So I take it there aren’t many community bindings availabe yet?
Petey
4980
Reading all these issues and setups make me love my Quest 2 even more.
Chaplin
4981
Not that I have found. I tried some that I found, and they didn’t work. I think the venn diagram convergence of owners of a G2 plus current players of older PC VR games is not that big.
Houngan
4983
Squadrons would be controller, HOTAS, or mouse/keyboard. Vader Immortal is more of a story game than a full game, so defaults should be fine. just basic teleport and grab plus arm swinging.
Editer
4984
Weird that you haven’t found community bindings. This wasn’t true when I first got my G2, but I can now find community bindings for every game I try, old or new.
The Oculus (Revive) games use a Revive binding that maps the controller like an Oculus controller. Most games designed for the Oculus touch controllers (as opposed to the little one-button controller that originally shipped with the Rift) just work through Revive on the G2, no setup needed.
Don’t you have a joystick for flight sims? That’s what you want to use for Squadrons. Works great with my HOTAS setup.
I think you’re thinking about ADR1FT. It’s an early VR game, and the control scheme is… underdeveloped. It’s a cool feeling of being in space, though, and right now it’s on sale for $4.99 on Steam and I think there’s enough to like to pay $5; not so much $20 at this point in time.
Check out BBC Home: A VR Spacewalk. It’s free and really cool.
Also International Space Station Tour VR is really slick. There’s also Mission: ISS on the Oculus Store.
You do need SteamVR installed as well. Also, be sure to go into SteamVR settings and adjust the scaling, or you’ll likely have performance issues. That might be why your SteamVR house was jerky.
I have disabled the steam house entirely, and almost never use the cliff house. I see no use for either of them. One of my g2 controllers is bad so I haven’t been using them. Generally I launch steamvr from steam and then launch the game, also from steam. 90% of my vr gaming has been msfs and ats/ETS2 and a little SWS. For MSFS I use a hotas and for ats and sws I use an Xbox one controller.
Editer
4987
So I 3D printed this replacement gasket for the Reverb G2 from Thingiverse.
Added some magnets from eBay, and some thinner face covers and Velcro tape from Amazon.
Got the face covers today and assembled everything. WOW. What an amazing difference. The FOV goes from looking through two holes in front of you to filling a good portion of your vision when using the 6mm thick cover. Still feels comfortable. According to the designer of the 3D file, the FOV ends up about equivalent to the Valve Index.
My eagle-vision son confirmed everything looks just as sharp to him with the lenses closer to his eyes.
Really, the only reason NOT to do this is if you wear glasses while using the Reverb G2.
Original faceplate at top, thinner version at the bottom.
Plus in the post-Covid world I can let guests use the OG faceplate, so I don’t have to share their face-sweat. :)
schurem
4988
I gots to get me one of those!
After getting my quest 2 a few weeks ago, I’ve been killing monks like nobody’s business with In Death: Unchained, including swinging around 180 degrees or more frequently. I can’t imagine that game (or I suspect many others) working that well with a long cord attached to my googles.
jpinard
4991
Got everything up and running including the Oculus store. My nieces spend the day/night here yesterday and it was incredible. Had an absolute blast. Were exhausted by the end of the day and had a Mandalorian Season 2 marathon til 3:00 am.
I fixed my Steam VR room issue by turning off super-sampling in Steam VR settings. Not sure how I’d be able to tell if it’s still working in Steam games or not?
One thing’s for sure. I haven’t recovered from surgery. Using VR with full movement standing, just torched my entire back, neck, and shoulder that had been affected from surgery. Have a ways to go to get myself back into working order.
Editer
4992
Glad you had fun, but sorry to hear it aggravated your soreness.
You can play IL-2 Bodenplatte sitting down, and it’s on sale for $16.99…
jpinard
4993
Since the series is on sale, do you have any other suggestions to what to get? Is there a collector plane with crazy good firepower for ground attack, better than vanilla?
schurem
4994
psh, pansies.
Get any of the titles that has an Il-2 in it. Kuban has the ultimate version of the Il-2. It’s a monster. If you get bodenplatte, the P-47 is included. The jug is almost as deadly as the Il-2 when it comes to busting up trucks, trains and such.
If you want something completely different and very special, get Flying Circus. Anyone who owns a stick and a set of VR goggles should try that. Biplanes and VR are a match made in heaven, but only after you have gained your VR legs. Otherwise it’s pukesville as your little stalled out biplane death-spirals to the fields of Flanders.
I am having such fun with the flight sims (Il-2, flying circus, DCS, MSFS) that I haven’t even seen what my G2 does to euro truck sim, starwars squadrons, elite, VTOL VR, or any of those vr games I bought on steam.
Editer
4995
@jpinard, highly suggest starting with Battle of Bodenplatte Premium ($27.95). The P-38 in there is beautiful, fun to fly, and amazing in VR. The FW-190D-9 is a pretty amazing plane, too, if you can deal with flying for the bad guys. (Can’t stomach flying Nazi campaigns, but I do take the Axis hardware up in single missions and pretend I’m in a captured plane sneaking up on other Ratzi pilots. ;-)
Bodenplatte (even the base version) also has the P-47, as @schurem says, which is a ground attack monster. It also has the RAF Typhoon, which was probably second only to the Thunderbolt as a ground attack plane. Plus it has the Spitfire and Mustang, 'nuff said.
Flying Circus is definitely a very different experience. I don’t personally gather joy from dying because sims aren’t as good at communicating stalls as real planes, but to each his own. :)
schurem
4996
They improved the sound engine a patch back, so the planes have become quite a bit more communicative about impending stalls. This makes even the bipes less of a death trap. Now aiming to hit, that’s a whole other bag o’ chips ;-) The awesome res of the G2 helps a bunch as you can see much better what your tracer rounds are doing. I suspect that with a little exercise I shall soon be sniping Germans in their cockpits.
Funny you should say that. I thought I was weird like that. I hardly ever fly German machines from the 40s. Love shooting them to bits however. I must say, even flying an I-16 that has за сталина! on its side makes me feel… like choosing another skin ;-) That skin has смерть фашистам on the other side, and I do like that tho… hmm…
Editer
4997
I do need to give the biplanes another go! Tried them when they first added them and haven’t gone back.
Yeah, my grandmother left her home in the London area for Canada after a V-1 landed too close for comfort. And then her convoy had to go silent because a U-boat was spotted in the area. My grandfather was at the front in Africa and Italy as a X-ray medic. So all of this is a bit too close to “play German pilot” for me.) (Um, “play German pilot in VR,” he added, desperately trying to get back on topic.)
(Though it’s weird to think I wouldn’t exist if WW2 hadn’t happened, since my grandfather was Canadian and my grandmother was British.)
There is quite a bit of IL-2 DLC. Is all of it VR compatible? I have Stalingrad and Bodenplatte. I haven’t yet tried them in VR as I’m a little daunted by the learning curve and the need for tinkering when I’ve finally got MSFS set up the way I like it. There is a sale though, and I’m a sucker for a sale…
Any tips or warnings before diving in? Settings recommendations? Suggestions for getting started?
