It has one problem in VR. You cannot see your own spine.
Talemann’s answer is to move both onto your right forearm, “just like the RIGcom,” as the feature list for his free Dead Space VR mod puts it. Your inventory opens when you touch a watch on your wrist, and audio logs and video calls come out of that same watch. Small call. Correct call. Most of the mod reads like that.
Version 1.0 went up on November 7. Version 1.1 followed the next day, and 1.2 landed on Monday, so that is three builds in three days. It runs the original 2008 game, the one I played, not the 2023 remake, and it needs your own copy from <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/17470/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>Steam or GOG.
Stasis in your palm
Dead Space was always a game about aiming at elbows. EA’s term was strategic dismemberment: a necromorph barely cares about a shot to the chest, so you take the limbs off. Doing that with your actual wrist instead of a thumbstick is the whole pitch, and everything else builds out from it.
Every weapon keeps its alternate fire, toggled by clicking the right stick while you aim, and the ammo display on the gun reads ALT while it is on. Bring your left hand up to a long gun like the pulse rifle and it grabs on for two-handed aiming. Guns live in a holster at your hip, where the game’s weapon menu opens when you reach for it, and medkits ride on your left hip. Recoil comes in three strengths. You can melee by swinging the right controller. The stomp is in there too.
Stasis and kinesis both sit in your left hand. Hold the left trigger and a force field charges in your palm with an aiming beam, then let go to fire it. Hold too long and the glove turns red and the shot fizzles. Kinesis puts an orb in your palm instead: point it at something, grab with the grip, throw with the trigger. Doors, save stations, elevators, the store and the bench all work by touching their holograms.
The one thing you will try and fail to do is crouch. “Isaac can’t crouch,” the feature list says, “he can’t in the original game either.” Fair enough.
The settings I would open first
Movement comes off the stick. I default to teleport in any game that offers it, because smooth stick walking gets to my stomach quickly, so the comfort menu is where I would start. There is no teleport here. What there is: snap turning in 30, 45, 60 or 90 degree steps, which as of Monday’s 1.2 also works while you aim, a double tap down on the left stick to spin around 180 degrees, and a short fade to black when you land from a zero-gravity jump.
