Alright, this one is just too funny not to cover. Tetris Effect released yesterday on the Epic Games Store, supporting full VR gameplay with the HTC Vive and Oculus hardware. Sounds good so far, right? Well, you need to have SteamVR if you want to launch the game with VR enabled, meaning that in order to play a game that exists only on one client, you need to launch it through another. You couldn’t make this one up.
The news was broken by Dark Side of Gaming, and Epic Games reached out to the site to clarify that, of course, the regular version of Tetris Effect will play as normal, but the VR component will require SteamVR. The statement from Epic points to an FAQ which states that you can launch the game through Oculus VR if you’re using an Oculus, however the statement says that “Tetris Effect VR does require require SteamVR, both on HTC Vive and Oculus”. Your guess is as good as ours, I suppose.
It’s worth pointing out that the rest of the game works perfectly fine, at least according to DSOG, with support for 4K resolution, uncapped framerates if vsync is disabled and a variety of graphical options, but let’s be honest: no-one is going to be talking about adjustable particle volume, they’ll be talking about how you have to launch the game through SteamVR. Feel free to have a giggle about this one in the comments below.
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