Red Dead Redemption 2 Gets Its Own VR Mod

After releasing a digital actuality mod for Grand Theft Auto V final 12 months, developer Luke Ross is again with an analogous venture for its wild west cousin, Crimson Lifeless Redemption 2.

“Crimson Lifeless Redemption 2 is way more superior than Grand Theft Auto V from a technical perspective,” Ross defined on his Patreon. “The graphics APIs it helps (Vulkan and DX12) are equally extra advanced than DX11, on which Grand Theft Auto V was primarily based. I needed to create an entire new framework for VR injection; principally all the things I had constructed for the Grand Theft Auto V mod was now ineffective and wanted rewriting from scratch.”

As detailed by Digital Actuality Oasis within the video above, this mod gives a extra immersive viewpoint of the motion however with out the unbiased, per-hand controls you’d count on in a recreation created natively for digital actuality. So, you may look all over the world, rendered in extraordinarily plausible 3D, simply by transferring your head, however you’ll nonetheless have to regulate your character with a primary, Xbox-style gamepad. It’s the identical compromise you at all times must make when including VR options to previously 2D-only video games.

That stated, it nonetheless looks like a formidable piece of engineering. Since Ross needed to utterly scrap the expertise they’d created for his or her Grand Theft Auto V VR conversion, it took them an entire 12 months to get this new mod prepared for its preliminary launch.

For those who comply with VR gaming, you realize that VR completely gobbles up graphical horsepower, so once you take a recreation like Crimson Lifeless Redemption 2 that also has pretty cutting-edge graphics, you may think about that the GPU necessities for working it easily in VR are something however trivial. Certainly, Digital Actuality Oasis examined it on a top-of-the-line RTX 3090 but nonetheless reported important judder and hitching. You may see it your self within the footage: RDR2 in VR makes even an RTX 3090 beg for aid.

Ross has made this mod out there to his Patreon subscribers as an early-access bonus for his or her assist. It ought to be suitable with all main headsets through Oculus and SteamVR. For those who like what you see, perhaps take into account sending a couple of bucks his approach and making an attempt it out your self. Higher have a robust GPU, although!