Last month Oculus teased several details about an incoming update for popular first-person shooter SUPERHOT VR. Having only launched a month prior alongside the arrival of Oculus Touch, the videogame is set to see more content and game modes arrives, with a released date now confirmed for March.
Renowned for being somewhat short, the developers will now be addressing this issue to a degree by adding more replayability with challenges and achievements. The first mode revealed in January was the 10-minute challenge, which as the name states requires players to complete the title in 10 minutes – hence being short.
The title will also feature an Endless Mode, requiring players to survive as long as possible; Headshots only, make sure enemies are hit right between the eyes (if they had any); Time Trial, racing against best scores in both in-game time (slowed down) and real-time; Don’t Shoot, for those that love melee combat; Hardcore Mode, where enemies are faster and players reaction time is reduced; and Don’t Die, with death taking players back to the start of the entire game.
Today also saw SUPERHOT VR honoured at the 2017 D.I.C.E. Awards, taking the top prize in the Immersive Reality Game of the Year category, beating off competition from Eagle Flight, I Expect You To Die, Job Simulator and The Lab.
The SUPERHOT VR Forever update will officially launch 7th March for Oculus Rift with Touch controller support. For further updates to the title, keep reading VRFocus.
Superhot [Review: 9/10] is easily one of the best Oculus Touch titles available today. The beautiful art direction, ingenious gameplay mechanic of time only moving when you do, and creative puzzle environments all add up to one of the most memorable and enjoyable adaptations for VR we’ve seen thus far. Naturally, when the Make it Superhot Game Jam was announced, it came as no surprise. In the Game Jam, people are asked to create a Superhot-inspired piece of fan art, game, or mod, for a chance to win prizes. Available prizes include a GTX 1080 graphics card, Oculus Rift headset, thousands of dollars in cash, and much more. It’s not a Game Jam for the faint of heart.
One of the short Superhot-inspired game entries, Superpunch, immediately caught our attention when we saw it in action on Twitter, being promoted by designer and programmer, Joe Radak. With Andreas Jorgensen handling the art artwork and Keegan van der Laag with Davin Dobson (also known as
“The core mechanic of the game is the punching locomotion, which I’ve been developing for the past couple months,” explained Radak in an email to Upload. “The science behind the locomotion is the impulse force that is imparted on your body when you punch (because of the punch), tricks your body into thinking that it’s accelerating in that direction. With the impulse, you can mask sliding the player over short distances with minimal motion sickness. Basically, the punch creates artificial acceleration in the direction of motion, which reduces motion sickness. So far it’s shown to be pretty motion-sickness free, but I haven’t tested it wide-range yet.”
Mechanically, the idea seems similar to other limb-movement-based locomotion systems we’ve seen, such as arm-swinging, running in place, and the Freedom Locomotion System. What makes this one different though is how important the mere act of punching is, seeing as how you have to always be punching to get much of anything done.
“The game itself is a simple wave-based game,” said Radak. “Instead of shooting your enemies though, they fire at you, and you punch the bullets back at them, or you can punch them directly if you get close enough. When I was developing the prototype, I wanted something that complimented the punching locomotion and had a bit of action behind it, thus, how this game was born. The current contest entry has 3 levels, each with 3-5 waves each. If I had more time and resources, or was to turn this into a full-fledged game, I would probably do something that wasn’t wave-based. Co-Op could be fun too.”
If you’re interested in trying out Superpunch, you can find out more information and download the short game on the itch.io page or the ModDB page. Only HTC Vive support is guaranteed, Oculus Rift and Touch was not tested. You can see more of the contest entries here if you scroll down to the bottom.
Superhot VR fans will have several good reasons to return when the game's first big update arrives next month, bringing with it new challenges, new ways to play, a speed run mode, and more.
Außerkörperliche Erfahrung 2.0 – Das SUPERHOT Team hat SUPERHOT VR zusammen mit den Entwicklern der Oculus Rift auf der E3 2014 zum ersten Mal vorgestellt. Seitdem sind zwei Jahre vergangen und der First-Person Shooter erfreut sich in der VR-Community großer Beliebtheit. Das Team hinter dem stilisierten Timeshift-Spektakel hat nun angekündigt, dass das brandneue Forever Update bereits nächsten Monat an den Start gehen wird.
SUPERHOT VR: Ihr kontrolliert die Zeit
Seit nunmehr zwei Monaten können sich Shooter- und VR-Freunde frei nach dem Motto „Time moves only when you move“ in SUPERHOT VR austoben. Über die Oculus Touch-Controller erfahrt ihr in Echtzeit wie es wohl ist, eine außerkörperliche Erfahrung zu haben – so zumindest das Gefühl, wenn die Zeit von euren Bewegungen abhängt. Gerade in VR macht die Headshot-Jagd und überstilisierte Kampfkunst so richtig Laune.
Nachdem Fans von SUPERHOT VR den FPS bereits zu Release in den höchsten Tönen gelobt hatten, kam vergleichsweise schnell die erste Ernüchterung. Mit lediglich zwei Stunden Spielzeit, die ihr in der Virtual Reality Experience verbringen konntet, fiel die Menge an Content doch eher Mau aus. Die ersten Rufe nach mehr wurden schnell laut und so haben die Macher nun reagiert und bringen bereits im Februar frische Inhalte, in denen sich die Spieler deutlich länger austoben können sollen.
