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Not that it's not a lovely thing for Oculus to do, but couldn't you hock the parts you don't need and only end up out of pocket for the headset anyway?
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NRVNQSR posted:Even out of warranty there's an expectation that you should be able to purchase replacements for individual parts rather than be required to purchase a new bundle - in this case you might hope to be able to purchase a replacement headset without being required to also shell out for replacements for your working controllers and cameras. I don't think there are many countries that have made that into a formal consumer protection yet, though. Didn't this thread go through the exact same thing but with the Vive instead when one dude's wand controller battery crapped out? End result was some wit recommending the goon contract with a factory in China to make a small batch of replacements. Neither company is ideal with warranty or replacement parts.
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Jul 10, 2017 20:17
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Jeff seems to actually like VR, so I'm not sure why they only play the lovely games on Vrodeos. Maybe they are just on a lovely game kick this week, because UPF was all really bad fan suggested games. Or maybe they feel that the most people who are going to watch them are people who don't have VR, and people who don't have VR tend to poo poo on VR. So if they play bad VR games, they are sometimes funny and then people get to poo poo on the games in the comments. They rarely do VRodeos, so it's just lame that they waste them on bad games. As for the warranty thing, that really sucks. That's pretty standard, but they should at the very least offer to repair for a price or offer the ability to just buy the headset by itself. Though their response is something I'd expect from a niche hardware maker, not a multi billion dollar company owned by Facebook. When one of my Fanatec things broke, they offered to repair it but the price was almost as much as just buying a new one.
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Jul 10, 2017 20:18
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Gendal posted:Not going to repost the whole thing here but tldr; if your launch day rift breaks you have to buy a new retail box (which I certainly won't be doing, even with the new price drop) "Out of warranty. It disgusts me that people will let their warrantied broken stuff sit for months without taking any steps. The company is not to blame for you lazy entitled consumers who buy expensive products that they only care about enough to excuse bitching about Daddy Corporate when they just don't give a drat about their expensive poo poo."
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Jul 10, 2017 20:18
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At least you have this exciting Giant Bomb content to look forward to http://jeff.zone/post/162826395426/any-luck-getting-enough-headsets-together-for-a
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Jul 10, 2017 20:21
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Norm and Jeremy at Tested aren't the world's best video game players but they're the only people I've heard speak competently about VR and Jeremy has the good sense to be super excited about Echo Arena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMa0YdjGkpM
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Jul 10, 2017 20:27
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haveblue posted:Not that it's not a lovely thing for Oculus to do, but couldn't you hock the parts you don't need and only end up out of pocket for the headset anyway? That's what he's gonna end up doing, yep. Headset is a decent chunk of it tough for sure.
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Jul 10, 2017 20:36
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Echo Arena is incredible but makes me wish for a bigger space. Things I've punched diving for the disk/taking a shot: Wall, Chair, bookcase, floor. Had to turn the obnoxious walls on and put a square of carpet on the floor to make sure I don't stray. Gorn is great too. Bought it to support the early access but man the control scheme sucks on Touch. I really wish they would let you pick an "Oculus controls" setting to use the grip instead of the triggers, then maybe A and X to walk instead of clicking down the sticks.
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Jul 10, 2017 20:36
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NRVNQSR posted:You must admit that the vast majority of games they show in them are overpriced garbage. But I agree, often the segment doesn't give them enough time to recognise the few that aren't. That's true but it's not an argument in their favour when they show off some shovelware I've never heard of in some of them when there are so many great, polished, full featured games they've never tried.
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haveblue posted:Not that it's not a lovely thing for Oculus to do, but couldn't you hock the parts you don't need and only end up out of pocket for the headset anyway? only issue is that he isn't the only person who will be in this situation, so expect to see the value of non headset peripherals plummet as everyone tries to do this.
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haveblue posted:Not that it's not a lovely thing for Oculus to do, but couldn't you hock the parts you don't need and only end up out of pocket for the headset anyway? The potentially good news is I got a suggestion on reddit to checkout my CC extended warranty, and whadda you know, I am supposedly covered. Never done this before, because again, never had such lovely service but who knows - it might actually work.
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Jul 10, 2017 21:02
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Echo Arena is great but I do sincerely wish the map was more interesting. It's not like Rocket League where you can do a lot of tricks in the arena, you need more physical objects to propel and swing yourself off in order to pull off those cool tricks. Also I kinda wish those pushes were buffed and thrusting nerfed so there'd be more need to push rather than boost.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Echo Arena is great but I do sincerely wish the map was more interesting. It's not like Rocket League where you can do a lot of tricks in the arena, you need more physical objects to propel and swing yourself off in order to pull off those cool tricks. Also I kinda wish those pushes were buffed and thrusting nerfed so there'd be more need to push rather than boost. The other players are the things you propel yourself off of, and there's a technique with pushing off a surface with both hands and releasing with both at the exact same time (works on everything, including the catapult and other players) where you can launch yourself faster than 4m/s Jukes along the surface are also really important, you can fake out an entire enemy team if you're good
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Jul 10, 2017 21:08
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If they wanted to make it real Ender's Game-ey they should give you a grappling hook.
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DrBox posted:If they wanted to make it real Ender's Game-ey they should give you a grappling hook. Did Ender's have a grappling hook? I don't remember that. If they want it to be really Enders you need to be able to shoot your own legs and use them as a shield.
