VIRTUAL REALITY MMO! | OrbusVR on the HTC Vive 

This looks pretty cool. I had some doubts about how well an MMO would work in VR, since they generally rely on simple basic mechanics like pushing a button or two to trigger abilities/attacks rather than things that utilize full VR and since they rely so much on text, but this video has help me see that VR might work for a more genres than I thought. Great work!

I love the idea of spellcasting in VR! Waltz of the Wizard gave us a taste of that and here we have another! Think of the potential in bossfights. You really want to cast a powerful spell! But it's very complex and you need time. But also you need to move on occasion. Will you take the risk and try and cast it? Will you do more damage by casting easy spells? Or should you use a shielding spell first? Good work devs! Love to see where this is going!

This game is just what VR needed, a great open playing field, with all your friends, or alone and make some new friends

That outro music and finger flick gets me every time! As for perspective on the viability and support for VRMMOs, we seem as birds of a feather ^^

I wasn't so sure about this but your excitement is contagious. ...lol ....will have to try it !!

That casting system sounds awesome. It avoids grinding but also adds in a skill component. Under pressure you have to maintain your cool or your spells won't work.

The Oasis, here I come!!

If I were to create a VR game with dialogues without voice, I would do something like this: Make NPCs speak using "beep boop" kind of unintelligible sounds generated by game and have a tablet or magical notebook or whatever which will have translated text written on. Still need to read but a lot more immersive! ;)

there is so much more content that is going to be added to OrbusVR... more than I have room for in this comment section but here's a little teaser - player owned market stalls where you can buy/sell gear that you made.

Loved the Musketeer class in this game, you can choose your favorite 4 shot types so I was loading up a poison round, followed by a weaken round, then teleporting away just as the monster got to me and shooting a shield round at myself, rinse and repeat, using healing rounds when needed. Fun stuff. I'll have to try the mage next time!

Yeah I can see where you maybe draw a sort of runic circle with slots on the edges for modifiers then afterwards draw the main spell into the middle. Might need to learn the modifiers from quests or special events and then be time limited so that skill and precision would limit how many modifiers you can use. That would be a lot of fun.

That inventory system is just like the one In Sword art Online, i love how sleek it is. Im kinda mad because i got in to the open alpha but didn,t hav any time to play. Seeing this makes me really happy how VR is turning out

Just like the book you described I read a manga that used the same mechanic for casting spells so when I saw it in Orbus I absolutely loved it.

this looks cool, glad they seem to be going more for actually learning things rather than just having stats and leveling them up

This looks awesome. Simple, but with great potential! I wish I had a Vive so that I could try it out. :'D

Nice the spell method this game uses is the same method Arx Fatalis used way back in 2002, Soul Keeper VR(store.steampowered.com/app/442660/The_SoulKeeper_VR/) is also going to use this same method for casting spells. Soul Keeper VR is coming out this month on the 15th.

They should do the VR hand tracking and just have mages have to learn their spells. You could have multiple motions for different types of spells which would be the way to go for abilities. The same thing could be done for each class as well, each one would have their own unique motions to learn and use in order to cast the spells.

Clicked for the content. Subscribed because of the Sanderson reference.

We're on our way to sword art online YAAAAY

Nerd moment But that inventory layout reminds me of the layout in one of my favorite anime called sword art online now that would be a great game to have in vr

It looks like they are using some of the the actual runic alphabet for this. If you want a cheat sheet you could look it up and give the runes a try I'd say. My room is finally finished being renovated and I should be able to move in in the next couple of days and maybe give this a go!

Another great video. Many thanks!

Played for a bit on Saturday for the first time, backed it at the founder level. It was fun for the short time i have to play.

Think there is definitely a lot of potential

I dunno if its because of my poor IRL website where I've never been able to read things further than an inch away but in VR I can read everything but text has never been an issue. That said, I don't think the developers would have to hire expensive professional voice actors; There is a buzzing community of aspiring amateur VAs out there. An acquaintance of mine who used to do fan work on RU-vid recently had the lead role in a AAA video game, so... Totally possible on a budget!

Was thinking of elantris when you first mentioned the runes, always nice to see another Sanderson Junkie

shame I was busy that weekend, I played it the weekend before, but would have loved to join your party. But if you're getting Beta access.. I'll see you then, if not, on Launch then :)

this is coming out for Oculus as well. can’t wait!

Would love to see Graffiti from Palm OS resurrected in VR games to write and cast spells.

This looks amazing.

I really want to see a bard or a singer class. Where you literally have to sing in order for the buff to work. And the more fuckups you make during your singing. the less effective the song will be. Also, I wish they had a class less system. So you simply have stats that increase over time. For example, Everyone can cast any spell in the game the moment they know how to make the sign. But if you don't have the mana to cast it... Tough luck. How do you increase your mana? By casting spells of course! Not by doing damage. But simply by casting spells. That way you can practice on a dummy and still level up. And there will be plenty of stats. Number of novice spells made. Number of overall spells. Novice spell success rate. Novice spell accuracy. (How many times he hit his target) How many enemies were killed by novice spells and what were they. etc etc. Needless to say. I am excited.

See you in the beta Tirbal!!!

wow this is awesome! would this work on Oculus? I want this so bad!!

Great vid tribal

The Orbus devs and the Left Hand Path devs need to work together I feel...

In the future I think it would be absoulutely awesome if they added some sort of necromancer class which you would have some sort of necrotic scroll or book and you can collect you minions. Once you have your minions you select one similarly to choosing a spell and then rise it from the ground using your arms. Honestly that would be my ideal dream for a VR MMO Additionally I think a party feature would be great so that you can see your friends more easily and your items get shared after killing bosses etc.. It would also help create the dynamic that you need difference people to be different classes and possible even a healer. I think that more people would actually want to play the role of a healer because they feel as if they are actually doing something useful

In your opinion, is this game still worth purchasing? It has been a decent amount of time since your video on it, so I do have some concerns in regards to a healthy player base.

I instantly thought of Aeons as soon as i saw that ! thanks for the informative video. dw, i was sharing your excitement haha we can stick it to those Derethi scum ;)

Have you done a vid on ARK: Survival Evolved in VR?

The game is amazing, really but I after having played it after hitting early access, I have some things I'd like, I want better models, right now there are cutscenes (that are a little unrefined too) that are in a vastly different type of model. Also fix mage runes, level 3 frost bolt compared to level 3 fireball is a vast difference in difficulty.

+1 for Elantriss

This is what I've wanted the most I can't wait for this game. do they have a kikstarter I would definitely back this type of project do you have a link if so. Also great video really love watching them.

Have you tried out Sansar yet?

i missed the open alpha buy like 2 days Dx

Have to get voice actors. They don't have to be expensive

can you play this obn gear vr?

GOO BRandon Sanderson

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You totally ruined Elantris for me! I've only just started reading that after Way of Kings and Words of Radiance :'( Nice vid! I'm liking this game, just need to add Shard Blades

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One thing I wish they would add is multi-component spells. In these spells you would draw a base spell like fireball, you would then add 1 of 2 modifiers to the spell which could increase damage aoe etc. I also whish you could draw multiple runes in the air and you could select a spell, cast it, then instead of drawing the rune again you can use one you just did to do chain attacks P.s. when you do a spell correctly it should go green

I would just take screenshots of the runes lol.

non Vr consumers: "Teleportation makes me wanna throw up (in disgust)" Vr consumer: "Teleportation makes me wanna throw up (literally)" Both options is the way to please everyone. :D

1:59 boooof :)

I started playing Orbus. I love the gameplay but I think the graphics look way too cartoony. Everyone looks like a Nintendo Mii. After seeing what is possible in VR Chat, I hope Orbus has better looking character models later. The social aspect is perfect for me. I wouldn't change that. I hate auto -grouping, queing up for an instance and playing with people who just want to run a dungeon ASAP and you don't really get to connect with party members because you'll never see them again because they're from another server. I was actually coerced to talk to strangers and ask if they wanted to group. This is a great game in the making and I'll be watching it closely.

Wouldn't VR be going too far at some point with making things too realistic? Let's say you make a VR game, where you are building a castle with other players. So you have players chopping wood and laying bricks and whatnot. Would you have fun playing a lumber jack for two hours? Swinging your controller up and down to imitate chopping wood?... Wouldn't that be boring?....

And they need better player models

Looks interesting. I think I'd rather have an MMO play with a mouse and keyboard tho. I don't have time for MMOs anyways.

The jump leap thing ruins the emmersion for me.

Every game needs to have locomotion as an option.

Could you please do a shoutout to the channel Brometheus? He is a 3k sub vr-content channel, and he is trying really hard to grow.. it would be appreciated

A lot of these game mechanics were created ages ago as an abstracted alternative to the real thing when the technology was a limitation. Sometime between then and now people have mistaken these mechanics as an actual game and even though our technology allows us MUCH LESS ABSTRACTION, we still go back to these old tropes because it's "what people know". This is really sad. Things like interfaces, slots, progress bars, health bars, skill trees, damage numbers, etc etc are all things that are suppose to REPRESENT something. Now with VR we can do a way with all of that and just be in the game. Your skill gets better as you improve, you can have an actual backpack instead of some shitty grid spreadsheet of an inventory. Game creators have zero imagination of their forefathers who created these mechanics 2-3 DECADES ago because computers couldn't do anything else. What a sad presentation.

I don't care for the first comment.

The second comment is irreverent.

can you unban me from your discord server?