Oh yeah, agreed, it's explicitly been said that VR will still work for base and horizons.
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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It's news to me that I can still play the macOS client, base game or otherwise.
If I were a cynic, I'd suggest they can't release VR for Odyssey unless it works on PS5 as well.
Are there any mixed mode games on PS4?
Arf, sincerely thank you.
I think you're just what the community team needed. It feels like you have asked more questions and have said more to us than most of the others in team and it really feels like you're listening.
You're very much appreciated right now, by me at least.
Thanks!
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I'm pretty sure when they mean Odyssey, they mean the Odyssey client, not just the very specific parts of Odyssey that's new. So in the launcher, you will have Elite Dangerous, which is VR compatible, ED Horizons which is VR compatible and ED Odyssey which is not VR compatible.
I very much doubt they will make parts of the ED Odyssey client VR compatible, that's just going to confuse things. It's got to be either all compatible or not at all.
Excuse me, where was it written or shown that the astronauts in the Odyssey would be in first person? Could it be just a side view ?
Irrelevant. As they have said, Base game and horizons are VR compatible. Odyssey isn't. That is the client that they are talking about.
They won't be selling an expansion that has partial VR compatibility. It either has to be all VR or not at all. To do otherwise would be foolish.
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Whilst I would love the full shebang in VR you are still ignoring a big gap in the middle. I could tolerate all in ship stuff Inc the new planets in SRVs with the game then swapping to big screen mode when you get out of your ship.
Mechanically that covers all bases with a view to then improving the feet features in VR if they can later. The no compromise, we do it perfect or we don't do it at all is a great sound bite but has NEVER been a feature of elite.
It sounds hollow to me just like lacking certain eye candy feature because it's not realistic and them implementing engineers as wizards with lasers of healing , and magic pockets to store lumps of iron and sulphur whichbfornsome reason you can't buy.
Not having a pop at Arthur or anyone else individually.... But I just don't think the no compromise comment is true.
PS in vehicle VR and out of vehicle bigscreen 2D WOULD still be full VR in my view even if some of that in VR content more of how vr is with the Xbox 1
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I didn't read this entire thread,sorry, but was there mention of hardware requirements? Are PC owners going to have to upgrade to play?
Thank you for your comments and updates @Arthur Tolmie
Well, thank you for being forthright in wanting to put our views and questions to the developers- the last two years have suffered from a lot of inconsistent communication and its great to see a pro-active stance again. I know you can only relay what you are told, but (for a better way to put it) its nice to have someone willing to ask and keep on asking.
I think PCs that work well with Basic ED and Horizon will be good for Odyssey.
Odyssey will be available for the current consoles, so it will probably be good for the current PCs.
That's why I've asked for a Horizons Plus Client for VR users that own both horizons and Odyssey. The horizons plus client will allow you to land and drive around on the planets from both expansions in VR. If you want to do the legs part, you would have to log into the Odyssey client.
Big screen maybe problematic. Does Oculus have an equivalent, if not, then I doubt they will go down that route.
Personally I would happily pay for a proper all inclusive VR version of all parts of the game.
I think PCs that work well with Basic ED and Horizon will be good for Odyssey.
Odyssey will be available for the current consoles, so it will probably be good for the current PCs.
I'm actually sad about this - kinda wish they were forcing an upgrade, would mean the tech had advanced in terms of graphics.
Or... actually... it could just mean it's poorly optimised - I doubt that though, FD have lways been very good with presentation
I think PCs that work well with Basic ED and Horizon will be good for Odyssey.
Odyssey will be available for the current consoles, so it will probably be good for the current PCs.
Hmm, good points.
On the one hand, it would be good to keep my current config without having to splash the cash on new components... but then again, with 10tth gen i9's like the 10900K, the Ryzen 3990X and the upcoming RTX3080ti, it would be great to see ED's next iteration make use of the tech.
Thanks for this Arf!
Does the above mean that there is some active skunkwork experimentation going on? Or just more discussion of options?
Cheers,
Gol
It means my fellow dog is trapped between his internal and external clients.
@Arthur Tolmie: Pre-pandemic, it was common for corporate to roll out changes, have the changes melt every network switch in the building, and have IT management telling the employees watching the fire in the parking lot that the desktop techs were to blame.
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@Arthur Tolmie : Tell the firefighters that many of the users have left for the day, because no one knows when the network will be back up... 
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