Xbox Game Pass mega hit Vampire Survivors will get a serious performance boost next month
The long-awaited Vampire Survivors engine improve is upon us! Developer Poncle has lastly introduced that the sport will absolutely change to the brand new engine on August 17 – somewhat over a month from the time of this writing.
The sport at the moment runs on Phaser, however the workforce has been engaged on porting it to Unity. On the event facet, the principle advantage of shifting to Unity is simplifying cross-platform improvement. On the gamers’ finish, nonetheless, Unity presents a lot better efficiency.
Poncle shared the information in a Steam publish, which additionally gave us a contemporary take a look at the co-op mode – which was introduced final month.
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You might be stunned to study that Vampire Survivors – a sport that takes place on a 2D aircraft with primitive visuals, and character sprites that hardly animate – one way or the other can run terribly. The reality is that no quantity of PC horsepower can easy out these late-game drops.
As soon as you’ve got advanced all of your weapons, and are very near the 30-minute mark, particularly if Restrict Break is on, it chugs onerous. That was a limitation of the outdated engine, one thing Poncle says mustn’t occur with Unity.
Vampire Survivors’ Xbox model, and the lately launched cell ports, have really been operating on Unity already. Since Poncle revealed the intention to change to Unity in September final yr, two variations of the sport had been being maintained on PC. A couple of gamers outdoors the event workforce even bought to play the beta.
The overall consensus may be very constructive, significantly in the case of the responsiveness of the sport’s UI through the late levels. The efficiency updates additionally profit Steam Deck customers and anybody with a lower-spec PC, so it is excellent news throughout.
Should you’ve one way or the other averted enjoying Vampire Survivors (the BAFTA’s sport of the yr winner for 2022), it is best to defintiely repair that. Even now, earlier than the engine change, this is a wonderful sport – and one in all Sport Go’ greatest will get ever.
