How it feels COMPLETING Blade & Sorcery 1.0…
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Was it worth the wait???
Well I spent the entirety of last week completing Blade and Sorcery 1.0. Yes, you read that right, “completing”, because now there’s actually a FULL GAME TO COMPLETE. You see, Blade and Sorcery’s 1.0 update, has brought the highly anticipated CRYSTAL HUNT mode to the game, and along with it, comes a satisfying progression system, new magic spells to unlock, a new enemy faction to fight, new weapons and armor to buy, a fully voiced NPC that you can trade with, and a whole new dungeon that includes the THE MOST FUN VR BOSS I’ve ever faced. Not even kidding.
I’m so happy to say that after 5 long years of waiting…Blade & Sorcery is finally the game I always wanted it to be.
Well at least on PC it is. They are working on the Quest version now though, which should hopefully be coming soon.
However, as much as I’ve been loving the full release, after completing it so soon I couldn’t help but feel slightly disappointed. I mean, in the time it’s taken Blade and Sorcery to release this mode, we’ve gotten similarly awesome VR melee games like Battle Talent, Hellsplit Arena, Dungeons of Eternity, Legendary Tales, Grimlord, etc. The point being that there’s some real competition now for the best physics-based VR combat game. And with this 1.0 update seemingly marking the end of Blade and Sorcery’s active development, I can’t help but feel like things are wrapping up right as they were getting interesting. In other words, I think there’s still so much unfulfilled potential with a gameplay foundation as solid as this. But let me know what you think!
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0:00 - INTRO EDIT
0:30 - WHAT’S NEW SPEEDRUN
0:52 - HIS NAME IS HECTOR :)
1:13 - I THOUGHT IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN!
1:42 - BUT SOMETHING’S STILL MISSING…
2:39 - QUICK WARNING
3:15 - 1. HOW THE GAME WORKS
4:49 - IMMERSIVE DESIGN
6:07 - SPONSORED SEGMENT
6:48 - WHY IS THIS CHICKEN HERE…?
7:05 - IT’S TIME…FOR A NEW LOCATION!
7:53 - THE BEST VR BOSS FIGHT SO FAR.
9:13 - EXPLAINING CRYSTALS/SKILLS
11:02 - SPOILER SECTION
17:32 - I WISH THERE WAS MORE LOOT.
18:43 - LACK OF DIFFICULTY
19:57 - CONCLUSION
21:34 - OUTRO
MUSIC BY EPIDEMIC SOUND:
Narrow Escape - Dream Cave
The Triumph - Edgar Hopp
Global Impact - Phillip Ayers
Fresh Pastries - Lofive
Cosmic Countdown - Ben Elson
Aesthetic Echoes In Motion - Rebecca Mardal
Spoon Too! - ELFL
City of the Fallen - Bonn Fields
Preparing the Machinery - Jon Bjork
Ancient Artificial Intelligence - Oh the City
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I feel that many of the game's issues come down to its age. Whilst I've loved 1.0, from the frequent Dev blogs its been made clear that over its development, Blade and Sorcery became a tangled mess of programming. Considering this is warpfrog's one and only game, I'm completely satisfied with how it's been finished, and now with a massively upscaled team and with all the lessons they have learnt from Blade and Sorcery, I can't wait for what they have in store next.
Yeah it’s like bethesdas engine, it’s a 20 year old engine that has had so much stuff slapped on top of it to make it into a “Morden engine”, which does make it easy mod because everyone knows how to make stuff on it, but it’s extremely inefficient, so there doing the opposite of Bethesda instead of staying on the same game forever and letting it restrict them they can start fresh which will allow them to ma,e a better and more polished game.
@@valk2768Yup, blade and sorcery is on a pretty old version of unity, so it’s very outdated.
That’s what I’ve been hearing too. But with everything they’ve learned and pioneered within the VR space…I can’t wait to see what they do next!!
