VR support 'not at launch' for Odyssey

Kaocraft

Kaocraft
Mad Mike said:
I have no idea if it is true but I really want it to be so am gonna cross fingers. It's all a gigantic bluff to get some of that juicy Facebook money.
Look at it this way IF odyssey is not Vr supported every person who bought ED on the oculus store are completely screwed.
I can't help but think oculus won't like their customers getting a bum deal compared to steam customers.... Not if they want those players to continue buying apps on their store any way
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Odyssey is a different product. It simply won't be on the Oculus store. VR support will continue to exist for the pre-existing products (elite+horizons) that people have purchased on the Oculus store. You can't seriously argue that anyone is getting screwed, here, because nothing about Elite Dangerous + Horizons is going to change. If Frontier were to pull VR support entirely from pre-existing products, then Oh HECK YES I would agree that this is screwing over their customers. But that's not what's happening.

Everspace was a really cool space game which had VR support. The upcoming Everspace 2 is not going to have VR support. This fact does not suddenly take away VR support from the original Everspace, nor does it screw over anyone who bought Everspace 1 on the Ocululs Store.
 

jyla1981

jyla1981
Kaocraft said:
Odyssey is a different product. It simply won't be on the Oculus store. VR support will continue to exist for the pre-existing products (elite+horizons) that people have purchased on the Oculus store. You can't seriously argue that anyone is getting screwed, here, because nothing about Elite Dangerous + Horizons is going to change. If Frontier were to pull VR support entirely from pre-existing products, then Oh HECK YES I would agree that this is screwing over their customers. But that's not what's happening.

Everspace was a really cool space game which had VR support. The upcoming Everspace 2 is not going to have VR support. This fact does not suddenly take away VR support from the original Everspace, nor does it screw over anyone who bought Everspace 1 on the Ocululs Store.
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so have i missed something? i thought it was an expansion....or am i wrong and it is a completely different game?......if the later is correct then i am not bothered andjust wont purchase it, but if it is an expansion (as the term DLC suggests) then i stand by how i already feel....and playing hokeycokey with my headset doesnt sound fun at all
 

babelfisch

babelfisch
jyla1981 said:
so have i missed something? i thought it was an expansion....or am i wrong and it is a completely different game?......if the later is correct then i am not bothered andjust wont purchase it, but if it is an expansion (as the term DLC suggests) then i stand by how i already feel....and playing hokeycokey with my headset doesnt sound fun at all
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It's an expansion, although I don't understand how that affects your ability to not buy it.
 

Dooguk

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Kaocraft said:
Odyssey is a different product. It simply won't be on the Oculus store. VR support will continue to exist for the pre-existing products (elite+horizons) that people have purchased on the Oculus store. You can't seriously argue that anyone is getting screwed, here, because nothing about Elite Dangerous + Horizons is going to change. If Frontier were to pull VR support entirely from pre-existing products, then Oh HECK YES I would agree that this is screwing over their customers. But that's not what's happening.

Everspace was a really cool space game which had VR support. The upcoming Everspace 2 is not going to have VR support. This fact does not suddenly take away VR support from the original Everspace, nor does it screw over anyone who bought Everspace 1 on the Ocululs Store.
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I have been happy playing in VR for 6 years. Not once did Frontier hint they would drop support for it and I never thought they would. So is this the future? What of my lifetime pass? Can I get a refund on it? It's useless to me if I cannot play in VR. In fact if it wasn't for VR I would have given up years ago. Here I am ready to buy a new VR headset and graphics card just to play this game. I was so looking forward to this update (the planet tech not the Star Citizen crap) Jeez I'm angry .
 

Maggie_Oz

Maggie_Oz
jyla1981 said:
and playing hokeycokey with my headset doesnt sound fun at all
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Looks like were going to .... spacelegs

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jyla1981

jyla1981
babelfisch said:
It's an expansion, although I don't understand how that affects your ability to not buy it.
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does not affect my ability to buy it but like i said in a previous post,this is how i would see gameplay for VR users


put on headset and fly to system
supercruise to planet
Land on planet
get out of CMDR chair.....VR GOES OFF
take headset off and use flatscreen to walk to SRV
get into SRV....VR back on...
put headset on drive to a location
get out of SRV.......VR GOES OFF
take off headset and use flatscreen to walk around......
get back into SRV VR back on
put headet on and board ship
get out of SRV VR off
headset off to walk to chair
get into chair VR back on
put headset on and start flying

put your headset on, your headset off, on, off, on, off just to play odyssey
you do this all again just to walk upon planets
thats what ED is all about......
OOOOOOOOHHHHHH the joys of VR
OOOOOOOOHHHHHH the joys of VR
OOOOOOOOHHHHHH the joys of VR
from ship to legs is just a big ball ache
 

Kaocraft

Kaocraft
Dooguk said:
I have been happy playing in VR for 6 years. Not once did Frontier hint they would drop support for it and I never thought they would. So is this the future? What of my lifetime pass? Can I get a refund on it? It's useless to me if I cannot play in VR. In fact if it wasn't for VR I would have given up years ago. Here I am ready to buy a new VR headset and graphics card just to play this game. I was so looking forward to this update (the planet tech not the Star Citizen crap) Jeez I'm angry .
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You get to be angry. I'm not taking issue with your anger or your desire to see VR support for Odyssey. My only point of contention is this notion that Frontier's failure to create new VR products is somehow equivalent to pulling VR support from Horizons and vanilla Elite, which is how some people are framing this.
 

Dooguk

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Kaocraft said:
You get to be angry. I'm not taking issue with your anger or your desire to see VR support for Odyssey. My only point of contention is this notion that Frontier's failure to create new VR products is somehow equivalent to pulling VR support from Horizons and vanilla Elite, which is how some people are framing this.
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Who the hell wants to be stuck with a product that's years old while other players get the shiny new stuff?
 

babelfisch

babelfisch
jyla1981 said:
does not affect my ability to buy it but like i said in a previous post,this is how i would see gameplay for VR users


put on headset and fly to system
supercruise to planet
Land on planet
get out of CMDR chair.....VR GOES OFF
take headset off and use flatscreen to walk to SRV
get into SRV....VR back on...
put headset on drive to a location
get out of SRV.......VR GOES OFF
take off headset and use flatscreen to walk around......
get back into SRV VR back on
put headet on and board ship
get out of SRV VR off
headset off to walk to chair
get into chair VR back on
put headset on and start flying

put your headset on, your headset off, on, off, on, off just to play odyssey
you do this all again just to walk upon planets
thats what ED is all about......
OOOOOOOOHHHHHH the joys of VR
OOOOOOOOHHHHHH the joys of VR
OOOOOOOOHHHHHH the joys of VR
from ship to legs is just a big ball ache
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What I don't understand is that you would be fine with it if Odyssey would be another game.
 

Maggie_Oz

Maggie_Oz
Dooguk said:
They would surely have said they are working on it but it won't be ready for launch. I could go with that.
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And why would they have surely said anything beyond what they did ?
It's only ruled out of the release, not ruled out totally and it will, obviously, remain in the current game so nothing is lost.
 

jyla1981

jyla1981
babelfisch said:
What I don't understand is that you would be fine with it if Odyssey would be another game.
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because if it is part of the game then its a VR players perspective game breaker.....if it was a completely different games as you put it in the comment about everspace and everspace 2 (completely separate games) then there would be no issue

but if the same feature are not equal accross the whole game then the emersion level lowers dramatically and the frustration levels increase.....which in my own opinion is the wrong way around
 
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