VR support 'not at launch' for Odyssey
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I agree with most of what you said you have to experience it for yourself I have a friend who was the same when he came round and tried it the very next couple of days he bought one, but I have to dissagree with the screen door effect, you have a rift-s and the screen door effect (SDE) is less noticable on that headset, you can still see it, the colour red is a problem for me and hurts my eyes, ASW is also annoying, the hp reverb 2 is supposed to have little to no SDE, the CV1 the SDE was evident in nearly every game, so its not people complaining about the smallest detail, and in elite because most things are black you wont see the SDE or less noticable only on the orange and blue colours in the game.
That was pretty much my takeaway from Rec Room as well. Teleporting users are easy targets, and while mouse undoubtedly has an advantage in aiming over motion controls, it's not big enough to really matter outside of maybe highest levels of competitive play. A good player in VR would still beat bad players using mouse. How many average gamers using mouse can actually consistently pull off those split second 360 noscope trickshots anyway? As a more casual FPS player I actually find motion controlled guns more intuitive and less clunky to use than the mouse - it resembles aiming a real gun more and there's no worrying about running out of table and having to recentre the mouse and no fiddling around with sensitivity and dpi and such - the tracking is simply 1:1, always. Aiming at enemies directly above and below you is also easier. Tracking enemies at extreme close ranges is also easier I find.
And finally, ED isn't exactly known for its competitive PVP and I doubt Elite is going to turn into ranked CSGO just because there are guns. People still happily use HOTAS even though high level PVP players seem to be of the opinion mouse has some kind of an advantage.
Am I the only person interested in space legs for EXPLORATION? Surely the S in FPS will be optional in ED Odyssey.
This is how I see odyssey could end up if VR is implimented, landing on a planet, you get out of your seat, (loading screen perhaps) pickup your motion controllers, the system is at war with the thargoids, you are defending the city from a planetary assualt, FPS style mission over jump back in your seat (loading screen) back on the hotas etc, anything is possible really, but thats my take on this
I can very much do without the motion controllers as I hate them with a passion. Gamepad support however is crucial, fumbling around with keyboard and mouse just doesn't do it for me.
You are not.
Nope.
I will probably enjoy the shooter part though provided it's done halfway decent.
No. If you want an explanation for the most ardent VR fans, look up "sunken cost fallacy".
Now augmented reality will go far, as you don't entomb yourself off from your environment via oversized View-Masters. But until there's basically a full fledged "holodeck", 2d gaming will still reign supreme.
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Funny thing, for me Borderlands 2 actually got a lot easier in VR, of course I played with a gamepad with look to aim and not with those silly motion controller thingies. (because, you know motion controllers suck...)
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On the bright side if you do that then in 2 months VR is confirmed..... You can buy a G2 or an index
I can echo this, I used to work on offshore oil rigs, and took a gaming laptop and my oculus rift offshore with me, and a lot of people would ask me about VR, and many were willing or wanting to try it. The response from a broad cross section of people who tried my VR setup was overwhelmingly similar to your description of your experience.
Quick Anecdote, in Oculus Rift, the "demo" application is called Oculus Dream Deck which is a gallery of a few short but sweet "experiences" that includes the T-Rex that Goost mentions. One of which puts the "player" on the surface of an alien world face to face with this little cute blue alien who is talking to you, and at one point waives at you. Without exception, everyone who has tried my 'rift and been in the dream deck and seen the alien has waived back.
Being honest with you, I don't think they planned on making this announcement, the leaked video has probably forced their hand to announce earlier than scheduled. From a PR point of view, it would have made more sense to milk the carriers update which launches next week, then when the hype for that starts to wane, they could have started the drip-feed regarding Odyssey. So I suspect the reason they are silent just now is they are still writing the content for odyssey press and public engagement.
Interesting points... So drop pancake mode and go VR only then. It is the way to play it as realistically as possible !.
Or let players play how the want and if they get beaten in FPS so be it , they (we) can either practice or go PG.
I may be wrong but you sound like someone ignorant of VR... Because if not you would know that VR players have been playing with an advantage over players playing on a single screen since launch (less so 3 screen setups) due to infinitely better spatial awareness as well as being able to see far more in your periphery at a glance.
Not everything has to be sacrificed at the alter of MP. For goodness sake has this elite game not been gimped enough already due to "multiplayer". ? FD would be insane to remove their imo most impressive feature of the game.
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Actually the explanation is: VR is awsome and you'll only knowhow awsome it is once you've tried it.
It is fine to not like VR but this is utter tripe.
And the fact I have tried it and remain unimpressed?
No, it's pretty accurate. People spend way too much on gimmicks like 3D tvs ( gee, where'd those go? ) and VR, then realizze it's nowhere near as popular or profitable for companies to support as they had been led to believe, so now they try to sucker others in before finally admitting they got snookered and toss their useless toys away when the last of the support goes away.
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Lots of things I am unimpressed by it does not mean people who are are either deluded or shills trying to con other people into their mistake.
Take DOTA, and counterstrike 2 of the most popular pc games on the market. I think they are both rubbish. Clearly that is just my taste and those millions of people are not wrong.
Millions of people are wrong, every day of every year. So um, yeah.
2.5 billion gamers in the world right now. A whole 7 million VR sets sold in 2019. Yep, future of gaming right there. lol
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