The developers at 'Hello Games' must be jumping up and down with an abundance of joy after reading Frontiers confirmation of 'No VR support'. Well its NMS who will now have my full support and I look forward to enjoying all that their game provides; which is a considerable amount more than what Frontier can offer. Talk about how a small team of devs can put Frontier to shame. NMS is already a VR masterpiece and with each passing month improves even more. Elite Dangerous, on the other hand, appears to be going backwards... Your statement should read, "Odyssey anyone? We will not give you VR but our Frontier artists will work hard at giving you space-suit paint jobs: Ca-ching!, Ca-ching!"
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was the case. I'm looking at nearly 90 pages of this particular train wreck and I'm thinking, this isn't probably the reception they were expecting for this announcement.
Sure, sure, loud minority and so on. Nothing to see here. But eventually the loud minorities add up. Mac. PvP. Powerplay. VR.
Running slowly but steadily out of friends. But maybe some Doom Eternal players will migrate over when Odyssey arrives.
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One can only hope.
It does appear to be a real gift for NMS.
But you aren't losing anything, you just won't get something extra.
Non-VR support is a deal breaker for me, not gonna buy the expansion. I just PRAY that you do not cease VR suppport for the base game for all of us who don't buy Odyssey.... In case you do, I will part with ED forever, no matter when you decide to include the VR support. It has been the most important factor for me to stay with the game for so long.
Most VR users are more concerned about not being able to experience landing and flying around the updated planets in VR... after all Elite Dangerous has always been a space flight simulator. If I wanted to play an FPS, I’d look elsewhere.
My feelings exactly
Like it was Apple's fault that the macOS client was removed. Remember, Frontier are never responsible for what happens in their game.
Wow, Tim, you’re killing it as a community manager! You’re actually telling us stuff and setting expectations way in advance! Please keep it coming!
Oh absolutely, but no doubt it'll get flooded with positivity as more dev diaries and info gets revealed. Minor a supset of the audience we may be, after all. I understand the perception some may have of us VR users being privileged and whiny because we can't use our expensive magic goggles on the new update, I really get it. Here's the deal though.
I'm not threatening to quit playing elite, I already said my goals just changed from getting Odyssey to waiting until it supports my setup and playing Horizons until then. The fact is, at the end of the day you become accustom to playing a certain way. Folks with HOTAS would probably not be thrilled if their sticks stopped working. Folks with big multi-mon setups would likely not be excited to only play on a single smaller monitor. I just can't picture myself playing Elite without the VR so I'll continue to do so in VR in the old version until the new update works with my hardware.
it is exactly apple’s fault. What sense does it make to fundamentally limit a game, especially against competitors, for a single computer vendor that doesn’t care about keeping up with gaming technology.
So you'd like Frontier to release Odyssey in VR - and do exactly what Hello Games did and reduce PCVR to the same level as PSVR?
I also have NMS, it has moved from rather good, detailed graphics (but abysmal performance) in VR to a blurry mess... Masterpiece? Hardly, sorry!
No thanks.
I can understand people are smarting due to the absence of VR at launch, but from a purely commercial standpoint, the overall number of players in VR is low. Getting the experience right first and then bringing VR in later would make sense, even if it's deeply unpopular with the vocal minority.
You're not "going back" - you're standing still. ED continues to offer VR support. Its simply that the new game doesn't - at launch.
You're not "going back" - you're standing still. ED continues to offer VR support. Its simply that the new game doesn't - at launch.
Thank you for your input.
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FD did. They are removing it
That is the issue. If it NEVER had VR then it would.not be such an issue
There are certainly performance considerations, but Frontier could have at least made Odyssey usable in VR while sitting in ships or SRVs - they don't appeat tobe doing even that.
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