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Does Evochron legacy really support VR? It does not say it on steam but if it does I think I will buy
Any change on Frontier's stance on VR?
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Yes but not officially, so if SteamVR eventually breaks something too hard for him to fix he can dop it without too much hassle, but he recently dropped a small update just for VR stuff which I find amazing.
To run in VR make sure you start SteamVR first and you should get an option to run it in VR when you click start. Might have to go in options the first time and choose... something
(supposed to be working now, not writing in forums, lol).If you get it (and there's a demo that allows you to go thru' the training which is necessary - still in VR), and you like it but don't like the restrictive view, there's a great mod that gives you a much bigger field of view but the virtual monitors don't align well in VR. I edited the gauges.txt to get them a bit better aligned (but still not perfect because I'm impatient). I've been thinking about packaging the entire HUD mod up (picked the best bits from various mods) and uploading them with the gauges.txt somewhere.
Thanks for the info. Sounds like another one to add.to the pile of shame. Whether I get chance to play is debatable but I do like to support Devs who support VR, esp small ones.
I do accept it, as noted above. But simply not as the only possible outcome.
You seem unable to handle this. And there is no point discussing detail when someone is dogmatically wedded to a 'one true theory'.
The situation remains that stating the following as definitive fact is still currently daft:
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Problem with that is you erroneously presume that all outcomes are equally, or comparably, possible. Past evidence unfortunately points to your proposed possibility being distinctly less probable. The idea that all opinions carry the same merit is the backbone of conspiracy theories; everything is theoretically possible, but sometimes after cold analysis you have to conclude that some are too improbable to taken seriously.
As to dogma, I've addressed and rebutted your points, you've ignored mine. I don't think that would make me the one who is dogmatically wedded to a 'one true theory'.
Except that vehicle VR is supported in Odyssey does not imply that support will continue, let alone be expanded upon. That's a logical fallacy.
Where did I do that?
Sure. But it does challenge definitive statements of an end of support.
What do you mean? You think they rip out the code that's working and redo it? For what reason? Seems a waste of dev funds to me.
They said it won't be developed further for the time being. Nothing more - nothing less. You have what you have and keep what you have. Any doomsaying beyond is drama.
You certainly imply it as at no point do you hint at which is more likely. If I am wrong and you accept that future VR support and development, while possible is extremely unlikely, then I can accept that. No argument there.
It doesn't. See below.
I think you misunderstand what I mean by support. When something is supported in software, it does require updating for that support to continue. What we have now is VR which supports current headsets, with current drivers, but this will change and there is no undertaking that these will continue to be supported.
When you get an 'end of support' (or 'end of life') statement from a software provider, they don't rip out the code. They just stop updating it and eventually it stops working.
The question is how soon would that happen. I don't expect future hardware is supposed to work on old software eventually, but that is also down to the hardware manufacturer. Cutting support for new headsets is cost control.
ED marketed to broad an audience to to get good sales. The sales they got down but it's harder and harder to satisfy the broad audience. I wanted a SP experience - I got a gimped MP. VR players see not all aspects get supported in VR.
Oh, I can't see that happening in a hurry. In all honestly, I can see VR users leaving the game long before because of lack of new VR enabled content. The point I was making is that replicating what was already in Horizons is not an indicator of any future intentions on the part of FDev. Certainly it's no proof that any Odyssey content will be VR enabled. That's just wishful thinking.
ED allowed FDev to expand from a small software house that had been bumbiling along for decades to a publically listed company. At the same time I can well understand if they feel the customer base that came to the game is way more trouble than we're worth.
But only a very limited range is officially 'supported' - any 'current' headset working which wasn't listed in a CM post around a year ago is just good fortune.
On that note, has anyone tried using oculus Airlink to play ED? Does it work or do you need to connect with a cable?
Works without any problems for me - but it’s not something that FDev would need to support through software (API - is that the correct acronym?) as it’s something the Oculus software is doing.
Unless Sony or Facebook pay them to invest in vr, I suggest it not going to happen. They got bigger fish to fry.
Facebook isn't going to do anything too exciting contentwise, the social media giant hasn't even been able to fund a decent social VR app. All they do is line up crappy little franchise spinoffs for mobile.
The idea of Sony ponying up some money for PSVR2 support is interesting. A year of exclusivity and howls of pain!
But even if there was money and a small team, holy cow - what an optimization effort. They'd have to seriously downgrade graphics for smooth performance. Or we need 4080s.
The idea of Sony ponying up some money for PSVR2 support is interesting. A year of exclusivity and howls of pain!
But even if there was money and a small team, holy cow - what an optimization effort. They'd have to seriously downgrade graphics for smooth performance. Or we need 4080s.
That was fixed in patch 5, I think. It's working again anyhow.
They need to do that anyway, to get it on last gen consoles, optimise anyway, hope they don't downgrade too much. The biggest problem they have is getting the culling to work which they've still not done yet as it keeps throwing bugs like floating eyeballs up when it's done (Dr Ross stream), so when (if) that gets done the performance jump will be extreme.
Tho' in all honesty I wouldn't rely on them doing anything about on foot VR, we need a player who can knock something up (not VorpX either). The basics are there, built into the game, just need a mod to bring it all together.
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VR will not be developed further.
I am rather curious what the supposed inordinate costly amount of early reads and writes to the z-buffer is all about... Is it just something written very inefficiently/unnecessarily, that could be eliminated, or is it some neat trick that front-loads work, but pays back in the other end? -Maybe something to do with the blending between terrain and other objects..?
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