All 5 Vampire Survivors Secret Characters

All methods for obtaining characters are taken from open sources. There are also methods in the manual that are directly embedded in the game files, the choice is yours. If you find errors or just want to help, I'm always glad to hear from you in the comments!

1. Exdash Exiviiq

The easiest character to get, which you can open even at the initial stage of the game. To unlock you will need to enter the corresponding code in the main menu of the game: "x-x1viiq".

There is also a way to get it without a code, you need to find "VERY lucky clover". PS I don't know if it looks different than usual, I personally opened it through the code.

Interesting Facts:

• Exdash's last name Exiviiq and code x-x1viiq are references to the XX!V''Q cheat code used in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which also gives the protagonist Alucard very high luck stats in exchange for lower other stats.
• Exdash's starting max health before bonuses is 77, and 7 is considered a lucky number, further emphasizing Exdash as a character revolving around luck.

2. Toasty

A more difficult character to obtain than his predecessor. The difficulty lies in spawning the boss and then pressing two keys within 1 second. To get Toastie, you must first have Exdash in your arsenal. Otherwise, the character will not open.

There are two options:

1. Dairy Plant [Stage 3] - Stalker has a 1% chance of appearing at the very beginning of the round and 30% at the 8th and 12th minutes. It is also desirable to remove luck in the improvements section before starting, which will increase the chance of the event appearing. After the Stalker has appeared, take him to the rails and try to kill him with the trolley. Immediately after the kill, the character will be highlighted in the lower right corner for a second. At this moment, you should have time to press ↓ + Enter, and if you have time, a victory melody will sound along with this.

PS I advise you to rerun the map until the Stalker appears at the very beginning, he comes immediately with the first wave of mobs. The option with the 8th and 12th minutes is too time consuming. PENTAGRAM - scares off the Stalker, with this outcome the character will not come out!

2. Gallo Tower [Stage 4] - The Drowned can be summoned by a Giant Enemy Crab on the 25:00 wave or appear as a boss on the 30:00 wave along with Death. He is not immune to instant kill effects and can be killed by Magnificent Moon or Rosary, but not by Pentagram, providing a possible way to defeat him given his extremely high health pool. However, this only applies when summoned by a giant enemy crab, as it is configured to be invincible when spawning in a 30:00 minute wave.

Interesting Facts:

• When the Stalker or Drowned is defeated after unlocking Exdash, Toastie will appear in the lower right corner and youyells "Panini" (his codename), just like the person yelling "Toasty" in the Mortal Kombat series.
• The name Toastie is a reference to the easter egg of a man shouting "Toasty!" when pressed down + start is used in Mortal Kombat 2, which is also a hint for the code used to unlock this character.

3.Leda

Pretty easy to get, almost nothing is required. Leda is both a playable character and a secret boss in Gallo Tower [Stage 4].

To get it, you need to go down (about 32-40 tiles) and just kill the Boss himself.

PS When approaching his location, the area gradually darkens. When the environment becomes almost dark, prepare to attack. Also, in order to go down faster, I recommend setting Hypermode.

Interesting Facts:

• Leda is the second character to be unlocked by defeating them. The first "Mask of the Red Death".
• Both start with advanced weapons.
• Both have no additional passive effects other than stat changes.
• Both are much stronger than normal characters and are comparable to or even superior to bosses in strength.

4. Mask of the Red Death

The legal way to get it is not easy, but it is present, but I will not analyze it here. Here you can get acquainted with behavior, strategies and everything that will help you defeat Death.

IMPORTANT! Disable Stea Cloud Savem temporarily, it may prevent saving modified files.

In order to get it illegally, you need to do the following:

1. Steam -> RMB on Vampire Survivors -> Controls -> Browse Local Files
2. Go to resources > app > .webpack > renderer
3. Here we need our save file, namely "SaveDataBackup.sav"
4. We open it through any text editor, I personally advise using Notepad ++
5. Press the key combination CTRL + F and in the search drive in "UnlockedCharacters"
6. Scroll to the end and before the last character insert (,"NOSTRO")
7. Next, scroll to the end of the file itself or search through CTRL + F "Checksum" and delete the value inside the quotes.
8. After copying absolutely all the text, you can through the "Edit" in the upper left corner.
9. We go to the site [emn178.github.io] and paste our text into the upper field and from the bottom we get the value that needs to be returned to where we deleted it from (point 7). UPD • V0.5.1 - A new save system has been added that does not sync with the Steam Cloud. However, it replenishes the data from your main save. This change makes it a little more difficult. I found the method myself, there may be failures!
10. Save the save file and go to this path "AppData\Roaming\Vampire_Survivors\saves" ( win + r > %appdata% )
    We remove the "Backups" folder to any convenient place and delete all unnecessary files except "SaveData.sav"
11. We repeat the same thing as with the file above. Look carefully what would be in twouh files was added "NOSTRO" and a new checksum.
12. Just save and go to the game
13. In the game, go to the settings and click "Restore Backup"

If you could not get the character by following the steps, but with version v0.5.1, the guide most likely will not work - GLEclipseGaming

Interesting Facts:

• The Mask of the Red Death replaced MissingN as the reward for killing Death.
• The initial maximum health of the Mask of the Red Death before power-up is 255, which is likely a reference to the calculations, where 255 is the maximum value represented by an eight-digit binary number, and therefore the maximum value represented by an 8-bit unsigned byte.
• His name is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story The Mask of the Red Death.

5.missingN

The old prototype of death, at the moment it is possible to obtain only by editing files.

The stage of obtaining is almost identical as in the example of the illegal method with the first death. Here we also need to find the name "LAMA" via CTRL + F (there are only two of them) and after each we put a comma and write "FINO" with quotes. After that, we repeat all the same steps as the first time.

If you could not get the character by following the steps, you can do the same with the video, the source from which you can repeat is Dex.

Interesting Facts:

• Missing N used to be unlockable by killing Death .From to?The effects of Mask of the Red Death,Missing N can only be unlocked by editing a save.
• Not only is MissN's stats calculated randomly, his name and ability description also contain randomly generated characters in the ASCII range 0x00 - 0xde:
• Its name is defined as "missing N", where "" is a random character.
• Its description is defined as "M", where "" represents a random character.
• The name and item on the smaller MissingN character tile is the name and item that was chosen earlier.
• After selecting the missing N, his current name and weapon are displayed on the large character tile.
• When launched, its name is initially "LATODISOTTO" (Italian for "underside"), and its element is Duplicator. This is purely aesthetic.
• Both its name and glitch appearance are a reference to the famous glitch of the same name from the Gameboy games, Pokémon Red and Blue.
• The description of missingN is an additional reference to a lesser-known glitch in Pokémon Red and Blue.