IRL Swordsman puts VR Sword Combat to the Test! 

This is a new type of content that I really enjoyed making. I'm hoping the video does well because it was fun to make, and a lot less stressful and time-consuming than my other videos are. Of course, I'm going to keep making long-form fight videos, Sword videos, and everything else. But being able to take a little break every now and then with some VR be fun!

Now i kinda want to see a moment in Star Wars where Vader knocks someone's Lightsaber from their hands, apologizes, and then uses the force to pick it up and give it back while menacingly telling them to take it.

Seeing someone play this type of game with swift, precise movements instead of random flailing is very fun and cool to see

*sweeps the legs with sharp steel and the person falls over* Everyone's so trippy today

I love how sympathetic you are to your opponents at the start-and exasperated. Nice to see some sportsmanship even in VR!

I now have a whole character for the final villain in my next DnD campaign. Fair play and supportive to his opponents, but also very annoyed at everyone being so beneath him.

I love these kinds of videos. It was especially funny how you were chiding those enemies like α disappointed parent before immediately skewering them.

As much as I love B&S, 0:48 sums up how I feel about the game when you try to do cool (heck, even realistic) stuff. :'D Thanks for making more like this though! This is good fun.

I’ve wanted you guys to play this for forever! Love your channel.

as a small game dev I just wanted to answer to a couple of your final requests: for the first 2 points the reason behind it has everything to do with the sensors precision and sensitivity; put simply the sensors responsible to registering the movement itself isn't that great (it's just a slightly better version of the same sensor used by smartphones to understand when to put the screen horizontal and vertical), fast moevements generate very strange and imprecise results and that often times results in the developers filtering out said movements to make the game playable. reguarding thumb grip: it's technically doable but the most effective way to handle it would be to simply create an alternate longsword that just uses thumb girp. you could also add the configuration that activates / deactivates thumb grip with possibly a button but that would either require an extra button on the handles themselves or a different configuration for the settings.

I love it when you give npcs time to pick their weapons up. Looks like you are not interested in fighting against an unarmed opponent at all, and that's so cool

Blade and Sorcery is a bunch of jank fun. But would love for one day for there to be a vr game that makes the combat more exhilarating with better npc AI and blade tracking/registering and whatnot. Those saber exchanges you had were the closest thing to a thrilling encounter (from my viewing perspective) than just the npcs flailing around and leaving gaps for you to thrust. Weighted controllers like some custom 3d printed sword would definitely up the immersion. If medieval vr games get popular enough that companies make controllers for that like vehicle sims do, that would be awesome. For now B&S (yes that's what I like to abbreviate it to) is the closest for one without access to swords either real or training swords to try out sword practicing to an extent. But idk about anyone else, I think a broomstick would be more helpful at actual beginner sword practice than what the current state of vr offers.

10:50 This is a problem in a lot of games that require you to use two hands for a weapon. For example, rifles in FPS games in VR face the same problem and it doesn't work very well.

"He magic'd my sword" is a quote I didn't know I needed to hear but I'm glad I did hear it

Lol gotta love the "jack sparrow running around" moment after losing his sword, and the joker talking to himself trying the saber move XD Also there are a couple of enhancement mods you can download for a better "challenge"

It's genuinely entertaining to watch your movements in the bottom left corner this way. Almost like the end Villain or the main character done with everything. As is expressed in voice as is expressed in manner and it's genuinely entertaining.

I must recommend Swordsman VR for you. In regards to the actual sword combat and enemy AI it's way more challenging than blade and sorcery. It has enemy armor physics and everything! With that you might actually even have a small challenge haha

Oh I haven’t laughed so hard in a while. This was excellent!

Love to see the frustration with them tripping over bodies. Only gripe otherwise is how I can hit someone with a spiked mac in the head and they live, but I can accidentally cut an arm of by barely hit the joint.

Thank you for the video, it was a ton of fun! The controller handles are indeed a pain for fighting simulators. Not only you can't get a proper 2-handed grip, but you also can't use your fingers very well to control the virtual "blade" because the controllers are so damn ergonomic😅 I actually saw "rifle" accessories for VR controllers with magnetic locks, so that you could lock both controllers into a rifle position. Shame there's nothing similar for swords...

I hope one day the Blade And Sorcery devs can make like a different type of moveset for like boss encounters that's actually competent at fighting. There's one mod where they follow up their attacks very quickly in combos so that plus armour makes the enemy pretty tough, but still. Maybe if they do, we can get a follow-up video. Also I tried tying my index controllers together to do longsword in the game and it was actually decent lmao.

