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Flashbackjack posted:Chronos and Edge of Nowhere has made me love my rift. No motion sickness in EoN at all. And i finally have the thing fitted right, so i can play for hours now. Chronos surprised the hell out of me with how enjoyable it was. VR or not, it was one of the best games I'd played in years. So atmospheric and stylish, with a fun combat system. I played it the first time and finished in like my 60's or maybe even 70's, but on the next playthrough I got to the end still in my mid 20's. Yeah, home is a nice environment, albeit spartan at the moment with a lot of features desperately needed. Still, the once or twice I tried using SteamVR with my rift it was just a hot mess to navigate or do anything with, and it really made me appreciate home all the more.
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Flashbackjack posted:I went arcane/block type build and im at the final boss (i guess) he is beating the poo poo out of me so im soon in my 50's, Next playthrough im going all agility, it seems like evade is handier than block. Also im having a ton of fun standing up and playing especially the part in the bookcase Yeah my first playthrough i really farted up my build, second time through I went almost pure agility since the best weapons to me ended up being the spear and sickle. I actually rushed through to get the spear before coming back to face the first boss, and got the fast experience perk at 20 so I could really level up fast each time I died.
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Flashbackjack posted:Wait wait, spear and sickle? First boss? I thought i was near the end. So Cyclops is not the end? Man the guy is going to be old as hell when im done with the game. Ahahah, yeah you're not even close to the end, practically the beginning, he's just the very first boss. Chronos is a surprisingly meaty and long game for this early VR period. What I found worked really well was: 1) farming all the monsters every time I died to maximize my levels (though after a point the scrub enemies aren't worth it anymore) 2) once you have the key from the shrunken bookcase adventure you can unlock a door right in the area by the tree, before the elevator to the cyclops area and explore a whole new part of the castle with tougher and more xp giving enemies. This opens up a huge new way to level up each time you die. The other benefit of this is there are more dragon hearts you can get to make the cyclops easier when you finally fight him, and in the first room of this new area of the castle, a dining room, theres a new shield on the wall you can grab. You can keep going further and further down this path to new areas without having to fight the cyclops yet, but I won't spoil more of it. 3) I put the vast bulk of my points into agility, but still blocked 90% of the time. The dodging just got me hit too often, but with a beefier shield you can block almost anything and then just counter. 4) Don't waste any points period, like at all, into arcane until you're like in your 40's or even 50's. When you're young it take a lot of points to level up arcane, but the strength and agility are cheap as chips. Once you get old its really slow and hard to level up any strength or agility, but arcane gets cheaper. Also this is personal preference but I favored the magic that makes you invulnerable briefly. I could have that charged up before fighting a boss (or even a tough room), and when the boss gets to their 3rd stage (they all seem to have 3 stages where they get tougher with more attacks each time) you can really unleash some damage they can't do anything about. 5) Memorize the attack patterns of all the various monsters (duh) 6) Learn to love the spear... the range it gives you is just, oh ho ho so nice. Honestly it sounds like you're making the same mistake I did the first time, I just kept getting my rear end kicked by the first boss over and over and by the time I finally beat him I was in my 50's and since I was an old lady I could now put poo poo all into strength or agility anymore. I would suggest you just restart. You can get back to the point you're at pretty quick, and my second time around I beat that son of a bitch at like age 21, with better equipment and more health potion things. Tom Guycot fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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Lemming posted:You'll also run out of stuff to do really fast. There's no harm in waiting right now, it's not like getting a new CoD ripoff or whatever and having the community die after a few months, there's not much to do and you can see it all in a few weeks, pretty much. If you have a friend with one, try theirs out. I don't know if this is really true. Theres enough stuff out that I'm still waiting to finish several games, and have others I haven't even touched yet. Between Elite, the euro/american truck games, project cars, chronos, pinball fX, adrift, the climb, ethan carter, lucky's tale, farlands, technolust, esper2, herobound, blaze rush, edge of nowhere, and a bunch of games and other smaller experiences I'm forgetting, there's a lot thats kept me busy since I got my headset. Granted I don't play videogames hours and hours per day, but I haven't gotten bored with VR yet, feeling like there's nothing to play/I've played everything.
