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as I've just picked up a rift s
I'm looking for some game recommendations, sitting sims (are there any good stompy mech sims in vr?)
edit: stuff I have
Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
Elite Dangerous
steam vr lab
Gorn
Vox Machinae
Fallout 4 vr
Rick and morty: virtual Rick-ality
I expect you to die, Abode 2, Obduction, Half Life Alyx, FORM, Gnog, Project CARS 2, DiRT 4, Beat Saber, Pistol Whip, Superhot VR
All VR games I've played and enjoyed, I'm limited in office space due to it being in the roof space with sloped ceilings, and most of them (except beat saber, superhot and pistol whip) can be played fairly comfortably sitting down. I find the adventure/puzzle/escape genre a really good fit for VR, they are immersive and benefit from the VR experience without having to flail around or walk in to stuff. Driving/Racing is hit-or-miss, GT Sport on the PS4 seemed to nail it more than anything I've tried so far on PC, but Project CARS 2 came close.
Half Life Alyx. Audioshield. Beat Sabre. Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades. HoloBall. Space Pirate Trainer.
Project Cars 2 and Assetto Corsa Competizione are both excellent for racing sims.
Alyx, beat saber.
HL1 is fun, I know the quest has a version(as well as blue shift and opfor) but not sure if the rift can play a VR modded version of the original or not.
Most of my VR time has been spread between Beat Saber, Elite Dangerous and Half Life Alyx.
Your machine will struggle with Elite in places, but if you don't have it already it turns up for a fiver occasionally and would be worth a punt at that price. Needs a HOTAS controller though to really play it.
There are quite a few VR driving games out there if you have a steering wheel, possibly a game controller. They all seem good in their own ways, though Dirt Rally tends to give me nausea pretty fast. Put them all on your Steam wishlist, and get one if it turns up cheap.
I've picked up Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, just played around on the basic shooting range and squeeee they've got 2 of my all time fav guns, the HK G11 and the EM2, although I wish they let you swap out the optic
Also had a play on the lab, fun little free experience
Elite I already have, just never got around to playing it yet
VR adds an amazing level of immersion, specially in dogfights. I have spent far more on joystick HOTAS controllers than the cost of the game though :)Quote:
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One of the Tomb Raider games apparently has a VR level in it. I haven't tried it, but mention it as lots of people are into tomb raider so you might have it kicking around already.
I still go back and play a couple of the mini games in The Lab quite regularly. Specially "Longbow" which can get quite frantic.
With Beat Sabre you can download an addon and get pretty much any song you want
I would suggest
Half-Life: Alyx (Of course)
Star Wars: Squadrons
Superhot VR
Beat Saber
I played through "A Fishermans Tale" last night, excellent little VR game
Another vote for Project Cars 2 - awesome fun in VR and no motion sickness (in contrast to rallying sims, which I find very unpleasant in VR)
I'm also currently playing through Star Wars: Squadrons and really enjoying it.
I know flight sims aren't everyone's cup of tea but, if they're yours, FS2020 is pretty cool in VR too. It's even more demanding on your hardware in VR though so, like me, you'll likely need to dial the visual fidelity way down unless you've got a 5900X and 3090.
Not sure if it's already been mentioned above, but Valve's The Lab is great fun too, and free (via Steam). It's basically a series of mini-games to showcase VR, some are better than others but they're all entertaining. My favourite is probably the slingshot game where you have to launch little talking bombs at huge piles of crates :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-URHtXcvbo?t=39
Steer clear of MS Flight Sim, holy cow the performance is bad. The tearing all over the screen was bad and then turning whilst in the air made me want to hurl.
Not ever had that with any other VR game.
Weird, I don't get any motion sickness with it at all (and I do with quite a few other games, e.g. any rallying games, bouncing around in the Scarab buggy in Elite Dangerous).
I do agree the performance isn't great at the moment though. To get a smooth experience with my 5800X/1080Ti I have to turn the detail so far down it looks like I'm playing FSX.
Beat saber is great fun and can be a good workout! Pavlov VR is a great first person shooter. Rec room is free and some easy fun especially playing paintball or laser tag. VR Chat is brilliant you can meet people from all over the world and it's also free. Depending on your PC, MSFS VR is very immersive and beautiful but EXTREMELY demanding on your cpu and gpu.
I just had a thought today, minecraft vr . . . umm it's been so long since I logged in/last played that I have a slight issue, website wants email address, the one I originally used no longer exists, so I'm not sure my account works :/
Doesn't that just mean that you can't recover the password? As long as you can remember your old password, you can probably log in and might be able to change it to a new email address.
