VR Dungeon Knight - VR Gameplay HTC Vive
24VR Dungeon Knight is a multiplayer dungeon crawler that may just fill that void in your VR library.
The good:
Locomotion options! Struggle through the tutorial with arm swinger and you can open up Onward style trackpad locomotion. I love that we're given several options here I just wish it could be accessed sooner. I can definitely see people getting in, seeing arm swinger and teleport and asking for a refund. It's a very extremist subject.
Full body avatars with decent IK! No more floating in space... It's not perfect but we haven't seen a perfect full body implementation yet so I don't hold that against them. At least they tried and they did a decent job.
Loot! Looks like we'll be finding weapons in chests that we get from clearing dungeons and we'll be finding gold that we can use to unlock armor with very class specific bonuses such as improved sneaking or damage resist.
Proceduraly generated dungeons keep each dive new and interesting. We also have dungeon difficulties; Normal and Nightmare. According to the bonus tracker at the end of the mission each floor has a sub boss to find and kill so exploration is rewarded.
One of the things I've seen while playing after the initial gameplay video was that some of the randomly generated rooms are vertical. You'll walk into a room and will only be able to climb up to a hatch at the top of the room periodically needing to stop climbing and walk across a beam to start climbing on the other side. It was a nice rare experience.
Some of my issues with the game:
As I mentioned above. Being forced into arm swinger at the start of the game isn't the best idea IMO. Give us the option at the start of the game.
Speaking of the start of the game, don't just dump us into a cinematic as soon as the game starts. Wait for some interaction on our part. This one is more a pet peeve for me as I think most people start the game with the HMD on already but still...
While reviewing the footage, the music seems a little too Mad Hatter, bright and happy in the beginning that doesn't seem to mesh with the surroundings in some areas. I didn't really notice i in game though.
While we're on audio... Some of the sound effects are much louder than they should be. Mostly around magic which I ended up not using much of in this video.
It's going to be a bit grindy. You'll need to bring a friend to stave off some of that repetitious feeling. No friends? You better love the crawl as you'll find no story here to distract from the grind.
Most importantly, there are some game breaking bugs. At the end of the video I fall off the bridge and needed to exit the game and restart the game. While in one of the dungeons I fell through the floor and nearly got stuck. These need to get fixed sooner rather than later.
Another major issue is that you can lightly tap enemies with your weapon to deal damage. I like being forced to get into it and make large arcing swings. However if I can just waggle a bit to win it's a huge detriment to my enjoyment. A velocity check would be a welcome addition.
No quit button!
Ultimately I'm somewhat neutral on the game but leaning towards a thumbs up in spite of some of its faults because I did enjoy myself in the end. I think the game will be more enjoyable with a friend but if you like dungeon crawling this should scratch that VR itch.
I would love it if we could create our own dungeons and populate it with monsters we've defeated and have others play through our work. For some reason it just seems like it would fit here.
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Steam Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/566860/VR_Dungeon_Knight/
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