Onward

Reviewing every game I've played in my Steam Library. Game 25

Looks like garbage, you can't make out anything at a distance. I thought it was my headset but basically they've downgraded practically everything visually to accommodate running it standalone on the quest.

PCVR version that last had decent graphics is abandoned and online play is completely dead for this version.

Lots of kids play this game.

Do not reccomend

The player base is either ultra sweaty nerds or fun guys you talk to you even when your on the enemy team

amazing game! i played on standalone for two years, i do not want to even guess how many hours... now on pcvr i like it even more. only bad thing worth mentioning, is, the squeakers... aka adolescent kids. thankfully tho, most stick to the skill-less mode "FREE ROAM" so just don't go there... trust me.
after over eight years now, and massive conflict with quest launch. this game is still alive and improving with updates still happening. thanks to the small, and really adaptive, innovative, and skilled dev team. far as people criticzing DPI, they have to understand meta fired a ton of the devs, and ported this game to quest. which is obviously not an easy process. also, really looking forward to april!

GAMEPLAY: this game has the best gun play, and realistic gameplay of any vr shooter out there. graphics are decent, out classed by most other vr shooters tho, but DPI continues to update that, which has gotta far better since quest lanuch. what i like most tho, is NO player tags, or team ID. you only get your tablet to check for teammates and by the tan or black outfits. thsi makes the game so inmersive and takes more skill to know friend over foe. also the core mode, uplink, has no comms after death. once your teammates are dead, its up to you, no kill count, no locations... noting. only what you have from before they died, (last callout made that is) the game does have an intimating skill difference, but join the discord and find lots of help!
unlike most games, onward puts you in CQC and long range, 400+ meter range, between maps. also, game modes, from fast pace (assault) to relaxed co-op, to comp uplink where a slight error or one well placed shot can cost you the round.
overall, if you like low ttk and more realistic type games onward is really you best and only option. 10/10 for me.

TLDR; onward is the best and only somewhat realistic tacitcal shooter.

Love this game, i play pub lobbies, comp lobbies, league and all modes (most people find one they like and stick to one). when i started playing vr i downloaded a bunch of awesome games and gave them good reviews, and then i found this game and i havent stopped playing it since, it says i have 42 hours but i actually got this on my quest first and now have probably over a thousand and still everytime i buy i new game it just doesnt hit like onward does

is good

I love playing Onward! They Keep improving the game and I will keep playing it.

sucks they made it look like shit to pander, still onward though

Super frustrating trying this game to run. Ive spent twice as much time troubleshooting as I have playing. Oculus is a failed console with terrible steam support. Onward is a reminder of how far away we are from decent VR games

The infamous 1.8 update ruined everything

DONT PLAY IT BRO its not worth it dont waste your nlife like me :3

One of the best mil-sim VR games i've ever played. Player base is still plenty so no problem with finding games. The community is (mostly) supportive and fun to play with. Also have modded servers to spice things up. Overall 9/10, come join and try it for yourself :D

Mikecrook21 cheats in this game. its sad that he doesnt have the skill required to play fairly. this really ruined my onward experience.

Long story short, Facebook/Meta/Quest and the infamous and controversial 1.8 update killed this worthless game. Used to be a great milsim and had lots of potential, but now It's not even a good arcade game, let alone a sim or milsim. Dante, the original developer, also left, probably after making some quick bucks from Facebook. Avoid!

Poor optimized, 3-4 seconds freeze is okay in this game
But hit registration in this game is best

one of the best pvp and pve vr games i have ever played solo or with a group, my only compliant my legs have not stoped hurting, every day is leg day XD 10/10 would recommend.

ikug

Joined the dc and started a poll about grip-pods/Bpods whatever you'd call them
Some how it got very popular and became a largish discussion.
Even talked to one of the devs at one point, fun
A man-child got pissy over it and started rage baiting
no one cared
man child reported the poll for one specific line
"Ive never had so much fun getting called racial slurs by little kids before"
Guess what, ONE, ONE mod the only TRANS MOD FUCKING BANS ME,
Never felt more betrayed by my own community before...., JK I don't care i had my fun
and met some nice folk. so i'm done venting, my review goes as follows

Great game, Great community, great devs,
Full price aint so bad
8 jewish priests out of 9.5 bread roles

TLDR: Saw game from years ago and finally got into VR this year. Game updates seem to have downgraded every part of this game from what I saw in Youtube videos years ago. While the devs seem to want to fix this in it's current state it feels lifeless and more like a VR light-gun game. Can't recommend in current state as other games have better features, some of which this game once had. Also had issues running the game even tho my pc was over min spec.

Graphics: 5/10 (Average for VR)
Gameplay: 4/10 (Could be fun PvP or with friends but other VR shooters feel a lot better)

Some friends and I got into VR this year and have been having a blast with Tactical Assault VR which is an amazing game, however this caused us to play it so much we just want more content as we know the maps like the back of our hand. This made me remember seeing Onward years ago when a bunch of Youtubers I watch played it. I figured I'd pick it up and give it a try as if we can get another Tactical Shooter for our group then it'd help the burnout of just playing one game. I was sad to learn that the game had a massive downgrade to work on standalone headsets but heard the devs were trying to fix it and figured I'd give it a go.

