5 Ghosts of Tabor Tips and Tricks to Help You Survive and Extract

Want to have huge raids and big loot in Ghosts of Tabor? Well if you’re just starting out in VR’s only extraction shooter you might have a hard time getting in, getting some noteable loot, and getting out alive. It can be intimidating, and you might be concerned with losing your equipment before making any progress. Well don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with 5 Tips and Tricks that will help you get in and get out with the goods.

Always Bring a Backpack

You should always have a backpack whenever you start a raid. The first backpack that you can buy is super cheap and holds a decent amount of stuff. Since backpacks aren’t commonly found in raid you might end up with a bunch of items to extract with but no way to hold them all if you don’t bring one. A backpack is always worth the low price. If you don’t bring one you’re losing out on a lot of potential gains.

You should come in with a gun too, even if it’s just a pistol, and an extra magazine in your backpack. You might decide to try and see if you can find one in raid for the ultimate budget zero to hero sort of run. That’s up to you, though bringing a gun of some kind is a very good idea so you can at least shoot a FENIX scav and take their weapon. You don’t want to bet on finding a slain enemy with their gun lying by them before enemies find you.

You might also be thinking that you just want to go in with nothing so that you risk nothing and can learn the maps. If that’s what you want then keep reading. There’s a much more fun way to learn the maps.

Use Training Mode to Learn Maps and Warm Up

If you’re new to Ghosts of Tabor then the maps and how they are laid out with loot spawns and extraction points might be hard to figure out at first when you’re constantly worried another player is going to get you. While you have a compass that tells you what direction the extracts are in, it’s still hard to find them on some maps like Missile Silo. When you’re ready to leave you’re going to want to get to one as soon as possible.

Well you don’t have to risk your equipment to learn the maps. Each map in Ghosts of Tabor has a training mode that is the exact same as a normal raid, except there will be no other players and any equipment gained and lost is not saved. When you die or extract you’ll have the same gear on you as when you went in.

Training mode is a great way to warm up by fighting some FENIX, and to get your bearings on each map before you risk it all in a raid.

Selling Guns Is Easy Early Money

As far as what you bring out of raid with you, selling guns is the easiest way to make early money. If you get a pistol from a dead FENIX grunt, just pop it in your bag. Each will sell for a few thousand at least, much more than most of the loot items that you will find in boxes and crates (though you should still check those too). You can also complete FENIX kill quests while you’re at it for more money and reputation.

If you’re wondering what sells then guns are always a safe bet. You can carry a long arm on your chest and a pistol at your waist. You also extract with whatever is in your hands, as well as what you have stored on you. So if there’s some guns really close to an extract and you don’t think there are any enemies, you can carry two additional weapons in your hands, and they’ll appear with you in your safe house.

Be careful though, fighting FENIX members means you’ll make a lot of noise and possibly attract other players.

Keep Your Ears and Eyes Open

Especially when you’re sorting out equipment or stuffing items into your backpack, make sure to always listen for gunshots and footsteps. Your ears are your best way to know if enemies, especially other players, are close to you. While looting as quickly as possible is always good, if you hear quick footsteps or gunshots near to you it’s better to not risk being caught by surprise with your backpack in your hands. Either leave if you want to avoid a fight, or have your gun up and be ready for one.

While hearing is great, especially when in close quarters, the sound of footsteps doesn’t go extremely far. So when you’re playing on more open maps like the Island of Tabor, make sure to keep a look out, and check behind you from time to time. Try to stick to areas with foliage and objects that break lines of sight to you. An enemy could be sneaking up behind you with a rifle and shoot you before they’re close enough for you to hear them.

Turn off Full Body for Easier Looting

One of the biggest additions that VR brings to the raid shooter/extraction shooter genre that can’t be found elsewhere in games like Escape From Tarkov, is that you have to physically handle items and loot. Picking items up off of the floor can be especially tricky if you’ve got the Full Body model turned on. While the full body model looks really cool, the legs have an annoying habit of blocking your view to any items on the floor.

Unfortunately you can’t move your legs out of the way like real legs, and so it will be easier to pick up items if you turn the Full Body model off and change it to Hands Only.

There you have it, 5 Tips and Tricks for Ghosts of Tabor. Good luck in your raids and may your stash always grow larger.

Easily Get and Install Into the Radius Mods

Welcome to this step by step guide on how to download and install Into the Radius Mods! Into the Radius is an extremely fun VR game. Even after you’ve played it through a bunch of times, or haven’t even finished it and want a different experience, mods can make this VR Survival Game even better. So keep reading to find out how to install Into the Radius mods as easily as possible.

