How To Install Your “Escape the Lost Pyramid” Experience How To Install Your “Escape the Lost Pyramid” Experience AN ESCAPE ROOM SET IN THE WORLD OF ASSASSIN’S CREED ORIGINS CONTENT Version Number – M42 Introduction & Installation Go to Page 3 Tool Summary Go to Page 9 Starting a session Go to Page 16 First steps in the game Go to Page 18 Troubleshooting Go to Page 22 INTRODUCTION & INSTALLATION Escape the Lost Pyramid is the first experience available on the Ubisoft Escape Games platform : www.ubisoftescapegames.com. Ubisoft Escape games introduces VR Escape Rooms created in the most amazing worlds of Ubisoft. Our first experience – Escape The Lost Pyramid – is set in the world of Assassin’s Creed Origins. More experiences will follow! The Ubisoft Escape Games application is composed of 4 components: ∆ The Operator lets you to create and manage new and running sessions ∆ The Spectator allows you to observe a live game in detail and discreetly ∆ The Server, the local offline server for all your game sessions ∆ The Loader connect all Client-PCs with the operator and each other Installation I. Download and install Uplay from https://uplay.ubi.com/ ∆ This automatically creates a shortcut to the Uplay.exe II. Log into UPlay PC using the account provided to you. ∆ You can change your password as you wish III. Once into UPlay, select Games IV. Sphinx should be available in your My Games folder. ∆ Else contact [email protected] Page | 3 INTRODUCTION & INSTALLATION V. Select Ubisoft Escape Games VI. Select Download Page | 4 INTRODUCTION & INSTALLATION VII. Click through the installation process, choose an install location and wait for the installation to finish VIII. Select Play Page | 5 INTRODUCTION & INSTALLATION IX. The Operator starts automatically. ∆ If not, start it manually from the UPlay client X. Select Show loader URL XI. A window opens, showing the URL to download the Loader for your Client PCs XII. On the Client PC, open your internet browser and enter the URL from Step XI NOTE: It does NOT work for Microsoft EDGE! XIII. Download & open the SphinxLoaderSetup.exe to install the Loader on the Client PCs. NOTE: It is highly recommended to install the Loader and Operator on separated machines Page | 6 INTRODUCTION & INSTALLATION XIV. After the installation the Loader should automatically start XV. Choose a unique Client Name and enter it into the Client Name field XVI. The server IP gets inserted automatically during the installation. If the server IP will be changed, you can enter the new Server IP into the Server URL field (e.g. 10.*.*.*, as seen in the Operator) Page | 7 INTRODUCTION & INSTALLATION XVII. Press Save and the Loader will restart automatically XVIII. The Operator should now list the Client PC XIX. Repeat the steps on the other Client PCs to add more Client PCs and start the game with the Operator Page | 8 TOOL SUMMARY I. THE OPERATOR ∆ The Ubisoft Escape Games Operator is the first application you need to install on your Operator-PC. You can download it from the Uplay account we created for your Location under the name Ubisoft Escape Games. ∆ The Operator is the application that allows you to manage the installation of the various escape rooms, including "Escape The Lost Pyramid". ∆ You need a dedicated PC for the Operator. Minimum Requirements: - Core i7 (4th gen or newer) - 32GB RAM - Geforce GTX 1070 or better - SSD Harddrive - Windows 10 ∆ The Operator lets you run and monitor your games and allows you to enable subtitles, to spectate a running game session and to write text messages to the players. Also, from here you can display Leaderboards for the latest game sessions. ∆ The Operator also acts as CDN (server) for all connected Loaders and shares the actual game data with them. This means the game will be downloaded from the internet just once and will be shared to your Client-PCs through your local network saving you some bandwidth. ∆ The server can handle up to 20 players at the same time. ∆ The Operator is started through Uplay. It works offline, but it requires UPlay to be kept open. You may setup Uplay into offline mode but the Operator requires a daily online login into your Uplay account. Page | 9 TOOL SUMMARY II. THE SPECTATOR With the Spectator, you can monitor your players. When you spectate, you can join a game as a free camera, travel in the scenery and listen to the conversation of the group. Furthermore the Spectator offers the following options: USERS ∆ Start: The start button at the bottom of the screen starts the game session. During the game, you can use this button to skip a whole stage / level for all players at the same time. ∆ Jump to