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The Mighty 8th VR puts you in the shoes of a B-17 Flying Fortress crew member at the height of the Strategic Bombing Campaign over Europe. Partner up with friends and do your part to ensure that the plane reaches the target and returns home safely.

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The Mighty 8th VR Dev Blog 2 - Test Flight

21 Jun

Welcome to the second of our Dev Blog series for “The Mighty 8th VR”.

Today we are happy to share with you our further work in progress.

Test Flight

We have aimed to create a sandbox and training areas around the Thorpe Abbotts airbase so players can test their skills and get some familiarity with guns prior to taking to the sky.

You will notice in the video that the airfield is starting to come to life. There are many vehicles moving from place to place and beyond. The keen-eyed among you will also notice a G506 driving around with a very interesting gun mounted on the back, whilst we don’t show you how this works in today's video it will come in videos further down the track.

The video also shows work in progress of some of the various roles that we have been implementing and testing. You will notice multiple gunner roles, pilot and bombardier roles are starting to take shape. Whilst we have been working on the Norden Bomb Sight, we felt it was better for us to save that for a future video.

VR Notes:

The video has been captured on a Steam PCVR build on an Oculus Quest 2 connected via wifi using Virtual Desktop. The game will also work via the Steam app and Oculus Airlink, using motion controllers. We have also been testing with hand tracking on the Quest 2, and that is partially working already. We aim to support as many headsets as possible when the game launches.

Thanks for your support

Thanks again for your support so far. The team is making great strides now as we have overcome some real technical hurdles we faced early on. We look forward to sharing more with you soon.

Please feel free to reach out with comments and questions and we will see if we can cover them in future blogs.

We are also avid VR gamers here, so if you have played an amazing VR game recently that you think our team should check out feel free to name-drop it in the comments.

The Mighty Eighth

It will be worth it

I am kinda sad that we don,t even have a release date, but knowing how long this as been in development we can assume it will all be worth it, if GTA 6 is worth the wait, The Mighty Eighth will also be worth the wait

WafflesAreLit0

14 Jun @ 3:28am

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The Mighty 8th VR Devblog 1 - Driving to the Hardstand

23 Jan

Welcome to the first dev blog for The Mighty 8th VR.

This will be the first of many over the coming year. We will be sharing early footage of in-game footage as it evolves and welcome your feedback and suggestions.

Within the VR gaming space, we acknowledge that there is a real desire to put the VR gamer first in order to truly craft a great experience.

Driving to the Hardstand

In this short video, you will see work-in-progress footage captured from a Meta Quest 2 via PC using Virtual Desktop. We have tested the game with both Airlink and the new Steam app for Meta Quest, but during development, we find Virtual Desktop continues to be useful.

This footage takes you from an area near Control Tower at Thorpe Abbotts down to the Hardstand where a B-17 sits with engines already running.

We do drive dangerously close to the B-17, which is not recommended operation of a motor vehicle around an Aircraft preparing to taxi, but this was done for dramatic impact. In the final vision for the game, you will be starting each of the engines yourself before joining the Elephant walk to the runway, and we will share the progress we have made on that front in future videos.

Here is a brief overview of how interactions currently work within the Jeep. You will need to grab the parking brake in order to release it, then grab the gear stick to put the vehicle in gear. Holding the right trigger will cause the vehicle to accelerate, whilst holding the left trigger will cause the vehicle to brake, in order to steer the vehicle you will need to grab the steering wheel with one or both hands.

Thanks for your support

Thanks for taking the time to read this Devblog and we will be sharing early footage of the game as it evolves and welcome your feedback and suggestions.

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If this ever gets released....

I'll eat my hat...lol

UK_Widowmaker

5 Jun @ 6:19pm

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No transparency from devs?

Based on the other conversations, Microprose doesn't say anything to the community. To me, this is a bad image and it needs to be changed.

Rexxia

29 Jun @ 8:53am

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Come on devs please give us some development progress

Please don’t keep us in the dark. You know a lot of people take it the wrong way. Let’s us know if this is real or not. Because I really want this game so bad. All the knew ones, just want some updates. Or point us to another site if you post elsewhere then here...

Loki

4 May @ 6:04pm

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Dead?

is it

joogrr

30 Jun @ 4:54pm

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