VR Modding Monthly: ‘Final Fantasy XIV’, ‘Jedi Outcast’, DLSS for VR Ports, & More – November 2022 - Road to VR

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Welcome to the November 2022 variation of VR Modding Monthly, a monthly nonfiction to support you up to day astir each the breathtaking things going connected successful the fantastic satellite of the Flat2VR Modding community!

As always, this has been a immense period for VR modding! As if close connected cue to people the fictional commencement day of Sword Art Online, 1 of the champion and largest MMO’s successful the world, Final Fantasy XIV is getting a VR mod, Praydog has made immoderate immense breakthroughs connected his Universal Unreal Engine Injector VR mod, Puredark and Praydog person made immoderate immense breakthroughs that could summation show successful galore games (not conscionable VR mods, but VR games too), and overmuch more!

If you’d similar to larn much astir the Flat2VR modding assemblage itself, cheque retired our first contented wherever we present ourselves, and if you privation to get involved, cheque retired the official Discord server oregon Twitter.

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Final Fantasy XIV VR Mod

First, the highly talented modders Marulu & Streetrat who worked connected the already acclaimed Half-Life 2 VR mod person been moving connected a afloat 6DOF VR mod for 1 of the champion MMOs, FF XIV. The mod volition enactment 1st & 3rd person, question controls, and more!

At first, the mod volition absorption much connected playing the crippled utilizing your question controllers similar a gamepad (the crippled has fantastic gamepad enactment retired of the box), but volition aboriginal enactment existent question controls (you tin besides play with rodent & keyboard excessively if you privation too).

For fans already of the MMO, it’s specified a dainty to locomotion done the acquainted streets and spot beloved characters up adjacent for the archetypal clip successful stunning VR. For raids and really playing, you’ll astir apt privation to enactment successful 3rd idiosyncratic for present arsenic you’ll beryllium capable to person a large presumption to look astir the battlefield and spot everything that’s going connected successful afloat gorgeous 6DOF VR.

Over time, the mod squad has plans to adhd afloat question controls, Half-Life: Alyx-like enactment menus similar this, etc.

I’m a immense instrumentality of 1 of VR’s lone MMO’s, Zenith (not conscionable due to the fact that I helped enactment connected it!), but if there’s 1 happening VR has desperately needed, it’s much affluent MMO’s with heavy worlds players tin get mislaid in.

There’s a bid of channels setup successful our Discord, truthful leap successful if you privation to support up to day connected the mod’s advancement and effort the Alpha mentation soon! The mod volition beryllium wholly escaped and unfastened root erstwhile it launches successful alpha successful 2 weeks!

STAR WARS: Jedi Knight II – Jedi Outcast VR Mod

Jedi Knight 2 VR Mod Gets Better & Nearing Public Release!

The Jedi Knight 2 beta gets amended with question controlled unit powers & is nearing a escaped nationalist merchandise connected Sidequest!

If you privation to download it now, enactment the team's astonishing enactment connected Patreon: https://t.co/d8tpXNxicU pic.twitter.com/hEqtsud3o7

— Flat2VR (@Flat2VR) October 21, 2022

Jedi Outcast is simply a crippled that I fondly retrieve aft getting it 1 Christmas astir 20 years ago. It’s hard to picture the waves of nostalgia that tin deed erstwhile you archetypal load up 1 of your favourite games and are—for the archetypal time—truly in the crippled similar lone VR allows. TeamBeef’s latest VR mod, Jedi Outcast VR is lone the latest VR mod to bash this for me.

The mod, similar galore different DrBeef ports, runs wholly standalone connected the Quest (Pico 4 enactment coming soon). The visuals clasp up rather good and each the unthinkable enactment to adhd afloat question controller enactment connected each the guns, lightsabers, and unit powers marque it genuinely a imagination travel existent to play.

DrBeef’s VR mods are each highly praised and person been downloaded respective cardinal times. Like his different mods, it volition beryllium escaped and unfastened root erstwhile it releases.

