Please Frontier, please just tell us what the intention is for VR gameplay with Odyssey and beyond? I've loved playing this game in VR up through Horizons. Will it continue to be a staple of the Elite Dangerous franchise? Or has the decision been made to scrap it beyond Odyssey? If the plans are to essentially end support for it, then you should let your player-base know. Cut us loose so we can go find or create something else to satisfy our VR spaceship simulator wants and needs.
Can FDev please just give the VR community a solid answer
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I'm not FD... 
But I've been playing ED in VR for four or five years now, and my own view is what we have now is what we are going to have going forward. I'd be very surprised if FPS game-play will get any more VR support - possibly headlook as we have in ships / SRV's, but I doubt even that, I think what we have is all there will be going forward.
But you can still fly your spaceships in VR, and since FD relented and didn't drop that support in Odyssey (which they had originally intended to do), they will probably maintain that level of support going forward (at least for the next few years). That at least would be my hope. But I don't expect VR to get any love whatsoever going forward, which is a shame, but the fact that they wanted to drop support for it completely in Odyssey didn't surprise me unfortunately.
Hopefully performance improvements will benefit VR, even if only indirectly because it it ain't great right now.
But I've been playing ED in VR for four or five years now, and my own view is what we have now is what we are going to have going forward. I'd be very surprised if FPS game-play will get any more VR support - possibly headlook as we have in ships / SRV's, but I doubt even that, I think what we have is all there will be going forward.
But you can still fly your spaceships in VR, and since FD relented and didn't drop that support in Odyssey (which they had originally intended to do), they will probably maintain that level of support going forward (at least for the next few years). That at least would be my hope. But I don't expect VR to get any love whatsoever going forward, which is a shame, but the fact that they wanted to drop support for it completely in Odyssey didn't surprise me unfortunately.
Hopefully performance improvements will benefit VR, even if only indirectly because it it ain't great right now.
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FDev have officially said that they have no plans for further VR development in the future. They have added the caveat that this might not be written in stone and "never say never" but they've cried wolf once too often, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
So with that in mind and repeating the conclusions of the previous post, present support will likely be maintained going forward (although I suspect it'll be of a rescinded priority), but no new VR development will take place - so essentially VR remaining for flight as with Horizons, but nothing added in EDO will be developed to support VR outside of the letterbox hack that was just introduced to trick VR players into buying EDO, by implying there was a future commitment to VR development.
However to add to this, maintaining does not mean that we'll have VR indefinitely. Eventually VR API's will advance and the present implementation will no longer be compatible with newer headsets and/or firmware, but updating the game code would likely constitute development (and certainly effort), so it'll be left to die.
So with that in mind and repeating the conclusions of the previous post, present support will likely be maintained going forward (although I suspect it'll be of a rescinded priority), but no new VR development will take place - so essentially VR remaining for flight as with Horizons, but nothing added in EDO will be developed to support VR outside of the letterbox hack that was just introduced to trick VR players into buying EDO, by implying there was a future commitment to VR development.
However to add to this, maintaining does not mean that we'll have VR indefinitely. Eventually VR API's will advance and the present implementation will no longer be compatible with newer headsets and/or firmware, but updating the game code would likely constitute development (and certainly effort), so it'll be left to die.
A solid answer as opposed to a flat response?
There won't be a solid answer. The closest we got to it would be when they finally admitted there were no further plans for VR development in the future. Everything else was designed to give just enough hope to VR players so they'd go off and buy EDO. As such there's no incentive for FDev to give a solid answer if a vague one keeps sales coming in.
I can't believe you took my joke response and made a serious response to it.
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Well I've been Playing for 6 years now, and was very disappointed to hear that they were not gonna continue in VR, so I started looking for an Alternative, And I found one. Evochron Legacy, Mind you it's not the Graphics of Elite, But it's not bad, And the game play is really good, Mining, Trading, Exploring, Missions, Multi player, Planet Landings. And It's VR. Check it out
There's nothing funny about it. There's still no shortage of those clinging at straws that FDev will offer EDO game play in VR because they left the door ever so slightly open. You might think is obvious that this will never happen to the point that you can joke about it, but that the question was even asked in this thread, in the first place, demonstrates that there's plenty of people who haven't yet gotten the joke.
So... let me get this straight...
Because there is no VR support for on-foot part of the Elite game, you've found worse looking alternative that doesn't have on foot gameplay?
eee.... You can just continue to play Elite without stepping out of the cockpit (or buying Odyssey for that matter), you know.
Yeah but the HUD ... it kills me. I can't even explain why.
Sally has repeatedly said there will be only bugfixes for VR in EDO. But then she's also been clear they aren't working on Ship Interiors, and that Consoles are after optimisation. Lots around here are determined not to listen to things they don't want to hear. Probably Peril Sensitive Ear Muffs or something.
Milim Ear.
It's the reason I'm not a fan of 'jokes' such as the one Agony Aunt made. There's just too many people still clinging to straws who'll see such a 'joke' and use it to further reinforce their delusions.
EDH was supposedly built with VR "from the ground up". EDO saw a new games engine that doesn't appear to cater for VR and so VR support was simply something that was bolted on - and anyone who tried VR in EDO at launch would have realized they didn't even bother to test it. It was clearly a strategic decision in that it was felt that there was no long term future in VR, or at the very least the ROI did not merit the resource investment (added to which there appears to have been a serious 'brain drain' in the company).
If VR reaches a critical mass, in terms of popularity, I'd expect they'll bite the bullet, but even if that does happen, I expect it'll take a few years at the very least and would require more affordable and stable headsets, which in turn probably requires greater competition in that market.
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....or they hear it but find that position objectionable.
Anyone can agree with Frontier's position, voice an opposing view, or simply accept it whether they like it or not.
Talking about "Peril Sensitive Ear Muffs" is just flaming and trying to shutdown a narrative that opposes your own view be that the topic at hand or deviation from Frontier's comms.
I don't think it makes any difference if someone likes it or not and voicing an opposing view isn't going to change what FDev have already stated. Opinion isn't going to change the facts, after all - no matter how much we may sqeeze our eyes shut and wish really, really hard.
Talking about "Peril Sensitive Ear Muffs" is more about those who despite being presented the facts are still clinging desperately to straws - the "oh, but they said 'never say never', so they will eventually update VR!" argument. Shutting that down isn't about trying to shutdown a narrative that opposes your own, but to shutdown a narrative that's frankly delusional.
There comes a time when everyone has to wake up and smell the coffee.
I think we don't need a solid answer. it's not necessary. Feedback on performance is largely enough to make a good opinion.
VR is over for this game. (Except if you like to play with an horrible HMD 0.5
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May be in few years with the RTX 5000 family it will be playable, with a new roadmap for VR... Who knows.
VR is over for this game. (Except if you like to play with an horrible HMD 0.5
)May be in few years with the RTX 5000 family it will be playable, with a new roadmap for VR... Who knows.
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