Frontier don't even honour their own words!!! (Angry about VR)

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NoVR - What_The_X_F_Dev

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In the VR thread a list of questions were presented giftwrapped with @ tags to the CM's, and not even acknowledged as "we'll pass these along" or whatever, just full on rubber ear mode.

Best damned space sim ever is now about the worst capture the flag (eeeewwwwww) fps ever, its dieing on its rectum (#hello swear filter) and the die hardiest of fans get nailed to the bus lane so multiple busses can drive over them? #swear filter
 

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Alec Turner said:
Subbed and cold beer on standby.
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Hope your wayring safety equipment? Like Volcanoe scientists wayr?
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StuartGT

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Full transcript by TomParkes1993 https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/o0ilo5/_/h1v72uy Source: https://reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/o0ilo5/fdev_there_are_no_plans_to_develop_vr_for_odyssey/h1v72uy


Bruce: "VR is near and dear to the communities heart, we've had a lot of questions and talk around VR recently obviously it was introduced in odyssey sort of in a, well in the on foot state you get the virtual screen up and so you can sort of continue your experience in VR on foot, but not in the fully sort of running around with the headset on state that some people would really like. We've been reading your discussions closely, listening to your suggestions, noting them all down, we do intend to make a bunch of changes based on various bugs and fixes that have come up, but that is as far as it's going to go for the time being, sorry to be the bearer of this news to those who will be disappointed by it, but there are no plans to develop VR for Odyssey further than it's current state, however we will be making some fixes and changes (DSS improvement), but that is the state of VR for Odyssey"

Zac: "Obviously, these things may change in the future, they may not, but as Bruce said that's the current situation. BUT that doesn't mean we aren't going to fix the problems that are currently in VR, (DSS bug)"
 

VR Golgot

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CMDR Quarter-Master said:
they announced there are no future plans for VR.
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What they said was essentially 'no change' to their current stance. Which is:

our VR plans are still as we've stated with full integration a possibility in the future but unconfirmed.
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So VR bug fixes for now, but no plans to go beyond the current 2D screen etc currently. With Zac C following up with:

So obviously these things may change in the future, they may not, but, like as Bruce said, that is the current situation. (source)
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Initial announcement by Bruce here.

EDIT: And now Arthur with this:

With regards to the VR, in terms of there being sort of full VR being implemented into Odyssey as such. There are no plans for it in the works at the moment in time. We're never going to say never. But one thing I don't want to do is string people along, and one thing I don't want you to ever think we're trying to do is say: Oh it's gonna come, it's gonna come.

It's something we'd love to do I'm sure in the future, but it's something there's no plan for in the immediate future. And there isn't a timescale for it. So when I say we're not working on it at the moment, that's true, we're not. There are pressing other things that we want to put into Odyssey, and get right in Odyssey first before we look any further on.
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So no change. No budget for a full VR port currently. Maintenance for ship & SRV VR and the 2D screen only.

No great surprise ¯\(ツ)/¯

(If anyone wants to push for a hacky low/no budget solution for now, you know where the thread is right? ;))
 
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Obsidian Ant

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VR Golgot said:
What they said was essentially 'no change' to their current stance. Which is:



So VR bug fixes for now, but no plans to go beyond the current 2D screen etc currently. With Zac C following up with: "So obviously these things may change in the future, they may not, but, like as Bruce said, that is the current situation."

So no change. No budget for a full VR port currently. Maintenance for ship & SRV VR and the 2D screen only.

No great surprise ¯\(ツ)/¯

(If anyone wants to push for a hacky low/no budget solution for now, you know where the thread is right? ;))
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"our VR plans are still as we've stated with full integration a possibility in the future but unconfirmed."

The problem with this type of statement is:
  • Ship interiors
  • Full atmospheric worlds
  • Panther Clipper
  • Ship combat boarding
  • Full VR Support in Odyssey

They might all happen one day. That's all fine. But that's very different to "Currently, Elite Dangerous: Odyssey will not be VR-compatible at launch." which implies it will come later, but after launch. People will have made their purchase of Odyssey based upon that.
 

Amy Pendergast

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Obsidian Ant said:
"our VR plans are still as we've stated with full integration a possibility in the future but unconfirmed."

The problem with this type of statement is:
  • Ship interiors
  • Full atmospheric worlds
  • Panther Clipper
  • Ship combat boarding
  • Full VR Support in Odyssey

They might all happen one day. That's all fine. But that's very different to "Currently, Elite Dangerous: Odyssey will not be VR-compatible at launch." which implies it will come later, but after launch. People will have made their purchase of Odyssey based upon that.
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It will not happen at all. Hard but realistic.

Edit: I mean even saying, yes but after console, would have been an easy win. They passed that chance so I think it is more or less final.
 
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