#62: Sick in VR but having a great time

In today's edition of the overkill digest newsletter, we're taking a look at my time with PSVR2 on PC.

Hello stranger,

A bit over a week left before gamescom 2024. My hype levels are slowly climbing, even if we have fewer appointments this year than last. This is on purpose, though, as we had over 40 appointments in three days in 2023, which were clearly too much.

This year I want to give ourselves more time to check out the show floors which we barely saw last time. But I am still planning to report daily from the show floor, so sign up for the free pop-up newsletter here. This is also the penultimate time that I will say this.

And with that, let's get to this week's newsletter!

Big this week

After much testing (thanks to everyone who helped us last week) and many bug fixes, we finally launched a beta version of the Fallout: London installer.

Thanks to this script, you can in a few taps and clicks install Fallout: London on your Steam Deck. The script will take care of downgrading Fallout 4, installing GOG, downloading the necessary files, and making everything run smoothly.

A lot of work in the end was done by krupar101 who brought the initial script over the finish line. It was also him, who added "Update" support to the installer. So now it will even take care of upgrading whenever the dev team releases a new version of Fallout: London (which they did a few days ago, with more updates planned; the changelogs are on their Discord server).

We'll spend more time helping everyone fix their problems and keep the script running whenever the FOLON team decides to update.

Though, now naturally we've also been thinking if there are any other games we want to create scripts for. So if you know of anything, hit reply!

In other news

This week, Sony finally released the adapter that makes PSVR2 run on PC. Mine arrived on Thursday, and while it is still early, I had more fun these last few days with the headset, than the whole year that I owned the PSVR2 for my PS5. The two main highlights so far are Half-Life: Alyx and a modded version of Skyrim VR (both games are conveniently on sale). However, it was also the first time I suffered from motion sickness. This happened while playing Skyrim VR, as the game suddenly started to lag hard! I had to lie down for half an hour. I currently only have an RTX 3070, and for whatever reason, SteamVR defaults to twice the internal resolution of the screens used in the PSVR2. So my poor GPU was pushing more than 4K, twice, before I dialled that down. This fried my brain. But like I said, I am still having fun, though, and now I am on the lookout for more great VR experiences. Currently on my wishlist are Boneworks, Beat Saber, and Blade and Sorcery.
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