If you privation to download the Jedi Outcast VR mod present (the full crippled tin present beryllium played from commencement to finish), support the team’s enactment connected Patreon wherever you’ll summation aboriginal entree to this and different WIP TeamBeef mods. Support for the sequel, Jedi Academy is besides planned.

Bendy & The Ink Machine VR Mod

Another TeamBeef VR mod that’s been successful the works is simply a VR mod for Bendy and the Ink Machine. This highly praised fearfulness crippled is getting the afloat VR attraction with 6DOF roomscale support, question controls, and more! Support for the archetypal section conscionable released connected TeamBeef’s Patreon and the full crippled volition beryllium playable successful VR from commencement to decorativeness for escaped erstwhile the mod publically releases a small later.

Half-Life VR Mod

In the past mates issues of VR Modding Monthly we covered our Half-Life 2 VR mod that released straight connected Steam to ‘overwhelmingly positive’ reviews. We were rather humbled erstwhile Kotaku reviewed the larboard and said it was “almost excessively bully to beryllium true.” There’s inactive a batch of breathtaking updates coming retired soon for Half-Life 2 VR, including further mod support, updated graphics and the Episode 1 & 2 expansions (and overmuch more). But what astir Valve’s crippled that started it all? DrBeef and squad did an fantabulous occupation porting the archetypal Half-Life to the Meta Quest a mates years ago, but what astir for PCVR players?

That’s wherever Max comes successful and has been hard astatine enactment for the past fewer years gathering a larboard for PCVR. The larboard has been built from the crushed up (separate from DrBeef’s work) and has caller features specified arsenic carnal ladder climbing, hands, a peculiar VR HUD, and more. Though released straight connected Steam, it’s inactive successful Early Access and there’s inactive a ample roadmap Max has planned for the port. If you privation to leap into the crippled that started it each though, you tin play it each the mode done from commencement to decorativeness present still. Download the mod escaped connected Steam (you volition request to ain a transcript of the basal game).

Left 4 Dead 2 VR

Speaking of Valve, 1 of the champion co-op shooters of each time, Valve’s Left 4 Dead 2, has had a VR mod for a small portion present and has been getting a dependable fig of updates. The mod presently supports question controls, afloat 6DOF synced oculus rendering, and adjacent supports further mods and customized maps!

This Halloween, a squad from our community, SpecialAgentinChargeWd40 & Deanoov91 made a full conversion Ghostbusters run to beryllium played with the VR mod successful mind.

This is conscionable an illustration of 1 of the hundreds of run maps you tin download and person a blast playing with your friends together, surviving zombies (or ghosts) successful afloat VR.

Universal Unreal Engine VR Injector Mod

Last month, we covered immoderate of the breathtaking things maestro modder Praydog has been up to with the ‘one mod to regularisation them all’, a cosmopolitan mod that adds afloat 6DOF VR enactment successful astir each Unreal Engine crippled (UE4 & UE5 specifically) ever made. That’s thousands of unthinkable games with galore successful the AAA category.

There’s inactive nary nonstop merchandise date, but Praydog has been making immense advancement and is making accelerated enactment of things that request to beryllium done up of the release.

One happening that he’s been moving connected is simply a model truthful that different modders tin adhd further features to circumstantial games. In conscionable 2 days of work, Praydog made an illustration mod, adding successful afloat question controls to a crippled utilizing his framework. The archetypal crippled to get question controller attraction is Severed Steel and serves arsenic a fantastic template to adhd question controls successful different Unreal Engine games for different modders.

🔥 Severed Steel VR With Motion Controls (Upcoming Praydog Mod) 🔥

In conscionable 2 days, Praydog managed to adhd afloat question controls to Severed Steel, giving an illustration of however casual this tin beryllium done for different UE VR Mods pic.twitter.com/LAYhQVTO1J

— Flat2VR (@Flat2VR) October 21, 2022

What Unreal Engine games are you astir excited to play successful VR erstwhile Praydog’s mod releases? I’ve enactment unneurotic a list of a fewer 100 games here.

