Using weapons in this way feels natural and satisfying, although you really do have to concentrate when aiming, otherwise you’ll find yourself missing a lot. When you equip a gun, it is immediately bound to your right touch controller, letting you manually aim and fire it with your hand. Fallout 4’s combat is primarily focussed on firearms (although you can play a melee build if you want to).
The system is in place to stop you running rings around enemies, but the limited perspective of VR kind of acts as a brake on that anyway, so having the exhaustion on top of that simply becomes frustrating.Īrguably the most improved area of Fallout 4 in VR is combat. My one issue with both movement approaches is that your characters gets exhausted far too quickly, which can make travelling from place to place something of a chore. Teleporting is more fiddly, especially in combat, but once you’re familiar with the system it is an efficient alternative. The latter is the most seamless way to experience VR, but if you suffer from motion-sickness (like me) it quickly becomes unbearable. When it comes to moving around, Fallout 4 lets players traverse the world either via teleportation or more traditional fluid movement. These are displayed as an overlay on your screen, which, while somewhat immersion breaking, are nice and easy to read thanks to Fallout 4’s vivid green monitor displays. Particularly successful are the computer terminals that you can interact with throughout the game. Skyrim may have dramatic mountain-scapes, but Fallout 4’s world is chunkier and much more colourful, an aesthetic that complements current VR hardware well. One area where Fallout 4 immediately benefits over Skyrim is in its world design. That being said, it’s still not an ideal experience, and you are going to have to put up with some limitations and frustrations if you want to play Fallout 4 in VR. Bethesda has obviously learned from its troubled experiences adapting Skyrim to VR, while some of Fallout 4’s inherent systems make it more naturally suited to playing with a VR headset. On the other hand, Skyrim VR is a much rougher port, impressive for the scope it offers but not much else.įallout 4 VR sits somewhere in the middle of these two projects. Doom VFR, which was a purpose-built VR version of 2016’s Doom, is a pretty fantastic game. Bethesda has spent the last few years porting much of its back-catalogue over to VR, albeit with mixed results. That being said, there are plenty of regular, non-VR games that have been adapted to use the technology, and one of the largest is Fallout 4. As such the vast majority of VR experiences last only a handful of hours. The relatively small user-base for VR makes it difficult for developers to justify spending huge chunks of money on large-scale, purpose-built VR games. One of the biggest issues with VR gaming is the lack of substantive experiences.
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