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It’s finally time for
Population: One fans to get their hands on BigBox VR’s next update for the popular battle royale shooter. As revealed last week, Season 2 will introduce a limited time Wild West element to
Population: One, with a new environment, weapon and other features to expand upon the fast and fun gameplay.
Population: One – Season 2: The Frontier will be available for 10 weeks, with one portion of the map turned into a western frontier town. It’ll feature its own saloon, and dusty streets to fight in. Players will be able to take advantage of explosive barrels to take down opponents, breakable barrels with goodies inside, and plenty of buildings and rock formations to gain the high ground advantage.
Geeky Gadgets
Virtual reality game is enjoying SteamVR games may be interested to know that Valve has rolled out a new SteamVR Beta 1.17.8 update this week bringing with it a wealth of new tweaks, features and enhancements. One of the new additions is a clarity boosting field-of-view option, that allows a trading off of peripheral vision for increased clarity (e.g. reading glasses). This works by using the same total render resolution to draw only a smaller subset of the scene, explains Valve.
Another new feature is the Override World Scale, added to enable you the ability to adjust the perceived scale of the world e.g. to get the size of an aircraft cockpit to feel just right, or help short people reach tall places.
Acron: Attack of the Squirrels, and soon another will be joining their ranks. Australian indie team Fullbeans Studio is gearing up to launch
Operation Armstrong later this month for PC VR headsets, a sci-fi party title where players have to save the world.
An army of lunar robots plan on crashing the moon into the Earth (as you do) so it’s up to you and your infiltration team to stop the disaster by completing a series of dangerous missions.
Operation Armstrong sees the VR player take on the field operative role, having to carefully sneak around the robot’s base. The rest of the team can join in via mobile, logging in through a browser for cross-platform local co-op with a 12-player limit.