Yeah what warpfrog said was if they were going to continue with blade and sorcery they were going to make a second game due to the horrible code mess
So, I wanna put this out here. I think the primary reason the game ends so quickly (IE why you only need 6 ruins to get the ending) is because Baron and the team made a really big deal about a really big word: *replayability.* They really, really wanted you to run through the game with, for example, a mind and body build, beat the game, and then go "Okay, now for something different!" And then play through a second time with, say, a gravity and fire build. They made there be so much in the game, and such a short amount of time needed to be done with it, so that we'd keep playing, keep trying new things, and always find our own fun in the game, like we always did.
The other, smaller reasons, are pretty simple. Number one, mods are going to keep this game alive for years to come, I can almost guarantee you. I mean, look at Skyrim. And the second reason is the simplest - Lore. Beating the game in 6 dungeons is NOT going to give you all the lore, or hell, it probably won't give you ANY truly significant lore unless you're reallllyyyyyy looking for it. After I beat the game, I was left with only a vague idea of what was going on in the world, and I truly wanted to play again, if not to feel the same thrill I did the first time when running through, learning more lore and unlocking new abilities I had never used before.
All in all, I think the true value of the game isn't what the developers give us - it's what we give ourselves. If you don't have a purpose anymore when you beat the game, well, that's okay. Nobody said you had to play it. But if you still want to play, if your heart still yearns for the thrill of fighting Hector again, or exploring more ruins you maybe haven't seen, or hell, you just wanna log in to pet Baron's chicken. These are all purposes that we make for ourselves, and I think that's exactly where the game's longevity will come from. From here on out, it's what we make it.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
The chickens name is actually Johnathan, and it comes from a ongoing gag in a b&s CZcamsrs videos named “DLC” (downloadablecontent)
He’s friends with the Baron and has interviewed the team multiple times
You can find this out by just visiting the shop enough till the baron says “Hey, do you know where Johnathan is?”
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏great ted talk. Also I agree with you.
huff your copeium but i still think the game needs more end game things like elites or challenges like roguelites use. theres many varients and stuff that they could do for end game to keep it feeling alive
"The thing about endings is, they always mark the beginning of something new."
I like that a lot.
Hopefully they help the community with modding new campaigns weapons and other such stuff so we can still enjoy new content
That’s exactly what I’m hoping for! I already saw someone talk about a mod that increases the loot spawning!
@@VirtualBroVR hopefully we get some better moding tools
im so upset that there isnt a final boss, they created this HUGE looming tower that is such a cool set piece. They gave you a new overpowered sword/staff and then its just nothing. WHY??? after 5 years???
Yeah it feels strangely anticlimactic… especially when they probably COULD’VE done a HUGE scaled up boss fight like we see with mods!
(I’m not a game dev so I’m sure that’s harder to implement than it sounds but idk it seems like a lack of creativity imo)
The way bro cooked the chicken caught me off guard.
VR gaming is in an awkward stage right now. The very act of playing cool games in virtual reality is no longer special, but development teams still treat it as if it were. Imagine games like Witcher 3 but with absolutely no side content, no quests to do and a very brief main story. It would probably still be cool to play, but pretty shallow in comparison to what it is. VR gaming is in a stage where players are starting to see it as regular gaming, but developer teams treat it as something special in and of itself. The fact that Blade & Sorcery is adding a form of progression system is a big step in the right direction, and I predict that in the coming years, more and more development studios will add a lot of depth to their future titles, or at least more than what they are doing now.
When I saw the homing dagger in the trailer I was super excited for magic items we could find, but it was just a skill and to my knowledge there was only 1 magic item in the game. I feel like if you could search around and find magic items like one that would heal you for 10% of the damage you deal or 1 that increases your armor significantly, cool thematic items you could find that make you stronger in different ways inside of the delgarion dungeons would make us excited whenever we did something interesting or encourage us to explore these vast awesome places they made would make me so much more excited to play the dungeons even once I had beat the game
That temple idea at the end is a really good idea... I hope a modder adds that...
