How do you use vats?

[ROBTEK]

How do you use VATS? Just to slow time down or do you actually select each body part? what do you do and how?

Thanks

[WarMachine]

It slows time to a crawl. When you point your gun at the target, where your aiming lights up like selecting a limb in VATS.

[Capt_Lycanthro]

Think bullet time, and instead of aiming for you, it highlights areas of the target as you aim at them and gives you a to hit percentage. So instead of aiming for you, it's showing you where you're aiming. it's actually a lot more useful than VATS in regular Fallout 4.

[ROBTEK]

ah true.. wanted to make sure didnt need to select each shot then execute..

cheers

[CiberX15]

If you're like me and your question is literally, how do you _use_ vats with the Vive, it is the right (gun) hand menu button that triggers it.

Fallout VR is pretty epic so far but my goodness they need a tutorial somewhere! Or at least a control map chart!

[NexGen-3D]

They aslo need to "fix" VATS as its totally unuseable anyway, it will almost always select a stupid limb that you cantr even shoot properly and there is no way to change the selection, and sometimes it will go beserk swapping targets and a rediculous rate that acttually cuases the game to crash sometimes.

I have put the game on hold for now until they fix a few of the bugs as its leading to a poor user experience at the moment.

[Despiser]

Does it show anywhere the recharging ?

[Mio Rin]

Originally posted by Despiser:

Does it show anywhere the recharging ?

The AP meter and critical charge are shown next to your weapon while VATS is active.

[EastlandVR]

Yeah, VATS is a mess, at least for me. As kung-foo-kamel stated, it selects nonsensical targets and constantly jumps back and forth between targets and body parts. Most of the time I watch helplessly as it cycles between targets with 0% and 95% chance of hitting and just have to pull the trigger and hope it has the right one selected when the gun fires. Also, the target and chance-to-hit information appears as an object in the world, so if there is anything in the way, you can't even see what it says. All of this pretty much makes VATS worthless at any but close range. Hopefully they will fix this.

I have to wonder, though, if this is everyone's experience, or just an unlucky few.

[Despiser]

Originally posted by Miorin:

Originally posted by Despiser:

Does it show anywhere the recharging ?

The AP meter and critical charge are shown next to your weapon while VATS is active.

I see. I’ve just got used to estimating the charge time

[JeQ]

i havent used vats much but i understood that you can actually move closer of target while targeting with vats, to make it easier to point which body part to shoot?

[ROBTEK]

yeah VATS isn't anywhere near the same as on Desktop... have been playing Fallout for years... am saying VATS in VR is confusing and jumps all over the place... have only used it sometimes to slow time down and move in or around the target to blow the head off with a shotgun close range.. anything else such as using rifle from distance is pointless and non-effective with current VATS... Shame.. maybe with the new patch we'll see..

[Adrift]

VATS is essentially bullet time, like taking jet.
It does try to select body parts that you are pointing at, but its REALLY bad at it.
I could never get it to target a head even when I had the muzzle of my gun point blank in their face.
It would also constantly flip between several body parts and could never really figure out what I was actually aiming at...

The solution is of course to completely disable the retarded selection system.

In your documents > My Games > Fallout4VR folder, edit the Fallout4VrCustom.ini file.
Insert (or modify if you already have it)
fVATSTargetUpdateSec=999
into the [VATS] section.

This will completely disable the target selection and turn VATS into pure bullet time allowing you to freely aim as you normally do without the broken selection system.

[LongHairedDave]

Originally posted by EastlandVR:

Yeah, VATS is a mess, at least for me. As kung-foo-kamel stated, it selects nonsensical targets and constantly jumps back and forth between targets and body parts. Most of the time I watch helplessly as it cycles between targets with 0% and 95% chance of hitting and just have to pull the trigger and hope it has the right one selected when the gun fires. Also, the target and chance-to-hit information appears as an object in the world, so if there is anything in the way, you can't even see what it says. All of this pretty much makes VATS worthless at any but close range. Hopefully they will fix this.

I have to wonder, though, if this is everyone's experience, or just an unlucky few.

Its not just you, i find it easier to aim outside of vats than to actually use it for what its for. It jumps targets that are not even close to each other, not to bad if you only have one target but it still jumps from limb to limb so fast it makes it pretty useless. Its just something else that broke when they 'transfered' the game to VR and not 'converted' to VR.

I normally get close enough, fire up vats to aim, then disable it, fire and re-enable it to get those head shots.

[kwarior]

How do you switch on vats in VR? I have been playing VR for quite some time, and really struggle with the UI. I haven't figure out how to get the vats UI to appear at all. playing the non vr version on ps3 I had no issues.

[Vic Evicerator]

Originally posted by kwarior:

How do you switch on vats in VR? I have been playing VR for quite some time, and really struggle with the UI. I haven't figure out how to get the vats UI to appear at all. playing the non vr version on ps3 I had no issues.

It's different for each controller - you'll have to look at the VR controls section of the help in-game to see for sure for your VR set. For what it's worth, I use the old Oculus Rift-S and there the VATS button is "B", which is the secondary thumb button on the right hand - push "B" to enable VATS mode, then aim at the various body parts and use the trigger to execute each shot.