VR Modders are AMAZING – 2023 VR Mod Update

A new mod is coming that will open up hundreds of games to be played in basic VR with the potential for many of those to get motion controls added in the future I’ve talked about this before it’s the Unreal Engine injector by prey dog that’s the same modder who made the

Resident Evil games playable in VR with motion controls I’ve actually been testing this new mod so I want to go over how it works some of its features and I’ll also give a few game recommendations I’ve already played with it before that let me give an update on

Other mods that have either released or in development first bendy and the ink machine released out of Early Access for free so it’s no longer behind Team beef’s patreon although I still recommend donating if you enjoyed the game in the mod this is PC VR only

Unlike most of the team beef mods and it features full motion control support the game’s a horror Puzzler with a unique old style Mickey Mouse look to it it’s great to experience this world in VR and personally I didn’t find it very scary so if you don’t normally like horror

Games I still recommend giving it a try a mod with motion controls really least for metal helsinger this is a rhythm shooter with a doom look and feel to it it uses heavy metal music which ramps up depending on how much you shoot into the beat and it has leaderboards for each

Level the only thing I’m going to say about this one is it’s very heavy game the heaviest VR game I’ve tried and even within RTX 3080 I struggle getting 45 to 50 FPS and I ended up using motion smoothing which I don’t usually use but

It was the only way I could get it playable for me personally there is a demo for the game so you can try it before you buy Battlefront 2 the newer 2017 version of the game has got a VR mod which is now available in Alpha you can access that

Through the modern Discord Channel and I’ll put a link for it in the description this is using AER like Luke Ross’s mods but I’ve heard that performance is actually really good in the game although I haven’t tried it myself yet you can only use it in private lobbies at the moment and the

Single player campaign isn’t fully playable yet it’s got some basic motion control support where you’re kind of aiming like a laser pointer this is Alpha though and it’s still very early so if you do try this just understand it’s going to have issues and it’s not going to be a polished mod yet

Personally I’m waiting to see how it develops before I jump in the Half-Life 2 episode 1 VR mod is due for release on Steam as its own game in March and just like the half-life 2vr mod it will be a very polished VR game with full motion controls manual reloading and Ladder

Climbing Half-Life 2 VR mod also now has official Workshop support Maro to see mods pop up like having four arms instead of floating hands as well as full campaigns being ported over from flat like a Resident Evil 2 campaign Kerbal sprays program has a mod which has been available for a while but

Johnny Ethan been doing some amazing work making it feel like a native VR game with motion control support for most things in the game so you’re actually physically pressing and flicking switches turning handles and now you can even grab the world to pull yourself around in zero g a flat to VR

Discord member Ashok has been working on getting black Mesa playable in VR using the Half-Life 2 VR code for motion controls and weapons this is not going to be the full game just like it is flat simply because it doesn’t have access to the source code for Black Mesa so he’s

Having to replace a lot of different enemies with ones from Half-Life 2 VR Luke Ross has a new mod for Hogwarts Legacy which is now available through his patreon as with all his mods he’s got no motion controls and this one’s Early Access so it’s got some issues

Right now and as with his other mods uses AER and it’s also a hard game to run so I only recommend it if you’ve got a very high end PC one last thing to mention before I talk about the unreal injector as I mentioned in a previous

Video that ready or not we’ll be getting motion controls added this was originally going to be through the injector but the developers have actually added the VR plugins back into the game so now the injector isn’t needed Works already started behind closed doors with no release date no

Footage there’s nowhere to keep up to date with it yet but it’s happening and it’s going to be great if you want to keep up to date with all things VR mods then the Flux Of VR Discord is a great place to hang out or you can follow the

Flat to VR Twitter links are in the description so let’s talk about the injector this thing is actually incredible and it’s going to be one of the best things to happen to VR Gaming on PC it works by utilizing code that already exists in the Unreal Engine but

