I think the answer to why there’s an incredible swimming mechanic is the same as the answer to why there’s an incredible climbing mechanic: This isn’t a sword fighting game; this is the development process for the best VR game engine that’s ever been made.
yeah they are basically owning one of the the best/most fun VR game engine satm, and that's great, but they've shown 0 ability to build fun game mechanics beyond the graphics/physics. That's kind of worrying
I know, they're opening up every avenue possible. Water, High altitude, Platforming, I bet they're gonna add a boat mechanic too from seeing all the ships around. I am stoked to see this game develop more.
@@BaPii Eh, not really. Right now the point of the game from the dev's perspective is creating the most polished vr experience possible, and I don't see what's wrong with that. Hell, I'd rather they go down that avenue and make some kinda fantasy vr gmod. If enough possibilities open up modding wise I don't see how lack of content would ever really be a problem. I much prefer that over a not well implemented story or some shit.
fun fact about breakable objects that you probably already knew: pot shards can be used to stab and they're really good. Breaking barrels allows you to use the top as a shield. the barrel shield only lasts 1 or 2 hits before breaking more but still could save a life
for me, it's the fact it *feels* like I'm so f&*#ing strong, that I smash my shield in half when I use the barrel lid against a building or a person. It just *feels* powerful.
The VR swimming is a straight drowning simulator if you start lagging. Happened to me and I legit started to panic a bit flailing around trying to grab something to lift me out with
Hey @habie147 love your videos :) I am the VFX artist for B&S. First, allow me to say I was truly humbled by your nice comments of my vfx for U11 in your last video :) U12 was a needed step towards 1.0. It was supposed to be a medium sized update, but it exponentially grew, mostly due to a lot of "under the hood" changes that aren't visible to players. As many small studios, we used to use a lot of asset store 3rd party stuff to make our game, but because of modding and copyright issues with said assets, we decided to remake all that stuff ourselves, so the dungeon generator got remade in house, 3rd party shaders got removed and replaced with our own, etc, you get the idea. This, plus the way Unity likes to bug out on people, resulted on a longer than expected patch time. That being said, while part of the dev team was busy coding all this new stuff, the rest of the team was working on other features like breakables, swimming, mod manager, etc. Art team was busy with new rooms and lots of new stuff, that I wish I could tell you....but if I do the French mafia will come looking for me with 4 day old baguettes to beat me up with. Again, looooove your videos man, and I am truly looking forward to your video of 1.0! Cheers!
@@Shrimp-fried-rice-n8m Shortly after it releases on PC. Which should be before the middle of this year. And I say should be because this is the biggest update BAS has ever had, and so it needs a lot of care. It's been 9 months roughly since the last big update (U12, not counting patches) and the whole team is laser focused on polishing the 1.0 release.
The big game mode is coming in the next update for version 1.0. And a lot of work from this update was to improve the dungeons system, so now modders can use it better. Waiting is boring but we are close to having something to do in this game.
@@abcdefghijkl123454 Exactly that. Previously they used a customized version of DunGen, which is available on the asset store. To allow dungeon modding they moved from this custom version of DunGen to a unique system of their own. I imagine it was a lot of work to make something moddable, really respect the hard work.
@@zalafinari nah, go read the patch notes, they actually wanted to release this update on 2022 but they had a small problem of spaghetti code so that's why it took so long to release this
6:33 I have absolutely no idea why this part made me smile so god damn much but the way you excitedly explain your plan only for you to just stare at the water is just hilarious. Habie, your videos are amazing and you bring so much light into world. Thank you.
@@waffler-yz3gwyeah but there are sections of sewers in the outpost of which you can either go above and walk on land or dip below and swim across to the next section
Habie is a good example of unintentional advertising. I have a burning desire to get a VR headset now, and before watching his videos it was more of a simmering desire
I say this as someone who's been playing VR since 2016; You should wait, the technology support just isn't there yet. There aren't enough good, fully fledged out games yet. I find myself leaving my headset sit for months at a time. After a handfull of triple A titles, there is nothing to play that doesn't become repetitive and boring after a while. With all that said, Bigscreen VR fvcking slaps. I'd buy a quest just to use that app.
Just to offer some context, cause I try to pretty much stay in loop for everything regarding Blades and Sorcery. This was initially supposed to be the full release, but at the request of the community, they added a few more things on the way (the breakables and swimming mechanics) aside from the pretty big in game mod manager and the about 30 dungeons rooms. The full release is gonna be huge, as aside from the crystal hunt mode, they will also add skill trees, shop, dungeon loot and the narative + another dungeon. They also expanded the studio a lot, to around 14 or 15 full time employees (as per The Baron during his latest interview with Doanloadable content). The update will come in the last quarter of the year or in the wort case scenario in the first part of the next year. Till then, they improved the already amazing mod tools and the overall polish level to the max, while also creating an amazing game engine (can't wait for their next games/dlcs, especially if they end up making some sort of open world rpg)
Exactly, most of their effort since U11 has been on 1.0 release (with crystal hunt) all the stuff that came in U12 was pretty low priority stuff that was ready ahead of time.
@@obothehobo173 no? They struggled a lot to get U12 working. There were a ton of issues because they wanted to add new dungeon rooms, and wanted modders to make their own dungeons, but they simply couldn’t with the old system of how dungeons were handled
Any news on some new spells? I love all the stuff that they're adding, but how can it be called blade and "sorcery" when it only has like three spells? I'd love to see some frost magic or some necromancy. Something of high quality because most of the cool spell mods are either outdated as heck or very bare bones.
This game to me is the gift that keeps on giving. I love that they're focusing on polish because it's such a welcome change from the current AAA standard of "Fix it after release". Every release of this has been fully playable (Even though my hardware struggles now, it's still playable)
The AAA motto. Fix it *after* crunching the workers to get it out in time for Christmas. and skip optimizing, the consumers can just buy another 50tb hard drive
Their stated intention is to make a totally complete vr world that you can step into. They want you to think it, then do it. They also are introducing lore to the world. Their aim seems to be to make a story book you can step into
@@PapaHola “Our dream would be to make our world dense IP, with room for many stories and adventures, creating a coherent universe that makes sense for the player; we are really aiming to push that immersive, anti-gamey vibe that a player in VR feels immersed in another world, and not just a video game.” Now they do say just above that they are hoping for this to all come together with crystal hunt. But I have been following their changelogs and new announcements pretty closely and have seen zero indication that they intend to stop at crystal hunt. “As we have always hammered, B&S will not have any kind of narrative storyline for the player, but we are striving to make a rich lore for our world in Crystal Hunt mode, which could be revealed passively to the player in-game.”. You are mistaken, they dont intend for the lore to be “minimal” but rather for it to be subtlety introduced to the player. Not shoved down their throat with a campaign. They have released a huge map showing the geography of the world, hinted at wars between cultural groups. Like I said, they want to create a storybook like world to step into. Not a hack n slash video game.
@@PapaHola Why would they just stop at 1.0 when the games been in development for years? That makes zero sense. They’re definitely gonna continue pumping out updates after release.
The important part of this update was not the breakable objects nor the swimming but instead the mod manager which adds a ton of content to the game. Edit: Apparently what took so long was actually the dungeon content added. However, my point stands that this update is called the mod manager update
from a post on the steam page a few months ago: "As mentioned in the Road to U12 news, we remade the whole Dungeon technology to improve the dungeon generation and give the possibility to expand the system with new features later. It also allowed us to eliminate 3rd part copyright issues that were preventing modders from being allowed mod Dungeons. By remaking it ourselves, it meant we can just give modders the permission to do what they like since we then own it. The whole undertaking was crazy, but things were looking really good at the end of last year. However, now that we are making builds we are only just discovering lots of things that broke and need fixing and it's the annoying sort of stuff that you don't discover until you spent a full day making a test build. We are slogging through these fixes now." so yeah, you're wrong, it was the new dungeon features that took the longest
@@shoes4clues955 My bad, I read a Reddit post a while ago and misunderstood it. But the point I was really trying to make was that the important part of the update was the addition of the mod manager. I’m fact I’m the post you quoted they say that they had to change to dungeons to allow for modding in the mod manager so that was still an important and time consuming step just not directly
@@NoiresTots it’s called the mod manager update. That’s literally the name, what more do you want. Also keep in mind that modding for the quest 2 version of the game didn’t exist before the update
"Im not gonna get on here just to swim in nothingness" The devs hearing that: postpone the story mode, let's add fish and coral reefs to the water areas!
After adding the bleed mod, realistic organ damage etc etc I can safely say I've now got bored of killing every NPC, every way possible. I dont know if there's a better way to take out stress after a day of work / listening to the annoying neighbours, but this game never fails to impress, and it really does keep getting better and better! 10/10 from a guy thats owned it a couple of years now!
The reason their major updates are focused on details, like destructible objects and swimming, and not story, or missions, is because this isn't the best Melee Combat VR Game. This is the best Star Wars VR Game. They build a foundation for modders to create content. One of the major features of this update was an in-game mod browser for a reason. Destructible objects is going to make a MASSIVE difference for Star Wars mods. Swimming might be pointless, but when somebody ports the water level from Mario 64 into the Game, it won't be.
Good news, Habie. The next update is 1.0, which will finally add Crystal Hunt. From what we know, it's basically going to be a roguelike where you get in, collect treasure, try not to die, die, buy new equipment and upgrade your old equipment, and repeat. That sounds like my kind of game, especially considering it's still Blade & Sorcery.
there are a few that involve water, but don't necessarily require swimming only one that really requires touching water at all is the sewer looking room
one time I took somebodies legs off, grabbed their arms, and started using them as a jump rope, the act of spinning them and hitting them on the ground tore their head off, did I win?
Baron's always explained Blade and Sorcery development as "underpromise and overdeliver". And by golly, do they manage to keep doing it lol. Seems like next major update is the proper 1.0 with Crystal Hunt.
“I wanna a story i want this to be in the context of something. Im not just gonna get on here just to swim. In nothingness” Yet you are still swimming aren’t you habbie?
I'm glad they added swimming, it not only improves the look that they left unpolished or changed from the start of the game, but it gives it a new, refreshing experience and also, it brings the game to life... and also, you will be able to use a "VR Treadmill" to test trying to swim.
To be honest, I don't even need a story. I don't really want dialog or cutscenes or stuff like that... I just want something like the tutorial again. A linear adventure, without much talk and stuff, level after level, intersting situations after situations and that for hours. Climbing sections, looking out for camps in the distance, finding your way to your destination, get creative and stuff. Hell, just make a game without context and story, just with a linear Half-Life level structure and with hours of content and that's it. I don't a skilltree, crafting- or level systems, a linear level structrure is really all I need.
Like Habie said, I highly believe the swimming breakable objects are leading up to the crystal hunt gamemode, and I think the focus of the update was mainly towards the blade and sorcery nomad modding community and the new mod manager for PCVR Blade and Sorcery.
The dev team for B&S is actually the single best training arena for VR mechanics. in the next 20 years every vr game that wins an award will NEED at least one dev from Blade and Sorcery, guaranteed.
Fun Fact: On a couple maps there are apples you can eat, you can also stab with your sword. You can also stab the apples with your sword and eat the apples off the sword
been watching you since i got a rift s about two years ago and i only just noticed you have 600,000+ subs. just here to say congrats dude. you are the guy i go to when i want to check out a VR game. You are funny, natural and entertaining. congratulations on the channel growth and please... don't- stop- doing- what you do. There, i said it, thanks for being you!
Habie is definitely using blade and sorcery to train himself, every video he gets stronger. We're already too late and he is out there stronger by the day.
I've got about 7 months to catch up on since the last time I ate through your content like a ravenous fat man, but I'm certainly on my way to having watched everything you have on offer.
I’m extremely looking forward to the full release with Crystal Hunt. In October they put out an update log saying that 1.0 is coming out around 1 quarter of 2024! I can’t wait and I’m super hyped!
The vessel to create fart jokes. Yes, yes, yes. The silenced one was absolutely devine. Thank you for this amazing content. I can't wait for the next video!
I think, as many other commenters have pointed out, and as a two-year VR veteran now -- this isn't about delivering a AAA experience right out of the box, but rather, a very incremental process in setting up the ability to pump out future titles using these mechanics. I think that's great for the medium. So much is new in VR that I think experiments are still very much a great thing for the industry/art as a whole. We still don't know what the really vital things are and it will take probably just as long as 2d games or more so to really polish everything and then be able to share those learnings with the wider community. I appreciate the work! Always.
AFAIK the thing that took them the most time was the fact they had to write their own dungeon generator. Because until now, they've been using a third party one, which, however, would have made modding the dungeons problematic due to some copyright issues.
The swimming, climbing, and fast ttk would be perfect for a stealth-based theft/siege gamemode. You have a castle surrounded by a moat / ocean, full of guards, stored weapons, makeshift weapons, and a prize to steal at the top. Main things that would be needed is a system for the guards to see you before they become active (this was used in the starting area and likely the dungeon), and maybe a way for them to lose attention if you sneak away for long enough. Potentially also a way for their pathfinding to still work when you yourself aren't on the navmesh (closest point) so they still chase when your climbing to the next floor or something. Could also add a distraction system like a sound that isnt screaming will attract nearby guards, similar to most stealth games. This would be harder but not too bad considering the navmeshes already work. wondering how anyone else's "gamemode ideas" would be different / similar to this one.
I gotta disagree with you here. You are giving them hate when they really don't deserve it. Oh no, they made the engine even better and made more potential for future titles. They want the crystal hunt game mode to be PERFECT when it releases, unlike most game devs today. Oh no, they're polishing it. I think thats good, and its making the game as good as it can be.
Every time I wish for a story, I think about how now because of this cool update I could swim down to a ship wreck and loot it. I’m happy to wait if we keep getting dope ass features that will make the real game even more perfect.
First: I think this is the final update before the long awaited crystal hunt and progression system. Second: they added new water places into the dungeon that is now also moldable to make custom dungeons.
The difference between a modded game and non modded is Jetstream sam with a Glock runs faster then A-train while fighting master chief A guy breaks into a castle and kills people
Habie, for the love of god, please post a 10 or so hour compilation of all of your Blade and Sorcery footage with your audio, PLEASE, HABIE, I BEG OF YOU! Pretty please?
i probably shouldn't say anything but from what i'm aware of, the next big update is the crystal hunt update. i don't know if this is actually true or not but they did say that they're finally ready to start working on the "full release" of the game. that and in the in game mode selector changed from "coming soon in 2023" to "released in crystal hunt update" or something along those lines, so hopefully we'll get a story soon.
the story is in the works and for a long time. if i am not mistaken the next update will be 1.0 and add the crystal hunt gamemode. they added swimming because they added water in the last update in which you would just sink like a rock and slowly drown.
U13: the rust update “this year we add in the ability for your tools to rust and break if you do not take care of them adding the new functional grind stone, and sandpaper”
If I don't stop clicking on habie's blade and sorcery videos soon, I might just end up buying a VR set, which would not be very responsible given my current financial situation.
My favorite weapon in B&S is probably the chair. I love going around the outpost like a psycho caving everyone's heads in with a broken piece of chair. it is surprisingly efficient.
Another cool thing about the breakables is the uses you can put the pieces to. Some pieces you can’t pick up, but I have used a sharp shard of a plate (quite effectively might I add) as a blade on a dungeon run.
Mans forgot to mention the absolute abundance of new dungeon rooms which was why the main reason why it took so long to make the update (many bugs) along with things like trapdoors, doors that lead to (soon to be) loot rooms. They had to remake the entire dungeon framework just so modders can now make their own dungeon maps. Also the in-game mod manager is a big quality of life addition
If I remember right the developers said that the purpose of Blade and Sorcery wasn’t to make a sword fighting game, but instead to make as good an engine as possible Blade and sorcery is their foundation from which all sorts of games could be made
I think the answer to why there’s an incredible swimming mechanic is the same as the answer to why there’s an incredible climbing mechanic: This isn’t a sword fighting game; this is the development process for the best VR game engine that’s ever been made.
yeah they are basically owning one of the the best/most fun VR game engine satm, and that's great, but they've shown 0 ability to build fun game mechanics beyond the graphics/physics. That's kind of worrying
I know, they're opening up every avenue possible. Water, High altitude, Platforming, I bet they're gonna add a boat mechanic too from seeing all the ships around. I am stoked to see this game develop more.
@@BaPii and thats where mods come in :D
But the engine is made in unity it’s not custom
@@BaPii Eh, not really. Right now the point of the game from the dev's perspective is creating the most polished vr experience possible, and I don't see what's wrong with that. Hell, I'd rather they go down that avenue and make some kinda fantasy vr gmod. If enough possibilities open up modding wise I don't see how lack of content would ever really be a problem. I much prefer that over a not well implemented story or some shit.
fun fact about breakable objects that you probably already knew: pot shards can be used to stab and they're really good. Breaking barrels allows you to use the top as a shield. the barrel shield only lasts 1 or 2 hits before breaking more but still could save a life
thank you very much for this amazing information silvercobra1870
for me, it's the fact it *feels* like I'm so f&*#ing strong, that I smash my shield in half when I use the barrel lid against a building or a person. It just *feels* powerful.
i decapped someone with a plate shard
@@tavrdabestisaplaceholder plates and sorcery
@@thegobucketfromkfc841 for real
The VR swimming is a straight drowning simulator if you start lagging. Happened to me and I legit started to panic a bit flailing around trying to grab something to lift me out with
I still use the Mystic Hands mod just to pull me out of the water lmao
Last night my fiancé played super fly and she is terrified of the ocean and when she fell in she had to take off the headset 😂
I can imagine forgetting to breath too while at it!
Bro had an instinctive drowning response in VR 💀
@@ProfessionalBabyEater alcohol and VR is hell of a thing
Hey @habie147 love your videos :)
I am the VFX artist for B&S. First, allow me to say I was truly humbled by your nice comments of my vfx for U11 in your last video :)
U12 was a needed step towards 1.0. It was supposed to be a medium sized update, but it exponentially grew, mostly due to a lot of "under the hood" changes that aren't visible to players. As many small studios, we used to use a lot of asset store 3rd party stuff to make our game, but because of modding and copyright issues with said assets, we decided to remake all that stuff ourselves, so the dungeon generator got remade in house, 3rd party shaders got removed and replaced with our own, etc, you get the idea.
This, plus the way Unity likes to bug out on people, resulted on a longer than expected patch time. That being said, while part of the dev team was busy coding all this new stuff, the rest of the team was working on other features like breakables, swimming, mod manager, etc. Art team was busy with new rooms and lots of new stuff, that I wish I could tell you....but if I do the French mafia will come looking for me with 4 day old baguettes to beat me up with.
Again, looooove your videos man, and I am truly looking forward to your video of 1.0! Cheers!
Do you know when crystal hung is coming out on nomad? It’s been two years
@@Shrimp-fried-rice-n8m Shortly after it releases on PC. Which should be before the middle of this year. And I say should be because this is the biggest update BAS has ever had, and so it needs a lot of care. It's been 9 months roughly since the last big update (U12, not counting patches) and the whole team is laser focused on polishing the 1.0 release.
@@thehairywookie-x5p ok thanks for the info!
Hey, know i'm late, will there be a U13 or is it straight to 1.0?
@@Weelad-ul3qk1.0
The big game mode is coming in the next update for version 1.0. And a lot of work from this update was to improve the dungeons system, so now modders can use it better.
Waiting is boring but we are close to having something to do in this game.
didn't they redo it from scratch because with the old system they licensed some part of it and they couldn't legally put it out for modders to use?
@@abcdefghijkl123454 Exactly that. Previously they used a customized version of DunGen, which is available on the asset store. To allow dungeon modding they moved from this custom version of DunGen to a unique system of their own. I imagine it was a lot of work to make something moddable, really respect the hard work.
exactly, a lot of this update was to make it easier for both modders and for the development team to build the next update
Can't tell if COPIUM or not...
@@zalafinari nah, go read the patch notes, they actually wanted to release this update on 2022 but they had a small problem of spaghetti code so that's why it took so long to release this
6:33 I have absolutely no idea why this part made me smile so god damn much but the way you excitedly explain your plan only for you to just stare at the water is just hilarious.
Habie, your videos are amazing and you bring so much light into world. Thank you.
Next update: if you tell them to stop hitting themselves, that actually dispense lunch money
Also adds wedgies , atomic wedgies and the dreaded Melvin
@@hughgrection7246 Today I learned what a Melvin was
@@jackshapiro4668 You're welcome
Fun Fact that everyone knows about: there are a couple maps that you need to swim through in the dudgeon. Ex: the sewer
Actually didn’t know that, thanks for the info
thats like knee-deep water, you dont need to swim through there
that objectively incorrect now i shall make a angry comment
you is stinky>:(
@@waffler-yz3gwyeah but there are sections of sewers in the outpost of which you can either go above and walk on land or dip below and swim across to the next section
Habie is a good example of unintentional advertising. I have a burning desire to get a VR headset now, and before watching his videos it was more of a simmering desire
wait till there are better games
Watching videos doesn’t do it justice you have to play it for yourself. But I would still wait for the quest 3 to drop this year
@@Kingbook1 i had a PSVR, but it has a total of 13 games to it’s name. So i agree
Reverb G2 is a great headset and you can get em on sale fairly often .
I say this as someone who's been playing VR since 2016; You should wait, the technology support just isn't there yet. There aren't enough good, fully fledged out games yet. I find myself leaving my headset sit for months at a time. After a handfull of triple A titles, there is nothing to play that doesn't become repetitive and boring after a while.
With all that said, Bigscreen VR fvcking slaps. I'd buy a quest just to use that app.
"Wish. Granted." - the Baron releasing Crystal Hunt
Just to offer some context, cause I try to pretty much stay in loop for everything regarding Blades and Sorcery. This was initially supposed to be the full release, but at the request of the community, they added a few more things on the way (the breakables and swimming mechanics) aside from the pretty big in game mod manager and the about 30 dungeons rooms. The full release is gonna be huge, as aside from the crystal hunt mode, they will also add skill trees, shop, dungeon loot and the narative + another dungeon. They also expanded the studio a lot, to around 14 or 15 full time employees (as per The Baron during his latest interview with Doanloadable content). The update will come in the last quarter of the year or in the wort case scenario in the first part of the next year. Till then, they improved the already amazing mod tools and the overall polish level to the max, while also creating an amazing game engine (can't wait for their next games/dlcs, especially if they end up making some sort of open world rpg)
If anyone will ever make real life equivalent of Sword Art Online, I'd like it to be these guys.
Exactly, most of their effort since U11 has been on 1.0 release (with crystal hunt) all the stuff that came in U12 was pretty low priority stuff that was ready ahead of time.
@@RealNefastus same. I just want a vr world I can live in really, with a story we aren't forced to do.
@@obothehobo173 no? They struggled a lot to get U12 working. There were a ton of issues because they wanted to add new dungeon rooms, and wanted modders to make their own dungeons, but they simply couldn’t with the old system of how dungeons were handled
Any news on some new spells? I love all the stuff that they're adding, but how can it be called blade and "sorcery" when it only has like three spells? I'd love to see some frost magic or some necromancy. Something of high quality because most of the cool spell mods are either outdated as heck or very bare bones.
This game to me is the gift that keeps on giving. I love that they're focusing on polish because it's such a welcome change from the current AAA standard of "Fix it after release". Every release of this has been fully playable (Even though my hardware struggles now, it's still playable)
The AAA motto. Fix it *after* crunching the workers to get it out in time for Christmas.
and skip optimizing, the consumers can just buy another 50tb hard drive
Their stated intention is to make a totally complete vr world that you can step into. They want you to think it, then do it. They also are introducing lore to the world. Their aim seems to be to make a story book you can step into
It's not. After crystal hunt, the game's finished, and the lore will be very minimal. They even said this.
@@PapaHola “Our dream would be to make our world dense IP, with room for many stories and adventures, creating a coherent universe that makes sense for the player; we are really aiming to push that immersive, anti-gamey vibe that a player in VR feels immersed in another world, and not just a video game.”
Now they do say just above that they are hoping for this to all come together with crystal hunt. But I have been following their changelogs and new announcements pretty closely and have seen zero indication that they intend to stop at crystal hunt.
“As we have always hammered, B&S will not have any kind of narrative storyline for the player, but we are striving to make a rich lore for our world in Crystal Hunt mode, which could be revealed passively to the player in-game.”.
You are mistaken, they dont intend for the lore to be “minimal” but rather for it to be subtlety introduced to the player. Not shoved down their throat with a campaign. They have released a huge map showing the geography of the world, hinted at wars between cultural groups. Like I said, they want to create a storybook like world to step into. Not a hack n slash video game.
@@PapaHola Why would they just stop at 1.0 when the games been in development for years? That makes zero sense. They’re definitely gonna continue pumping out updates after release.
@@gavinw1184if they have a terraria momento I’m gonna be so happy
@victorvirgili4447 that's how it's looking :) warpfrog has worked on this for years so far and probably will work on it for the foreseeable future
Dear god can you imagine how much it would suck to have your ability to stab or swim or climb or hold a sword gimped by a skill number though
The important part of this update was not the breakable objects nor the swimming but instead the mod manager which adds a ton of content to the game.
Edit: Apparently what took so long was actually the dungeon content added. However, my point stands that this update is called the mod manager update
Nope it's the dungeons that took forever someone explained it already
from a post on the steam page a few months ago:
"As mentioned in the Road to U12 news, we remade the whole Dungeon technology to improve the dungeon generation and give the possibility to expand the system with new features later. It also allowed us to eliminate 3rd part copyright issues that were preventing modders from being allowed mod Dungeons. By remaking it ourselves, it meant we can just give modders the permission to do what they like since we then own it.
The whole undertaking was crazy, but things were looking really good at the end of last year. However, now that we are making builds we are only just discovering lots of things that broke and need fixing and it's the annoying sort of stuff that you don't discover until you spent a full day making a test build. We are slogging through these fixes now."
so yeah, you're wrong, it was the new dungeon features that took the longest
@@shoes4clues955 My bad, I read a Reddit post a while ago and misunderstood it. But the point I was really trying to make was that the important part of the update was the addition of the mod manager. I’m fact I’m the post you quoted they say that they had to change to dungeons to allow for modding in the mod manager so that was still an important and time consuming step just not directly
modding has literally been in the game for a year +, that was NOT the main focus.
@@NoiresTots it’s called the mod manager update. That’s literally the name, what more do you want. Also keep in mind that modding for the quest 2 version of the game didn’t exist before the update
"Im not gonna get on here just to swim in nothingness"
The devs hearing that: postpone the story mode, let's add fish and coral reefs to the water areas!
After adding the bleed mod, realistic organ damage etc etc I can safely say I've now got bored of killing every NPC, every way possible. I dont know if there's a better way to take out stress after a day of work / listening to the annoying neighbours, but this game never fails to impress, and it really does keep getting better and better! 10/10 from a guy thats owned it a couple of years now!
What mods are you running?
@@SaltyDoobie nomad or computer? if its nomad ill tell you my recommendations after i download a few mods :)
The reason their major updates are focused on details, like destructible objects and swimming, and not story, or missions, is because this isn't the best Melee Combat VR Game.
This is the best Star Wars VR Game.
They build a foundation for modders to create content. One of the major features of this update was an in-game mod browser for a reason. Destructible objects is going to make a MASSIVE difference for Star Wars mods. Swimming might be pointless, but when somebody ports the water level from Mario 64 into the Game, it won't be.
My wife and I love watching your videos, Habie. You're like Saturday morning cartoons for us.
False. No Habie viewers have wives or husbands
@@TheRealPetraeusfalse, people who are married still enjoy UA-cam
@@Sand100 not habie tho (only us forever virgins watch him)
@@exertationsforever virgins we all are then
Lol
hard to believe U12 came out a whole year ago now and b&s 1.0 is coming out within the next 24 hrs
Good news, Habie. The next update is 1.0, which will finally add Crystal Hunt. From what we know, it's basically going to be a roguelike where you get in, collect treasure, try not to die, die, buy new equipment and upgrade your old equipment, and repeat. That sounds like my kind of game, especially considering it's still Blade & Sorcery.
I always thought a roguelite kind of mode would fit the game best.
@@ZeallustImmortal Well, it is a roguelite, but people usually consider roguelites to be part of the umbrella term “roguelike”.
@@dragoknight589 I wasnt trying to correct you or make a different point, I was just saying it sounded like it would fit
Can’t wait for the 1.0 video where Habie rejoices over the fact that there is finally a point to the game!!
I do believe there are a few dungeon rooms that require swimming to progress.
there are a few that involve water, but don't necessarily require swimming
only one that really requires touching water at all is the sewer looking room
There is at least 1 I can confirm. I nearly drawled trying to figure it out
pretty sure there are none that hard require swimming or interacting with water. I recall them saying there wont be any.
In the next update they're going to add an entire fluid physics engine just so you can properly pour potions into your breakable cups.
My friend and I play this on his quest. It pretty much devolves into a competition to see who can be more of a psychopath.
one time I took somebodies legs off, grabbed their arms, and started using them as a jump rope, the act of spinning them and hitting them on the ground tore their head off, did I win?
@@Kioley123 I like playing baseball with heads that I swiftly remove from bodies
Baron's always explained Blade and Sorcery development as "underpromise and overdeliver". And by golly, do they manage to keep doing it lol.
Seems like next major update is the proper 1.0 with Crystal Hunt.
You never give yourself enough credit, every single one of your videos are top notch
This game is why I started watching you and I've never looked back. Love the positivity and insight. Keep it up please:)
Habie trying to get two cups through the door was the peak of my day.
I laughed so hard at that part for no reason
Tip: you can kick doors open.
5:39 do you mean “The Crystal Hunt Gamemode/Update that has progression, more locations, possibly some story and ect., coming out this year”
Staying up until 2am when I have things to do just to watch Habie is the best decision ive ever made
The "Exploded Stars" into "Get Help*Fart*" Bit stopped my functions for a whole minute. Thank you mirror brains.
Habie is the epitome of VR Content now a days
I cant wait for your 1.0 video to come out.
Just as I was about to reinstall B&S just to try the new update, you come in with a video. That is brilliant timing.
wait i just noticed the demon god habie planet during the atomic mirror brains.
lol also that failed lantern swing was just perfect
“I wanna a story i want this to be in the context of something. Im not just gonna get on here just to swim. In nothingness”
Yet you are still swimming aren’t you habbie?
I'm glad they added swimming, it not only improves the look that they left unpolished or changed from the start of the game, but it gives it a new, refreshing experience and also, it brings the game to life... and also, you will be able to use a "VR Treadmill" to test trying to swim.
To be honest, I don't even need a story. I don't really want dialog or cutscenes or stuff like that...
I just want something like the tutorial again. A linear adventure, without much talk and stuff, level after level, intersting situations after situations and that for hours. Climbing sections, looking out for camps in the distance, finding your way to your destination, get creative and stuff.
Hell, just make a game without context and story, just with a linear Half-Life level structure and with hours of content and that's it. I don't a skilltree, crafting- or level systems, a linear level structrure is really all I need.
Like Habie said, I highly believe the swimming breakable objects are leading up to the crystal hunt gamemode, and I think the focus of the update was mainly towards the blade and sorcery nomad modding community and the new mod manager for PCVR Blade and Sorcery.
Crystal hunt dropping will be like jesus's second coming
There is new swimming rooms inside the dungeon (which will make up some of the crystal hunt)
The dev team for B&S is actually the single best training arena for VR mechanics. in the next 20 years every vr game that wins an award will NEED at least one dev from Blade and Sorcery, guaranteed.
this game is too damn good. especially after a crappy day at work
Fun Fact: On a couple maps there are apples you can eat, you can also stab with your sword. You can also stab the apples with your sword and eat the apples off the sword
Congrats on 600k! Make a lead flavored gamersupps for true smoothbrain
been watching you since i got a rift s about two years ago and i only just noticed you have 600,000+ subs. just here to say congrats dude. you are the guy i go to when i want to check out a VR game. You are funny, natural and entertaining. congratulations on the channel growth and please... don't- stop- doing- what you do. There, i said it, thanks for being you!
Hopefully now that the VR Creator of the Year is telling them developers to give a campaign, we will actually get one
6:17 you struggling with the door made my week
Ah yes my favourite game, Bonk And Sorcery
“Look at the flowers” 💀*flashbacks
Habie is definitely using blade and sorcery to train himself, every video he gets stronger. We're already too late and he is out there stronger by the day.
I've got about 7 months to catch up on since the last time I ate through your content like a ravenous fat man, but I'm certainly on my way to having watched everything you have on offer.
5:15 - Chair: "F"
I hope you caught at 3:38 that the blood washed off in the water.
I’m extremely looking forward to the full release with Crystal Hunt. In October they put out an update log saying that 1.0 is coming out around 1 quarter of 2024! I can’t wait and I’m super hyped!
Man gets angry, and creates positive content about it
The vessel to create fart jokes. Yes, yes, yes. The silenced one was absolutely devine. Thank you for this amazing content. I can't wait for the next video!
I think, as many other commenters have pointed out, and as a two-year VR veteran now -- this isn't about delivering a AAA experience right out of the box, but rather, a very incremental process in setting up the ability to pump out future titles using these mechanics. I think that's great for the medium. So much is new in VR that I think experiments are still very much a great thing for the industry/art as a whole. We still don't know what the really vital things are and it will take probably just as long as 2d games or more so to really polish everything and then be able to share those learnings with the wider community. I appreciate the work! Always.
3:57 bro are you for real
This fucking game, they really want to create the best sandbox ever it seems lol
6:50 You just standing there feels to relatable
AFAIK the thing that took them the most time was the fact they had to write their own dungeon generator. Because until now, they've been using a third party one, which, however, would have made modding the dungeons problematic due to some copyright issues.
1:18 I was summoned?
Yes
HABBIE NGL iv been DYING for bas content and just started rewatching your videos so this is the perfect fix for me.
2:44 bro thinks he carol from twd 💀
Lmao
Teşekkürler.
