Thirith on 24/7/2018 at 05:39
Have any of you playing Beat Saber already tried adding user-made songs? Apparently it's possible, though I wonder how good they are as levels; I could imagine that there's a tendency towards difficulty rather than good block placement.
henke on 24/7/2018 at 09:02
I've been meaning to make a post/video about the custom songs. Installed the mod a few weeks back and I've played a bunch of them. Here are some of my faves:
[video=youtube;TxZB2uagwC4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxZB2uagwC4[/video]
Unfortunately the most recent Beat Saber upgrade broke the custom songs mod, and although there's a new mod version out, the installer keeps crashing for me. :erg:
Anyway, maybe you'll have better luck, the mod is (
https://github.com/Umbranoxio/BeatSaberModInstaller/releases) here. Just download and run the exe and that should be it. Some of the tracks are Expert only, but I'd say the majority have Hard difficulty as well, which is my fave, and a lot of them have Easy/Normal. Quailty-wise it's up and down. Just because a song is good doesn't mean it'll make for a pleasant lightsaber-drumming-experience, y'know. Beat It, Gangnam Style, and Harder Better Faster Stronger are my personal top 3. And everything by the user "Rustic" is worth checking out too, that guy's tracks are pretty much as good as game's official tracks.
Thirith on 26/7/2018 at 04:28
Definitely - though ideally once it's cooled down a bit. Also, I'm a bit disappointed that they only seem to have procedurally created missions, though at least there appear to be more mission types.
Thirith on 29/7/2018 at 09:29
Played a bit of IL-2: Battle of Stalingrad in VR this morning. I will have to tweak this one or wait for a better PC/graphics card, and I don't think I'll ever be better than mediocre, but I love the feeling of sitting in a WW2-era plane. It does suffer from the relatively low resolution, though, much more so than, say, Elite: Dangerous.
Thirith on 22/8/2018 at 18:29
It's been a while since I played anything in VR due to the summer heat, but temperatures should come down fairly soon. There are some interesting VR freebies mentioned in this video:
[video=youtube;Vhb5tCC48jA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhb5tCC48jA[/video]
Malf on 27/8/2018 at 07:47
Okay, while politically he may be something of a douchenozzle, I will always have time for Palmer Luckey's opinions on VR hardware.
So his (
http://palmerluckey.com/magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/) review of Magic Leap is both interesting and disappointing. I suppose they were never going to live up to their own hype, but Palmer's overview paints a pretty bleak picture.
henke on 27/8/2018 at 08:52
Yeah that's a great write-up.
I never expected this thing to be all they were hyping it up to be, but as I was at least hoping it'd be a decent upgrade over the Hololens, alas...
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The tracking is good compared to most other players in the AR/VR industry, but worse than most of the big guys, including Hololens. Expect jitter in ideal environments. If you want a comparison, think halfway between PSVR and Rift. The meshing system is good, but not nearly as fast as Hololens.
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It is slightly better than Hololens in some ways, slightly worse in others, and generally a small step past what was state of the art three years ago – this is more Hololens 1.1 than Consumer AR 1.0.
Eh, well, at least it's $700 cheaper. We might get one of these for some future project, or we might decide that learning to develop for a new OS isn't worth the effort for the very slight upgrade and stick with Hololens.
henke on 3/9/2018 at 05:41
Finally got around to playing Eleven: Table Tennis this morning. I initially just bought it because it was as cheap to get it bundled with wingsuiting-game Rush as it was to get Rush by itself. Rush turned out to not be that great, uncomfortable to play because you have to keep your arms outstretched the whole time. Eleven is fun tho! :D As far as sports go, I think table tennis is one of the ones that translates most smoothly to VR. It's a standing-up experience where you don't have to move around a lot, and in contrast to tennis and other racket-sports there's very little impact when you hit a ping pong ball, so the near-complete absence of impact in VR (just a slight rumble in the controller) doesn't feel as weird.
Immediately when you start the game you get an AI opponent to train against, and while the controls felt good it took me many tries before I managed to return a serve at all. (I've only played ping pong twice in my life before, ok?) After I felt more comfortable with the controls I started a match on Amateur difficulty, and lost by 0-11. Hmm, could definitely use some improvement. Second match: 0-11 Loss. Pretty sure the AI is cheating. Third match: 1-11 Loss. Alright now we're getting somewhere! Then I went on to loose 3 more matches 0-11. The AI is definitely cheating. Somehow.
Thirith on 3/9/2018 at 06:54
I suck similarly badly. Perhaps we should play against each other some time! :cheeky: