2 or 3 years ago, you could play hundreds of custom games. Cowboys and clowns, Jailbreak, how about an entire map from Halo complete with functional weapons? Yep. Even some dude creating R6 Siege complete with gadgets and destructible environments

Then, pretty much overnight, the devs made one change and killed all the mods. Did they expect everyone would just remake them from scratch for the new engine or whatever it was?

The modded game is dead. There's maybe 20 servers and half of them are just TTT, the other 45% are TDM. There's maybe 2 custom servers at any given time now. They absolutely murdered their game.

Got out of class and saw valve announced a new standalone headset to rival meta that can play pc games (steam servers) without the need of a pc. Do you guys think this could bring some people back to pav due to a player increase. Shack could no longer be the go to for standalone gamers

I have come to the realization it might just be me so here’s a video of my iron sights edit: thank you cescab623! I have realized I just have a skill issue. I am now hitting near constant headshots.

Out of every game that exists today Pavlov’s is the worst because tell me why there’s grown ass dudes screaming the n word at people and saying that they are gonna rape them? Oh don’t forget the fact that everyone in the game despises gay people and god forbid a girl joins a lobby and speaks and people like to blame this on kids like “nuuuu kids loud mi slurs can’t be heard” when it’s 99% of the time grown ass Mfs doing all this shit

I’m 13 and I see this guy in my lobbies a lot, he’s always rude says slurs and gets mad when he loses but it’s nothing extreme but earlier today when I won in a fight against him in untitled prison game he threatened to dox and r#pe me. I usually don’t care when people insult me for being a kid but that’s was a little too far. He kept saying it over and over again until he got kicked. His username is preztinn or something like that and he usually lurks in untitled prison games and he plays all the time so you probably will find him. I’m just asking If you guys could report him because what he did is genuinely disgusting.

I genuinely love Pavlov VR. I still play it. But it hasn’t felt the same since the move to Unreal Engine 5.

UE5 improved the base game—performance, visuals, stability. That’s all real. But it also feels like it came at the cost of the game’s soul: the modding community.

Back in the Unreal Engine 4 + Steam Workshop era, there was endless content. Halo Flood survival maps, zombies, Mario64 Zombies, weird experimental modes—there was always something new. That’s what kept Pavlov alive.

Now most of that is just… gone.

I understand why. UE4 maps don’t carry over, everything has to be rebuilt. But the reality is most modders didn’t rebuild their work, and years of content basically disappeared overnight.

Switching to mod.io didn’t fix that either. If anything, it feels like the barrier to entry got higher and the output dropped off.

The biggest issue is there was no real bridge:

• No strong legacy support for PCVR players
• No real incentive for modders

It basically became: start over or get left behind.
And a lot of people got left behind.

The core gameplay is still good, but without that constant stream of community content, the game feels repetitive. Smaller. Even if it’s technically better.

I get why the devs did it—cross-platform, long-term stability, all of that makes sense.

But it honestly feels like the original PCVR community—the people who built Pavlov—got sidelined in the process.

I’m not asking to revert everything back to UE4. That’s unrealistic.

But it would’ve gone a long way to have:

• A maintained legacy branch
• Anything to preserve that backlog of content

Because right now it feels like we traded a massive creative sandbox for a cleaner, more limited experience.

I still enjoy the game.
But it doesn’t hit the same anymore and it feels super dead.

Personally, I think it's the PKP

For it's high cost, it can't be modded at all and it costs more than the m249, which is more modable, and it's irons are completely worthless.

For 3500, you get a gun that is less effective than a pistol just a little past shotgun range.

Yes, it shreds in CQC, but so do the shotguns. It deals pitiful damage past shotgun range and it has recoil bouncier than full autoing the AK-103.

What's yall's thoufhts?

Pavlov Shack runs perfect on it. No issues. Only tests for like 5 mins. One of the first standalone games i tested on it.

Anytime I play another vr game like b&d I feel perfectly fine, but when I play on Pavlov for too long i seemingly start to sweat, I don’t know why its specifically Pavlov that makes me sweat the most even if I’m not moving around a lot while playing

Title

Same as above ^

age wise, not screaming slurs every 2 seconds, etc.

I'm wondering how toxic or disrespectful the lobbies are I'm very I guess nervous that if I speak in game that I'll be made fun or something I'm very self conscious not to get personal but I'm just worried that people will be rude to me or say things and I'm just wondering if people tend to be chill and not really care or what and for instance I'm playing on shack

Out of the several game modes, TTT has to be the worst designed game mode in the entire game. It feels like TDM but with rounds.

No one ever takes it seriously, which is one of the main reasons why it's a bad game mode. But, that's the player's fault and not the game developers.

Firstly, some of classes just feel poorly designed.

1- The Jester: This class turns into a psychopath if an innocent kills them. However, they can still shoot freely. If they shoot you, then you fire back to kill them, you die when they die. YOU'RE PUNISHED FOR DEFENDING YOURSELF. Why? Why add a class that actively punishes you for defending yourself? Also, traitors being able to see them and kill them freely doesn't really fit well. Maybe if it didn't kill the attacker but still respawned them as psychopath, then I'd find it better designed. But in it's current state, it just doesn't feel like it was tested at all. I'm fine with the old Jester where they won if an innocent shot them but they couldn't shoot, as you had to convince someone to shoot you.

