I finally took the plunge and installed VRChat. Why? It wasn’t because of the dying Ugandan Knuckles meme, but from a series of videos made by ‘DarienTheDragon'(who has a My Little Pony avatar). This person featured these videos exploring the lives and culture of these strange animal-like creatures (basically another form of a furry) that are half the height of a normal human being.
Their big white eyes and the way they walk, for some reason it just strikes a cord of ‘cute’. It just feels like this could be an actual race of these people, somewhere in the universe. I’ve been curious on this strange suit some of them wear. At first I assumed it was a germ-proof suit to protect them when they’re outside of their world, instead I discover it’s a form of armor for their endless war against the Ugandan Knuckles.
But the reason what really made me push to get into this game, is this video of showing some strange courting dance (or maybe a dance of celebration).
And yes, I saw the random dragon hovering in the distance, but I wasn’t focused on it.
So now I’m ingame. It detected I use Steam (and it’ll actually use ‘Benie’ as my ingame name. Awesome). During the calibration/movement stage, I did start to feel a slight motion sickness due to the ridiculously high mouse sensitivity. I also cannot have custom keybinds (have to use WASD instead of my arrow keys). Might try to circumvent this with AutoHotkey if it becomes a problem for me. Right now I’m OK with it.
Got out of the tutorial area and to the ‘Help Videos’ world. It has several doors here, linking to individual platforms suspended high in the air. I went for the one to teach me the user settings (in hopes to tweak the god awful mouse sensitivity).
A display popped up infront of me saying it was loading a video… waited and waited on this ‘Media Loading…’ screen and nothing was happening. I see the same thing happening to the other videos.
Checked Google and all I’m seeing are videos not playing “in worlds”, instead of the Help Videos world that I’m having an issue with. There is a claimed workaround, but when I tried it, I didn’t see the things I needed to delete.
The only thing I had left is to ask in Steam’s VRChat Discussion Board, which I’m still waiting for a response. I also joined the VRChat Discord, but they seem to have quite the security, requiring a staff member to approve myself to post (and saying it could take up to a day, due to if they’re busy).
The only thing I can do is to just ignore this problem and play the game, using the knowledge I got from all of those VRChat Youtube videos I watched. And that’s basically what I did.
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Wow.. this game is something. It’s like watching (in realtime)… every VRChat-related Youtube video in order. I’ve been playing for nearly two hours, and I could explain word for word of what happened during those two hours. But since this blog post is long enough, I might save it for another.
All I can say is, I felt welcomed into the community. I’m a Best Boi, and really enjoy being one. Though I’ll probably switch my avatar to a dragon (if I could find the world that has them).
I have two favorite parts. The first one is following some fellow Best Bois into the open mic night world. One of them was going to dance around with that hilarious model I saw of the video I posted in here. Before I knew it, we were all chasing after one Knuckles telling him how the meme is dead and we would blow up Uganda. Remember it’s just for laughs, guys.
The second part is teleporting to the New York Times Square. A blue Knuckles approached me and was all (in the Ugandan accent) “do you no teh wae Best Boi?”, and I said “of course I know the way”. And he responds with “Good.” Again, it felt this was coming straight out of those Youtube videos (but happening to me).
I.. LOVE this. Yet I don’t know why. I guess it feels like(if I haven’t said it enough already), I’m in someone’s Youtube video (or doing my own Youtube video). I can see why content creators who put this game in their channels, get lots and lots of views.
This game gives me the feeling of “being young again”. It feels great, and I think that I found one of my favorite games. Though, this game isn’t without its flaws;
1. No option to join only English-speaking worlds. Often I’ve been placed in a world where they’re speaking in a foreign language (and expecting me to understand it).
2. Worlds with lots of people(no matter the size of the world), shows just how crappy my CPU is. Not only is my framerate nearly unplayable at times, but hearing robotic-like sounds of people talking(and/or gets cut off).
3. As mentioned, a lack of mouse sensitivity. Though I no longer feel motion sickness, thankfully. Guess my body decided it’s OK.
Yet these three complaints aren’t game-breaking to me. I’m having a lot of fun actually socializing with strangers (and feeling like I have a purpose). It’s so wild seeing people’s names I remember seeing on some videos. And I would probably flip if I saw my name in someone’s video.
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EDIT: I now have full access to the VRChat Discord, only to be told that I would need to send a support ticket to support@vrchat.com. I also still haven’t gotten a single response of the thread I made about the issue. I have linked the thread to my support ticket, including a detailed as I can make it response about what I was seeing (including giving them my computer specs).
It isn’t that big of a deal, but having an issue that it seems very few others are having.. is kind of disturbing. Not knowing what is causing said issue, almost feels like an obsession to try to do so.