I have been playing on a Vive. I find the text very readable, not great, but very readable. Big improvement compared to DK2.
I have heard that there might be an issue with the Steam version compared to standalone launcher version. I'm using the standalone launcher version.
The only reason I even know there is an issue is that there is a big difference between the startport services menu text and the HUD text. Starport services menus seem to not have any issue. The HUD seems pixelated comparatively.
To me it's not just the text, while I can read it, it's very blurry and/or has bad aliasing. But overall the rendering quality is low, it's like playing on a very low resolution that has been stretched out to twice or three times the size.. I just can't play like that, it's not at all representative of how the game should look like. You can test this on Vive by downloading those backgrounds in the Workshop through the Vive settings. That's how the game should look like.
"unplayable" is over exaggerated. its perfectly playable and a better user experience then the dk2. I play with it since beginning of april without problems. Its just not look as good as other vr games. I really hope they fix it but i understand thats not a main priority. Stop over exaggerate, really. Its hurt more then it helps. If you over exaggerate like this you stop potential new customers ordering a vive for elite. This means this problem gets a lesser priority... less customers for vive... less priority fixing vive problems.
I disagree and I'm not over exaggerating, I can't distinguish ship shapes from a fairly small distance, text is blurred, overall it just hurts to watch the game on such a bad resolution and having to read quite a lot of text at times is just bad for my eyes and I feel relieved when I take of the Vive or go to another game where it has text.. Also, I'm not going to compare it to the DK2, I never owned one, but it's not a comparison that should be made at all anyway. That's a piece of developer hardware comparing vs. a consumer product which should be ready to go for quality experiences.
If we're just gonna keep quite on the matter we may just as well hear nothing at all anymore from Frontier. Their lack of communication isn't helping either. When I hear nothing for three weeks I start to wonder if there's even been any progress. Any update would've been good, like "We're making progress" or "We're going to push out this fix in the next patch", at least something!
And yes, at this point I'm just warning other Vive owners about the game, that they should not buy the game in this state because it's not the experience Frontier advertises it is.
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