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 Delight 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 digicam, however nothing can put together you for a way completely different it seems by way of the lens of a VR headset.

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

World Of Warcraft VR Mod Launched!

10 years within the making, Streetrat & Marulu have been exhausting at work bringing World of Warcraft to full 6DOF VR with Movement Controls! The preliminary launch is out there now!

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— Flat2VR (@Flat2VR) April 12, 2024

Introduced by way of 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 wholly completely different scale and the sport itself turns into like an FPS.

Incredible as this mod is, it does sadly include a number of unlucky caveats you’ll have to abide by with a purpose 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 Basic or fashionable WoW. Nonetheless, for many who fancy a non-public VR journey in Azeroth, there’s no various.

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