Most of the time this code Stripped Away by developers to avoid issues but prey dog has been able to create an injector that reactivates this code and forces games to work in the headset in perfect stereo 3D just like a native VR game you have full six degrees of freedom with

Head movement so you can look around and lean in for a closer view but it doesn’t have full room scale by default so first and stuff the body won’t fall your head movements and while you can use motion controls as a Gamepad your hands aren’t going to be tracked by default prey dog

And some other very talented modders have been working in the background on some plugins that are going to make things easier to add motion controls that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy but without these tools you would need to be very skilled in C plus plus and some reverse engineering and these

Plugins will make things a little more user-friendly so more people can mod and add things like motion controls to games that work with the injector as a test prey dog added motion controls to severed steel which is a fast-paced shooter using the injector is very easy you simply install some files anywhere

On your computer I personally have them on a folder on my desktop you start the game and then you alt Tab out and double click on the unreal application you find the game’s XC in the drop down menu and you click inject now a mod menu will pop

Up in the game wait for VR to initialize put on the headset and it will show in VR this includes all the menus and things like UI is also are working in most games with a few exceptions prey dogs put in a lot of time and effort to

Find a way to make the menus and UI work universally and he’s done an amazing job you can even adjust the position and size of it to how you like it he’s done a lot of work on making the mod menu as user-friendly as possible and some of

This stuff is still being tweaked but when you have the headset on the mod menu is in the center of your view so that you can see it and you can either use your mouse or a Gamepad to adjust things some of the settings include being able to adjust the camera position

So you can tweak the camera forward slightly if you have clipping with the in-game body like I personally did with gravel or you can just make your own custom camera where you bring it closer or further away to stuff like third person games and then you can save

Presets so that you can quickly switch between them you can also play around with World scales you can make things feel bigger for example the scale felt a little off in jet air fall in order so I tweaked it down to 0.85 and now it feels

Perfect but you can also go higher and make it feel more like a dollhouse effect at least full Miniatures in front of you like in demio when it comes to motion controls prey dog has mentioned that it would like to add support to a couple of other games to give good

Examples on how it’s done and this will help other modders add them to other games this is how it actually started with unity games with a couple of people figuring out how to do it then other people using their work as examples and now we’ve got lots of unity gains like

Outer Wilds raft and wilheim or with VR mods with full motion controls I expect the same thing is going to happen with Unreal Engine games once the injector is released when is it going to actually get released well there’s no release date but it is

Close but we need to be a little bit more patient and give pray dog the time to get it finished to a point where he’s happy just to give some examples of games that I’ve played and some other testers have played I already mentioned Jedi Fallen order

I’ve been playing gravel which is an off-road racer a bit like the dirt series and this actually feels like native VR support Platformers work great like Psychonauts 2 because you get a great sense of depth which helps you place your character better in the game world what remains of Edith Finch was

One of my highlights with the injector but it’s not for the weak stomach Gamers because you’ve got lots of force head movement but it was a real trip in VR some recent releases which have been tested and work are Callisto protocol Hogwarts Legacy returnal an atomic car we’ve got upcoming games like Jedi

Survivor there are a couple of really cool dinosaur games on the horizon that I really want to see in VR like the Lost wild Judith the new game coming from the Bioshock Creator is Unreal Engine there’s so many big developers that are switching to Unreal Engine 5 and there

Are so many great smaller Indie Games already out there I didn’t even know about that I’ve discovered since playing around with this injector so what’s left to do well predox currently working on some back end rendering stuff he’s trying to get things like ASW a motion smoothing that will work well with the

Mod at the moment the mod only supports decoupled head movement so the gun has to be aimed with a mouse or a thumbstick or some sort of gun face should be possible with a plug-in in the future I can’t express to you how great it is to

Play some of these games in VR and a lot of them look surprisingly clear in the headset even with temporal anti-aliasing anyway that’s all for this Mod update as always thank you to those who’ve shown me support and made it to the end of the

Video it really does mean a lot to me