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Jul 10, 2017 21:11
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Lemming posted:The other players are the things you propel yourself off of, and there's a technique with pushing off a surface with both hands and releasing with both at the exact same time (works on everything, including the catapult and other players) where you can launch yourself faster than 4m/s I know, I'd just rather there be some corners and narrow spaces, and generally a longer map. E: I'd kill for a bamboo-forest type location.
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Lemming posted:The other players are the things you propel yourself off of, and there's a technique with pushing off a surface with both hands and releasing with both at the exact same time (works on everything, including the catapult and other players) where you can launch yourself faster than 4m/s Just curious, do you play with the pitch and roll enabled or just the default settings?
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Zaphod42 posted:Did Ender's have a grappling hook? I don't remember that. They tied Bean to a rope and sent him around a star at high speed.
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PerrineClostermann posted:They tied Bean to a rope and sent him around a star at high speed. Ah yeah remember that. That's kinda different but yeah.
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AndrewP posted:Just curious, do you play with the pitch and roll enabled or just the default settings? I enable everything and turn upside down at the start of every round
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wolrah posted:I'm not really happy with my voice recording for a few technical and personal reasons but I threw together a quick edit anyways since seeing that first experience of a new player will hopefully be pretty valuable. Just wanted to say thank you for uploading the video; we went over it with a fairly fine-toothed comb in our morning meeting today. Some of the biggest takeaways for change are: (A) Trying to describe the fireball toss better (again, more of a 'sling' than a 'throw'; trying to figure out the proper wordage for this) (B) Reinforcing the idea that the ice mine should be used more defensively than actively/reactively (C) Increasing the targetable 'area' for warp points (D) Including some fashion of force feedback on a weapon change (like when we auto-set your weapon to be the fireball during the tutorial, etc.) The team is a little split on the 'touch vs. pointer' control; I'm in on the side of pointers but I'm not sure if we'll keep it as it is, make it an optional setting, or what. We'll also make more obvious labeling for the orbs in the menu area - As noted before they're very much meant to be temporary, but now that we see someone playing with them the lack of labeling is a glaring omission on our part. Again, thank you for the upload - If you end up playing again at some point and have any further feedback, please feel free to let me/us know. =D
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Jul 10, 2017 21:35
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Echo Arena open beta was just extended to the 17th, Hail Satan
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Lemming posted:Echo Arena open beta was just extended to the 17th, Hail Satan gently caress yeah I was just downloading this and there was an audible sad trombone sound as I looked at 23% Downloaded with Beta Ends July 10th just to the left 
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Jul 10, 2017 22:33
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PerrineClostermann posted:Should I order from the Oculus website? Or Amazon? Do you have Prime? Free 2-day shipping swung me to use Amazon.
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Lemming posted:Echo Arena open beta was just extended to the 17th, Hail Satan Oh nice that actually gives me time to check out The Unspoken free weekend which was blocked by a store bug. Still can't believe they chose the echo arena beta weekend to do it Gendal posted:The potentially good news is I got a suggestion on reddit to checkout my CC extended warranty, and whadda you know, I am supposedly covered. Never done this before, because again, never had such lovely service but who knows - it might actually work. If it's any consolation I have been continually amazed by the slack credit card companies will pick up for you, definitely try it.
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PerrineClostermann posted:Should I order from the Oculus website? Or Amazon? Depending on your state, Oculus website probably won't charge tax.
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lmao, so while HTC have my totally dead controller and I wait to see whether I need to pay to fix it, I tried to fix an old controller that I replaced after my girlfriend smashed it into something playing gorn. I'd previously sent this controller to HTC once before the tracking broke to fix a broken touchpad click. so I go to open up this controller and what do I find but that last time HTC repaired it they stripped the screws. gently caress htc so hard today.
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PerrineClostermann posted:Should I order from the Oculus website? Or Amazon?
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JazzFlight posted:I went with Best Buy since they include an Eve Valkyrie download with the bundle. Wait, seriously? That sounds like the best option if it's on sale there too
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Jul 10, 2017 23:37
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Cojawfee posted:Does anyone still play Eve Valkyrie? lol
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Cojawfee posted:Does anyone still play Eve Valkyrie? Nobody should.
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I got it free with my Rift and haven't even bothered to install it.
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...Is it bad? I just remember hearing a lot about it and seeing some gameplay footage that looked great.
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Free sounds about right for it, you can play the intro mission which is a bigger spectacle than anything in the main game.
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PerrineClostermann posted:...Is it bad? I just remember hearing a lot about it and seeing some gameplay footage that looked great. It commits the greatest of video game sins It's completely boring and average
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PerrineClostermann posted:...Is it bad? I just remember hearing a lot about it and seeing some gameplay footage that looked great. Pay to win spaceship game with really samey spaceships and no depth at all in gameplay. It blew peoples minds because it looks ok and was a space game. War Thunder looks better and is free. IL2 looks much better and has depth and singleplayer.
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It was lucky that it came out as soon as the Rift dropped because it's one of those "Wow, I'm in VR, this is pretty neat! Uh, now what?" games.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Pay to win spaceship game with really samey spaceships and no depth at all in gameplay. It blew peoples minds because it looks ok and was a space game. War Thunder looks better and is free. IL2 looks much better and has depth and singleplayer. Man, I was extremely uninterested by War Thunder's flight, and no one plays the semi-realistic tank mode in that game. That's disappointing news over EVE Valkyrie, then. I guess I should order off of the Oculus store, then? They won't charge tax, and I think that's the cheapest I'm going to get...
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