As a quest 3 player myself I need a CZcams who somewhat understand s my pain
I believe they said they're working on an update to the SDK to extend modding capabilities and the such, the game itself seems like it has a bit of a spaghetti code so I don't blame them for wanting to move on to future projects, I am very excited to see what comes next
Me as well!! I’m hoping they will take everything they’ve learned with B&S and make something new that blows it out of the water!!
1:20 this is so accurate lol
11:50 hello resident lore nerd, its actually the other way around, the bad ending(narratively) is where you get the sword. and one of the endings can technically be 2 narratively depending on your knowledge as a player of whats happening around you, either you dont know, or you do, and you pulling the sword and dying can either be noble, or ignorant.
I got the ending were you get shot with a lazar into outer space how do you get the other ending? (Don’t spoil it pls)
Can you provide more info about the lore and the ending? I’m confused about your message
@@GAMER32231 at the end of the game there is a puzzle you can complete to get a different ending
@@RJesse15 there are two endings, one where you die and one where you get the sword, the one where you die can technically be split into 2 endings depending on YOUR reasons for pulling the sword, be it to gain new power, or knowing what will actually happen.
To summarize, magic is a volatile energy within the world and the more it builds up the more dangerous it is, eventually it could blow the entire planet up. So the ancients created a cycle where every few thousand years they expel the world's magic into space, however they disguised it with a religious facade to keep people willing to sacrifice themselves for it, so if you knew this, then you'd be making a sort of noble sacrifice to maintain the world. If you didn't know this, then you're another sorcerer who died in the pursuit of power, unintentionally saving the world
If you do the ending where you keep the sword and escape, you destroy the tower and thus basically dooming the planet with no way to rid itself of excess magic
well my solution is to unlock all the powers *before* the end of the game so you get that build up and feel more satisfied about the ending, but thats just what im gonna do
you can't unlock all the powers before the end of the game, you only do six dalgarian ruins before the end. you need like 15 to get all the powers i think
@@importedposter4152 well you don't have to use the portal im sure you could just run past it and get on with whatever you need to (do forgive me if im wrong i haven't been able to play the update
@@importedposter4152 this is wrong. you're able to do as many dungeons as you wish before you go into the ending. the *minimum* is 6.
I love the update I had already completed one character. it is a bit sad to see that this is the End update with no more major updates though, Although them saying they will create a new game with a similiar engine does give me a bit of hope.
The vision I had for this game when I started playing in U8 was that this game could become the first/best mmorpg (which At the time Zenith the last city wasn't released + this game can be alot better then zenith) I still hope the next game is rpg based or atleast allowes to play with friends because that could be amazing.
I'm sad because I enjoyed every second of my experience of the 1.0 release, up until I killed my 6th Golem, got my ending, became severely dissapointed after expecting something more than.... that, and left the game feeling dissatisfied rather than fulfilled, because I knew that I only tried the first 3 cores and there were SO MANY MORE THINGS for me to discover, only to realize that now my entire purpose for playing this game has been fulfilled and there is none to keep me invested in playing it anymore, despite how impossibly fun and immersive it is.
Its like you said. After the ending credits hit, you become saddeningly aware that you've become a "warrior without a cause", and the drive you've felt to explore and loot and buy and overcome everything up until now completely ceases. Like finishing the LOTR trilogy and watching all of the characters you're still so invested in either leave the lands of middle earth completely or grow old and die, leaving a gaping hole where excitement and drive used to be.
It's one of the worst things to feel for any kind of gamer.
I'm a quest user, and I'm gonna wait patiently, because patience is key to power (and I'm gonna train my real life swordfighting skills in the meantime)
The king of nomads approves this message and sees that you are one of the ones with their nomad will and honor intact
@@Hachiman01Honor, and Will, are key to Strength, we stand unbreaking, everlasting.
If anything the wait just hypes up the game even more for us nomad players!
My main issue with the Crystal Hunt mode is the lack of location variety. Throughout the entire game you visit the same dungeons all the way until the end of the game, with the only changes being the types of enemies found and the length of the dungeons. It would be cool if the game actually took you to different locations around the world with different themes for each, and even different kinds of bosses for each new area. Also probably increase the amount of map pieces you need to find so you don't fly through each location too quickly.
