Vampire Survivors latest Beta adds online play and more new content

Vampire Survivors is finally getting the promised online mode, with a Beta now available to try that also includes some new content.

There's quite a few differences to playing it online instead of in local co-op including:

• Batch level up - Depending on the player count you will only see level up after all players have leveled up. So on 4 players the level up screen will only show every 4 levels.
• DLC - You will only be able to use DLC online if every player owns that DLC. We're retro-fitting Online into an originally single player game written in JS by a solo dev, so there are a lot of technical issues we have to move around or worry about later, one of which is the way that DLC expansions are handled.
• Free Roam - In online you are not restricted to the same screen, you can all freely move around the stage independently. (Note: You will be pulled into a boss room if any player walks into it)
• Spectator mode - When you die in multiplayer you can use the mouse to jump to players who are still alive. You also respawn where they are if you are spectating them.
• Achievements - You will have the choice at the end of the run to carry over any achievements earned in that run back into your own save file.
• Speed up - Disabled in online.
• Pause menu - To help flow, when you pause, you do not pause for everyone else, you just get a small window of invincibility

For the PC release, it will be a free update but they're not giving an exact date on when it will leave Beta, other than sometime this "Autumn". Save data will carry over as well, so you should hopefully not have any problems when it does leave Beta. There's no matchmaking for online mode, it's purely based on room codes or invites. Currently no cross-play either.

Plus some new content was also added as a Preview of the new update in the same opt-in Beta:

15 new achievements to unlock:

• 2 new stages
• 2 new characters
• 2 new weapons and their evolutions
• 1 old passive weapon
• 3 new darkanas
• 3 new relics to get:
  • 1 new power-up
  • 1 new character transformation
  • 1 new game mode: PARTY MODE

That's only a small slice of what's to come, as the new content will be added to the Beta in batches. Two more parts are due to be added but they aren't saying what just yet.

See all the details in the announcement.