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ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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The game has supported VR from the beginning. The beginning was when VR was only available as dev kits, and you had to hack around to get it working. 10% of alpha players were using VR.
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HLA begs to differ (plenty of others too but surely everyone has heard of half life
I doubt it. You need a whacky doo computer to run it, I only have a laptop.Your going to buy a headset aren't you?
What I was getting at is that there are obvious upgrades looking at the trailer. Will any of the enhancements carry over to the current game. I'm just not bothered about running about shooting stuff. To me it's a space flight sim with the ability to land on planets.
IF that is the case it may be tolerable for some but it sounds to me we are stuck on horizons so it's not just legs but all planet tech etc
im pretty much certain that the new Planetary tech and graphical upgrades are going to be integrated to the base game, throughout all expansions. they cannot restrict those things to only the DLC since they involve changes to the engine itself. cannot have an expansion running on a different engine than it's original base game. they are linked. so that should be some good news, for people who aren't buying odyssey.
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I'm fine with whatever anyone wants to talk about, feel free to discuss anything and theorycraft away. The only thing we know about the update is there will be some form of walking on planets and there won't be VR support "at launch", so feel free to expound upon either of those or talk about stuff ya hopes makes it in.
No VR makes the update a nonstarter and I won't buy it, so I'm letting Frontier know, as are others. VR players will likely let Frontier know about this problem the rest of the way even when Fdev actually gives us more info about the update.
I imagine once they announce that there's no interior modeling inside the ships for us to walk around in, the forums will have more long unavoidable (disappointed) conversations about that as well (if the earlier reports that a dev said it wasn't coming and then the comment was deleted is accurate, at least-- I didn't see it with my own eyes). It has been a LONG time since we had a real update, people have stuck around on faith, and the legs portion is mostly a mystery for now and the most confirmed thing is VR not being supported. Not a lot else to discuss or be happy about with that.
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VR has been in Elite Dangerous since Alpha, December 2013.
Iirc there were base game updates after horizons so potentially there could be an graphics engine update not associated with the paid portion of the dlc, but this is mere speculation
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And in the interview/demo with Scott Manley Braben explicitly stated that 10% of the players have them at that time. That's telling something. In this vid you can also see a VRgin reacting to VR for the first time - priceless even with British composure.
Flight sims: XPlane-11 also has vr support, IL-2 has VR support, War Thunder has VR support out of the top of my head.
Oh, just found this:
As for carrying things - Oculus Quest + Link Cable is a very interesting proposition although idk if it works with DCS, you'd need to check on Eagle Dynamics' forums. It's also standalone so you can enjoy a nice library of VR games on the go, too. Onward is being ported to Quest currently for example. There are also WMR solutions with inside-out tracking like Oculus' ones, most notably HP Reverb.
I also play DCS and while there are some deficiencies with the engine and resolution (the latter can be overcome with hp reverb), I wouldn't ever trade it for 2d 4k (I tried). The disconnection between playing pancake and actually being inside a fighter jet maneouvering is surreal (pardon the pun). Oh and aerial refuelling where you can see the actual depth is very nice. If you have any further questions (or anyone who wants to get into VR actually) feel free to shot me a pm.
For those who want to walk around the ship, what is the proposed gameplay purpose of this? Other than "it sounds cool".
IMMERRSHUN!!! Oh and Fidelity
It is less hyperbolic than it seems. A popular comparison that non-vr players use when trying to conceptualize vr gameplay is to think of it as the same class of experience as Elite with a 3D tv or head tracking, or a giant multi-monitor display, but maybe just a little better. That is, they think of VR as something that 'enhances' the experience of playing flat screen Elite Dangerous. This is understandable, but inaccurate in an important way.
If playing Elite Dangerous on flat screen is like reading a book, then the 'enhancement' class of experiences is like reading the 'deluxe anniversary' version of The Chronicles of Narnia, with glossy pages and lenticular illustrations that move when you move your head. VR is like stepping into the Wardrobe, and coming out with your feet on the snow covered ground of Narnia.
Whether by design or by accident, Frontier's VR implementation manages to accomplish what so many other VR implementations of flat screen games have tried and failed to do, i.e. create an emergent experience that is so much more than the sum of its parts. VR does not enhance Elite Dangerous; it transforms it. The game becomes something different when played in VR, and for many that emergent experience defines their version of Elite Dangerous. For this reason, ED and EDVR are not interchangeable for many.
So yes, when Odyssey launches ED flat screen will still be available, and that is great, but the VR community has lost something valuable and important to us, and I think that it is okay for people to be sad about that.
Not really.
source: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4061-QUZB-4602Valve Index requirements page said:
What? CMDRs being upset in the thread that gave them a reason to be upset? What voodoo magic is this?
Lol sorry you don't have VR? And, again, someone else needs reminding, to a lot of CMDRS Elite Dangerous is a VR game. They bought it through VR only stores and for years have played it in VR. The new update, is not in VR, therefore, VR users who only bought Elite because its in VR are left out.
I'm going to have to ask for your metaphor card. That's a pretty big false equivalency.
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Well go on then. Talk about something else.
Huuuge thumbs up for that Narnia reference, it's pretty spot on by the way. Put a big smile on my face, thank you. Ah, memories...
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