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Get on the Killing Floor as Incursion Hits Steam

Tripwire Interactive has today launched Killing Floor: Incursion on Steam, bringing the title to HTC Vive for the first time. Oculus Rift owners can now purchase the title via Steam in addition to Oculus Home, and a new content update is launching for existing owners.

Killing Floor: Incursion screenshotPreviously only available for Oculus Rift, Killing Floor: Incursion is based on the multi-million unit selling action horror franchise Killing Floor. This new virtual reality (VR) exclusive edition of the series takes the action horror genre in a new direction with a fully-realised, made-for-VR, story-driven adventure. Players can go it alone or face the horror with a friend in co-operative mode.

Killing Floor: Incursion challenges you to explore diverse environments from creepy farmhouses to high-tech facilities as you fight to survive against the horrific Zed hordes with a variety of weapons, including pistols, shotguns, axes, and even the occasional leftover limb.

“With Killing Floor: Incursion, we’ve managed to create VR gameplay experiences we couldn’t have achieved with a traditional game,” said Leland Scali, Project Lead at Tripwire Interactive. “The Killing Floor universe has never felt this immersive and we’re excited for more players to experience it first-hand.”

Killing Floor: Incursion screenshotCurrent Oculus Rift owners of Killing Floor: Incursion will receive a free content update today, including a new difficulty mode, Katana weapon, leaderboards, achievements, and the new “Holdout” gameplay mode, in which players must defend a map point against increasingly deadly waves of Zeds and bosses.

Following the Oculus Rift debut of the videogame, VRFocus offered the following in a review of Killing Floor: Incursion: “Playing through Killing Floor: Incursion is great fun. The assortment of weapons is the usual mix, with pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, grenades and knives on offer, with an inventory layout similar to other VR FPS’. The pistols are kept in side holsters which are nice and quick to access, whilst the bigger ranged guns and the melee weapons are located on your back – one for each shoulder. It’s a system that when done right works really well, and it does so here.”

Killing Floor: Incursion screenshotKilling Floor: Incursion is developed and published by Tripwire Interactive for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and is available to download via Steam now priced at $39.99 USD. VRFocus will keep you updated with all the latest VR releases from Tripwire Interactive.

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Halloween Fright Night: 5 Screamingly Good VR Horror Titles

Horror videogames were never that overly scary when played on a monitor or TV screen as you could always see the world around you and look away if things did get a bit too intense. With virtual reality (VR) however the genre found a natural home, able to envelope you in decaying mansions or howling woods, dialling that feeling of fear and dread up to eleven. Every noise or flickering shadow taunting you with the prospect of some nasty beastie suddenly appearing to gnaw your face off. So as its Halloween, and in the spirit of all things spooky, VRFocus has compiled a list of some of the best titles to play this evening to scare the living sh*t out of you. Have fun and remember, don’t look behind you.

Resident Evil 7 biohazard

You can’t really have a list of horror videogames without having Resident Evil somewhere in among them all, and the latest version which launched at the beginning of the year is one of the best.

Once again set in a creepy house, Resident Evil 7 biohazard features the ever so lovely Baker family who are there to make your life a misery – or kill you preferably – as you look for a way out of the madness.

This is the first Resi videogame completely played from a first-person perspective – which ideally suits VR – with players wandering the rooms and corridors of this dilapidated building picking up the usual weapon items and herbs.

Exclusive to PlayStation VR – for the first 12 months at least – there have been a couple of DLC releases to expand the content, giving players plenty of hours of jumps, scares and shooting action for their money.

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Don’t Knock Twice

Coming from British developer Wales Interactive, Don’t Knock Twice is a partial movie tie in with a horror flick of the same name with starred Katee Sackhoff. The videogame doesn’t use much from the movie, just its basic story outline of a mother trying to save her daughter from an evil witch.

Another horror videogame set in and around a dark mansion, you might be surprised to see Don’t Knock Twice on this list as it only gained three stars in VRFocus’ review. But that doesn’t mean it should be over looked.

