Space Pirate Trainer Marks Official Release With Major Update

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The classic VR game celebrates it’s graduation from early access with new modes, enemies, guns and a generous discount.

Every virtual reality enthusiast has heard of Space Pirate Trainer. For many fans of the HTC Vive, including myself, it was the first experience we had in VR, serving as the catalyst for our eventual obsession with the technology.

It’s widely considered the Space Invaders of VR, not just for its similarities in terms of taking down wave after wave of alien enemies, but because of its importance as one of the first games to truly demonstrate the potential of VR. Now the game that helped popularize the medium is finally taking off its metaphorical training wheels and entering the market as a fully released title.

Available October 22nd via Steam VR at a 25% discount, this new version of the hit title is so chock full of new content, it feels like an entirely new game. In its previous iteration, SPT provided users with two guns featuring several different firing modes, a shield and a laser lasso to help than fend off waves of killer robot drones. This latest update adds a plethora of new weapons and equipment, as well as performance tweaks that take this already-stellar experience to new heights:

• New Weapon: Volton, a lightsaber-like weapon that allows you to hit the lasers back at the droids.  It also converts to a plasmalink, a whip-like weapon that can take a droid and smash it against the ground (or on other droids).
• New Weapon: Ion grenade launcher.  Press the trigger to launch a grenade, then press the trigger again to detonate.
• New Weapon: Shotworks (like a shotgun)
• New Powerups: shield, machine guns, homing bullets, gravity field and missiles
• New Enemies
• Party Mode: (limit the gameplay to a number of games or minutes) with a party mode scoreboard
• VR Sense: when a drone fires outside of your view, the screen will flash subtly
  Statistics at the end of the game
• Graphics Updates: (new gun models and textures, particle and weapon effects), improved frame rates, supersampling and antialiasing options in the menu
• Additional Challenges: bullet time effect now becomes weaker as your level increases, hardcore mode (no bullet time)

However the coolest update by far has to be the brand new turret defense system implemented on the ship, located behind the player. Three different firing modes (Tesla coil, laser turret, ray canon) can be used to fend off enemies automatically. Although the ray cannon operates under manual control by twisting your wrist. That’s freakin’ awesome…

The full official release for Space Pirate Trainer will be available October 22nd via Steam VR. Make sure you grab it quick though, as the company will be running a special 25% discount for a limited time. If you own a headset and have yet to check this game out, please do yourself a favor and pick up a copy. There’s no better way to blow the mind of a VR newbie than with a laser lasso and robot drones.

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