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All Metro Awakening Weapons | All Metro VR Weapons

There are a ton of fantastic weapons to find and use in Metro Awakening: VR, and they’re pretty unique as far as Virtual Reality shooter weapons go. Despite Metro VR having about a fifth as many weapon options as any flatscreen Metro title, there are still some very fun guns and other gadgets to use in the game.

Here I’ll show you all of the Metro Awakening weapons including the order you find them in, how they function, and what each is good at.

As a side note if you’re trying to replace a weapon you currently have with a new one (for instance a different looking variant of the Kalash rifle) then just put your current weapon in off (left) hand, pick up the new one you want in your dominant (right) hand and store it in the storage slot for that weapon (i.e. over your shoulder for a Kalash or by your right hip for a Tokarev.)

The Tokarev (Pistol)

The Tokarev is the one and only pistol available to you in Metro Awakening, and it is the least powerful weapon in the game. It is also the first weapon that you receive.

The Tokarev pistol is a classic World War 2 Soviet sidearm, and Metro Awakening: VR is the first Metro game to include this weapon. Though unfortunately, this comes at the expense of Metro classics such as the Revolver.

The Tokarev doesn’t do much damage per shot, and you’ll have to hit almost all of your shots to take down even weaker enemies without having to reload. This is also because the magazine only holds eight rounds.

Ammunition for the Tokarev Pistol in Metro Awakening: VR

Curiously, you can only carry 28 rounds in reserve for the Tokarev. So if you don’t use it regularly you might find yourself constantly not being able to pick up ammunition that you find for it once you have access to better and more powerful weapons.

Unlike these other weapons the Tokarev is the only one to be stored on the hip of your dominant hand, which is the right side by default. Simply press the grab button with the controller of your dominant hand while it is at your waist and that hand will grab the pistol, seemingly out of thin air.

If the Tokarev is empty press the magazine ejection button on the controller carrying it and the mag will slide out of the bottom. Grab another magazine and slide it in before gripping the slide on the top of the pistol and pull it back to load a round into the chamber.

There is also a silenced variant of the Tokarev that can be found later on in the game. It has no noticeable reduction in power or accuracy, but is quiet and can be used from stealth.

The silenced variant of the Tokarev pistol in Metro Awakening: VR

There are a few different cosmetic variants of the base Tokarev that appear throughout the game, though there are no enemies that use it.

As the only sidearm available in the game, the Tokarev is always quickly available if you run out of ammunition for one of the more powerful two handed weapons. That’s really what it is best used as, a backup that can be used to take down an already injured enemy, or a weapon that can be quickly drawn and used with one hand if you are surprised by an ambush.

The Kalash (AK)

The Kalash is Metro slang for an AK-74 assault rifle, commonly known as an “AK.” You will find a Kalash pretty early on in the game after you acquire the Tokarev, and it will be a reliable companion all the way until the end.

Since the invention and adoption of the AK-47 by the Soviet union, the Kalashnikov series of assault rifles have dominated the small arms market in Russia, abroad, and of course in the post apocalyptic world of the Metro games.

The AK does fairly weak damage per shot, however its strength is in its rate of fire. Being the only automatic weapon in Metro VR that you can carry with you, and having a thirty round magazine makes the Kalash powerful if you stay on target. However, it is easy to waste a lot of ammunition if you simply hold down the trigger and spray, despite the fairly low recoil the AK has even while firing fully automatic.

Ammo for the Kalash aka the AK in Metro Awakening: VR

Rounds for the AK are common throughout the game, but one of the greatest sources of them are human enemies, which predominantly carry the AK as their only weapon through most of the game.

If you’re low on ammunition for this weapon then you can get a lot more by taking down a group of human enemies stealthily, and then taking the magazines out of their guns for yourself.

The AK, like most weapons in Metro Awakening: VR, is stored over your right shoulder. If it is empty take out the old magazine by gripping it with your off hand and pulling it away from the rifle. Then take a new magazine and insert it into the magazine well right in front of the trigger guard. Once the magazine is inserted pull back the charging handle on the side of the AK to load a round into the chamber.

There are quite a few variants of the Kalash that can be found throughout the game with slightly different parts, and even a version with no stock at all. Though they are all functionally the same and have the same sights.