player: Teleports you directly to the selected player. To teleport to a player you can use the submenu on the left, the player buttons on the bottom of the screen or the buttons F1-F4 on your keyboard. Single click jumps to 1st person point of view, two clicks jumps to 3rd person POV. When being in 3rd person POV you can rotate the camera by pressing down the right mouse button and zoom in/out by using the mouse wheel. ∆ Skip riddle: Skips the selected player’s current mission step. The text in the brackets displays the riddle that will be skipped. Sometimes there is no step to skip for a specific player because they are waiting for another player’s action. Page | 10 TOOL SUMMARY ∆ Reset position: Resets the selected player to the last safe position. Before taking this step you should warn the affected player – otherwise they could lose their orientation. Page | 11 TOOL SUMMARY ∆ Chat: You can directly talk to the whole group by keeping the microphone button at the bottom of the screen pressed. ACCESSIBILITY ∆ Switch controls to two-button scheme: in-game controls will use the trigger for GRAB and the touchpad/stick for TELEPORT. This control scheme is usually well known and preferred by players used to VR games. We recommend for people new to VR to only use the default one-button scheme, as it is easier to remember. ∆ Activate stick rotation: in-game controls will allow camera rotation by using the touchpad/stick. This option might be very helpful for people, who are limited in their body movements, e.g. when using a wheel chair. With the touchpad/stick rotation activated, they can rotate their avatar without rotating their physical body. Page | 12 TOOL SUMMARY ∆ Recalibrate player height: triggers a new avatar measurement for the selected player. Page | 13 TOOL SUMMARY III. THE CLIENTS ∆ The Ubisoft Escape Games clients are the PCs attached to a VR device, where your consumers play. We call these PCs the “Clients”. ∆ The Clients will require the installation of the Loader (see section page 5). ∆ Ubisoft Escape Games run on HTC Vive (includes VIVE Pro) and Oculus Rift. If you use an Oculus Rift, you will require having a set up with 3 sensors. If you use a HV Vive, you will require Steam VR. The game requires the use of controllers. ∆ Ubisoft Escape Games require a room scale for each player. The recommended size for each room scale is 10” x 10” – 3m x 3m; you should not go below 7”x 7” – 2,1m x 2,1m. ∆ The Minimum Requirement for each PC is - Core i7 (4th gen or newer) - 16GB of RAM - GeForce GTX 1080 video card or better, SSD Harddrive - Windows 10 and headphone support ∆ All PCs need to be in the same network. ∆ All PCs need network access to the Operator/Server PC. Page | 14 TOOL SUMMARY IV. TIPS & WARNINGS ∆ Do not use a WIFI connection to connect your PC clients to the game server. ∆ Network configuration: o All the PCs have to run in the same network. o You need to have at least a Gigabit compliant switch. o And to optimize the efficiency of your network, all PCs should be directly connected to your switch, with CAT6 Ethernet cables. ∆ Ensure that on your dedicated Operator PC, the Operator and the game server are using the same graphic card (so if there are 2 cards, the default card should be disabled). ∆ If you are using WINDOWS 10, check in the POWER management system, in Advance Settings that the option « USB selective suspend setting » is turned OFF. ∆ Make sure that your Steam VR Chaperone (you can define your style, color and opacity) or your Rift Guardian are set up in the settings of your VR Device to maximum visibility so players have a good understanding of their physical limit! ∆ The spectator mode can only show the player’s progress in general, due to technical reasons it cannot show all steps of progression in detail, e.g. turning the wheel door in the starting chamber of Escape the Pyramid. Page | 15 STARTING A SESSION I. Launch the Operator and make sure that "Escape the Lost Pyramid" is selected. II. Select the game mode in the drop down menu: "Pyramid – 4 Players" for the 4 player experience and "Pyramid – 2 Players" for a 2 player session. Finally add the Clients with the Add To Game button next to the clients name. Added clients show up in the Start Game panel. Here, you have the opportunity to rename your clients. Page | 16 STARTING A SESSION III. It might be necessary to update the game version and to distribute it on all Clients PCs. Press the Update Latest button to initiate the process. After finishing the Update Process the game will start automatically. IV. If all clients are up-to-date the game can be started directly by pressing the Start Game button.