DISC goals to ship a free-to-play arcade health recreation impressed by frisbee and air hockey on Quest.
Created by studio ‘m ss ng p eces’ in collaboration with Meta and sports activities model ASICS, we first realized about DISC final September. Creating a brand new sport conceived round VR gameplay with assist for 1v1 multiplayer and a 10-level solo marketing campaign in opposition to bots, this fast-paced arcade motion recreation goals to check your reflexes whereas promising a full-body exercise.
Trailer from the Meta Horizon Retailer web page
Designed for room scale motion, your purpose is to throw a frisbee-like disc into the opponent’s purpose to attain. Alongside defending incoming pictures like a goalkeeper, totally different attacking throws might be carried out like curving your forehands or unleashing corkscrew spins. Multiplayer helps each instantaneous matchmaking and personal video games with associates.
Whereas DISC does not at present comprise any in-app purchases regardless of being a free-to-play recreation, the Meta Horizon Retailer web page confirms that extra content material is on the way in which. This contains new cosmetics, leaderboards, and a brand new arcade mode, which might be seen from the in-game menu however is at present inaccessible.
Although a press launch mentions DISC “leveraging” the blended actuality capabilities of Quest, that does not seem like obtainable. Whereas Meta makes use of the time period “blended actuality” for each VR and MR – the shop web page does not embrace the MR tag such as you’d see on different video games – the security threat warning for blended actuality apps is seen. We have emailed the studio to make clear this and can replace the article if we be taught extra.
I initially meant to offer some extra in-depth ideas, although I’ve encountered an enter detection problem on Quest 3 making this tough. When it is your flip to serve, the disc does not register my enter as I attempt to hit it. ASICS knowledgeable UploadVR that is being addressed in a future replace, advising within the meantime to make use of a roomscale boundary.
DISC is out now solely on the Meta Quest platform.
