Ozric
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Yeah I can understand that. But it's not being dropped from the current game, and it was never said it was going to be in the expansion.
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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Yes, they did use the phrase "at launch", however, "we had to re-examine if we could deliver that same experience without compromise" leaves that a pretty big and open question. The only thing promising about whether or not they'll fulfill that is this statement: "We’re big fans of VR".
So, while "at launch" and "big fans" are there the "re-examine" leaves it pretty open. As a VR player myself, having waited 5 years for atmospheric landings... waiting another... what? 1? 2? 5? 10? years to include VR is a pretty big and open question.
That´s not a good excuse for a product we have been waiting for for YEARS!
Elite Dangerous without VR is practically an advert for the Flat Earth Society.
Elite Dangerous Odyssey without VR is a demonstration of membership of the Flat Earth Society.
yupif those new planets (?) are gated by thee odyssey launch option, which seems likely, we're both going to be disappointed. I really want to land in my WMR headset on new planet types.
Does it? I've seen this mentioned a few times, but from the trailer I saw it was just 2 people walking around on a regular dusty non-atmo planet in full space suits.
I'm glad I won't need to buy it on my main account, as that means I will most likely try it out for a bit (but not being a great FPS fan, I haven't seen anything in the blurb that I'm personally looking forward to yet). But I won't be buying it on any alt account until VR is added to Odyssey (in the vain hope that it does happen).
Oof. Big capital F. On the plus side, I’ll get to save some money! Yay!
How does a planet without atmosphere have a blue sky?
This sucks. I'll hold off on buying it until it supports VR then.
I feel conflicted about this update. I could give up VR if the space legs were complete - ship interiors, exploring inside abandoned bases and generation ships, base (or even campsite) building. I could also give up space legs if Odyssey gave us flying and driving over atmospheric planets in VR. But it sounds like the DLC with be neither. In other words this DLC sounds...
HALF-BAKED!
HALF-BAKED!
Did you miss the blue sky
Could we please get confirmation on this, too, Frontier? https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/elite-dangerous-shooter,3358458.html
"While you can also explore space stations and even the interior of the spaceships in Star Citizen, for example, elite players can only stretch their legs on the planets themselves . It's a big step anyway"
"While you can also explore space stations and even the interior of the spaceships in Star Citizen, for example, elite players can only stretch their legs on the planets themselves . It's a big step anyway"
This. I've never sunk as many hours into any game as I have into E: D (it's in the thousands). The only reason for this is VR.
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No VR in the ship-based aspects of the game? No point at all even installing it. Oh well.
Waiting on an additional DLC announcement?! A DLC that is VR compatible?
I just chalked it up to "trailer needs to look good". I figured if they were going to show us an atmo planet, they would at least put in a tree/bush or have the people take their helmet off or something. I could be wrong, but I really thought the blue sky was just for cinematic effect and not a statement of any kind.
The sky is only blue because there's an atmosphere, hence we don't have blue skies in game currently.
edit - TOTALLY ninja'd multiple times lol
This adds weight to the theory that Odyssey is technically a separate game in its own right, existing in the same universe. It might even be Odyssey players cant instance with Horizons players.
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