Vote for your apical picks here truthful we cognize what to absorption connected successful presumption of further polish!

Updated VR Mods For All Modern Resident Evil Games & Shadows Of Rose Expansion Support

As if Praydog wasn’t already doing capable and doing the impossible, he’s inactive managing to enactment connected a beauteous immense update for his existing RE Engine VR mods. Praydog has worked with PureDark to adhd DLSS + FSR 2.1 enactment into the game’s motor to greatly trim the GPU show requirements. He besides managed to get single-pass stereo rendering moving which greatly reduces the CPU requirements.

Here’s a earlier and aft of a definite country successful the crippled that’s been infamous for being a dense hitter successful presumption of performance:

A sneak peek astatine the upcoming DLSS + azygous framework multi-pass rendering update for Resident Evil mods by Praydog & PureDark.

This country utilized to perfectly termination adjacent high-end systems (Before & After) pic.twitter.com/HIAvdAiObG

— Flat2VR (@Flat2VR) November 1, 2022

Another large update to Resident Evil 2 VR specifically is simply a 4k texture battalion that Ashok has created, giving players the quality to truly look astatine things up adjacent and spot a level of item that was earlier impossible.

🔥 Resident Evil 2 Texture Pack 3.0 Update 🔥

Ashok has worked highly hard to marque Resident Evil 2 perfectly stunning erstwhile playing successful VR by replacing astir each low-res texture successful the crippled truthful you tin truly thin successful and instrumentality successful the satellite up close.https://t.co/cBGogXR4t2 pic.twitter.com/nnCdPgE9I0

— Flat2VR (@Flat2VR) November 4, 2022

Our person BeardoBenjo precocious did a video connected conscionable however bully the crippled looks astatine max settings connected his shiny caller 4090. Praydog’s update should let much radical to acquisition the crippled similar this soon.

In summation to show updates, Praydog is besides adding archetypal idiosyncratic VR enactment to the marque caller ‘Shadow of Rose’ enlargement for Resident Evil Village (normally lone a 3rd idiosyncratic game) and should beryllium coming retired soon.

Skyrim & Fallout 4 VR DLSS & FSR Support

Incredibly talented modder PureDark (whose Gunfire: Reborn VR mod is releasing precise soon) has been moving connected tackling the contented of precocious show costs connected immoderate of these VR ports and mods. Since VR requires rendering some a near AND close oculus separately + reaching 90+ fps AND rendering astatine precocious resolutions, it’s nary wonderment the specs required to tally VR are rather high.

PureDark started to wonderment ‘what if Nvidia and AMD’s cutting borderline show enhancement tech similar DLSS and FSR 2.1 could beryllium modded into VR games to get those large benefits too?’ The process of doing this is rather daunting and up until now, nary 1 other has been capable to ace it. DLSS is an AI machine-learning upscaler that requires heavy cognition of the crippled to enactment well. It needs to beryllium fed question vectors, the game’s extent buffer, on with power to bash jitters, etc.

PureDark archetypal created a model to adhd DLSS successful astir immoderate Unity game. Then helium began experimenting with different engines. He worked with Praydog to adhd DLSS & FSR to the Resident Evil games and past began enactment connected adding it to Skyrim & Fallout 4 VR.

Skyrim and Fallout 4 person thousands of mods that tin propulsion the crippled to look similar a adjacent gen rubric (at the disbursal of your mediocre GPU heating up the full location and crying for mercy). PureDark’s enactment should bring down the obstruction of introduction performance-wise connected galore games on with letting america propulsion the graphics adjacent higher than was imaginable before.

Speaking of Skyrim, Skyrim VR continues to beryllium 1 of the champion VR games play acknowledgment to the unthinkable enactment of truthful galore modders, giving it astir Blade & Sorcery levels of VR control.

Our person BenPlays precocious did a video connected conscionable immoderate of the latest Skyrim VR mods that bring the crippled to the adjacent level.

Get Connected and Stay Up to Date connected VR Mods

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