Vampire Survivors is getting an engine improve! Don’t count on any fancy ray-traced textures like Minecraft or Cyberpunk, however the upcoming switchover for the addictive Best Game of Last Year will convey with it some very welcome enhancements to performance and stability when it lands next month.
We’ve recognized that Vampire Survivors devs Poncle have been engaged on a Unity model of the fangtastic PC sport for a whereas now, having already launched its Xbox and cellular ports on the favored engine and saying plans to convey over the PC unique late final yr.
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Since then, Poncle has been releasing two separate variations of Vampire Survivors on PC: the unique construct based mostly on the Phaser engine, and a beta model of the upcoming Unity construct which you can entry as a tester (or in case you sneakily Googled the beta entry code for Steam).
That additionally means we all know what to count on when the general public model of Vampire Survivors formally switches over to Unity on August seventeenth, as not too long ago confirmed by Poncle. As per testers’ time with the new engine throughout its beta, the Unity model runs a lot smoother than the unique – holding the framerate shut to 60 even because the display screen fills with enemies and explosions – and is usually extra secure, avoiding slowdown.
As a good added bonus, it additionally implies that people taking part in on a Steam Deck – arguably the right platform for Vampire Survivors – and lower-spec machines must also profit from the altogether extra pleasant engine. Poncle factors out that Unity may even assist the staff with porting efforts.
“Now that we’re shut to a level the place the new engine is completely examined and runs better than the previous one, we are going to totally swap the sport over to the new engine on seventeenth August” the devs confirmed, earlier than thanking Phaser for powering the sport to its viral heights of success: “I had a lot of enjoyable constructing Vampire Survivors in it and can extremely suggest it in case you are all for making wild video games fairly quick!”
The new engine will accompany a model new co-op mode, additionally releasing as a free replace on August seventeenth. If you’ll be able to’t be bothered to wait a few weeks, stick newenginepls into Steam and give it a blast now.
Vampire Survivors has additionally been granted new buying and selling playing cards and different Steam neighborhood objects like emoticons and profile backgrounds, which you’ll go and seize proper now, in order that’s good.