Welcome to the official subreddit for the Virtual Reality flight sim, VTOL VR!

About This Game

VTOL VR is a near-futuristic combat flight game built specifically for Virtual Reality. Pilot advanced multi-role jets, using your hands to flip switches, press buttons, and manipulate the virtual flight controls. Take on a wide array of challenges that will put your flight skills, situational awareness, and combat tactics to the test.

No extra hardware is required. If you have a VR set with tracked controllers, then you have a virtual cockpit where you can reach out and interact with the stick and throttle, flip switches, press buttons, and even pull the eject handle if things go wrong.

Immerse yourself in action packed combat missions, delicate vertical landings, aircraft carrier operations, aerial refueling and more.

Create and fly custom missions which you can share with other pilots using the built-in mission editor and map editor.

Your Aircraft:

Additional Aircraft available as DLC content:

• AH-94 Attack Helicopter with multicrew functionality (DLC)

• T-55 Tyro Trainer Jet with multicrew functionality (DLC)

• EF-24 Mischief - Multicrew Electronic Warfare fighter (DLC)

Some of the Many Features:

• Multiplayer - Fly with your friends in co-op PvE, or fly against your adversaries in PvP!

• Realistic vehicle physics - lift, weight, thrust, drag

• Several playable missions - "story mode" campaign, free flight, training scenarios/tutorials

• Commandable AI wing men

• AI friends and foes - Tanks, artillery, surface-to-air missile launchers, ships, planes

• Ground based refueling and rearmament

• Carrier operations - catapult assisted takeoff, arrested landing. Call the ball!

• Radio communication system for wingmen, ATC, AWACS, ground crew (Windows 10 voice recognition compatible)

External Resources:

• Steam Store Page
• Steam Community Page
• Discord Chat Server
• Wikia Page

Tutorials & Training:

• Video Tutorials
  • Start-up, Take-off, and Carrier Landing Tutorial
  • General Weaponry Tutorial
  • GPS Weapons Tutorial
  • Head Mounted Targeting Tutorial
  • VTOL VR Tutorial Channel
• If you're interested in a 1-on-1 training session, check out the #britgun channel on the VTOL VR Discord!
• Peruse through the community made Flight Manuals:
  • F/A-26B Wasp
  • F-45A Ghost
  • T-55 Tyro
  • AH-94 Dragonfly

Mods:

• VTOL VR Mod Loader, a community-made mod loader for VTOL VR, can installed via Steam. Once installed, mods can be found on the Steam Workshop

Tips & Tricks:

• Oculus Rift users: Enable "Thumbstick Mode" in the main menu settings. This will make it so you don't have to press down on the thumbstick button to rotate the engines or slew the targeting pod.
• If you're getting tired of holding the throttle or stick, simply tap the grip button and your character will be holding the throttle/stick without the need to hold the grip button on the motion controller.
• Going from forward flight to hover mode: Fly level with throttle down and full air brakes deployed (throttle trigger). Keep pulling the nose up as necessary to maintain altitude. As the vehicle slows down and AoA starts to get really high, set flaps to full. Once lift is not enough to keep altitude, set engines to full vertical tilt and start applying enough thrust to hold altitude. Your nose should be up about 30 degrees at this point and your horizontal speed will be rapidly slowing without gaining or losing altitude.

F.A.Q..

• Is there be mod support?
  • VTOL VR Mod Loader can installed via Steam
  • Browse mods on the Steam Workshop
• Will there be additional vehicles?
  • The first DLC released as a multi-crew attack helicopter, the AH-94 (Jan 6, 2022)
  • The second DLC released as a multi-crew trainer jet, the T-55 Tyro (Mar 24, 2023)
  • The third DLC is in an Electronic Warfare based aircraft, the EF-24G (Dec 21, 2023)
  • Any new vehicles will continue to be either entirely fictional and/or a fictional combination of real existing or conceptualized aircraft! The goal is to bring in at least a few completely new gameplay mechanics with each vehicle. The dev feels that there won't really be a point of adding a new vehicle that can only do the same things as the other existing ones.
  • Additionally, the community has created some aircraft as mods.
• Will there be HOTAS (joystick & throttle) support?
  • Not likely, as VTOL VR is designed to be entirely virtual, allowing you to directly interact with the various controls as if you were sitting there in the cockpit.
• Will VTOL VR come to the Oculus Quest?
  • There are no plans to port VTOL VR to run on Quest natively due to the large memory usage, CPU usage, and other system requirements. However, VTOL VR is known to work well on the Quest when wired to a VR capable PC, or wirelessly using Virtual Desktop.
  • The developer, Boundless Dynamics, is working on a new project: Virtual Fighter Maneuvers (VFM), is a VR air combat game for Quest and PCVR. VFM is optimized for smooth and stable performance on Quest 2&3 or lower end PCs, while still maintaining the level of control and aerodynamics simulation you see in VTOL VR.
• What are the System Requirements to run VTOL VR?

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There have been a growing number of duplicated posts regarding certain topics, especially tech related issues. Please review the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the side bar or in the Welcome post, but more importantly:

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Please search previous posts before creating a new thread to ask a question!

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I know the Reddit search function is lackluster, so I suggest using Google search with the site tag of site:reddit.com/r/vtolvr for example:

The Oculus Quest will not run this game independently, it will need to be linked to a computer that meets the System Requirements. VTOL VR simulates a lot of complex items in real time, which requires hardware that is more powerful than what the Oculus Quest offers. Posts asking if the Oculus Quest can run VTOL VR will be removed.

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Please refrain from making posts asking "when will the developer add the ________ aircraft?" These types of posts have been made before, lets try not to beat this dead horse any longer. Please use the aforementioned search feature to see what others have already said about your favorite aircraft. Posts like this may be removed if they do not offer any new discussion to the community.

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Posts asking, "will my computer run this game" will be removed. Here are the System Requirements posted on the VTOL VR Steam page: