Developer Poncle launched the Darkasso replace for Vampire Survivors at nighttime on August 15, 2024. As gamers slowly realized that new content material had been added to the sport, they delved by the brand new Darkanas and rapidly realized they have been utterly damaged in the easiest way potential. Supplied they don’t crash your system.

Vampire Survivors’ Darkasso replace is a meaty one with a brand new problem stage, relic, the aforementioned Darkanas, new character skins, and, after all, some further surprises. It’s the Darkanas which have been inflicting havoc for gamers, although, they usually haven’t been shy about sharing their experiences within the replace on the sport’s subreddit. Whereas some builds crafted with the objects the replace provides have crashed the sport, all people welcomes it as a result of the builds that don’t crash your system are invincible. Making them considerably of a cursed monkey paw to play with.

Extra energy, however at what price?

The primary few posts from gamers in regards to the Darkasso replace confirmed the way it broke Vampire Survivors so onerous that it precipitated the sport to crash outright. Consumer Bonzi77 posted a terrific instance in good spirits, saying, “I gained a lot motion velocity that I needed to grapple with the truth of my existence.”

Nonetheless, there at the moment are extra posts demonstrating the sheer energy of Darkanas than there are of any game-breaking points. This one from consumer RevolutionaryDraw662 reveals how one can make a construct that’s so highly effective you possibly can’t even inform what’s occurring.

My favourite is that this submit from consumer Dex_Belle that reveals their mad run by which they’ve develop into trapped with a construct so sturdy it might’t be crushed. “I’m too highly effective… I need assistance. As of scripting this, I’m on the Tiny Bridge sitting at over 80 minutes. By my rely I ought to have over 30 Reapers on the display. I can’t be killed. The spherical gained’t finish. These new arcanas aren’t any joke.”

Whereas it’d appear to be Poncle didn’t let this replace prepare dinner lengthy sufficient, I feel it’s probably working principally as meant. The brand new space, Room 1665, looks as if an actual problem even for skilled gamers, and it’s presumably solely completable utilizing the Darkanas added with the replace.

Vampire Survivors will launch on PS4 and PS5 on August 29, 2024, with the Darkasso replace included. Many people have been ready to play this model of the sport for thus lengthy as a result of it means we will lastly add its platinum trophy to our collections.

Nonetheless, probably the most thrilling a part of the discharge is that so many new gamers get to expertise your complete recreation and these loopy new objects for the primary time ever. Poncole will undoubtedly repair the replace’s system-crashing points earlier than the PlayStation launch date, which means the following month or so will probably be a really thrilling time for the neighborhood as they uncover new and outdated content material collectively.