Multicrew in VR - no mention in livestreams

[horizone]

I am kind of disappointed that there were no mention of VR in either the Holo-Me or the Multi-crew livestreams since Elite dangerous is soo good (and popular) in VR.

I really hope that our head rotation and tilt will be reflected on our avatars so we can look at each other in ships where seats are near each other.

Would be really cool if some mouth movement was added when we speak too. Will the avatars look at the screens they open? Didn't really catch if they were?

And I really wonder how the gunner role will behave in VR. Are we going to get sick or is there some countermeasures against nausea being taken. Can we look to aim?

Will rewatch livestreams soon to look for VR clues.

 

[han]

doesn't look like the models will move the head with the player, also gunner mode is gonna suck so much in vr for people that can get motion sickness!

 

[BigDuke6ixx]

doesn't look like the models will move the head with the player, also gunner mode is gonna suck so much in vr for people that can get motion sickness!

The whole concept of the third person gunner view just completely sucks.

 

[han]

Yeah wasn't thrilled about that either. would be so much more fun with some first person type turrets or more like the srv

 

[BigDuke6ixx]

Yeah wasn't thrilled about that either. would be so much more fun with some first person type turrets or more like the srv

Yeah but that would take some gunnery skills and all those who grew up in the era of non competitive sports would cry.

 

[TorTorden_VR]

Yeah but that would take some gunnery skills and all those who grew up in the era of non competitive sports would cry.

Who cares?


Anyhoo it's seems all moot.
I'm not going to start nerfing my ship with turrets for this.
So if anyone wants to be a gunner on my ship, you better be happy in a fixed beam fighter or satisfied playing with the new camera.

 

[paulkemp]

Frontier managed to make ED perfect from VR right from the get go. I dont know if this was careful planning or just plain luck, but it works very well with the cockpit view, and it is to date, more than two years since beta, one of the best games for VR imo. To skip on this, and not try to implement a proper VR camera solution in 2.3 is a missed oppurtunity.

 

[Fliposide]

Yes, I agree with most of you.
The Gunner sucks and is a total contradiction to what FDev has been saying about making things more realistic (beige planets, physics etc etc). They have always said no 3rd person when fighting, (thats why the Debug cam disabled controls) and now BAM here it is.

Personally I think they are pandering to the console players for a "quick" shoot'em feel just as CQC was implemented when Xbox1 joined and now with the Playstaion mod coming we get 3rd person gunner mode.

Also, I hope they have sorted the Holo-Me for VR and don't stick a head on all avatars bodies and we end up looking out of its nostrils!

The whole concept of Commanders multi-crew is amazing but gearing it for short gameplay and "not intended for long campaign play" where several mates can all be in one ship and explore/play together is a missed opertunity and what most would want.

Also, I think this the multi-crew is a little too early in the development of ED, there is not enough for 3 people to do on one ship yet. We need more tools onboard like ECM jammers where a player has to play a mini-game to match frequences etc to attack the targeted ship or a similar mechanics for engineering and scanning when exploring to get extra power/data etc.

 

[CylonSurfer]

The whole concept of the third person gunner view just completely sucks.

Yes it does. It really, really needs to change.

Yeah wasn't thrilled about that either. would be so much more fun with some first person type turrets or more like the srv

The SRV turret was the first step in this slippery slope. I called it when the SRV beta hit, funny back then I got told it wasn't a 3rd person camera and I was a fool for suggesting that it was... idiots...they couldn't see the forest through the trees.

 

[X-Terminator]

How to gank the meek who want to play GUNNER in your Ship: -

"OH NO...I LOST CONNECTION. RE-JOIN CHAPS LET'S DO THAT AGAIN SHALL WE "