Places I must Visit in VR?

Oztig

Oztig
Morning All,

II bought a Rift S last year, and had a quick few weeks playing ED with it - it looked fantastic - I then for one reason or another have had 6 months away from ED.
I'm now back, but it would appear I parked my ship out in the Vela Ultima Complex - and all I'm seeing are the same planets / features etc - not found anything interesting.

So the question is - Can anyone recommend a few places that are a 'must see' in VR?

I'm happy to go anywhere / start again or perhaps even get a second account if that would expedite things.

Cheers,
Nick
 

Craith

Volunteer Moderator
Craith
  • Thargoid Installations
  • Guardian Beacons
  • Guardian Installations
  • Guardian Ruins
  • Capital Shipyards - use a small ship
  • Icy Rings
  • the big circle cities on planets, bring a small ship and an SRV
  • Engineer locations (careful in Deciat)
 

VR micmacmoc

VR micmacmoc
Adding to this..I really like the mining in VR, the one where you blow the asteroid up, great fun getting it just right. Use the miners tool online to find a triple area of Low temp diamonds, profitable too!

CQC! In VR CQC is crazy fun, accept you are going to be beaten at first, you soon begin to learn the way around, great fun!
 

Oztig

Oztig
Thanks for the suggestions - I'm a kickstarter player, and have tonnes of hours clocked up, but haven't done any of the things mentioned above - Well not in VR anyway - just been cruising around the galaxy mostly.

Think I'll fire up the ship now, and go and visit a few of these places - It'll also test out my VR settings, which I'm not sure I've got right yet.

Cheers
 

Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
Planetary POIs can also be rather stunning in VR. A couple days ago, I had landed on on a volcanically active moon in the hopes of catching an eclipse. Missed the eclipse, but the POI was mostly in shadow. The combination of outgassing, glowing magma, the beams of light from my ship and a SRV, and how the light of the star illuminated a distant ridge conspired to create a rather surreal, but very transient, experience.
 

Arioch

Arioch
In addition to the earlier suggestions - if you’re ever out at Colonia, there is a nearby system that has a dockable megaship sat in a planetary ring, looks very cool when the rocks are casting shadows through the dust as well as the megaship’s shadow on the rocks. It also happened to be the first time I’ve seen my own ship’s shadow-shaft in the ring dust.

Mitterand’s Hollow is a whoops-input-error speedy moon that is quite bizarre when SRVing around, and worth checking out.


Darkfyre99 said:
Planetary POIs can also be rather stunning in VR. A couple days ago, I had landed on on a volcanically active moon in the hopes of catching an eclipse. Missed the eclipse, but the POI was mostly in shadow. The combination of outgassing, glowing magma, the beams of light from my ship and a SRV, and how the light of the star illuminated a distant ridge conspired to create a rather surreal, but very transient, experience.
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Enceladus in Sol does this outgassing really well when in Saturn’s shadow, the entire moon gets a tenuous atmosphere. It’s how I imagine driving around Mars-likes could be.

Edit: an old vid of mine of a similar place in Shin Dez
Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pH_GQF85TJ8
Also, using the camera suite as a sort of impromptu EVA can be quite fun in VR
 
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Craith

Volunteer Moderator
Craith
Sunrise/Sunset is also a special time, make sure to set the shadows to Ultra (if you can), they make a huge difference. I prefer using the frame interpolation thing to reducing shadows, they add to the depths experience imo.
 

VR Mr Teatime

VR Mr Teatime
I would add "the Armstrong challenge" - find a suitably scenic spot on a planet (e.g. cliffs on a rocky world or high metal) - get in your SRV - in real life stand up and take that small step out of your SRV - soak up the atmosphere (or lack of it). Landable planets around gas giants and with their own ring systems are also excellent for this.
 

Oztig

Oztig
These are all great suggestions, keep them coming :)

I've just done my first 20 jumps, got 45 to go before I reach a Guardian site, looking forward to that.
I'd forgotten just how good this games is in VR!
Only thing lacking is a virtual keyboard - Oh, and how the hell do you use the Starmap in VR - tried to click on something with the mouse, but that was a none-starter.

Cheers
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
nickp said:
Oh, and how the hell do you use the Starmap in VR - tried to click on something with the mouse, but that was a none-starter.
Cheers
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You need to bind the nav and sys map controls to your HOTAS (I'm assuming you use one on VR). In VR you are 'in' these maps, not so much looking at them.

You should have a small circle that you can move around - I use my stick to move up, down, left and right and a hat to move forward and backward, another hat to zoom in and out - and when the circle snaps to a star / system then the info box should appear and you can select it, set a route to it and so on.
 

Oztig

Oztig
Faded Glory said:
You need to bind the nav and sys map controls to your HOTAS (I'm assuming you use one on VR). In VR you are 'in' these maps, not so much looking at them.

You should have a small circle that you can move around - I use my stick to move up, down, left and right and a hat to move forward and backward, another hat to zoom in and out - and when the circle snaps to a star / system then the info box should appear and you can select it, set a route to it and so on.
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Cheers,

that seems to work - up to now I've just typed in the name of where I want to go (In VR). I'm still having a few issues targetting exactly the star I want, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it again.
 

Oztig

Oztig
nickp said:
These are all great suggestions, keep them coming :)

I've just done my first 20 jumps, got 45 to go before I reach a Guardian site, looking forward to that.
I'd forgotten just how good this games is in VR!
Only thing lacking is a virtual keyboard - Oh, and how the hell do you use the Starmap in VR - tried to click on something with the mouse, but that was a none-starter.

Cheers
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Hmm - looks like I got my mapping wrong - I'm still 143 jumps away from a Guardian site, and 17,000ly from a station - Damn !!
 

Sysmon

Sysmon
Having recently moved back to VR from a summer in flatspace, I would like to add combat in pretty much any hi res site to the list of must-do VR experiences.

:D S
 

Oztig

Oztig
Sysmon said:
Having recently moved back to VR from a summer in flatspace, I would like to add combat in pretty much any hi res site to the list of must-do VR experiences.

:D S
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Thanks to everyone for the suggestions - looks like we may all have more time to spend at home and try some of these out.
Real life keeps getting in the way - but I've almost made it back to a guardian site - I should then only be about 13000ly from human habitation, so shouldn't take too long before I can try out a lot of the suggestions.

Keep safe everyone,

Cheers,
Nick
 
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