While relatively short and with some parts of the experience a little frustrating, one thing the studio managed to nail is the atmosphere. As you explore there’s never really a moment where you feel at ease, the wind whistles outside the windows, candles flicker and dance up the walls and there’s one or two jump scares to really spook the unwary.

Another good reason to take a look is that Don’t Knock Twice is multiplatform, available on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR.

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Killing Floor: Incursion

Moving away from creepy atmospheric horror to something a bit more action packed, there’s Tripwire Interactive’s Killing Floor: Incursion for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

Killing Floor: Incursion is a monster filled action romp, that starts off in some dark deserted woods then as the levels progress you travel the world fighting creatures in sewers and on roof tops. For those that like a good scare this may not be quite down their street as the title is more action orientated, however this does mean the entertainment factor is high, with plenty of guns to choose from, bosses to kill and heads to dismember.

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Wilson’s Heart

An Oculus Rift exclusive, Wilson’s Heart is an interesting mix scares, story driven adventure and comic book style aesthetics. It certainly doesn’t offer the same freedom as the other titles previously mentioned – there’s no free roaming – with movement handled by point to point teleportation, which makes it easier to handle for those that suffer with VR nausea.

Players find themselves in the body of Robert Wilson, a 1940’s hospital patient who makes a grim discovery upon waking up. His heart has been replaced by a mysterious device. As players wander the hospital they’ll discover increasingly maddening corridors, environmental hazards, and sinister inhabitants whilst trying to recover their heart and the reasons for this craziness.

Wilson’s Heart features plenty of brain taxing puzzles with several action sequences thrown in to mix up the pace, making for one of the most innovative experiences for Oculus Rift.

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Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul

Last but not least is VRWERX’s ­Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. This is quintessential horror much like Don’t Knock Twice, with the entire experience making you feel utterly helpless and alone, two ingredients that certainly up the scare factor.

There’s no guns or action like Killing Floor: Incursion just you and a very haunted house. ­Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul is one of those VR experiences you might have seen on YouTube where players suddenly get scared, crumpling to the floor.

Based on the hugely popular Paranormal Activity motion-picture series the videogame arms players with just a flashlight, as they explore what appears to be an average looking suburban home before struggling to survive the terror that begins to hunt them.

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So there are VRFocus’ suggestions. It’s more than likely this list may have missed off one of your favourites – there are a lot of VR horror titles out there – so why not tell everyone in the comments section below. Additionally, if you’ve got an Oculus Rift or Gear VR then there’s a Halloween sale currently going on to save yourself some cash.

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Oculus Creep Into Their Store’s Crypt, Return With Gear VR And Oculus Rift Horror Sale (Updated)

The temperature is getting colder, the nights are getting darker, and there’s more than a few unsavoury noises coming from beyond the foggy darkness. It’s the witching hour draws near and Halloween is just a short while away.

Throughout the few couple of weeks we’ve been keeping you up to date constantly on all the latest Halloween related updates, be they related to new content as we’ve seen today with Luden.io’s pumpkin-filled update for city destruction sandbox videogame VRobot. Limited time bundle deals, as we’ve seen from HTC Vive adding Star Trek: Bridge Crew into the sales deal for a short time. New releases such as OBSCURA, The Exorcist: Legion VR and Stifled. Even augmented reality (AR) videogames are getting in on the act with Scooby-Doo Go, another dog – this time a ghostly one – in the form of Bydo’s Return and of course the inevitable update from Niantic Labs for Pokémon GO.

For Oculus themselves they have several items in the offing; including Echo Arena‘s 2017 Halloween Bash, with the VR multiplayer title receiving a makeover with mysterious sights, new costume options to customise your avatar and a number of spooky and peculiar holiday-themed toys for you to play around with – if they don’t decide to play with you, that is. There’s been a small focus on re-advertising some fright filled experiences as well, with the likes of ABR VR receiving a new trailer upload on Oculus’ YouTube Channel.

ABE VR screenshotThe best news for Oculus Rift owners though must surely though be the newly announced Halloween sale which has, for the second year in a row, now gone live on the Oculus Store. Seventeen Oculus Rift along with sixteen Samsung Gear VR videogames and experiences have been reduced in price for a limited time.  The full list is below.

