I agree, while I don't VR, I do reach for my mouse and keyboard from time to time and they have not leapt up and moved somewhere other then where they always are. I can get ahold of both with my eyes closed if that is their beef.
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I agree, while I don't VR, I do reach for my mouse and keyboard from time to time and they have not leapt up and moved somewhere other then where they always are. I can get ahold of both with my eyes closed if that is their beef.
It's certainly possible to do VR FPS, the question is really how difficult it is to do and so how much work would be added to the release.
Hello Games did it with NMS and that was added to a game that never supported VR from the beginning. And with a smaller team I believe.
Many people struggle with a seated VR FPP game and maybe that's why Fdev are not moving forward with it. Personally I think they should add it and if people can stomach it, great, the people that can't can go 2D.
I can stomach it, having played Alien Isolation and Subnautica without issue.
I have no problem with it at all. Played Subnautica like yourself without issue. NMS too. I sometimes think a lot of the problems are with the players hardware being unable to run the game at an adequate framerate. You need to double the framerate basically and I bet lots of players rigs can't hack it.
I'd be happy sat down and even using my hotas as an fps controller.
You can probably do that. You would have to map the bindings though.
Yep but no different from the rest of the game. Got loads of different maps for different areas, galaxy map, srv, camera, main cockpit, adding fps map is trivial.
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As a VR player, literally the only thing I was looking forward to in this game was landing on atmosphere worlds in VR.
Even though the thread has moved on, I still wanted to address this point.
As a shareholder (not of Frontier, but of a few non-game related companies), if I find out that the business management are using company revenue (outside of what they receive in salaries) to buy themselves luxuries, I would not be happy at all.
I want to see them reinvest profits back into the company, expanding their product lines while also improving their current products, thus increasing the revenue and growing the company. In Frontier's case, expanding product lines would naturally mean creating additional games as well as improving their current offerings via DLCs.
With that in mind, assuming a company is delivering a legitimate product and is not being mismanaged, buying the retail product actually is the best way to support a game franchise. The more successful a product is for the parent company, the more resources are likely to be devoted to that product.
As a consumer, I have no interest in the other games Frontier provide, but I do enjoy playing Elite. It's the only game I play consistently and the experience Elite provides in VR is the primary reason why. Because of this, I've bought ship kits and repaints to help support the franchise, which is something I've never even considered with any other game.
To see VR support being discontinued going into the "New Era" is definitely a disappointment. I'll wait and see before making a final decision, but without VR support it is very unlikely I will have any interest in buying Odyssey when it's released.
I'm glad to see that Horizons will still support VR, however if it doesn't receive new content to keep it fresh, it's likely the "old era" of Horizons will die off as time goes by, taking many VR users and their support with it. With the latest news regarding VR in Elite, I'm not very inclined to spend additional money on Elite unless I know future updates are relevant to me. If enough players feel the same, it will hurt the playerbase as a whole.
Ouch... Any post starting with this is looking for trouble.
Jesus... It's NOT BEING DISCONTINUED.
It's just not going to be there at launch.
when fdev says "wont be included at launch" but dont assure us they will be including it at some point, thats code for we arent doing it and we'd rather not unless you make us.
they said psvr wouldnt be included at launch as well and it never came at all.
Horizons won't continue for long, if they think the number of VR players isn't enough to warrant the effort for O they won't continue running/maintaining the servers and infrastructure for those "few" VR players left in horizons for long.
That's what they said about psvr.
What you call "Ground Legs" have been called SpaceLegs since ED launch, newcomer
Rather than trying to be smart, care to share what you think about this? Not the VR issue, but what would Spaceleg add to the game, given every planet so far has been empty enough to be bored while speeding in a SRV or even a ship?
And also what they said about additional SRV types...
...Can you see a pattern forming here yet?
...Can you see a pattern forming here yet?
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