Altair Breaker is a multiplayer sword-fighting recreation from Swords of Gargantua developer, Thirdverse. It is set on the floating island of Vastus Isle, as soon as a magical workshop however now turned to ruins by LAWS (Deadly Autonomous Weapons Methods). As a sword-fighter, you are tasked with serving to Stella, a humanoid AI, in clearing the assorted environments of lethal robots.
Everything of Altair Breaker revolves round taking part in the identical single degree repeatedly. This degree has you play by means of 4 samey, barren areas, clearing a few waves of enemies in every earlier than shifting onto the following. These waves include simply three enemy sorts; a sword-fighting robotic, a taking pictures robotic, and a barely greater unit that mixes the skills of the opposite two.
Your entire degree takes about 10-Quarter-hour to clear and is the one content material out there, aside from a really empty hub space for managing your loadout and assembly with different gamers. You have to grind as much as degree 20 — roughly 20 unrewarding runs by means of the one degree — at which level you may unlock a particular sword, which is taken into account the top of the sport.
Though within the hub space there’s a pedestal for a second degree, The Depths, after 4 hours of taking part in to achieve degree 20 it was nonetheless locked. The sport provides you no indication of the best way to unlock it, and after chatting with a number of different gamers and researching the problem, we have been unable to search out any strategy to entry the stage. It is attainable that is merely a bug, but when so, it is a fairly dangerous one.
Talking of which, your entire multiplayer expertise is plagued by bugs and glitches. Enemies leap backwards off platforms, solely to respawn and do the identical once more, caught in a steady loop making it tough to assault them. The hit detection on enemies can also be fully off, making all of the enemies irritating to take down — despite the fact that they’re comparatively innocent as they miss most of their assaults.
The few redeeming options within the vibrant visuals, correct hand monitoring, and the considerably pleasant traversal when utilizing the glider are simply not sufficient to resurrect this unfinished title. Altair Breaker can barely even be labeled as a fully-fledged recreation; it proves the VR software program stereotype right by simply being a glorified tech demo.
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