How to play V Rising offline and without an internet connection

The V Rising offline mode is a specific set up for your server, choosing to host it on your own home PC rather than setting it up online. This admittedly limits your ability to play multiplayer - but that's part and parcel of an offline mode. For those who just want to hang out in the land of vampires by themselves without fear of PvP attacks, here's how to play V Rising offline and by yourself.

How to play V Rising offline

To play V Rising offline, players have to do the following:

- Set Steam to Offline

- From the Main Menu in V Rising, Select "Play"

- Select "Private Game"

- Tick the Checkbox next to "LAN Server"

To go into more detail, first you need to set up a special LAN Mode server, effectively creating a game world hosted on your own PC rather than one accessed remotely via the internet. This does mean, however, that you'll need to create and host your own server. When you do, you need to start the server in "Lan Mode", an option presented as a little checkbox. At this point, the game will open in an offline mode!

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More than that though, the fact that this world is effectively hosted on your own private network means that anybody on the same network can join your server, done by ticking the “LAN Server” checkbox in the "Direct Connect to Server window". Admittedly, everybody would have to have their own PC to run V Rising, but it's still an option available to people.

Aside from the obvious advantage of offline mode meaning that you're no longer shackled to an internet connection, players can also use admin and V Rising console commands and cheats to alter the worlds they host, a nice little benefit for those reigning as kings of their tiny gothic kingdoms. The Steam Cloud also records server history, so assuming they log onto the internet at some point to backup this information, players should theoretically be able to access those offline Lan Mode servers from other PCs.

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