Edit: I hope they changed the movement though. I tried it a couple of years ago, I had to use my Minecraft account to get a free copy of Minecraft for Windows 10 which has the VR enabled, and it had the worst motion sickness of any game I have played. Those blocks too, they are supposed to be 1m on a side and in VR they really looked it!
unfortunately you no longer log on via username but email and I think it's been so long my account has been deactivated, with the email gone no way to reactivate it :(
Minecraft was quite good, enjoyed it when I last played it on VR. I was always hoping we would get that tech demo for the Microsoft Hololens but that never came to anything
Looks like the Windows 10 Minecraft has a playable demo mode, I wonder if that can do VR?
This made me try and log into my Mojang account. I failed because it didn't like the answers to my security questions, despite me writing down the answers in a text file so I even tried cut and pasting the answers from there to make sure I spelt them right.
I do have access to the email address, but tbh I'm not sure I can be bothered to recover the login if they are just going to forget my responses.
well it's all shifting over to microsoft accounts this year anyway
there seems to be a steam mini sale going on, I've just picked up some games
see my first post
edit: has anyone tried BoxVR? seems to be like beat saber but boxing based
asking because it's on the sale at £12.50 while beat saber isn't :(
OK I've played a little Gorn, it's nice but I need to tweak the controls, I keep hitting the button to bring up the oculas control panel, which leaves me locked in the middle of a fight, not good.
That and I really need more space to swing around wildly.
Next I gave Vox Machinae a go . . . :surprised: :rockon:
I've only done the training and a couple of bot matches but it's flipping amazing.
If any of you are looking for a mechwarrior style, stompy robot cockpit sim type game then seriously give this a look.
It puts you in the cockpit, with vr controls, granted it a bit more limited compared to mechwarrior, you've only got 8 mechs to choice from, with 2 to 4 weapon slots of ether light or heavy weapon selections, each slot can be assigned to one of 4 groups, each group mapped to ether a trigger or button on the left or right stick.
To control your mech you have to grab control sticks in the cockpit, the right stick is turn left/right, left has 2 different sticks, a throttle for walk forward/back if you want to jumpjet you have to let go of the throttle and grab the jumpjet stick next to it, pull it up to jump then push in direction to jet in that direction.
want to eject? grab the ejection handle between your legs with both hands and pull.
Targeting is centred on your view point, so keep your head pointing at your target, there's a sniper zoom, press the analogue stick and a monitor panel swings down in front of you and you now control it with the analogue stick, ok for fine tweaks not for finding or tracking moving targets.
radar is on a similar swing out monitor on the left, you can adjust the position by grabbing it and moving it but only to left or right, in the most right position so it's closest your front then it does block your sight of your left hand, so you're not 100% which of the two controls you've gripped.
Cool other stuff, as you pound enemy mechs the armour gets blown off in chunks exposing internals, so you can take enemies down faster by concentrating fire on a point, although weapons are not really that accurate.
Your cockpit glass gets smashed with internal torso damage and be careful when jumping, land too fast (ether from too high or too fast in a direction) and you can damage your legs, I managed to lose a leg just trying to rush back :embarrassed: you cannot walk with one leg, but you can still jumpjet.
I wish it had a single player campaign but it's online multi player only :( I\'ll have to give the online a go and report back.
Sort of. I have a Quest game called FitXR which I believe is a port of BoxVR. FitXR is pretty good exercise, and it's main difference is supposed to be a dance exercise class that I don't use. Better exercise than Beat Saber which is handy for lockdown, but it isn't a fun game like Beat Saber that I *want* to go back to.Quote:
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Pob, not sure how you are set for VR gaming money wise but if you fancy trying a lot of games you can get viveport which I believe you can use with the rift/quest, might be worth a look if you want to try new things without spending a lot initially - https://www.viveport.com/infinity
You get 14 days free so even if you don't go for the sub at least you get some games to try out :)
Can't you just requested a refund on quest if the game is rubbish and you have played for less than 4 hours?...If that's the case i would try one new game a month I wasn't too sure on without the fear of it being a ripoff
I can vouch for Star Wars Squadrons, that was really good in VR (apart from I played it on PS VR and the resolution ain't great). It's a shame Resident evil 7 isn't VR on PC because that was fantastic. Absolutely terrifying (even though I had played it before without VR), but great.
I'm not sure how the refund system works but I'm sure there's a FAQ on it but my. Recommended are same as many others but I really like
Beat saber
Half life
Walking dead
Super hot
Minecraft
And many other games sideloaded
I haven't played many. But I saw someone playing Walking Dead Saints & Sinners VR. It looked amazing honestly!