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How does it compare to virtual battlegrounds and stand out? I was playing stand out for a long time, then switched over to Virtual Battlegrounds when it launched and it was basically stand out minus a lot of jank, but I am wary about spending more money on another BR game. Does anyone that’s played all three want to share which one they like the most and why?
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Dec 31, 2020 16:03
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What's the gun handling like in P1? Is it like ejecting mags and pulling back slides and all that or is it more simplified than the gunporn games out there?
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Dec 31, 2020 16:30
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You haven't lived until you've put a vive tracker on a fleshlight
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I tried quake 1 with side quest which was pretty neat. Does anyone know if anyone is working on UT99? I wanna play facing worlds in VR
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Dec 31, 2020 16:32
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Steen71 posted:I ordered a G2 back in September and received it yesterday. I used it for about half an hour before deciding to send it back and just stick with my Rift CV1. The G2 has a pretty terrible sweet spot and apparently I'm far from the only one who has experienced this - see this video + comments: I unboxed my G2 yesterday and was playing around with it. It's my first VR headset, and one of the most immediately obvious things was the "sweet spot" you're referring to. I feel like I'm wearing really restrictive contact lenses or something. I have to move my entire head to read something clearly that really should be readable by just moving my eyes the smallest of degrees. Certainly something that bothers me a lot IRL, so we'll see if it's enough to get me to return it. Other than that and the USB-C port on my new motherboard not being enough to power the headset, it seems fine. Had to reboot after installing it the first time to get audio through the speakers. Just trying to take it easy and not barf. [Edit: I've had Lasik and my vision is pretty much perfect these days.] Internet Explorer fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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explosivo posted:What's the gun handling like in P1? Is it like ejecting mags and pulling back slides and all that or is it more simplified than the gunporn games out there? It’s simplified. When you fire your last round, or pick up a new gun, it comes with the magazine ejected but pinned to the gun, so you push the mag in, pull the slide back and you’re good to go. The shotgun breaks open with the two bullets floating above the barrel so you push the bullets in and close the gun. The mag/bullets and the slide are highlighted yellow on each gun to simplify things. So, more involved than “pres butan, reload”, but not crazy gunporn level of detail and realism. It’s still plenty stressful when someone is shooting at you and you’re trying to get your gun reloaded Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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Dec 31, 2020 17:08
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How about that bow battle royale game, Hibow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV3wD_ZjQpE Anyone try that out? it looks interesting but don't really want to invest if there isn't a big playerbase
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NMS VR was kinda bad performance wise last time I played and the game is so menu based that even though they did a reasonsble job making things usable they're still kinda janky and awkward and I wouldn't recomend actually trying to play the game seriously that way. Great if you just want to explore or visit some other players base or w/e. One of these days I'll start a creative mode save in VR and see how long it holds my interest. Keep talking is just a fantastic party game play it however you can. Vr obvs helps keep the diffuser and the manual separated but it works just as well on a laptop facing away from the people with a manual. Last time I played it was with a microsoft surface and we set up a phone call and had the manual in a different room.
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Dec 31, 2020 18:17
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Dear Watson posted:I tried quake 1 with side quest which was pretty neat. Does anyone know if anyone is working on UT99? I wanna play facing worlds in VR
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Mr Phillby posted:NMS VR was kinda bad performance wise last time I played and the game is so menu based that even though they did a reasonsble job making things usable they're still kinda janky and awkward and I wouldn't recomend actually trying to play the game seriously that way. Great if you just want to explore or visit some other players base or w/e. One of these days I'll start a creative mode save in VR and see how long it holds my interest. They updated the experimental branch....2-3 months ago? Improved the performance significantly. Still has irritating menus but you can get used to it pretty quick. I agree its not what you want if your priority is building a giant, complex base but it's plenty usable to get through the "story" objectives.
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Shadowpoint is a good bang for the buck puzzle game that you can play sitting down. Took me about 10 hours to beat it, but i’m not the sharpest tool in the shed and got the bonus puzzles solved too.
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Dec 31, 2020 19:38
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So has anyone tried that tribe DJ software? I like the idea of trying to DJ without buying loads of equipment or being seen, etc but not sure if it's just a gimmick?
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As promised, I am trying to flip my rift S for $220 shipped. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3953501 by.a.teammate posted:So has anyone tried that tribe DJ software? I like the idea of trying to DJ without buying loads of equipment or being seen, etc but not sure if it's just a gimmick? I want to try it, on the other hand I already neglect all this stuff too much 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I was a Population:One skeptic in this very thread and I’d like to come back here to say: I was wrong, game is good. how comfortable is it motion wise? do they do anything to help combat motion sickness?
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by.a.teammate posted:So has anyone tried that tribe DJ software? I like the idea of trying to DJ without buying loads of equipment or being seen, etc but not sure if it's just a gimmick? Haven't tried it but I did think the other day how awesome FUSER would be in VR.