The Kalash is a weapon that is reliable in any situation you find yourself in in Metro Awakening, so make sure you don’t waste all of your ammo for it by shooting up a wall. Despite being fully automatic it is much more economical to fire it in bursts at any opponent that is not directly in front of you. Still, the Kalash is capable of taking down any opponent in the game very quickly if you don’t miss.

DShK (Mounted Machinegun)

The DShK aka Dushka machine gun in Metro Awakening: VR

The DShK, also known as the “Dushka”, is a stationary heavy machine gun that has made an appearance in every Metro game, and sees a lot of action in Metro Awakening.

Your first chance to use the DShK is in the Prologue of the game, and it appears periodically throughout. Unlike other weapons in Metro VR you cannot put it behind your shoulder and take it with you, and most commonly you’ll find the DShK attached to rail carts.

So the DShK makes a lot of appearances in rail chase sequences, where you use it to mow down enemies as your rail cart passes through.

Unlike other Metro Awakening weapons, the Dushka doesn’t need to be reloaded and doesn’t have ammunition that you can find. Every DShK has seemingly infinite ammunition and will only stop firing when the heat dial on top of it goes all the way to the right. You can also tell how hot the gun is getting by the color of the barrel. To cool it down simply stop shooting.

The DShK has two handles, and you can fire it by holding down the trigger while grabbing either one. Though attempting to fire this machinegun with only a single hand will cause massive recoil, so make sure to hold it with both. Each round from the DShK is roughly as powerful as a Kalash round.

Since the DShK has infinite ammunition and makes appearances mostly in on the rails cart sections make sure to utilize it as much as possible to conserve ammunition for your portable weapons. Though it is better to fire bursts from the Dushka to prevent it rapidly overheating, and to make sure you stay on target.

The rapid rate of fire and infinite ammo makes the Dushka immensely powerful in Metro Awakening, and when you get the chance to use it make sure to abuse it as much as possible.

Grenade

The grenade is a crude hand made explosive device that can be found fairly early on in Metro VR after you find the Kalash. It appears to be a stick of explosive with a fuse lit by a small battery once the pin is pulled.

Despite its primitive construction, however, the grenade does fantastic damage when it explodes near an enemy. Despite a fairly long fuse time of about 4 or 5 seconds, the grenade has excellent damage potential if used well.

Grenades are also fairly common throughout the game once you start to find them, usually found scattered throughout levels one at a time.

You can carry three grenades, and you can access them by taking out your backpack by grabbing over your left shoulder with your right hand, and then pulling the grenade off of the backpack with your left hand.

Pulling the pin on the Grenade in Metro Awakening: VR

To light the fuse simply pull the pin and then throw the grenade as far away from you as possible. Getting caught by your own grenade is very deadly, and can unfortunately be common when fighting mutants if you aren’t careful. This is because the grenade will still bounce around once you throw it, and a mutant that walks into the grenade may incidentally kick it back towards you.

Grenades are more useful against human opponents, since they will keep their distance and stand in one place while trying to shoot you. Though human opponents will run once they see a lit grenade next to them, so for maximum effectiveness you can “cook” a grenade by pulling the pin and waiting a few seconds before throwing it. This means the fuse won’t burn for very long before detonating on target.

Grenades can be as much a danger to you as to your enemies in Metro Awakening, but are very effective against groups of enemies or enemies without much room to maneuver. If you don’t trust yourself to be fast enough to take one out of your backpack in combat then you can always take one or two out before the fight starts and leave them on the floor, or start off the fight by throwing a grenade and taking out a group of enemies.

The Helsing

An hour or two after you get the Kalash you’ll find yourself with the excellent Helsing, the second two handed weapon you find in Metro Awakening: VR that can be stored behind your right shoulder.

The Helsing is a Metro-made crossbow that takes inspiration from the legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing, who is famous for his use of advanced crossbows in his 2004 film.

Just like in that 2004 film the Helsing is a very impressive weapon, boasting a cylindrical magazine that can hold 6 bolts, and a fast reloading mechanism that gives it a rate of fire far greater than any historical crossbow. Though compared to other weapons in Metro Awakening the Helsing is extremely slow to reload, but very powerful for each shot. It is also completely silent, and can take down human enemies from stealth very easily, though aim for the body and head.