Oculus Rift:

Gear VR:

There will no doubt be more Halloween related updates coming soon, be sure to stay informed by checking back regularly with VRFocus.
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Killing Floor: Incursion Coming to HTC Vive with New Content

Released earlier this year for the Oculus Rift with Touch, Killing Floor: Incursion is a virtual reality (VR) spin-off of the successful action-horror franchise Killing Floor. Soon, HTC Vive owners will also be able to appreciate the title in all its gory glory, complete with new content.

Created by Tripwire Interactive, Killing Floor: Incursion was built exclusively as a first-person VR experience. Players can choose to go it alone or team up with a friend in co-op mode and explore several environments, such as dilapidated farmhouses to cold, creepy high-tech facilities, all of which contain hordes of horrific ‘Zed’ monsters, which players will need to terminate with extreme prejudice.

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Oculus Rift and Touch owners will also be getting a bonus, with users who already own Killing Floor: Incursion getting access to a new content patch on the day the title launches for HTC Vive. The update will include a new difficulty mode, a new katana weapon, leaderboards, achievements and a new ‘Holdout’ mode where players need to defend a certain point for as long as possible against increasingly powerful waves of enemies.

Killing floor: Incursion will launch for the HTC Vive through Steam on 7th November, 2017, priced at $39.99 (USD). A pre-order discount is available, which drops the price down by 15%. This offer will be available until the title launch.

Further details and updates can be found on the Steam store page.

VRFocus will bring you further news on The Killing floor: Incursion as it becomes available.

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Horror Awaits as Oculus Holds Friday 13th Sale

If you didn’t realise already today is the most ominous of days, Friday 13th. If you happen to own an Oculus Rift or Samsung Gear VR however then there’s no need to fret, in fact you can celebrate as Oculus has decided to mark the occasion by discounting a bunch of scary videogames to immerse yourself in.

There are 15 titles on discount across each platform for one day only featuring some of the best horror available for the platform. From psychological thrillers to all out gun toting action experiences, there’s something for everyone – if you can handle it.

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On offer today for Oculus Rift there’s:

While for Gear VR there’s:

  • Death Horizon – £2.75
  • Drop Dead – £3.99
  • Affected: The Manor – £1.11
  • Into the Dead – £3.49
  • The Hospital: Allison’s Diary – £1.11
  • The Cathedral: Allison’s Diary – £1.49
  • Dead Secret – £3.99
  • Witchblood – £2.99
  • Deadhead VR – £1.11
  • Darkdays – £2.99
  • Zed Shot – £1.11
  • Sammy – £1.99
  • Dreadhalls – £1.99
  • The Rabbit Hole – £1.11
  • Bad Dream – £0.79

And that’s your lot. For more deals and discounts on Oculus Rift and Gear VR, keep reading VRFocus.

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New Playable Content for Killing Floor: Incursion to Debut at Oculus Connect

Oculus Connect 4 (OC4) begins tomorrow featuring the latest news and announcements from the company that spearheaded the revival of virtual reality (VR) as a consumer product. For attendees there’s going to be plenty for immersive titles on display there, with Tripwire Interactive confirming today that it’ll be debuting new content for its horror shooter, Killing Floor: Incursion. 

The studio will be demoing a new gameplay mode for Killing Floor: Incursion, the one announced in August called Holdout, which it detailed in a blog posting: “After players complete a level in the campaign, that level will be opened up to be played in Holdout. Inside this level will be a single location that players are tasked with defending as long as possible. As previously mentioned, there is a continuous onslaught of Zeds – this means no breaks for trading. Starting with a pistol and knife, players will need to scavenge for better weapons as time goes on. As players progress, the Zeds will start getting more aggressive and more challenging Zeds will enter the fray, including multiple bosses at once!”

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Tripwire Interactive will be discussing the title and its new updates in a talk, titled ‘Killing Floor to Shattered Ceilings: Leveraging Established IP to Break Into VR’. The team will also be delving into the challenges and key knowledge gained in bringing the Killing Floor franchise to VR.

