Holopoint: Chronicle Reviews

Excellent workout and a lot of fun. I played the first one on release and enjoyed it a lot, but the pesky cable got in the way. I have the wireless adapter for the Vive and this game is on another level with the cord gone. I really enjoy the updated visuals and I plan to integrate this game into my daily workout routine.

This was a snap-buy for me because of how much I enjoyed the original. I'm happy to support the developers of one of my top VR games, but I'm still surprised that this wasn't a DLC to the original game. I can't recommend the original over this one because of the extra mechanics added to the new targets. Beyond that, it's the same game with different environments to divide up the various new targets. I can't ask for more than that from a DLC, but again this is not a DLC so I feel like there should've been something more to it to justify that. In my eyes, the developers have split one game in half. The new game leaves out great components that the original had, like a time attack mode and different kinds of targets and adds in content that couldve just been an update in the original. If this were my game i would try to make it as good as i can, and the new game is worth the pricetag of the original, but I hope to see the devs reintroduce the maps and game-modes that made the classic what it is.

Does not work. The game loads fine into the "home base". When I interact with the map to try to begin to play it gets stuck on a loading screen. There is something visible on the screen of my PC but nothing in the HMD.

I want to like this so bad, but I can't recommend it until they fix the ENORMOUS performance issues. I thought it was my aging gaming computer [Ryzen 1700/GTX 1070], but I've built a new one recently for various reasons. Now, on a Ryzen 5700G/32GB RAM/RTX 3070TI system, it loads incredibly slowly or not at all, and I never got the chance to even see a level of gameplay.

Loved the first Holopoint, but I've never been able to get this one work. It just hangs forever loading the first level. It's been abandoned by the dev, so no hope of ever getting it fixed either. It's probably a fun game if it happens to work on your system, so maybe give it a try and test it out and if it doesn't work, refund it. I wish I could refund it, but I waited too long hoping for a fix.

As a person who loves the original Holopoint, it pains me to say that you should not buy this game in its current state. From what I can tell, the game has been abandoned completely by the devs. They were super active for the first few weeks, and then out of nowhere everything just stopped. No idea if something happened, but right now the game has a lot of large issues that make it not worth your time. The main issues are: - Performance issues up the wazoo, the last area is a stutterey mess, and I have a 1080TI and play most other games at 1.5-2 supersampling. Even at low graphics and lower supersampling, the performance is quite bad for a game that's so simple. - Weird hitboxes. Some of the levels have spots where your arrows will ricochet off nothing. - Weird UI, it's quite confusing until you know what's going on. - Poor index support. If the devs update the game and fix some of these issues, I'll happily change the review, but as is it seems like the game is abandoned.

Changing my review to negative. This is clearly abandonware and will be getting no performance or bug patches.

Compared to the original Holopoint +It's much prettier +More areas +No drawing arrows from quiver +Active and responsive dev [strike]-Missing options available in Holopoint, such as 1-handed aiming. In fact, there doesn't seem to be an options menu at all.[/strike] (1-handed aiming added in beta) -Doesn't run as well on [email protected] & 2080Ti -I dislike the music

I was thinking about buying the original Holopoint, but saw this game was coming out so I waited on it. After buying and playing this game, I quickly realised many things: 1. This feels like an Early Access game. The game is very unintuitive. It took me a few minutes once I was in to figure out how the menus work. There's no tutorial or anything. 2. The game runs very poorly. It lags on my overclocked 1070, and some maps are so terribly optimized that they are unplayable. 3. The game never teaches you about new "enemies" (aka different 3D shapes) you encounter. They all do different things and it takes a lot of trial and error to learn what they do. On top of this, the music sounds like it's from 2012. Very disappointed with this game. It really feels like a cash grab sequel. I wouldn't recommend that you buy this unless it gets some much-needed updates.

Worse than original Holopoint. It's hard to enjoy a fast-paced archery game at sub 90 FPS. Pros: -More enemies. -More areas. Cons: -Terrible performance. It couldn't run at 90 FPS with Vive Pro + i7-6700K + RTX 2080 (100% supersampling). After adjusting the supersampling to around 70% and the quality to medium, it could barely run at 90 FPS (with Motion Smoothing off). -Terrible UI. It's hard to understand the icons. -It's hard to see enemies in some bright areas. -The "spotlights" are too conspicuous and a bit unsightly.