Final Fantasy 14 is the next VR destination - PC Gamer

For each the Final Fantasy 14 players who bent retired successful its main cities for hours, an upcoming VR mod could assistance marque that acquainted MMO pastime a small much immersive.

A fan-made Final Fantasy 14 VR mod is coming retired arsenic an alpha merchandise "soon," according to a tweet from modding assemblage Flat2VR (opens successful caller tab).

The VR mod supports afloat first- and third-person question and question controls. One of the mod's creators, Marulu, wrote successful the Flat2VR Discord server that the first-person mode is mostly experimental and that the third-person mode is however you'll astir apt privation to really play the game. A zoomed-in presumption wouldn't beryllium perfect during conflict arsenic attacks and biology hazards hap each astir you.

In the video alongside the announcement, you tin spot however the mod translates the engaged MMO UI into VR. It overlays your grid of abilities and minimap implicit the third-person presumption of your character. In the fewer shots of combat, you tin spot however tilting your caput astir fundamentally emulates turning the camera astir with a mouse. The in-game camera inactive works though, you tin swivel it astir independently of your headset.

A shaky presumption shouldn't beryllium a occupation for regular MMO players who don't walk a batch of clip staring astatine their hotbars. Most of their abilities are acceptable to keybinds and memorized, but keyboard and rodent users mightiness struggle. The archetypal merchandise won't see afloat keyboard and rodent enactment due to the fact that of a misalignment with the cursor and the VR UI. You tin inactive crook it connected but you won't beryllium capable to prime objects oregon NPCs successful the satellite without keybinds. Gamepad users volition person the vantage here. FF14 has awesome gamepad support—which is wherefore galore radical usage it adjacent connected PC—that lets you representation a ton of worldly to the buttons with the triggers acting arsenic modifiers similar pressing Shift.

The VR mod supports question controls via Steam VR fastener remapping. You tin determination your quality astir with the near instrumentality or, successful first-person, point-and-click wherever you privation to go. The alpha merchandise volition person a illustration for the Valve Index controllers. For thing else, you'll request to bash the fastener mapping connected your own.

To usage it (when it's out), you'll request a beauteous hefty graphics card. Marulu recommends an RTX 3070 oregon newer to deed a unchangeable 90 fps (the accepted fps level for VR successful bid to debar question sickness). You besides request to instal the customized FF14 launcher called FFXIV Quick Launcher (opens successful caller tab) and past instal the XIVR plugin, which you'll beryllium capable to find successful its hunt bar. The game's TOS doesn't technically let some the launcher and the VR mod, truthful it's up to you if you privation to instrumentality the risk. Many FF14 players usage mods of varying levels of complexity, whether to way their DPS successful a raid oregon to deterioration customized clothing, but Square Enix has yet to consistently punish anyone outside of streamers (opens successful caller tab) who usage them. Marulu says the mod uses wholly archetypal codification and is "undetectable and afloat usable connected unrecorded servers," but acknowledges that it could get you successful trouble.

The Flat2VR assemblage that is helping to beforehand the FF14 VR mod is besides the location of the caller Jedi Academy VR port (opens successful caller tab) arsenic good arsenic akin mods for Left 4 Dead and Valheim. FF14, however, is an ambitious choice. It if works (and doesn't get you banned), determination are plentifulness of beauteous locations successful the crippled that I'd emotion to locomotion through. Drop maine onto the snow-covered streets of Ishgard and fto maine instrumentality first-person photos arsenic radical walk successful and retired oregon fto maine instrumentality an immersive circuit of the magical Crystal Tower. People tally backstage servers of aged MMOs for this benignant of happening and it would beryllium neat to beryllium capable to bash it successful the unrecorded game.