Into the Radius Mods on the Oculus Quest 2

You might be here to find out how to install Into the Radius mods on the Oculus Quest 2, or if you can install mods on the Quest 2. Well I’m afraid to tell you that currently Into the Radius mods are not supported on the Meta Quest 2. Hopefully at some point in the future they will be, but for now there’s no way to install Into the Radius mods on your Quest 2. To play modded Into the Radius you’ll need to play it via PCVR via Steam or the Oculus App on your PC.

If you have a Quest 2 and want to play Into the Radius on PCVR then you could set up and use Oculus Airlink. The thing about Airlink is that it can drop a ton of frames and be very choppy and look horrible if your internet setup to your PC isn’t very good. If you want to use Oculus Airlink, then make sure your PC is connected to your Router or Modem with an ethernet cable.

If you can’t or don’t want to use Airlink then you’ll need to be able to connect your headset to your PC directly. This is possible with an Oculus Quest 2 using an Oculus Link Cable or comparable USB 3 cable. If you don’t have one there are plenty online that are not as expensive as the official Link Cable, but are possibly not as good.

How to Get Into the Radius Mods

To mod Into the Radius on PCVR let’s start with getting the mods that you’ll want to install. In this example we will be downloading the Scavenger Mod. This mod is a great new way to play the game. Make sure you start a new save file after installing this mod, and always be wary of cross compatibility issues when you have multiple mods installed.

To get the scavenger mod get on your PC and go to nexusmods.com and search by game for “Into the Radius” or follow this link to take you straight to the Into the Radius mod page.

Once you’re here feel free to browse the mods listed on the front page and search through some categories. There’s a bunch of great cosmetic mods that replace objects in the game with different models. There are even other gameplay mods like the STALKER mod that you can install. To find the Scavenger mod search for “Scavenger Mod” in the search bar at the top of the screen, or go to any mod page that you want. When you’re there click on the “Files” tab.

Oh, and make sure that you’re logged into a Nexus Mods account, otherwise you won’t be able to download anything. Don’t worry, you can easily sign up for a free Nexus Mods account. Also you’ll notice that some mods, like the Scavenger Mod, can be installed using Nexus Mod’s Vortex mod manager.

Since not all mods are supported by Vortex, here we’ll be going over how to install these mods manually. Don’t worry, it’s not very hard and takes about just as long as using Vortex anyway.

Now click the “Manual Download” button underneath the latest mod file and you’ll be taken to a downloads page. Select the “Slow Download” button if you’re using a free Nexus Mods account and the file will download to your Downloads folder (or whatever folder you’ve designated files to download to, but Downloads is the default).

Congratulations on your shiny new mod! Time to install it.

How To Install Into the Radius Mods

Head to your PC’s Downloads folder. You can find it in the “Quick Access” panel of the file explorer, or go to C:\Users\<Your PC Username>\Downloads. If the downloaded mod file is a .zip file right click on it and select “Extract All” to get the unzipped contents.

Whichever mod you’ve downloaded should come with one or multiple .pak files. Those .pak files contain the actual mod information and all you need to do is move them to the right folder to install the mod. The Scavenger mod comes with a lot of .pak files in the ScavengerMod/Scavenger/ folder. For this example we’ll be installing the .pak file in the “Abundant” folder for as much loot as possible, and also disabling the shop with the .pak in “Optionnal_files”.

Now that we know what .pak files we want to move, let’s open another File Explorer window to where we want to move them. If you run Into the Radius VR through Steam, then go to where you installed Steam and then \steamapps\common\IntoTheRadius\IntoTheRadius\Content\Paks. The default Steam installation path is: C:\Program FIles\Steam\steamapps\common\IntoTheRadius\IntoTheRadius\Content\Paks.

Oculus App users can find the Into the Radius folder in C:\Program Files\Oculus\Software\Software by default. Then go to \IntoTheRadius\Content\Paks.

This “Paks” folder is where you need to move all of the installed .pak files. Just drag the .paks for the mods you want to install into the “Paks” folder and that’s it! You’ve installed Into the Radius mods. When you start the game next they’ll be installed and ready to go.

