Category: The Last Day Defense VR

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The Last Day Defense VR Opens Gates of The Frozen City

The Last Day Defense is a virtual reality (VR) tower-defence title which launched on Steam Early Access for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality earlier this year. The developers at ARVI LLC have been hard at work on polishing the title, and how now announced a big update, which will include some new content, titled the Frozen City Update.

The developers say that the team is in the process of testing the update ready for release soon, which will introduce a new map, along with a new game environment, updated units and more.

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In order to try out the new content for the Frozen City update, users will need to switch to the Experimental Branch. This can be done by opening Game Properties menu in the Steam Library and gong to the Betas tab and selecting ‘Experimental’ from the drop down menu and clicking OK. As this is an experimental update, users may experience more bugs and glitches than usual.

The full list of new content included in the update is as follows:

  • A completely new game environment. The ship E.T.S. “Amadeus” is ready to take its commander on board.
  • A projection global map. Users will be able to see their progress, and the levels open one after another.
  • Updated units and towers. Improved rendering mechanism, which allows to display their damage in detail and even overheating from fire and laser weapons
  • Improved combustion mechanics. Each unit and tower have their critical temperature, and when it is exceeded, the damage caused by fire and laser weapons is significantly increased. When calculating overheating, even the temperature of the current location is taken into account.
  • Integration with Liv.tv.
  • 4 huge, highly detailed levels. 2 of them are currently available, with the others held back for final release.

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Further information and updates can be found on the Steam Store page. For future coverage of The Last Day Defense VR and other upcoming VR titles, keep checking back with VRFocus.

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The Future Is In Your Hands in The Last Day Defense VR

In the future of The Last Day Defense VR, the Earth is at war. Divided between two mighty empires, both of which posses powerful military technology which has put them at a stalemate. One side develops a desperate stratagem – travel back in time to defeat the foe in the past. So it is up to you to prevent the destruction of history.

The Last Day Defense VR is a strategic tower-defence title. The player is a temporal agent and solider charged with preventing this radical alteration of history.

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To accomplish this goal, you will need to build defences, destroy enemy technology and equipment and make careful use of your limited resources. You have some of the future tech on your side to aid you, but you will need to balance a desire to use overwhelming force with the need to conserve your limited energy resources.

Enemy ground and air forces will make a beeline for your positions to try and take you out, and you will also need to watch the terrain, as this will also effect the effectiveness of your battle strategy. The developers at ARVI LLC have strived to create realistic tower mechanics, featuring destructability, certain weapons which do splash damage or burning damage in order to add an extra level of complexity.

A range of difficulties will be available, from the easier casual modes that let players take things at their own pace, to the very difficult challenges aimed at experiences players who want to test their strategy skills to get the coveted five-star rank. For less experiences players, a training mode is available to guide you through the basic mechanics.

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The title is out now on Steam for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality devices, priced at [insert price]. Further information can be found on the Steam store page.

For future updates on new and upcoming VR titles,keep checking back with VRFocus.

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Preview: The Last Day Defense VR

Tower defence videogames were born from real-time strategy, offering a quicker route into the action that the slow build-up needed for most RTS titles, which is what The Last Day Defence VR tries to offer Steam VR users.

The Last Day Defence VR sets up a conflict happening in the far future between two huge comic empires who are battling it out to secure the resources each needs to survive.

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A the player, you are transported into a neon-lit area which contains your options menus, where you can choose your comfort options and other settings, and also contains the tables which hold the miniaturised battles which you will control.

Using the motion controllers, you choose and set certain types of units, including different types of fixed defences and troops, which have to defend your territory against waves of enemy forces. The controls are a little eccentric, and it can take a couple of tries before you can properly select the option you were after.

Graphically, the seemingly Tron-inspired loading area feels very incongruous with the style of the mini table top battlefield where the guns and other military units that you deploy have a realistic style. Information on units is often presented on a red on black background makes it hard to read

You have a range of movement options, which seems a little odd considering you only move about the loading room and navigate slightly around the table, most moving you will be doing is just to crane your head to see the battlefield.

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For the most part, you set up your defences and start things off, and the game mostly plays itself, requiring only the occasional tweak. This would be fine if the battlefield didn’t very quickly get covered in smoke, making it very difficult to see what’s going on unless you lean in closely, which isn’t comfortable for long periods.

There are several different battlefield styles to choose from, one which is sort of desert canyon, while another is a pine forest. Other than the aesthetics though, there doesn’t seem to be much difference between them.

The difficulty curve feels quite steep, especially considering there are very few instructions. You’ll often have to play a match over and over to win, and at times whether you win or lose seems somewhat arbitrary.

The music soundtrack is brassy and martial-sounding, which fits with the visuals on the mini-battlefield, but fits oddly with the neon loading room. The militaristic sound effects take a realistic approach, though they are somewhat repetitive, at times overlapping over each other to create an almost painful cacophony.

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Despite the elaborate sci-fi background, there is little in the way of story told during or between battles, which is very disappointing, and considering how much battles seem to run themselves, makes the entire endeavour feel a little pointless.

The Last Day Defense VR would probably work fine as a ‘pick-up-put-down’ mobile title. As a full-on PC virtual reality (VR) title, it feels very overblown for what it offers, and ends up being quite boring, with little to hold your interest after playing a couple of matches.

If The Last Day Defense VR is to make it as a fully-featured VR title, a lot needs to be improved and added before it makes it to its full release.