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Tweak posted:well it is the coolest drat thing, though I've been desperate to own a VR headset since seeing the VFX1 and other first gen PC VR kits in magazines in the mid 90's and it doesn't disappoint 
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Lemming posted:There's stuff to try out but not much that's like super incredible or amazing that you can spend hours and hours in, barring some of the sim stuff. Like I played Lucky's Tale for a while but I'm not going to be loading it up to play regularly or anything. Stuff like Chronos is legit great but is only 10-12 hours most likely, and once you beat it, it's over, and it'll still be there once there's more stuff released. I guess this is where it's more personal on how much you game. I played Chronos for weeks with 2 runs, I only just finished expert on every mountain in the climb, and I've barely had a chance to get into adrift, or ethan carter at all yet. Pinball I'll play often for a quick fix here and there, elite and euro/american truck sim will suck you in, lucky's tail took a while to 100%, and Farlands I'll come back to every few days and play for a little bit too. So far edge of nowhere has grabbed me like mad and I've played like, 4 hours just in one day. Its kept me busy, with a lot of things still unplayed even, for almost 2 months now. All this is the most I've gamed in years as well, so at least personally, I can easily say this ongoing well, thats still not dry for me, has been easily worth the 600 bucks.
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Granite Octopus posted:I'm glad I started following this thread - its made me feel a lot more confident about my Oculus order which is hopefully arriving this week. If you haven't played in VR before you're in for a treat. Euro/American truck sim is one of the most fantastic things in VR. As someone who loves driving long distances in real life, there are times I've been so satisfied and in a trance while driving down a highway at night with some light rain and the radio playing that for just a split second I'll start to reach for the AC vents or radio knobs before my brain clicks in to remind me its fake.
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I just finished Edge of Nowhere and oh man it was great. I could nitpick stuff about it here and there, but it was heart pumping and had my attention from start to finish. I just want more from insomniac now, a sequel or something else set in the same world, because I finished it 15 minutes ago and I want to replay it from the start already. No ones tastes are ever the same, but I still think its a mistake to miss this one if you have a rift.
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StarkRavingMad posted:Oh man, InCell is Yeah, something is seriously warped or hosed up with InCell's rendering. I can barely look at it for 5 minutes.
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Surprise Giraffe posted:How do they pull that off? Maybe you can't give details but for the HMDs currently on the market you'd have put tiny cameras or something in the faceplate to pick up the bits of face that are totally obscured, right? Unless you could sort of extrapolate from the expression on the uncovered portion of the face It could be something along the lines of what oculus was playing around with a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgKkEnaaSDc Theres a camera for the mouth and lower stuff, but they have sensors in the lining of the foam that can read the way the rest of your face moves.
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ShadowMoo posted:That is a lot of sensors and cameras just to track facial expressions. Unlikely to come out anytime soon like that. And having to stay in front of the camera to see the mouth seems like it would be a pain. I could pretty easily envision it for gen 2 though, the sensors built into the foam lining would be easy enough it seems, and if the camera system can be integrated onto the bottom of the HMD, miniaturized as nothing more than a little nub that can see your lower face.
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DrBox posted:Has anyone tried this "Destinations Workshop Tools" on steam? It says it has Rift and gamepad support, but when I run it, SteamVR comes up and then nothing else happens. SteamVR is really janky, it took me several tries to get steamVR to even bring up the menu inside of the launcher since none of the buttons worked. Essentially though what you have to do is launch steamVR first, then from within that bring up you list of games pressing the start or select button (or some combination or something, honestly I had to press enter on my keyboard to finally get it to bring up any menu) and then select destinations. If you try to launch it just from your desktop steam list it doesn't want to work. Edit: That said, destinations was kind of neat, it was cool to walk around on the surface of mars and see the size of the rover. Edit 2: If people want to see some more stuff like that and haven't checked it out already, look up 'sketchfab VR', its on steam and oculus home. They've got some boring stuff in it, but the photogramawhatsit capture they have of several locations are the reason to check it out. They're all really nicely presented. Tom Guycot fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jun 13, 2016 |
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Download it in oculus home. It works perfect from there at least, I never tried the steam version. DrBox posted:In VR-legs related news: I managed to play a full round of Eve Valkyrie for the first time without feeling like I was going to throw up. I still don't feel 100% comfortable but it's getting better. Too bad the game itself is super mediocre. Those menus are terrible. Play the arena combat in Elite Dangerous instead 
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KakerMix posted:It's hilarious to think about Zenimax going 'oh gently caress Oculus' and pushing the first real-deal AAA games for VR with HTC and the Vive. Might have already been a thing because I imagine Valve and Bethesda are real buddy-buddy with how many sales Steam shifts toward them but Carmack jumping ship galvanizing the mood in that direction is totally what is happening, owns. Theres already been games, and games announced from big AAA places like ubisoft, insomniac, EA for VR. I'd argue we've already seen a real deal AAA game in edge of nowhere. Besides I'm sure whatever neat thing Bethesda does in vr its either going to be another small experience, or awkwardly hacked in support to an existing game. I'm as excited as anyone to play it, but lets not pretend Bethesda is making a 50 million dollar VR game to come out next year.
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KakerMix posted:Fallout 4 is a huge deal if it's "Fallout 4 plus VR" done in-house by Bethesda. Edge of Nowhere is probably cool but it is not a AAA game in the sense of sales, exposure and reach of the brand compared to Fallout. Especially Fallout 4. They announced it with "Pip boy on your arm, gun in your hand and dog at your side" along with 'first person' so it's definitely going to be ~the~ VR experience. Whether it is some sort of custom-tailored experience within the Fallout 4 universe or the game + VR remains to be seen but seeing what a studio that has the budget and game design chops (laughable as Bethesda can be) is pretty exciting. The plus side is you can play it on the Oculus too because openVR! Isn't that great? I don't think anyone is a downer, I'd love to play through fallout in VR and I'll buy whatever this is day one if it looks well done, but in the end we're not looking at a game built from the ground up for VR, we're looking at VR support hacked onto a game that came out a year ago. It isn't like hacking in support for VR in something that works straightforward like a driving game, or flight, or space sim either. I'm skeptical of almost anyone bringing an existing game that was developed for 2D with a lineage of gameplay decisions and refinement going back 15 years into VR well. I'm not saying they can't do it, and like I said I'll be first in line to blast people with laser guns and use a pipboy on my wrist, but I'm just relatively cautious.
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Lemming posted:I hope when I jam fistful after fistful of drugs down my gullet in order to become the perfect killing machine my interpretation of the world becomes appropriately hosed Finally! Video games can simulate with perfect accuracy getting drunk to the point of vomiting all over! El Grillo posted:I'd assume they're using the wands and roomscale, but standing is bad for using conventional movement mechanics right? Will be interesting to see what they do, my money's on the touchpad being used as a movement control stick. For what its worth, conventional movement mechanics work wonderfully while standing. I played through technolust, and ethan carter like that and it works really well if you turn your body instead of turning with the controller, and basically just use forward and backwards movement. I had zero discomfort at all and it was a great compromise I thought between sitting and getting a little woozy playing like a traditional FPS, and the limitations and awkwardness of teleporting everywhere. I actually think fallout 4 could be very playable like that, as far as movement goes, and I'd hate to teleport everywhere in a game thats all about wandering and exploring. Tom Guycot fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Jun 13, 2016 |
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Cojawfee posted:I'm pretty excited about Giant Cop and I Expect You to DIe. I played the demo of the latter months ago on DK2 and it was pretty awesome just with a mouse. Also, I was joking when I said that Valve's big VR game would be Ricochet 2, but it looks like that Ripcoil is game is going to be similar. I expect you to die was one of those demos that blew me away, that I couldn't wait to see more of.... until I almost forgot about it through the passage of time, like that vox machine game. Its nice there's enough cool stuff coming out that I can't keep track of all of it anymore. Back in the DK2 days there was basically your handful of demos that everyone knew about. Its really crazy how far all this VR stuff has come in just a few years. wolrah posted:In non-Bethesda news, OSVR announced their version 2.0 headset: https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/13/osvr-hacker-development-kit-2/ I still don't know what their aim is here? Yeah its cheap, but for that cheap you can't use the oculus store without a 3rd party hack that doesn't work for everything and could break, and theres no controllers so you can't play any touch/vive games anyways. On top of that unless they've completely changed up their camera tracking (which who knows they might), It's going to have a tiny DK2 level of tracking so you won't even be able to stand and walk around like you can with the vive/oculus even if stem ever comes out to give you controlers. Like, great that they're making more options available, but it hardly seems like much of an option at all from what I've seen so far from this one and from the first.
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ryan_woody posted:I'm surprised they didn't pimp Dead and Buried harder in this press release. I played it at PAX East and it was a loving blast. In other news, I just got my Rift today and am working through EVE, Lucky's Tale, and Elite Dangerous. I'm considering buying Darknet, Chronos, Airmech Command, Defense Grid, and Keep Talking. Should I pass on any of these? You should look at Edge of nowhere as well, that game along with chronos are two of the best.
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EdEddnEddy posted:I am going to say this, gently caress VR Star Wars Exclusives on a sub par VR Platform. If theres one video game company I truly miss, it's LucasArts. They used to lay nothing but golden egg after golden egg of unique, well done, amazing games. Then the 2000's happened and they became nothing more than a clearing house that slapped star wars labels on any crappy game.
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Cojawfee posted:It looks cool but requiring 4x3 meters kind of kills it for me. Ah, I see they're going for the coveted "Alienating 95.6% of users of an already tiny player base". A smart move!
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KakerMix posted:I just find it hilarious that one of the things that the conspiracy theorists screamed about right when it was announced Facebook was buying Oculus is coming true 100%. It was taken for granted that the If it makes you feel better, giant cop always looked really lovely
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Lemming posted:Yeah it looks sick as hell. I get to be the captain though. You know, i was thinking about it and... what does the captain really do? I'm curious how they'll make him useful as a captain and not just another minigame to play. I mean he can give orders all he wants but if you were playing with a bunch of random people online and the captain sucked, why wouldn't you just listen to the helmsman, or engineer as the weapons officer? The only way I'm thinking it works is if the captain is the only one who has access to all the data, or special data about whats going on that no other station can access so you'll *have* to listen to your captain because he knows things you don't.
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Yeah, thats what I'm hoping they can avoid. I want someone playing as the captain, giving me an order, to actually mean something and not just be fluff that I can ignore to do my own thing. Something like... what was that old FPS mod where like, you could play as different classes and one was the 'commander' or something, and they had an RTS type view of the game so if they gave you an order to move somewhere, it was probably for a good reason and you should follow?
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Lucid Dream posted:Absolutely, I can't speak for everyone but I know how hard it is to make/fund a game so I don't blame the developers one bit. I blame Oculus for giving them an offer that they can't refuse. I think this is all getting a bit melodramatic, they offered a tiny dev a bunch of money to keep the lights on, and let them keep making games in the future no matter how this game performs once it hits. They didn't threatened to put a drill through their kneecaps or something.
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Lucid Dream posted:Absolutely melodramatic, but Oculus is absolutely still making them an offer that they can't/won't refuse regardless of the historical/pop-culture use of the phrase. The Croteam folks mentioned that it was super hard for them to turn down the Oculus money, and they are a big studio with existing popular IP compared to the indies that Oculus is going around and locking down. I don't know, I know its sure annoying as hell when you can't use something for exclusivity reasons, but at the same time its hard for me to see all this as bad, and I'm sure none of the devs do. My brother and a team of friends worked hard for a good while to put out a well done little game on all the mobile platforms (and as of this month on steam too, buy your copy today!!), and like most it didn't really earn them a lot of money. If someone offered them a sack of cash to make it just for one device, they'd all be working on game #2, right now instead of still at their day jobs. So, yeah its hard to really see anything oculus is doing as bad when its helping out developers to keep making the next thing, at the expense of some players not getting to play it for a few months. EDIT: Truga posted:You'd say the same when suddenly half games only worked on a samsung monitor right? Or a radeon GPU? Or, worse, a razer keyboard? Your monitor or keyboard doesn't require it's own unique massively optimized software stack and well designed games just to function, let alone function well and give you a good experience. Tom Guycot fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Jun 14, 2016 |
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Lucid Dream posted:For me at least it is an ideological issue, and my worry about the future of the VR paradigm as a whole. If I could choose between losing out on a few launch-window games in exchange for no exclusives on PC for the remainder of the future of VR... Well it isn't a hard choice. Well, I respect your opinion friend, but thats where we part ways. EDIT: Lucid Dream posted:Edit: Right now we have 3 major VR headset manufacturers, and only one of them is locking out everyone else from their store, which stacks the deck in their favor in a way that manipulates people into buying their headset based on factors other than the quality of the headset itself. Can this really be said with a straight face? Only one? Sony is letting all their psvr games be released cross platform? Tom Guycot fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jun 14, 2016 |
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Cojawfee posted:This is all just some market strategist's idea of how to get a foothold into a market that valve is dominating. They are trying to get people locked into their store. Mostly people who aren't heavily invested in steam. I wouldn't mind so much if they would just let other hardware use their store as well. I don't know if they plan to make money with the next gen rift or not, but I'd figure the real money is in running a storefront. They'd make more money and be the target of less hate if they let vive users use the store. I think the problem is they really really don't want to just have a wrapper for steamVR work with their store. The moment they do that every single cheap horrible Chinese clone manufacturer's stuttering 60hz crap factory that works on steamVR and is coming out in a rush next year, will be able to use the oculus store and at that moment they've lost all quality control. Now, whether this means they actually will work with other quality headset manufacturers to add native OVR support, or they stick to trying to be Apple remains to be seen. Its certainly clear that valve has no intention of letting the vive ever consider native OVR support though, even if oculus (for the sake of argument) wants to. It seems obvious though why they aren't going with the wrapper, and I can't really fault them for wanted to keep an experience thats airtight end to end up. Even personally I try using steamVR and its just finicky and janky and it crashes all the time, games don't load right, and just is a total mess. Compare to home, which while severely lacking in features currently, has been a flawless user experience thats never once crashed, always works and always works perfectly. Maybe steamVR works perfectly with a vive though, but that just reinforces the idea of quality control when you just let a wrapper to something you have no control over run wild. EDIT: Lucid Dream posted:Well I edited that out because I didn't think about Sony when I wrote it, but that doesn't change the fact that Oculus is manipulating people into buying their headset with the threat of missing out on some games, its just that Sony is also doing that Fair enough, it wasn't edited out yet when I quoted it. Tom Guycot fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Jun 14, 2016 |
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EdEddnEddy posted:Well there was the old school Battlezone game (Not the wireframe ones, the Activison Battlezone 1 and 2) which was a good mix of FPS and RTS with some funky AI (especially in 2 unfortunately, though there are some killer mods for that one still). I wish I could remember what game I'm thinking of, it had like aliens vs humans, it was like a class based thing or something that ripped off aliens. The more I picture this star trek game done right, the more excited I get at the idea. And hey, even if its bland, maybe there will be plenty of clones that do it right. How great would it be to have multiplayer battles, crew vs crew, your console exploding into sparks while someone in a red shirt off in the corner falls over dead in a cloud of smoke?
