Orbus VR - The First VR MMORPG! - VR Gameplay HTC Vive
Take a walk with me through the future of MMOs...
Orbus VR (http://blog.orbusvr.com) is aiming to be a VR MMORPG. Currently there are 4 classes, a rather large area to explore and around 6 enemies to kill. On the day this video was released there was a 2 hour stress test open to all.
And it was amazing! It was a prealpha build but still very playable. There were server crashes, reboots and getting stuck for sure but what we had to work with was playable enough for it to be fun.
In fact after this video was done I put the Vive back on and jumped in for seconds!
In the stress test we had 2 hours to run around and kill our way to lvl 4. Nothing much more than that but it was still pretty fun. A lot of it, admittedly, probably has to do with the novelty of it all. There were definitely issues....
Most of these are just the state of the game being prealpha. This was just to test the network infrastructure and make sure that they could handle multiple people in one place at the same time. For the most part it seemed to work. There was one server crash and one intentional reboot that I was aware of.
This is going to be one to follow and I'll be first in line to back a Kickstarter when it pops up.