Vertical Shift
Vertical Shift is a new kind of VR E-Sport. Fly through the city and arenas equipped with your Zenith Suit, an advanced movement system. Your Zenith Suit is equipped with Grapple Hooks, Jet Packs, and Gliders, giving you ultimate control over your flight. Challenge your skills with PvP and PvE.
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December 24, 2021
4 years and 222 days ago
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Take to the Skies in VERTICAL SHIFT
A VR Esport unlike any other. Fly through the arenas equipped with your Zenith Suit, an advanced movement system. Your Zenith Suit is equipped with Grapple Hooks, Jet Packs, and Gliders, giving you ultimate control over your flight.
Vertical Shift features 4 multiplayer gameplay modes. Each mode can be played with up to ten people with crossplay.
Freeze Tag
Team up and work together for this fast pace reimagining of everyone’s favorite playground game! In our premiere competitive mode, two teams will face off in ten-minute matches. Each player is equipped with an EMP blast, which will freeze the other team in their tracks. Keep an eye on frozen enemies, the EMP blast can also unfreeze your teammates! The first team to ten points wins!
Hot Seat
Players compete in a free for all to capture and hold the Hot Seat! Steal the hot seat by tagging the golden player. Keep the Hot Seat by moving quickly! The player who holds the hot seat the longest wins!
Infection
One player starts as infected and hunts down all other players. Every time a player is tagged, they join the infected. You can run, but you can’t hide.
Race
Swing through a series of obstacles and compete to be the first across the finish line!
Vertical Shift also features a single-player campaign! Explore the City of Orion, a futuristic metropolis on the brink of collapse. Join the resistance and help take down the evil government through a variety of missions and activities. Or just swing around and take in the sights!
See you in the Arenas!
A VR Esport unlike any other. Fly through the arenas equipped with your Zenith Suit, an advanced movement system. Your Zenith Suit is equipped with Grapple Hooks, Jet Packs, and Gliders, giving you ultimate control over your flight.
Vertical Shift features 4 multiplayer gameplay modes. Each mode can be played with up to ten people with crossplay.
Freeze Tag
Team up and work together for this fast pace reimagining of everyone’s favorite playground game! In our premiere competitive mode, two teams will face off in ten-minute matches. Each player is equipped with an EMP blast, which will freeze the other team in their tracks. Keep an eye on frozen enemies, the EMP blast can also unfreeze your teammates! The first team to ten points wins!
Hot Seat
Players compete in a free for all to capture and hold the Hot Seat! Steal the hot seat by tagging the golden player. Keep the Hot Seat by moving quickly! The player who holds the hot seat the longest wins!
Infection
One player starts as infected and hunts down all other players. Every time a player is tagged, they join the infected. You can run, but you can’t hide.
Race
Swing through a series of obstacles and compete to be the first across the finish line!
Vertical Shift also features a single-player campaign! Explore the City of Orion, a futuristic metropolis on the brink of collapse. Join the resistance and help take down the evil government through a variety of missions and activities. Or just swing around and take in the sights!
See you in the Arenas!