Can you have more of this? Please, very cool to see someone skilled with a sword play this game

I really enjoyed this. It’s always fun watching you slice people up in VR (though the dead bodies seemed to be doing half the work this time around). Would you be willing to try any other VR combat games besides Blade and Sorcery? Boneworks has incredible physics for swordplay and gunplay, including one and two handed gripping if my memory serves me correctly.

You HAVE to play Swords of Gurrah on Oculus Quest 2 next. It’s a pvp sword fighting game and it would be so entertaining to see how a real swordsman competes against a gamer swordsman

Hey dude, VR dev here who's been working on improving physics based VR for the past 8 years or so. I've been looking out for real sword techniques being used in VR to see where I can improve things. Can't wait to get my tech demo out within next few weeks and I would really like if you could try it out. It's not a sword fighting game or anything specific, but I spend a lot of time getting objects like swords to function as accurately as I can get them to. One thing I can point out is that issue you have with rotating the sword in hand so you can hold it "thumb grip", is absolutely possible, and when I test with swords I like to try real techniques with as much speed as I can get out of them.

Just want to say regardless of wether you see this or not, thank you for educating me and hopefully anyone else watching your videos about how swordsmanship truly looks and acts, i firmly believed some things in video games prior to seeing your channel and now I throughly enjoy games that actually bring a much more realist approach to swordsmanship although i still can’t find one close enough to realism lol

Im late to the party, but i love this! I hope you make more of these; id love to see you explore the dungeon, if its still available in the game!

I got into hema because of sellsword arts and this sunday i attend my first class, very excited. Thank you sellsword arts.

I could watch stuff like this forever xD

I feel like being an expert swordsman doesn't add too much to this experience, since just thrusting to swinging seems to always work against these npcs.

I loved this type of video I would love to see you fight actual people in vr I think that would be really cool ngl.

I enjoyed this type of video! Imagine you try this again in a much bigger room and have a similar weighted practice sword in your hand also somehow, that way you would also be swingimg around the weight instead of just the light controllers in your hands

ah yes. the ancient technique of grabbing your sword by the blade and beating someone’s face in with the hilt.

I would love to see more of this sort of content

you should see if you can fight another swordsmen in VR, it may be the AI dragging the quality down since they seem fairly simple

This was hilarious, I hope you do a lot more of these

I really loved this video, I hope I can see more of it, and if you can, please do so, it would be awesome!

That was one thing that Red Steel 2 for the wii got right. The power of your attack depended on the power of your swing, and it had no problem tracking the speed of my swings.

Bruh this was probably painful for him. The opponents either fall from the slightest gust of wind or use magic.

*Sweep the leg* “Everybody’s so trippy today.” 1:21 I wonder why…

7:02 you want to go for heart stabs and neck slashes with that one, that's what works best with the game physics

I really hope this blows up. It's so fun. Any, i have now been inspired to go play blade and sorcery lol

You know what you should try? Enhanced AI mod. It basically makes them faster and much more closer to real fights(still not real, but, still, better than nothing) Medieval Mega Pack is also a must have! Contains hundreds of medieval era weapons from all around the world

I know where you can find a tool that simulates a 2 handed sword, or any weapon. There’s one on Etsy that I bought and I absolutely love it

0:56 “I was uh, trying to sweep the leg?” “That’s not a thing in sword fighting”

This was so fun to watch at 730 am at work ahahahahah! Love your content man! Im actually looking to join a HEMA school here in Texas bc of you.

The game called Swordsman VR is quite satisfying. This game you just played looked fun, until the lightsaber, and then it looked really nice!

Bro did not even break a sweat. 😂😂😂.

For some reason seeing you blindly wave your hands near weapon rack in the background gave me an extreme anxiety lol

I love in the beginning we get "stop using MAGIC!" 😂

"Sweep the leg is not a thing in sword fighting"

I like spear and shield combat, I had a chance to practice kendo irl or just spear but never combined with shield... After some videos and practicing technique, even the most op armored bots couldn't stand a chance 🤣

You should play Battle Talent instead, the enemies are stronger and they are harder to knock over with one swing. (As in, you can't knock them over in one swing)

I'd recommend Broken Edge. It's a VR swords duel game where you can only one-tap your opponent if you move in accordance to your class (samurai, knight, rapierist, etc).

