Make scanning systems not take forever and I'll be happy.
*edit, LOL at all the boomers mad at fps elements being added.
*edit, LOL at all the boomers mad at fps elements being added.
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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It’s really that simple: No VR support, no purchase!
For the sake of my mental health, I’ll assume that they simply forgot to add the VR tag at the Steam page.
Under this assumption, I’ll say:
But all of this is meaningless, if FDev drops VR support ...
For the sake of my mental health, I’ll assume that they simply forgot to add the VR tag at the Steam page.
Under this assumption, I’ll say:
- Awesome new planetary surface update! Looks great!
- Yeah! Atmospheric planets! (Even if just lifeless rocks ...)
- Interesting: No mentioning or showing of ship interiors. I’ll stay interested in future dev blogs and more information.
But all of this is meaningless, if FDev drops VR support ...
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It's very pretty.
But it's empty. The mocap is good, the sound is fine, but there's not that much stuff running around. "Oh lookie- a landed ship, let's nod at each other and cut to logo!"
Nothing happens. How many tons of cargo could a person carry, if an SRV can carry a generous TWO?
I want to walk around 3 Billion year old ruins 60000 LY from Sol, for starters.
I want to walk or float around derelict alien space stations/buildings.
I fear what we'll get is walking around EXACTLY what's shown in the teaser, and literally nothing else.
But I'll remain cautiously optimistic that there will be more to it than that...
I want to walk or float around derelict alien space stations/buildings.
I fear what we'll get is walking around EXACTLY what's shown in the teaser, and literally nothing else.
But I'll remain cautiously optimistic that there will be more to it than that...
As much as I'm excited for that, we can already do it in Star Citizen. I'll buy the expansion and give it a go, but it'll take a lot to get me back to Elite over SC. But if you get rid (or better, make it an option) of the Menu Simulator aspect, I'd be tempted 
OK. I'm excited.
Will odessey support VR?
No idea. At this point its all speculation.
But if it doesn't, don't worry, VR players will still be able to play Vanilla and Horizons.
And this bit of info might explain as to why not.
I mean, Frontier's interest is to attract new costumers, not to pander to a portion of its playing community.
Many VR players will drop out of the game if its confirmed, and that is sad.
But chances are that they will gain WAY more players that simply don't care about VR.
Its sad to say, but at this point, with those numbers, VR for gaming is pretty much dead.
Not even Alyx could save it, pretty sure ED wont either.
No idea. At this point its all speculation.
But if it doesn't, don't worry, VR players will still be able to play Vanilla and Horizons.
And this bit of info might explain as to why not.
I mean, Frontier's interest is to attract new costumers, not to pander to a portion of its playing community.
Many VR players will drop out of the game if its confirmed, and that is sad.
But chances are that they will gain WAY more players that simply don't care about VR.
Its sad to say, but at this point, with those numbers, VR for gaming is pretty much dead.
Not even Alyx could save it, pretty sure ED wont either.
Which is fine as long as they don't give you some kind of ship-enhancing reward for anything to do with this expansion. They have not said that will be the case, so it's still possible this will be "fake optional" as the other user put it.
That's the whole issue, in practice Engineering from Horizons is not optional, even though you can play the game without it you will be destroyed outside of solo quickly
FPS doesn't necessarily mean Elite turns into CoD. There are a lot of things that one could do on foot that could be fun but don't involve shooting, for example one could go on EVA to repair damage to your hull, or collect plant samples from a planet. I think a statement from FDev here would be useful.
I think we can't walk around inside ships with this expansion. I hope I'm wrong though. It'll probably be outposts, settlements, hubs and player built bases.
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If looter shooters are what you're into, then yeah you'll probably be happy with Elite Odyssey.
Sick burn bro. >X)
Do you have a source on this?
Looking at this video...
... The ships were bigger then i thought.
Then i got to 2.57 in the video, the asp scout canopy looks huge compared the the planes cockpit windows!
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Will odessey support VR?
No idea. At this point its all speculation.
But if it doesn't, don't worry, VR players will still be able to play Vanilla and Horizons.
And this bit of info might explain as to why not.
I mean, Frontier's interest is to attract new costumers, not to pander to a portion of its playing community.
Many VR players will drop out of the game if its confirmed, and that is sad.
But chances are that they will gain WAY more players that simply don't care about VR.
Its sad to say, but at this point, with those numbers, VR for gaming is pretty much dead.
Not even Alyx could save it, pretty sure ED wont either.
Nonsense, VR adoption rate on Steam just overtook 4k. Loads of new hardware in development too.
And by the way, I'm pretty sure much more than 2% of Elite players have VR.
I suspect they won't say much for a while. They want to see the reaction from the player base (things being said in this thread for instance), and release only minimal information over time.
Interestingly, in VR the cockpits don't feel excessively large, rather spot-on.
@FD
Fool me once - shame on you.
Fool me twice - shame on me.
I've been fooled twice a few times in my 68 years. I really hope it isn't gonna happen again.
Fool me once - shame on you.
Fool me twice - shame on me.
I've been fooled twice a few times in my 68 years. I really hope it isn't gonna happen again.
Good point,
Although I have played this game from the start and I can be cynical of Dev decisions that are made sometimes.
I feel and hope that this may have been the point from a long time ago, look at the detail that went into the crew entrances a while ago they begged to be climbed.
Star Citizen as a concept is phenomenal but as a practicality it Leapt before it Looked
To sum it up, I hope the structure for this has been gradually put into the code in previous updates and the game is ready for it.
If so I will pledge to update my 9 year old home built PC for it. (Some bits are newer e.g SSD)
Regards
Pug
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