Some thoughts on... Dawn of Jets (Meta Quest 3)

[@ImmersedRobot]

To be clear, this is not a review. It is a first impressions video where I describe my experience playing through the first part of the game.

[@ParadiseDecay]

I was impressed with this game as well.

[@JoeSneaker]

I wish Oculus had a VR standalone game that works with USB flight controllers! I'm tired of trying to fly an airplane with Oculus controllers. Hand tracking is good, but it's hard to fly when you have no physical feedback. I LOVE the FRAMERATES though... 👍

[@DawnOfJets]

Hey, thanks for posting this!

[@glennhadcock1810]

Thanks for the nice review (I work on the game)! One thing I would like to point out is that you get much more missions starting from the SECOND aircraft. The aircraft you start off in is the trainer and only has training missions... the real combat starts on plane #2! Other than that, great review!

[@ImmersedRobot]

Thanks. Yes, I’m always careful not to use the word ‘review’ and try to make it clear in the description and the video that this is first impressions, outlining exactly what I’ve played so far. I’ll continue to play more however, and will also mention it on the Recentered Podcast next month. Thanks for watching.

[@glennhadcock1810]

@@ImmersedRobot Sounds good! Hopefully you continue to enjoy the game!

[@ImmersedRobot]

@@glennhadcock1810 I'm sure I will, and now you've actually got me thinking about the format in which I present this video. After re-watching it, I think you're right, it actually comes across like a review which wasn't my aim. I think a better format would have been a live recording of me playing and talking about it as I played rather than editing footage and talking over it. It makes more sense to viewers in that way. Lesson learned though, and I've certainly enjoyed what I've played so far!

[@Willy38134]

try making the game not look like a 1998 flight sim on a 400ghz cpu

[@DawnOfJets]

@@Willy38134 Sorry you don't like the graphics. Please, please let me know if you see a Quest flying game that you think beats it so we can work harder on the graphics. I'm pretty confident there isn't anything out there, but perhaps I missed something. And just FYI, the CPU on the Quest 2 is really only about 1.5 GHz, not 400 GHz. And the CPU doesn't really matter, it's more the GPU that is the limiting factor. And, don't forget, VR games have to render the scene twice. So 72 FPS is more like 144 FPS when compared to a PC game.

[@cmdrsaigon6453]

Nice, I may give it a try. Is there anyway to connect physical HOTAS to the game/Q3?

[@glennhadcock1810]

I don’t think they have HOTAS support yet, but I do believe they want to experiment with it and want to support it (the dev mentioned this in the discord server)

[@tomc1380]

No flight sim Hotas with any standalone sims right now. I think (but don't really know) that the developer may be planning a wireless X-Box one controller option. The X-Box controller is kind of a poor man's Hotas, lol!

[@DawnOfJets]

I just got a Thrustmaster T-Flight in yesterday to experiment. Luckily, it is recognized by the Quest, so we will start looking at adding support for it. These things take a little time, but we are on it.

[@cmdrsaigon6453]

@DawnOfJets Perfect and appreciated.

[@Awn.Jo.Discovery]

Is this available on Quest 2? I can see it in the store

[@ImmersedRobot]

Yes, it’s compatible with Quest 2 as well.

[@glennhadcock1810]

I run it on quest 2, you are able to run a smooth 72 fps on Q2 and 90+ on Q3

[@stash.]

All these flying sim games are all the same, wish some developer would leave the templates behind and make 100+player multiplayer google map checkpoint sim, nobody would care about the graphics and the focus would be instead multiplayer checkpoint shavings, google maps already on the quest on droves way long overdue to be gamified somehow.

[@br.m]

I like to play with myself. 100+ script kid modders hack the game and their broken mics... no thanks.

[@a5cent]

Ugh. No. Just no.