In what seems like an uncommon signal of the occasions, the previously VR-only Wobbling Around While The Camera Shakes simulator Star Trek: Bridge Crew is now open for all PC gamers of all stripes to get pleasure from, moderately than simply the foolish headgear contingent.
The non-VR patch for the additionally provides help for Windows Mixed Reality headsets, which appear to be more and more widespread lately, giving big Trekkie nerds much more alternatives to talk Klingon at one another, regardless of flying a Federation ship. Nerds.
As non-VR gamers solely need to render a single picture, the brand new model of the sport additionally enables you to crank up the graphical sliders a bit additional than they used to go, though the builders say that for those who’ve bought a beefy sufficient machine, then VR-users can do that out as nicely, though don’t anticipate it to go nicely until you’ve bought GPU horsepower to spare.
One factor the builders are eager to emphasize is that Star Trek: Bridge Crew is a social expertise, meant to be performed with buddies. Thanks to this replace, Bridge Crew now gives full cross-device, cross-platform play, that means that it must be simpler than ever to rope your mates into residing out your daftest spacefaring fantasies. PG-rated ones, hopefully.
Still, the explanation for this replace could nicely have been a scarcity of gamers total. A quick look at the fan-run Steam Charts (often a dependable sufficient supply of knowledge) reveals that the sport has been hovering at a median of 20 concurrent gamers on Steam at any given time for the previous few months. After all, with out gamers, a sport like that is only a hole shell of itself.
The announcement video for the replace above additionally features a little little bit of a tease at some main new characteristic or content material coming to the sport within the near-ish future, though Ubisoft stay tight-lipped on what this may contain.
Star Trek: Bridge Crew can be right down to half price for the length of the Steam Winter sale, placing it at an inexpensive sufficient £20/$25, though I feel it’s a little bit of a missed alternative for them to not provide a multi-copy bundle to share with buddies.
