Last night I had the best gaming session in ages! My wife and I, sat in the same room, winged up, both in VR. And it's all thanks to my discovery that my wife genuinely has zero interest in graphics quality.
As I mentioned in the spoiler above, we both really enjoy playing pancake co-op games together but there's something fundamentally different seeing each other's avatar in a cockpit in VR. Kate's still very noob so all we did was mess about and land on a planet but it was so good!
Now I know Kate genuinly GENUINELY doesn't care about graphics, it really opens up a bunch of titles that we can play in VR together. I am thinking Assetto Corsa although I may struggle using the controller instead of the rig but so what right??
So question: does anyone know of any largely co-operative games that we might like to play together? Ideally designed around very limited space?
Thanks!
My misses likes gaming, which I am obviously very grateful for. Up until recently she was gaming on the little PC which has a 1030 installed. My plan for many months now was for me to upgrade my 1070 to something like the 3080ti so she could replace the1030 with the 1070. I suck at saving so it hasn't happened. For the most part the 1030 has been sufficient especially for what Kate has been playing. Not that long ago we started playing co-op games, starting with Diablo 3 then Divinty: Original Sin 2 and we have just finished Borderlands 2. Apart from B2 which ran brilliantly on the 1030 even with everything maxed (just Physx set to Low), I have had to tinker with the graphics settings to get the games running acceptably at 1080p on the TV. (I am on the monitor.) Kate didn't seem to mind 40 odd FPS and the drop in graphics quality but it would do my head it. We did obviously try ED, with Kate on the big PC so she could play in VR on the Quest 2 and me on the TV, using the headtracker. Kate uses a T.Flight HOTAS X and I still used my bonkers twin stick plus cheap racing pedal setup. Elite also ran suprisingly well but I couldn't get immersed without VR, even with EDTrackerPro and the usual accoutrements, so I lost interest with it.
Because we enjoyed B2 we got Borderlands 3. I had to do some serious tweaking to even get that running in the mid 30s, turning nearly everything to medium (lower only gained a couple FPS but with noticable impact on visuals. In addition to the graphics settings I had to also lower resolution scale to 75% which made things less distinct, to keep it at the native 1080p. All that to keep it in the 30s. I am used to a 144Hz monitor, with nearly all of B3's graphical settings on Ultra, as well as its Resolution Scale set to 125%.
Looking at Kate's laggy, ropey visuals, I just couldn't bear it! I took the hit and spent £245 on a second hand 1060. When it came I removed the tiny 1030, installed the 1060 and booted up B3. For a laugh the first thing I did was to replicate the settings I used on the 1070 PC, just with Resolution Scale back up to 100% from 75%, not 125%. I was hoping for maybe a slight increase...
I got a solid 60FPS and it looked so good! I am not joking when I say that I nearly wept when I saw it. I showed Kate. She still didn't notice the difference! I then remembered my old Rift, the original CV1 and thought, Kate clearly doesn't care about visual quality so as long as I can keep HMD Quality and SS at 100% so she can read the text sure I can lower enough graphical settings that I can get it comfortably playable in VR on the 1060! And it worked.
Because we enjoyed B2 we got Borderlands 3. I had to do some serious tweaking to even get that running in the mid 30s, turning nearly everything to medium (lower only gained a couple FPS but with noticable impact on visuals. In addition to the graphics settings I had to also lower resolution scale to 75% which made things less distinct, to keep it at the native 1080p. All that to keep it in the 30s. I am used to a 144Hz monitor, with nearly all of B3's graphical settings on Ultra, as well as its Resolution Scale set to 125%.
Looking at Kate's laggy, ropey visuals, I just couldn't bear it! I took the hit and spent £245 on a second hand 1060. When it came I removed the tiny 1030, installed the 1060 and booted up B3. For a laugh the first thing I did was to replicate the settings I used on the 1070 PC, just with Resolution Scale back up to 100% from 75%, not 125%. I was hoping for maybe a slight increase...
I got a solid 60FPS and it looked so good! I am not joking when I say that I nearly wept when I saw it. I showed Kate. She still didn't notice the difference! I then remembered my old Rift, the original CV1 and thought, Kate clearly doesn't care about visual quality so as long as I can keep HMD Quality and SS at 100% so she can read the text sure I can lower enough graphical settings that I can get it comfortably playable in VR on the 1060! And it worked.
As I mentioned in the spoiler above, we both really enjoy playing pancake co-op games together but there's something fundamentally different seeing each other's avatar in a cockpit in VR. Kate's still very noob so all we did was mess about and land on a planet but it was so good!
Now I know Kate genuinly GENUINELY doesn't care about graphics, it really opens up a bunch of titles that we can play in VR together. I am thinking Assetto Corsa although I may struggle using the controller instead of the rig but so what right??
So question: does anyone know of any largely co-operative games that we might like to play together? Ideally designed around very limited space?
Thanks!
