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  1. Posted

    13 hours ago, noiseredux said:

    I saw that announcement... but does it really effect us Rift owners? I'm not being condescending or anything - I'm genuinely asking. I mean, it's still a huge VR format right? Just because the company took a hit I don't know if that means that developers will shy away from the install base. (Or am I being optimistically naive?)

     

    There was mention of Xenimax perhaps trying to get an injunction to prevent further Rifts from being sold. That would effect us some, as a developer might not want to make a game for a piece of hardware that's not current being sold.

  6. Posted

    I have a 970. Sometimes I have a real problem getting the headset positioned right. It'll be correct for one eye, but strained for the other. I probably should go to an eye doctor at some point. I definitely didn't have problems reading the text before though, so it's directly related to the video settings I've chosen.

  7. Posted

    2 hours ago, Badfinger said:

    It'll live on in our minds as a cherished alternate reality forever.

     

    I should also be clear that I <3 those boys and the podcast and I finished my thoughts with telling them as such. In between episodes of this arc, to fill podcast space, I have been relistening to the whole series and I got to the Flophouse guestcast, so I listened to both of those back to back, and the difference in construction is stark. Those episodes are mostly figuring things out by talking.

     

    Should I just give up on S1 of Friends and start S2? I like a lot of what's going on but the audio made me not like the paladin because he was loud and crackly, and I can't (6-7 episodes in? They've split up) hear the fighter even now. I can always go back, right? It feels crazy to skip 30 episodes of a sequential podcast, but...

     

    I'm lucky enough that I either listen to enough amateur podcasts or just have a tin ear, and I never noticed the sound quality problems. The quality of role-playing increases dramatically after the split, but I don't remember when the audio quality improves. My advice would be season 2, skip the faction game sections. While the system they're using has some bumps, everyone involved is a lot more comfortable on microphone and also has pretty good sound quality. It's self contained, really touching at parts, and funny at others. Then, if you like that, continue on to the Marielda miniseries that Twig was talking about. If you dig that world, go back to season one and suffer through I guess? I can't imagine going through season 3 without season 1 to back it up.

  8. Posted

    More free stuff packaged with Oculus Touch:

     

    Dead and Buried: Multiplayer shooting game with a really cool undead cowboy theme. I enjoyed my time with it, but I'm also really bad. The gun aiming doesn't quite line up with where I'd expect them to point given my hand position, and the reload action requires a flick of the wrist that I just can't seem to do right all the time. I really wish there was a reload button or something, because I found the rest of it pretty fun.

     

    Bullet Train: I know it's just a demo, but people were talking this up a bunch and I thought it was pretty crap myself. I don't think you can die, and half the fun of these things is dodging. Grabbing bullets out of the air and throwing them back is interesting, but when you have an infinite respawning assault rifle why would you bother?

     

    Toy Box: It's a silly fun toy, but the use of vibration when you touch one thing against another was so great I thought I was actually in the world for a second or two.

     

    Vive Lab: Maybe it's just the multiple layers of software (Oculus App, then Steam VR, then the game itself) that it takes to make this work, but I actually found the Vive lab to be somewhat janky. No matter where I stood, it felt like I was standing in the wrong place, things were a bunch taller or shorter than they should be, etc. Most of the sub games aren't that gripping either.

  9. Posted

    On 1/28/2017 at 7:02 AM, noiseredux said:

    yeah supposed one year VR exclusive... VR platform exclusivity - JUST what VR needs to catch on with the masses! Ugh.

     

    My guess is we'll see some unofficial mod before a year from now. Maybe it already exists, I haven't looked into it. If VR worked right away then I'd have tried it. But honestly, it'll probably be too scary for me in VR anyway haha.

     

    Oh I don't expect I'd last long in VR, but I at least want to try it that way. I'd buy the game now and hope for a mod, but Capcom are exactly the company that might release the VR version on PC as a separate game to purchase, rather than an update to the current game.

  10. Posted

    I played with it a little more this weekend and settled on VR High with SS turned to 75% and HMD scaling to 1.25. I was able to stay in the headset for several hours, while dog fighting in an asteroid field, and not feel sick at all. It's  a little shimmery and some of the text can be hard to see, so I'll probably play around with the HMD scaling some. It's good to have a nice reliable baseline to experiment from though. It does make a GTX1080 very tempting though.

  11. Posted

    I tried to mess around with settings, and I ended up making myself sick :) I have it simply set to VR High right now, which I noticed ups the SS and not the HMD scaling, so I might fiddle with those settings again, but I'm a bit nervous to as every change seemed to make the frame rate worse. What I'm really looking for is better black levels in space and less jaggies, and I have a feeling that the Oculus is the limiter on both of those things.

     

    I've been looking at the ED profiler, but I don't really intend to play the game without VR at this point, so I'm trying to avoid adding another layer of complexity.

  14. Posted

    Man, I used to love Armored Core. Unfortunately as the games went on they kept pushing further into the twitch gameplay realm, and my reaction times got poorer. The last few I've tried have been so hectic and hard. Now I'm just left to wish for another Chromehounds.

  16. Posted

    Touch controllers arrived yesterday:

     

    Rec Room: I've already seen a lot of this on Giant Bomb, and it was pretty much what I expected. It's fun to play around with but I dunno how much time I'll spend in it. The only thing I'd add is that frisbees fly way to far, and everything else doesn't fly far enough.

