VR.org gave the release one paragraph in Friday’s roundup, working from Road to VR’s report. This is the setup guide that paragraph had no room for, plus what the repository says the installer does to your game folder.
What you need first
A Windows PC, a headset that connects to it, and your own copy of Titanfall 2. The mod contains no game. The installer’s README says it looks for a Steam, EA app or Xbox install, so any of the three should do. On Steam the game was $4.49 on Sunday, 85 percent off its usual $29.99.
You also need the EA app, signed in. Titanfall 2 will not start without it, even when you bought it on Steam. If you have never run the game, launch it once the normal way and Steam installs the EA app for you.
For the headset side, the mod’s own listing calls it “OpenXR campaign VR support for Titanfall 2.” OpenXR is the shared standard that lets one game talk to many brands of headset software. The README’s instruction is to start “SteamVR/your VR runtime of choice” before launching. Nothing here runs on a headset by itself, which makes it the opposite of the Half-Life 2 emulation project from August.
What happens when you run it
Get the installer from the repository’s releases page and open it. It finds Titanfall 2 and checks for the EA app. Then it downloads two things: the mod, and Northstar, the openhost their own servers. Both go into a folder named TF2VR inside your game directory. The mod package is 73.9 MB, version 1.0.12, and still carries a beta label
If your game lives under Program Files, expect a Windows prompt asking for administrator access. That folder is read-only for normal accounts, and the installer says so before it asks.
