So are many other space games. VR is what gave ED an edge over these games (though lately I've been getting more enjoyment playing SE on a laptop screen than ED in VR).
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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Yeah I saw that afterwards. I don't see HOW, however.
Please clarify if we will be able to access the full Ship interior of our ships! There is no point in keeping quiet about that....
I agree with that, BUT I suspect the real stinging disappointment for me would be if we had atmospheric landings and additional planet types but I couldnt land on them in VR, because those planet types were not in Horizons.
Yeah, I'd be interested in the reasoning too. There's the obvious potential for greater motion-sickness if running/jumping/dodging/jet-boosting about on foot, which obviously wouldn't affect head-tracking users to the same degree. I wonder if there's any more to it than that?
Performance? Could it be that surface exploration/combat is going to have higher hardware requirements, and so meeting the framerate required for non-pukey VR isn't guaranteed?
Odyssey could be all space legs. The separation would be that any time you need to stand up, if you're in VR it just says "nope" or the option is greyed out. My question is at what points that might happen. Will space legs suddenly become a regular part of flying, where I need to get up halfway often, or will it just be certain missions/a different gameplay mode entirely so that I can have 1 session of all VR and 1 session of FPS gameplay.
Same as choosing horizons or base game on the launcher, will probably be odyssey option. It just wont launch in VR headsets.
Elite for me is done in VR only. Hoping that everything space-flight related can still be enjoyed in VR in the sense that I can still fly down to these new planets while in VR. I can accept not being able to step out on foot while in VR at launch, but would be a shame if I'm blocked from all new content provided even though it'd still be part of the flight experience.
They don't have a SUPER bullet proof record of saying things will come and then them coming.
If VR is not added at the ground level it becomes increasingly hard to add it (NMS shows it is possible tho) and I am a pessimist!
That's what I suspect will happen unfortunately.
I have a sneaky suspension you can't. Although previous trailers suggested it was coming. MmI'm often wrong and this time I hope so
do you know what you sometimes say guys? I already explained it 2 times after that comment .... a trailer, although it is made with the graphic engine of the game, it is still a CGI, it is not a gameplay video.
As long as I can still play in VR and not be completely crippled for doing so (like if you ignored Engineers from Horizons), I'd buy Odyssey either way. The only thing that would kill ED for me is if VR became untennable or if by playing VR I was choosing to limit myself to the point that the game wasn't fun anymore. If they separate it out enough that I can just plan my gameplay sessions around 2D fps mode and VR space flight mode, I'd be all over it.
Now, if I go to fly onto an atmospheric planet and it says "Sorry, you can't do this in VR", that would be some crap lol.
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For you perhaps. I went 2 months without a vr headset and tried ED. For me it was a shell of the game I am used to.
I regret buying the LTP. At least I could vote with my wallet. That is not sour grapes either. I just don't play some game genres out of VR any more.....
I hope oculus are very open about this on their store page because they won't be able to sell the expansion
No it aint
This of course begs the question how VR will be handled with Odyssey installed, and in general how the transition between spaceflight and ground ops will be handled. If it means I have to switch to pancake in order to walk around - ok, definitely not nice, but I should be able to live with it. If it means that Odyssey will break the existing VR experience as soon as it's installed, then I guess I'll have to stay with Horizons.
Yes, I have that feeling tooI have a sneaky suspension you can't. I'm often wrong and this time I hope so
I wish you were right, but Odyssey clearly includes atmospheric planets, which from the sounds of it will not support VR even from the cockpit...
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