Bolts can be found periodically throughout the game, but are fairly rare. So make sure to hold on to what bolts you do get by pulling them out of the bodies of your defeated adversaries, or out of scenery and walls if you missed your shots. Though keep in mind that some mutants, such as spiders, are very hard to retrieve bolts from once they’ve been hit.

A bolt for the Helsing in Metro Awakening: VR

To load bolts into the Helsing hold it in your dominant hand and press the magazine release button, which will release the cylinder. Then put bolts inside each of the compartments in the cylinder. Once you’ve filled it to contentment either flick your wrist to snap the cylinder back into the crossbow, or push it back in with your off hand.

To load a bolt grab on to the lever on top of the Helsing and pull it all of the way back towards yourself. This will take at least a second, which can be a very long time in the middle of combat.

The Helsing is a very strong weapon if you hit your shots with it, so accuracy is key, and so is keeping your distance. Getting caught trying to reload this crossbow while taking fire or the claws of a mutant is a bad idea. The Helsing is best used from stealth, or when you can duck back into cover, or when you have the time to reload it before being hit in return.

Make sure to retrieve your bolts since ammunition for the Helsing is scarce.

The Shambler (Shotgun)

About six hours into the game you’ll get your hands on the Shambler, which is stored just like your Kalash and Helsing over your right shoulder.

The Shambler is another Metro classic. A homemade shotgun that fires buckshot shells, and has been present in each Metro game since Metro 2033.

The Shambler works like a shotgun revolver that can be loaded externally. There are five slots for shells and an extra one in the central chamber for a total of six shells that can be loaded at one time.

Once you get your hands on the Shambler ammunition for it is fairly plentiful and can be found regularly, though generally just one or two shells at a time. After you acquire the Shambler you can also find some human enemies that use it, and you can take the shells from their weapons by just pulling back the lever on top until all the shells pop out.

Like shotguns in most games the Shambler is most effective up close, and while it does extremely high damage at close ranges, the effectiveness of its shells drops off sharply at even medium range. Though despite being semi-automatic the Shambler has a very good rate of fire, meaning that it is very effective against mutants who charge towards you.

Shells for the Shambler in Metro Awakening: VR

To load the Shambler place shells into the empty shell slots on the exterior of the weapon, and then pull back the handle on top to load a shell into the chamber. If there is a single shell loaded on the exterior the cylinder will spin until that shell ends up in the center and is loaded.

Since the Shambler does incredible damage at close range and is easy to aim due to the wide spread of the buckshot shells it fires it is recommended to primarily use it against large mutants where it is the most effective. Make sure to use lulls in fighting to reload shells on the exterior of the shotgun so that you don’t run out of ammo.

The Blowpipe

The Blowpipe is the final weapon that you acquire in Metro Awakening and is also stored over your right shoulder.

The Blowpipe, aka the Blowgun, is a primitive but deadly weapon that fires poisoned darts with complete silence. In Metro VR it is heavily ornamented, but in the end is basically just a tube with a wide end and a shorter end with a crude sight mounted on top of it.

Despite its crudeness the poison in the darts used in the Blowpipe is very deadly and each shot does very high damage. While loading the blowgun can take some getting used to with some practice you can load and fire it extremely quickly, making it a very potent but very skill based weapon. It is quite hard to aim.

The power of the Blowpipe weapon in Metro Awakening: VR is also diminished by how rare ammunition for it can be throughout most of the game. Unlike other ammunition types it isn’t usually found just lying around, but rather in the necks of victims of its use, who you will find during the story of Metro Awakening.

Luckily used Blowgun darts can be retrieved much like used Helsing bolts. So make sure to retrieve the darts when you can.

Finding a dart for the Blowpipe on a body in Metro Awakening: VR

To use the blowpipe put a dart inside the wide end of it and then raise it up to your mouth before pressing the trigger to fire the dart out. The darts actually come out with a surprising amount of force and stay on target pretty well at even medium range. However the very rudimentary sight makes aiming the blowgun sort of hard, and so does the slow travelling speed of the dart when compared to other weapons in Metro Awakening.

That being said the blowgun can be fired even more rapidly than the Helsing if you are good with it, and the massive damage that it does makes it useful in any situation as long as you manage to actually fire it accurately. This can be tough against fast moving enemies, but if you hit your shots the Blowgun is amazing.

Well those are all of the Metro Awakening weapons that you will find in the game. Enjoy yourself in the Metro!

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10 Tips To Make Metro Awakening Enjoyable

Hey VR gamers and Metro lovers. Here's a few ways you can increase your success and enjoyment of Metro Awakening aka Metro VR aka finally another quality Virtual Reality shooter that isn't another sandbox or procedurally generated roguelike.

Tip #1: Get A Nice AK

There are plenty of Kalashes to pick from in Metro Awakening.

Alright tip number one is probably the most vital in the entire game and that's to make sure to pick which AK you use wisely. Take the most tricked out version you can find.

There'll be plenty to pick from once you start fighting human enemies. Just put your current Kalash in your left hand, pick up the new one you want in your right hand and store it over your right shoulder.

Easy as pie. I personally recommend the stockless version for extra aiming mobility in the cramped metro tunnels. Yes, they're functionally all identical, but when you're playing the only Metro game with no weapon or equipment customization you've got to get that bit of serotonin somewhere.

Tip #2: Be Sneaky

Warm up your punching arm for Metro VR stealth sections.

So tip number 2 is probably going to be a little controversial but make sure you take advantage of stealth and knock enemies out when you can by just punching them on the back of the head or thwacking them with a weapon.

I could say this is to save ammo, but it's really because the ragdoll deaths of the human enemies are kind of hilarious. Especially after you just looney tunes style knocked them down with a single punch.

I guess this was just easier to make than then a knife that stabs people, but I guess Saints and Sinners already did that so why do it again.

Tip #3: Hoard Ammo

Don’t forget the mags in the rifles of your fallen enemies.

Tip number three is to make sure you take the mags out of your fallen enemies' weapons for the ammo. Resource management is like 70% of success in any Metro game and Metro Awakening is not an exception.

Though don't expect your enemies to have ammo that you can loot on their bodies like in literally any other Metro title. I guess having an amazing looting system where you're using your real hands to take supplies off of dead opponents would just be too immersive and amazing so the developers decided to just not do it.

Probably the same reason why they decided not to do weapon upgrades or throwing knives and the arsenal is like one fifth the size of that in any other Metro title.

Tip #4: Turn Your Brightness Up

Recharging the headlamp in Metro Awakening.

For number four the tip is to turn the brightness up. It's really dark, like super dark, in the tunnels of a metro in the post-apocalypse.

You do get a headlamp that gets recharged with a little recharging device a lot like the one Artyom has, which is insanely cool, but It'll still be generally easier to see if you turn the brightness up.

Tip #5: Stay Chill

The warning you see when starting Metro Awakening.

Don't worry though because in tip number five I'm addressing that this game still can be scary as all hell. You might have heard of or seen the arachnophobia warning when starting it up.

There are some jump scares that actually really land, and some sections that do a great job in classic Metro fashion of really building up the dread and anticipation. So basically don't have arachnophobia and make sure not to accidentally run into a wall or something and you'll be fine.

Tip #6: Be Patient In Chapter 1

Who knew an apocalyptic metro would have so many wheels to turn?

The sixth tip is actually the most important tip of all, but I saved it for later to reward you for watching this far into the video. Play the game in seated mode during the first chapter.

The Prologue starts out seeming really promising, but the pacing just gets absolutely murdered and Chapter One is all turning wheels and listening to people talk for way too long.

So take a seat and just kind of watch your way through. When you hit chapter 2 the game gets much more interesting very quickly.

Tip #7: The Gas Mask Is A Vibe

The gas mask is excellent in this Metro VR game.

Tip number seven is about just as essential. If you really want to make everything feel more immersive and apocalyptic then wear your gas mask even when you don't have to.

It really just multiplies the Metro vibes, and your filters don’t get used if you aren't in a radioactive zone so you can wear it for as long as you want to.

Tip #8: Center Yourself On Carts

Before turning this switch make sure you’ve got space to move around. You won’t be able to move in game for a while.

Oh and for Tip Number eight also make sure to stand in the middle of your playspace when you start one of the metro cart sections.

Since these sections are clearly the least functional pieces of the game you'll be rooted to that spot, so if you start the cart section while physically standing right in front of a wall you'll be annoyed when you hit your boundary just by placing your hand son the machine gun.

So make sure to center yourself before flipping that on switch and make sure you've got plenty of room for some stationary shooting. Otherwise you'll have to deal with it until the cart stops.

Tip #9: The Pistol Is Wack

The pistol looks and feels pretty good, but you just can’t carry enough ammo for it.

For tip number nine make sure to forget what I said about hoarding ammo when it comes to the pistol. For some reason the designers thought it would be funny to only let you hold 28 pistol rounds in reserve.

You'll find yourself often either having no ammo for the pistol after briefly remembering it exists and using it, or way more ammo than you can carry. It takes a whole mag to take down basically anything, and that's if you hit your shots, so the pistol is an easy weapon to forget after you get the Kalash.

I found myself using the AK almost all of the time anyway. The Helsing takes forever to reload if you miss and the Shambler doesn't show up until about six hours into the game, which is so late for such a cool weapon.

Tip #10: Don’t Compare Metro Awakening To Half Life: Alyx

*Metro Awakening* has its own unique charm among VR shooting games.

For the tenth and final tip I'd say make sure you don't compare this game to Half Life: Alyx. Half Life: Alyx still won't come to Quest no matter how many letters I send to Valve, and Metro Awakening is not about to unseat Alyx as the number one single player shooter adventure to ever come to Virtual Reality headsets.

If you think you're better at giving tips for Metro Awakening than me then prove it in the comments by outdoing my tips and tricks with your own.

This all being said Metro Awakening is about as good of a VR Metro game as we could have asked for given the state of the Virtual Reality games industry, and I've been absolutely binging it whenever possible.

Where the gameplay sometimes fails the immersion into the Metro world and the story of Khan kept me coming back.

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5 Epic VTOL VR Campaigns for the F/A-26B That You’ll Love

Did you know that VTOL VR has an absolute ton of free community made singleplayer content?

Well here are just a few of the many free enjoyable singleplayer campaigns for the F/A-26B.

Did you know that VTOL VR has an absolute ton of free community made singleplayer content? Here are just a few of the many free enjoyable singleplayer campaigns for the F/A-26B.

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Sky Wars

Let's start off with the highly rated Sky Wars. If you couldn't tell from the logo, this campaign by Fyrcat is very loosely based on the Star Wars movies, though everyone will still be using the usual VTOL VR aircraft instead of X-Wings and TIE fighters.

There's a story here, also loosely inspired by Star Wars, except instead of fighting an evil empire the enemy are the Oil Cartels. Though that's not really very important, really this is all just a vehicle for some vaguely Star Wars themed missions and opportunities for the campaign author to use a few sound bytes from the movies.

Not to spoil too much, but there is a sort of Death Star Trench scene, and you even get to be Red 5! Of course even if the Star Wars references don't sound all that appealing, this is a pretty great campaign for the F/A-26 that can be difficult without being unapproachably hard.

Strafing a ground target with guns in Sky Wars.

Though I did run into some bugs and failed triggers once or twice. Such as during an escort mission. The transport to be escorted ended up just flying in circles when a batch of enemy planes were supposed to spawn. Also, the author does have a habit of spawning enemy planes extremely close to you.

This is probably to force you to have intense close ranged dog fights instead of the usual AIM-120 missile duels. While this worked sometimes, most of the time it just ended up feeling cheap and unfair to suddenly be barraged with multiple close ranged missiles from a place that had been completely threat free moments ago.

The trench scene in the Sky Wars VTOL VR campaign.

Regardless, Sky Wars is a great campaign that is full of memorable and unique missions. I highly recommend it, and if you're a Star Wars fan then you'll get some fun references and chuckles out of it too.

Operation Tollgate

Next let's talk about a campaign that is pretty new and, highly underrated, Operation Tollgate for the F/A-26 by Liao and Zulu.

