Furious Seas

HunterLaneSBVR

Furious Seas Arcade is here! Out in Early Access now, this build of Furious Seas is streamlined for VR Arcades and LBE venues.

Furious Seas puts you in command as captain of a deadly pirate ship!

Navigate through treacherous waters and blast apart fearsome enemy fleets in this thrilling VR adventure like no other. Carve out your legend today amidst the Furious Seas.

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VR-ARRIVAL

Great to have this one on the marketplace - looking forward to trying it. As a request - can you (SpringboardVR) or the developer pre-populate the controller functions for all of these new applications - we (the arcades) can always adapt if needed but would be one less thing for us to do when loading new games....

gameovr

Maybe I'm missing something but there seems to be no way to start up the multiplayer. Grabbing the single player paper starts it up right away but grabbing the multiplayer paper does nothing. Is this another CDS game with broken multiplayer or have the devs disabled it for the arcade version?

HunterLaneSBVR

gameovr

Hey Eric,

The devs might have done some incorrectly? When I pick up the multiplayer paper I'm giving the option to find a room or create one? Do you see this by chance?

gameovr

HunterLaneSBVR

No, when I pick up the paper nothing seems to happen at all. Are you using the CDS version or the regular version?

HunterLaneSBVR

gameovr

Should be CDS, I've uninstalled it from Steam completely. I just dropped the paper and it gave me the options.

HunterLaneSBVR

My player name is my Desktop name so it doesn't look like it's using anything from Steam? Gonna see if @DylanRussell can find my game.

gameovr

HunterLaneSBVR

Hi Hunter, I beleive I have figured it out. If I launch into the game it will let me go into multiplayer if I select that first. If I start a single player game then return to the menu and try to start a multiplayer game nothing will happen. Also, the second time launching into this game from springboard I had to launch it 7 times before it started up, each time it would just punt me back to the launcher. I know this is a know issue but do we have any further info on having it resolved. Seems to only be CDS games affected which makes me hesitant to add any new games from Springboard as this is not an acceptable user experience.

HunterLaneSBVR

gameovr

Hey Eric,

Wanting to check in to see if you were still having issues launching this (or any other title) from the launcher. Furious Seas initially took a bit longer than expected to load for me but it did load. (Maybe 10-15 seconds, it wasn't forever but it was not instant either)

If you're still having issues I'd be happy to reach out to those devs or hop on a screen share with you to see what we can figure out!

gameovr

HunterLaneSBVR

I replied by email already- I tried on 3 different stations last night and they all took more than 10 tries to start up the game. Havent tested at all today. We are heading into a busy weekend, so if we still want to add the game we can do some more troubleshooting next week. This was just to test it out and see if we wanted to offer it so I just disabled on the stations for now.

HunterLaneSBVR

gameovr

Awesome, I replied back to you and completely understand! We can definitely hop in a screen share next week if needed!

If anyone else notices issues or irregularities with Furious Seas launching let me know!

DimensionalDrop

HunterLaneSBVR

We are also having the multiple launches issue. Not always, but often enough that I'm holding off on adding it to the rest of the stations beyond the first.

HunterLaneSBVR

Gonna have a few other people on the team try this today to see if they can recreate this! I'm still unable to on my end but the loading doesn't seem to be as smooth as most games so still something we can have the devs look into.

For you all having issues, does it fail to load and then just go back to the launcher? (I'm assuming so but just need to make sure!)

Can anyone confirm they do not have issues loading this title currently? Could help me figure out why it's working for some and not others :slight_smile:

Thanks everyone and we'll keep digging!

VR-ARRIVAL

We normally take at least 3 times attempting to load until it does so (or else it just pops back to the launcher). When it does load, it takes ~20sec.

dimas

Furious Seas launches occasionally, on average 1 of 3 times across 10 stations, sometimes not even once after 10 launches. Unfortunately cannot offer to our customers. Also the controllers' buttons are wrongly indicated once started (on the diagram and the controllers )

VR-ARRIVAL

Is there any word back from the Furious Seas developers regarding the launching issues we have had with this game through the SpringboardVR launcher - this is really ruining what could be a great multiplayer game but is so hit and miss to get everyone into and always requires multiple launch attempts which is not a great look...

HunterLaneSBVR

VR-ARRIVAL

Hey there,

Have you tried this one since the 4.1 release? The first time I tried to load it, didn't but after that is has loaded successfully every time for me. Let me know if you still can't get it to launch consistently and I can reach out to the devs!

thevrclub

Something I noticed today with Furious Seas, the position of the starting area on the beach depends on where the player is standing when they launch the game.

This has caused some issues for me when players are standing next to a wall, load the game then the two papers for starting single player or multiplayer are way out of reach.

Could someone pass on to the devs that it would be better to have the play area be centered on the SteamVR room setup's center point?

Edit: It also needs to get rid of the arbitrary timer in multiplayer, people get confused when it ends suddenly. Better to have the difficulty scale up faster on successive waves so the game ends when all the players get sunk (and have a respawn timer on getting sunk)

William

thevrclub

[quote="thevrclub, post:18, topic:522, full:true"] Something I noticed today with Furious Seas, the position of the starting area on the beach depends on where the player is standing when they launch the game.

This has caused some issues for me when players are standing next to a wall, load the game then the two papers for starting single player or multiplayer are way out of reach.

Could someone pass on to the devs that it would be better to have the play area be centered on the SteamVR room setup’s center point?

Hey Peter, I will reach out to the devs and pass on your suggestions. That will be really helpful for them to hear!

Thank you for sharing and as always, please keep letting us know how titles can continue to improve.

thevrclub

William

@William Found some more bugs in Furious Seas, if a player starts a single player match then goes 'Quit Level' to get back to the menu to go to multiplayer, the multiplayer lobby sometimes won't load when they grab the paper from the treasure chest, so they have to close and relaunch the game.

Also one of my stations wouldn't progress to the shipwreck area when the player clicked the trigger and trackpad after launching the game.

DimensionalDrop

thevrclub

We've had the trigger/trackpad issues before. They never light up in the way the game says they will during that load screen, so people have trouble with it on the regular. Oddly, we've sometimes gotten around that extended delay by also using the control grips. "Hit every button" and then boom, they load in. Maybe it's just the placebo effect, letting it load through after an extended delay, but it seems to work.