Since the latest Meta firmware update, a few of our ports get caught into an infinite loop when starting them for the first time after installation.
The loop happens during the "permissions dialog" that comes up when starting the ports the first time.
Note: This issue only affects new installs!
The workaround for now:
Option 1:
Grant permission through the dialog window and then force the device to pow...
NOTE: After installing this new version, please ensure you delete Quake4/saves/q4base/Quake4Config.cfg, otherwise you will not get the new defaults in terms of shadows / refresh rate etc.
I'd wanted to drop this a bit sooner, but Quest 3 threw a spanner in the works as the game was not correctly scaling to 72fps. This caused a constant judder. Thankfully fixed after a lot of pain.
Still looking at general improveme...
2023-11-11 15:14:15 +0000 UTC View PostPlease disable the Passthrough mode before starting any Team Beef port for the first time!
Otherwise your headset will be caught in an infinite loop that will need a forced shutdown.
This is only needed for the first startup after installation!
2023-11-09 15:19:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
It's time for another RealRTCW XR update for you.. hopefully this one might encourage a few more of you to give it a try as this has had some significant bug-fixes, polish and improvements since the last update that introduced multiview! There's some very satisfying additions in this release we hope you all agree.
There is still plenty to do, however it is reaching the point where it is probably good enough for a pro...
2023-11-05 09:28:41 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick head's up to inform you that bHaptics have pushed out the update to their bHaptics player fixing support for Team Beef ports.
Make sure your app has updated. You can check via the player itself in the top right hand corner. As previously, when starting an app like Doom3Quest, you'll feel an initial haptic pulse when the game loads to confirm its ready to go!
More bHaptic and ProTube support coming soon. Wrath: Ae...
2023-11-02 14:42:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Team Beef VR Community member Ermac has been adding some VR polish to a few of the newer scary mods ready for a Halloween Update. These are now live in the QuestZDoom Launcher.
See any install instructions in the relevant download area in the Launcher.
https://sidequestvr.com/app/796/questzdoom
G.Z. P.T. by Batandy<...
2023-11-01 22:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons
Firstly, my apologies, I promised a RealRTCW XR update "imminently" some time ago, however a combination of the Quest 3 Release and technical issues subsequently got in the way and so this has taken way longer than I intended. However I do hope that this belated release does actually bring some good news..
With the update I had planned to drop I admit I had rather ignored the elephant in the room.. the perf...
2023-10-19 19:22:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe team have all received their Quest 3's and we've been manically testing how good the performance in all ports. Generally, across the board this comes with a healthy resolution bump (as 1.0 sampling is a percentage of the eye buffer provided by the API). Even with the resolution bump, performance has also improved.
We're taking this on a game by game basis. First up, is the fan favourite: Doom 3. Due to some fixes to multi-view ...
2023-10-14 21:16:17 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patrons!
Exciting news, RazeXR is now at version 1.0.0 and is live on SideQuest for everyone to play, obviously this isn't that exciting for our patrons, but what is exciting is BaggyG has created a fantastic launcher to use with RazeXR that works fantastically (unlike my dodgy earlier 2D efforts). So we would recommend you head over to SideQuest, uninstall the current version of RazeXR on your headset and install...
2023-09-30 15:43:50 +0000 UTC View Post
My Nan used to say "small apples are sweet". But, then again, she was never involved in a Strogg invasion. Here's a quick QoL release for Quake 4 with two small changes.
1) You can now toggle the flashlight on and off using the left joystick click.
2) You no longer have a permadeath crash situation looming over your head like some sort of Strogg Sword of Damocles.
Be aware depending how you were killed the view ...
2023-09-19 23:17:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons
So another week has passed and it's time for a bit more Team Beef fun... another something completely new (well.. kinda) for you to play with.. RealRTCW XR (for PCVR only) can now be downloaded from our Patreon download site (link at the end of this post)!!
Obviously this is the first early-access, still in development, has a lot of issues and incomplete stuff in it still, build.. so take it as you find it. We're not r...
2023-09-17 22:09:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
I hope this finds you all not too traumatised by your recent experience of Stroggification in first person!
In something of a Team Beef "Shock and Awe" tactic, hot on the heals of the recent Quake4 patreon release comes some more exciting news.. Return to Castle Wolfenstein is coming to a PCVR headset near you soon!
In fact, there's quite a bit more to it than that. This isn't simply a PCVR conversion of ...
2023-09-11 22:19:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Its time to share a very early in-development version of Quake 4. This has been a strange project and considering the amount of work already sunk into it, we'd usually be far further along. But for the reasons described in previous Patreon posts its taken a long time to get the core both stable enough and with the potential that we can add enough work, fixes and polish to make it a compelling VR mod.
However, I think th...
So the last time I left you folks, we had no particles in Quake4 whatsoever and needed to come up with some alternatives to make this game playable. As shown in the video, I have made significant progress!
The particles themselves were quite a challenge if I didn't want to completely replace the existing renderer. Even when they were working due to the extra complications of Multiview, there were a number of effects which were caus...
2023-08-16 22:43:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
Another update for you, with some additional QoL fixes for both PCVR and Standalone players. Definitely getting close to a publicly releasable build at this stage.
We've added a couple of excellent mods to the QuestZDoom Launcher to make it easier for people to check them out.
