Everyday brings more and more players to the wonder that is Elite in VR. While just sitting in the cockpit of the ships is impressive we all have our favorite things to do or see in VR. Those things we use to show our friends and family how incredible it is. Add your favorite VR experiences here so that new and veteran players alike can find and enjoy the stunning views that Elite has to offer.
Share your favorite VR views or moments here for others to share and explore. Where to go, what to do, what to see.
Stand Up - It's that simple, just stand up, out of your seat and look around your cockpit. The scale of some of the bridges is incredible, from the fighter jet sized Eagle to the massive Type 9 or Anaconda. Walk around, look at the back of your seat, at the panels behind you. Oh yeah, and try to ignore your headless body, that's a bit creepy.
The SRV - So many great things here, like in your ship stand up and you'll find yourself standing on the planet/moon next to your SRV. Marvel at the scale of a big ship seen from the SRV. Even smaller ships like the Asp Explorer look huge from the SRV with the truly big ships, like the Type 9, looking absolutely massive.
Disable Your HUD - If you've never turned off your HUD give it a try, especially in witch space (frame shift drive). The keystroke is Ctrl+Alt+G (it's not in the bindings menu, you have to use a keyboard or use an app to press that sequence from a button). When you disable the glare of your HUD the view of the stars/galaxy from your cockpit can be incredible. Use this same trick in your SRV, when you're driving and look around having your panels pop open and ruin the view is a pain, with the HUD off you can enjoy the views that much more.
Drive up a mountain - On a low G object, say 0.09 or lower you'll be amazed how far your SRV can drive up a nearly vertical face. While you're driving up turn your HUD off and look behind/beside you, basically down at the ground. The feeling of height and possibly falling is incredible. The only thing that's ever affected my stomach in VR is this. I get my SRV sideways on the mountain so looking left/right is really looking up/down - each time I'd feel like I was going to fall outta my seat.
Use Classified Camera To Go "In" Wrecks - When you go visit a crash, like a big alien crash near Maia switch to the classified camera while your SRV in on top of the ship. If you're close enough to the bridge you can get inside the ship with the camera letting you feel like you're walking around the bridge. Super creepy.
Unknown Probe - If you've never seen an unknown probe and you have VR stop what you're doing and go find one now. Be sure to bring an advanced discovery scanner with you, fly right up to it so it's only a few meters off your canopy and fire off a scan - and wait for the ultra creepy results. Put chills up and down my spine every time.
Big Surface Bases - Next time you're at one of the really large surface bases jump in an SRV and deploy. The size of everything from this perspective is just incredible, you just can't appreciate it from the air.
"Skim" the Rings - When you're heading to a RES for some bounty hunting fly a bit away from the planet so you can come at the site while skimming above the rings for say 1/4 of the size of the rings. You can get rather close, just make sure you're either level or at least not diving so you don't hit the rings and drop from cruise. It'll feel like the rings are a road below you, it's a very cool effect.
Capital Ship Battle - Ah, the best for last. If you haven't seen capital ships battle, at least a video on Youtube, you're missing one of the most incredible sites in all of Elite. It can be rather hard to find Capital ships, they only appear in Conflict Zones where the system is in war state (I think). Do some searching on Reddit and you should be able to find a system where they are likely to drop in. Go to the combat zone and wait, they should appear in less than 5 minutes as I understand. The sight of the huge black cloud with lightening coming out of it, the warning "Capital Class Frame Shift Event Detected" and the discovery scanner-like sound as they slowly appear is incredible. When the music comes up as both ships, Imperial and Federal, go to battle has got to be the coolest thing I've ever seen in VR, period. It's worth the effort to find and see this incredible event, you'll be glad you did. The first time I saw this I sat and watched for over 2 hours as I was just mesmerized (I didn't know how it would end and didn't want to miss anything.
Share your favorite VR views or moments here for others to share and explore. Where to go, what to do, what to see.
Stand Up - It's that simple, just stand up, out of your seat and look around your cockpit. The scale of some of the bridges is incredible, from the fighter jet sized Eagle to the massive Type 9 or Anaconda. Walk around, look at the back of your seat, at the panels behind you. Oh yeah, and try to ignore your headless body, that's a bit creepy.
The SRV - So many great things here, like in your ship stand up and you'll find yourself standing on the planet/moon next to your SRV. Marvel at the scale of a big ship seen from the SRV. Even smaller ships like the Asp Explorer look huge from the SRV with the truly big ships, like the Type 9, looking absolutely massive.
Disable Your HUD - If you've never turned off your HUD give it a try, especially in witch space (frame shift drive). The keystroke is Ctrl+Alt+G (it's not in the bindings menu, you have to use a keyboard or use an app to press that sequence from a button). When you disable the glare of your HUD the view of the stars/galaxy from your cockpit can be incredible. Use this same trick in your SRV, when you're driving and look around having your panels pop open and ruin the view is a pain, with the HUD off you can enjoy the views that much more.
Drive up a mountain - On a low G object, say 0.09 or lower you'll be amazed how far your SRV can drive up a nearly vertical face. While you're driving up turn your HUD off and look behind/beside you, basically down at the ground. The feeling of height and possibly falling is incredible. The only thing that's ever affected my stomach in VR is this. I get my SRV sideways on the mountain so looking left/right is really looking up/down - each time I'd feel like I was going to fall outta my seat.
Use Classified Camera To Go "In" Wrecks - When you go visit a crash, like a big alien crash near Maia switch to the classified camera while your SRV in on top of the ship. If you're close enough to the bridge you can get inside the ship with the camera letting you feel like you're walking around the bridge. Super creepy.
Unknown Probe - If you've never seen an unknown probe and you have VR stop what you're doing and go find one now. Be sure to bring an advanced discovery scanner with you, fly right up to it so it's only a few meters off your canopy and fire off a scan - and wait for the ultra creepy results. Put chills up and down my spine every time.
Big Surface Bases - Next time you're at one of the really large surface bases jump in an SRV and deploy. The size of everything from this perspective is just incredible, you just can't appreciate it from the air.
"Skim" the Rings - When you're heading to a RES for some bounty hunting fly a bit away from the planet so you can come at the site while skimming above the rings for say 1/4 of the size of the rings. You can get rather close, just make sure you're either level or at least not diving so you don't hit the rings and drop from cruise. It'll feel like the rings are a road below you, it's a very cool effect.
Capital Ship Battle - Ah, the best for last. If you haven't seen capital ships battle, at least a video on Youtube, you're missing one of the most incredible sites in all of Elite. It can be rather hard to find Capital ships, they only appear in Conflict Zones where the system is in war state (I think). Do some searching on Reddit and you should be able to find a system where they are likely to drop in. Go to the combat zone and wait, they should appear in less than 5 minutes as I understand. The sight of the huge black cloud with lightening coming out of it, the warning "Capital Class Frame Shift Event Detected" and the discovery scanner-like sound as they slowly appear is incredible. When the music comes up as both ships, Imperial and Federal, go to battle has got to be the coolest thing I've ever seen in VR, period. It's worth the effort to find and see this incredible event, you'll be glad you did. The first time I saw this I sat and watched for over 2 hours as I was just mesmerized (I didn't know how it would end and didn't want to miss anything.
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