Oh man, how can you not love Blade and Sorcery. Its just beautiful.
I appreciate the mirror brains because that Sovengard music never gets old and always hits the soul
A bonelab or boneworks type storyline for blade and sorcery would be so badass
Hell no
The swimming, climbing, and fast ttk would be perfect for a stealth-based theft/siege gamemode. You have a castle surrounded by a moat / ocean, full of guards, stored weapons, makeshift weapons, and a prize to steal at the top.
Main things that would be needed is a system for the guards to see you before they become active (this was used in the starting area and likely the dungeon), and maybe a way for them to lose attention if you sneak away for long enough. Potentially also a way for their pathfinding to still work when you yourself aren't on the navmesh (closest point) so they still chase when your climbing to the next floor or something.
Could also add a distraction system like a sound that isnt screaming will attract nearby guards, similar to most stealth games. This would be harder but not too bad considering the navmeshes already work.
wondering how anyone else's "gamemode ideas" would be different / similar to this one.
After a few hours of this game all i got from it was:
Bad ai and No content
Now that you can play in the water, we need the ability to drown enemies to fill our bloodlust to the max
I gotta disagree with you here. You are giving them hate when they really don't deserve it. Oh no, they made the engine even better and made more potential for future titles. They want the crystal hunt game mode to be PERFECT when it releases, unlike most game devs today. Oh no, they're polishing it. I think thats good, and its making the game as good as it can be.
Warpfrog:
*Adds swimming to B&S*
*Leaves*
*Refuses to elaborate*
*Time stamp*
Habie: Skip to this part if you don't want to listen to me yell at the Atomic Mirrorbrains.
*Me:* *Rewinds video.*
7:01 "its not the destination but the journey that matters." ahh quote
Every time I wish for a story, I think about how now because of this cool update I could swim down to a ship wreck and loot it. I’m happy to wait if we keep getting dope ass features that will make the real game even more perfect.
this is a little thank you for making my day feel 10x better. love your videos. you inspired me to get into vr
thank you habie147
-jak
First: I think this is the final update before the long awaited crystal hunt and progression system.
Second: they added new water places into the dungeon that is now also moldable to make custom dungeons.
The difference between a modded game and non modded is
Jetstream sam with a Glock runs faster then A-train while fighting master chief
A guy breaks into a castle and kills people
Habie, for the love of god, please post a 10 or so hour compilation of all of your Blade and Sorcery footage with your audio, PLEASE, HABIE, I BEG OF YOU! Pretty please?
8:13 - "With friends like these..."
Hahaha, the simultaneous enjoyment of swimming and breaking and the dryness (no pun) of it all had me chuckling. Good humor is rare to find nowadays.
i probably shouldn't say anything but from what i'm aware of, the next big update is the crystal hunt update. i don't know if this is actually true or not but they did say that they're finally ready to start working on the "full release" of the game. that and in the in game mode selector changed from "coming soon in 2023" to "released in crystal hunt update" or something along those lines, so hopefully we'll get a story soon.
Plot twist: Next update is a full VRMMO complete with instance dungeons and a dragon.
Habie uploading is a worthwhile reason to suffer through the merge mansion ad for the 9 billionth time
As a Red Wings fan, thank you for using my teams arena for your monthly Silk Brain shoutout ❤
the story is in the works and for a long time. if i am not mistaken the next update will be 1.0 and add the crystal hunt gamemode. they added swimming because they added water in the last update in which you would just sink like a rock and slowly drown.
You should play vtol vr with spicy because you guys would be hilarious together
You don't understand how exited I get when habie147 uploads
U13: the rust update “this year we add in the ability for your tools to rust and break if you do not take care of them adding the new functional grind stone, and sandpaper”
This is the first time I’ve seen your content and I REALLY like your format man! Imma binge some videos
The space fart made me laugh harder than it should have.
"you have made the best vr swimming I've ever felt... BUT WHY?!" That felt so personal x'D
If I don't stop clicking on habie's blade and sorcery videos soon, I might just end up buying a VR set, which would not be very responsible given my current financial situation.
My favorite weapon in B&S is probably the chair. I love going around the outpost like a psycho caving everyone's heads in with a broken piece of chair. it is surprisingly efficient.
Foolishly? You make me smile in a world that doesn't have a lot of those left. I think giving you a few minutes is pretty worth.
Another cool thing about the breakables is the uses you can put the pieces to. Some pieces you can’t pick up, but I have used a sharp shard of a plate (quite effectively might I add) as a blade on a dungeon run.
Mans forgot to mention the absolute abundance of new dungeon rooms which was why the main reason why it took so long to make the update (many bugs) along with things like trapdoors, doors that lead to (soon to be) loot rooms. They had to remake the entire dungeon framework just so modders can now make their own dungeon maps. Also the in-game mod manager is a big quality of life addition
If I remember right the developers said that the purpose of Blade and Sorcery wasn’t to make a sword fighting game, but instead to make as good an engine as possible
Blade and sorcery is their foundation from which all sorts of games could be made