I'm shocked there aren't more subscriptions and positive ratings for this campaign, because it is an absolutely fantastically varied and creative campaign for the F/A-26. The maps are an even mix of water and land, which gives a lot of opportunities to face enemy naval and land based units, just as the missions themselves are a fantastic mix of anti air and anti ground.

You might be fairly used to the standard for VTOL VR missions, well Operation Tollgate has some missions where things get really switched up in creative ways.

Like one mission where you must hit some enemy ground targets while evading the Combat Air Patrol above, or another mission where you can't rearm, and can only refuel at a tanker, so you better use your ammunition efficiently.

Flying up to a tanker in Operation Tollgate.

The briefings are thorough, and even have a nice section that recommends a loadout to you in case you're unsure. You also start with relatively primitive munitions compared to the AIM-120Cs, AGM-65s, and AIRS-Ts that you might be used to.

Instead you'll have to make do with AIM-7s and Sidewinders for a while, but when you complete enough missions and you get access to better munitions it really feels like you earned them, and like you need them.

The missions in Operation Tollgate have a very smooth difficulty curve, getting harder as you get better tools to tackle them with, and some missions even have unexpected curveballs and priority targets thrown your way when you might expect it to already be complete.

Defending an airfield from a night attack.

If you want missions that feel unique and have a fair mix of air and ground combat then try out Operation Tollgate. It really deserves more attention than it has gotten.

Artemis Campaign

Our third singleplayer campaign is the Artemis Campaign by Judge Dredd. The first thing that struck me about this campaign was the map. It is the most well made and detailed map I've seen for any VTOL VR campiagn, and it was actually not made by Judge Dredd, but a different person called ddDeath_666.

This map, called Greek Islands, has numerous cities, settlements, and airfields spread out on several islands. The terrain itself is wonderfully blended so that it looks natural, and the settlements have suburbs, downtown areas, and even remote buildings all connected by roads.

The campaign itself focuses mostly on a single large island, and there are some really great missions here, alongside a few lackluster ones where not much happens and you'll find yourself flying over the water for long periods of time. Still, the missions that are good in this campaign are impressive.

Though the odd thing about the Artemis Campaign is that it gets easier as you progress through the missions, rather than harder, the first three missions are actually the best and most impressive of the bunch. The later missions are still good, don't get me wrong, but don't have the same level of challenge and spectacle as the first ones.

Oh, and I do like the thought of only giving the player limited saves in this campaign, this is a great way to add some interesting challenge to missions by making the player wonder when they should use their limited pool of saves. It was a nice change of pace to get out of the habit of saving every five minutes just in case.

Liberation of Kuwait F/A-26

Monitoring a friendly target in the Liberation of Kuwait VTOL VR singleplayer campaign.

Our next campaign is the Liberation of Kuwait F/A-26 campaign by Judge Dredd, not to be confused with a similarly named campaign for the AH-94 (which is also excellent). These missions are very loosely based on the air war and following ground invasion of the nation of Kuwait, which was then occupied by the Iraqi military, during Operation Desert Storm.

The first mission starts off slowly with the some aerial reconnaissance using your TGP, and the rest is a tight series of four bombing and close air support missions.

That's almost entirely the focus of this campaign, close air support and strikes using smart munitions. You'll be spending a lot of time watching prospective targets or friendly forces with your TGP before getting the order on whether or not to engage. Despite not being a very difficult campaign it's a ton of fun and very tightly designed.

The map in the Liberation of Kuwait mod could use a little more detail, but it is serviceable.

The map is a little barren and not the best approximation of Kuwait out there, but the missions do a great job of integrating friendly forces into your objectives.

When you support friendly forces you'll also see those friendlies fighting on the ground, and so the missions really sell that you are giving vital support to real troops below. The missions are well made, immersive, and not overly intense. Mostly you only have to make sure to stay out of MANPAD and AAA range.

If you want a little leisurely precision bombing in missions polished enough to feel like they could be DLC, then give the Liberation of Kuwait campaign a try. Though, expect to spend a lot of time looking at the ground with your TGP.

Surveying an allied attack on a destroyed bunker complex.

Oh, and this campaign does have some fun little touches, like this guy who you are told to stop for to arm your weapons each time you fly a combat mission. Very cool. This is a very well polished and scripted campaign that does a good job of making you feel like part of an operation involving other units.

Defenders Of Kyiv

The last singleplayer campaign here is based on the still active Russo-Ukrainian war. Defenders of Kyiv by Innocence Of Children focuses on a small group of fighter pilots just before and during the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the northern Kyiv front.

The Russian military attempted to pull off a high risk and high speed operation to quickly capture Kyiv and force the Ukrainian government to flee or capitulate. In this campaign you are part of the Ukrainian military forces that prevented this from happening.

The thing that makes the Defenders of Kyiv campaign stand out from all other custom singleplayer campaigns in VTOL VR, even more so than its setting, are the wingmen that you fly with. Both are actually characters, with dialog and personalities. In fact there's a lot of dialog in these missions.

Your two wingmen, Joker and Queen, go from corny to dramatic very quickly when the invasion starts. Their banter fills out the quiet moments and gives each mission a greater sense of context and drama.

Your wingmen are actual characters in this campaign.

While English is clearly not the author's first language and there are a lot of minor errors in the script, the intent of the writing is a solid story, and the character drama hits as hard as the missions do. In terms of story and drama the Defenders of Kyiv campaign has to be the best one out there.

This campaign also severely limits what equipment you will have access to, especially earlier on. While you'll never get all of the fancy ultra modern missiles and ground attack munitions that you'll have access to in normal play, limiting you to less sophisticated weapons makes the campaign more difficult throughout, and changes the usual flow of air to air fights. It also changes how you engage ground targets, and unfortunately not in the best way.

Using old weapons means you'll be resorting to guns more than ever in the Defenders Of Kyiv VTOL VR campaign.

While being forced to rely on dumb bombs and missiles more than usual is interesting, it's more annoying than anything when you receive objectives to destroy fifty targets... and then even more after that.

While ostensibly you'll have your wingmen and other allied units helping you, they'll inevitably end up being shot down or run out of ammo before chewing through so many enemy ground targets. This leaves you using all your muntiions up over and over and needing to fly back to base a bunch of times to actually complete the objective. This gets kind of tedious, and I wish you didn't get such a massive amount of ground targets to take out at once.

Still, the briefings have great detail, and the battles on the ground are absolutely massive and impressive. This campaign felt really unique and fresh in a lot of ways. I highly recommend it.

If you've got a campaign for any aircraft that you think deserves playing then feel free to let me know in the comments. Have fun flying out there in VTOL VR.

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9 Ways To Terrorize A City In Monster: Titan’s Playground - A Great VR Godzilla Game

If you find yourself as a giant Kaiju Godzilla type monster in the brilliant Virtual Reality game Monster: Titan’s Playground then here's 11 ways to absolutely terrorize this little city.

This is an amazing VR Godzilla game where you’re a massive monster just smashing your way through a city. Here’s how.

If you find yourself as a giant Kaiju Godzilla type monster in the brilliant Virtual Reality game Monster: Titan’s Playground then here's 11 ways to absolutely terrorize this little city. This is an amazing VR Godzilla game where you’re a massive monster just smashing your way through a city. Here’s how.

#1

The first way is to establish dominance by leaping along the city streets and on top of apartment buildings. The slam of your huge feet hitting the ground will surely strike terror into the hearts of the population.

You can even do a sort of VR King Kong type move by climbing a high tower.

If you want a more classically inspired monster invading city experience then you can always climb a tall office building, or even the massive monument across town, and throw stuff down at the locals.

#2

Of course buildings are for more than just climbing, they're definitely also for smashing. There's nothing like the look and feel of ramming your huge meaty kaiju fists through an apartment block.

Smashing a building with your huge VR Godzilla fists in Monster: Titan's Playground is amazing.

Or pounding your way from the roof to the foundations of a building. As a giant VR Godzilla monster you have the strength to easily blast through concrete and rebar like it's barely even there, laying waste to buildings in mere moments. This is absurdly fun.

#3

Though as you're terrorizing the city you should also make sure that the streets also aren't safe by destroying every form of transporation that you see.

The massive explosion made by a car in Monster: Titan's Playground.

Inadvertently, you also might help out the local environment and reduce pollution, though probably not by as much as the carbon emissions caused by the explosion a car makes when it hits a building and carves out a huge hole in the side. These cars make some seriously huge explosions.

