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KozGit / DOOM-3-BFG-VR

Doom 3 BFG VR: Fully Possessed. Doom 3 BFG with native Oculus Rift/Touch or OpenVR support
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Can I play seated with KBM? #326

Closed lmills87 closed 4 years ago

lmills87 commented 4 years ago

I was wondering, can I sit at my computer and play this game in VR with KBM as I normally would? If so, is there any kind of of head tracking available?

sycspysycspy commented 4 years ago

No, you can't. Even if you can it's strongly not recommended, you would vomit a lot playing with keyboard and mouse. I believe I have tried some mod compatible with KBM on moddb, https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-3-bfg-hi-def use it at your own risk.

lmills87 commented 4 years ago

Interesting, it sounds as though you do not do well with seated experiences. Though I assure you, this is not the case with everyone. For example, you can play No Man’s Sky and The Forest seated. Also look at Mother VR. These are high profile games, not some one-off indie titles. And there’s actually a lot of chatter in VR forums from people hoping to see more games follow in their footsteps (more seated support). You can even play classic Doom seated with KBM and it’s awesome.

When I first tried VR (back in Oculus DK2 days) literally the first week or so, I experienced slight vertigo. I never vomited (and the first experiences were really bad!) After that initial acclimation period it has not been a problem. Just saying, there are some of us (perhaps many) out there who would really, really enjoy being able to do this. Seated VR experiences are my favorite. I’m just casting my vote here but I would love to be able to play Doom 3 as normal with KBM, but seated with VR, and possibly with some implementation of head tracking (Half-Life 2 did a good job of this as well back when it had VR).

KozGit commented 4 years ago

Just curious, what headset are you trying to use? And you should be able to rebind the controls to use KBM, but it's really ( really ) an inferior experience.

lmills87 commented 4 years ago

I have a Valve Index. And just to be clear I haven't actually tried it yet, I was just wondering if this was possible.

NPi2Loup commented 4 years ago

I just test right now (with Valve Index) It works, but in the first screen, when it say "press any button", you just need to wait a little. You may rebind keyboard control and you must set control to "standard control" instead "motion control" in VR options, it's mandatory in order to control the weapons by KBM. In this mode, the view is almost stable and only move by head movements, mouse aim the gun, and rotate view when your reach about 90°. I found binding smooth rotate more usefull, don't know if it's possible to use mouse to rotate view like in notVR

But as Koz says, it a way better to play with motion controllers. Maybe for someone who can't stand for hours, it may be better.

How NMS plays seated ? how keyboard/mouse/view are managed ?

KozGit commented 4 years ago

Yes, if you have an Index, seated with motion controls is a vastly better experience. Seated works well, you can recenter the view and / or adjust the character height so your character in game is at full height instead of seated if you wish. I have a lot of seated time in the game from testing :)

jdawgzim commented 4 years ago

I play a lot of VR games on a swivel bar stool when I get tired. I played 5 hour sessions in Skyrim VR that way.

KozGit commented 4 years ago

Closed, topic has been addressed.