I totally agree! I almost made a point in this video about the lack of visual variety, especially when compared to a game like Dungeons of Eternity. I honestly think simply randomizing the color palette of enemy outposts or having different times of day would go a long way to help the levels not all feel so repetitive.
amazing video the best review i ever seen
That transition at 2:51 was absolutely amazing
Maybe ur outro could be you walking through a portal and saying something like catch you in the next timeline or time for me to catch another reality
15:40 This is a cool idea but its a bit too repetitive, there are these weird planets and other objects in the sky the final ending could lead to a sneak peak to one of them.
I wonder if warpfrogs next game will take place on those planets
@@Luvisrage1Exactly as I envisioned. Would be really cool if they did that.
i love the idea of the extended story of more tower with more "Naa" weapons
the whole point of the sword of naa is it's just bait for a strong sorcerer, the tower sacrifices a powerful sorcerer once every so often because otherwise the world ends due to that big star in the sky. more naa weapons just can't happen given the lore
2:50 that transition was clean
Same wish it was longer
Yeah I’m surprised they didn’t decide to make it somewhat of an infinite rpg where you just can keep building up your character
@@VirtualBroVR you can keep playing the game just don't go in the ending or get the spoilers
@@VirtualBroVRif you could max out your character in one playthrough the game would have absolutely 0 replay value
Awesome video! i've been addicted to the blade and sorcery 1.0 update, and was waiting for someone to make a good video on it! ALSO HOW WAS THIS THE WAY I FOUND OUT YOU COULD STUFF ITEMS INTO YOUR CHEST IVE BEEN TAKING OUT THE INVENTORY BAUBLE EVERY TIME
this looks so dope.
The quest thing was funny 😂😂
That ad transition actually made me chuckle 😆
The game is good, and I'm not all that unhappy that the game ended with me a little disappointed. The reason being, this game has an extremely active modding community. And now with the updated SDK and the ability to make custom dungeons, skill trees, weapons, loot, enemies, armor and more. The devs kinda pulled a Bonelab, with a mediocre campaign, but insane modding support.
Quest users: patience we do not have
Also waiting. For nomad crystal hunt is gonna be sad
1:21 is literally me and so many other right now
Bruh I got motion sick when you where swinging on the boss😂😂
Haha my bad😂
bro is the worlds most underated youtuber ever!!!
I really like the idea of multiple tower I have a extension on what you said btw, for every tower to get the others version or raa you have to do something different to get it and when you blow one up you have to repair the door and it gets more and more difficult because you keep damaging it
This really was so fun, and I'm glad I waited for it. I don't feel cheated about it that much. Also I accidentally found the money glitch in the first hour like everyone else LOL
Oh no what money glitch??
can't wait for the end of next year when nomad gets 1.0
Idea 1.5 solves everything for me
I swear there needs to be a mod with something like that.
Good game I’m at 3rd boss now 😊
Nice! Which power did you pick to start with?
I've been playing on PC since U11 I'm so happy to it has gotten this far but I worry about whether modders will keep up their work, I love BaS but after finishing crystal hunt it feels sad it's over. I hope for all of the BaS fans this game never dies.
This game will 100% be the Skyrim of vr, in u12 there was a mod called “quest framework” which was absolutely insane because someone made an open-world b&s mod with it that had like dozens of hours of gameplay and this was made in less than a year by a random dude who wanted to learn how to code, with limited potential because of no campaign mechanics already in the game
@@lordcaprisunthe2nd quest framework has already been updated to 1.0 too, so who knows what people can do with it now
@@importedposter4152 I’m thinking there’s going to be sidequests in the barons bounty, he’ll send you to a custom map to find a relic or something, and somebody could also add a hub map for npcs to do sidequests also
epic gamer moment
1:23 this is literally me
About the difficulty, there is an option to do "permadeath" or lose gold on death as well as a difficulty option while you are creating a new character. i feel like this is a good feature that makes the game a little more replayable.