Well that’s how you install mods in Into the Radius VR. Make sure to be careful that the mods you install don’t overlap and conflict. Be sure to read the README if one comes with a mod you want to install, or at least read the mod’s page to check if the mod developer shows any conflicts. Most should be obvious, for instance don’t install two mods that reskin the same weapon. It’s also best to start a new game after installing mods, as the mods might mess with a differently modded or vanilla game. Especially overhaul mods like the Scavenger or STALKER mods.,

Oh, and make sure to leave pakchunk0-WindowsNoEditor.pak in the “Paks” folder. This .pak is needed to run Into the Radius properly and is part of a vanilla installation of the game. Moving or deleting it will probably break your game.

Have fun out there in a whole new Zone!

VR Tarkov Is Great - Ghosts of Tabor Review - Tarkov VR

There’s a number of people who are both Escape From Tarkov fans and VR shooter enthusiasts who have always wanted a VR Tarkov. Well you won’t have to wait any more, Tarkov VR is here in Ghosts of Tabor.

This game is fantastic, and takes everything that is great about Escape From Tarkov and puts it in VR. Ghosts of Tabor is available on the Oculus Quest/Meta Quest headsets as well as on PCVR through Steam.

There’s also planned releases for the Pico 4 and PSVR2. Here’s a complete review as to why this VR Tarkov game is great and everything we could have asked for.

Note that Ghosts of Tabor is currently in Open Beta, and so not all planned features are implemented and there are the sorts of bugs you might expect from a game still in development. When changes are made this article will be updated.

The Premise

This VR Extraction Shooter takes a lot of cues from Escape From Tarkov in its premise.

Even their website looks really similar with a bunch of elite looking guys in full combat gear on the front page.

Basically extreme Russian Nationalists (you might call them Ultra-Nationalists) have declared war on the world and nuked a NATO stronghold. You are a special forces member in the area, known as a “Ghost”.

You are completely surrounded. You’ll have to fight the Nationalist Russians (called the Volk) as well as the FENIX rebels, and even fellow Ghosts as you struggle to survive.

Core VR Tarkov Gameplay

Alright so let’s address the question that’s probably the most on your mind. How is Ghosts of Tabor a Tarkov VR game? How similar is it? Does Escape From Tarkov’s gameplay work well in Virtual Reality?

The answer to that last question is yes, it is extremely fun. As for the first ones, the easiest way to answer those is to explain exactly how Ghosts of Tabor plays.

You start the game in your bunker hideout. There’s an Armory where you keep your weapons, and even a storeroom for any loose items and valuables you’re holding on to.

The bunker is huge too, with a lot of areas meant for crafting, performing surgery on yourself, and so on. So anyway you grab your gear (more on that later) and go to the terminal to deploy to a raid.

The loading times are extremely quick, and you’ll be in a raid in thirty seconds at the most. After joining and loading you’ll be standing, equipped in your chosen gear, somewhere in the raid map.

So you start walking around, looking in containers and boxes for anything of value that you can shove in your backpack. You’ll probably hear gunshots pretty soon.

That’s because all around the raid map are these guys, the FENIX.

They’re dressed in basically civilian clothes and are pretty lightly armed with pistols, submachine guns, or rifles. You can even sneak up on the FENIX members if you approach quietly enough and they aren’t looking at you.

Every one you kill will drop their weapon and some magazines for it. So if you want to get another weapon and some ammo, FENIX members are an easy way to get them.

They’re basically Scavs from Escape From Tarkov, and are hostile to everyone that isn’t them.

Of course as you’re scavenging loot from the map and fighting FENIX, you’ll come to realize that they aren’t the main threat.

Other Ghosts, other players, are. You can tell other players from how their body moves, and that they’re wearing military fatigues.

Every player’s mic is always on and other players can hear you talk, so you can freely chat and try to negotiate your way out of a gunfight if you care to try.

Though if you start talking they’ll be able to hear exactly where you are. They might try to shoot you to get your stuff, or just because they think you’ll shoot them. All of the social dynamics in Escape From Tarkov are here in Ghosts of Tabor, except with the added benefit of the greater emotion, body language, and interactivity VR.

You can even throw down your gun and raise your hands to try to surrender. That’s one of the things that makes Tarkov VR truly amazing.

Each raid is on a generous timer of 30 minutes to an hour.

You have to find an extraction radio and leave at some point during that time. Dying is another way to leave a raid, but you probably don’t want to do much of that. Green glowsticks near a radio lit up green show you when you are at an extract that you can use.

Even better, you can now see what direction extracts are in using your compass at the top of your view. So there’s no need to take your headset off and furiously google where the extracts are like you would when you’re new to Tarkov.

You can see that the gameplay is basically VR Tarkov.

The classic extraction shooter formula now in Virtual Reality. With all the same surprising situations and dynamics that constantly keeps the game fresh and fun. While at the same time Ghosts of Tabor always gives you something to care about each raid, and something to lose.

All of this with the immersion and physical presence of Virtual Reality.

With that in mind, let’s talk about some of the key features of an extraction shooter game and how they turn up in Tarkov VR. Like, how do you gear up?

Gear and Progression in Tarkov VR

Ghosts of Tabor brings all of the gearing options and potential of Tarkov to VR, and even enhances it. You don’t just put chest rigs and helmets into a slot on a menu.

No, in VR Tarkov you put it in your actual body by grabbing it and draping it over yourself.

You don’t just control click items to put them into your backpack.

No, in Ghosts of Tabor you pull your backpack off of your back and manually put stuff in there. Oh, and those things in there collide. So you’re no longer concerned with how many slots a backpack has, but how physically big it is.

Get creative enough and you can fit a lot of things into a small space, it’s a skill of its own though.

You can fully customize your chest rig by putting pouches on it so that you can grab magazines and grenades wherever they are.

You have to physically grab them in VR, so personal preference is huge.

You get a holster for a pistol and a holster for a long gun like a rifle or SMG. If you want to hold a knife you’ll need to get a pouch on your chestrig for that.

Guns are heavily moddable just like in Escape From Tarkov too, and you’ll find and buy all sorts of attachments for them that you then physically slot on to the gun.

The entire gearing experience is way more personal and in depth since you’re doing it to your actual body instead of just clicking and dragging things on a screen.

You can even craft bullets with the right materials and your very own workbench (more crafting will come).

There’s insurance too, just like in Escape From Tarkov. You pay a portion of the item’s worth up front, and if you die but nobody takes your insured item out of the raid you get to keep it!

Since loot is all physical objects, any that you want to store you’ll need to put on special loot shelves that will save the item for later, just leaving stuff lying around your bunker will make it disappear.

You can also sell anything from assault rifles to spark plugs by putting them on the conveyor in the Trade Room and selecting which trader you want to sell it to.

Just like in Tarkov the progression isn’t only based off of what items you manage to hoard here in VR. The Traders give missions that give you reputation points when completed, as well as cash.

Selling a trader enough stuff and getting enough reputation with them means that you level them up and can buy even better equipment from them.

There’s a bazar that you go to through a menu option where you can browse each of the trader’s kiosks and buy items at your leasure by scanning them with a scan gun and checking out.

When you go back to your bunker you hit the “Receive” button on the screen in the Trader Room and your items spawn in on a rack.

While a little more time consuming than trading and gearing up in Escape From Tarkov, the very personal nature of doing all of these interactions with your actual hands makes it very satisfying to physically hold what you’ve acquired.

Not to mention looking at it. Guns and equipment all look very true to life and detailed, and even work just like their real life counterparts.

If you’ve ever played Into the Radius, then the looting, stashing, and gearing experience is very similar.

What Ghosts of Tabor VR Lacks

There are still a few things in Ghosts of Tabor that keep it from being the absolutely complete VR Tarkov experience is just a few things, and those are currently being worked on by the developers.

For instance, there are currently no Scav runs, which are raids that you can participate in as one of the mostly NPC FENIX members with a random assortment of equipment. You stand to gain by extracting with gear, and stand to lose nothing in a Scav raid.

Though there is a “rations” system which gives you some gear every 6 hours, day, and week so that you’ll always have a little something to go into raid with if you wait long enough.

Hopefully nobody ends up dead broke in Ghosts of Tabor due to the absence of the Scav mechanic.

Also there’s no base building or stash expansion to sink junk items and money into to improve your character, and no skills to level to get better over time. The only way your character improves is through personal skill and better equipment.

Lastly there are no in depth healing mechanics, only syringes heal your health pool at the moment. These are all things that are being worked on, and this article will be updated when they are added.

Potential Problems with Ghosts of Tabor

A lot of existing issues with Ghosts of Tabor at the time of writing will be resolved in time. There are bugs, like things disappearing through the ground, the magazine loader not working, mags not coming out of mag pouches, and so many more that will be fixed.

The mission system is also rudimentary, but the developers of Ghosts of Tabor do promise a series of missions to discover the secrets of Tabor and ultimately escape.

There will also be new features like more in depth healing mechanics and so much more.

The biggest existing problem is the sound. Sound is extremely important in an extraction shooter, and even while using headphones it can be really hard to hear which direction footsteps and actions are coming from.

Someone will open a backpack two rooms away and it will sound like it’s right next to you sometimes. For anyone well versed in extraction shooters like Escape From Tarkov, sound is an extremely vital part of the game that is currently not well implemented.

