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Espire 2 Receives Free MR Missions Update For Meta Quest

Tripwire Interactive dropped a new update for Espire 2 this week, as Meta Quest players have free content with MR Missions.

VR developer Digital Lode and publisher Tripwire Interactive have released a new update on Espire 2 for Meta Quest users. The game now has the free MR Missions Update, which has been designed to turn your home into one giant mission utilizing the space around you, and working with key upgrades that will give you a better experience in the game. We have the finer details from the devs below, as well as a trailer showing it off, as the update is now live.

"All of the new missions included in the MR Missions Update were designed utilizing key hardware features from Meta Reality, including color passthrough, scene understanding, and passthrough occlusion. These tools allow users to have the ability to see the real-world environment around them while giving developers unique abilities to customize the player experience. Additionally, Espire 2 is one of the first titles to pioneer the use of procedural generation for placed items in the game world. This use of procedural generation is paired with handcrafted mission design to give users the smoothest, highest-quality mixed reality experience possible."

"The Espire 2: MR Missions Update features a series of stealth missions that grow and adapt to the player's personal playspace. Missions are deliberately focused and optimized for all environments, ranging from small areas to multiple rooms. Play as Tempest, an agent who must pass a series of Mixed Reality Missions to earn their stripes and be cleared to pilot an Espire Frame. Each mission offers a variety of objectives, constantly changing familiar surroundings as you move; engage with enemy soldiers, bipedal mechs, electronic threats, and more that emerge to prevent you from completing your objective."

• Experience Espire 2's signature stealth sandbox as all of its 1:1 tracked game mechanics translate perfectly into a mixed reality experience.
  • Espire Vision: Raise your hand to your head and squeeze the trigger to use Espire Vision – your real-world environment is tinted green, and exposure is adjusted so darker shadows become bright.
  • Hold Up Guards: Raise your hand to your mouth and speak to the guards. Your spoken commands are interpreted by Meta's voice SDK AI assistant and translated into game commands. You can hold up a guard right in your living room.
  • Take Down Guards: Squeeze the trigger on your controller and see a tranquilizer launcher pop out of your own forearm! Aim your arm at guards to fire darts for a silent takedown.
• Lockers are available in the real world. Open up the locker to find and collect resources like weapons, charge batteries, and tranquilizer darts. Use the locker to stash an enemy guard's body, or hide in the locker yourself. Peek through the slats in the locker and see the MR 'real world' beyond. Open the door and transition from VR into MR.
• Large blast windows will appear on your walls, dramatically extending your real-world environment into the virtual world beyond the window. Peer through the windows to see large Hangar installations, store rooms, surveillance centers, and other environments, with guard patrols to avoid, and resources to collect.
• Large boxes and crates can be utilized to create makeshift cover and hide from guards.
• Use your repair tool that's built into your wrist to disable electronic threats like tripmines, cameras and turrets, and hack data from PC terminals.

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