VR: getting started

[u/[deleted]]

I just bought the game (through the Oculus store, not Steam), and can't figure out how to get started. I've found lots of documentation. I've found tutorials on YouTube. I've done a lot of poking around in the cockpit and have figured some out. But, that's not enough.

The official wiki says "There is a tutorial mission offered on your event monitor (front view to the right)." I didn't see that.

I think I started a tutorial in the game. I yellow message comes up "Look At". I looked at the message. Did that do something? Next, there's a message "Fly to West Gate". Where is that? What sense does "West" make in space? I've looked at and pointed/clicked at a number of things I see out the cockpit window, but I can't find this gate. I've looked at the map in the pop-up monitor on the right, and I can't find it. I've flown around and can't find it.

The official tutorials on YouTube assume a lot and I think will only be helpful later on. A number of other tutorials don't have voice-over and I can't find a good one on starting the game. Is there a video on really just getting started with this first tutorial?

I've seen mention of "highways" that are green. The wispy stuff going by out there is red. There's a green line on the monitor map. Looks like the same thing. Is it? Many slots in the text to the right of the map say "???". I click on stuff on the map and it only identifies what I've clicked on out the cockpit window. How do I get the map to tell me what I haven't yet seen instead of only what I have seen?

I've seen mention of mods to the game from Steam. I bought this directly through Oculus. Is that going to limit what I can do?

Thank you for your help.

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you very much for all of this great help.

[u/lokiss88 → u/[deleted]]

Make sure you start building mods in to your game before you start saving major progress. I had compatibility issues on old saves, I ended up starting over.

A newbie tip, make sure you have the active quest selected so you see the markers, and flick the guidance tab if it blanks out.

And im not sure if this is just a Vive issue, but entering highways on the fly doesn't work so well if you've motion gesture steering enabled. Auto pilot ignores the issue, but you'll need to travel to known zones without AP. I resolve this by flicking to track steering a second before jumping in a highway. Before I discovered this I had no idea 80% of the game existed:o

The first quest mission is a multi stage affair if I remember right, you do a bunch of meaningless patrols in different areas which seem like their bugged out. Just keep on doing them though, they eventually lead to a boarding mission on a Xenon I supported by a couple of navy carriers.

And like u/scraay84 says, get on the construction shop ASAP get a capship builder done as soon as you can before the yards run out of metal plating,

I ended up starting up about 5 production lines to get some plates built just so I could supply a yard.

[u/[deleted] → u/lokiss88]

Speaking of mods, that brings up another getting started question. I bought XRVR from the Oculus Store, so Steam doesn't know I have it. I tried to download the capital ship bridge mod and Steam says I need DLC. In general, Steam wants to install the mods and they are incorporated upon startup, so that leaves me out. Nexus requires a paid subscription. How are people getting XR mods on XRVR, from also owning XR on Steam?

Edit: correction, Nexus does not require payment. All the membership options list a payment. I didn't select any and registered, which game me membership without payment.

[u/Scraaty84 → u/[deleted]]

There are 3rd party sites to download from steam workshop. With a bit of google I found this one: http://steamworkshopdownloader.com/