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JUNGLE BOY posted:how comfortable is it motion wise? do they do anything to help combat motion sickness? Yes you can turn teleport on, snap turning and reduced FOV as well I turned all of that off, so I can’t say much about how it works in practice. But the game doesn’t make me sick at all with everything off
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:https://bsaber.com/songs/1fea/ - KDA Pop/Stars by minorsetback. There are a million versions of p/s on bsaber but this one is in my mind the best. This is the first song I track down when I do a fresh beat saber install. Thanks for the recommends, and when the beastsaber songs are back up, I'll be sure to check some of them out. I have some recommendations of my own, with my own particular taste, and a bit underrepresented with likes and such  No anime here:classic rock: Guess Who – No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature Tom Petty – Runnin’ Down A Dream House Of The Rising Sun – The Animals Ventura Highway – America The Twist – Chubby Checker Tom Sawyer – Rush Boston – More Than A Feeling Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra show tunes: The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Time Warp Helpless – Hamilton Chicago Musical: Overture / All That Jazz La La Land – Someone In The Crowd alternative/rock: Storm in a Teacup – Red Hot Chili Peppers No Rain – Blind Melon The Kids Arent Alright – The Offspring Harder Better Faster Stronger – Far Out Remix – Daft Punk Short Skirt Long Jacket – Cake Lampshades On Fire – Modest Mouse
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I did the Reverb G2 setup through WMR as instructed. It seems to work fine with Pistol Whip and Rise to Glory, but BeatSaber gives me like 1FPS or less to the point I can't even get into the menus. I tried uninstall / reinstall through Steam, no dice. Definitely seems like a software issue since the headset is handling everything else OK... any ideas? Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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drat Dirty Ape posted:As I get older, there are far fewer video game moments that make me just stop and say 'wow'. Things like seeing Super Mario Bros on a Nintendo at a friends house, logging into Everquest for the first time and realizing everyone around was an actual real person, seeing Super Mario 64s 3D graphics for the first time, etc. I played Half Life Alyx last night and holy poo poo it is amazing. It is actually sad to me that there are so many people out there who won't get a chance to experience it due to the costly barrier of entry. I stopped myself before too long because I didn't want to get any kind of VR legs or have trouble sleeping or anything and just couldn't stop talking about it. What an incredible experience. It's like being the main role inside a big budget sci-fi movie. Just an incredible experience that I highly recommend. You could say the same thing about Super Mario Bros when it first came out though, plenty of people couldn't afford to buy a new Nintendo Entertainment System the first few years. But now SMB is old and you can get it cheap or play it on emulator. Similarly, in 5-10 years the cost of VR HMDs will come down even more than the Quest has already managed, which will change things massively. That along with HMDs being more useful for other software will make it a more acceptable value proposition for more consumers, and more people will get to enjoy Alyx over time
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Zaphod42 posted:You could say the same thing about Super Mario Bros when it first came out though, plenty of people couldn't afford to buy a new Nintendo Entertainment System the first few years. But now SMB is old and you can get it cheap or play it on emulator. tbh If you told me 2 years ago a fully functional, standalone HMU with touch controllers that can be played PCVR or not would be $299 I'd think you were crazy.
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Blaston seems fun but I found myself out of breath 20 minutes in lol
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durr, reverb works flawlessly some places and makes steamVR poo poo itself and crash in Competizone. beat saber WAS doing this, and now it's not i just nuked my steam folders and install, thank goodness for gigabit
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Payday 2 is on sale for 99c right now. Seems like a no brainer to give it a shot with VR. Anyone currently play it or know how the community is? Is it fun/viable solo? I usually don't VR multiplayer much. Also is Walking Dead Onslaught actually bad? Honestly I cant tell if it's actually a lovely game, because most of the bad reviews read more like review bombs from people who want to let everyone know how much more they like Saints and sinners than they do actual critiques. Like, is it an actual bad game or is it just not the VR immersive sim people want? I'm fine with it just being a way to blast some zombies for a bit veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jan 1, 2021 |
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veni veni veni posted:Payday 2 is on sale for 99c right now. Seems like a no brainer to give it a shot with VR. Anyone currently play it or know how the community is? Is it fun/viable solo? I usually don't VR multiplayer much. Its viable solo (more for "loud" shootybang than stealth; there's mods that make solo stealth more viable though) but much more fun co-op. You can play VR with people who are flatscreen so its pretty easy to find lots of people to co-op with. There is a lot to the game to learn, so you'll want to start on the lower difficulties at first, especially since VR can be a little more overwhelming at first. Lots of people have been playing the game for like 6 years and have gear builds and know the levels inside and out and are basically wanting to speedrun the game on impossible difficulty with insane numbers of enemies, and until you level up and get the right perks and weapons you won't be able to keep up with that. But as you play more and more you can ramp up the difficulty. But even just playing Easy with a buddy is really fun in VR. I especially like taking dual pistols in VR (where in 2D they're pretty weak) There's a LOT of DLC content, but you can play the DLC without owning it as long as you join a game hosted by someone who does, so that's pretty reasonable and you can ignore buying most of it unless you really want.
