Budget Cuts

Budget Cuts
Budget Cuts	2018
Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency	2019

Warnings

This game requires a virtual reality headset (see VR support for details).

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Humble Store
Oculus Store
Steam
Viveport

A demo is available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Neat Corporation\Budget Cuts\ %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Budget Cuts Save Data\config_machine.cfg %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Neat Corporation\Budget Cuts\config_machine.cfg
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/400940/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Config file location was changed to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow in December 2020.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Budget Cuts Save Data\\ %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Neat Corporation\Budget Cuts\\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/400940/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

* is for save file slot 0, 1 or 2.

Save data location was changed to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow in December 2020.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings, shown after selecting save file.

Room scale settings.

This game requires a virtual reality headset (see VR support for details).

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Used for spectator view
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		No in-game options, and always enabled by default. See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame rate caps at headset refresh rate^{[citation needed]}

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Edit config_machine.cfg to adjust anti-aliasing setting.

Open the configuration file.
Change gfx_msaa_actual to the desired MSAA sample count (or 0 to disable MSAA entirely).

By default, the game uses 4X MSAA.

Accepted values are 0, 2, 4 or 8.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Input mapping handled by SteamVR^[1]
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Tracked motion controllers
Button/gesture prompts

Additional information
Haptic feedback

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, effects and music.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Only for main dialogue.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

VR support

This game requires a virtual reality headset.

Headsets	State	Notes
SteamVR		Also native Valve Index and Vive Cosmos support.
Oculus VR (LibOVR)		Three sensors recommended. Steam version can access native Oculus SDK support through the `oculussdk` beta branch from game's properties.^[2]
Windows Mixed Reality		Supported through SteamVR

Devices
Tracked motion controllers		See Input for details.
Traditional controller
Keyboard/Mouse

Play area
Seated
Standing		Developer still recommends at least 1.5m of room space as game heavily relies on body movement.^[3]
Room-scale		Option for 360° tracking for doing all the movements in the playing area or 180° for snap turning for smaller play areas.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	7 SP1 or newer
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-4590 AMD Ryzen 1500X
System memory (RAM)	6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970/1060 AMD Radeon RX 480

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

↑ Unity engine build: 2018.4.21^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/400940/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (400940) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Neat Corporation is proud to present The Performance Update - last accessed on 2020-04-28
"Unity updated to 2018.4.21
Controllers now use SteamVR Input 2.0, allowing nicer rebinding of buttons"
↑ steamgameswithnativesupport - /r/oculus - last accessed on 2020-01-28
↑ FAQ :: Budget Cuts General discussion - last accessed on 2020-01-10
"How much room do I need?
1.5m - Risk of hitting reality. May be hard to reach items.
2m - Minimum recommended space for the experience we want to give players.
2.5m - Pretty much no risk of hitting things by accident.
3m - Ideal size. Almost no risk of even activating the chaperone grid.
3m+ - Will most likely be worse, as the cable won't be long enough to allow free movement."

[2] Unity engine build: 2018.4.21^[1]

[Proton_path_note-3] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/400940/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (400940) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[engineupdate-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Neat Corporation is proud to present The Performance Update - last accessed on 2020-04-28
"Unity updated to 2018.4.21
Controllers now use SteamVR Input 2.0, allowing nicer rebinding of buttons"

[4] steamgameswithnativesupport - /r/oculus - last accessed on 2020-01-28

[5] FAQ :: Budget Cuts General discussion - last accessed on 2020-01-10
"How much room do I need?
1.5m - Risk of hitting reality. May be hard to reach items.
2m - Minimum recommended space for the experience we want to give players.
2.5m - Pretty much no risk of hitting things by accident.
3m - Ideal size. Almost no risk of even activating the chaperone grid.
3m+ - Will most likely be worse, as the cable won't be long enough to allow free movement."

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[Note 2]

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Developers

	Neat Corporation
Engines
	Unity 2018^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows	June 14, 2018
Reception
Metacritic	76
IGDB	60
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Series	Budget Cuts