Amazing Video, i personally love vr games!

I'm hoping to see you try swordsman VR as well. Hopefully it works better with real combat moves.

New to the channel, loved the video and love the Viking tattoos :)

I also thought about a sword controller that imitates the weight and handle of a long sword! Some kind of wrapping that could integrate the already existing controller of an oculus quest (or other kinds of controller), would be really nice and keep the developing costs low. I imagine getting the feel right would be the hardest challenge.

Ooooh awesome! Love the content!

Hehehehe, this was very fun! I laughed a lot when they got stuck on your sword

Bro needs to try swordsman vr I would watch a pro go at it

0:49 bro rly got flabbergasted by ur sword skills

The lightsaber bit sort of demonstrated why the Sith only needed 2, the "Jedi" just died by the dozens :P

9:08 interesting... channeling your inner Theoden, but with a lightsaber :o

I really need to see you do a dungeon run next!

I NEED THIS MAN TO MAKE A SWORD TRAINING MOD/GAME! I also need a training sword.

Bro you have the force

To use rapier and dagger, you gotta do a double point guard and defend with your offhand.

Now I wanna know, what you think of "Hellish Squart". It is a swordfighting/fencing/dueling Simulation and I think it has some pretty decent movements.

Video reconmendation. Im quite a big fan of your content and I would love to see some mixed duels like hema longsword vs kendo

Damn, I'd been planning to make a sword controller for VR for my dissertation but couldn't get the funding (Not sure I could've actually made it viable though)

bro if I ever fight this guy with a sword, I do NOT want the last thing I hear to be "Boop! Bop!"

Although the player doesn't have pre-animated moves, the enemies definitely do...

Yaaaay blade and sorcery!!! I love these types of vids. Please make more octo stopped uploading

I don't have the hardware nor the budget to play this. But something I noticed is that your attacks tend to just push trough whatever the opponent tries to do. Maybe it has to do with the game accurately tracking where your hands are and not allowing the game to stop your hand's range of motion, meaning the enemy can not parry nor block you in any effective way.

Maybe try some of the pvp vr sword fighting games and finding out if real world experience gives you an advantage

I don't know if you ever figured this out, but there's actually some settings in the Blade and Sorcery menu... book... thing that allows you to change how the weapon handling feels. feel free to google someone else's numbers and just tweak it to your liking (that's what I did) and having a more 1:1 experience made the game far more enjoyable

Hey, Sellsword Arts - maybe it's also worth looking into Hellish Quart? It's probably the most HEMA accurate game there is currently.

MOAR. Please.

"Got off my sword get off my sWORD GET OFF MY SWORD!!"

You know it's serious when the swordsman goes for a mordhau.

It's not that vr can't track how fast you move, it's the the devs don't comprehend how much weapon actually weigh and how they should move. They wanted to lean away from weightless weapons and leaned way too far the other way. That's why rapier feels like it has the air resistance of an umbrella

i like using mind dual wilding swords and axes like a medieval fantasy jedi

We need more of this

This is so interesting, do more!

I recommend Swordsman Vr as it's more like the sport buhurt and is like blade and sorcery.

awesome video i hope you make second part someday

I think this of type content would do really well!

Hey! I play this game every now and then, and I've never seen some of the weapons you're using in it, particularly the sabers. Are they mods? If so, could you please link a modlist? I'd be very inclined into trying that out. Thanks so much! Loved the video and your content :D

Maybe in some generation the world will come up with finger tracking for VR so you don’t need them hand things, and people will be able to use thumb grip.

Bro accidentally became a SPELLsword within the first few minutes

“GET OFF MY SWORD GET OFF MY SWORD” lol

What's up dude! Love the VR action.

Basically Noble Knights bullying peasants😂😂😂

If there is something I would change about blade and sorcery npcs i would definitely change it so that they don’t fall down every time you hit them.

I’d like to see you try Battle Talent. It’s another VR fighting game like this (and it’s free!)

Counter argument to the start of the video; Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Hellish Quart.

Love the content! 🔥🔥

how come this guy has all the cool mods unfair

I would tell you to try out the most popular difficulty mod, but unfortunately all it does is speed the NPCs up and make them a tiny bit harder to knock over. Other than that they will still do flashy fantasy spins and telegraph everything they do, just a little bit faster this time. They also dodge more frequently and these sped-up attacks have no delays between them, chaining off of each other as "realistically" as possible with the animations available.