EternalVR v0.1.71 (alpha)

EternalVR v0.1.71 (alpha)

With Equipment aim set to Head or Off hand, the Flame Belch and grenades now come from a launcher over your left shoulder.

Download

• EternalVR-alpha-0.1.71-e5d929e.zip (below)
• SHA-256: 553bd902020fb5ff1717874505c2cec8efc503bb6a7dc27d4643cca98acfe020
• VirusTotal: scan report (1 of 68: DeepInstinct, a machine-learning engine, flags the mod's DLL, as it has in earlier builds; the DLL 1 of 71, the launcher 0 of 70). Windows Defender finds nothing.

If you have 0.1.6 or later, the launcher offers this update by itself (or use "Check now" on the Checks and log
tab). Otherwise unzip over the old folder or anywhere new, and run EternalVR.Launcher.exe. Your launcher
settings carry over.

Windows Defender may on some PCs quarantine the launcher as "Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml". That's a false positive:
the launcher isn't code-signed yet and every release is a new file Windows hasn't seen, so Defender's cloud model
sometimes guesses (the "!ml"). To get it back: Windows Security > Virus & threat protection > Protection history,
open the entry, Actions > Restore.

This build was launch-tested on the Steam version (in a level) and the Game Pass version (up to the main menu), on my
test PC with the OpenXR simulator. None of the changes below have been played in a headset yet.

Playing on a lower-end PC? I'd love to hear how it runs:
tell me your card, settings and how it played.

What's new

• Equipment aim with Head or Off hand: the shoulder launcher now pops up where it should. With Aim with set to
  Hand and Equipment aim with set to Head (or Off hand), the Flame Belch and grenades already went where you looked,
  but the shoulder launcher popped up in front of your face next to the gun, pointing where your gun hand pointed,
  so the flames looked like they came from your gun hand. Now the launcher pops up over your left shoulder and
  points where you look (or where your other hand points), and the flames, their damage and grenades all leave its
  muzzle. Your gun stays in your hand. The default (Same) and Aim with Head are unchanged. If you point your off hand
  far from where you look, the launcher can turn out of view behind your shoulder, so the flames show up at the edge
  of your view.

• bHaptics: the Flame Belch is felt on your left shoulder. A quick tap of the Belch fires a few more shots after
  you let go, and those used to play your gun's kick on the right side instead. Now every Belch shot plays the left
  shoulder pulse.

• The README says how to take a capture for a bug that shows in one eye (hold the left Menu button and pull a
  trigger in the headset), and where the captures are saved.

Known issues

• Left-handed, a few things are still rough or untried. The first time you bring out each weapon after
  starting the game the arms stay the game's for about half a second, then the gun shifts 1 to 2.5 cm into your
  hand (the Crucible swings in from much further, about 70 cm). Glory kills and the Sentinel Hammer haven't been
  tried left-handed yet. Turning off Show arms (Play tab) hides both arms.
• With motion controllers off (gamepad), the capture button combo isn't there: on a gamepad every button belongs
  to the game.
• Swimming left-handed, the glove sits about 11 cm from your hand.
• On a Ballista shot the shoulder end of the arm can jump for one frame (up to about 17 cm), because the whole
  arm rides the gun for that frame.
• The placement was measured on my test PC, not yet in a headset. If a gun or the glove still sits off your
  hand, please tell me which one and roughly how far. The Sentinel Hammer and the Berserk fists haven't been
  measured yet (I couldn't get either into the Slayer's hands on the test PC); the chainsaw and the melee are
  quick moves the game animates itself.
• Foveated rendering on AMD and Intel cards (new in 0.1.56) is barely tested. One player reports it working
  well on an RX 6750 XT; Intel cards haven't been confirmed yet. If it looks wrong or crashes, turn it off and
  tell me.
• The HUD's smallest text is hard to read: the mission challenge names and the Demonic Corruption bar's
  title. A larger HUD size on the Play tab makes them bigger.
• A few screens still show keyboard keys: tips whose text names a key ("pressing [M]"), the custom weapon
  wheel's reset to default (R), and on Vive wands the Arsenal's customize weapon and equip mod (F, X), which have
  no button there.
• Sights are lined up on five guns so far; the rest can point a little off. Go by the Aim dot.
• The Precision Bolt's scope sits about 3 degrees off your aim, because the Heavy Cannon is lined up for its
  iron sights.
• With head aim there's no crosshair or aim mark while the Precision Bolt is zoomed in. Shots go to the middle
  of your view. On the Game Pass version head aim may still show the scope's ring.
• Parallel Eye Rendering is still highly experimental and off by default. The full list is under "Parallel Eye
  Rendering" in KNOWN-ISSUES.