Return of the Triad is a homage to the original rise of the triad [ROTT] by apogee games, using zdoom features.
PROJECT OSIRIS by ArcturusDeluxe Project Osiris is a remake/reimagining of the Amiga FPS game Alien Breed 3D, using the GZDoom engine.
Voxel Doom 2 2023-08-06 18:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
Exciting news!, the PCVR build now contains the binaries for both Jedi Outcast _and_ Jedi Academy. Furthermore, this update also includes a new version of the standalone apk (for Meta Quest and Pico devices), since both versions now share the same code-base, there were a number of fixes and changes required following the merge.
As always, we are eager to hear of any issues/bugs you might experience, if you do find so...
2023-08-04 11:41:42 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick one.. as some people have noticed it seems their save games have disappeared after updating to the 1.1.14 early access build earlier today.
Don't worry, they haven't been lost.. it turns out that when I was merging the PCVR project with the standalone build and then recreating the project files, I ticked a box that means it no longer uses your documents folder to save things, and uses the standard JKO folder...
2023-07-30 20:39:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
Here's a small update for the PCVR build of JKXR addressing _some_ of the more serious issues that have come out of testing so far (and thank-you everyone who has provided feedback, it has been very helpful!).
Here's the change-log so you can see what you're getting (you can just install this over the top of the existing binaries and pk3 files):
Hello Patrons!
The day has arrived.. the first Team Beef PCVR build of one of our OpenXR Standalone Ports! and hopefully the first of several more in the future. This isn't our first PCVR port, if you've not played BaggyG's VR port of Bendy and the Ink Machine, then I would highly recommend it!, but this is the first that involved taking an existing standalone port to PCVR.
So.. what should have been a fairly strai...
2023-07-26 19:25:36 +0000 UTC View PostA brief one.... the news is out: Dr. Beef has spent some time in the lab and emerged with a playable version of JK-XR PCVR version!
An in-development version will be dropping soon for Team Beef Patreons for testing. Its not quite ready as yet due to some issues with the SteamVR OpenXR runtime version, but will be available for mid-tier patrons and up as soon as that's been sorted.
We'll certainly need patrons with Valve...
2023-07-22 15:56:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons
Another "this is probably the last" JKXR update for you. Pretty much all the issues on the Trello board that we feel are important have now been addressed, and Bummser is feverishly working away at curating a great set of mods for the launcher (which will be a separate update at some point), all prior to a full public release.
The biggest change for this release is the fact that with the Team Beef Director's Cut settin...
2023-07-16 18:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Very good question, thanks for asking! I've been wanting to give an update on this for awhile as I work through some of the biggest issues. As you may have seen from the previous video, the game runs and somewhat works. The elephant in the room is the closed source advanced particle system that Quake 4 used. This was unique to Quake4, so ports like Doom 3 or Prey did not have this to contend with.
Although some effects that use thi...
2023-07-02 19:48:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons
So after dropping the last RazeXR update, I got a little carried away with a few of the other bits and bobs in RazeXR that weren't _quite right_ (or just wrong), to the extent that I think with this update, it is in a pretty decent state; certainly good enough for me to leave it be for a time at least.
One of the main issues people were having was the way the screen jittered about when firing weapons in Blood, this is...
2023-06-28 21:09:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Good Evening Patrons and Happy Summer Solstice!
It's getting late here, so I'll keep this fairly brief.. as you know it has been quite a while since the last RazeXR update. It had reached a stage where there weren't really too many additional features that could be added at this point, not until the underlying Raze engine itself had support for things such as 3D models for weapons and much deeper support for mods and scripting.
Whi...
2023-06-21 22:22:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Download for Mid-Tier (€6 a month and up): https://www.quakevr.com/patreon/
Hi Beefrons,
Its been a little while since we spoke. Before you ask, yes Quake 4 playable is definitely coming soon and is now consuming the majority of my Beef time. For a few reasons, chief of which is that I had to travel without my headset (I don't recommend i...
Hello Patrons!
It's been a couple of weeks since the last update; so it felt time to drop another early access build in the hope that we can gather some more feedback. We are starting to feel like the end is well in sight now, after this update we are probably in "release candidate" territory.
However, that isn't to say we plan on making this public imminently, as there's still other things that need to be in place before we can ma...
2023-06-11 19:57:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons!
Another update for you containing a number of fixes/improvements for both JKA and JKO that we hope you enjoy. I will keep this post short and get straight to the good stuff..
JKXR 1.1.7 Changelog
Hello Patrons!
We have another exciting update to JKXR to share with you, originally this was going to be a fairly small release a week or so ago; however curiosity got the better of me and I started looking at some of the vehicle issues so it took a little longer than expected.
So.. if you fancy racing around Zonju V on a Speeder Bike, or hopping on the back of a tauntaun on the ice planet Hoth, you now can!<...
2023-05-15 19:56:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
This is the build several of you have been waiting for, especially those who took the leap-of-faith and installed the PTC v53 firmware on your Quest 2 / Quest Pro (understandable, the local dimming on the Pro does look like it's probably rather nice!) and discovered that JKXR would crash on start-up.
Unable to sleep at night, we did the same to our Quest 2s and fortunately have found the source of the issue (an un-in...
2023-04-30 10:36:17 +0000 UTC View Post