Subnautica on Oculus Home
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Small Blue Green Planet 3rd from the Sun Join Date: 2017-03-26 Member: 229210Members
Small Blue Green Planet 3rd from the Sun Join Date: 2017-03-26 Member: 229210Members
Hi,
I am planning to purchase Subnatuica for use with the Oculus Rift headset, and I would like to know whether to buy it on Steam or Oculus Home. I know the version on Steam receives frequent updates and supports both normal and VR gameplay, however I would much rather purchase on Oculus Home purely for the ease of launching it quickly. I want to know if the version on Oculus Home is also frequently updated and whether it also supports normal gameplay as well as VR.
Looking forward to playing Subnautica!
I am planning to purchase Subnatuica for use with the Oculus Rift headset, and I would like to know whether to buy it on Steam or Oculus Home. I know the version on Steam receives frequent updates and supports both normal and VR gameplay, however I would much rather purchase on Oculus Home purely for the ease of launching it quickly. I want to know if the version on Oculus Home is also frequently updated and whether it also supports normal gameplay as well as VR.
Looking forward to playing Subnautica!
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I believe that you can purchase it off of the Oculus Home, and it will work fine. It is a few days behind each new update, but otherwise, it's the same either way.
Hopefully, someone with a much better knowledge on this topic can prove or disprove what I said.
I would hold off until @0x6A7232 can get over here. He probably knows something. He usually does.
What I have one!
Except my knowledge of VR is limited to what I read here. I don't own a VR headset yet. I'd say go with Subnautica on Steam just because it's the primary release platform, but if you're saying it's easier to launch from Occulus Home, well, that is a supported store, so it shouldn't really make a difference, besides maybe a few days wait for updates. I don't really have any experience with Occulus Home.
Or, you could have your cake and eat it too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5jigiz/launch_steamvr_from_oculus_home/
example: http://gamedummy.com/steamvrforoculus/
It seems to require a bit of tinkering, but nothing too hard (I would say it's easy)
If you want to launch Subnautica via the Oculus Home only, you will need to purchase from the Oculus store. It's kept up-to-date with steam's regular version within a day or two usually.