The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered simply launched on PC and console, providing up a contemporary, refreshed model of Bethesda’s beloved 2006 open world RPG. And earlier than we may even say “cease proper there, felony scum!”, VR gamers are already underneath the hood.
One in every of Bethesda’s most notable enhancements has been bringing Oblivion to Unreal Engine 5 slightly than the sport’s authentic Gamebryo engine, that means it not solely featues improved textures, character, fashions animations, and lighting, nevertheless it’s additionally successfully opening up the sport to modders who need to soar in due to ‘Praydog’s UEVR plugin (hyperlink under).
By now, UEVR is fairly feature-rich, together with help for 6DOF head motion, full stereoscopic 3D, frontend GUI for simple course of injection, help for OpenXR runtimes, in addition to movement controller help. Nonetheless, intrepid UEVR customers might want to tinker with settings to make a particular mod profile that performs properly with the sport—one thing YouTuber ‘LunchAndVR’ is doing proper now.
Take a look at the gameplay video under to see LunchAndVR’s early try at bringing Oblivion to VR:
Within the video’s description, LunchAndVR says these are nonetheless “very early assessments,” noting they nonetheless don’t have full 6DOF profiles to share simply but as a result of movement controls inflicting some crashes.
Nonetheless, early assessments look fairly promising, as LunchAndVR takes on rats and zombies in a richly detailed dungeon, replete with dynamic lighting, additional noting the mod “runs rather well indoors, however decrease efficiency outside.”
Granted, the video above was created utilizing a reasonably beefy rig, and also you’ll most likely want one too. It’s solely on medium graphics settings with DLSS, utilizing a Quest 3 with Digital Desktop’s VDXR runtime set on ‘Extremely’. As for PC specs, LunchAndVR is working the sport at 72hz refresh fee through an Nvidia RTX 4090, Intel Core i9-13900 CPU, and 64GB of RAM.
Whereas not finalized, VR customers can soar into Oblivion at this time by downloading Praydog’s UEVR mod and presumably just a few check profiles presently being shared. Particularly, LunchAndVR has shared two particular profiles: a 6DOF profile from ‘Keyser’ that adjusts for higher efficiency in VR (Google Drive obtain) and a 3DOF profile from ‘Pande4360’ that additionally consists of VR efficiency changes (Google Drive obtain).
You’ll in fact want an authentic copy of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered for PC. LunchAndVR notes it can work with the model accessible on Steam, but in addition the model accessible by way of Xbox’s PC Sport Cross.
