PSA: VR works in the Odyssey Vanity Cam
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You can't do that! VR is tooooo hard to implement!Here's a vid of some quick messing about with it:
Source: https://youtu.be/n8G2BtCXg7A
It's obviously not meant for outright gameplay, but it's still fun to charge about in. Can operate your basic weapons and tools, throw grenades etc, but without interactions or a target reticule it's not really practical for any of that as such.
With a bit of tinkering with the camera position I'd guess you could probably fudge a form of first person here, for exploration at least. (At points when I was edging around on rooftops checking for scavengers I could almost believe I was doing it in first person. But then my avatar would run into a wall out of sight)
Frame rate was totally comfortable for me, although I was reprojecting obviously at points for sure. Was running it on the standard High defaults at the time (not VR defaults) on this kit:
1080, i7 4790K, 16gb ram
Ach, I’m sure they could totally do third person VR right now (performance aside).
Problem is they don’t want the game to be playable in third person generally. (And I can see why. At minimum it means third person becomes the default view for combat, as seeing round corners is so OP. Suddenly all that first person work gets hardly any use. It’s a poor return on all the dev. A fine indulgence when you’ve got a guaranteed hit like Star Wars: Battlefront or something. Less so when you’re rolling the dice as EDO is.)
I’m fine with the philosophy. A first person view is more 'Elite', more immersive. And would be a ton more fun in a proper VR port
It is kinda tortuous to be able to muck around in VR, but not properly play though, for sure.
But if you’re in a making lemonade frame of mind, it means it’s one less blocker to proper VR Legs down the line. (Or even some backdoor access in the meantime).
The VR certainly works
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Ach, I’m sure they could totally do third person VR right now (performance aside).
Problem is they don’t want the game to be playable in third person generally. (And I can see why. At minimum it means third person becomes the default view for combat, as seeing round corners is so OP. Suddenly all that first person work gets hardly any use. It’s a poor return on all the dev. A fine indulgence when you’ve got a guaranteed hit like Star Wars: Battlefront or something. Less so when you’re rolling the dice as EDO is.)
I’m fine with the philosophy. A first person view is more 'Elite', more immersive. And would be a ton more fun in a proper VR port
It is kinda tortuous to be able to muck around in VR, but not properly play though, for sure.
But if you’re in a making lemonade frame of mind, it means it’s one less blocker to proper VR Legs down the line. (Or even some backdoor access in the meantime).
The VR certainly works
You're completely right. I was being facetious. It's pretty obvious from what folks have cobbled together through experimentation that VR really isn't much of a stretch. Makes me wonder why they are pretty much stonewalling VR.
Another fudged first person vid...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSVNhg7Sapk
Did bring home how clunky it is if set up quickly. I was clipping through hills and such. (And the ship, but that was another matter)
Did bring home how clunky it is if set up quickly. I was clipping through hills and such. (And the ship, but that was another matter
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I've been playing it this way, the experience from 2d to 3d is night and day, this game is incredible in VR, and going back to the 2d theater screen just ruins the immersion.Here's a vid of some quick messing about with it:
Source: https://youtu.be/n8G2BtCXg7A
It's obviously not meant for outright gameplay, but it's still fun to charge about in. Can operate your basic weapons and tools, throw grenades etc, but without interactions or a target reticule it's not really practical for any of that as such.
With a bit of tinkering with the camera position I'd guess you could probably fudge a form of first person here, for exploration at least. (At points when I was edging around on rooftops checking for scavengers I could almost believe I was doing it in first person. But then my avatar would run into a wall out of sight
Frame rate was totally comfortable for me, although I was reprojecting obviously at points for sure. Was running it on the standard High defaults at the time (not VR defaults) on this kit:
1080, i7 4790K, 16gb ram
How to fake a 1st person? I have been played only from the shoulder so far.Another fudged first person vid...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSVNhg7Sapk
Did bring home how clunky it is if set up quickly. I was clipping through hills and such. (And the ship, but that was another matter
Would have been just fine had the camera been orbiting the player character under immediate mouse control (...and the PC turning to camera-relative running direction when moving, but not when still), instead of being fixed position and the character catching up with rotation in little chunks of movement.
Elite is first person, though. :7
Just move in your physical playspace to clip into your avatar - the camera is decoupled. :7
My final Hurrah to the Elite Dangerous Odyssey Alpha, really hoping to see VR sometime soon in Odyssey after release
Check it out at -
Source: https://youtu.be/dGNUU1hpt9c
Check it out at -
Craith
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You need to bind a key to it. In Alpha it couldn't be the same as for ships/SRVs, but I heard that has changed (haven't changed mine yet though)
CTRL+ALT+G removes your HUD, as usual. It also throws a grenade with my keybindings
Cool
Freecam didn’t work in VR in the alpha. I tested the default keybinds in non-VR and they worked fine there. Not sure if it’s a bug or by design.
Thanks, although according to my settings, it is set. I'll have another go soon. Either way, wooooooooooooow guys, Odyssey!!! <3You need to bind a key to it. In Alpha it couldn't be the same as for ships/SRVs, but I heard that has changed (haven't changed mine yet though)
CTRL+ALT+G removes your HUD, as usual. It also throws a grenade with my keybindings
Oh there's a bug report for this by the way:
Yep, when it's good it's good
![[VR]HaywirePhoenix](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/235/235721.jpg?1591611117){kind=avatar}
After seeing these videos, it becomes even more baffling as to why Frontier refuse to just give people the option to play the game the way they want.
Baffling, indeed.
