What you’ll want to know
- Developer Workforce Beef created a VR model of the traditional Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast for the Meta Quest platform.
- This obtain is free, nevertheless, you may have to personal a duplicate of Jedi Knight II to make use of it.
- Jedi Knight II is on sale on Steam for $3.49 till Could 4, however you may have to sideload the sport onto the Quest to make use of it.
Trying to play a VR Star Wars sport that is a bit beefier than video games like Vader Immortal or Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge? Developer Workforce Beef has your again, and due to the Star Wars sale on Steam, you may get the traditional Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast in your Quest right this moment for simply $3.49 till Could 4.
As you may think, there is a small caveat to the method: you may must sideload Jedi Knight II onto your Quest to play it in VR. If you have not carried out it but, this is methods to set up SideQuest in your headset (opens in new tab). This sport runs utterly on Quest 2 (opens in new tab) or Quest Professional {hardware}, so you do not want a PC to play, however you may want one to get it arrange.
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast initially got here out on the PC in 2002 to rave opinions and amassed fairly a following. The third-person sport makes use of id Tech 3 — that is the engine that powered Quake 3 — so it does not look cutting-edge like Jedi: Survivor, but it surely runs extraordinarily nicely on Quest {hardware} and appears nearly pretty much as good as a number of the finest Quest video games (opens in new tab).
The VR model strikes into first individual and provides in some spectacular VR-centric UI and controls, together with full movement help — so that you maintain a gun or a lightsaber precisely such as you would anticipate in VR — and may work together with the atmosphere by bodily urgent buttons together with your fingers as a substitute of tapping a button in your controller. Even the weapon choice menu has been redesigned for VR by Workforce Beef.
Methods to set up Jedi Knight II on Quest
After you have SideQuest put in in your headset, open it up and observe these steps to get JKXR — that is the VR model of Jedi Knight II — put in in your Quest.
1. Open the app drawer on the Quest by urgent the house button in your proper controller and tapping the icon that appears like a grid of dots.
2. Filter apps to unknown sources by choosing the drop-down menu on the top-right of the app drawer.
3. Choose SideQuest from the menu.
4. In SideQuest, click on the filter button on the highest proper. It seems to be like an upside-down pyramid.
5. Within the menu, choose sport ports, then choose apply.
6. Scroll down and choose JKXR.
7. Choose Obtain App (Sideload).
8. As soon as it is put in, open your app drawer once more and choose JKXR from the checklist in unknown sources.
9. Grant JKXR permission to put in writing to the Quest’s storage. JKXR will create the directories it wants and shut.
10. Take off your headset and head to your PC.
Now to convey the sport over
As soon as you have bought that carried out, open up Steam in your PC and purchase Jedi Knight II. Obtain the sport and observe these steps to get it in your Quest:
1. Join your Quest to your PC by way of a USB cable.
2. In your Quest, choose enable to share file entry together with your PC.
3. In your PC, open Steam, then right-click on the sport in Steam and choose properties.
4. Choose native information on the checklist on the left.
5. Choose browse to open a File Explorer window within the listing.
6. In File Explorer, open the GameData folder, then open the base folder.
7. Spotlight assets0.pk3, assets1.pk3, assets2.pk3, and assets5.pk3, right-click and choose copy.
8. In File Explorer, navigate to the Quest 2. It’s going to be positioned below This PC within the left-hand menu.
9. Open the JKXR folder, then the JK2 folder, then the base folder.
10. Paste the information you copied above into this listing.
11. As soon as that is carried out, unplug your Quest, then launch JKXR in your Quest utilizing the earlier steps.
For those who like this sport on the Quest, take a look at a few of Workforce Beef’s ports on SideQuest together with Half-Life, Doom, Doom 3, Quake, and extra.
Play traditional PC video games in VR with a Quest 2 and SideQuest. It is an entire new perspective on a number of the finest video games ever.
