Outer Wilds VR mod and Elite Odyssey

[BlackSpaceCowboy]

Sometimes developers worry too much about "motion sickness." My guess is Odyssey won't support VR because they're worried about how people will react to full locomotion with space legs.

Outer Wilds is a game where the developers didn't support VR because they thought the game was not well suited for it because of the zero-G and various disorienting experiences like Black holes. Yet someone created a mod for Outer Wilds and it's one of the best VR games I've played.

The point is devs worry too much about motion sickness. People can adapt and many of us are so adapted we can tolerate almost anything.

Also, there are many comfort options possible like blinders the reduce your FOV when moving.

 

[moogleslam]

Half the VR games in existence have us doing unrealistic things/movements; that's part of what makes them games. If that is a Frontier excuse, that's really disappointing. Countless games have shown that this is a non issue.

 

[aXeL]

Half the VR games in existence have us doing unrealistic things/movements; that's part of what makes them games. If that is a Frontier excuse, that's really disappointing. Countless games have shown that this is a non issue.

I totally agree with you all; I hate it when someone nerfs something to try and protect me from myself. My reaction would be, "Don't tell me what I can or can't cope with, I'll decide that for myself".

...and no more caffeine for me today

 

[Kinky Jalepeno]

Sometimes developers worry too much about "motion sickness." My guess is Odyssey won't support VR because they're worried about how people will react to full locomotion with space legs.

Outer Wilds is a game where the developers didn't support VR because they thought the game was not well suited for it because of the zero-G and various disorienting experiences like Black holes. Yet someone created a mod for Outer Wilds and it's one of the best VR games I've played.

The point is devs worry too much about motion sickness. People can adapt and many of us are so adapted we can tolerate almost anything.

Also, there are many comfort options possible like blinders the reduce your FOV when moving.

I'll buy Outer Wilds without hesitiation if they add official VR support - might look it up anyway with the mod.

But onto the topic at hand.
I'd be happy to enjoy Odyssey in VR without any out of vehicle FPS type of gameplay. Let me go to the new planets etc in my ship/SRV, we could still have perfectly valid missions. Give us everything except the "on foot" experiance, although wandering around inside my ships could be a nice touch but not at all neccessary to get me to buy.

NO VR at all for Odyssey means NO PURCHASE from me.
I have zero interest in this game in pancake mode.