I'm happy to see this game finally done, I'm also left feeling a little disappointed that it was that short as well.
But after some research I learned that the engine this game uses is super old, which is why it always takes forever for updates to release, which is obviously frustrating for players and the developers. Thankfully The Warpfrog team are moving on and will hopefully cook with their new game 👌
youre describing noita lmao
Cool thumbnail bro
I can’t wait for this to come to nomad
Me too!!!
@@VirtualBroVR It probably won’t be as impressive on nomad, but still pretty cool. Also I probably won’t play it too much because my game crashes anytime I try to play for more than 20 minutes
@@Flooph_YTdo you have a lot of mods installed?
Probably
@@Flooph_YT did you fry your headset? 💀i play pcvr now, but i got about 30 hours into nomad with minimal lag and no crashes
I mean to be fair the idea to not giving you everything before the ending is to make replaying better since you still get new skills to discover, if even after having discovered every spells and ability’s and combos and everything but you still want to play more then you can challenge yourself and try a no death run on hardcore. The game was never meant to be played as a single run where you get everything but a bunch of smaller runs.
Im retty aure this isnt the final update, since the end just meant that there's an ending you can get. the game just got out of early access, but just because it did doesnt mean it's not gonna get any more content in the future
Mods during crystal hunt. Speed up npc movement, increase their HP and do a 50/50 left handed and right handed NPC's. and like you said, you can incease the size of hector. Any way to make it more difficult is what makes it more rewarding and a skill tree that's not there is the IRL skill tree. Like looking how to properly weild a long sword on youtube and bringing it in game makes you better
10:15 idk why nobody knows how that skill works, you just use the grab function on your controller when an enemy shoots a fireball and then you can control it like a normal object. Its not a deflection you literally just use telekinesis on the fireball, and when you throw the fireball it actually homes onto the nearest enemy.
New sub. Just bought the game
Thanks for the sub :)
The most recent dalgarian dungeon I did Hector was glitched and wasn’t attacking me
19:30 if you think that’s op, you have never shot thunderbolts before. Like that skill just makes every dungeon trivial.
I think the main intention is a lot of the problems with the game can be solved by moders there's tons and tons of great mods that improve a lot of aspects of the game It's sad to see that is what it comes to, but if you take the engine's limitations into in affect they did as much as they possibly could trying to stretch this old engine and they'll learn from their mistakes with their new project they're starting
I think what there doing is letting the players make new expansions and updates using mods. They realize a lot of the people that play for that reason
I mean, theres a few play styles you can use like mage, brute force, and stealth that you can play as a fresh new way to play through the game
True, but the same can be said for the sandbox. It’s still ultimately up to you to decide how to make it fun. Which can definitely be awesome when you have a new idea or mod to try out, but still inevitably gets old in my opinion.
Ermmmm do you see the huge fucking planet in the distance at the house
Someone estimated the quest release to be on Thanksgiving
new bns upd is really fun but god you can get so op, my first character just ended up being me butt ass naked geralt using hotline miami rules
Is the crystal hunt mode coming for quest 2?
i think more mod support such as more sdks to make factions and bosses and npcs like the the baron
When I completed the game and got both endings I quit, I socks because it's a good game, but they need something like a dlc or more updates to keep me
Battle talent just added multiplayer you should try it its really fun
this game would have 10x more lifespan if they keep updating it with new features. The game has so much potential but they’re just ending it so soon
2.0 3.0 soon
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at this point I’m just watching these videos after deleting all my mods because o thot it comes out at the same time as pc
someone get them to make gta vr
Honestly I'd love more cause it feels like the story has more to tell.
(DLC or sequel game?)
Like one where you properly take on the eye or fight the kingdom. Both to save people or to take revenge against those who threaten you.
Also maybe have enchanted armor and weapons with unique enchantments and stuff, like armor that defies gravity magic or makes one immune to fire damage or lightning damage.
