Wondering whether there is a VR community here. What systems? What games?
My first and only headset is a Valve Index which I think I bought when it was released in summer 2019. Prior to this I had followed VR development since the Vive was released. Luckily I am immune to VR nausea, so I proceeded to dive straight into everything it had to offer. Would say VR is at least half of playtime.
The Index package is still fantastic. The controllers are really comfortable with great features. The lighthouse tracking is very precise, reliable, and has no blind spots when setup properly. The headset itself is comfortable with great FOV and good enough display. So far I have only found two general lackings in terms of hardware. One is controller quality control. When you get a set of controllers that work, then they work great. But in the past, and maybe still now, there’s was an unfortunate high change that you would get one with some malfunction that meant you either had worse experience, or had to go through RMA. I’ve had a particular unfortunate streak of controllers that I constantly had to send back. Luckily the valve RMA process is easy and generous. The other downside is of course the tether. I have the best cable-management system I could find, but that is still no wireless. But that might change soon as the nofio wireless adapter is soon to release.
As for games, I quickly found my preference for physics-based games where the primary gameplay emerge from the physics interactions with the game-world, in contrast to more traditional gameplay systems. Examples of this include Boneworks, Blade and Sorcery, Hotdogs Horseshoes and Handgrenades, and somewhat Half-Life: Alyx. I also frequent short-form or rythm games, such as Eleven Table Tennis, Unplugged, Beast Saber, and Drums Rock. I also wanna give a highlight to Contractors VR. While I don’t particular like the vanilla gameplay, I have found the modding community to be absolute magic. SW: Battlefront, COD Zombies, TF2, and Halo are among the popular games that have been faithfully recreated as Contractors VR mods with amazing similarity to the original games. Seriously, if you liked any of those old popular games and haven’t checked out Contractors I highly recommend you do.
I do, but not as often as I’d like. Valve Index, like you, though I’ve had no trouble with the controllers. Lately I’m getting through either Moss or Doom VFR depending on what I feel like at the time, but my VR backlog continues to grow.
Top tier that I’ve played:
Mid tier:
Didn’t like:
Subnautica VR now has support for motion controllers, I don’t remember if it’s a mod or official.
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The No Man’s Sky overhaul was just for the PS5 I think, bringing the controls on that platform more in line with others. The menus stuck to hands is still a thing, and it’s still way too cumbersome IMO.
Did you enjoy Budget Cuts 1? I thought it was a cute game, even if the controls/graphics were a bit dated.
I played and enjoyed both. But I don’t think either 1 or 2 were as groundbreaking as the demo for 1. The demo was amazing, but then they took a year or two to get the full game out and by then it wasn’t really that interesting compared to other games that had come out in the meantime.
Budget Cuts 2 was basically more of what 1 was like. It was quite a while ago now that I played it, but it wasn’t groundbreaking as I recall.
I only have the second game due to a bundle; I never bought the first one.
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