Altair Breaker is a multiplayer sword-fighting sport 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 Techniques). As a sword-fighter, you are tasked with serving to Stella, a humanoid AI, in clearing the varied environments of lethal robots.
The whole thing of Altair Breaker revolves round taking part in the identical single degree repeatedly. This degree has you play by 4 samey, barren areas, clearing a few waves of enemies in every earlier than shifting onto the subsequent. These waves encompass simply three enemy sorts; a sword-fighting robotic, a capturing robotic, and a barely greater unit that mixes the skills of the opposite two.
The whole 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 will need to grind as much as degree 20 — roughly 20 unrewarding runs by the one degree — 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 degree, The Depths, after 4 hours of taking part in to succeed in degree 20 it was nonetheless locked. The sport offers you no indication of learn how to unlock it, and after chatting with a number of different gamers and researching the difficulty, we had been unable to seek out any approach 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 suffering from bugs and glitches. Enemies leap backwards off platforms, solely to respawn and do the identical once more, caught in a steady loop making it troublesome to assault them. The hit detection on enemies can also be fully off, making all of the enemies irritating to take down — although 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 pleasing traversal when utilizing the glider are simply not sufficient to resurrect this unfinished title. Altair Breaker can barely even be categorized as a fully-fledged sport; it proves the VR software program stereotype appropriate by simply being a glorified tech demo.