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veni veni veni posted:Payday 2 is on sale for 99c right now. Seems like a no brainer to give it a shot with VR. Anyone currently play it or know how the community is? Is it fun/viable solo? I usually don't VR multiplayer much. I redownload It last night just to refamiliarize myself with the game. I clicked the vr DLC button in steam and it just launched the 2d version without spinning up SteamVR, so I just played a match. Q: are all online matches like 30 minutes? I found myself in a game where we were loading cocaine into helicopters and it just felt never ending. Also do you always run like you're in a dream and its slow motion?! Anyway I'm totally up for trying it in vr again tonight. I also got Pavlov since it was like 8 bucks and had a ton of fun with some rando's playing 5v5 in the loving dunder mifflin office 
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As a new VR user: Feels really good to get used to the VR controls in Blade & Sorcery and start being able to handle multiple baddies while on the move, even if half the game is waiting for them to open themselves up to a fatal counterattack from one of their three attack animations. Some weapons still feel extremely awkward (any two-handed weapon), but it's also nice to challenge myself and start a sim wielding no weapons etc.
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Nuts and Gum posted:Q: are all online matches like 30 minutes? I found myself in a game where we were loading cocaine into helicopters and it just felt never ending. The campaigns vary wildly. Some are very short and some have several missions in a row so end up being very very long, especially if you fail and start over. You just have to learn which missions are which. If you're slow there's a few reasons for it, you're probably wearing the heaviest armor? That's a balance factor. Or you're carrying heavy loot. If you want to be fast you need to build a dodge build with perks. Payday is a full FPSRPG, the stats matter a lot.
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I didn't think this index headset was worth it. Then I got my wife to play beat saber with me and she loving loves it. She's never played any game with me for more than a few minutes before giving up. Yep, justified.  I've never played payday but have it and just got a headset so I'd be down to play if you want a friend. I think my steam id is larrymer. Has an astronaut avatar.
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This is pretty cool, although vrchat with lots of people seems to bring my pc to its knees https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/1344816250447224832?s=20
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Zaphod42 posted:This is pretty cool, although vrchat with lots of people seems to bring my pc to its knees The Times Square world is very nice, but very unoptimized and does indeed get very chuggy when lots of people are in it.
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And the servers ate poo poo anyways 
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Oh drat got tracking for my index, coming in the 7th. Guess I should make those arrangements in my room for the lighthouses
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So I got Alien Isolation running in VR on the Quest 2. Considering I'm running a RTX 3080 I didn't expect performance to be this bad. Are there recommended settings? Also I noticed the game was rendering on my monitor as well, is that supposed to be happening?
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Romes128 posted:So I got Alien Isolation running in VR on the Quest 2. I wish I had a solution to offer, but I ran it at max settings across the board without a single hiccup in 30 hours on a 1070, so something ain't right. And yeah it's normal that it displays on the monitor as well. Is the game running normally in flat screen mode? Tbh I'd say reinstall Mother VR or maybe the whole game. other than that maybe it's something with the link? I played on a Rift S so idk if that would cause any issues. E: what exactly are the issues? veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Jan 1, 2021 |
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veni veni veni posted:I wish I had a solution to offer, but I ran it at max settings across the board without a single hiccup in 30 hours on a 1070, so something ain't right. And yeah it's normal that it displays on the monitor as well. Goes from smooth to stuttering every 30 seconds or so. I'm still in the beginning, and talking to any NPC's on the ship makes the game freeze for a second or two during the conversation.
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Yeah that's not normal. I can't say for sure what's causing that but it's almost certainly not the settings. Imo reinstall it and reinstall the mod.
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Is it set to use the SteamVR or Oculus API? Are you using Oculus Link or Virtual Desktop?
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SCheeseman posted:Is it set to use the SteamVR or Oculus API? Are you using Oculus Link or Virtual Desktop? SteamVR. Virtual desktop. Might be a streaming issue cause Phasmophobia was the same. How do I use it with the link cable? Also Phasmophobia looks way worse than it did when I've previously played.
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For Link you should only need to connect the Quest to your PC with a USB cable, ideally a quality USB 3 cable, preferably lengthy. You should already have the Oculus software installed, provided the cable you use works it should ask in the headset to enable Link at which point the Quest acts like a Rift. With that you can more easily use the Oculus API in games that support it. If you're getting frequent stuttering using VD it may be a networking issue, wireless interference is a significant problem when streaming something as demanding as VR. In any case, using Link at least provides an alternative.
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