#Talos principle 2 2019 upgrade#

#Talos principle 2 2019 upgrade#

My bad, you are 100% correct in that VR is not a free upgrade via Fusion. And ultimately, I have a hard time arguing. We know Bethesda isn’t offering updates or even discounts to previous owners of Skyrim/FO4, so I’d say quality games that get real effort put into them for VR (proper HMD scaling, tracked controllers, locomotion options, etc) will – more often than not – cost extra.

I’d love it if more companies went the route of including VR mode free, but that’s true of everything can’t imagine anything I wouldn’t like cheaper/free lol. Article states a year of work for this, so it is rather presumptuous to assume getting VR support for free. Not to mention, we know doing VR correctly is not flip-a-switch levels of easy. However, no VR version was promised back when we bought it – heck, it launched in 2014 before you could even buy a consumer VR headset. However, Croteam did give existing Serious Sam HD/3 owners access to Serious Sam Fusion 2017 that includes VR versions (I have it apparently, but haven’t checked it out yet), so that gives me hope that perhaps we’ll get the VR version of Talos free as well. Given the line “making its way to VR in a separate version”, makes me believe it might be a separate purchase. The game will feature a number of locomotion styles including instant and blink teleportation, ‘comfort mode’ snap-turn, and smooth-turning locomotion. This ultimately allows the player to interact with the game in any way they want, be it seated or in a standing, room-scale space. And yes, it’s just as pretty as you’d imagine it to be in VR, albeit some anti-aliasing issues with tree shadows that looked a little too sharp to be believable. This may irk some, but I found the surroundings so interesting, and well-suited to VR that I couldn’t help but stop and smell the digital roses. Unlike the monitor version, zooming around at high speed to get back to the puzzle’s beginning to retrieve a needed object isn’t really a great idea from a comfort standpoint, so the default walking speed is a bit slow to accommodate. Placing these just right, especially the reflectors, feels easier in VR than on the monitor version, if only because you can get a better line-of-sight so you can connect the beam source to the receptacle. With the addition of motion controllers, the world also become more interactive, with plenty of puzzle pieces to slot into blocky sigils, and beam reflectors or force field jammers at your disposal to make your way forward through each successive gate. As for scaling, what little I played looked indistinguishable from dedicated made-for-VR games, so no weirdly large or mismatched bits to speak of, but that may have more to do with the game’s general sparseness and already massive architecture. VR Shooter 'The Burst' Shows off High-flying Parkour & Rapid Shooting Action image courtesy CroteamĮven then, Lucic tells me there’s still some work to be done to make the game more visually appealing to VR players, like adding ivy to help break up some more obvious repeating textures-something you might miss playing on a monitor, but a clear eyesore viewing from within a headset. In that time, presumably, the developers took everything they learned from Serious Sam VR (2017) and applied it to Talos, a game that first saw experimental, albeit imperfect VR support in 2015 on the Rift DK2. While the puzzles and backdrop are entirely the same as the 2014 flatscreen title, I was told by Croteam’s PR and Community Manager Daniel Lucic, that some serious love went into getting the VR version just right, as it “almost took as long as Talos to make,” which Lucic qualified as a little over a year.

The demo took me through the game’s third level (Land C), a verdant, castle-filled world where trees dot a medieval age ruin. Getting a chance to go head-first into Talos VR at this year’s Gamescom, I walked in asking myself if I actually wanted to spend the 20ish hours it takes to beat the game, in VR and if given the choice between the two-the monitor and the VR version-that I would prefer to play in a headset instead of on a flatscreen. While my 20 minute demo didn’t exactly answer that question in full, a few things have certainly changed about how you interface with the game, making it a necessarily slower, but much more immersive experience to boot. The wildly popular puzzler The Talos Principle (2014) from Croteam is soon to be making its way to VR in a separate version, playable on SteamVR-compatible headsets i.e.