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Steam winter sale is here. Anything noteworthy on the VR front? I know a lot of people were excited about Boneworks, but I'm still dozens of pages behind in the thread. Did it turn out to be good?
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# ¿ Dec 20, 2019 04:18 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 23:26 |
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Hadlock posted:Tabletop Simulator is on sale for $9.99 It’s more of a physics simulator than anything. All the game modules I’ve tried do very little to manage the rules. This is good if you like playing with house rules or bad if don’t want to manually track finicky rules interactions. I’ve played a couple of games on a semi regular basis with the flat screen version. I haven’t tried the VR version, but I think it would solve a lot of my issues with it since picking up pieces is probably a lot more natural in VR. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you know someone you want to play games with it.
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# ¿ Dec 20, 2019 16:26 |
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The Gunslinger posted:What's a really good standout VR singleplayer experience? Some sort of RPG would be great. Skyrim VR is really neat and I modded it up but I realized I just can't sit there with the headset on 100+ hours again. Mages Tale is good. I had a few complaints, but it is the best mage RPG I have seen so far in VR. Talos is a solid puzzle game and not half bad exercise if you walk in place or otherwise move your legs while moving your character.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2020 01:43 |
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Paul MaudDib posted:decided to clean up the spare room and set it up for VR. Where should I install the lighthouses? Putting the PC in the closet is a good call. If you don't you'll lose a couple of feet to the desk. With a 7x10 area, you'll be seeing the boundary warning almost constantly. I would do locations 3 & 5, on the wall but up near the ceilings. Some games support jumping and you don't want to lose tracking when you do that. I would worry about the closet door hitting a lighthouse in spot 6. At best it's going to block it anytime it is open. The nook with the door isn't enough space to be worth thinking about, and basically all games expect your play area to be a rectangle anyways.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2020 02:57 |
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Leal posted:Is there anything similar to Skyrim for VR? Been having a blast sniping bandits and shocking Jarls but I'm starting to get some end game fatigue. Is there like a dungeon crawler VR? Or hell, any total conversion mods that will work in Skyrim VR? Rec Room adventure mini games - not joking. Some of the most fun adventure games I’ve found and its free. Mage’s Tale is one of the best VR adventure games. Only 15 hours though. There’s that Skyrim total conversion mod. Elswyr I think.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2020 01:13 |
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Nuts and Gum posted:So how about those vr sex games. Someone should post a bunch and review them haha. Wouldn’t that be funny. Where would I even find those things I wonder Steam has a couple. No idea how they are but they don't look great and there is no way I would be willing to download them and link them to my real identity.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 06:23 |
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homeless snail posted:You definitely need to get Natural Locomotion then, and play Skyrim with arm swinging Natural Locomotion is amazing. I wish all games did smooth movement that way.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2020 02:33 |
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Just tried Until You Fall because its on sale. It reminds me a lot of Thrill of the Fight (which I like). Unfortunately, the weapons felt floaty. The abstracted guard and combo system are very "gamey" and I found it frustrating that even if I got my sword up in the general area, unless it was in the exact right place it didn't count. From a verisimilitude perspective, some of the block angles the game asks you to use are terrible. Pretty sure if I tried to block even a rapier with some of those angles the other fencer would be able to smash through my block without any trouble. Took about half an hour before I started sweating. Thrill of the Fight leaves me wrung out and sore the next day in half that time. I can see why people like it, but I think Thrill of the Fight is better at simulating fighting and better exercise.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 23:06 |
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Just played through Toran. It's a fun little puzzle demo. Took me about 10 minutes and the puzzles were fun (and easy). The game is free and well worth the short amount of your time it takes to play through it.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 17:50 |
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Good grief, I thought Skyrim VR support was bad. I can't even start Elite in VR. I have to run through a bunch of menus with my monitor and mouse before getting to VR anything. Been at it for 20 minutes (including running through their aggravating account linking process) and have yet to be able to send a single command with my vive wands.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 21:19 |
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rage-saq posted:I’m pretty sure E:D has 0 support for motion controls. They would be incredibly ineffective. Yep. Needed to switch to my gamepad. Not easy on my inner ear, but veeeery pretty.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 21:39 |
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Gort posted:Seems more likely that you stomping around on their ceiling at 2 AM is annoying them, rather than those speakers. I was trying to think of a polite way to say this too. When we were moving we tested how well noise the houses filtered out noise. Me stomping on the ceiling was usually much more audible in the room below than the speakers we brought to test.
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2020 14:29 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You need a Facebook account for several multiplayer features now where you didn't before. It's pretty much a matter of when, not if, they just go "whoopsie; your Oculus account's a Facebook account now". To add to this, there's been several changes over the years to bind Oculus tighter to Facebook. Most of them have been individually small and relatively harmless, but overall it shapes to a general trend so obvious that the Facebook haters no longer seem crazy when they rant about it.
