Most of the uproar has been caused by Frontier stating that they would not support VR AT ALL in Odyssey. Now they are saying 'maybe, but it's better that you assume it isn't there at all', which I personally find patronising.
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Yep that's exactly how it is!
I have to agree with the comments above... end my pain one way or the other... so that I can get back to living.
Since you guys are definitely still reading. Please please please consider weekly dev diaries. It would go a long way.
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Hi TimHi Alec,
We’re still reading everything, rest assured!
We don’t have any more details at the moment on how that split would work yet, however we’ve heard the questions and the feedback. We’ll be sharing more information closer to release.
To reiterate (it’s a long thread, things easily get lost!) you will still be able to play the base game and Horizons with VR, that isn’t changing.
Cheers,
Tim
Releasing Odyssey without VR leads to a fragmented software. Odyssey included all the Horizon stuff and this witthout VR which is working in Horizon. The Dev Team should reconsider their plans.
Regards Rene
Hi Tim, just to clarify on that point, will that mean VR players will need to launch the base game, or Horizons from the launcher to use VR, and if they launch Odyssey, then VR will not be available?
Hi Alec,
We’re still reading everything, rest assured!
We don’t have any more details at the moment on how that split would work yet, however we’ve heard the questions and the feedback. We’ll be sharing more information closer to release.
To reiterate (it’s a long thread, things easily get lost!) you will still be able to play the base game and Horizons with VR, that isn’t changing.
Cheers,
Tim
Well said sir. And yes please Tim.
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That is such a cop out. Lose your job, so what in the grand scheme of things it's nothing, split up with your partner? So what your both still alive.
Lose a leg? Don't moan you can always use a false one!
Yes I am deliberately going OTT. Yes ED is just a game... But we are on the games forum and in that context ED is what matters.
But sure I would not go on a forum about for instance the pandemic and expect people to sympathise about my ED woes.
The thing which does bug me is all the non VR players telling me how it does not matter.
I don't drink whiskey, I don't drink gin but I would never tell people who do drink them to quit moaning they can still drink coffee if for some reason they were not going to be able to drink their chosen spirit again.
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I haven’t read the entire thread, but with regards to the lack of immediate VR support for Odyssey, I imagine it has to do with wanting to target consoles and PC at launch simultaneously and take full advantage of the available processing power to render the atmospheric planets and FPS mode as best they can on all platforms.
VR has the immediate problem of having to render the scene twice and at ~90fps, using whatever tricks necessary, and that may be way beyond what even the most high-end of rigs can handle at an acceptable frame rate when it comes to how atmospheric planets are rendered presently.
As a VR user, I hope they won’t abandon VR support and would like Oddyssey to remain VR where sharing the same content as Horizons.
As an interim, given there would be some VR support, could the game switch to a ‘2D head look monitor’ mode when encountering graphically challenging scenes so that at least I wouldn’t have to keep taking on and off my headset?
VR has the immediate problem of having to render the scene twice and at ~90fps, using whatever tricks necessary, and that may be way beyond what even the most high-end of rigs can handle at an acceptable frame rate when it comes to how atmospheric planets are rendered presently.
As a VR user, I hope they won’t abandon VR support and would like Oddyssey to remain VR where sharing the same content as Horizons.
As an interim, given there would be some VR support, could the game switch to a ‘2D head look monitor’ mode when encountering graphically challenging scenes so that at least I wouldn’t have to keep taking on and off my headset?
Seriously!!!! You are comparing not being able to play a video game with losing a loved, losing your lively hood or suffering a major life changing accident or illness! I am beginning to wonder if playing in VR causes people to lose their grip on actual reality.
There seems to be a lot people begrudging the "minority" VR players wanting to continue with VR ganeplay in any future updates. But was FPS gameplay ever a desire for the "majority"? I never got the impression it was from any forums etc.
Personally I was never bothered about space legs, other than to be able to walk around my ships and maybe interact with other players and say Engineers inside space stations.
Personally I was never bothered about space legs, other than to be able to walk around my ships and maybe interact with other players and say Engineers inside space stations.
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No I am not but I am saying within the context of THIS GAME FORUM then yes ED is what matters and yes relitively on THIS GAME forum ED is important and what is going on in the world is NOT otherwise there is no bloody escape from the crap that is real life. FGS learn to read if you are gonna attack me
I didn't bring real life issues into this game discussion he did!
Btw I have gone through personal tragedy of various flavours (as have most of us) but I didn't go on games forums and tell people games don't matter because bad crap happened to me!.
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Grungy Raider suits with spikes sticking out in all sorts of uncomfortable places.
Early stages!?
I... think you are confused - this is the final run up, they've been working on this for at LEAST two years, more like three.
As he said he deliberately gave an OTT example to highlight a subjective flawed view. Being passionate about VR in this game has nothing with do with a pandemic that I'm sure we are all equally as concerned as you.
It’s such a good method for dismissing people’s concerns that it even has its own name!
Try looking up “Fallacy of Relative Privation” and then everyone in the entire world can just shut up about their problems because there’s definitely one individual who is worse off than everyone else, and that person doesn’t have internet access
Thinking about how space legs could be implemented with the ship. It absolutely needs too first off. The ships have been the star of elite, give us the tools to be able to fully explore them.
Like how about the ability to fix your ship via a space walk or actually going to the compartment where the module is housed as an option instead of the auto afmu.
Like how about the ability to fix your ship via a space walk or actually going to the compartment where the module is housed as an option instead of the auto afmu.
Indeed and I used the loss of a leg some what because of the topic at hand (space legs and VR not getting them?. Maybe bad taste but there you go it seemed a good fit
)Btw if I must talk real life, my wife is a key worker working on the virus and I am higher risk than many for it. I am well aware of real life risks. My wife's cousin and his wife are both NHS nurses as is my cousin. Videogames are meant to be an escape however.
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Hi Alec,
We’re still reading everything, rest assured!
We don’t have any more details at the moment on how that split would work yet, however we’ve heard the questions and the feedback. We’ll be sharing more information closer to release.
To reiterate (it’s a long thread, things easily get lost!) you will still be able to play the base game and Horizons with VR, that isn’t changing.
Cheers,
Tim
Thank you @Tim Smith for the update, hopefully a good compromise can be reached. Personally I’m happy if Oddysey can have vr for all things sitting ie, flight and srv as we have now. If we stand up in the ship or on the ground we switch to 2D.
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