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.
The whole lot of Altair Breaker revolves round taking part in the identical single stage repeatedly. This stage has you play via 4 samey, barren areas, clearing a few waves of enemies in every earlier than transferring onto the following. These waves encompass simply three enemy sorts; a sword-fighting robotic, a taking pictures robotic, and a barely greater unit that mixes the talents of the opposite two.
The whole stage takes about 10-Quarter-hour to clear and is the one content material obtainable, apart from a really empty hub space for managing your loadout and assembly with different gamers. You have to grind as much as stage 20 — roughly 20 unrewarding runs via the one stage — at which level you will 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 stage, The Depths, after 4 hours of taking part in to succeed in stage 20 it was nonetheless locked. The sport provides you no indication of the best way to unlock it, and after talking to a number of different gamers and researching the difficulty, we have been unable to search out any technique to entry the stage. It is potential that is merely a bug, but when so, it is a fairly unhealthy one.
Talking of which, the whole 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 be fully off, making all of the enemies irritating to take down — regardless 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 gratifying traversal when utilizing the glider are simply not sufficient to resurrect this unfinished title. Altair Breaker can barely even be categorised as a fully-fledged recreation; it proves the VR software program stereotype right by simply being a glorified tech demo.
