“But actually using the Pip Boy? That’s pretty rough. I’d guess that’s out of fear of causing frame rate issues when the physics go bonkers, which is understandable but disappointing. It’s also disappointing that, like in Skyrim VR on PlayStation VR, you’re not able to pick up and move around corpses (or pieces thereof) like you can in the normal version of Fallout 4. That’s largely because your hands aren’t modeled in the world unless you’re using them as bludgeoning weapons, so when you reach out and grab a piece of junk to look at it you don’t see a hand grasping it – it just floats above your fist or gun or Vive controller model. That said, the sense of presence isn’t great when interacting with the world. And if you thought Fallout was gory before, you haven’t seen anything until the blood and eyeballs are spraying right at you.
When a gaggle of feral ghouls gets up in your face, activating VATS to stop them in their tracks for a few auto-aimed headshots is a lifesaver. Not quite as smooth as a made-for-VR shooter like Robo Recall or Superhot VR, but not bad. “Because the combat in Fallout is focused on shooting, picking up a gun and blasting mole rats and raiders feels pretty good. But it soon smoothed out, and for the most part played as expected. I did have a few stutters on hardware above the requirements (a GTX 1080), but those appear to be limited to certain areas – such as Vault 111, which doesn’t make the best first impression. Far fewer knobs had to be turned to their lowest setting here than in Skyrim VR on the PlayStation 4, and while Fallout 4 was never a cutting-edge game when it comes to graphics, character models, textures, and draw distances are only a little bit below where I remembered them. Fallout 4 clearly wasn’t built for this, as the troublesome Pip Boy menu system demonstrates all too well, but you can get around and defend yourself well enough that if you love Fallout and have a high-end PC and an HTC Vive, it’s hard to say no to.Given the sky-high system requirements of a GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD RX Vega 56, it’s not all that surprising that Fallout 4 looks pretty respectable in VR. Walking through the ruins of Boston in Fallout 4 VR is a sobering experience that makes the post-nuclear world feel that much more real.
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