Dress up the heat with two new songs and more ways to play.
What you need to know
- Pistol Whip is an action-rhythm first-person shooter for Quest 2, PlayStation VR and VR on PC.
- The Encore update will add two new songs, a multiplayer party mode, and more improvements.
- The update will also bring more modifiers to the endless style system, which has been a hit with players since it was added last year.
Rhythm-action VR first-person shooter Pistol Whip is getting a major update, including new scenes, local multiplayer modes, and more mods for the Styles system.
The Encore update for the Quest 2 and PlayStation VR games will add two more scenes or levels to the game, for a total of 30 songs. Each new scene will feature end credits from Pistol Whip’s previous DLC campaigns: Magic Sword’s The Way Home in the post-apocalyptic 2089 campaign and Devora’s Fist Fight in the western-themed Smoke & Thunder campaign.
Players will be able to hand over their VR headsets and challenge others next to them in the game’s new party mode, where preferred scenarios and modifiers are set, and players attempt to top the local leaderboard. The Styles system also received three new modifiers, such as scoring based solely on accuracy, shooting to the beat, and swapping enemies for “abstract targets”.
According to Pistol Whip developer Cloudhead Games, since the Styles system launched last August, players have posted more than 2.5 million weekly scores across more than 100,000 unique leaderboards and over 5,000 unique styles.
Additionally, the Encore update to one of the best Quest 2 games will add three new weapons, four winter weapon packs, and UI improvements.The studio has been teasing an update for Thursday, February 24 Twitter since last week.
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Pistol Whip combines dynamic pacing with a fully playable first-person shooter in virtual reality, supported by several major updates since its release on Quest 2, PlayStation VR and PC VR.
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