• I will fully admit that it's not really a "game". It's chill as hell to explore the universe, though.
  
• If you have ample disk space, I would recommend downloading the previous (free) version, 0.9.8.0, and exploring a little bit in non-VR mode to see if this is your thing. It's not incredibly user-friendly, and you'll probably want to get a general feel for the program and how it works before trying to jump into VR.
  
• There is apparently a more 'guided' experience version called Overview, which is available on the Oculus store. I have not tried this myself, but if anyone has, please let me know how it is.
  
• While the planets in the Solar System are fairly blurry at ground-level as they use real data, procedural planets are much more detailed.
  
• It can be fairly buggy at times, and can crash without warning. You'll almost certainly see performance hitches, especially when rendering landscapes or nebulae up close.
  
• You'll want to start in Vive or Oculus mode from the Steam dialog that pops up when you launch the game. As you can probably expect, launching the wrong one will leave you with controls that don't really work.
  
• You probably want to bump up the controller sensitivity for stereobase (the scale-changing gesture) on the right hand and velocity on the left hand- otherwise it takes a while to get moving.
  

• Start with the "Beginner Blake" character, recently added like...last week? Fewer enemies, streamlined weapon progression, and more time to complete each hold.
  
  
• Double check the orange case when you first spawn; some weapons will randomly spawn a sight attachment. Remember to turn off the safety (default: left on your right-hand thumbstick) any time you pick up a gun. This advice does not apply to real life.
  
  
• The radar (by default located on your left hand) shows you where the points of interest are; blue are the 'store' points, the red H is the next hold point, red dots are enemies.
  
  
• Enemy guns can be picked up and used in a pinch, but have limited ammunition and are not reloadable. You can pick up and throw back enemy grenades if you're quick about it.
  
  
• If you have "spawnlockable" ammo turned on, this means that you have effectively infinite ammo (however, this also means that the game will spawn more enemies!). Place a full magazine into one of the slots on your chest. Hold your controller over that slot. Press down on the thumbstick or touchpad. This should make the slot glow blue. Now if you grab the magazine, another should appear in its place. The same process for a firearm should make the slot glow green; if you let go of the gun, it will automatically snap back into that slot so you don't lose it. If you do it again, it turns the spawnlock/holster off.
  
  
• In many cases, you will have a gun that takes "loose" ammo (revolvers, shotguns, grenade launchers, etc.) You can set it so that your spawnlockable ammo will spawn a handful. Hover over a slot with a single bullet/shell in it, while also holding another bullet/shell. Press up on the touchpad/thumbstick. This should add your held bullet/shell to the slot; so now, if you were to grab the contents of that slot, you would grab two bullets/shells. Repeat; it usually stacks up to about...six, I think?
  
  
• The gray boxes in the blue 'store' points can be destroyed, and can give a health pickup, an extra override token, or nothing at all. This is maybe the only use I've found for melee weapons: breaking these without making too much noise.
  
  
• The blue 'store' locations always have one 'shop' terminal, and one of either a 'recycle' terminal or a 'ammo' terminal.
  
  
• The shop terminal usually gives you three options: a gun, an attachment, and either a grenade or a power-up. The dice icon allows you to re-roll the category shown on the shop terminal at the cost of one override token. Gun categories are representative icons only; if it shows you an assault rifle, you'll probably get an assault rifle, but there's no guarantee that it's a modern assault rifle.
  
  
• The recycle terminal allows you to recycle an unwanted gun for one override token. For the ammo terminal, you can place your gun (or a magazine) on the shelf, and press either the 'bullet' or 'magazine' icon to spawn a round/fill that magazine with ammunition.
  
  
• I recommend visiting the ammo terminals even if you have spawnlockable ammo, because each intermission between hold points has a different, randomly chosen set of ammunition variants for almost every kind of ammo in the game. For example, if you place a 9mm handgun magazine on the shelf and press the magazine icon, it will fill that magazine with whatever random 9mm variant is currently in play, random per terminal (not per use): anything from regular FMJ to hollow-points to incendiary rounds. If you get a variant you like (and you have spawnlocking turned on), then lock that magazine in your inventory and congrats, now you have infinite incendiary ammo (or whatever). This is especially useful for weapons like shotguns if you start with an ammo type you don't like.
  Pointy solid copper tip: standard full metal jacket
  Hollow tip: hollow-point (good against unprotected hot dog, not so good against armor)
  Green or red tip: tracer round
  Black tip: armor piercing round
  Blue tip: incendiary round
  White tip: armor piercing + incendiary round
  (For handgun ammunition, any of the above but with a steel case instead of brass is a +P round; they're more powerful.)
  
  
• Silencer attachments must be 'twisted' onto the barrel. Muzzle attachments should just snap on. The silencers and muzzle attachments work for most (but not all) guns, and will automatically adapt to the weapon in question.
  
• Rail attachments (scopes, lasers, etc.) can be removed by holding the attachment with the grip button and pressing down on the thumbstick/touchpad.
  
• Lasers, flashlights, and other such attachments can be turned on/off by holding the attachment with the grip button and pressing up on the thumbstick/touchpad.
  
  
• You can pick up the riot shields that enemies drop and use them yourself. If you're the "turtling"/hide-in-a-corner type, this can provide invaluable cover.
  
  
• The default inventory configuration has a hidden slot over your right shoulder. Some of the largest weapons (like the rocket launchers) can only be placed in this slot.
  
  

Luneshot fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Nov 10, 2020

Luneshot fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Nov 10, 2020