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 Programs). 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 enjoying 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 following. These waves encompass simply three enemy varieties; a sword-fighting robotic, a taking pictures robotic, and a barely greater unit that mixes the talents of the opposite two.
The complete stage takes about 10-Quarter-hour to clear and is the one content material out there, apart from a really empty hub space for managing your loadout and assembly with different gamers. You need to grind as much as stage 20 — roughly 20 unrewarding runs by the one stage — at which level you will 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 enjoying to achieve stage 20 it was nonetheless locked. The sport provides you no indication of the way to unlock it, and after talking to a number of different gamers and researching the problem, we have been unable to seek out any strategy to entry the stage. It is potential that is merely a bug, but when so, it is a fairly unhealthy one.
Talking of which, your entire multiplayer expertise is affected 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 utterly 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 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 appropriate by simply being a glorified tech demo.