Developer First Contact Entertainment has spoken at length about how Firewall Ultra is expanding the franchise by leveraging the power of PSVR 2 hardware and Epic’s Unreal Engine 5.
Speaking in an interview with the official Unreal Engine website, the team was asked how Firewall Ultra raises the bar, to which First Contact Entertainment pointed to the power of Sony’s latest VR headset and UE5.
Firewall Ultra is truly a next-gen VR title made possible by a combination of the hardware of the PS VR2 and Unreal Engine 5. The entire visual approach has been re-tooled with a focus on detailed, real-time lighting and all of the gameplay has been extensively refined to take advantage of the PS VR2 hardware. For example, there is extensive use of eye-tracking in the game, sometimes in subtle ways to add detail and control to key interactions.
We focus on ways to bring robust user-interaction design to our games using a PS VR2 Sense controller in each hand and the new hardware provided some exciting, new techniques for us to explore.
We are using all of the controller features (haptics, adaptive triggers, finger-sensing) along with eye-tracking to make weapon handling as immersive, rich, and fluid as possible.
Firewall Ultra is scheduled for release on PSVR 2 at some point in 2023.
[Source – Unreal Engine]