Exclusive to Oculus Rift and Touch, the videogame impressed VRFocus with the review saying: “Killing Floor: Incursion’s  single-player campaign is a glorious action romp that’s easy to play through in one sitting.”

VRFocus will be at OC4 this week to bring you all the latest announcements.

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Killing Floor: Incursion Teases New Holdout Mode

Monster-slaying shooter Killing Floor: Incursion has garnered mostly positive feedback since it was launched for the Oculus Rift. Despite only being released earlier this month, the development team at Tripwire Interactive said they are almost ready to launch its first major new content pack.

In a post on Tripwire Interactive’s own forums, one of the development team, identified as Yoshiro, spoke on behalf of the team to say that not only had the team been hard at work squashing bugs and making improvements, they were also working on a new mode for the videogame. A horde mode for one or two players titled Holdout.

The post identified how the new mode would work: Once a level is completed in campaign mode, it would be opened up in Holdout mode. In Holdout mode players will find a single location that they will be charged with defending for as long as possible as it is subject to a sustained assault by enemies. As players progress the Zeds will gradually become more powerful and aggressive, and multiple boss-level creatures will start entering the fray.

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Killing floor: Incursion received a positive review when reviewed by VRFocus, which said: “Playing through Killing Floor: Incursion is great fun. The assortment of weapons is the usual mix, with pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, grenades and knives on offer, with an inventory layout similar to other VR FPS’. The pistols are kept in side holsters which are nice and quick to access, whilst the bigger ranged guns and the melee weapons are located on your back – one for each shoulder. It’s a system that when done right works really well, and it does so here.”

There is no word yet on when the new content pack will be released, though the post says that the development team are working on prototyping for it now.

VRFocus will bring you further news on Killing floor: Incursion as it becomes available.

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Horror & Gore in VR – Designing ‘Killing Floor: Incursion’

Leland-ScaliKilling Floor: Incursion is a horror game featuring lots of gore that is sure to evoke visceral reactions in players. I had a chance to play a demo at GDC 2017, and I can say that it’s definitely an experience that has stuck with me. The mechanics of beating enemies with their dismembered limbs had an extreme amount of blood splattering that it was a mix of being at the same time grossly disturbing and ridiculously comic. I had a chance to talk with project lead Leland Scali about the horror genre in VR, pushing the boundaries of how far to take gore within immersive VR, and their deeper game design process of creating an experience within their Killing Floor universe.

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Scali admits that they’re treading a fine line of it being funny or amusing versus taking it too far, and so it’ll be interesting to see how VR gamers and the larger media react to this experience as it could be a catalyst to larger discussions about the impact embodied experiences of gory violence within virtual reality. He says that this is not an experience about rainbows and happiness, but rather one that’s gory & dark with a dash of quirky humor. Ultimately it seems to be about power—specifically giving the player the power to complete the task, and assaulting them heavily to see if they can handle it.

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Review: Killing Floor: Incursion

Ever since Tripwire Interactive announced its first-person shooter (FPS) Killing Floor: Incursion at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2016, the videogame has looked like one of the most brutal titles coming to Oculus Rift. And that’s not far from the fact, with this free-roaming monster hunter not pulling any punches when it comes to creating an intensely fast paced experience that’s more action than it is scary horror.

The story unfolds with you as an elite Horzine Security Forces soldier who is tasked with dealing with an outbreak called Zed, unleashing hordes of horrific creatures which have similarities to zombies. Naturally there’s more to the story as Horzine isn’t all it seems, but you’ll have to play to find out more.

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Killing Floor: Incursion starts out as a survival horror. Once you’re through the fairly extensive tutorial you’ll find yourself in a dark and creepy forest. While the general premise is that of a horror title the videogame is far more action orientated, with this first level probably the scariest of all four locations. While there are only four specific levels each is broken up into three sections and they don’t feel short by any means. In fact the whole experience should last a good few hours from start to finish.