Still, it’s early in this game’s life and there are a ton of ways to improve.

It will likely only get better. For now if you jump into Ghosts of Tabor expect some bugs and some jank. That’s really the only downside,

Conclusions on VR Tarkov

Bringing the revolutionary extraction shooter gameplay of Escape From Tarkov to Virtual Reality is what Ghosts of Tabor does and it does it well.

It does this not only with the features and gameplay loop of Tarkov, but by also adding all of the things that makes VR Shooters great.

If you like VR and you like Tarkov then Ghosts of Tabor is a no brainer to get at 25$ for the base package, and it’s coming to every VR platform and HMD out there.

VR Weight Loss Tips and Oculus Quest Weight Loss Guide

If weight loss is on your mind and you’re wondering how to use VR for an enjoyable weight loss experience, then look no further than this Oculus weight loss guide. Of course you don’t need an Oculus Quest 2 to see Virtual Reality weight loss results, and no matter what HMD you use you can see fantastic results when using VR for exercise and weight loss.

Why The Oculus For Weight Loss?

While you don’t necessarily need an Oculus Quest 2 to see VR weight loss results, using a standalone VR headset like the Meta Quest 2 will give you much greater range of movement, because you won’t need to constantly have a cable tethered to your head while working out in VR.

An Oculus Quest 1 also works as would any other standalone VR headset like the Pico 4. Being able to freely move vigorously is key to a comfortable VR weight loss experience when using VR gaming as exercise.

How Does VR Help With Weight Loss?

Before we get into the details, do note that we are not medical professionals, and that everyone’s body is different. If you are really serious about weight loss then make sure to consult your doctor about your current weight and any underlying medical conditions you may have which might affect your weight loss journey.

That being said, VR is a fantastic way to lose weight by providing a fun and interesting way to exercise. Not everyone likes exercise, and that’s okay. With new advancements in VR technology we now have better and better ways to make moving our bodies a fun and enjoyable experience even for those that are not so inclined.

That’s how Virtual Reality helps you with weight loss, by providing a fun way to burn calories and build muscle. Keep in mind that proper diet and portioning of meals is also a very important factor in losing weight, as well as good nutrition. In this article we’ll be focusing on using standalone, untethered VR with the Oculus Quest 2 to provide you with good and fun exercise that you’ll be looking forward to instead of dreading.

VR Exercise Games With The Oculus Quest 2 - Upper Body

So you’ve got your Quest 2 or other standalone VR headset and you’re wondering where to begin. Naturally we will start with some VR workout games. There’s quite a few, like Supernatural, that are specifically targeted to weight loss fanatics and those who want good exercise. Still, there are much better options that feel less like exercise and more like fun. For instance, do you like boxing?

If you do then there’s a great boxing experience that makes for a fantastic workout in Thrill Of the Fight. Unlike most other VR boxing games you’ll find that Thrill Of the Fight is a very intense experience that forces you to push yourself physically in order to win. Fast punches and quick movement are encouraged in this game, and you will easily find yourself panting and sweating when trying to defeat an opponent. It’s easy to get so lost in the fight that you don’t even realize how much exercise you’re doing.

Thrill Of the Fight is great for working on your arms and cardio. All of the movement makes you work your heart and lungs a lot, and all of the punching will make your arms sore and tired. If you have a big enough play area you can even move around the ring and move your legs a little, though it’s not too much of a leg workout unless you duck and weave a lot.

When playing Thrill Of the Fight be very careful of where you set your guardian boundary so that you don’t punch a wall, furniture, pet, or person. This goes for all VR games. As for yourself, since you’re not punching a physical target it is possible to overextend your arms and pull a muscle or injure your shoulder. So be careful to keep your punches close and not overextend your arms.

If Thrill Of the Fight sounds interesting and you want more background then check out our other article on it here. If you’ve already tried Thrill Of the Fight and want more intense fighting games in VR then Virtual Boxing League gives a less polished but also very enjoyable boxing experience. Dragon Fist: VR Kung Fu is also a lot of fun, though it tends to be a little less intense than these two boxing games, you’ll break a sweat at least though.

VR Exercise Games With The Oculus Quest 2 - Lower Body

While fighting games make for great upper arm workouts and cardio, what about your legs and lower body? They’ll need some love too. While a lot of VR games that are good for exercise and weight loss make you move your legs, there are a few which will really blast those leg muscles and give you a good workout. Chief among these is Pistol Whip.

