Lord Frieza
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I finally got the full game of Rush of Blood. Fun as hell with the occasional jumpscare. I hope there's a sequel or DLC, and a legit sequel to the main game.
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PlayStation VR Launch Thread: Welcome to The Real World
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Lord Error
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It's some kind of system-level software bug where something is not being cleared the way it should. It just gets worse and worse the more you play, and you pretty much should power cycle the console after every few hours of play at least, for best experience. They really need to patch that as it feels very 'beta release' due to that.
Ammogeddon
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Same here. The lower priced, shorter games are cumitively going to kill my bank account but they are just to appealing to miss. I'm taking my time with them and they are lasting me just as long as some normal games.
I think shorter, lower priced games have been a great idea for VR and I hope it continues. It does make me more mindful of the full priced games and I still haven't bought one yet.
I wasn't expecting the shooting galleryies and the other sections of the game honestly so that was nice, but I was disappointed that the London Heist demo I tried out at the store pretty much gave away the entire chase. Thought it would go on for longer or involve more things happening in the full game but nope, pretty much only had like 30-45 seconds more in the full game.
I agree in regards to shorter, lower priced games. To me these became my vr killer apps. Just a lot of variety and awesome visuals that really shine in VR.
Steve McQueen
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Holy shit at SuperHyperCube! Just bought it and the game is damn good and looks with it's Tron visual, super clean! Okay, it's 29,99 but it's really like fuckin Tetris in 3D! Gonna spend a lot of hours with this.
Incitemaybe
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I keep reading about this spend 100$ get 15$ back on US PSN.
. I'm pretty sure I've spent over 100$ on PSVR games this month, how do I get the 15 back? Or check that I'm not just at 99$ spent our something ?
. I'm pretty sure I've spent over 100$ on PSVR games this month, how do I get the 15 back? Or check that I'm not just at 99$ spent our something ?
Bubble Walrus
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So happy you love it! I think it's easy to underestimate how mind blowing its visuals and sound are until you experience it in VR. You are rewarded with some beautiful changing visuals as you progress... It becomes an obsession chasing high scores, too.
Add me for some high score competition if you like! - Epcotman
AbandonedTrolley
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To check, just go look at your email receipts, or log in to the store and choose purchase history. With previous promos they send a broadcast to your PS4 with a code to redeem, normally once the promotion has finished.
If you've spent $100 or more between October 4th and November 1st, you'll get a $15 PSN credit code near November 15th in an email/PSN message.
I almost feel as though if you don't know what it is, you shouldn't in case you have and just haven't noticed it.
Essentially, it's when the environment in VR pulses or wobbles in and out slightly. It was first brought to light in the initial Giant Bomb Pre-Launch stream. (Timestamp for when they first mention it)
It would seem not everyone suffers from this, or at least, most don't notice it. For me it's distracting, rather than sick-making, but Jeff, for instance (who generally has a strong VR stomach) absolutely couldn't handle it. The controller pulses in and out too. This isn't as bad as the world doing it though. It's especially noticeable in games which have things close to the player, like tables, chairs, the ground in Wayward Sky etc.
EDIT: I should add that one of the worst things about World Wobble is that it's started to affect me outside of VR. Occasionally I'll get the brief impression that my real world is wobbling. Last night as I went to sleep I actually felt World Wobble in my dream. It's wild.
EDIT 2: Here's another moment during the stream where Jeff notes World Wobble. (it's constant and does indeed seem to get worse as you play, though I'm going to try power cycling later today to see if that does indeed help alleviate the issue.)
Incitemaybe
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Thank you both, I'll check my history.
I thought maybe you got the 15 as soon as you went over 100, makes more sense now
katsubento
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Turtle Beach 350 and Plantronics Rig4vr both sound decent and won't break the bank. Both fit exceptionally well with the VR headset.
My Sony Golds don't fit right with it and I discovered stress fractures in the band now because of that.
Steve McQueen
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Game is really fantastic! Thanks for recommending it. The changing visuals ans sounds really fantastic! Seems like a game of the future
I'm gonna try to add you, I'm playing on my sons account now ( we are sharing the Plus account ).
Jacksinthe
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Nothing like getting to the AI core in Battlezone without using a life and without buying any, only to lose your last life about 5 shots from destroying the core. I was like 10 seconds away from beating that damn campaign and made a bad turn face first into some heavy armor.
Man. I really want to play this on Easy but you don't unlock anything when you do so I'll just keep at it. Also want to run a full campaign with MP but I am OCD - I need to beat it at least once solo.
Man. I really want to play this on Easy but you don't unlock anything when you do so I'll just keep at it. Also want to run a full campaign with MP but I am OCD - I need to beat it at least once solo.
Personally I think this is the magic of VR. It's so hard to describe to people how much better VR experiences are until you try them.
When I start to describe VR to friends who haven't tried it I go all giddy about the experiences.
I'm so hoping that Sony use their massive catalogue of games to go back and revisit some of them in VR. I can only imagine how Ico and SOTC would be in VR.
panda-zebra
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£30 is the cheapest I see right now, Tesco have the UK release for £40. I can hold out for a price closer to the one you nabbed.
Hyper Void has a free VR update that has gone live in Europe (not sure about elsewhere).
Could appeal to those who are fans of Rez/Thumper/Jeff Minter visual styles.
Could appeal to those who are fans of Rez/Thumper/Jeff Minter visual styles.
$11 Aus, jumped straight in. Thanks for the tip.
I'm really interested to hear some experiences with this. Will probably grab it when I get home if it's even half decent.
Eighthours
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Definitely interested in impressions of the VR patch for Hyper Void.
Stealthcobra
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Are you guys letting kids under 12 play with vr?
AbandonedTrolley
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In short bursts yes, my daughter is 8 and has tried a few games
I agree, Steve! I see those leaderboards and I wanna be on top!
Add me on PSN if you want to expand your friends list with the game!
SlixShot
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Grindlefly
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Eighthours
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How many people are on the worldwide leaderboards now? Last week it was only 100 or so, which is depressing but entirely the devs' fault for the relatively high price of the game, IMO. I hope it's doing better now, even though I think they've missed out on a whole bunch of cash because of the boneheaded pricing strategy. I'll certainly be buying it as soon as it's at the next price tier down, but I think many of those potential early sales - and certainly sales momentum - are lost forever.
Jacksinthe
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Huh? What do you mean re up the firmware? Like do a system restore?
The headset should turn on regardless of what firmware you have or what it's hooked up to. How long have you had it, how long has it been doing this and explain what you mean by updating firmware.
I played once and got to stage 2 and died immediately... I was number 2380 or something
LittleBigGamer
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After finishing Job simulator, I want to play modern zombie badly. When I watched trailers for these games back then I didn't like the graphics style, but in VR are somehow beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c0kdIFijtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c0kdIFijtg
Steve McQueen
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I'll try to add you SlixShot
gonna ask my son tonight how that works. Playing on his plusaccount now ( we share the account ). I'll guess if you are looking for me on the rankings you have to scroll way down game is great but tough. At work atm and all is see are those cubes lol.
Eighthours
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I played once and got to stage 2 and died immediately... I was number 2380 or something
Well, that's better at least. Maybe people's resistance is starting to crumble!
Bright-Light
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I let my nice and nephew play. They are 8 and 9. They only played for small amount of time.
When my neice played I forgot to reset the floor on job simulator. Watching her trying to peek over the counter in the store clerk job was one of the cutest things I have ever seen.
I just posted this in Reddit:
"The Wobble" I haven't heard that before but its very descriptive and accurate.
First up, I have few tracking issues, no drift, didn't see any tracking issues at all for 5 days except for occlusion issues (i.e. raise DS between HMD and camera)
But every now and then I get The Wobble. I've had this on 4 sessions now, out of about 30 play sessions in total. But I've noticed a pattern for me:
- It happens between a transition, either a change in location e.g. Battlezone from arena back to post arena cockpit, or from one game to another, or one demo to another
- The change in tracking quality is abrupt: really good tracking in one environment, wobble affected tracking in another
- Once The Wobble starts, tracking quality is poor, but is most apparent when looking in The Corners: Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right
- For me the The Wobble is cured by either: turning off the HMD for 10 seconds, if that fails, restarting the PS4
- Once its cured, I'm back to really good tracking again
As such it looks to me that The Wobble is primarily a software issue, i.e. the tracking systems data becomes bad
I'd be interested to know if any of this sounds familiar to anyone else?
supervillain
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after almost one week now i still had no issues with the tracking, drifting or wobble.
even batman was rock solid for me.
i didn't try out job simulator yet which a lot of people seem to have problems with.
even batman was rock solid for me.
i didn't try out job simulator yet which a lot of people seem to have problems with.
Ready2Rokk
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That's great that they unlocked the regular game on VR without upgrading. Definitely want to check that out when I finally get mine. When are the darn Launch Bundles coming back? I can get things for a similar price at Best Buy with a bundle but I sacrifice Playstation VR Worlds, which I really would like to play through.
Yes, it should turn on regardless of firmware, but it doesn't. That's the problem. This has happened from the very start, and I've owned the headset for less than a week.
My headset is entirely unresponsive unless I select the option to update the VR firmware to 2.00 in the PS4 menu, but specifically the offline update option. The PS4 recognises I have VR firmware 2.0 in this menu and throws back an error when I attempt to use the first option (You already have the latest firmware installed).
So the flow to get my headset working is:
All cables connected correctly > Turn on PS4 > Open the PS4 settings and navigate to Devices > Playstation VR > Playstation VR Software > Select 'Update Playstation VR Device Software (Offline)' > PS4 and TV flicker to black and the headset comes to life.
I need to repeat this every time I turn the console off. Any attempt to turn on the headset with the inline remote doesn't work until this happens, everything is connected correctly. It doesn't matter if it's plugged in directly to the processing unit or through the extension cable either.
A buddy of mine told me that the most impressive thing he has done on PSVR so far was one of the 3-player games in Playroom VR... it's not the one where you are the large monster fighting the 4 controller players.
Anyone have any idea which one he is talking about?
I'll search for an overview / review video... Edit: Gameplay of all games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmtcLq1tdMQ
Edit: He said it felt like a Mario party game...
Edit: Watching the vid, I like that it takes picture of the group after playing (the cat/mouse game at least)
Edit: LOLOL wtf is going on in this old west saloon game?? I assume other players are telling the VR player who he needs to shoot? This is hilariously charming!
Anyone have any idea which one he is talking about?
I'll search for an overview / review video... Edit: Gameplay of all games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmtcLq1tdMQ
Edit: He said it felt like a Mario party game...
Edit: Watching the vid, I like that it takes picture of the group after playing (the cat/mouse game at least)
Edit: LOLOL wtf is going on in this old west saloon game?? I assume other players are telling the VR player who he needs to shoot? This is hilariously charming!
I know this is probably a stupid question, but you are turning the headset on using the button on the cable aren't you?
Edit - Never mind, I can't read.
Jacksinthe
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Exchange the unit. Could be an issue with your PS4 but that sounds unlikely. I wouldn't even try looking for a fix, just exchange the unit.
Last paragraph, second sentence.
My mistake, missed that.
AbandonedTrolley
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Maybe the Ghost game, although that's really just one playing and others helping tell where the ghosts are.
I'm going to test my headset with another friend's PS4 and associated cabling/processing unit to see if this could potentially be resolved by reinitializing my PS4 (I'm not a fan of trying this speculatively, and it's unlikely to work).
Ultimately though yes, I expect I'm going to have to exchange it.
GoldenCrow
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I was watching a bit of Batman VR on youtube to see if it was my sort of thing, still can't tell as I really don't have my eye in watching standard feeds if I'd enjoy it or not. Anyway back on point the set up of the game reminded me so much of old graphic adventure games, it reminded me more of Snatcher and Policenauts rather than Day of the Tentacle or The Secret of Monkey Island (though it would probably be perfect for those as well) there is so much possibility within that genre in VR.
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