Vor allem die Vielzahl an neuen Modi soll euch lange bei der Stange halten und, so wie es ausschaut, in die Verzweiflung treiben. Denn nicht nur im Standardspiel, sondern auch beim neuen Update steht die Herausforderung im Vordergrund.
Eine Auswahl der frischen Spielvarianten
Ein Modus, in dem nur Kopfschüsse Gegner töten
Ein Race-Modus, in dem ihr gegen eure Bestzeiten antreten könnt
Ein Hardcore-Modus mit schnelleren Gegnern und weniger Reaktionszeit
Eine Challenge, bei der ihr das Spiel durchspielen müsst, ohne einen Schuss abzugeben
Eine Challenge, bei der ihr nur 10 Minuten habt, um das komplette Spiel durchzuzocken
Im offiziellen Blogeintrag des Oculus Teams kündigen die Entwickler vollmundig Stunden von neuem Gameplay und zahlreiche weitere Neuerungen an. Der Reddit-Detective Leviatein soll im Spielcode darüber hinaus auch ein Achievement-System sowie einige Secrets entdeckt haben. Worum es sich dabei handelt, bleibt abzuwarten. Wir jedenfalls haben richtig Bock auf neuen Content in SUPERHOT VR.
So what’s in store for fans of the first-person shooter (FPS)? Oculus has unveiled some of the challenges that player will have to face, which the company claims will add hours more gameplay. These challenges include taking out enemies using only headshots; racing against a players best score in bullet time and real-world time; completing the video game without shooting and a hardcore challenge where enemies are faster and reaction times are reduced. That’s not all though, for true SUPERHOT VR experts there’s the ten minute challenge, simply complete the entire title in that time.
Talking about the inspiration behind the new content, lead designer Cezary Skorupka said: “The community is awesome at this game—way better than us! We need to keep them happy, so we looked for ways to make SUPERHOT VR even more challenging.”
While this news certainly does answer one of the bigger questions about the Forever Update, there’s still no confirmation on when its likely to be available, or what secrets players are likely to uncover.
As VRFocus learns more about the SUPERHOT VR update, we’ll let you know.
For Oculus Touch owners who’re fans of first-person shooter (FPS) SUPERHOT VR, Oculus has teased an upcoming update with a Tweet today.
Called ‘FOREVER UPDATE’ the only details the tweet conveyed were through a short GIF showing some very old computers and CRT monitors. The GIF shows a floppy disc (remember those) being inserted into the central computer, doing so momentarily changes the screen to ‘Updating SUPERHOT’.
It’s whats written on the disk itself that holds the most info. In a hand written note style you can just make out what’s on the label, saying SUPER HOT UPDATE, Challenges, Achievements, Bugfixes and Secrets.
Further details have yet to be released on what challenges these might just be, but as its called the ‘FOREVER UPDATE’ there’s a good chance an endless mode for hardcore SUPERHOT VR fans could be included.
The update hasn’t gone live on Oculus Home (at time of writing) so this does look to be a early tease at present.
Last week the developers behind SUPERHOT VR teamed up with Mod DB, alongside with IMGN.PRO, Oculus, Nvidia, Intel for a #MAKEITSUPERHOT competition. It challenges modders, game designers, artists and other creative types to make stuff inspired by the video game.
As VRFocus learns more about the update, we’ll let you know.
The developers of Superhot and publisher IMGN.PRO are offering a publishing contract to the modder who creates the best Superhot-inspired content. Competition thus far is extremely fierce.
If you’re regular reader of VRFocus you’ll have likely heard of SUPERHOT, a first-person shooter (FPS) that launched on PC early last year before finally getting a virtual reality (VR) release for Oculus Touch in December 2015. It’s become a popular title with its unique gameplay mechanic and so today Mod DB, in association with IMGN.PRO, Oculus, Nvidia, Intel and several others has launched a #MAKEITSUPERHOT competition today.
For fans of the videogame that are modders, game designers, artists, programmers, level designers, illustrators, filmmakers, or just some who’s feeling a bit creative, they can all enter into one of two categories; Games & Mods, and Arts & Crafts. The challenge is simple enough, just create a SUPERHOT inspired game, mod, addon, video or image.
There are plenty of prizes on offer depending on which category entrants submit to.
In the Games,Mods & Addons Award Prizes are as follows:
1st Place
$5,000 cash
1x NVIDIA GTX 1080
1x Intel i7 Processor
1x Oculus Rift
MSI Keyboard, mouse and swag
GOG Swag and discounts
Trophy
2nd Place
$2,000 cash
1x Intel i7 Processor
1x Oculus Rift
MSI Keyboard, mouse & swag
GOG swag & discounts
3rd Place
$1,000 cash
MSI Keyboard, mouse & swag
GOG swag & discounts
For the Art & Crafts Award
1st Place
XBOX One
$500 cash
MSI Keyboard, mouse & swag
GOG swag & discounts
Trophy
2nd Place
Gear VR
$350 cash
MSI Keyboard, mouse & swag
GOG swag & discounts
3rd Place
$200 cash
MSI Keyboard, mouse & swag
GOG swag & discounts
There’s also a Special Award which sees everyone who enters wining a copy of SUPERHOT on Steam, and a $50,000 USD publishing contract selected and awarded by the SUPERHOT and IMGN teams.
While SUPERHOT VR only supports Oculus Touch at present the developer does plan further support for more headsets in the future, so keep reading VRFocus for the latest updates.
