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Lockback posted:I tried my Q2 outside on a sunny day once and tracking was all kinds of messed up. Yeah, if the sun is literally beating on you it wont work. Just like if you flood a room inside with 90000 lumens of lights and leds it freaks out. Overcast/sunup/down theres like 4 hours a day you can play outside without "any" problems. Evening time if theres some basic lights around and your playspace is already made, itll work and if you have light houses laying around you can be cheeky and setup an IR playspace outside.
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explosivo posted:Can confirm, they do latch onto you. I think you wave your arms around to swoosh them off or something but I'm always panicking too much to think about it IIRC you just grab them and rip them off. I was also flailing about, so I think that's how it happened... Them jumping at you is more freaky. Think of a turkey carcass flying through the air at you for scale. Full headcrab attack, no story spoilers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJJ2c6t_xkk It was mostly dark and the blood from my own recollection, I flailed around and got it off to not really see anything other than dark and the reaction to "Agh! Thing on me!" When it was dark was the only time they ever really got the jump on me to latch on.
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This is incredibly cool https://twitter.com/floatharr/status/1374375354442285065?s=20 Doctor_Fruitbat posted:You know what would be loving awesome in VR, in a post Gorilla Tag world? Werewolves. Hurl yourself around the place with your arms, climbs walls, pick people up and throw them, go hog wild with your claws. It would fit the horror vibe without being another horror game too. In general I'm dying for better Kaiju games. There were a few different indie ones and the one Rampage game but they're all very short and limited. The potential for "walk around in giant scale smashing cities like sandcastles" is loving huge. And different monsters can work different ways. Or for that matter, just general superhero games. Have co-op where one person is flying around and another person is swinging on spider man ropes, etc. And you race around the city to save people or whatever. I'd work on it myself if I ever finish my shooter game 
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FutureCop posted:So Half Life Alyx is on sale. Few questions before I impulse buy: 1) the headcrabs aren't too bad IMO. However, the game does have you creeping around some VERY dark sewers with a flashlight, which is pretty spoopy. Even worse, there's one chapter of the game that is very much survival horror style, sneaking around, and I myself had to nope out a couple times. I think the game is incredible and thankfully MOST of it isn't spoopy at all, so I think its still worth considering, but go in knowing there's a couple parts that are dark and very scary. But you can do it! 2) The story isnt' too important at all, you're mostly just exploring a city, although there's lots of hints to the greater half life story for fans who want those things. Also, some recognizable characters. 3) There's only a couple forced dialogue "cutscenes" otherwise the story is all just environmental. So, half and half? There's basically 2-3 HL2 style "lock you in" moments, otherwise all HL1 style. 4) Sure, he's actually a comedic relief character, that's the point. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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He's way more competent than Murray but otherwise basically the same guy so coming with that context is probably better.
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Whoaaa I had no idea Rhys Darby was in this and now my interest has gone up even further! He's great and I love dry kiwi humour.
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Zaphod42 posted:
This is pretty incorrect, I'd say absolutely go play the Episodes first if you have the time to as they do become very relevent. Especially considering the ending is "Hey, you know that cliffhanger we left you on a decade ago? We didn't forget about it..."
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:You know what would be loving awesome in VR, in a post Gorilla Tag world? Werewolves. Hurl yourself around the place with your arms, climbs walls, pick people up and throw them, go hog wild with your claws. It would fit the horror vibe without being another horror game too. That makes me think a Natural Selection VR edition would be pretty great.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:This is pretty incorrect, I'd say absolutely go play the Episodes first if you have the time to as they do become very relevent. Agreed. If you care about the Half-Life story at all, HL2:E2 is absolutely required before clicking "new game" in Alyx, because literally the first thing Alyx does, before you even load into the world, is spoil the ending of Episode 2.
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Shemp the Stooge posted:That makes me think a Natural Selection VR edition would be pretty great. Another goon said this a few dozen pages ago. Its definitely an interesting idea. I especially like the idea of multiple players being different sizes in VR. One player is a big monster but another player is a tiny alien creeping through vents, VR can allow for wild magic perspective tricks. Neddy Seagoon posted:This is pretty incorrect, I'd say absolutely go play the Episodes first if you have the time to as they do become very relevent. I meant in that you can enjoy it as a VR game on its own without having played those. If you care about the HL universe I would assume you'd have played them by now, but fair enough.
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If you're going to create VR versions of the classic Half-Life mods you can't really do anything until you've done the only mod game mode anyone actually cares about. Ricochet.
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I loved Alyx and I didn't even play the Half Life 2 episodes. Sure maybe the story didn't hit quite as hard, but the game was still freaking amazing the whole way through.
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Early on I picked up a dead headcrab and just slapped it on my "face" in order to inure myself from being too freaked out by them. Still don't love things jumping at my face but you get used to them. you know what are freaky though? headcrab zombies. those things look horrific in VR.
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Mar 24, 2021 03:26
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EbolaIvory posted:A chance? Yup. I've heard/been called racial slurs in every public lobby voice chat game I've played in VR. Echo Arena, Gorilla Tag, Rec Room, VR Chat... tons of shitheads dropping slurs, especially in games where they can see (via my avatar) that I'm black.
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Shine posted:Yup. I've heard/been called racial slurs in every public lobby voice chat game I've played in VR. Echo Arena, Gorilla Tag, Rec Room, VR Chat... tons of shitheads dropping slurs, especially in games where they can see (via my avatar) that I'm black. I really hate this problem. I'm trying to be active and respond to peoples' reports, but it's clearly not enough. Next step is I'm going to make the in game reporting more granular, so you can choose reasons (hate speech/bigotry, griefing, hacking, etc), and then hopefully take more automatic action based on if the person gets reported in multiple rooms or something (to prevent a room just ganging up on someone and falsely reporting them) but I doubt that'll be enough either. One idea I'm kicking around is basically flagging more trusted accounts (people who have shown themselves to be reasonable or to have reported a decent number of people or whatever) such that if they report certain things, the offender is automatically banned and kicked from the room, basically like in game community moderators. I feel like this also might be apocalyptically stupid but there's been like almost 200 thousand people playing, so any system with a single point of action is hosed from the get go On some level I think it's because most games absolutely do not give any fucks at all about people doing that kind of thing and people just think it's fine to do. I bet huge swaths of people would cut it out if they thought any action would actually be taken, but also if I do take action they still aren't gonna know *other* people are getting banned for it, so they'll still do it like they do in any other games. It's totally hosed unless games start doing something about it as a whole, but I'm still gonna keep trying
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Mar 24, 2021 06:10
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EbolaIvory posted:Check the cable at the headset end, yank it, put it back in, reboot, cross fingers. I've had cables "die" doing exactly that. Also Index kinda has a known weak rear end port headset side. Its only been 2 months and im already slowly getting rainbow pixel lines. Its fun poo poo. Are you saying the headset eventually just dies? or is this a cable problem?
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Mar 24, 2021 09:29
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Lemming posted:I they still aren't gonna know *other* people are getting banned for it Leper’s colony!
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Zaphod42 posted:I especially like the idea of multiple players being different sizes in VR. One player is a big monster but another player is a tiny alien creeping through vents, VR can allow for wild magic perspective tricks. It would be an absolute nightmare for motion sickness sufferers, but I've immediately fallen in love with the idea of being a massive kaiju picking up tiny squishy human players and juggling them / shaking them / throwing them Hell make it coop and let me throw my coop partners to access inaccessible areas
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I love what the idea of the index controllers but after having used them for a while I am just not sure they are actually a good design for vr interfacing.
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Subjunctive posted:Leper’s colony! Good idea. Visit the gorilla graveyard, put up a list of the banned and the reasons.
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If the game is heavily focused on multiplayer, having some sort of action ticker in the main menu might help there. Like, a list of scrolling messages along the lines of "User DabMaster1488 was banned for abusive chat." or something like that.
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Chadzok posted:Good idea. Visit the gorilla graveyard, put up a list of the banned and the reasons. If you put up a scoreboard, people will aim for the top rank.
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Y'all got any recommendations for good combat-based maps for Alyx? Preferably with no god drat headcrabs, I've had enough of them in Half-Life 2 already.
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So I ordered a set of rx lenses for my Rift CV1 from https://www.vroptician.com. They're shipping from Germany so I'm pretty sure they'll be well made, but once I get them, I'll share my thoughts with the thread. Anyone else go this route or are all you four-eyed people having your glasses stolen from your face each time you're done playing?
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DelphiAegis posted:So I ordered a set of rx lenses for my Rift CV1 from https://www.vroptician.com. They're shipping from Germany so I'm pretty sure they'll be well made, but once I get them, I'll share my thoughts with the thread. I got some from them a month ago for my Index and they’ve been great. VR gaming is far more comfortable now and they are very easy to remove when my wife wants to play Beatsaber.
