open-world VR game<\/a><\/strong>, where you are free to follow the main story or take your own path, exploring, building a base, foraging, fighting with the natives, or making your own fun. It’s a huge game, and there is a bit of a learning curve to discover all of the game mechanics and controls. Here are a few things that you will find very helpful when you first start to play The Forest VR.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUse Your Watch<\/strong> – You can check your health, thirst, and armor levels by looking at the watch on your left wrist. This gives you a quick visual indicator of how hungry and thirsty you are, as well as indicating how much armor you have equipped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your watch provides information about your health, hydration, and armor in The forest VR<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nBackpack<\/strong> – You can change the items that are in each of the quick slots on your backpack within the inventory menu. Combine your backpack with whatever item you want to have quick access to and you will then be able to choose which quick access slot to add it to. Once assigned, if you hold down the X button, you will hold your backpack out in front of you and you can easily select or use one of the items. <\/p>\n\n\n\nRemap The Controllers<\/strong> – You can access the Steam VR menu and adjust your VR controller key bindings to allow you to access the quick slots on your backpack at the press of a button. This makes inventory management a whole lot easier. <\/p>\n\n\n\nArchery<\/strong> – You can switch between arrow types easily by selecting your bow, holding an arrow to the string without drawing it back, and looking at the ground. You will see that the left trigger button now says “Rotate”, and pressing this button will cycle between the available arrow types in your inventory. <\/p>\n\n\n\nItem Selection<\/strong> – If you are adding items to a log sled or drying rack, for example, you may have multiple different items that you could add to these. To select which item you want to add, hold your left controller close and press the left trigger to cycle between the eligible items. You can then press the right trigger to add the desired item.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCrafting<\/strong> – You can see all the possible things that can be made from any item within the inventory menu. Hover over any item in your inventory and press the right trigger to “Combine”. If you look above the inventory, straight ahead of you, you will see a gear icon. If you hover over this, you will see a list of all the things that can be made with this item. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cog icon will tell you what items can be created from any raw material in The Forest VR<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nBrowsing The Survival Guide<\/strong> – You can press right and left on your right thumbstick while browsing the survival guide to turn the pages. This means you don’t need to point to select each individual page, which can be quite a bit laborious.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStick Markers<\/strong> – If you are planning on exploring the island, it’s a good idea to place a stick marker either in or very near your base. This will create a visual marker overlaid on the game so that you can always find your way back home easily, even if you don’t pay great attention when you are out exploring. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Forest VR Settings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n There are a number of important settings in The Forest VR that can make a big difference to your enjoyment, comfort, and performance when playing the game. You should check these out as soon as you start to set your preferences and ensure everything is functioning as you want it to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turning<\/strong> – By default, The Forest VR has snap turning turned on. Personally, I really hate snap-turning, so it is the first thing I turn off in every VR game. You can switch to smooth turning by changing the Turn Snap<\/strong> option to 0%. If you notice that the turn speed is very low, you can go to the Controls<\/strong> menu and turn up the X sensitivity and Y sensitivity to significantly improve the turn speed. <\/p>\n\n\n\nAudio<\/strong> – If you are having problems with the sound not working in The Forest VR, there are two things that you should check to fix the majority of problems. Firstly, make sure that The Forest is the active window on your computer, as if another window is selected, this can often lead to sound not working on your headset, despite everything else about the game working well. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe other thing to check is to make sure that the audio device in the VR settings menu matches the one that your computer is using. Try switching between audio devices to see if this fixes the problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Performance<\/strong> – If your computer is struggling to run The Forest VR at a smooth frame rate, one of the first things you should do is go into the Steam VR Menu<\/strong> (accessed by pressing the leftmost menu button on the left controller of most VR controllers). You can reduce the render resolution by reducing the Resolution Per Eye<\/strong> setting, which will significantly reduce the hardware demands, improving the frame rate, at the expense of visual fidelity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can adjust the render resolution (resolution per eye to increase visual clarity or improve performance<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nBrightness<\/strong> – Depending on how scary you want your experience to be, you may like to turn up the setting for Caves And Night Brightness<\/strong> in the Display Settings<\/strong> menu. This dictates how well you can see in the dark of night and while in caves. It is set to the minimum by default, meaning it will be pitch black in caves, and really scary. Turning this up will make things a little less realistic, but helps to reduce the terror you will feel when negotiating some of the underground caverns. <\/p>\n\n\n\nMove Darkening<\/strong> – The forest VR has a setting where when you move, your peripheral vision will darken, and this can help to prevent or reduce motion sickness for some individuals, but I do find that it reduces the immersion of the game. You can adjust this setting or turn it off within the VR Settings<\/strong> menu. <\/p>\n\n\n\nAuto Run<\/strong> – Within the VR Settings<\/strong> menu, you can toggle Auto Run<\/strong> off and on. This means that whenever you press forward on the right thumbstick a little, you will walk, but if you press it further, you will automatically start running. This is a more simple method of varying your movement speed than having to press down on the right thumbstick, but it does mean you need to be a little more precise with your movement input. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Forest is a hugely popular open-world survival game that is available on Steam for PC and also on PlayStation. It was released in early access back in 2014 without<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrlowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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