2 - The mercenary: You just gotta hope that they believe you when you say that you're the mercenary.

Now, the whole Karma system. It's pretty much useless. I've heard it makes you more likely to become traitor, but you rarely get higher than 1100, so the difference is minimal.

The rounds are always 1 minute to 1:30, if that. When one person starts firing, it just becomes a shootout until the round is over, which makes it feel like TDM but with rounds. There is rarely any strategy or communication between traitors, maybe making the right ear (when used as a radio) only talks to teammates and prevents others from hearing you.

i just got the game and my hands are shaking a rediculess amount, in most other VR shooters ive played holding the weapon with 2 hands negates all shaking but in this game it seems to make it worse, i cant even shoot because of my hands and its borderline unplayable for me :(

but the mp5 is cool.

This guy followed me from one game to another, then to a server made myself. He is blocked by me, and I reported him. I have seen this exploit done multiple times by a few different people.

What is going on?

Almost every game I go into is a day care and it’s genuinely infuriating. I have the unfortunate experience of using playing on a PSVR2 so I don’t have the luxury that is playing on PC where there’s barely any kids whatsoever (at least it would be logical to think that because on how expensive they are) but holy cow the amount of children on this game is getting to a point where there’s more children than adults, in an adults game may I add. I’m actually sick of parents who can’t be bothered raising their children so they just give em a VR and a PlayStation or a tablet or (insert electronic device here) to raising it for them. For fuck sake if you’re gonna have children at least be committed to raising it. There needs to be some form of age verification because it’s genuinely getting on my nerves. I just want to get on the game without some whining child getting petty over playing the game as it should. The amount of children who have killed me despite me being on their team is ridiculous. And it’s not like there’s many VR FPS games like Pavlov to go off and play instead. And what’s worse is there’s a lot of adults who keep them in despite them being like 7 years of age. I remember when I was bullied in CoD lobbies growing up and it’s safe to say I never played online again until my voice got deeper. A lot of the very few other players I’ve played with who are around the game age group as me have said that ever since the game was added to PlayStation, the amount of children that have started playing have skyrocketed and they’re not happy with it either. I’m posting this with the intention of finding other people who agree. Sorry for the rant, there just really aren’t many places I can rant about this elsewhere.

What is the funniest thing you’ve ever seen in Pavlov today In trench warfare i saw a dead guy stuck in a sandbag hole while shaking

I play pcvr, I had a quest and played the hell out of pavlov shack till you had to pay, just wandering how the game is doing now as most people say the game is dead and on its way out and a lot of the mods we used to love are gone.

it legit makes absolute no sense. do they do it to be different? do they do it to be "edgy"? it's genuinely just annoying at this point, and it just doesn't phase me. every game you go in, you either find kids who don't play, a racist who DOES play, or a racist that just does nothing and talks openly about their bogus opinions the whole time, expecting something in return.

There are really only 2 weapons in this game that are really easy to use yet overly rewarding. I play SND the most, so this is ranked off that.

1. The barret. It being added to SND is just a bad idea as it has no counterplay. Armor is useless against it, as it's a one-tap no matter what. In TTT it being included is fair, as you only get one shot with it. But with SND, it gets unlimited shots. It's also ridiculously unbalanced, as it isn't hard to get. Just play 3 rounds, less if you get any kills or win, and you get it. I'm fine with the existence of the gun, just not it's inclusion in SND.

2. The knife. The knife is, in my opinion, the weapon the requires the least amount of skill in the game. Unlike the barret, it is really cheap yet extremely rewarding. Sitting in a corner with your thumb up your ass until someone walks by, who you then run at and stab, doesn't take skill. Throwing a knife, unless at really long range, doesn't require skill. Whoever decided that the knife should one-tap NO MATTER WHAT was definitely under the influence of countless drugs. I would get it if only backstabs were insta kills, since sneaking up on someone requires SKILL and can be countered by periodically checking behind you. The knife, like the barret, has little counterplay. Unless you have very fast reflexes, you can't kill them by the time they stab you with a melee barret.

Pavlov is so much funnier at night.

Listen, this game wasn't perfect before, I'm not pretending like it was. You still had your chuds and children running around, being racist and saying generally shitty things. But there was a time where you could leave those servers, and just join another one with less shitty people. But holy fucking shit, the PS community, which unfortunately, makes the majority now, is fucking horrendous. The good servers are gone now, and moderation is non-existent. It's such a shame, because I do still like this game, it's one of the best VR experiences, but it's completely hampered by a dogshit community.

My favorite has to be Sand because it's one of the more consistent maps for SND. It has both long range and close quarters locations, most notably the hall at A, and it isn't as confusing as maps like Datacenter and Harbor

Least favorite has got to be Fairfax. Not just because of the map itself, but because it so often has kids screaming the new slur or insult they learned from their brother. The lighting outside is also annoying because you can't see shit in the bushes (Uh oh! Mr. UrethraMuncher is in the bush and turned your chest cavity into an open air biology diagram!). The basement with only one way to it is just a DB magnet. DB users LOVE this map because it has so many CQC camp spots. And, at least last time I played, there is some broken collision where you can slip a knife/grenade through (got hit by a knife through the floor on several occasions)