Luke Ross Unveils DOOM The Dark Ages VR Mod Release

New VR Mod for DOOM: The Dark Ages Released by Luke Ross

Virtual reality modding innovator Luke Ross has unveiled a groundbreaking R. E.A. L.VR mod tailored for DOOM: The Dark Ages. To access this immersive experience, players need a subscription to his Patreon at the VR Friend tier, which is priced at $10 per month. This subscription not only unlocks the latest VR mod but also grants access to an impressive library of Ross’s previous work, including popular titles such as Elden Ring, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Dark Souls, and Death Stranding. Despite his extensive portfolio, Ross had to remove VR versions of Mafia: Definitive Edition, Grand Theft Auto V, and Red Dead Redemption 2 due to a DMCA takedown issued by a publisher, disappointing many in the VR community.

User Experience and Performance Insights

VR enthusiast Bearded Banjo shared insights on the mod’s gameplay, describing it as “fast, frantic, and sometimes overwhelming.”The mod allows for head tracking and head-based aiming, but it lacks support for motion controls, necessitating the use of a gamepad for navigation. Banjo tested the experience on a high-end PC featuring an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, connected to a Quest 3 through a wired link.

Overall, the gameplay experience proved to be smooth. However, Banjo faced challenges getting NVIDIA’s DLSS Super Resolution to function with the mod initially. There’s hope that this issue might be addressed in an upcoming update from Luke Ross. Additionally, Ross has shared promising developments related to Optiscaler, which provides a performance boost for players using AMD GPUs.

Thanks to that mod, in almost every game that supports DLSS upscaling, you can substitute AMD’s FSR implementation and have it run effortlessly on AMD hardware. But from the game’s point of view, the video buffers will still be produced in DLSS format, and that means that my R. E.A. L.VR mod can intercept them and fix the disocclusions by translating the calls to work in stereoscopic mode, thus getting rid of the shimmering around nearby objects and NPCs.

Game Performance and Player Reception

For an in-depth review of DOOM: The Dark Ages (non-VR), you can follow this link. Remarkably, the game has achieved 3 million players in a much shorter time frame than its predecessor, DOOM Eternal. However, the financial success remains uncertain, as a significant portion of players likely accessed it through Game Pass. According to estimates from Ampere Analysis, over 2 million players enjoyed the game on Xbox, while PC and PlayStation 5 figures hovered around half a million, indicating lower-than-expected engagement on the PC platform.

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