Vampire Survivors' long-anticipated online mode is finally here, sort of. Developer Poncle announced at the end of this week that online multiplayer has been implemented in the game's beta branch.
Vampire Survivors has of course had multiplayer functionality for several years. But playing with pals was previously limited to local co-op. Getting Vampire Survivors to work online has proved quite the challenge, as broken down by the online mode's developer Coherence in a fascinating blog from April. For example, each of Vampire Survivors' multitudinous enemies rely on local physics interactions, making it very tricky to make those interactions concurrent across a network.
