no longer could see myself needing.
Screenshots were taken, and content was written by @Enjar about V Rising.
Disclosure: A review copy of the game was received for free.