If you’ve played some Pistol Whip or seen videos about it, you might not have thought that this would be a great game for Virtual Reality weight loss. That’s because Pistol Whip is incredibly easy and slow by default. Just like in Thrill Of the Fight, you’ll need to up the difficulty to really push yourself and get a great leg workout.

Pistol Whip can be really intense because it makes you do a ton of squats. Squats are the best single all around exercise for your legs, and Pistol Whip makes you squat a lot at high difficulties. By setting the difficulty to Hard and putting on some modifiers that make more bullets come at you, you’ll find that your legs will be burning after each Pistol Whip session.

To dodge incoming bullets you’ll need to quickly squad, duck, and contort your body. This gives your legs and even abs a great workout. It’s great cardio too, because all of the fast movements the game forces you to do will get your heart pumping and lungs working.

For more specific tips on how to turn Pistol Whip into an intense workout, check out our Pistol Whip exercise guide here. There are some other games that are great for your legs too. If you love to dance then an intense session of Dance Central VR can be great for your legs. OhShape is a lesser known game that makes you move your legs a lot, and also your arms for more of a hybrid workout.

VR Weight Loss Tips and VR Exercise Tips

These aren’t the only games for VR exercise, if you want more options go to the “Have Fun” tip below for a big list of other games. Now that you’ve got some options for Virtual Reality games to play to get some fun exercise during your VR exercise, here are some more tips and advice.

Have Fun

The best way to get more exercise, burn more calories, and build more muscle, is to have fun. That’s the whole point of VR exercise and why Virtual Reality so so great for weight loss. It makes exercise more fun and makes you want to keep coming back to do it. So make sure you’re having a good time, and if you don’t have as much fun with the games in this article, look a little further. Here’s a brief list of other games that we haven’t covered here that could make for very fun exercise:

• Audioshield

• Beat Saber (Make sure to swing your whole arm and not just your wrist, or it’s not exercise at all)

• BoxVR

• Supernatural (Paid Subscription though, a little too pricey unless you really love it)

• Holoball

• Eleven Table Tennis VR (Great for an after workout cooldown, but not much exercise on it’s own)

• FitXR (A lot like a traditional workout)

• HOLOFIT (Rowing in VR!)

• Ragnarok (Decent for arms)

• Until You Fall (Not the most intense either but a lot of fun and can be some exercise for your arms and legs if you play it really quickly)

Get The Biggest Playspace Possible

It is possible to play most VR Fitness games using a stationary guardian boundary, which is basically just a little circle that you can’t step out of, but you won’t have the most fun you could playing this way. Utilize the biggest play area that you can with a Roomscale Boundary so that you have more room to move around. More movement is key, and freeing yourself to move your entire body naturally while playing will not only get you better exercise and weight loss results, but also make everything more enjoyable.

When you’re picking a playspace though, be careful that no natural sunlight hits the lenses of your VR headset. Natural Light will burn the lenses and leave dead pixels on it that will ruin your immersion and enjoyment. Also make sure that your playspace will be clear of pets and other people, and doesn’t have furniture or objects on the floor around you.

Keep Sweat Out Of Your Eyes and VR Headset

Sweat can be a big problem when you’re wearing a computer on your face and trying to exercise. You’ll find that sweat will pool on your face where it meets the foam cover of your headset. This will make the headset slip on your face and make the whole experience uncomfortable. Not to mention that this sweat can build up in the foam and increase bacteria on your skin that may cause skin problems like acne.

To help with this consider getting a new face cover that is made of silicone or another sweat repelling material. This will keep your headset from smelling and building bacteria. There are plenty of different ones out there, but the most reliable choice is VR Cover, that offers new facial interfaces and accessories not just for the Oculus Quest 2, but basically every VR headset out there.

Make sure to clean your face cover with disinfectant when you’re done exercising (but don’t get any on your lenses) and wipe your face and face cover with a clean towel periodically when exercising in VR.

Avoid Injury

Injuring yourself from exercising not only effects your life outside of weight loss and fitness, but also means that you’ll have to take a break from exercise until you heal. Injuring yourself will cause you to lose more exercise and fun VR play time overall. So avoid injury at all costs by making sure not to overextend yourself or hit a wall or object with your hand. Keep steady and don’t fall over either. If a muscle or joint starts hurting then give it a rest. If you ever have a persistent pain while doing VR weight loss or any exercise at all then consult a medical professional.

