Actually I also heard LEPers get VR at launchWill it also be for the owners of LEP ?
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey | The Road To Odyssey Part 1 - One Giant Leap
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This may be a foldable and portable device to moveWhat is this....??? Do we really need to destroy every planet that we explore? I mean this thing is huge... Isn't it maybe out of scale?
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Actually I also heard LEPers get VR at launch
Nothing exclusive, just already paid. I wish more people understood that.
I would hazard a guess that's it probably pretty difficult to do that stuff while they are all working from home.
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It really can’t though. Not in the same way that VR can. It is a completely different level of immersion. May I ask how much playtime in VR you have?
I have already discussed one of the better examples of this: Skyrim. Playing Skyrim on a regular monitor was amazing and I felt I was really in the game. Then I got my first VR headset in an original Vive and the experience of SkyrimVR just blew flatscreen Skyrim completely out of the water.
and what would be the "whole thing"?
They never released a list of the content included into the expansion and the only information we had was the leak that didn't mention atmospheric planets.
Apparently they do, ask Buzz
Cant believe i wasted the near guts of 1hr to watch the same video (that i skipped the 2 other times) to listen to no information really, and no questions answered..well bar 1 that wasnt really answered more diverted, what was the point in that...Dev diary of emptyness
ha, that leak seems a lifetime ago.
I'm pretty happy with what we appear to be getting tbh. And I imagine fdev are keeping lots of good stuff to be revealed in the months to come ...
My great fear, the one that keeps me up at night, is that on the day Odyssey launches, I quickly install the expansion, boot it up with barely contained excitement, and see this:
Noooooo!
well, that’s me out already.
I really hoped they’d add interiors with fun meaningful gameplay and seamless exit/entrance via ramp and airlock.
This is so very, very disappointing...again.
Fool me once, etc.
I disagree. I think it's a huge improvement.
Some new info from the stream:
1. There will be an Exobiology rank.
2. Frontier rates their excitement for Odyssey as 10/10.
I would be surprised if they rate their own game as less then 10/10 xD
Looks nice but that's about it. Slightly better rock scatters and some new shaders and textures.
While the video exhibited quite a bit of aliasing on the environment, I am really eager to see what the improved (...whilst hopefully not hopelessly performance-draining...) terrain LOD detail is like! ...because the current fuzzy state is a long standing bugbear of mine, especially since I play in VR, where 100 degrees of field of view is not compressed into 40 or less, the way it becomes on a monitor (unless you sit really close). :7
Absolutely flabberghasted that such things as atmospheric influence on the flight model, vehicle-to-foot transitions, and making use of upcoming generation console hardware resources are supposedly matters undecided and/or deferred to post-launch, this late in development... I guess that last at least means hardware demands should probably not have increased too drastically, unless one have simply decided that a significant drop in frame rate is acceptable... :7
Heh, must say the air of finality that comes with the words: "promise fulfiled", jarred me each time they were used; Sounding more like: "We're ticking the "legs" box here: Done, dusted, and never brought to mind again", than: "First step about to be taken - now let's build on this".
Looking at that SRV climbing a snowy slope, I wonder if the ground surface it still rather flat, with some normal maps to go with the textures, or if there could be any chance at all it might have smaller scale geometric detail, tesselation with heightmap offsets, or parallax mapping... (I suppose that is partly the VR player in me speaking again; The flatness is not quite so apparent/annoying without depth perception).
Absolutely flabberghasted that such things as atmospheric influence on the flight model, vehicle-to-foot transitions, and making use of upcoming generation console hardware resources are supposedly matters undecided and/or deferred to post-launch, this late in development... I guess that last at least means hardware demands should probably not have increased too drastically, unless one have simply decided that a significant drop in frame rate is acceptable... :7
Heh, must say the air of finality that comes with the words: "promise fulfiled", jarred me each time they were used; Sounding more like: "We're ticking the "legs" box here: Done, dusted, and never brought to mind again", than: "First step about to be taken - now let's build on this".
Looking at that SRV climbing a snowy slope, I wonder if the ground surface it still rather flat, with some normal maps to go with the textures, or if there could be any chance at all it might have smaller scale geometric detail, tesselation with heightmap offsets, or parallax mapping... (I suppose that is partly the VR player in me speaking again; The flatness is not quite so apparent/annoying without depth perception).
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If Xenobiology replaces CQC in the Systems panel rankings the expansion won't be a complete dead loss!
It won't replace anything. It will be the fifth rank to grind.