ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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Thats no VR at launch
Thanks for the update:
Not going to lie, I am a little disappointed at the lack of base building - not so much that it isn't in the next release, but that it isn't on the roadmap at all. It needn't bee anything spectacular or overly complex - but a few prefabricated designs that I can plop down on a planet somewhere would have been cool.
Still very excited about the rest of the announcement though!
Question: With Odyssey are we going to be able to land on a greater variety of planets - and if so, will these planets have atmospheric hazards (heat / strong winds/ volcanic eruptions, etc) ?
Not going to lie, I am a little disappointed at the lack of base building - not so much that it isn't in the next release, but that it isn't on the roadmap at all. It needn't bee anything spectacular or overly complex - but a few prefabricated designs that I can plop down on a planet somewhere would have been cool.
Still very excited about the rest of the announcement though!
Question: With Odyssey are we going to be able to land on a greater variety of planets - and if so, will these planets have atmospheric hazards (heat / strong winds/ volcanic eruptions, etc) ?
@Tim Smith
OK, OK, Tim, can you please tell us, what should we do, to play Odyssey today (tomorrow at the latest)?
Thank you!
OK, OK, Tim, can you please tell us, what should we do, to play Odyssey today (tomorrow at the latest)?
Thank you!
Hey, y'all, please note that the OP says that VR will not be a part of Odyssey at launch. That's a pretty telling qualifier. Given the overhauls the engine is getting, postponing VR inclusion may be unavoidable in order to meet their launch schedule, but I doubt it will be excluded forever.
Thanks for the info Tim. Can you confirm that the walking around part is not VR compatible? Or are you saying VR will be removed form the game completely? The latter will obviously cause some major issues for some. I wouldn't like to be stuck with just CQC for this VR space sim experience.
As long as I can fly down to these planets, or roam around in an SRV, then all good. I'll just switch to big screen for the on foot stuff.
Cheers
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Just like there was only one SRV and non-atmospheric planets at launch for Horizons, how long ago was that now? I'll revisit when and if it happens.
That there'll be no VR at lauch!?
I think New Era was just the term fdev used in recent years when they hadn't settled on a snappy titleOne can certainly interpret it that way, but I wouldn't call it unambiguous. The wording still leaves room to interpret it as the first chapter of New Era. Or even a glimpse of Next Era:
Otherwise it doesn't make much sense to me to call the whole DLC now "Next Era - Elite Dangerous: Odyssey". Looks unnecessarily clumpy to me and also isn't in line with the style of other update titles from the past. At least not for main DLCs that the New Era is certainly meant to be. I'd really like to hear some clarification about it from the devs...
That's the big question for me at the moment.... it has a lot of potential for extra income of ED in the form of even more customization.
Yeah I second that question: Can those os us who use VR still play Horizons in VR if we dont buy Odyssey?
As a VR-only player, I'm actually OK with this, since I've been pretty concerned about how seamless the control scheme and overall experience might be. But it still leaves an associated question-- Will the game seamlessly or automatically toggle to 2D when I want to step out of the ship? Because I still want to fly in VR.
Ozric
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I see what you did there
Thanks very much for the update Tim. It's good to know where we stand.
This is the most important part of the question.
Definately, Myself and my husband wouldn't go back to monitor only and I'm fine with not buying Odyssey. Will the current content still support VR?
I suspect the problem may lie in doing NPC path-finding across procedurally generated terrain (and add in variable gravity and surface grip). Adding hovering skimmers was an easier way out. They probably could get it working so-so with minimal effort, but seeing NPCs getting stuck on a rock or in a hollow or driving off cliffs after a while might get more negative feedback than not having them in there at all.
But I'm 100% with you. Unmanned drones might make logical sense, and be easier to code, but aren't nearly as fun as Mad-Max-esque combat across planetary surfaces.
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