So, did anyone else pre-order an Oculus Rift?

#62

Hey Flavien, seeing you wear glasses, any problem using OR? Also you mentioned getting Valkyrie - how was that in VR?

#63

Itā€™s a bit tight with glasses, but itā€™s okay, you get used to it and it doesnā€™t hurt.

As for Eve: Valkyrie, I must say that game looks amazing in VR ( which is pretty funny because it looks pretty average on your screen due to low-res textures/geometry ). It runs really smoothly too despite me being under the minimum specs ( Radeon 7970 ) and I didnā€™t feel any motion sickness in the hour I played, but I might be a particular case since Iā€™m used to playing 360Ā° in space, hehe. The ā€œmapsā€ are pretty small and repetitive, theyā€™re made of ships/structures, wreckage and asteroids with pretty planet backgrounds and nebulae, but it doesnā€™t feel like thereā€™s much content. Solo seems very limited to tutorial missions ( which are nice but very short ), some free flight and surviving NPC waves. Not exactly very deep. The meat is in the multiplayer; I tried team deathmatch and had a blast, with some good action and fancy special effects. It looked a bit repetitive though, so Iā€™m not sure the game is worth $60 on its own. Immersion in VR is impressive, one of the best and most comfortable experiences Iā€™ve had.

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#64

Hallelujah

#65

Flavien, has your experience with VR led you to reconsider itā€™s importance for Battlescape? The reviews I am seeing from VR in Elite are ecstatic, people will not go back to Elite without VR.

If this implementation is already blowing people away, then I can imagine VR becoming a major gaming demand in the next year. In that case, VR may shift from a ā€œnice to haveā€ for battlescape to something approaching a requirement.

Have you and the team discussed this?

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#66

And for some guys who have no girlfriend :joy:

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#67

The reason we arenā€™t implementing VR right now isnā€™t because we donā€™t like it or donā€™t believe in it, but because we lack resources and have to make hard choices. Therefore no, this isnā€™t changing our stance on VR.

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#68

How long would it take to implement OpenVr into Battlescape in your estimation?
Is time/to few programmers or money the limiting factor? Because I am pretty sure this community could get reddit/r/oculus and reddit/r/vive to pledge at least 10k additional dollar towards a basic OpenVr integration stretchgoal. :stuck_out_tongue: I would at least put another 50$ on top of my current pledge. :smiley:
You mentioned some time ago that real vr support needs custom user interfaces, but I saw a lot of games that just displayed the ingame menus on a flat plane fixed to the cockpit location for example, is this very complicated to do?
Anyway, battlescape is an awesome game even in this early state, I am sure it will do really well without vr, its just that I want both haha.

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#69

Indeed

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#70

I understood the original reason why not, I was wondering if the experience would lead to reprioritization. However, you sound like the answer is no and I completely respect that.

Better to have solid priorities than be constantly changing, IMO.

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#71

I backed FOVE on kickstarter, so I canā€™t really say I have anything physical yet, but they seem to be staying the course pretty well. Anyway, if there is no support in-game for VR, is it still possible to play with a headset? I imagine even if the game does not support it, there are probably some third party applications that could, and with the ā€œleakedā€ specs for the GTX 1080Ti, I feel pretty confident that having one of those would obliterate any issues with rendering enough frames.

Basically, if you have a machine that can just brute force integration through third party software, is there any reason for VR to not be viable?

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#72

Everyone needs to realize that with any 3D set of Glases: like Oculus Rift: You must have the bandwidth and the Horse power for min of 65-70 fps (frames per second)! If not, youā€™d better be a Fighter Jet Pilot with a stomach of STEEL. I would like to pickup the Oculus, or maybe one of the newer (smaller) glasses that are popping up, but due to my Inner Earā€¦well, lets just say I am hopefulā€¦(?) :worried: