Clearly the trailer was ready for release. How do we know they weren't going to release it a week after the Carriers come out?
Either way it's out now, so no one is being surprised by anything "without warning"
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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Either way it's out now, so no one is being surprised by anything "without warning"
It's just your point of view, not necessarily everyone's. We can argue, but a privilege is a right that others do not. This is not the case here, if you want you can play in VR.
The thing that concerns me and that FD haven't clarified is the implication from the announcement that VR users will not be able to have cockpit VR on atmospheric worlds.
I get that 2D in VR requires development effort but cockpit VR in Elite already works really well, (it's the reason I have a headset,) and if they are choosing to gate atmospherics behind the Odyssey update and therefore denying VR users from experiencing those worlds that makes no sense to me.
I'd really like FD to clarify that.
What a load of nonsense. They are taking away existing features and functionality from the new game. Features that VR users have invested in both financially and in our time. I could walk the 30 miles to work but I drive, if someone took away my car I would not walk.
@Mad Mike summed it up nicely:
I can only add: it's a nice atmospheric planet you have there, odyssey commander. It's a damn shame I cannot even enter it's exclusion zone, if I even can see it at all in her "new tech" glory, because oh wait, new tech is in Odyssey, not in Horizons.
We have come a looong way since then, the current resolution compared to DK2 is insane especially on the HP Reverb (2160x2160), the screen door effect is almost non-existent now, the field of view is much bigger (drastically in the case of Pimax), and the tracked controllers do all the difference in the world in terms of immersion.
I am sorry to hear about that. I still think you could benefit from VR for the experience of ship being all around you and your head movements tracked flawlessly, however without the stereo effect which you have never experienced it would just be "better track ir" with the added benefit of isolating you from outside world. I have a friend who doesn't have depth perception, and he still bought an oculus rift s because of the Elite experience he had. He said his condition is "similar to what you would see if you cover one of your eyes". But it all comes down to the disposable income one has for toys, because that's what VR is to me - a really damn fine toy.
Vote with your wallet, buy a VR headset and play a plethora of other great VR games out there. They won't be Elite but that doesn't meant they won't be awesome. I gave the list twice in my posts, I'll link it into my sig because people still have this strange misconception that it is still 2016, VR has just released and there are no games for VR at the moment.
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There is no VR section of Elite just as there isn't a 5.1 surround sound section of Elite excluding headphone wearers from playing, due to a personal choice that they made. KB+M players aren't excluded from HOTAS gameplay either.
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Maybe you arent specifically but this whole thread is a farce. Its a shame it started as a community manager trying to share what little information they are permitted to.
I would personally like to know when FDEV will release further information about the new update, so I don't have to trawl through the handbag comments in this thread to get some official statements
How can VR be a better experience in Odyssey if you can't use it?
Well you talk about what you want and I'll talk about the lack of VR. It's a forum. That's what it's for.
Is it though?
So many of the "VR crowd", before it was announced there would be no support at launch, were busy bleating about vomiting over their keyboards or not being able to control their CMDR in FPS, and how they would be disdavantaged over the KB/M crowd, etc, ad nauseum...
Now they are up in arms that they can't play in VR from launch...
Priceless...
Yes, I play in VR, Yes I have a high-end PC... Do I actually care over much? No, not really, I still play more than 50% of the time in pancake because of RL constraints, I'll just play anyway - so, can't play the new content in VR at launch, oh well, that's life
You will never get the vote of the "Me, me,me" Snowflake generation with that attitude.
you are not being denied noone will get to see atmospheric worlds in vr you simple have to play pancake like the rest of us do.
@Filthymick420
Thing is mick, clearly it means a lot to some people because well, here we are. If you really are not invested in VR why not save yourself the pain this is clearly causing you by just not getting involved. Unless of course that's your poison. The 'U MAD BRO' t shirt could be an indication of that kind of personality after all.
Thing is mick, clearly it means a lot to some people because well, here we are. If you really are not invested in VR why not save yourself the pain this is clearly causing you by just not getting involved. Unless of course that's your poison. The 'U MAD BRO' t shirt could be an indication of that kind of personality after all.
Not really, you can change your choice, you can get the kit.
You said being forced to play the earlier game so you can play in VR wouldn't be a good experience.
Hmm lets fun-speculate here:
Our cmdr can not die (as it is now): There is a shield that surrounds our spacesuit, when it gets to zero , our spacesuit starts to recieve damage and then when its health gets to zero it blows up and we get instantly tranfered to
1.) a suit-rebuy screen.
2.) Inside our ship naked (censored)
3.) a ship-rebuy screen - our suit health is tied to our last controlled ship's health so when our suit blows up, our ship blows up as well.
Or
Our cmdr can finally die: Similarly our suit has a shield field, when it reaches zero, it starts taking damage and when suit itself reaches zero health, we die
and we are transfered to a coffin where we have to pay life insurance to get resurrected either inside our last controlled ship or inside a hospital - station/starport/base.
I wouldn't say those are great examples of VR. They are average at best. But yes, I can see why some people would prefer average VR rather than no VR. It certainly shouldn't be impossible to implement VR at that level. As many have suggested, it's likely a case of resources.
I can and you can change yours by playing in normal vision in Odessy.
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