ED is amazing on the Rift

[cowpoke]

I've been following the rift since it was first announced, tried DK1 at some dev thing ages ago and was immediately sold. The scale of things, the ability to see the glass in your cockpit, easily land your ship, or track an enemy while dogfighting is exactly how you would think it would be.

What I was not expecting is how the ship feels like it's your own so fast. If Frontier wants my micro-transaction dollars, let me put some fuzzy dice and a hulu girl in my space ship cabin.

 

[klumhru]

Heartily agree, the immersion is tremendous. Better than any game I've tried on my DK2.

ED is the proof of concept for VR as far as I'm concerned. There are some issues such as screen door effect that are hardware related and a very poor decision for the UI colour which is design related. The latter can be partially remedied with xml edits, at the cost of color variation, but the former I hope will improve with higher resolution displays in future Oculus products. It is after all, a Development Kit.

 

[Crell]

I moved to playing with a monitor after the dk2 and it was interesting how so many movements had become second nature. I found myself looking around to trigger menus ... Err no that didn't work. What was stranger was how long afterwards I carried on doing it for. I'm back on the dk2 now and I love it. Super sampling works great. Can't wait for the consumer version ( and better monitors)

 

[cowpoke]

Yeah I am dropping some serious dough when the retail rift comes out.

I'm playing with a 360 gamepad and using the in-game gui to drop landing gear and such, something that just feels right with the oculus headset.

The stuff with the color choices + pentile display doesn't bother me, that stuff will get fixed naturally with even a tiny bump in screen resolution. Right now it's like trying to browse the web on an iPhone 1. It wasn't the best experience but it was still amazing you could do it at all.

 

[tinimark]

Yep...we've been spoilt somewhat with ED and rift. I've spent more time playing this than any other game probably in the last 5 years put together. The only downside for me is that it's not easy to give friends or family the same experience. Yeh, they can have a basic fly around but getting them in to a battle is a learning curve when you can't see what your hands are doing.

The second most played game for me is called blazerush. Really well done title that you can hand to your granny and have her crossing the finish line after a few attempts. That's my goto when demoing dk2 to friends and family. Highly recommend checking out the free demo (not playable).

The most startling thing about elite with rift though is it's like some sort of time vortex. You can literally lose hours in there!

 

[Ace Rifter]

Yep...we've been spoilt somewhat with ED and rift. I've spent more time playing this than any other game probably in the last 5 years put together. The only downside for me is that it's not easy to give friends or family the same experience. Yeh, they can have a basic fly around but getting them in to a battle is a learning curve when you can't see what your hands are doing.

The second most played game for me is called blazerush. Really well done title that you can hand to your granny and have her crossing the finish line after a few attempts. That's my goto when demoing dk2 to friends and family. Highly recommend checking out the free demo (not playable).

The most startling thing about elite with rift though is it's like some sort of time vortex. You can literally lose hours in there!

You can enable a second window onto your monitor when in the Rift by checking out the thread https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=43396.

The edit still works with the latest retail version and works extremely well. I took my pc and hotas home for Christmas and took my parents, brother and sister for a rip around in Elite. Took control for a bit with my parents and flew them around a few stars and planets using the monitor to see what they were looking at, kinda felt like a director showing them an incredible movie type experience. Was great to show them such a great visual representation of our galaxy, and just how dense the stars get in the centre.

Showed my parents the BlazeRush demo, but oddly, that actually made them a bit queezy, although were fine in Elite with me flinging past things at the speed of light.

 

[Marikc0]

Except that text resolution (cockpit readouts, etc) is horrible at the moment.

 

[tinimark]

You can enable a second window onto your monitor when in the Rift by checking out the thread https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=43396.

The edit still works with the latest retail version and works extremely well. I took my pc and hotas home for Christmas and took my parents, brother and sister for a rip around in Elite. Took control for a bit with my parents and flew them around a few stars and planets using the monitor to see what they were looking at, kinda felt like a director showing them an incredible movie type experience. Was great to show them such a great visual representation of our galaxy, and just how dense the stars get in the centre.

Showed my parents the BlazeRush demo, but oddly, that actually made them a bit queezy, although were fine in Elite with me flinging past things at the speed of light.

Nice... I will give that a try next time my home is invaded!

marikc0 - I don't have too many problems with text. Two things that help are supersampling and flying the Eagle which has closer gui side panels.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

I've been following the rift since it was first announced, tried DK1 at some dev thing ages ago and was immediately sold. The scale of things, the ability to see the glass in your cockpit, easily land your ship, or track an enemy while dogfighting is exactly how you would think it would be.

What I was not expecting is how the ship feels like it's your own so fast. If Frontier wants my micro-transaction dollars, let me put some fuzzy dice and a hulu girl in my space ship cabin.

indeed. even with its minor limitations, which by the sounds of it are already fixed in Crescent Bay, there is a small subset of games I simply have no interest in playing on a monitor ever again. Elite is top of that list. Why play a game about flying a spaceship on a screen when you can play the game IN your space ship?

The rift is not perfect, but even with a small amount of technical know how, and a few mins of your time, if you have the right PC the limitations of the hardware can be minimised somewhat. Not everyone feels the same, but then it would be dull if we were all alike.