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PirateDentist posted:Alyx has ruined so many VR games for me now. Almost everything is just done so drat well, and just works. Gravity gloving a mag to you, slamming it in, and racking the slide just feels so good. I had to cheat in more ammo though, you do not get enough for how I play at least. fyi there is ALWAYS ammo in alyx - if you're out the game will spawn more even in places you already checked.
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Lemming posted:I really hate this problem. I'm trying to be active and respond to peoples' reports, but it's clearly not enough. Next step is I'm going to make the in game reporting more granular, so you can choose reasons (hate speech/bigotry, griefing, hacking, etc), and then hopefully take more automatic action based on if the person gets reported in multiple rooms or something (to prevent a room just ganging up on someone and falsely reporting them) but I doubt that'll be enough either. Honestly there are a bunch of goons that play and this group automatically skews non-racist because racists don’t make it very long on SA. Grant us all the power to zap idiots and there you go. Automatic moderation squad
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If you're running out of ammo then invest in the laser sight ASAP. I often ran low on shotgun and machine gun ammo, but never pistol, you shouldn't run out of everything if you're even halfway accurate.
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Is the elite strap worth buying now? Or is there a better (non 3D printing) option?
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I’ve had mine since January, I use it almost daily and it’s still fine. People say they’ll still crack but I haven’t experienced any issues
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Mang Tomas posted:Is the elite strap worth buying now? Or is there a better (non 3D printing) option? It has a 2 year warranty on it too and its basically no questions asked if it cracks. It's a little pricey for what it is but it's really nice.
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I've had mine for a few months now and had no issues with it either. Some goons were saying to stay away because they'll still break but it seems fine to me.
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I bought my elite strap mid February and it broke before the end of February. But a couple pieces of duct tape are holding it together nicely now.
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Lozareth posted:I bought my elite strap mid February and it broke before the end of February. But a couple pieces of duct tape are holding it together nicely now. File a RMA and get a new one dude.
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I bought boneworks last week, which is a janky as hell thing but fun - if I hadn't coded physics engines before I'd find it vastly less fun because I can work out how to cheese their engine enough the bugs don't piss me off. Don't think I'd recommend it to most of my friends. I just discovered that the best way to deal with a certain kind of enemy that was previously scary is to grab it with both hands when it jumps at you and headbutt it to death. I'm now actively looking for the things and laughing my face off headbanging every one to its resting place. Best. Unintentiontal. Control. Mechanism. Ever. Please put it in vr doom.
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None works is the greatest game for exploiting its janky physics. You can also just shove the zombies like you’re getting impatient with them rather than trying to avoid getting killed and it’s hilarious
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Lemming posted:I really hate this problem. I'm trying to be active and respond to peoples' reports, but it's clearly not enough. Ands I don't blame you for this. People with voice chat and anonymity do this in basically every situation, unfortunately. I hope you can find some way to curtail it, but yeah, being a solo dev and this game having hundreds of thousands of players is rough. I appreciate that it's something you care to address, and I hope you come up with something workable  Skyarb posted:I love what the idea of the index controllers but after having used them for a while I am just not sure they are actually a good design for vr interfacing. They aren't. The finger stuff is a gimmick that only matters for making basic hand gestures (they aren't detailed enough for, say, sign languages), throwing actually blows because you have to tighten the gently caress out of the straps to avoid the controller shifting obnoxiously in your hand (it's fine for light tosses, but playing Echo Arena with Index is awful), and I prefer Touch over them 95% of the time. Exceptions are games where having the touchpad as an extra button/cluster of buttons is helpful, though most games are designed to work with Touch layout now (H3VR, for example, is fiiiinally admitting that most people don't use Vive wands). I'll spare the thread my usual enormous rant, but suffice it to say that I only like the Index for the headset and its superb audio. I find Touch controllers superior for comfort and usability.
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Been enjoying Walkabout Mini Golf a lot the past few weeks, it makes for a pretty fantastic hanging out with friends game. Love that it is crossbuy and you can play multiplayer on the same account with multiple headsets. Works out perfectly so that my wife and I can play on our RiftS/Quest2 with a friend and his wife on their Rift/Quest.
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Shine posted:They aren't. The finger stuff is a gimmick that only matters for making basic hand gestures (they aren't detailed enough for, say, sign languages), This is demonstrably untrue, people use them for sign languages in VRChat all the time. Especially for teaching people how to sign.
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