{"id":1094,"date":"2023-04-25T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2023-04-25T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T00:20:05","slug":"payday-2-vr-beta-is-now-live-for-the-vive-and-its-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"PAYDAY 2 VR beta is now live for the Vive and it\u2019s free"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>Starbreeze and Overkill have now launched the <em>PAYDAY 2<\/em> VR beta on Steam.<\/p>\n<p>The VR version of <em>PAYDAY 2<\/em> was announced back in May\u00a0and this is a big deal for VR owners looking for VR games with a decent amount of content. PAYDAY 2 VR includes all the content from the core game and players can use their existing characters in VR.<\/p>\n<p>Even better news is that the VR version is completely free for anyone who already owns PAYDAY 2. Vive owners may want to hit that install button on Steam to check this out because it can be played with all players in VR or a mix of VR and desktop players.<\/p>\n<p>The VR mode has just gone into beta testing and details of how the Vive\u00a0controllers work have also been posted along with the following image. It appears straightforward enough.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/payday-2-vr-528x360.jpg\" alt=\"payday 2 vr\" width=\"528\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VR players will have to opt-in to test the VR version on Steam and the beta\u00a0branch uses a different save file form the main game. They also recommend a GTX 980 or above.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find PAYDAY 2 in your steam library and right-click \u2013 select Properties.<\/li>\n<li>In the Properties window \u2013 select the tab called \u201cBETAS\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>In the drop down menu in the BETAS tab \u2013 select \u201copen_vr_beta\u201d and close the window.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The testing period is expected to last a few months before it\u2019s patched into the main game in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbreeze and Overkill have now launched the PAYDAY 2 VR beta on Steam. The VR version of PAYDAY 2 was announced back in May\u00a0and this is a big deal for VR owners looking for VR games with a decent amount of content. PAYDAY 2 VR includes all the content from the core game and players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}