Swapped the controls for turning and movement to be consistent with other VR titles
Sprinting is now bound to the lower face button on the right controller as a result of the above change
UI Interactions are now bound to the right trigger to be consistent with other VR titles
UI
Resized the elements in the elements in the main menu to be consistent.
Reposition the text in the settings menu to be more visual correct
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where you couldn't toggle between the different sections of the Settings Menu
Developer Comments This patch is meant to be a small quality of life update and make the game's controls feel more consistent with other VR titles. I hope these controls feel better for everyone who downloads and know that I plan on doing more to improve them in the distant future!
Thank you to everyone who played and left a review!
Haunted House Escape: A VR Experience v1.1 - Now Available!
MEPTIK's Haunted House Escape: A VR Experience v1.1
UPDATES
Project Changes
A massive of unused assets have been removed from the project files reducing the files size by roughly 7.47GBs
Fallback settings for TSSA have been applied to the project
Excluded developer content from being packaged in the final build
Reassociated all MP4 files
Updated all plugin assets to their latest version
Level Changes
Replaced all grass Instances with low-poly version
The new low-poly grass looks amazing and allows the landscape to have significantly more ground coverage than the previous grass that was being used
Removed dynamic landscape effects
With the ground mostly covered by grass, the landscape effects were negligible so they have been turned off for now.
Simplified landscape material
This was a result of removing the effects as other functionality that would never be seen in VR
Reduced the size of the dirt albedo, ORM, and normal maps from 8K to 1
Removed trees from the outside
This decision was sadly made to reduce the overhead on the FPS. Lower poly trees were tried but ultimately cut.
Hopefully, these can be readded in a future update
Combined Several Interior Meshes to reduce draw calls
Added LODs to many of the objects in the scene that were missing them
Redid 90% of the game’s lighting and shadows
Huge performance was gained from this as the game was trying to calculate dynamic shadows across almost all objects in the mansion
Got rid of a rogue fire that was sitting in an unviewable area of the map
Replaced several unreasonably high texture maps of the game
Gameplay
Fixed issues where the player would collide with trigger volumes preventing progress
Fixed collision issues on held objects
Fixed issues where the first ghost encounter would occasionally fail to display the correct content
Comments from our Developer:
It is my hope that these changes provide a more enjoyable and smooth experience for all users across the board. The settings menu in the start screen remains in place to hopefully alleviate any edge cases to this.
Please be aware that this is not the UE5 update to the Haunted House.
I have heard users request for a teleportation style of locomotion but I do not plan on adding this to the game. Doing so would break the area triggers in the game as well as I personally feel it would mar the immersion of being trapped inside a haunted house. In a future update, I plan on allowing users to personalize the current movement systems parameters to their liking; I hope this will be an acceptable compromise.
I want to thank all of the users who take the time to leave reviews and feedback. I really do read all of the comments and give serious consideration to what everyone is saying. Our team has been working hard on a lot of projects over the last couple of months that took priority over our free mini-game, therefore I thank you all for your patience while I was working on this update!
Lastly, thank you to everyone who downloaded our Haunted House Experience!
Having a game out on Steam (let alone a VR one) is something I always wanted! I hope you all can see this game for what it is, a love letter to one of the greatest holidays around!
Stay Spooky Everyone!
Haunted House Escape: A VR Experience - Out now!
The "Haunted House Escape: A VR Experience" the free VR game is now available for download on Steam!
You wake up in an empty, abandoned house, all alone. How did you get here? It's stormy outside. You hear the wind creaking through the old wooden boards of the house. Why is "Let me Out" written all over the walls? What was that noise?! Maybe you are not the only one in the house...
Find the three hidden keys to escape the abandoned house in this chilling VR adventure.
Haunted House Escape: A VR Experience is coming November 30!
We are excited to announce that the "Haunted House Escape: A VR Experience" is coming to Steam on November 30!
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You wake up in an empty, abandoned house, all alone. How did you get here? It's stormy outside. You hear the wind creaking through the old wooden boards of the house. Why is "Let me Out" written all over the walls? What was that noise?! Maybe you are not the only one in the house...
Add "Haunted House Escape: A VR Experience" to your wishlist and get notified about the release!
