It's no secret that I'm a little in love with Victor Vran, and it's now out of Early Access so be sure to pick up a copy.
I gave it some thoughts back in May, and found it to be excellent. Since then it's had plenty of new content added into the game, and they aren't stopping at this stable release. The developer has already mentioned more content to come, and that's awesome.
To celebrate I recorded a new video of me kicking butt. It seems that I had to re-pick my level-up perks, so you get to see the level up system in action for eight levels at once! I'm also using a mix of mouse and gamepad at the same time, as I found gamepad to be much nicer for combat, but the mouse is far quicker for the inventory screen.
Skip to 11 minutes for the boss fight
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I'm still incredibly impressed by the performance of the game, considering it was super smooth on high settings, even while recording gameplay.
Honestly, this is the most fun I've had in an action RPG since Diablo 2, although it still feels quite different overall. The fact that it has day-1 release support, and even builds during Early Access makes me really love Haemimont Games. They actually gifted us a key (without me asking) after I already purchased it personally, which makes me love them again some more. That key was sent onto Samsai who has shown it off in our livestreams.
Check out Victor Vran on Steam now.
About the Steam runtime and GOG: Does Valve disallow use of the runtime outside Steam? I thought it was just a collection of custom built open source libraries. Can't Haemimont Games simply depend on the runtime in their GOG build or alternatively copy over the needed libraries from the runtime package?
Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: BeamboomCan u create your character in this game, and is gender amongst the options?No, you are Victor Vran. The game is about him.
Aha. Thanks, Liam.
coryrj19951 Jul 25, 2015
Quoting: tuubiLooks fun. Wishlisted for now.
About the Steam runtime and GOG: Does Valve disallow use of the runtime outside Steam? I thought it was just a collection of custom built open source libraries. Can't Haemimont Games simply depend on the runtime in their GOG build or alternatively copy over the needed libraries from the runtime package?
Uber has it packed on the Planetary Annihilation retail disc for Linux, whether Valve knows about it or not, or if they would have a problem with another company using their (free open source) runtime, I don't know.
They're promising some really awesome free DLC, like a randomly generated map and local Co-op. This great game will only get even better with time.
Quoting: EKRboiAwesome to hear it is out of EA and working well. I'm pretty sure this is right up my alley so I will be snatching this up as soon as I get home!
Finally got home and got this up and running about an hour ago. It runs well and I'm enjoying it so far. I had the controls set to action at first but I ended up switching to mouse movement. I probably could have adjusted to WASD movement and mouse attacks, but this game just begs to be a click fest IMO.
I have all of the settings cranked up and it mostly maintains 60fps but some of the "special effects" tend to tank the frame rate enough to force it down to 30fps for a bit due to using vsync. Even with only one of my 970's working in Linux it still plays @ 5760x1080 really well since it's not exactly a graphically demanding game. I loaded it @ 1920x1080 just to see if maybe the frame rates didn't tank on some of those "special effects" but it is exactly the same as the wider res. I need to get some sleep but when I play tomorrow I'll try changing the CPU governor from "powersave" to "performance" while playing it to see if that helps any since I noticed this games doesn't push my CPU into higher clocks too often.
Quoting: melkemindIn case you haven't noticed, the voice of Victor Vran is the same voice as The Witcher. You're welcome. :)
It is isn't it! I thought the voice sounded familiar!
Last edited by EKRboi on 26 July 2015 at 5:58 am UTC
Kimyrielle Jul 26, 2015
Quoting: liamdaweJust had a 40 minute blast on it, man it gets intense at times!
Quoting: BeamboomCan u create your character in this game, and is gender amongst the options?
No, you are Victor Vran. The game is about him.
And that's the only thing that keeps me from buying this game. It looks great otherwise. :S
Quoting: KimyrielleQuoting: liamdaweJust had a 40 minute blast on it, man it gets intense at times!
Quoting: BeamboomCan u create your character in this game, and is gender amongst the options?
No, you are Victor Vran. The game is about him.
And that's the only thing that keeps me from buying this game. It looks great otherwise. :S
Might be a bold statement, but I'm 90% sure you'll forget the lack of character creation and gender option if you just give it a chance. It's too good to miss out.
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