I’ve had an interest in playing VRChat for a couple years now but never went through. There’s been so many conflicting that been said about it ever since the Easy Anti-Cheat Update. So I want to know about your personal experience with the community and where to start.
Also I’ve been looking to upgrade my headset from a Valve Index and looking for recommendations. No Meta headsets since I don’t trust Facebook.
I started on VRchat in 2020 and just before most of the kids made it there.
Public worlds used to be about 25% unsupervised kids and teens %50 adults and the other 25% were computer mutes. On Friday’s and other popular times it was 90% adults.
Today it’s 90% kids and teens in public lobbies and you’ll have to join the adults in private worlds. You’ll have to find these fellow adults everywhere but public VRchat worlds, mostly through discord servers.
ChilloutVR is the closest thing to what VRchat once was, but you’ll be sorely disappointed with it if you compare the two games together since they’re so different.
VRChat is free, so it is worth a shot to give it a try. VRChat actually does not require a VR Headset to play (though it definitely helps), so you can try it for yourself if you like.
VRChat does unfortunately suffer a lot of unsupervised children and other people who causes a nuisance being in public instances. So finding people to add to your friends list or finding groups to join private instance is the key to having a good experience.
My opinion on EAC is that it sucks, but there isn’t a viable competitor platform that offers the same features and the large playerbase. I think that the program experience has gotten way better for me, due from the pressure to add proper features ever since there was massive backlash of EAC.
I unfortunately cannot comment on any other headset since I use an oculus headset as my primary PCVR headset