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, plainly the builders did really feel totally content material with their implementation of VR till now, as they lately launched a serious replace for Phasmophobia that fully overhauls the sport’s VR performance.
Due to 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 almost all the bugs related to the earlier VR implementation. As for extra particular adjustments, the replace provides a small cursor that may turn out to be seen when gamers attempt to seize objects, which they’ll now do both via a button toggle or by holding the button down. These symbolize solely a small fraction of the adjustments included within the replace, so gamers can take a look at the remaining via the official patch notes.
However that’s not all
Throughout the identical day, the builders launched one other, smaller replace that patches out quite a lot of bugs and makes a couple of notable adjustments to the principle VR replace. One such change includes lowering 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 principle VR replace patched out a bug that prevented Sanity Capsules from being taken out of gamers’ inventories when used, the brand new replace appears to have reversed this alteration, saying that “Sanity Capsules are now not a consumable when used.”
These updates ought to ideally enable 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.