Try Adding A Little Traditional Exercise

To hit more muscle groups and have a more complete workout you might want to add some traditional exercise to your VR weight loss regimen after you get into the habit of exercise. Exercises that utilize your body weight like pushups and lunges can be a great way to supplement your VR weight loss adventure. You can try having some fun with a VR workout and then moving on to some other exercise, or do some other exercises in between VR sessions to keep your weight loss exciting and different.

Add Weights For Even Harder Exercise

If you’ve been using VR for weight loss for a while and don’t feel the burn quite like you used to you can enhance your Virtual Reality exercise even further by adding some weights. Wrist weights like these here are great because they include a thumbstrap that will keep them from slipping off of your wrists while you’re playing. Ankle weights like these can make movement harder and more intense as well.

Exercise Consistently and Watch Your Diet

If you want to see weight loss results when exercising with Virtual Reality, then you’ll only ever see progress when you exercise consistently. A little exercise every day of the week is better than a lot of exercise one day of the week. Exercise and weight loss is as much a series of habits as it is your desire and drive to do it. It can be helpful to exercise at the same time every day, or to start with just a little bit of exercise and work your way up. Consistency is more important than immediate results, though consistency will bring results if you keep slowly increasing the intensity.

Also keep in mind that all the VR exercise in the world won’t make you lose weight alone. Getting enough sleep and having a proper diet are also very important. Unfortunately there’s no Virtual Reality app yet that can help you with those, though there are plenty that make for a good workout.

Well there you have it, a guide and tips for VR weight loss by using VR for fun exercise. If you’ve read this and found Virtual Reality to be helpful on your weight loss journey then please leave a comment. It would be great to hear from everyone that VR has helped become more fit and lose weight.

The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 9 - The Shallows Again

Stuck in The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners? Wondering where to go next? Maybe you just like to see what is in store for you before you get there, or want to look back and see if you missed anything in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. Well don’t worry we’ve got you covered with this complete walkthrough. This is the ninth part, where you go back to the Shallows to get another package for May.

This article will detail how to progress through the main story missions as quickly as possible, with a couple of guiding tips thrown in here and there to make your adventure smoother. Only those recipes that are convenient to get when doing a task for the first time are included. For a full list of all recipes in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, check out our recipe guide article. Spoilers will be as light as possible, but there will be story spoilers by necessity in this walkthrough, but there won’t be any explanation of what is going on in the story beyond what is necessary to make the walkthrough make sense.

All Walkthrough Parts:

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 1 - The Graveyard

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 2 - The Shallows

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 3 - Via Corolla

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 4 - Memorial Lane and Meeting May and Casey

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 5 - The Ward and the First Pump Regulator

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 6 - Bywater and the Second Pump Regulator

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 7 - Old Town and Another Stash

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 8 - Rampart

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 9 - The Shallows Again

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 10 - Bastion and The Reserve Key

• The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 11 - The Reserve and the Ending

The Resting Place

Welcome to another day in New Orleans. After you wake up you’ll notice that the lantern on the pole overtop the tomb is lit up again. So go over there and get your new task from May out of the coffin. There’s a picture of the location as always, and a letter from May that you should read to get a little more background on her.

You might recognize it from the photo, but that is a window in the Blue Mansion located in the Shallows, the very first place you went to in The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners for the radio microphone!

It’s not going to be quite so easy to get into the Blue Mansion this time though. There will be a lot of Tower soldiers guarding the place inside and outside. Be prepared for heavy combat. Grab the best guns that you have. By now hopefully you’ll at least have access to the FS92M 9MM Pistol, or even the Nova 1014 Shotgun. If you do, bring them, but if not that’s okay.

This mission is totally possible with a Double Barreled Shotgun or Hunting Rifle. Just be aware that you’ll have to do some close quarters fighting inside the building no matter how you approach this. So a good pistol is very helpful. Make sure you’ve got plenty of ammo and durability on those guns too, you’ll need to use them a lot.

You may also want to eat some stat boosting food like Gumbo, which gives you 25% more max health. There will still be zombies though, as always, so make sure you’ve got some melee options on hand as well. Whenever you’re geared for some human on human combat and ready to rock, head over to the boat and sail to The Shallows.

The Shallows (Again)

This time when you arrive in The Shallows you will spawn in on the skiff in the upper right corner of the map. Just down the road in front of you and on the right is the Blue Palace. You might hear some shooting after you spawn in, get ready.

Once you start walking down Bordeaux and make it to the truck right in front of where you spawn in, two Reclaimed soldiers with rifles will come running over from a side street. Don’t shoot, they’re actually on your side here, and can make getting into the Blue Palace much easier.

