Hello my fellow Vampire Survivors Crawlers,
I’m Marthello, your new, very serious community manager. It’s nice to meet you all, but enough with the pleasantries.
My first task is to deliver a very serious update: Death Parade is taking longer than expected. We’re sorry. Development is moving along, but rather than stay quiet until it’s finished, we thought we’d show you some of what’s on the way.
Not all of it, obviously. That’s not how previews work.
Our roadmap already mentioned that Death Parade would introduce limited hand sizes and discarding.
The limit comes from a new Relic, NAME REDACTED, which caps how many cards you can hold. Simply giving you fewer cards wasn’t particularly interesting, so we’ve been adding new ways to manage exploit a smaller hand and started turning discarded cards into something you can build around.
For example:
Sir Ambrojoe can Switch cards, discarding random cards from your hand and immediately drawing replacements. Whenever a card is discarded, he deals damage and adds Scavenger to a random red card still in your hand.
Scavenger makes that card stronger for every card discarded during an encounter. The more you cycle your hand, the stronger your Scavenger cards become.
His weapon, La Robba, combines Discard, Scavenger and Bouncy. It rains furniture onto multiple enemies, grows stronger as you discard more cards and has a Luck-based chance to bounce between targets.
Other cards can activate through Afterlife when discarded. So yes, throwing away perfectly good cards is now an actual strategy.
When you discard 500 cards, you unlock Big Troubler. His weapon, Unearthly Bolt, fires multiple green lightning bolts and evolves into Spirit Disturbance, a green dragon.
Playing Big Troubler discards two cards and adds two Coin Purses to your hand. While Big Troubler is active, gaining gold makes a random card free for the turn, and discarding a card gets you another Coin Purse.
He works well with any other Crawler, but he pairs especially well with Ambrojoe (hint, hint) and in Luck-heavy builds.
Both Ambrojoe and Big Troubler are examples of how we’re trying to improve what we internally call “thoughtful hand management.” If you think you have a better name for it, no, you don’t.
Death Parade’s new Gems will let you add their effects to existing cards, not just the new cards coming in Death Parade.
The patch also adds four new Arcanas:
Infinite Combo
Chair Game
Crawler Brawler
Ebb & Combo (formerly known as Unbreakable Spirit. The name was not unbreakable.)
As for what they actually do, we’ll leave that for you to discover.
Thank you for your patience while we continue working on Death Parade. We’ll have more to share when it’s ready.
Anyway, here’s one more GIF for good measure. Enjoy.
~ Marthello