That's from last week.
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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What the, it was showing as live for me... hmmmm
Replace "VR" with "Open-only Power Play", or "meaningful PvP", or "Cobra Mk4 for PS4 players" and take a guess
Speaking of the latter, any word if PS4 players will get the Cobra MK4 in Odyssey?
Which part? His comment about the cost of top-tier graphics chipsets and indeed the cost of VR gear itself is entirely valid.
VR is still a niche aspect of gaming, simply because a hell of a lot of gamers can't afford to drop the cash on a headset and the required graphics cards to make effective use of them. That's a fact, regardless of whether it's an issue that affects you personally or not.
I realise that reading this forum would lead people to believe that VR is something that most gamers now have but in reality it's still an almost inconsequential market segment compared to non-VR gaming.
If only I had the time ..
I'm gonna go out on a space limb here and say this: I have a strong feeling that if there is no VR in Odyssey, there wont be space legs on ships... as in, we wont be able to walk around our own vessels. I think it would have been too much work.
You will fly around in ships in VR, but if you want to depart, you have to remove your headset and use your screen and you will appear at the bottom of your landing staircase. Just saying.
I hope I'm wrong. Please let me be wrong. Not concerned about VR, just let me walk around my ships and carrier....
You will fly around in ships in VR, but if you want to depart, you have to remove your headset and use your screen and you will appear at the bottom of your landing staircase. Just saying.
I hope I'm wrong. Please let me be wrong. Not concerned about VR, just let me walk around my ships and carrier....
There's been a lot of negativity in here.
I get there's a lot of passion around this subject, but it's very easy to go from rational criticism to needlessly putting other people down.
Although of course there's only so much that can be discussed before speculation kicks in due to Frontier's decision to hold important details of future updates close to their chest.
I would be very interested in knowing what percentage of Elite players are consistent VR users.
I get there's a lot of passion around this subject, but it's very easy to go from rational criticism to needlessly putting other people down.
Although of course there's only so much that can be discussed before speculation kicks in due to Frontier's decision to hold important details of future updates close to their chest.
I would be very interested in knowing what percentage of Elite players are consistent VR users.
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Don't be a prat. Game sold on a vr only store ..... Now we learn the game won't be supporting the game bought on that store so it's a dead end for those. It's hardly whining. Just like you wouldn't be whining if monitor support was dropped and game became VR only and you only played on a monitor. Features which some people use exclusively being dropped is a big deal for some and they are right to be upset.
And as for you wanting people upset to just leave. The problem is FD have caved multiple times when people make enough of a stink. A double edged sword for sure. Features I liked in principle were changed for the worse imo, OTOH sometimes complaints made the game better for me..... On this I hope my Whining causes change.
The best bet however imo is still that oculus step in and pay for support like in dirt rally 2
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I just want to add to this.
I would understand that VR is dificult to implement for FPS gameplay, it can get a bit too much. But it would be a horrible down grade to completely drop VR support from the game or even just odyssey. Isn't it possible to create a sort of theatre mode in VR so we can use our headset as a flat screen for FPS gameplay, but then when we transition into our ships/srv's we get VR view?
Yeah, not adding to an expansion, is dropping it from the game. Base game and horizons had it, and now it is being dropped from Elite Dangerous. Sure you can play the outdated previous updates, but future content? No VR.
That's called dropping VR from your game.
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Not for everyone it isnt. Just because some people have it doesnt mean everyone does. I suspect its just the loud minority of players
Hey Tim, thanks for the clarification on VR but I am still desperately trying to justify purchasing the new expansion and would like some clarification. You said that VR still works in Horizons and Base game. Okay, does this mean the content from those games works in VR no matter what, or that I need to launch THAT VERSION of the game to play in VR? In other words, can I:
Fire up the launcher. Launch Elite Dangerous Odyssey and be in my ship IN VR. Can I fly around and scoot around like normal in VR. Can I fly onto an atmosphere planet in VR and enjoy the vistas, and can I get in my SRV as usual in VR and not worry about it... and then just not engage in legs to avoid being booted to my minitor? Will it do what BEAT SABER does when going into the level editor and pop up saying "You must remove your headset to continue" and allow me to go into legs if I really want to without needing to boot the game back up outside of VR or go into the graphics settings?
OR
In order to play in VR, do I need to explicitly launch Elite Dangerous Horizons and lock myself out of all the new features because I am simply unable to launch the Odessey version of the game and use my VR headset, thus restricting me to being unable to enjoy ANY of the new content until some currently unspecified update?
If it's the former, i still intend to purchase the expansion and enjoy what i can with it. If it's the latter, I'll wait.
Fire up the launcher. Launch Elite Dangerous Odyssey and be in my ship IN VR. Can I fly around and scoot around like normal in VR. Can I fly onto an atmosphere planet in VR and enjoy the vistas, and can I get in my SRV as usual in VR and not worry about it... and then just not engage in legs to avoid being booted to my minitor? Will it do what BEAT SABER does when going into the level editor and pop up saying "You must remove your headset to continue" and allow me to go into legs if I really want to without needing to boot the game back up outside of VR or go into the graphics settings?
OR
In order to play in VR, do I need to explicitly launch Elite Dangerous Horizons and lock myself out of all the new features because I am simply unable to launch the Odessey version of the game and use my VR headset, thus restricting me to being unable to enjoy ANY of the new content until some currently unspecified update?
If it's the former, i still intend to purchase the expansion and enjoy what i can with it. If it's the latter, I'll wait.
I said proof of begging. This is just me wishing i had it. Do you understand what begging means?
Begging (also panhandling) is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation
Begging (also panhandling) is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation
I rather think it will be a binary switch in the launcher, like this:
- boot Horizons: VR with well, the current game features plus FCS
- boot Odyssey: Pancake, but all the other exciting, amazing features just round the corner as announced 2 years ago
I never missed walking around my ship in VR, I could always use the SRV or the external cam if I wanted to have a look. Plus, given the cable is long enough, you could always walk around in the cockpit in VR anyway.
Thinking about it, I never even nauseated zipping around as a bodiless soul, and inside the hangar, the fps even went up actually.
O7,
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