V Rising is an MMO survival game where players take control of vampires and create a kingdom for themselves, but the game's worst gameplay feature could ruin the experience for many players. V Rising is a unique blend of Valheim's crafting survival gameplay and Diablo's explosive top-down combat with a twist. Players assume the roles of immortal vampires as they build their bases and amass an empire in hostile lands. Its solid gameplay and interesting premise have caused V Rising to explode in popularity.
The basic premise of V Rising is that the player is a newly awakened vampire. They must then begin building a kingdom by raiding villages and other kingdoms at night. Players collect resources to build sprawling castles that can shield them from the hostile rays of the sun during the day. The game has MMORPG elements where players can enter PvP or PvE servers with their friends or solo, making resource collection a shared burden among all players.
However, an infuriating gameplay design choice that is sure to sour many players' experience is that players cannot teleport anywhere with resources on hand. While this does not include equipment like weapons and armor, it means that players must spend long periods manually lugging around the various crafting materials they need to build their base. Unfortunately, there are few other methods of fast travel in V Rising. This situation makes the resource issue a problem that could ruin V Rising's otherwise brilliant gameplay.
Crafting Resources In V Rising Are Too Much of a Chore Without Teleporting
At its core, V Rising is a survival crafting game much in the vein of Valheim, but with vampires. This means that resource management is a huge mechanic. Castles require vast amounts of stone and wood to build, on top of all the other resources the player's character needs to survive. Player fast travel done via travel through vampire waygates, which allow the player to quickly traverse the large map instantaneously. However, any time the player tries to travel with anything in their pockets, they will receive a "you cannot teleport while carrying resources" message. The solution is to empty their pockets of all of their collected resources. The inability to travel is especially infuriating when players need to avoid sun damage in V Rising, and thus must scramble to throw away their materials before they can retreat to safety.
This gameplay design choice to make resources unable to teleport essentially forces V Rising players to manually transport all of their resources back to their base. This creates a lot of wasted time simply dedicated to carrying materials back. Unfortunately, this also applies to any resources salvaged when destroying the player's castle, meaning that any time the player wishes to move their castle they must spend hours manually picking up and carrying everything to the new location. This is process is tiresome, to say the least, and greatly diminishes the experience of an otherwise solid game.
If V Rising expects to hold on to players for the long-term, then some quality-of-life adjustments need to be made regarding resource transportation. Players should be worrying about which V Rising bosses to kill first, not about how to carry a huge mess of resources back to their castle. There are several ways resource transportation can be addressed without making resource gathering trivial. For example, allowing special castle waygates to transport materials between different castles, encouraging multiple bases while not forcing the player to manually relocate all resources. Perhaps a new cart system that allows players to passively send a cart to a specific location, carrying resources along with it. There are so many options that can be done to make resource gathering less of a chore and encourage new styles of gameplay that the current way of doing things is just maddening. If V Rising wants to continue to be on top, resource transportation must be improved.