VR Regatta - The Sailing Game

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Depth? About as much as a toy sailboat in a puddle. You get rudder, a sheet for each sail, and your head position along with wind direction vs sheet adjustment changes the tilt of the boat. That's about it. No angular momentum, weather helm, or main/jib balancing, just faster or slower forward speed. No broaching, no slamming boom on dangerous jibe turns or most anything else you would expect to experience with a novice at the helm. It just is and that's it. Also parts of the game, like the "yacht", are locked away until you progress through the tutorial. It was fun for a few minutes, then the VR novelty effect wore off.

Unglaublich aber wahr. Dieses wunderschöne Spiel mit guter Steuerung kann ich absolut nicht empfehlen, außer, man ist reallive Segler. Und warum solche Leute in VR segeln wollen sollten, weiß ich auch nicht. Doch vom Anfang an: Ich habe mir dieses Spiel gekauft, um gemütlich eine Runde zu segeln. Darf ich das? Nein! Ich muss erst dieses bekloppte Tutorial absolvieren. Dazu muss ich gewisse Parcoure in unangenehm kurzen Zeiten schaffen. Habe ich mich durch den ersten gequält, muss ich den nächsten, noch härteren schlagen. Und wozu das alles? Um dann in aller Ruhe in den Sonnenuntergang segeln zu dürfen? WARUM? Wozu muss ich schnelle Manöver absolvieren können, wenn ich nur gemütlich segeln will?? Für Gelgenheitssegler wie mich ist es also reine Zeit- und Geldverschwendung. Nach einer Stunde war ich genervt und frustriert! Ich durfte nichtmal das Tutorial skippen und einfach lossegeln! Ich wurde immer direkt zum Tutorial zurück teleportiert! Dear producers! Please make a patch! Let us skip this tutorial!! I want to learn sailing by sailing! I do not want to beat times just to be able to sail into the sunrise! I wanted to sail but this game doesn´t let me!

Controls, they are terrible from start. Hand colliders if they are even using ones are way to small so you end up missing line and tiller a lot. There are no movement controls, you move in real world or move by pointing and clicking. Did I mentioned that pointing and clicking works only at certain height. If you tackle and move in real world to other bort, hand tracking for tiller gets broken. No feedback for hand positions except visual one. UI gets clipped off in place where you would expect it to be shown. Water is flat shader, other boats are on rails and wont react for players actions, wind is arrow, boat feels like it had engine. It feels like desktop game demo poorly adapted for VR. Game has just about filler to push past 2h. Even with all terrible controls, I would have expected at least realistic water and physics, none of that here. Do not recommend to buy!

Ein Problem bei der Jolle ist, dass man nach vorne schaut, während man hinter dem Rücken die Pinne hält. Das führt zwangsläufig dazu, dass das Trekking zum Controller abreisst und das Ruder nicht mehr reagiert. Wenn man sich hinter die Pinne setzt, erreicht man die Großschot nicht. Trotzdem hatte ich es nach vielen Versuchen geschafft, die sehr knapp bemessene Zeit im Racing zu schaffen, um endlich mal eine richtige Kielyacht zu segeln. Aber nach einigen Runden damit um die Inseln, war die Luft auch schon raus - ist einfach zuwenig "Content" da. Die 5.- € für 2,5 Stunden Segeln sind ja nicht unbedingt zuviel, zumal das "Gleiten" und die Geräusche schon auch ein Segelgefühl erzeugen, aber der einzige Grund, weiter zu machen wären nur die knackigen Regattazeiten zu erreichen, die einem dort abverlangt werden. Und da bin ich als Echt-Segler schon etwas überfordert. Technisch lief es auf meinem i7 / Win 11 / GTX 3060 und der Pico 4 problemlos

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I come more from the auto-simulator genre in VR... Not having sailed a boat of this type in many years, I thoroughly enjoyed every minute, thus far! This is def. immersive and teleporting/tacking under more adverse conditions would be a real challenge! I DID find myself leaning back over the side of the faux-Ronstan, as if I was utilizing the strap a couple times, weight transfer is a factor I like about my experience so far. I currently need a better location, to be less inhibited with movements (not hitting real life furniture), but... Catamarans? TRIMIARANS?! TY SIR! Wonderful work Mr. Greg... I can't devote a ton of time to it ATM, but, without much time thus far, I am a Fan of your sim... I also have to thank you for getting back to me regarding looking at my initial log file! Multihulls would be fabulous someday! TY!