The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered simply launched on PC and console, providing up a contemporary, refreshed model of Bethesda’s beloved 2006 open world RPG. And earlier than we might even say “cease proper there, prison scum!”, VR gamers are already below the hood.
Considered one of Bethesda’s most notable enhancements has been bringing Oblivion to Unreal Engine 5 relatively than the sport’s authentic Gamebryo engine, which means it not solely featues improved textures, character, fashions animations, and lighting, however it’s additionally successfully opening up the sport to modders who wish to bounce in due to ‘Praydog’s UEVR plugin (hyperlink beneath).
By now, UEVR is fairly feature-rich, together with assist for 6DOF head motion, full stereoscopic 3D, frontend GUI for simple course of injection, assist for OpenXR runtimes, in addition to movement controller assist. Nonetheless, intrepid UEVR customers might want to tinker with settings to make a selected mod profile that performs nicely with the sport—one thing YouTuber ‘LunchAndVR’ is doing proper now.
Take a look at the gameplay video beneath to see LunchAndVR’s early try at bringing Oblivion to VR:
Within the video’s description, LunchAndVR says these are nonetheless “very early exams,” noting they nonetheless don’t have full 6DOF profiles to share simply but because of movement controls inflicting some crashes.
Nonetheless, early exams look fairly promising, as LunchAndVR takes on rats and zombies in a richly detailed dungeon, replete with dynamic lighting, additional noting the mod “runs very well indoors, however decrease efficiency outside.”
Granted, the video above was created utilizing a reasonably beefy rig, and also you’ll in all probability want one too. It’s solely on medium graphics settings with DLSS, utilizing a Quest 3 with Digital Desktop’s VDXR runtime set on ‘Extremely’. As for PC specs, LunchAndVR is operating the sport at 72hz refresh price by way of an Nvidia RTX 4090, Intel Core i9-13900 CPU, and 64GB of RAM.
Whereas not finalized, VR customers can bounce into Oblivion at the moment by downloading Praydog’s UEVR mod and probably a couple of check profiles presently being shared. Particularly, LunchAndVR has shared two particular profiles: a 6DOF profile from ‘Keyser’ that adjusts for higher efficiency in VR (Google Drive obtain) and a 3DOF profile from ‘Pande4360’ that additionally contains VR efficiency changes (Google Drive obtain).
You’ll after all want an authentic copy of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered for PC. LunchAndVR notes it’ll work with the model accessible on Steam, but additionally the model accessible by means of Xbox’s PC Recreation Move.
