ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement

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Ganogati said:
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.
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An atmosphere doesnt mean humans can breathe it or that it is thick enough to support living metabolism. However an atmosphere is clearly visible in the shot of the planet from space at the beginning.
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Scoob101 said:
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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Like that Eve-based FPS that was released some years back.
 

CMDR Vhi

CMDR Vhi
777Driver said:
Thanks for the info Tim. Can you confirm that the walking around part is not VR compatible? Or are you saying VR will be removed form the game completely? The latter will obviously cause some major issues for some. I wouldn't like to be stuck with just CQC for this VR space sim experience.

As long as I can fly down to these planets, or roam around in an SRV, then all good. I'll just switch to big screen for the on foot stuff.

Cheers
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If I had to guess I'd say that launching the game in VR will only load base or horizons. Launching it in pancake will give you the option of base or horizons or Odyssey.
 

Ganogati

Ganogati
Old Duck said:
You mean like current-day Mars?
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Realism aside, it comes down to what people wanted from Atmo planets in this game. I'd buy it if you're telling me that an atmosphere planet in this game means a regular planet with a blue sky and that's the only major difference, and that ELWs/other types are totally off limits. In fact, I wouldn't care that I can't fly on those planets without VR since I wouldn't really be seeing anything that I don't see anywhere else (except a blue sky instead of stars), but that's just not really what I thought folks were asking for with them.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
dj_wylie said:
For everyone annoyed about no Odyssey VR at launch. The key words here are 'at launch', that doesnt mean that they dont plan to add it later.
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True but historically the features which are not in initially do not have a great track record of coming in any time soon.
We are not that far off a year from launch and if FD know already it won't be in at launch then it's not even on their roadmap for now.
Our only hope is FD under estimated how many of us want VR and choose to reprioritise it OR oculus decide to pay FD to include it - possibly with 6 month oculus store exclusivity.
Oculus paid codies for dirt rally 2 be support and they paid for blaze rush VR and defense grid 2, all tiles which existed without be initially. (Others too)
 
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[VR] Orodruin

[VR] Orodruin
Ganogati said:
Is there any possibility that one of y'all could elaborate, even in a very general manner, on what this experience would be like for someone who plays in VR full time? I know it's too early for a lot of details, but essentially I'm curious whether my VR flying experience would be affected by this change or not. If I sit down to fly like I do now, will there be moments in normal daily gameplay where I would need to remove my headset to walk around in space legs, or will space legs be separated enough that someone like me could have a gameplay session of all of flying in VR without worrying about it, followed by perhaps another session of all space legs for FPS gameplay, etc.

If I wish to continue to play ED as a VR game, will the new content be so intermixed in with the current content that I will no longer be able to do that without suffering a serious disadvantage (similar to if someone from base game tried to ignore Engineering), or will the two be separate enough that I could essentially treat them as different gameplay modes without negative consequences to my normal gameplay?
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I fulheartedly second every single word of this.
 

VR jefranklin18

VR jefranklin18
Souvarine said:
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"
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I hope not but the limited times I have been to that website, it is clear that they stand more than slightly in the Star Citizen camp.
 

Ganogati

Ganogati
Ozric said:
I'd hope the whole world would have learned it's lesson after Dust 514.
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This would be different in that you could likely access it ED. Dust 514 was inaccessible from inside of EVE. And I think it was PS3 only, not just console only. It had a LOT going against it that this one won't if they separate em out.
 
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