Features

– reprojection led me here –

Camera & movement

• First person everywhere except for real cutscenes — including kicks, grapples, actions, jumps, ladders, boat, minecart and more. Can be toggled off.
• Complete HMD movement with no lag at all and fixed UI appearance
• Minecart level fixed and in first person throughout. You can also lean left and right to prevent derailing.
• Corrected HMD offsets for a lot of riddles
• Roomscale support (beta), with a calibration button against accidental crouching

Weapons & combat

• Manual reloading, including the Separate Ways and Mercenaries DLC, with advanced mag and shell push-in animations
• Manual knives for the right and left hand — the left one is replicated from the ground up
• Manual knife parry with left and right
• The chokehold — grab an enemy by the neck and finish him with the knife — details below
• Knife throwing with both hands, and the blade sticks in your opponent exactly where you hit him — details below
• Weapon recoil (off / mid / max)
• Burst fire modes for the LE5, the Chicago Sweeper and the CQBR — details below
• Working rifle scopes, with fixed crosshairs, correct material roughness and proper brightness — details below
• Manual grenade throw (or eggs)
• Easter egg: the flamethrower — details below
• Complete new holster system with visible mesh clones and „in use“ indicators
• Pistol twirl, just for fun

Body, HUD & feedback

• Full body visible (thanks Andy)
• HUD group with health, bullets and more, tied to the right hand
• Custom crosshair sizes with no spread, and custom laser colors without any dependencies
• Haptic feedback linked to the bullet shell generator, plus some extras
• Manual flashlight — I do not want to make it accessible all the time. The game knows when you need it. Flip it with the left trigger, just like a knife.
• Two hand gestures with funny one-liners from Leon and Ada (SW DLC). One of Leon's gestures even has ultra powers.

Content & compatibility

• Ported from Lua to C++ — a dramatic performance boost over the previous versions
• Support for the Separate Ways DLC (fully playable)
• Support for the Mercenaries DLC (fully playable)
• Complete new bindings — see Bindings
• Support for OpenVR and OpenXR
• Support for Steam or Meta headsets (per-controller offsets)
• No fluffy mod manager needed anymore — use the installer

Knife throwing

I've tuned the knives so that you don't hit every time, but there's still a homing effect and some assistance to help you find your target. This balance is important and was actually very hard to tune — otherwise it would feel like an aimbot.

Also, you shouldn't throw knives in close combat; use melee attacks instead. Valid targets for a throwing knife include all enemies, animals and breakables.

The chokehold

Parry an attack successfully, or shoot an enemy in the legs, and you can put him in a chokehold with a left grip — the same opening the roundhouse kick uses. Leon takes the knife into his right hand for you, and you should know what to do from there.

How you stab matters. A light strike only penetrates a little, while a stab with real momentum leaves the knife lodged in him — and does a bit more damage for it. You get the blade back after a moment, the way you always do, and the hold doesn't last forever either.

Rifle scopes

The rifle scopes are finally working as they should. Zooming by pressing the left stick also works as it used to.

Material roughness and visibility are bright enough now, so the picture through the scope is actually usable. Many thanks to Wesley, who improved on them. I want to see some S ranks!

Burst fire

The LE5, the Chicago Sweeper and the CQBR have switches on their left hand side. Grab them and press LT while doing so to switch between modes — full, burst and one shot for the LE5, full and one shot for the Chicago Sweeper and the CQBR. The Stingray only has a safety switch, and it actually works now. :‑)

Easter egg: flamethrower

As everyone knows, the flamethrower in this game was never fully developed and was never officially used. I had to do some tweaking here to get it working.

If you really want this weapon, hold down A on both the left and right controller during gameplay for a while — A on the right and X on the left for Quest controllers — until you hear a sound. After that you'll find the weapon in the typewriter storage area (Japanese character). Manual reloading works here as well, and the tank capacity has been increased so it doesn't run out immediately after brief use.