After playing I see why people are upset and to me the game feels lifeless, the AI just stand there, the game ran poorly on my system despite being well over min spec, and simple things like ragdoll being gone just made the whole thing feel like a lifeless shooting gallery. I played with settings but I just couldn't stop the stutters and loading issues despite having played games with much more going on on screen and better graphics. Overall it was just a disapointment to jump into this years after it's prime and not be the game people were excited about years ago.

Put all that together and I can't recommend this game as I feel other games do a better job of giving you that tactical shooter experience these days.

Onward currently unplayable due to visual stuttering and hand rubberbanding in game for my system, and I cannot find resources online to fix it. I used to play a lot of PVE and really enjoyed the graphics. After they updated it to include meta quest support everything took a dive and I set the game down waiting for improvements to the game that have never come. No other game in my library becomes unplayable after 5 minutes or when entering a new screen, but Onward consistently will rapidly flicker at a low frame rate, and reduce my field of view, while often soft "crashing" to a greyed out screen. It sometimes returns to normal, and often takes 5-10 seconds. Outside of game this happens and makes menu selection arduous, but in any game mode this is plenty of time for everything to go FUBAR and get you killed. Cannot recommend.

200 round pkm box lol

best VR game i got

I should have posted this a LONG time ago but, this game sold it's soul to Meta Quest. So many features were cut so they could break into the Meta Quest space including what used to be very good graphics, but everything was downgraded.
Detail video from someone else here: https://youtu.be/UEuHVFEw2EE

Didn't want to play on the Nintendo 64 Golden Eye Graphics.

good game

If you buy the steam only version you lose a lot of features, the main feature being uploading custom maps. Asked on their discord if steam players will ever get the support that meta players get and didn't get a response lul. If you're gonna buy the game go thru meta and play the PCVR version using the quest store.

Decent game, detailed game. I havent been able to play much but thats probably caused by my link cable being damaged or something Idk all I know is that there are big black vertical bars on the headset and none on my computer screen. :shrug:

toggle scope ftw

this game used to run fine, now its all laggy and stuttering, i have a 4060ti RTX and its breaking my whole game and VR headset, FIX IT!

Pew pew

very fun

lag

I stabbed my own teammate to death

mama

fun until people come together and decide to kick you for no reason then you cant play the main part of the game for the rest of the day

oi get it

fun

want to spend 20 confusing minutes in menus and tutorials for the weapons. Want to get repeatedly triple tapped by an enemy the size of an ant somewhere over your shoulder. Onward is the game for you.

Otherwise get tactical assault, it looks like a mobile game but has fun game play. (best in co-op)

Zero Caliber is more fun (in co-op) but it's bots will shoot you in the eye from 1000 yards in 0.2 seconds.

cool game and all but fucked up the Graphics from how it us to look and is heavily lacking in game modes and guns. they could have added like a criss vector or desert eagle for example or even a game mode like r6 siege hostage. or more support for headsets and controllers. i use a pimax 8k+ i understand ill not get the best support but the only issue i have is the night vision doesn't take advantage of the 200 fov and instead cuts it of in the middle of my view. and for my pimax sword controllers or even the vive ones the controls suck ass as compared to a quest witch i find those people more gay than a tesla user where it makes sense. so why one the vive controllers is the trigger grab and why is it that you don't press on the track pad's button to move but this game uses the sensitive as censor. so this game is pretty mid and can add more for a 30 dollar game. but heck i can still have fun and so can you. but please do a actual good update instead of this cod ass update, fr spending all this time to barley add anything to the game. as a 3d modeler my self with blender i have made a 5 megabit desert eagle with under 12 hours of work into it wile keeping all its details. its not that hard to do this shit and i'm only 17 yall full ass adults and suck at this. i get the maps you got to design and add a lot of shit and model it at the same time but can yall make you allowed to shoot threw things like wood considering your trying to make it realistic.

pretty good

At first, its fun.

Then, for no reason, it gets extraordinarily difficult. Youre great at it when youre new, but then for absolutely no apparent reason, 99.99% of the player base becomes E-sports veterans and suddenly the game is unplayable because 0-7 K/D every single fucking round. Unfun at this stage.

Still fun. If youre lucky enough. I think it's worth the fishing, but otherwise the game is just "Get shot from absolutely nowhere" on sniper maps and "Some fucker has wallhacks and just knows where you are 24/7 for some reason, also he has a shotgun and it one shots you from any distance meanwhile even if you have the rocket launcher, you cant kill him. no the game will not explain why."

YES 1 OF THE FEW TOP 5 VR GAMES IN THE WORLD, CAN BACK THIS GAME UP

im a fubar chud and i love this game because i can force 13 year olds to listen to me and say yes sir and stuff. 100/2

Fkn awsome game

really fun game. i have only played coop as of writing this review, but it is fun. the teamwork element is great and it really is super fun and sometimes intense.

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jk

good game

It s my 1st FPS Online shooter in VR. I t s a good game but it need some more improvement, like getting trough a windows or at lest go easy over a little fence or stairs, this would make the game much more immersive. Just make something like pop one obstacle auto hoping. And now it s largely time to give love back to PC VR fan s ! I found your game in the Quest 1 library and it was fun but could n t play against my friends on quest 2 because of the low resolution. couldn t see them when they were far away. So I bought your game a second time on Steam so I could play PCVR on quest 1 and it was a blast. Now I m upgraded to quest 3. The only thing that didn t upgrade is the PCVR version in this 4 last Years.
I hope it will come soon.

ground branch but better