Free Titanfall 2 VR mod released by solo developer Jordan Juarez

A free virtual reality mod for Titanfall 2 was released by solo developer Jordan "CircuitLord" Juarez, according to The Verge. In a report published on 7 October, The Verge said the mod is one of the top five VR games its reviewer has ever played. The Verge stated that Juarez had spent a single month working on it so far.

The Verge's reviewer reported running on walls, firing at enemies from multiple angles and entering a Titan, a giant mechanized battle suit. The reviewer said they could look around the cockpit, move the Titan's arms with their own hands and watch their own feet wall-run. The reviewer said they felt simulator sickness only when pushing the analog stick too far and turning the Titan too fast.

Juarez told The Verge that VR development is stuck in a loop: studios cannot commit to larger AAA-style games because they are harder to make for VR and the playerbase is small, while the playerbase is small because few large games are made. He said mods like this are "a great way to jumpstart and hopefully break that loop to show studios how much fun VR really can be." The Verge reported that Juarez is somewhat less diplomatic about his reasoning in his Discord channel.

According to The Verge, Juarez said he worked on Gorilla Tag, Zenith: The Last City, Synth Riders and Desktop Portal, a 2020 competitor to Virtual Desktop. The Verge reported that Meta shut down Echo Arena, one of Juarez's favorite games, and that he quit his job at VR studio Another Axiom after its Orion Drift, described as a spiritual successor to Echo Arena, did not turn into the game he had hoped for. The Verge reported that he then started his own solo studio, Iteration Three, this year to build No Shot, which it described as an Echo Arena successor.

The Verge reported that Juarez revealed a VR mod for Big Walk in August and announced in September that he would do Titanfall 2 if he could make it feel like "a true native VR experience, without any jank." Juarez told The Verge he played Titanfall 2 years ago when it originally came out and was always a huge fan of it.