Well, if it was a pinned FAQ it could have entries like:
Q) Can we walk about in our ships?
A) ......
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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Q) Can we walk about in our ships?
A) ......
NMS barely has PvP, but who cares anyway: FD never cared about PvP balance. Or balance in general, come to think. The idea VR is sacrificed on some Fortnite-in-space altar is a bit silly IMHO.
Looking on Steam it says you need to own the base game in order to get the DLC when it comes out. So my guess it's not an entirely separate game.
It is going to kill ED for him, and for me, and for us VR users in general. And for those who think that "it's only better track ir", well, it isn't. I laugh at egg-shaped planets on flat version, the depth cues aren't there, everything feels small and in 1:72 airplane model scale, the mailslot is a slit compared to what it looks in VR (it's really huge), planets are tiny and asp cockpit doesn't incur height scare... One needs to try VR to understand how utterly fundamentally different that gaming experience is. Not with just Elite, with pretty much any game. DCS World. War Thunder. Racing sims, military sims and fps games... I will never be able to be so "intimate" with a F/A-18C Hornet cockpit, let alone fly it, yet in VR it's a pretty believable experience. This is what is being taken away from us and we are extremely sad it is happening, because it's the literal death of the game - for us.
Indeed.
I hope that FD have looked at the entire game and fleshed out everything to bring it together, rather than reverting to type and bolting on another half thought out feature. They have had the time now to do everything justice, listen to feedback and have hard data to crunch.
Why? You'll still have what you have now
Please read the rest of the post, I tried to explain as clearly as I could.
You select Odyssey on the launcher then VR don't work. You want VR you'll need to launch the Legacy version.
Please re-read my post
So you're the one who plays CQC Arena.
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As has been pointed out several times, this is a false premise when pitched against other players that get advantages due to having access to additional content. The most evident example of this currently in game would be if a base game commander (who for whatever reason cannot get Horizons) in their unengineered ship tried going into a PvP fight against a fully engineered Horizons commander - they would not stand a chance.
While alot of people focus on the VR aspect, and yes it annoys me too, I am more scared about the rest.
What planets will we be able to land, and how is there anything to do at all?
Are we just a rover on foot with all to do?
I believe there can't be spacewalks, as those needed to work with horizons then?
So we can basically land on a planet and "deploy" on foot like a rover and then hope we found a planet where a mission/critter/location is built that gives us anything to do
Will odyssey just be planetside 2 on selected "planets" and or maps?
Basically we havent seen any actual "gameplay loops" for this yet at all.
Sadly I assume no ship interiors or bases other than what we have today, i expect this to just be a slower rover...
What planets will we be able to land, and how is there anything to do at all?
Are we just a rover on foot with all to do?
I believe there can't be spacewalks, as those needed to work with horizons then?
So we can basically land on a planet and "deploy" on foot like a rover and then hope we found a planet where a mission/critter/location is built that gives us anything to do
Will odyssey just be planetside 2 on selected "planets" and or maps?
Basically we havent seen any actual "gameplay loops" for this yet at all.
Sadly I assume no ship interiors or bases other than what we have today, i expect this to just be a slower rover...
If you want to keep the VR helmet on, just don't select walking from the crotch panel seems more likely to me.
We’re not speculating, we’re commenting to give fdev feedback in hopes of influencing their decision. Maybe if they understand that many of their biggest fans consider VR the only way to play Elite, and not just a nice-to-have feature, they will realize how important it is. If we stay silent they will assume we don’t care.
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No. Ian has it right.
Because it was a quick hack that worked, and you can see Braben talking about it in the vids @Jay Le Chardon linked somewhere earlier in the thread.
That's just silly. If you aren't competing PvP space legs there's no issue
Because it's not much fun to play a version of ED that isn't the one you'd play given an even playing field.
Frontier love even playing fields, that was the explanation offered for ARX if you recall, everyone on the same playing field.
So true...
A CMDR in Odyssey can have his G5 LR Engineered Plasma Rifle and the poor Horizons owner wouldn't stand a chance...
...and we're mentioning false premise?
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