The first Tower soldiers guarding the Blue Palace are on the other side of the truck, and the two Reclaimed will pause for a few moments, and then walk around the front of the truck and start fighting them.

You’ve got a lot of options here. The Tower soldiers won’t actually attack you until you attack them first or get too close to the building, or go into the backyard behind the Blue Palace. So you can always just run past the fighting between the Tower and Reclaimed forces, bypassing most of the external Tower defenders, and take one of several paths inside (more on that later). Though once you’re inside the Blue Palace you will have to fight.

You can also fight alongside The Reclaimed soldiers. They will fight the first group near the skiff, and then go on to attack the Tower soldiers in front of the front door to the Blue Palace. Unfortunately the front door is heavily barricaded now and you can’t go through it. If the Reclaimed soldiers are still alive, they’ll go around the front of the building to the open garage, and fight the Tower defenders there.

If the Reclaimed soldiers somehow survive all of this, they’ll mill around on the street. Once all the Tower defenders are clear you might as well just walk in through the open garage door.

For the fun of a chaotic shootout and the loot that dead enemies will drop (potentially including Worn AR-416 Assault Rifles) fighting through the Tower forces on the street is definitely recommended. There are few moments that are so action packed in the first The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners game that you’ll be missing out if you ignore it.

Still, if you prefer stealth gameplay or just want to avoid fighting as much as possible, there are several routes you can take to avoid fighting the Tower soldiers outside. They are mostly the same as those from the first time you came to The Shallows, just with a bunch of Tower guards added in.

As mentioned earlier you can run past them and they won’t be immediately hostile. If you’re quick you can duck in through a hole near the front door that leads to the crawlspace beneath the house, and from there pop up through the broken floorboards into several rooms inside.

You can also just not go down Bordeaux street from the very beginning, and instead walk to the little lot that the Reclaimed grunts run in from at the start. Further down is a big gate with a Tower soldier defending it. If you walk through the gate the soldier will attack, but it’s only one. There’s a small courtyard on the other side with a hole in another wall, crawl through it and you’ll be in the backyard behind the Blue Palace.

There are only a couple of Tower guards in the backyard, so take them out and you can climb up a gutter pipe to the second floor, crawl down into another crawlspace hole, or just walk in through the back door.

You can also just walk down the street, past the open garage and into a small side gate with a single guard in front of it. You can quickly shoot the guard and slip inside, or just run through the gate before he notices, and you’re in the backyard.

As you can see there are a ton of ways to get inside. For the least amount of combat though, you’re best off just using the first option presented here and going through the crawlspace hole at the front of the house.

Once you’re inside the layout and loot spawns are mostly the same as the first time you were here. For more information on the loot spawns in the Blue Palace, check out the walkthrough article for the first Shallows mission here. The differences this time are a few crates scattered around, like in the kitchen on the main floor. These open crates contain Boxes of Loot, which are the best loot item in the game.

There are also, of course, Tower soldiers everywhere now. About one for every room, so always have your gun ready when going through a door or rounding a corner. Go through the house and gather loot, or don’t, it’s up to you, there will also be some good stuff by your objective, which is upstairs.

If you wander around the second floor long enough you will inevitably run across it. It’s the small, long room with the pool table in the middle of it. That Pool Table now holds the intel you need, and some goodies. Though there are two Tower soldiers in the intel room, and some in the adjoining room.

If you’re running into those barbed wire traps with cans hanging from them, then you’re going in the right direction. Oh, and in case you’ve forgotten you can easily disarm those by tapping the wire with a gun, melee weapon, or your flashlight.

If you’re having trouble finding the intel room then the fastest way to get there is to climb up the main stairs to the second floor, and go down the long hallway that leads past two doors, one on the left (goes to the attic), and one on the right. At the end of that hallway is another door, and that least directly to the intel room.

Once you’ve got the goods you can just retrace your steps and leave the way you came. As long as any guards that might be remaining outside don’t see you inside the perimeter of the house then they won’t shoot at you.

Oh, and if you never opened the safe to get the .45 Revolver Recipe the first time you came here, the code for that should be on the ground by the carport with the ruined car in it on the road right by the skiff in the top left corner of the map, where the woman was the first time you go to The Shallows.

The Resting Place

Once you’re back do the usual, scrap loot items, store useful items like the timer bombs that you found next to the intel, and put the folder from the stash into the coffin. Congratulations, you’ve survived The Shallows twice! Have a good sleep.

Need a guide on what comes next? Want to find out where the final Pump Part for Casey is? Then head over to Part 10.