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Tweak posted:i think you're thinking of natural selection Yeah, that looks like the right game, and hey even made a sequel apparently. Thanks!
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Zero VGS posted:They also made a VR-capable game: http://unknownworlds.com/subnautica/ Huh, interesting thats the same folks, I've had subnautica forever (and yeah, its a shame how the performance is in VR). I'm watching a livestream of someone using medium right now and man, thats such an awesome looking piece of software, I can't wait to play around with it.
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monkey posted:I was behind in this thread and expecting a ton of awesome posts about E3 but nope, same old exclusivity BS. :/ Backpack PCs will never catch on because they'll have wireless headsets before long and the number of people between now and then that want to buy a second VR spec computer just to mount in a backpack is minuscule.
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El Grillo posted:Finally got to try the CV1 last night thanks to my brother getting his before me. Goddamn. Farlands was an awesome surprise at launch, its a fun and engrossing little casual game. I'm hopping they do an update when touch launches, and/or have another unannounced touch surprise like farlands was. I'm curious what visual flaws you were seeing in elite, as thats one of that standout games for presenting itself without anything that looks weirdly flat or textured in VR, for me anyways. Also yeah, whether its launched through home, or on its own its still using the oculus software and is exactly the same experience. As far as the fitting and adjustments, I'm surprised how many people miss this, so I don't know if you did, but depending on your eyesight you can slide the headset higher or lower on your face to bring it into focus. It really is slick and lets me get away with not needing my glasses in the headset. I don't know what kind of voodoo lets the lenses work like that, while at the same time having pretty much perfect clarity no matter what direction your eyes are looking. Edit: ^^ I think we'll see something like a gearVR with markerless inside-out tracking and something like those samsung hand controllers before we see any wireless PC headsets. The PC headsets are going to keep pushing resolution and FOV and until that settles down the tech needed to wirelessly transmit that increasing data is going to be a moving target. Or who knows, not me. Tom Guycot fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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El Grillo posted:There's a good piece on Kotaku about the exclusives debacle. Glad to see someone calling Oculus out if only mildly. Yeah it feels that way for me too in supercruise, but as soon as I drop to normal space and theres no perceptible movement of the bodies, they loose that feeling despite nothing graphically changing. I think its just the fact that in real life we'd never have the kind of velocities you get in supercruise against objects that large so we just have no frame of reference and it looks wrong. edit: Actually, when I think of being on mitterand hollow's surface (the moon that orbits so fast it does a rotation in about 30 seconds or something)and have that sense of scale to work off of while looking at the planet it orbits, even with that fast movement the planet still looks enormous like you'd expect. VVVV go to mitterand hollow if you haven't, it should thoroughly impress you regardless of any of this. Tom Guycot fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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TomR posted:In Elite you are literally moving faster than the speed of light by a factor of 100 to 1000 fairly regularly and of course you will never ever get that in real life. There was a game demo/research thing that modeled the effects of moving faster than light and it just looks crazy and doesn't help gameplay at all so I can see why they would leave that out. Honestly ever since the first time i played elite I wished they had done some subtle colour shifting effect at least as you approach C, or something. It always disappoints me when i see the numbers tick through 0.8c 0.9c 0.99c, 1.0c, and theres just nothing.  I want a space game version of breaking the sound barrier in a flight sim.
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