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 Methods). As a sword-fighter, you are tasked with serving to Stella, a humanoid AI, in clearing the varied 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 by 4 samey, barren areas, clearing a few waves of enemies in every earlier than shifting onto the subsequent. These waves include simply three enemy varieties; a sword-fighting robotic, a taking pictures robotic, and a barely greater unit that mixes the skills of the opposite two.
The complete stage 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. It’s essential to grind as much as stage 20 — roughly 20 unrewarding runs by the one stage — at which level you may unlock a particular sword, which is taken into account the tip 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 offers you no indication of methods to unlock it, and after talking to a number of different gamers and researching the problem, we had been unable to search out any technique to entry the stage. It is doable 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 — 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 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.