Love to virtual violence, that is mine motivation. :)
Honestly, the only what i can recommend to users who lost interest playing in BnS its to mastering and maining every type of weapon, every type of magic, every type of fighting styles, so they will never get hited/damaged/or atleast confused like "what to do with enemy now" or other things.
I really love looting and getting new stuff, so i have way to much things to unlock or get. Like all types of armor and weapon, all relics from dungeons, all magic spells and etc(even breakables).
Always i was playing like "i dont need magic, yeah its cool to be a magic wizard who can separate a head in one hand-move, but look, here's my armor, here's my sword."
Only Crystal Hunt actually make me feel like Im alive, and I dont need to die in this game, makes me using all what i can, moving like a rat(grabbing edges and always jumping or dodging), attack enemies with all what i have in a room, and actually using magic to protect myself.
Wish they would create a game that is a mixture of Skyrim and blade and sorcery.
The exploration in Skyrim is amazing gives you so much too do, however the physics is terrible. Now we have blade and sorcery is an amazing games when it comes to physics but lacks the exploration of the game plus quests
You should try god of gravity
Full release on
nomad is 14th of july
do you have a source on that?
When nomad 1.0
Interstellar, bruh
You're ideas or brilliant for the longevity. I hope either the devs add it in or a moder do
Thank you! I totally have hope that modders will be able to make this game into everything we want it to be! It’ll just take time and passion :)
I don't even have a VR 💀
If you like good sword fights and clever game loops, try Until You Fall :)
you mixed up the good and bad endings
if you steal the sword you end the world its called the annihilation ending.
if you leave the sword you get the khemenent ending restoring the magical barrier and life into the world or something.
Interesting! I grabbed the sword both times actually but the second time (when I got to keep it) was after doing some magic stuff to those cannons up top.
THIS IS OCULUS QUEST 3??
Murder simulator but story
*cries in normad*
i got 17.38$ dollars on steam and the steam sale is going on right now, i like mechs sandbox and adventure games what vr game should i get?
blade and sorcery
Bring it now I will turn off my mods with less lag
I can't find a good answer anywhere. Is the golem dude the only boss in the game? Because that's the only boss any videos are showing
Yeah that’s the only one. Thought he has different attacks and abilities sometimes!
When’s it coming to quest2
I wish I knew!!!
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bro having this game in oculus quest 2 is bad 😮💨
Is this Blade and Sorcery nomad?
Is this blade and sorcery nomad or the actual blade and sorcery
Actual Blade & Sorcery. Only on PC for now but coming to Quest later this year (hopefully).
@@VirtualBroVR I hope so
the campaign took me only 9 hours to fully complete. That sucked.
Yeah it definitely felt short. Which is weird bc there’s still so much more stuff to unlock after that… so I’m not sure why they didn’t just make the ending take longer to get to.
Great review! No matter how much I see this game and almost buy it, I'm always held back because it doesn't have official multiplayer, difficulty, and incentives.
I slammed and dented my desk when I saw it wasn’t on quest
i dont understand this video's complaints at all, the whole video just had me scratching my head. "yeah so basically the game is super replayable because you can't max yourself out in one playthrough, meaning every time you play you'll be creating new ability combos and using new playstyles. that's bad." what? astonishing, really.
“-you’ll be creating new ability combos every time you play”
I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s true. Sure you can pick to start with a specific power and keep leveling into that, but the first couple abilities you unlock will always be the same. And there’s nothing stopping you from trying out a new power type, so there’s no real reason to start another character. Plus, in my opinion, it’s really only the late-game’s more powerful spells that create noticeable variety…and by the time you unlock those, the game is over. I would’ve much preferred to keep becoming more and more powerful on my main character, and then finally get the true ending after unlocking 100% of my magic potential.
But that being said, in general I’m not a huge fan of roguelikes or having multiple character saves. So maybe this is just my preference for linear character progression showing through. I definitely can see how starting a new character and focusing on different abilities could be fun…in fact, I might try that right now…
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