     

    RipCoil: This was free with any Oculus store purchase, so I didn't think it would be that good. Turns out it's a pretty awesome Windjammers-type disk throwing game. I would have played a ton of it if I didn't have to wait so long for a match.

     

    Medium: I made a bad chair, I'll post a picture when I'm back at home. There's a lot of really cool stuff with making different layers and moving them separately that Tiltbrush lacks. It feels like it's missing a more freeform mode. I'd love to be able to take a tool or my fist and interact with the clay with physics, but I understand that would be pretty tough to model.

  17. Posted

    Tried out some more VR stuff.

     

    Farlands: When i first saw this, I thought it was pretty much just fluff, but it's been one of the more enjoyable experiences so far. It has a Super Mario Maker style unlock each day thing going, which turns it into a bunch of bite size pieces that are just perfect. Also, the most "real" looking and feeling thing I've played so far.

     

    The Foo Show: I balked when I found out the Firewatch episode was 20 minutes long, It turns out that I actually rewound a bit so I could play around in the fire tower some more. I never thought that looking at the back of things you're not supposed to see could be so much fun. I can't wait until new episodes come out,

     

    Subnautica: While I like the game a lot, the poor performance and texture pop-in was super apparent in VR. It didn't make me sick, but it pretty much ruined the experience. Hopefully this will iron out as early access continues, because swimming around in the ocean in VR seems like it could be really cool.

     

    Keep Talking and No One Explodes: It's a great game, but I didn't feel like VR added that much.

     

    Obduction: In theory, this seems like a great game to play in VR, especially because I dropped off right when I was getting to the really alien stuff. Moving from hot spot to hot spot feels very Myst like as well, but I had problems interacting with control panels where the vision dot didn't seem to be activating the right things, or I had to hover just above or below the object to get it to activate. That fiddliness was dissapointing so I gave up after 5 minutes. I might try again later when I have more patience.

     

    SteamVR Big Screen: Not sure what else to call this, but I played a little bit of Darkest Dungeon on the large 2D screen in SteamVR. I was surprised how cool it was to play a game on the fake big screen. i wouldn't want to play everything in there, but for pixely or cartoony things, it seems like a fun alternative and you don't notice the decrease in resolution too much.

     

     

     

     

  18. Posted

    They've had auto-parry on the whole time. In Episode 5 Drew reveals that he's never even trying to block, and when the game goes into a block stance it's automatic and he's just hitting the attack button.

     

    I don't mind it personally, I'm getting what I came for. The parts when Drew would have to repeatedly try an area in the other Metal Gear games were the least fun bits for me. I like when he's cheery (and dreamy.) :)

  20. Posted

    Considering that the Oculus touch didn't come out that long ago, I wouldn't expect a new Oculus headset for a while yet. A new Vive seems possible, but I don't think that Valve has iterated on any of their other hardware (Steam controler, Steam link) since release. That seems to match up with the corporate culture of "work on whatever you want to work on" which translates to "get bored with a toy, then walk away."

     

    All this is just supposition though, who knows really.

     

    Edit: Apparently Gabe mentioned in an AMA that other manufacturers will be able to put out Steam VR headsets, so that's probably the most likely vector for another new headset soon.

  22. Posted

    The problem with DLC in these games is that the folks that are most interested buy the game and play it at launch, then miss the later content. I'm almost done getting 100% achievements in ME2. There have been some struggles, in particular Kasumi's mission was a really hard way to start, but things have gotten easier as I've gotten more research done. The DLC has been all right so far, but I wouldn't call it ground-breaking. Hopefully I can get my insanity run of ME3 done before Andromeda comes out.

  23. Posted

    During my week off, i finally got a rabbit's foot and completed the community center. I did it in my second winter, and it felt like it maybe went a season too long, and that's including the fact I took a six month break in the middle of my first fall.

  24. Posted

    Well, all the talk of VR and friends playing again pulled me back in and, for the first time since right after launch, I've been having a ton of fun. I've been dabbling around in a bunch of different professions in my Imperial Courier and Keelback, saving up to eventually get a Clipper. I finally understand most of the new systems added to the game since 1.0, but there's still one thing I'm confused about, player run factions. My friend and I discovered the group we've been running missions for is actually a player run faction, but we don't understand what that actually means in game terms. Are we just wasting our time, or is there some advantage there? 

  25. Posted

    With a bunch of Birthday money, and my wife's generosity, I received an Oculus yesterday. It's pretty much everything I dreamed of. I played for 4 hours or so, barely any motion sickness, so now I've ordered the touch controllers to go along with the headset.

     

    Minecraft Win10 edition: There's disclaimers all over this thing that it's still in beta, and I see why since it was the only game that made me sick at all. I turned on the VR turning and had to sit down rather than stand, but I got used to moving forward with the analog stick and it was fine after that. I definitely can't play the extreme mode though.

     

    Lucky's Tale: I'd agree with folks earlier in this thread and say it's a really nifty way to show off VR. Relaxing and gentle.

     

    DarkNet: I was looking at this ever since I saw it at PAX, but it came out VR exclusive, so I haven't had a chance to play until now. It's basically a timed puzzle game and there's no reason it really has to be in VR, but the developers use the VR aesthetic so well that I can't imagine play it any other way.

     

    Elite: Dangerous: I didn't end up playing a ton of this, since I've been putting a lot of hours into it lately, but man it's breathtaking. At the same time, the visuals are probably the least crisp of any of the games I played. That's understandable since the other things I touched were going for a more cartoony look, but I've been looking at some tips to get it looking better so we'll see how it goes.