The hangout thread (organising social gaming etc)

melmac · 29 Jun 2021 at 13:05

Unseul said:
Wanted to make it seem at least a little more open to those without a specific game.

I was only joking!!

It's a good idea and a great thread title.

Hope more people can get involved. It would be great on those days that one or two of us can't make it. Or even to go a second night.

Ravenger said:
My wife said she could hear me laughing all the way down in the living room (I play in the attic!). It was so great to have a laugh and play some games together.

And this is why more people should get involved!! Over the last number of weeks, there have been so many funny moments.

drakulton · 29 Jun 2021 at 13:11

Try getting folks to turn up to a pub!

Unseul · 29 Jun 2021 at 13:25

melmac said:
I was only joking!! It's a good idea and a great thread title.

Hope more people can get involved. It would be great on those days that one or two of us can't make it. Or even to go a second night.

And this is why more people should get involved!! Over the last number of weeks, there have been so many funny moments.

Get enough and we can just split up, two groups of 3 would be 2 squads in rec room royale I believe. 5 players in walkabout mini golf etc.

RevBillyG · 29 Jun 2021 at 13:54

I take it you chaps are all in the OcUK VR group on Steam?

Ravenger · 29 Jun 2021 at 14:13

If we get enough players in some games we could play in larger teams - normally mil-sim games like Pavlov, Onward, or Contractors.
We could also play echo-arena as that's three vs three.

Thekwango · 29 Jun 2021 at 14:21

Defo interested in this but will need to work out what’s what. Only really played beat saber and robo recall on my Q2!

Unseul · 29 Jun 2021 at 15:42

Rec room being free is obviously a good place to start. Runs native on quest 2 as well which helps.

Ravenger · 29 Jun 2021 at 15:57

I'd love to play From Other Suns co-op, but it's only 3 players and is hardly ever discounted on the Oculus PC store. It's basically the 2D game FTL in VR crossed with Borderlands and Star Trek.

ShiWarrior · 29 Jun 2021 at 16:55

good idea for a thread like this !

I cant believe how much fun we all had last night

thoroughly enjoyed it !

cheers guys

ShiWarrior · 29 Jun 2021 at 17:00

RevBillyG said:
I take it you chaps are all in the OcUK VR group on Steam?

im not

did not know there was one

ShiWarrior · 29 Jun 2021 at 17:01

really want to try getting the Rift version (Rec Room) working in VR on my quest 2 over Virtual Desktop

i can play it in VR, but its not "VR" its a 2D screen in front of me

RevBillyG · 29 Jun 2021 at 18:59

ShiWarrior said:
really want to try getting the Rift version (Rec Room) working in VR on my quest 2 over Virtual Desktop

i can play it in VR, but its not "VR" its a 2D screen in front of me

Try airlink instead?

ShiWarrior · 29 Jun 2021 at 19:01

i was wondering if there was a way to start it in VR mode

i use VD, then use left controller to get to the menu system, goto games, click rec room

Ravenger · 29 Jun 2021 at 19:06

Airlink and the SteamVR version works very well for me.

ShiWarrior · 29 Jun 2021 at 20:34

just tried airlink for the first time, straight into Rec Room , and was in full VR mode
felt the same as running VD
felt the same as the Quest version too

need to experiment more with airlink

Unseul · 30 Jun 2021 at 09:49

Just been looking, and wondering if perhaps Valheim couldn't be an interesting option? We'd really need someone with a spare always on PC, so the world could be persistent and be picked up whenever someone fancies a run around, rather than always having to wait for the host to be available. Everyone needs the VR mod apparently (otherwise there's some graphics glitches).

Supports upto 10 players (don't know if that's 10 at once, or upto 10, regardless of online or not).

Ravenger · 30 Jun 2021 at 10:57

Valheim looks interesting, especially now there's a 'proper' VR mod. The Forest is another good co-op game, and it's very scary, but it does run pretty poorly in VR.

RockSteddy · 30 Jun 2021 at 22:04

Fond memories of playing a few rounds of Rec Room back in the day with @melmac and others so would be happy to jump in again. My only issue is that the earliest I could play would be from 9pm which may be too late for some I guess.

ShiWarrior · 1 Jul 2021 at 08:46

So what settings do you using in rec room / games in RR ?

Snap turn 45 degrees for me etc
I cant remember what the next one is, slider is all the way to the left I think

Ravenger · 1 Jul 2021 at 10:39

ShiWarrior said:
So what settings do you using in rec room / games in RR ?

Snap turn 45 degrees for me etc
I cant remember what the next one is, slider is all the way to the left I think

Smooth turn and smooth movement. I have pretty good VR legs, though I do get caught out by some games on occasion.