Developer Kinetic Video games’ hit horror title Phasmophobia has already scared loads of gamers and Twitch streamers by itself. However when performed in VR, which the sport has supported since its Early Entry launch in 2020, Phasmophobia evidently turns into that a lot scarier. Nevertheless, evidently the builders did really feel totally content material with their implementation of VR till now, as they not too long ago launched a significant replace for Phasmophobia that utterly overhauls the sport’s VR performance.
Because of this new replace, the sport now helps all currently-released VR headsets in addition to any that may come out sooner or later. Moreover, the replace improves the general VR efficiency, smoothes out gamers’ inputs, and patches out practically all the bugs related to the earlier VR implementation. As for extra particular modifications, the replace provides a small cursor that may develop into seen when gamers attempt to seize objects, which they will now do both via a button toggle or by holding the button down. These characterize solely a small fraction of the modifications included within the replace, so gamers can take a look at the remainder via the official patch notes.
However that’s not all
Throughout the identical day, the builders launched one other, smaller replace that patches out a wide range of bugs and makes a couple of notable modifications to the primary VR replace. One such change includes decreasing the cooldown between successive photo-taking from three seconds to just one second, leading to a snappier expertise in additional methods than one. As well as, whereas the primary VR replace patched out a bug that prevented Sanity Tablets from being taken out of gamers’ inventories when used, the brand new replace appears to have reversed this variation, saying that “Sanity Tablets are not a consumable when used.”
These updates ought to ideally permit followers to benefit from the VR Phasmophobia expertise they all the time wished. Even when the brand new VR implementation nonetheless has issues, although, the speed at which the builders have rolled out updates means that gamers needn’t fear.