Maybe they use the same engines as the cars from Fallout 4, especially since eating them will make you heal faster. Don't ask why.

#4

While you're throwing things you can also tear out chunks of buildings and throw them at other buildings, which is a weirdly efficient way to do some demolition work. There's just something majestic about seeing someone's living room bounce off of several other buildings and then careen off into the distance.

Throwing pieces of buildings into other buildings is such a satisfying VR Kaiju Monster move.

Tearing huge chunks out of buildings is so easy with your huge monster hands.

#5

That is, if you're not interrupted by the elephant in the street, and that's these annoying mechs from Super Mech Force that are always trying to stop your good time of smashing buildings and generally lowering property values. Though at the end of the day a city that doesn't fight back wouldn't be much fun.

There will be a lot of mechs to fight in this game.

Though there's got to be nothing more scary to your average onlooker than seeing the giant Godzilla monster pummel the mechs defending your city into the dirt. Or punching one in the chest so hard its reactor core explodes and sends mech pieces flying everywhere.

#6

While you're at it you can also use those destroyed mechs to take down huge buildings. Tossing the body of a mech meant to defend this city into a building is extremely ironic, and also super destructive.

Of course mechs can also be used to smash things for fun.

#7

Of course you'll have more at your disposal than just your fists to stop those pesky mechs and do some large scale remodeling. Your massive kaiju monster also comes with many equipment options ranging from arm mounted plasma cannons that melt armor and blast holes in buildings to shoulder mounted mini guns that will absolutely tear through a mech.

Blasting a mech with miniguns in Monster: Titan's Playground. You're not just VR Godzilla, you're a Mech VR Godzilla.

You're not just any giant lizard monster, you're a giant lizard monster sponsored by the finest minds at the SECRET EVIL LAB. Destroy more mechs and you get more upgrades, and wow are there a lot to try.

#8

Though as you start to face more advanced mechs you'll notice that their weaponry will get more dangerous as well. Don't worry though, because they seem to care just as little for the city they are fighting you over as you do. When the huge lasers come out you're practically required to hide behind some high rises to avoid it.

Mechs with huge lasers are scary, and they don't care if they destroy the city while trying to get you.

Bombs and missiles that Super Mech Force lobs at you can be snatched out of the air and thrown right back at them, or if you're particularily destructive you can always chuck them at buildings on purpose, or by accident.

#9

Of course you're not really a kaiju monster if you don't have some really deadly breath, and there's no way to assert dominance over a city more spectacular than setting fire to everything in sight with a massive jet of flame coming out of your mouth.

Nothing makes you feel more like an amazing VR Kaiju than breathing fire over the city.

The flamethrower coming out of your throat is so massive that it obstructs your view and quickly spread over anything that it hits, mechs, buildings, and passerby alike. Now that's how you terrorize a city as a VR Kaiju.

Want to get to attack a city as a huge VR Godzilla monster yourself? Then wishlist the game! At the time of writing, Monster: Titan's Playground is unreleased, but can be wishlisted on Steam.

I did receive a copy of this for free from the developer, and I ended up absolutely loving it and really want to see them add more features and more variation to the environments, among other things. So if terrorizing a city and fighting mechs as a VR lizard monster sounds fun to you then go to the steam page linked in the description and click the wishlist button. It's free and it would really help out a small developer with a fantastic idea for a Virtual Reality game.

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VTOL VR - How To Use AH-94 Countermeasures

Here’s how to use the countermeasures (flares and chaff) in the AH-94 helicopter in VTOL VR.

Grab the combat collective stick. You’ll notice that there are two sticks on the collective lever to the left of your seat, one on top of the other. The combat collective is the one on top.

The combat collective in the AH-94 is used to release flares and chaff countermeasures.

Now hold down the trigger on the controller of the hand that is grabbing the combat collective and press the Y/B button (the higher of the two buttons on the controller) to release your countermeasures.

That’s how to use countermeasures in the AH-94. Remember that you can also turn off flares or chaff by clicking the green flare or chaff buttons on the dashboard to the left of the collective lever. Also remember that you can configure chaff and flare release modes by pressing the CMS button on an MFD.