Just played EVE Valkyrie which is on sale for £20 - dont bother

VR andysonofbob

VR andysonofbob
I only played CQC for a bit to see what it was like (when there were people playing). Wot, no BOTS??!!! Why?

Anyone who enjoys the flight mechanics of ED, EV will do their heads in.

Arcady but last gen consol graphics and awful arcady controls - xbox controller. You can use your stick but the prompts remain xbox.

Avoid
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
i got it free with my rift.

i played it once, and thought.... "not bad but CQC is WAY better"

where it does well however is it is instant in instant action. the bots are not great but are better than sitting in lobby.

i have not played for some time however, there have been 2 large updates for it, which perhaps i should check out.

I do like their 1 gimick which elite does not have...... head tracking for missile lock. that is cool.
 
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lysan

lysan
andysonofbob said:
I only played CQC for a bit to see what it was like (when there were people playing). Wot, no BOTS??!!! Why?

Anyone who enjoys the flight mechanics of ED, EV will do their heads in.

Arcady but last gen consol graphics and awful arcady controls - xbox controller. You can use your stick but the prompts remain xbox.

Avoid
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OT:sorry, but CQC with bots would have been a killer.
 

Jezzah

Jezzah
This Valkyrie thing is a gimmick a reasonably entertaining one but still just a gimmick.

I'd put cqc into the same bracket.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Mad Mike said:
I do like their 1 gimick which elite does not have...... head tracking for missile lock. that is cool.
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Errr ... ED missiles fly towards your current target yes? (sorry, don't use them much). And with headtracking or VR the Select Target Ahead binding selects what you're looking at and not what's directly in front of the ship. So elite does have this. Doesn't it?
 

Caramel Clown

Caramel Clown
Alec Turner said:
Errr ... ED missiles fly towards your current target yes? (sorry, don't use them much). And with headtracking or VR the Select Target Ahead binding selects what you're looking at and not what's directly in front of the ship. So elite does have this. Doesn't it?
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You can select target, but missiles will only lock if your target is within reasonably narrow field of view in front of you.
 

askavir

askavir
It's not just EVE Valkyrie.

The "space sim renaissance" has so far resulted in a bunch of nothing.

EVE Valkyrie
Everspace
No Man's SKy
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
The Long Journey Home
Rebel Galaxy
....

All of them put together don't make a good space game.

Elite, even with all it's many, many, many flaws, still has no decent competition.
 
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Jezzah

Jezzah
askavir said:
It's not just EVE Valkyrie.

The "space sim renaissance" has so far resulted in a bunch of nothing.

EVE Valkyrie
Everspace
No Man's SKy
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
The Long Journey Home
Rebel Galaxy
....

All of them put together don't make a good space game.

Elite, even with all it's many, many, many flaws, still has no decent competition.
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Quite right here. Considering that space games should be able to show off excellently all that VR is capable of I feel it's been a bit of a shambles.
 

Actionman2222

Actionman2222
askavir said:
It's not just EVE Valkyrie.

The "space sim renaissance" has so far resulted in a bunch of nothing.

EVE Valkyrie
Everspace
No Man's SKy
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
The Long Journey Home
Rebel Galaxy
....

All of them put together don't make a good space game.

Elite, even with all it's many, many, many flaws, still has no decent competition.
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Saying that though, No Man's Sky gives that planetside interaction that looks so engaging. Finding a planet and discovering it has weird and wonderful fauna and flora and interacting with them. That's the reason I wish it came to Xbox. Each game seems to fill a certain niche.
 

1500

1500
askavir said:
It's not just EVE Valkyrie.

The "space sim renaissance" has so far resulted in a bunch of nothing.

EVE Valkyrie
Everspace
No Man's SKy
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
The Long Journey Home
Rebel Galaxy
....

All of them put together don't make a good space game.

Elite, even with all it's many, many, many flaws, still has no decent competition.
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I found Rebel Galaxy and Everspace to be good games. People just have way to high of expectations when it comes to space games. NVM people expect the game to cater to just them, ignoring what other people like.
 

askavir

askavir
1500 said:
NVM people expect the game to cater to just them, ignoring what other people like.
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That is perfectly normal, people buy a game to get entertainment themselves, nobody ever purchased a game based on how much other people will like it.
 

StiTch

StiTch
Actionman2222 said:
Saying that though, No Man's Sky gives that planetside interaction that looks so engaging. Finding a planet and discovering it has weird and wonderful fauna and flora and interacting with them. That's the reason I wish it came to Xbox. Each game seems to fill a certain niche.
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I found it to be really quite engaging too...

...a feeling that lasted the best part of ten minutes, after which I had landed on a different planet, scratched my head, and asked why - colour scheme aside - it was the same place as the last.

A few more planets on, a few more queries into how bodies so separated all share the same ecosystem and structures, and NMS has been gathering dust ever since.
 
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