VR MODE. - A question to the Devs
Beddall
Join Date: 2018-08-13 Member: 242829Members
Join Date: 2018-08-13 Member: 242829Members
Will you be fixing the VR experience? It's currently on the Oculus store for £18.99 as a VR game in Early Access... which I feel is a bit misleading as the VR experience is "Broken" to say the least, and devs have commented that the game is complete. There is no way that this is a £18.99 VR experience... it's a good pancake game but anyone paying £18.99 for VR is going to be sorely disappointed. I bought the game as soon as it went on Early Access on steam but I have waited til I got a Oculus Rift to play it... and I too am very disappointed. You only need to see the Oculus store reviews for confirmation of this.
Basically the game has had VR bolted on as a Minimum Viable Product. It's in no way implemented with any polish or actual design or optimisation for VR. It's purely to get the VR compatible Logo on the Steam storefront to drive more sales.. and to be able to sell the game through the Oculus store
Could the devs please issue a comment on this as many people are not happy with the VR experience, which many bought the game for. is it getting updated?
Basically the game has had VR bolted on as a Minimum Viable Product. It's in no way implemented with any polish or actual design or optimisation for VR. It's purely to get the VR compatible Logo on the Steam storefront to drive more sales.. and to be able to sell the game through the Oculus store
Could the devs please issue a comment on this as many people are not happy with the VR experience, which many bought the game for. is it getting updated?
Comments
1) Early Access does not mean no bugs are present. It actually theres more bugs than the full game.
2) We pay 20 dollars for the base game. You get the base game with VR on steam.
3) Assuming it is only using VR to get the VR Steam Tag is incorrect. VR is outdated and unupdated on the game. They're working on fixing it, but you must give them much more time.
4) Devs most of the time cannot comment or do not respond, but it's best to wait for the Almighty Obraxis to respond.
5) While many did buy the game for VR, I wouldn't suggest playing that first, but that's me. You do you.
1. The comment about it being in early access was made because the devs on here have stated that the game is COMPLETE. Also, the game came out of Early Access on Steam and has been fully released. It's on the Oculus store as Early Access still, but as far as anyone knows .. the VR isn't being worked on ( seeing as the devs refuse to answer any questions regarding VR). So how is it a Early Access title still? That in itself seems very misleading to Oculus store users.
2. It's £18.99 on Oculus store in UK which is slightly more than $20 probably, but doesn't really excuse the fact that it's quite an expensive VR game that isn't even fully developed for VR and no one seems to be able to answer to whether it is still being developed for VR. The only news about new features for the game are the upcoming expansion and the bug fixes they are bringing over from the console ports.
3. It is using VR to get published on the Oculus store.. there is no denying that. We can only ASSUME that they are working on fixing it... but how can we even assume that when they haven't indicated in any way that it will be further updated.
5. I played the pancake version for a few hours each time at different stages of development and really liked it. but it would be much better in VR... so I'd rather wait for a proper VR release to experience it that way first hand. I really wish I could go back and experience Skyrim for the first time in VR... I don't want to make the same mistake with this game. .. if that's ever going to be possible.
thanks for your input
Can you tell what exactly was the problem? You just write that the game is "Broken" but what does that mean exactly? I have 4 different VR-Systems and only Pimax5k is unplayable due to rendering issues. With oculus rift there was no problem for me even while on early access. I just wished for better performance but steam is full of worse games with even worse performance. For one of the earliest "real" games to have VR support I think this is still a good job, considering the VR user base has absolutely no significance at all right now. There is also to consider how many devs there are with UnknownWorlds, not really much comparatively.
I couldn't play this game any other way than in VR, I just hope Below Zero will receive the same treatment, it was honestly brilliant. The feeling of immersion (no pun intended) was fantastic.