Morrowind might be released as a retro VR mod for Quest 2 - MIXED Reality News

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The squad that ported classical games similar Half-Life to Meta Quest 2 mightiness effort their manus astatine a Morrowind VR larboard next.

Doom 1-3, Quake 1-3, Half-Life, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and astir precocious Star Wars: Jedi Knight II. Team Beef has already released galore 2D classics for Meta Quest 2 and Pico 4, adapting them to the medium’s peculiarities with large attraction to detail.

This past weekend, Team Beef conducted a poll of Patreon supporters to spot what task they should tackle next. The results, released connected Monday, are:

• Morrowind: 40.38 percent (VR suitability: A | difficulty: D)
• Quake 4: 35.34 percent (VR Suitability: A | Difficulty: A)
• Star Wars Battlefront II: 34.77 percent (VR suitability: A | difficulty: B)

The remaining 2 twelve titles received importantly little approval.

Team Beef: The determination has not yet been made

On Patreon, Team Beef acknowledges the prime of these 3 titles. It volition instrumentality the archetypal steps for each 3 projects. This includes checking much profoundly whether the games are suitable for a VR port. Then, the existent enactment begins. For Morrowind, the squad considers OpenMW, an open-source motor that replicates Morrowind’s graphics motor and extends its capabilities.

“In the lawsuit of OpenMW we volition beryllium reaching retired to their squad to denote our intentions and recovered retired much astir what is being worked on. We are alert that determination is simply a existent PCVR subdivision that is dilatory being merged into the main thread and an Android physique that was abandoned past November. The VR subdivision evidently has immoderate overlap to what we are doing,” Team Beef writes connected its Patreon page.

“We request to guarantee determination is not already a standalone VR merchandise planned truthful we are not stepping connected the main team’s toes. Additionally we privation to treble cheque the ‘agreement’ they person with Bethesda to guarantee a standalone VR larboard is not going to get the task arsenic a whole, oregon us, successful blistery water.”

Morrowind VR: An ambitious project

At the aforesaid time, Team Beef aims to commencement enactment connected Quake 4, arsenic that crippled would beryllium comparatively casual to port. A imaginable Star Wars: Battlefront II larboard requires much research.

The squad estimates that a VR larboard of Morrowind for standalone VR headsets volition beryllium alternatively difficult. The bully quality is that determination is already a PC VR mentation that adjacent supports multiplayer. Team Beef and the OpenMW squad could truthful speech experience.

If Morrowind VR gets disconnected the ground, it could capable the RPG spread successful Meta’s crippled lineup. Meta has been appealing to studios to make much role-playing games for the VR level for years. Surveys uncover a high involvement successful specified titles arsenic good arsenic story-heavy titles.

Morrowind VR could present for standalone VR platforms what Skyrim VR brought to PC VR: a immense role-playing satellite that keeps you entertained for hundreds of hours. By moving to OpenXR, Morrowind VR, arsenic good arsenic different projects from the team, could besides look for Pico 4 (review) and different upcoming VR headsets similar HTC Vive XR Elite (info).

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