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What, Elite: Dangerous? VR would be the only reason for me to go back to it, and me playing it in VR at the time was one of the best VR experienced I've had.

Is that all because they can't make walking in space work in VR? I mean they could say "you need to play normally" when switching to space legs.



I'm a regular Elite VR player, and a more careful wording of the state of VR support would be that there is no VR support for the core feature added by the latest expansion: on-foot gameplay. The existing VR support (in the ship and in the SRV) remains and is currently one of the focus areas for fixes, but when you disembark your ship or SRV you're presented with a floating virtual screen.

There's a vocal minority of the Elite playerbase that want on-foot VR over pretty much every other feature request, but I think they're underestimating how much effort first class on-foot VR support would be to implement and how few of the already small VR playerbase would find fast-paced FPS combat comfortable to play in VR.




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