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World of Warcraft VR mod turns the MMO into an FPS


Whether or not you’re strolling the serene streets of Silvermoon Metropolis or lazing away with a pint of ale within the Lion’s Pleasure Inn, there’s no denying that Azeroth stays as immersive as ever regardless of the now-aged look of World of Warcraft. Nonetheless, it’s one factor to expertise Blizzard’s MMORPG from the space of a third-person digital camera, however nothing can put together you for a way totally different it seems by the lens of a VR headset.

We’re but to see an MMORPG grace our greatest VR video games listing, however a model of World of Warcraft suitable with digital actuality headsets would definitely be a effective strategy to begin. Now, following a staggeringly lengthy ten-year growth cycle, modders Streetrat & Marulu of Flat2VR have realized such a imaginative and prescient.

Introduced through Flat2VR on X, the mod is ripe with options that ought to please any VR aficionado, full with head-tracked positional audio, analog motion, and extra that are detailed on the Github obtain web page. Most transformative of all, although, is the first-person perspective, which sees Azeroth and its inhabitants, pleasant and lethal alike, come to life at a completely totally different scale and the sport itself turns into like an FPS.

Improbable as this mod is, it does sadly include a couple of unlucky caveats you’ll must abide by with the intention to use it. An important being that it’s solely suitable with patch 3.3.5a, the ultimate replace made to Wrath of the Lich King. Naturally, this makes it unusable with Traditional or trendy WoW. Nonetheless, for many who fancy a non-public VR journey in Azeroth, there’s no different.

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