Last night was… I wish I didn’t have to talk about last night, just it was filled with confusion, jealousy and rage (much like people felt when the plaque incident was happening.. but I digress).
Hanging out with a few friends, one of them with VR decides to make a portal to the Battle Discs world. He and another Desktop friend of mine go through. And as I’m going through, I’m still transmitting my voice into my mic, saying “you’re serious.. this is for VR only! I can’t play this!”
Somehow he heard me through the portal, and told me “yeah Desktop can play it. I’ve seen people with Desktop defeat people with VR!” X to Doubt
And I did doubt him, remembering him saying this before, and how I tried in the past (and made myself look like a rambling idiot with people getting pissed off, that I was still in the play area (using Training mode). But, I decide to show him once and for all… that this game is for VR ONLY.
So we played, with him VS me and my Desktop friend. Holding the disc in my broken hands, myself and my Desktop friend are trying to run into the VR friend. Everytime, I die but my Desktop friend is somehow learning how to throw the disc.
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This becomes furiously annoying when the VR friend pits myself and my Desktop friend against eachother. He kills me every. fucking. time to where I just want to kill myself IRL. He has learned a secret that he claims that he doesn’t even know how in the fuck it happens. All he said was to “throw it”. So I tried, nearly wanting to turn my fucking mouse into dust from squeezing it so hard, and pressing every key on my keyboard… praying there’s got to be something I’m just not seeing. But for some reason, I can’t do it (and he can).
So I stayed calm and just accepted it. ………….. I wish I wasn’t kidding. It was not a fun night. And all I did was make my friends (others who joined) worried about how I just wanted to be alone. I was ready to snap at anyone. I was fucking furious.
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Fast forward about an hour later, I’m alone in my favorite world when I feel like wanting to strangle someone. Because it’s so peaceful and calm (which is what I desperately needed).
As I sat, closing my eyes and trying to make my anger drift away into the calming ocean. When it finally happened, an idea was able to get into my head. Remembering that my Desktop friend mentioned he uses a controller, could be the actual reason why he’s able to do only what VR people can do. He’s also able to manipulate objects with it.
The thing is, he has an Xbox Controller, and I have a PS4 controller. So I did a quick Google search (while listening to Elpis to further calm down), and it claims I can use my controller through Steam’s Big Picture mode.
Finding the USB to my HOTAS, I unplugged it and plugged the cable that came with my PS4. Opened up Big Picture mode and sure enough, it was able to locate my controller and used it.
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So it seems to be simple to what I used when it came to playing LEGO Worlds (without a 3rd party enumerator). This is pretty much the same thing; enumerating the Xbox Controller for the PS4.
Logged back in, and played with this new movement concept in my world — throwing things around. When I felt I had learned the buttons, I went back into the instance with my friends and tried to do the Training of Battle Discs… I still couldn’t get it to work the way I saw my Desktop friend do it!! WTF!!!
After a half an hour of trial and error (with my friends talking to eachother upstairs), I finally figured out a pattern. Looking down at the discs and spamming the X button, I’m guesstimating to have a 25% chance (everytime I press the button) of either throwing a disc (or both if using two discs) at my target. I felt confident that I had a possible rhythm, and challenged my Desktop friend to a duel…
And I WON, with a score of 5-3!! 😀 My first EVER Battle Discs victory!!! FUCK that whole “it’s a game” crap! My honor being restored is the only thing I gave a fuck about.. at the cost of an aching right thumb. But that pain is worth what I went through.
Now I know how to do it, I’m ready to go again (after my thumb stops hurting, of course. Heh). My Desktop friend also told me that he didn’t play with a controller during that battle, but I told him that ‘locking’ the camera (which you can’t really do with a mouse) is (what I felt) gave me the advantage.
He tried to do what I did, and hilariously ironically.. he couldn’t do what I could!
I also learned that I have to keep Big Picture mode running in the background, for my controller to be recognized. And since my computer doesn’t have Bluetooth
capability (yet..), I have to use a wired connection.