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# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 14:40 |
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Walks posted:So I guess the new update for BoxVR broke the game for a lot of people. Myself included. Soundbox instead. Realchat, ugh, that sucks. Nothing worse than an "update" that breaks things. LLSix fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Apr 24, 2020 |
# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 19:50 |
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jubjub64 posted:Alien Isolation is only $2 right now on Steam fyi Steam page doesn't list VR support?
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2020 23:41 |
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Anyone have recommendations for alternative locomotion options like Natural Locomotion for Vive? Smooth walking with just the vive wand touchpad pad makes me nauseous, but integrating walking in place with Natural Locomotion arm swinging let me play for hours. Unfortunately, earlier this week, it started crashing as soon as I launched it. The dev is normally responsive to bug reports but hasn't been responding to me or the other people who are seeing the issue all week (uninstalling and reinstalling didn't work either).
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# ¿ May 29, 2020 20:38 |
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SCheeseman posted:You know, I should probably turn off my lighthouses after not having used my Vive for about 6 months. Or you could play with your Vive.
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2020 02:13 |
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Started Playing Saints and Sinners. How important are those messages about stuff getting worse every time you sleep/save? I'm a hoarder in games and I want to carry everything back to my base. So if there's a mod that removes the backpack item limit or lets me change zones without wasting a whole day on spending five minutes of picking up random trash from the street.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 02:10 |
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I'm slowly getting my VR legs, but I still can't play for more than a half hour with smooth movement. Has anyone gotten foot tracking locomotion working yet? Maybe that'll help.
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2020 00:37 |
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Nektu posted:Have a look at natural locomotion. When using it, you can move by holding one of your controller buttons and swinging your arms as if you were walking. It also support jumping in game by doing a real jump. I really like natural locomotion and used it for a long time. About 7 weeks ago it just started crashing as soon as I started it and nothing I've tried has gotten it to work. I sent a bug report to the dev and never heard back so I'm looking for alternatives. Several other people have reported similar issues and haven't been able to get their issues resolved either. A small number of people were helped by fully uninstalling nalo, deleting the drivers, and re-installing, but it didn't help me. LLSix fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jul 13, 2020 |
# ¿ Jul 13, 2020 16:22 |
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I didn't like House of the Dying Sun because there's a bunch of "atmospheric" radio static messing up the voice-overs and I couldn't find any way to turn subtitles on. I didn't play much because I couldn't understand the instructions about what I was supposed to be doing.
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2020 02:25 |
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I'm thinking about giving Skyrim VR another try. I was frustrated with it's very poor VR UI last time, but I haven't found anything I liked more either. So I'll give it a second chance. Does anyone have opinions about Sirvagg's mod guides? It looks like his is the most recent guide and it's been over a year since I last had Skyrim installed so I figure I'll probably give it a try.
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2020 02:59 |
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That is incredibly cool! Unfortunately, the only Skyrim VR wabbajack modlist uses Ordinator. I was planning on playing with SPERG, but it may be worth tolerating Ordinator to be able skip the usual multi-day mod process.
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2020 22:01 |
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Turin Turambar posted:Mmm I wonder when will they release a VR version for Superhot Mind Control Delete. Next year I guess. Hope so. I was disappointed when I realized it didn't have VR support.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2020 21:51 |
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rage-saq posted:They are a small team. They haven't even decided to start working on it, it will be a long time but my bet is on never. They've neglected Superhot VR so badly. How so?
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2020 21:55 |
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MarcusSA posted:Was this posted in here? I just remembered it and lol'd Sounds like the boyfriend thought they had discussed it. A lot.
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2020 16:34 |
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My crosshairs are missing in Skyrim VR even though I have it toggled on in settings. Anyone know what is hiding it? Ordinator maybe? I'm running the "Ultimate VR Hybrid" modlist/wabbajack pack. It's also lagging a bit, I trimmed a dozen mods out already but I may have to find a few more to disable. I shot and hit a rabbit with my bow but the rabbit kept running for about 5 seconds before the game caught up. I thought I had a pretty powerful VR system, but all the Skyrim mods are giving it a real work out. First time I've ever had a VR game my system couldn't keep up with. LLSix fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jul 19, 2020 |
# ¿ Jul 19, 2020 21:23 |
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:What are good multiplayer games, outside of like VRchat or Pokerstars? Rec Room (sp?) Laser tag is fun Has kind of a mini one-shot dungeon dive adventure mod that is pretty fun. Rounds last a half hour tops. Township Tale is okay, but it crashed too often for me to get in to it
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2020 20:28 |
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Pierson posted:Yeah that's what I was half-expecting, but if there are mods to improve the VR features I'll probably check it out. I've never actually finished Skyrim legit. Even after mods, Skyrim VR is still a bad VR UI. On the other hand, there’s no real alternative to it.
