Terje Haakonsen's Powder VR

This is exactly how cool boarders 1 felt when I played a PS1 for the first time as a 13 year old. But then in VR! Tighten your gloves because it will be rough in 'Terje Haakonsen's Powder VR'. Winter games in VR is an experience that we VR players have been looking forward to for a long time, with the quality that Powder VR has to offer us, you will undoubtedly spend a high number of hours on this. Even when you have unlocked all locations and items, these Powder VR experiences are undoubtedly open to multiple replays! Glide down very high mountain peaks in a flash on skis or a snowboard, or fly like a squirrel just above the white plains with a wingsuit. You will have to unlock the wingsuit or a boosterpack through mini games that are accessible through the exploration mode, after that you will be able to use them in other activities besides the mini games and you can use the wingsuit from any jump, if it is high enough. By default you will have to do different modes in the world tour such as racing, checkpoints or freestyle, but via the minigames you can do even more challenging activities that belong to those modes, but just a little too challenging for a world tour to keep sporty. These modes will offer even more in the future once multiplayer support becomes available. Through the mini games you can gain a bit more extreme experiences, despite the fact that the world tour activities can already have high challenges. I like freestyle in exploration mode, so you can seek and conquer the highest jumps and the thinnest edges, or just enjoy the peaceful winter environments. You can also do tricks in the game with both skis and snowboard, here you will have to do flips or turns using movements with the controllers and you will also have to do a nose or tail grab manually. The locations in the game are also inspired by real mountain locations, for example Mt Albus in the game is based on the Mt Blanc of the Alps, or Kastle Ridge which is inspired by the slovak tatras national park which has a castle on a hill top, with snow peaks of course. Terje Haakonsen's Powder VR is like no other currently on the market and highly recommended! Skis & snowboard montage video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_LttL9it38

DEAD EARLY ACCESS GAME.

It's really an underwhelming game in all aspects. You feel more like you're just watching someone ski from their point of view, because the controls make no sense, and there's no sense of speed like you get in a game like Fancy Skiing. The courses are all painfully short as well, lasting less than a minute and providing little excitement or even enjoyment. It's also been over a year since the last update, and a year since the devs said a new update was coming very soon, but it never did. This game looks like it's dead in the water and I'd still rather play Fancy Skiing than spend any time playing this.

DEAD EARLY ACCESS GAME.

Unfortunately I can't recommend this game even though I would wish. The game is simply boring and . Too much space and there is lack of that "VR feeling" when you play this game. The calibration is really messed up. Tutorial is annoying and not too helpful. Its better to actually skip it and try to learn controls during a normal quick race. There is also a lot of let's call it, blank space, so you are just riding skiis and just do nothing.. no slalom, no andrenaline, no feeling. I wish the game had slalom mode with flags. For that price I believe it should have it. Somebody in a different review already mentioned poor physics and how the game feels different than skiing in real life. Others would say: "Hey, but this is just a game". Well, I would reply to this, there is a free to play game offering skiing that has a much better feeling comparing to real life skiing than this game does. it's just not an entertaining game. There is no joy.

**Physical limitation** Make sure you can lean backward and twist left at the same time if you want to snowboard. I have a slight curvature, and it made it impossible for me to turn left.

I found 'Powder VR' to be unplayable, both as a skiing and snowboarding simulation. As someone experienced in skiing, I was looking for a realistic VR simulation, but this game did not meet my expectations. The game is plagued with numerous bugs. Most notably, the board and skis are often submerged beneath the snow, obscuring the view. Additionally, replays show that the player character is consistently contorted into strange positions, regardless of player actions. Based on these issues, I am requesting a refund for sure.

I bought the game a while ago and never was able to play more than the tutorial. I simply got stuck in every other loading menu and after abt 15 min the game did not respond. Really frustrated actually, as the game seems so nice!

There's a decent learning curve and a need to keep to the center of positional tracking calibration during all the action, hence the frequent need to perform re-zero calibration at each load screen. luckily its very quick and painless. Once basic tutorial is cleared and the concepts of centering and leaning is somewhat dialed in, the experience is undeniably great! I recommend trying/allowing flips and world spin by enabling in settings because if you can stomach it, its where this experience really shines . Performance on 3080 ti/ 9900K w/ valve index is acceptable but recently getting a lot of cpu frametime bottlenecks regardless of settings. It seems to happen over a little time of play where at first things are smooth and then it degrades. I tried everything like lowering render resolution, running at 90 hz , setting sttings to low , confirming cpu thermals not triggering throttling, app conflicts, allowed prerendered frames, etc... I hope this gets resolved because I really love this game ---Highly recommended.

Doing an Unnatural Double Cork 1260 out the side of Helicopter onto a giant mountain, only to faceplant into a massive tree. Crunching sound ensues as the screen fades to white. Good times. I also found myself taunting the A.I. calling them Chads while trying to spear them with my poles. Man i love not getting arrested for my actions in video games. Yet.