OrbusVR MMO Open Alpha Test: 28th-30th July

FlukeRogi · 27 Jul 2017 at 13:59

melmac said:
so we opened the room up to the public and a drunk Scottish guy joined us. He was an ass, but, so drunk it was funny.

I wish I'd managed to grab video of that. Having a drunk Scottish engineer who just sat there complaining that engineering was s**te, though annoying in the end, would have been YouTube comedy gold.

melmac · 28 Jul 2017 at 14:06

Just remember guys, it's "shoot fluke in the back" day

See you later on Orbus for the Alpha test. Am looking forward to seeing how MMOs will work in VR.

FlukeRogi · 28 Jul 2017 at 14:43

melmac said:
Just remember guys, it's "shoot fluke in the back" day

See you later on Orbus for the Alpha test. Am looking forward to seeing how MMOs will work in VR.

Apparently PvP only works in certain wild areas of the game, though I may have to offer a prize to the first person to provide proof of killing Melmac

Let's hope their servers can handle the influx of freebie testers..

Devrij · 28 Jul 2017 at 14:51

Will be interested to see your thoughts chaps. If you manage to record any of your play I'd be interested to watch.

FlukeRogi · 28 Jul 2017 at 15:37

Devrij said:
Will be interested to see your thoughts chaps. If you manage to record any of your play I'd be interested to watch.

Good reminder - been meaning to set something back up after my Windows reinstall. Got it always recording the last 10 minutes now, so if anything amusing happens, there's no escaping it

melmac · 28 Jul 2017 at 15:43

FlukeRogi said:
Good reminder - been meaning to set something back up after my Windows reinstall. Got it always recording the last 10 minutes now, so if anything amusing happens, there's no escaping it

Think you will need a bigger hard drive

RockSteddy · 28 Jul 2017 at 16:05

All downloaded and ready to go

FlukeRogi · 28 Jul 2017 at 16:19

Client download and beginners guide.

melmac · 28 Jul 2017 at 17:19

FlukeRogi said:
Client download and beginners guide.

All downloaded and come on Fluke, who reads beginners guides?? I am just going to follow you around and ask annoying questions all evening

melmac · 28 Jul 2017 at 17:23

I think anyone who is going to play later should put their character name here so that we can find each other easily in game.

My characters name in game will be Melmac2017

melmac · 28 Jul 2017 at 18:02

Countdown is over!!

FlukeRogi · 28 Jul 2017 at 18:10

Naming restrictions/requirements aside, I'll either be Fluke or FlukeRogi.

If people post their names as Melmac suggested, I'll update the first post with a list. Just waiting on the server now..

FlukeRogi · 28 Jul 2017 at 18:51

Just tried it, and I appear to be stuck with a bug which won't let me equip the bow, so I can't carry on with the tutorial. I've left a message on their forums, but let me know if it works for you.

melmac · 28 Jul 2017 at 19:00

It crashed out on me just now and I can't get back in.

and just based on my first hour in the game, the teleport system is terrible. It ruins the game for me completely.

RockSteddy · 28 Jul 2017 at 19:33

melmac said:
It crashed out on me just now and I can't get back in.

and just based on my first hour in the game, the teleport system is terrible. It ruins the game for me completely.

What is so bad about the Teleport system?

FlukeRogi · 28 Jul 2017 at 19:39

melmac said:
It crashed out on me just now and I can't get back in.

and just based on my first hour in the game, the teleport system is terrible. It ruins the game for me completely.

You can turn on smooth locomotion, but it's disabled in combat.

melmac · 28 Jul 2017 at 21:42

so, got in again after an update and there must have been a bug because teleporting was much better on return.

But, crashed again.

Not sure this is near ready yet. I guess that's why it's an Alpha. Whenever there is more than 4/5 people on screen the whole thing gets laggy and stuttery. Not sure I will put any more time into for the moment.

FlukeRogi · 28 Jul 2017 at 21:56

melmac said:
so, got in again after an update and there must have been a bug because teleporting was much better on return.

But, crashed again.

Not sure this is near ready yet. I guess that's why it's an Alpha. Whenever there is more than 4/5 people on screen the whole thing gets laggy and stuttery. Not sure I will put any more time into for the moment.

Like you say it's an alpha but yeah, it certainly feels like one. Not had any lag problems, and I was killing critters in the sunflower patch with probably 5 or so other people doing the same. The world just feels a tad empty though. That art style coupled with things being spaced out like they are makes it feel a bit sparse.

I'll give it another go, as I'd like to see some other areas first, but on first impression, if this was a monitor game, people wouldn't be playing it.

RockSteddy · 29 Jul 2017 at 11:27

Had a quick go myself late last night and thought it was OK. I can see the potential but it was really rough around the edges but that is expected for an Alpha. I only encountered one bug where it would not allow me to equip the musket in the tutorial but logging out and back in fixed that. I didn't have any crashes so that was a plus.

I didn't get great performance though, on high ASW was kicking in and I was getting the usual artifacting and things became a little jumpy. Set it to low in the end as due to the art style it didn't seem that much worse and I always prefer a stable frame rate (running on a 1070 and 4790K).

I would definitely give it another go but it needs to be played with friends to really benefit from the experience, just like any other MMO.

melmac · 29 Jul 2017 at 13:55

Going to give it another go today and see what it's like. Good idea about lowering the settings I might try that and see if it works.

Really rough around the edges is been very kind to it

I think it needs a lot more work to be even called Alpa!!

On another note, I tried Landfall yesterday as well, It has a 2 day free play going on at the moment. It's pretty good.