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# ¿ Aug 1, 2020 03:25 |
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Are there any (steam) VR games that encourage side to side movement but not front to back? Soundboxing is a good example, but ideally I'd like something with more side-to-side movement. Walrus is almost the only song mapper in Soundboxing who forces me to move enough and I've played all his songs a million times. Even just Soundboxing but different would be good. I know Beatsaber is the obvious suggestion, but I don't want to give Facebook money or be tied into their ecosystem. I'm looking for games that will help motivate me to move and exercise a little without moving so much that I bump into the chairs (and people) at the computers behind me. My VR room is also the family computer room. This worked really well before COVID since I was the only one working from home and was able to get my exercise in while everyone else was commuting. Now there's always someone else in the computer room and I'm getting fat and lazy without VR to motivate me to move around.
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2020 05:20 |
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The Walrus posted:Well if it helps I'm planning on getting back into Soundboxing for the fall once it cools down. Let me know if you have any song requests. When you start doing soundboxing again, I've got two songs I'd love to see your take on. I would love a really frenetic beat map for Fuel by Metallica. All the current soundboxing maps for this song are too tame.e. Not sure how well this will work for a workout, but "Honey I'm Good" is a fun song that I discovered recently. With Lyrics Official video Shine posted:Hot Squats 2 I was prepared to laugh about this, but it's a real game. How does the first one (which is free) compare to the sequel? Marxalot posted:Nth-ing pistol whip. You're going to do a lot of dodging and squatting with that one. Thank you, and everyone else, for the pistol whip recommendation. I have and like Thrill of the Fight, but my problem right now is that I don't have freedom to move forward and back in roomscale anymore.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2020 16:54 |
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Shine posted:They're both silly little fitness games. The second one (aside from its profits going toward Racies) adds a lateral movement drill in which you sidestep within your boundaries to fit your body through "doors" that come at you. So lots of going back and forth for cardio, basically. Well my wife saw me trying out hot squats and thought it looked cool; so joke’s on you, I am probably going to buy it. Racies looks like a good cause anyways.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2020 19:25 |
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The Walrus posted:Will give them a listen and make some maps this weekend probably. Just finished this one. The beginning is excellent. I love the way the end gets way harder and faster, really made me dig deep.
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2020 16:54 |
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The Walrus posted:@ LLSix - here you go man - I probably should have warmed up before jumping right back in with this song. my arms are numb now after making it and playing once. it's a fun one though Thank you! I was traveling (unavoidable) when you posted this and just got back. I am looking forward to trying it out!
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2020 23:01 |
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El Jeffe posted:I'm trying to decide between Skyrim and FO4. I think I want VR gunplay more than VR sword/bow play, though I've heard FO4 VR runs like absolute poo poo. Is it fixable with mods? The interfaces for both are awful. Even with mods.
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# ¿ Dec 25, 2020 19:05 |
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Star Wars Squadrons is pretty fun, but I really don't like that it requires an EA account. I like even less that it logs into EA every time I start it. It also gives me VR sickness like whoa. Is there a way to modify joystick sensitivity? My aim jumps all over the place and Ties take a lot of killing in this game so I can't count on getting snap shots. I love that we can shoot turrets off the big ships.
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2020 21:18 |
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Shine posted:Yup, go into controls and you'll see both gamepad and joystick sensitivities. Set it way lower than you think you need, and work up from here Helpful as always Shine. Thank you!
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2020 22:12 |
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:I remember seeing a list of must-have VR mods for skyrim... does anyone know where that list can be found? There’s a wabbajack (Sp?) mod list specifically for VR. It’s... well, it’s easier than rolling your own. It also has a lot of survival stuff that you can more or less turn off using MCM but don’t try to remove them from the load order, there are a ton of interdepencies.
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2021 04:30 |
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I was pleasantly surprised with the Pistol Whip campaign. The story starts off seeming stale and trite, but the last level really brings it all together. The MC's name is the cherry on the top. It's a heck of a lot of fun to just boot up and play for a little bit. Gets me sweating a lot faster than Soundboxing too.
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2021 07:44 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 23:26 |
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The Star Wars Squadrons game is so hard. I'm stuck on Terisa's Vengeance because there's no self-repair loadout for my tie bomber and the turrets respawn every time I retreat to the Overseer for repairs.
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# ¿ Jan 20, 2021 03:56 |