It's Here!

After about 14 months of development, PunjiVR Version 2 has finally been released to the main branch for all of you to enjoy. Version 2 is a total remake of PunjiVR, and it fixes and improves everything wrong with the original build while also paving a better path for future updates.

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Main Features & Improvements:

• Full player body
  
• New locomotion system (a combination of joystick and armswinger movement, plus physical crawling & climbing)
  
• Overhauled audio (you'll like it)
  
• Improved visuals
  
• Better gunplay and weapon handling
  
• Updated inventory system that's affected by item weight & bulk
  
• Traps
  
• Larger map potential (the Gun Truck mission and Intro are set on a 2km X 2km size map)
  
• Better AI
  
• Allied AI
  
  
• SteamVR integration (Index controllers use finger curling now, rebindable controls via SteamVR, pausing, and overall more stability)
  
• Better performance
  
• Proper controller positioning (no more need for manually adjusting your hand offsets)
  
• Reliable height calibration
  
  
• A whole lot more. Scroll through the last 20 test build update notes for details

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• Intro
  
• Main Menu / Shooting Range
  
• Movement Tutorial
  
• Obstacle Course
  
  
• Firefight (Endless 10v10 battle set near a village)
  
• Last Stand (Endless wave defense mode that gets harder the longer you play)
  
• Tunnel Rat (Collect 3 pieces of randomly placed intel and escape the Viet Cong tunnel system. Watch out for traps!)
  
• Gun Truck (Defend the gun truck as long as you can. Each kill earns one point that can be saved up and spent on loadouts for you, armor and weapons for the truck, and ammo refills. Make sure to keep an eye on the truck's health and repair it with the wrench to keep it moving!)

• 15 infantry firearms
  
• 4 fixed/static weapons
  
• 5 frag grenades and a set of 5 smoke grenades
  
• 4 Traps to watch out for (each can be disarmed)
  
• Flashlight
  
• Your fists

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What's Next?

Version 2 is the start of a new era for PunjiVR -- this is just the beginning.

A lot of exciting features are planned for the future, but I want to spend the next few major updates adding pure content to the game before I start work on anything major.

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Closing:

It's a relief for me to finally see Version 2 take over the main build. Version 1 was decent and it had some good ideas, but it was just too messy to keep maintaining and adding to.

I know there's not a whole lot of content in the current build, but that will change very quickly over the course of the next few months, so stay tuned!

Over the course of its development, Version 2 was tested by a number of various community members and their help has been incredibly valuable, so I appreciate all of you who took the time to play around with it during the testing phase. I will continue to use the separate test branch for future updates, especially major ones, so if you're interested in taking part in that, head over to the Discord and get the 'tester' role to be notified of new releases.

I look forward to seeing what you all think about the new PunjiVR and, as always, I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for it, so don't hesitate to let me know. You can do so in the comments of this post, on the forums, or through one of the social links below.

Thank you all and good luck in the jungle!

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Discord[discord.gg]
Subreddit

Check out the next iteration of PunjiVR early and provide feedback to help make it the best it can be!

What Is Version 2?

Click the link below for a roadmap and info on Version 2:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1900020/view/4147323864458114135

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Highlights:

• Intro Scene

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A new intro scene plays the first time you launch the game (after height calibration). Deleting your save file lets you experience the game from scratch, but the mission was also added to level selection as an alternative.

Credits page

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If you have voice lines in game and don't see your name, or you would prefer I use a different name for your credit, please contact me and let me know!

Rucksack now works with custom loadouts

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Other Changes/Fixes:

• Disabled custom loadouts on Range
  
• Fixed issues with M60 in custom loadouts
  
• M60 top cover now closes when the gun is stored in a shoulder slot
  
• Open bolt weapons now spawn with their bolts back in loadouts
  
• Fixed UI errors with shoulder slots
  
• Made logic for stored flashlight work better (no more double lights, more accurate checks, etc.)
  
• Flashlights that are powered on now stay lit when stored in your shoulder slot. It also follows your camera rather than your chest, because it's stored on your helmet instead of your chest rig.
  
• Smoke grenades now block bots' vision
  
• Chest inventory now moves and rotates more accurately with your body and is easier to access when crouching
  
• Fixed multiple pathing errors for the gun truck
  
• Can no longer store grenades once their pin is pulled
  
• Added extra particle effects to the gun truck
  
• Added more cover logic to multiple props and vegetation
  
• Optimized bullet trails
  
• Improved dynamic lighting for default graphics setting (High) to look better with Tunnel Rat
  
• Weapon sounds will now continue playing even after the bot is killed, or if the weapon is stored (for player guns)
  
• Various other bug fixes and optimizations

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Conclusion:

Welp, here we are.

This is the last test build for Version 2 and it's reflective of the full release.

I plan on launching it to the main build in the next week or two, so it should give enough time for you all to test it and for me to redo the store page. If you do test it, please let me know what you think of it in its entirety considering it will be the PunjiVR from now on. Your feedback, as always, is extremely helpful.

I tagged this announcement as a "patch" instead of a "regular" update to hopefully give the real, full release extra visibility. I will also do a large marketing push to try and get as many new (and returning) players on board, which is something I've neglected for the past year or so, so thank you to everyone that stayed with development and continued to support the game during that downtime.

I'm still planning out the roadmap for the updates following Version 2's full launch, so stay tuned for info on that -- and don't hesitate to reach out with suggestions if you have any! The main goal for the first ~year after V2's release will be to get as much content into the base game as possible so that I can afford to spend longer development periods on larger additions, like vehicles, level editors, larger missions, and multiplayer.

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If you find any bugs, have any suggestions, or want to share your opinion, head down to the comments of this post or through any of the links below. Thank you all and good luck!

Discord[discord.gg]
Subreddit


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If you'd like to participate in this test build, follow the directions below: