Thrill-seekers will welcome the initiative, others will prepare their paper bags, Portal 2 is available, in part and now, via a modin PCVR. Let’s see what this really includes.
We owe the feat of such a port to Gistixtalented developer who recently released a mod VR for the second opus of Portal. He also took care, shortly after, to release two updates correcting certain problems, which shows if the guy has motivation to spare. For the moment, only single player mode is compatible and not in full. The game is basic 3Dof compatible (only the movements of the headset are transcribed), the 6Dof worksbut must be activated by editing the file config.txt of the VR folder, in particular by typing true after the line 6Dof=.
THE mod of Gistix has not yet been approved by Valvetherefore you do not find it as mod Official VR for the game. For proper validation, the developer must correct certain imperfections (apart from making the entire game compatible): the game menus do not work correctly, the 6DoF as well as moving around the room (room scale) are not enabled by default. Finally know that the game does not offer options to reduce the nausea effect (kinetosis), sensitive souls refrain! If you’re interested in the experience, here’s how to do it:
- Download Portal2VR.zip and extract the files to your Portal 2 directory (programs(x86)steamsteamappscommonPortal 2) ;
- Launch the game, once in the menu, reproduce these video settings.
Note :
To re-center the camera height, press the left stick. To view the HUD, move the controller up or down.
For those who dream of playing the first opusknow that this one being built on the Porta SDKL, developers must obtain approval from Valve for a possible release, even unofficial, which is not the case at the moment.