Advice on what to check out first... and g'day!

mp4x

mp4x
Commanders,

I can confirm my HMD arrived at around 1200 hours... It's now approximately 2330 hours and I'm just taking a break. :D

VR is fantastic. It's better than I expected, more than I hoped.

This room(Holodeck, formally the redundant 'dining room') is the same size as my Cobra cockpit and my chair is at the appropriate place... I can f'ing walk around in it(Cobra.) I pulled into a resource point, a planets rings, and found a busy area. I get a nearby star ahead of me, an awesome lit up view of mining going on along the belt, [witnessing]the occasional fight, getting scanned by cops... rare proximity warning. All this viewed from the floor of my ship, as after I pulled up I stepped out of my chair and sat down in the middle of the floor... Ace view.


I've spent so much time doing practically nothing, out here in space
 
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UniMag

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mp4x said:
Commanders,

I can confirm my HMD arrived at around 1200 hours... It's now approximately 2330 hours and I'm just taking a break. :D

VR is fantastic. It's better than I expected, more than I hoped.

This room is the same size as my Cobra cockpit and my chair is at the appropriate place... I can walk around in it. I pulled into a resource point, a planets rings, and found a busy area. I get a nearby star ahead of me, an awesome lit up view of mining going on along the belt, the occasional fight, getting scanned by cops... rare proximity warning. All this viewed from the floor of my ship, as after I pulled up I stepped out of my chair and sat down in the middle of the floor... Ace view.


I've spent so much time doing practically nothing, out here in space
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Ace innit!

The game put me somewhere way behind the pilots seat in my vulture the other evening and I decided to just sit there chilling for half hour or so enjoying a glass of wine.

So relaxing and far away from the stress of the real world

Enjoy!
 

Kevris

K
Hey OP:

I have been playing Elite Dangerous in VR exclusively since my DK2 showed up back in January '15.

I think the coolest region of space I've visited so far has been the series of O class stars and black holes that comprise the S171 region. There are 40ish huge O class stars there, many of which have black hole partners and the whole thing is in the middle of a nebula. I particularly enjoyed getting super close and orbiting the black holes, then watching the backdrop snap back into proper alignment once you got out of the lensing effect radius. It's simultaneously confusing, disorienting, frightening and awe inspiring.

Shapley-1 was also pretty awesome and that's a lot closer.

Another really fun thing to do is run canyons! Someone posted a video the other day of an Eagle doing some pretty awesome stuff. The video alone was enough for me to go out and buy a fast eagle to just mess around in!
 

mp4x

mp4x
Greetings Commanders

So Elite, and the Vive in general, have been amazing. During the last 10 days I started out with Elite being my main game, then on to trying various other Steam titles until I got Onward. Onward has been the main go2 game I've been playing, when I've had time to play in VR, it's excitingly fun. During that time I streamed some gameplay to twitch a few times which put the final twist in the arm of a mate of mine, who was always interested in VR, to get on board; he's had his Vive for a couple of days, and loving it. He has the non Steam version of Elite, and has to reinstall or update it - is there a way transfer it to Steam? Does he need to?

Thanks for the tips, everyone, Ive actually had no issues with the graphics in the game, I followed the advice and it worked. I'm just a few jumps away from Betelgeuse 1 :)

I'm going to slip back into ED tonight for a few hours, when it gets late, I miss the serenity of space.
 
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drkaii

drkaii
You can get a steam key from your store page on the Frontier store in your account somewhere. I'll check out Onward, thanks. Would it work with Oculus?
 

mp4x

mp4x
drkaii said:
You can get a steam key from your store page on the Frontier store in your account somewhere. I'll check out Onward, thanks. Would it work with Oculus?
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Great, thanks, passed that on.

I haven't looked to see if Onward works on the Oc. Even if it isn't made to it seems most things can with a little work.

This was me playing Onward and getting to know the game, a lot of fun and plenty of social people:

[video=youtube;SjfM9ahZItY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjfM9ahZItY[/video]
 
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mp4x

mp4x
drkaii said:
Would it work without touch controllers? It looks like it was made for them so even if it would work, would probably not be as fun
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Ah, right, I didn't think of that. I'd say the controllers are integral. Are getting a set an option, or is it something you plan?
 

dutchy2000

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Kevris said:
Hey OP:

I have been playing Elite Dangerous in VR exclusively since my DK2 showed up back in January '15.

I think the coolest region of space I've visited so far has been the series of O class stars and black holes that comprise the S171 region. There are 40ish huge O class stars there, many of which have black hole partners and the whole thing is in the middle of a nebula. I particularly enjoyed getting super close and orbiting the black holes, then watching the backdrop snap back into proper alignment once you got out of the lensing effect radius. It's simultaneously confusing, disorienting, frightening and awe inspiring.

Shapley-1 was also pretty awesome and that's a lot closer.

Another really fun thing to do is run canyons! Someone posted a video the other day of an Eagle doing some pretty awesome stuff. The video alone was enough for me to go out and buy a fast eagle to just mess around in!
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The nebulae is called NGC 7822 and is about what 4-5k LY from the bubble definitely worth a visit, in fact I just finished scanning every single '0' star in that region. Its hard to miss to, its like this super bright star at first, then it increases and becomes bigger and bigger and bigger. Here is a link to some shots I made up there.
http://imgur.com/a/ImtJZ
 

mp4x

mp4x
dutchy2000 said:
The nebulae is called NGC 7822 and is about what 4-5k LY from the bubble definitely worth a visit, in fact I just finished scanning every single '0' star in that region. Its hard to miss to, its like this super bright star at first, then it increases and becomes bigger and bigger and bigger. Here is a link to some shots I made up there.
http://imgur.com/a/ImtJZ
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Thanks, I'll add to the to-do list


Tonight, my mate here with the new Vive finally got around to getting his Steam key from Frontier and installing ED. I've been talking about Elite since day one, mind. He had played ED very early on, wore the game out grinding and hasn't played since.

So, now installed, he had set the HUD to green, as per instructed in the previews page and used SS @ 2.0 from the Chaperone tool, with .65 in game, as a base.

I was on teamspeak with him and the comments were all to familiar: "Wow, everything is huge! It's beautiful... I get it, it's completely a different game. Everything is new... "

So, he now has the Horizon DLC and he's getting his Saitek set up tomorrw.

One more VR CMDR to the ranks

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cygnusa

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If you find you get sick when in the SRV in bumpy terrain, you can turn on a horizon following option in the game settings. It basically causes your eyes to track the horizon while the SRV bumps around you. Its a bit weird, especially if you roll over as your perspective will remain level with the horizon. I find it helps immensely on those longer SRV outings.
 

mp4x

mp4x
cygnusa said:
If you find you get sick when in the SRV in bumpy terrain, you can turn on a horizon following option in the game settings. It basically causes your eyes to track the horizon while the SRV bumps around you. Its a bit weird, especially if you roll over as your perspective will remain level with the horizon. I find it helps immensely on those longer SRV outings.
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Ah, I forgot about that setting, I had read about it on here before, thanks I might try it though I seem to be OK with SRV travel, fortunately. I get a bit of elevator-guts if I race over the edge of a crater, but even that seems to be going away!

On that note, from day one I also followed advice from this forum about easing into VR with locomotion, I took my time, felt for any warning signs and slowly increased the amount of SRV/locomotion in games. As yet I've never felt sick, just a bit of that feeling you get when you put someones eye glasses on - and you don't normally wear any.
 

Mike Kangaroo

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Another Aussie! (Sydney here, currently visiting TAS) I know i'm a little late but welcome to VR, amazing isn't it :)

Even though my wife doesn't play stuff like Elite (She is WAY to casual) she has donned the Vive to check out several of my ships, one being the Anaconda, who's bridge is larger than our Vive space :D. It was fun to see her physically duck because she thought she was going to bump her head on its ceiling :)

She often plays 'passenger' wearing the Vive and watching as I make a delivery run or something (I'm pretty good at flying blind :D ).

I couldn't tell you anything about what to check out that hasn't already been said other than to just enjoy the new experience :)
 
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mp4x

mp4x
Hey Mike!

I still duck under VR *things* I don't need to, but at least I haven't tried to sit the Vive controllers down on any tables that only exist in VR, for a while. :)

My mate with VR got Elite all set up last night, he hasn't been in the game for years prior to VR, but it turns out we were only 42 jumps apart. It was exciting, and this game IS amazing!

Mike Kangaroo said:
Another Aussie! (Sydney here, currently visiting TAS) I know i'm a little late but welcome to VR, amazing isn't it :)

Even though my wife doesn't play stuff like Elite (She is WAY to casual) she has donned the Vive to check out several of my ships, one being the Anaconda, who's bridge is larger than our Vive space :D. It was fun to see her physically duck because she thought she was going to bump her head on its ceiling :)

She often plays 'passenger' wearing the Vive and watching as I make a delivery run or something (I'm pretty good at flying blind :D ).

I couldn't tell you anything about what to check out that hasn't already been said other than to just enjoy the new experience :)
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