0.2.6 — The Technician Steam update #1337269

0.2.5 just got pushed last week, but it's already time for 0.2.6! Since the goal of this update is to improve the overall control experience of...

Steam App
The Technician (839960)
Event type
patch note
Published
22 January 2019 - 21:54:21 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
0.2.5 just got pushed last week, but it's already time for 0.2.6! Since the goal of this update is to improve the overall control experience of selecting and grabbing objects, I decided to get it out as soon as possible so I could see how it does and iterate on it more in the next update if necessary. Always Be Pointing Making grabbing and selection more precise involved a number of changes. First, and most noticeable, is that the technician's hands now default to the "pointing" state. This seems like a pretty obvious change in retrospect, as the open-handed state never actually had any specific use. Players on Vive would constantly be pressing the trigger to stay in pointing mode anyhow, and Oculus Touch users had to remember to lift their finger from the touch trigger all the time. (Oculus controls now also use the trigger press instead of just the touch state to change pointing mode) ...

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