Well that´s sort of their job?! I mean what else would all the money we gave them be good for?
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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Well he did say there is no VR at launch so that's all I need to know really.
I didn't mean to like your post.
Yeah, If VR support gets introduced down the line we'd buy for sure. But the content we really like (thargoids) is all in Horizons so no need for Odyssey for us. I have to admit I'm just happy we can keep doing what we do in VR. I think i've already just accepted Odyssey wont be for us and you know what, I dont even mind that much
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As a VR only player that was asking for clarification, I am happy to see some feedback. However, this still opens a ton of questions that are of high importance to myself and I imagine most others like me who are playing in VR only. Modt pressing of those issues are the questions about whether or not we can expect to be playing the base game and Horizons on an equal footing to those playing Odessey. In particular, game breaking features would include:
- Significant advantages for Odessey players over non-Odessey players due to new content (like engineers meaning non-Horizon players are disadvantaged in the base game)
- Other competitive advantages such as superior ways of affecting BGS or poserplay
Another important question regards the gating between Odessey and non-Odessey gameplay. If this can be made in a way that means VR players do not constantly have to restart the game to switch between the contents, I believe it would possibly be attractive even to VR players like myself.
I am sorry to have to continue to ask for more clarification, but this is important to VR players and the entire current situation has not only put a dark cloud over the medium term future, but also over the excitement we have had for the upcoming release of the fleet carrier update - which this unfortunately completely overshadows - and leaves us with a bitter taste in our mouths.
Sometimes, when I need to grab a bite to eat while playing ED, I'll dock and leave the ship in free camera mode and just sit outside on the landing platform beside the Scadente watching ships come in and out of the mail slot. It's oddly relaxing.
Bro, I don't know how to say this, but... have you looked at Fleet Carriers? Do it, and you'll know how much "hiring" anyone for anything we'll get. I'll be happy to be proven wrong though.
Think you are missing the point, those are all dedicated VR titles. It takes time and resources to get that right, far more than the current sit down mode. There is still no standardised API across VR platforms to help streamline development etc Of course I'm somehow delusional to point out the internal failings of the VR industry! Frontier should just charge more for the VR version of the DLC but it will still need more dev time
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Yea...
Still, while I had no interest in fleet carriers for being fleet carriers, they are the closest thing to a trading system between players we can have, so I kinda want one just to act as a trading wallet. lol
No VR no buy for me.
VERY disappointed with this tbh.
If Hello Games can do this with No Man's Sky I can't see why Frontier can't do it.
Hopefully they're going to have plans to add it in a post-launch patch but if they don't I won't be giving them my money.
Such a disappointment.
VERY disappointed with this tbh.
If Hello Games can do this with No Man's Sky I can't see why Frontier can't do it.
Hopefully they're going to have plans to add it in a post-launch patch but if they don't I won't be giving them my money.
Such a disappointment.
Frontier should just charge more for the VR version of the DLC but it might actually just need a bit more dev time
They wouldn't be the first game to do it (see Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 VR, X Rebirth VR), and depending on the price some folks would buy it. I would, for sure.
If it costs more to implement VR, and the alternative is no VR at all, I'd take that.
The way I understood it: You launch the game into vanilla, Horizons or Odyssey. You can't have VR flight beneath a blue sky since blue skies are Odyssey exclusive content where VR is not supported.
yep same. I'd pay more to keep VR
I'd be okay if the "walking" content was behind a 2D wall but the flying & driving content (like flying over these atmospheric worlds) was available in VR. Right now it sounds like ALL of Odyssey is 2D (including the flying bits), and that's a real shame and totally unnecessary.
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Forgot to include the fact that I'm super excited for Odyssey! I'm definitely one of the people who have been in it since beta, and the ability to leave your ship and interact with the galaxy at a more granular scale is one of things that I find most compelling. Can't wait for the team to show us more over the coming months! I know there is probably a lot of work to still be done, so don't forget that just like in the alpha-beta stages community feedback as things are being developed could be really good to help shape the quality of the upcoming update!
While we wont be getting "base building", is it safe to say we will have some other way to gain some agency as players outside of ships/fleet carriers? Maybe we can't build a base but we could buy one? We can't build them but they are pre-fab that we still get to choose where they go?
I also am disappointed by the lack of VR support, but I do completely understand that the undertaking for designing all the new gameplay elements to work with VR and work well is quite an undertaking. It would be great to see this at some point in the future though. As a lot of other people mentioned elite is one of the better games for VR support and that extending over to this next era could be a really great thing.
Forgot to include the fact that I'm super excited for Odyssey! I'm definitely one of the people who have been in it since beta, and the ability to leave your ship and interact with the galaxy at a more granular scale is one of things that I find most compelling. Can't wait for the team to show us more over the coming months! I know there is probably a lot of work to still be done, so don't forget that just like in the alpha-beta stages community feedback as things are being developed could be really good to help shape the quality of the upcoming update!
While we wont be getting "base building", is it safe to say we will have some other way to gain some agency as players outside of ships/fleet carriers? Maybe we can't build a base but we could buy one? We can't build them but they are pre-fab that we still get to choose where they go?
I also am disappointed by the lack of VR support, but I do completely understand that the undertaking for designing all the new gameplay elements to work with VR and work well is quite an undertaking. It would be great to see this at some point in the future though. As a lot of other people mentioned elite is one of the better games for VR support and that extending over to this next era could be a really great thing.
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A suitable analogy to describe how poor VorpX is:
- Flatscreen = 2D
- VorpX = 2.5D
- VR = 3D
Which is a crying shame!
From your chairs, presumably?
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