The game costs £23
I was curious to see what is was like, but not £23 worth of curious <grin>
Rumours about the cancellation of CV2 (Officially denied by Oculus)
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The game costs £23
I was curious to see what is was like, but not £23 worth of curious <grin>
just a shooter, although the update reportedly added some modes and progress (which i don't know yet, maybe i'll check out one of these days). it's not really comparable to elite except for the flight model and, yes, a bit on rails. the control scheme was a bit convoluted and rigid.
the vr implementation though is quite good, and much like elite, this was one of the pioneering titles for pc vr, bundled with cv1 preorders and targeting vive and psvr very soon after. and despite what hardcore elite fans might believe, this is the company that produced the most successful and praised space mmo ever up to this date, so yes, this does mean something.
My brother and I are invested in VR and he was fairly quick to send me links to this - and I just don't believe it. Their CTO (Mr Carmack) has been silent (I think) and their recent Connect event showcased upcoming technologies, and it's clear there is still a heavy investment - Rift 2 or whatever it'll be called will appear, and if it, for whatever reason, didn't, then there are plenty of "us too!" players appearing.
There has been constant, never ending talk of HTC going under (their VR arm) and it never has... people like to talk.
Hopefully they are hedging bets of affordable technologies in the GPU arena and, I suspect, not releasing anything before it can be adopted. The Pimax's of the world are great, but even the fastest £1500 GPUs can barely afford a decent framerate, and FB/Oculus/Vive etc won't release commercial kit that only 3 people can adopt wholesale.
There has been constant, never ending talk of HTC going under (their VR arm) and it never has... people like to talk.
Hopefully they are hedging bets of affordable technologies in the GPU arena and, I suspect, not releasing anything before it can be adopted. The Pimax's of the world are great, but even the fastest £1500 GPUs can barely afford a decent framerate, and FB/Oculus/Vive etc won't release commercial kit that only 3 people can adopt wholesale.
yeah - anybody remembers the AMD RX480 release where they talked about bringing VR in the hands of everyone with a sub 300$ GPU?
The whole VR for the masses effort died in the mining craze and GPUs that can handle VR in a good quality have been above joe average price ranges way too long. No matter how hard nVidia pushes the prices up and AMD isn't in the position to bring em down, the 300$ mark is quite critical and we only got beneath that recently for RX580/GTX1060-8g. But recommendations for starters go towards GTX-1070 and AMD Vega today.
So maybe in a years time we might have come to a point where VR for PC market should have been 2 years ago.
The whole VR for the masses effort died in the mining craze and GPUs that can handle VR in a good quality have been above joe average price ranges way too long. No matter how hard nVidia pushes the prices up and AMD isn't in the position to bring em down, the 300$ mark is quite critical and we only got beneath that recently for RX580/GTX1060-8g. But recommendations for starters go towards GTX-1070 and AMD Vega today.
So maybe in a years time we might have come to a point where VR for PC market should have been 2 years ago.
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HTC are unlikely to go under, however they are haemorrhaging money at an unsustainable rate and it seems likely that they will have to merge or be taken over. They already sold a large chunk of its phone design team to Google, and it's been suggested that Google might be primed to take the rest over.
None of this suggests the Vive program is under threat, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it change ownership.
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Valkyrie was the first VR game I ever played (when it was still in early development), presented at a CGP event in London, free bar all night. At the time it blew my mind and definitely put VR on my radar. Here's me playing it after a few of the aforementioned beers.
Then Elite came along and I forgot all about it. Finally picked it up on a sale a while back. It's got terrific graphics but yeah, it is "just" a fast paced space shooter and the download is HUGE! Every time I run WinDirStat to check on my disk use Valkyrie is sitting there like an absolute monster and I've probably only played it for about 30mins. Will probably just uninstall it to be honest.
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I got it free with my rift. Played it once, not bothered with it again.. other than its head look missile lock and it supporting NPC opponents it is inferior to CQC imo so I just don't feel the urge to play.
Now, it maybe true that VR is not big enough to stand alone right now ..... However I believe it is big enough to allow Devs of flat screen games to put in support for vr. Racing games and flight Sims it's a no brainer. Other games need a little more work but if hobbiest bedroom Devs can do it then the actual Devs should be able to (ie NOLF2, Richard burns rally, doom 3 bfg and yookalaylee
This post has been sitting here for 3 hours. If nobody else will say it I'll do it
...Why the long face?
Oh shoot Frank... I was waiting to get to the end of the thread before adding that line.
Oh shoot Frank... I was waiting to get to the end of the thread before adding that line.
Oh sorry. My bad
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That CCP pulls out of anything isn't really that surprising.
They had a modicum of success with Eve, and after that everything they have tried since has been a complete flop.
And honestly me and for a lot of other Eve players, only played it because there was no Elite dangerous yet.
It mostly was a fetish game for those who liked spaceships and spreadsheets, and not necessarily in that order.
For the rest it was basically a free pass for being an elitist dinkleberry.
I am honestly surprised it's still running at all, let alone working on VR games.
They had a modicum of success with Eve, and after that everything they have tried since has been a complete flop.
And honestly me and for a lot of other Eve players, only played it because there was no Elite dangerous yet.
It mostly was a fetish game for those who liked spaceships and spreadsheets, and not necessarily in that order.
For the rest it was basically a free pass for being an elitist dinkleberry.
I am honestly surprised it's still running at all, let alone working on VR games.
I think you're being a bit hard on Eve there, it's an absolute masterpiece. Isn't for everyone, that much is true, but comparing Eve to any other game isn't really fair on either game.
(well somebody had to say it) - also, in case that was a vaguely serious question (i.e. why was I wearing a horse head?) - as is often the way of these things, I honestly can't quite remember now - it seemed like a good idea at the time? (plus I vaguely recall rubber horse heads being a thing at CGP events, probably makes about as much sense now as people showing "MUG!" at Elite Dangerous events).
Spot on about CCP though. Everything since EVE: Online has been a complete flop.
Nah! I wasn't asking why you were wearing a horse's head, after all you were at an event. I was just making the old "horse walks into a bar" joke.
There is one thing that is quite surprising. We all remember the first time we tried this new generation of VR. We were shocked and stunned by what we saw. The look of surprise on your face was so intense it even made it on to your horse mask.