An Idea to make Walk Locomotion a more enjoyable experience on PSVR

[hazy plover]

I've been playing on PSVR for almost 5 Years, and I love playing Paintball and Lasertag, but I start to realize that the Walk Locomotion in PSVR is really not that good, specially because of the lack of a Joystick on the PSMoves. So I was thinking, how to make Walk a more enjoyable and balanced experience on PSVR?

I come up with 2 ideas:

1st idea: Add an Option to Make the Walk Locomotion follow where you're looking.
I've seen some games doing this, I know it sounds a bit weird, but specially within a more competitive gameplay, this would help a lot, specially because the Walk controls now, don't let me consistently use 2 Weapons at same time in Paintball.

2nd Idea: Give more freedom for Strafe.
Make it the same speed as walk/sprint, and I don't know why, when you got your hand pointing up or down, the Strafe doesn't work, just why? There's no reason for that, just make Strafe a "different walk button for right and left", it would be way better in competitive games, not only in competitive, it would be a good add up in general.

Those are my ideas for PSVR Walk, I'm not saying that the default Walk Locomotion should be like that, I just think about 2 new things that could be added for the players sake, any questions, just use the chat.

[dull sonnet]

Isn’t number 1 already a thing?

[hazy plover]

It used to be, but they removed it

[dull sonnet]

Bruh

[golden inlet]

wot no way

also for the second thing, i think that’s just because it takes the Y into account when trying to making you strafe. Personally i like it, it means you can control your speed more accurately like with a joystick by not pointing forwards aalllll the way

[vivid karma]

best solution: ~~sell your PSVR and get a used quest ~~
I like how the "Push To Walk" system works right now, I don't really feel like dedicated strafe buttons would be very useful (well, to me atleast; I use Oculus/Valve headsets, so I do have a joystick when I need it)

Idk how controls are set up on the PSVR, so I don't really know how it would be added without compromising elsewhere

[hazy plover]

I mean, the Strafe are not bad, they're just not that good, and have some really weird limitations to it, and about that Y, I actually don't see why you would like to ajust your speed, I mean it's not bad, but if it didn't have this it would be almost as good anyway.

[hazy plover]

For PSVR I would say that 80% of PSVR users use the Strafe, since it is so easy to not break your wrist while walking, and it is easy to use and a practical way of controlling yourself, I think the Strafe is really good, but I see those limitations that are, in my opinion a bit pointless.

[golden inlet]

It’s like asking why joysticks can do it, it’s not useful to everybody but if it’s possible to move at both max speed and at a more controlled speed, why not allow both instead of just the one? It would be near if you could turn that off though.

[hazy plover]

I know that, that's why it exist the Auto sprint, the Strafe should be affected to it, and if it is a separate option, I know that RR is really awkward when it comes to add more options, specially because sometimes it creates some really weird glitches

[golden inlet]

oh auto-sprint doesn’t affect strafe?

[hazy plover]

Noup

And that's why it's so awkward to use in PvPs

[golden inlet]

ah damn, yeah ok that shouldn’t be a thing. 😅
Maybe make a zendesk post about it and see if you can garner some attention that way?

[hazy plover]

I will post it there, I personally really want this on the game

Like I actually think that this should be a next update thing, just imaging playing LaserTag or Paintball on those controllers are quite mind blowing