Playing through Killing Floor: Incursion is great fun. The assortment of weapons is the usual mix, with pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, grenades and knives on offer, with an inventory layout similar to other VR FPS’. The pistols are kept in side holsters which are nice and quick to access, whilst the bigger ranged guns and the melee weapons are located on your back – one for each shoulder. It’s a system that when done right works really well, and it does so here.

This means you can mix up your play style on the fly quite effectively. Suddenly in a pinch and need to reload, you can either give enemies a quick gun butt or drop the weapon and grab something else. Any weapons that you do drop will then return to their original inventory position after a few seconds (excluding grenades). There’s a satisfying realism to all the weapons, with the pump action shotgun being particularly good as you need two hands to use it, blasting the heads – or limbs – off enemies.

Not everything is perfect though. All of the enemies aren’t exactly what you’d call clever. Ok, so yes they are your normal crazed experimental monsters so they don’t really need cover, however they all do the same thing, run at you screaming/groaning until either they or you are dead. The same can be said for the bosses, all of which relentlessly attack you, but completing each one is more satisfying than the last so it’s not all bad.

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The gun play is good, the action is well paced, and the bosses are challenging, one aspect not covered is movement. This can be a crucial make or break issue in any VR title, especially when you need to explore whilst evading ravenous creatures. The default is teleportation as it’s the most comfortable for most players. Tripwire Interactive’s system means that the first teleport has a sizable distance and will remain so if not used too quickly. However try to move several jumps in quick succession and you’ll notice that distance gets shorter and location pointer becomes slower. This is to simulate stamina, so the more you move the tireder you get, hence the reduction.

Fine in principle, in a virtual fight it’s particularly annoying, especially in boss battles. As mentioned all the enemies tend to run at you so there will be occasions where you’ll need to evade several times. If you’re not careful it can end up with you cornered with no chance of escape – you better have some melee weapons to hand if this happens. All is not lost, in the menu is an experimental FPS movement mode, so if you can handle it, you can strafe and walk around as normal. Note the ‘experimental’, there are certain sections in Killing Floor: Incursion which can’t be traversed in this mode so you have to teleport, so you might find yourself either switching from time to time or just sticking with the default.

So is Killing Floor: Incursion still worth getting? Damn right it is. The videogame does have its faults but they aren’t gameplay breaking. Killing Floor: Incursion’s single-player campaign is a glorious action romp that’s easy to play through in one sitting. One thing not mentioned so far is the fact that there’s a co-op option, and as every gamer should know, bringing a mate along to cover each others back only increases the fun factor.

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Nvidia Release Game Ready Driver for Killing Floor: Incursion

Graphics card makers Nvidia have been quite keen on supporting the virtual reality (VR) industry by providing the best possible experience for players taking on a VR experience. The new Game Ready Driver from Nvidia includes specific support for Killing Floor: Incursion, along with other titles Agents of Mayhem and Crossout.

The new Game Ready Driver has just been released for Nvidia users to take advantage of, either by downloading directly from the Nvidia website, or using the Nvidia GeForce Experience app. Nvidia have released the game-ready driver for Killing Floor: Incursion two days before the official release of the tile, so players will be able to take advantage of the improved features from day 0, such as a consistent framerate of 90fps. Nvidia are recommending that players use a Nvidia GeForce 1080 Ti for the best experience while playing Killing Floor: Incursion.

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Also included in the new driver is Nvidia Ansel, a new type of screen-capture technology that allows players to capture high-quality still from within the videogame world, then apply post-processing with various filters and share in 360-degrees via smartphone, PC or VR headset.

Killing Floor: Incursion was developed by Tripwire Interactive as part of horror franchise Killing Floor. The title is due to be released on Oculus Rift with Touch later this month. The gameplay puts the player in the role of a soldier who needs to fight off monsters using a range of weaponry, both long-ranged like guns, or melee like knives. Exploration is encouraged to allow for the discovery of new materials with which to craft bigger and better weapons, and find the best place to set up a base to hold off the zombie hordes.

VRFocus will continue to report on new technology available for VR.