EVE: Valkyrie allows players to experience the universe of EVE Online in single player and PvP sessions in a greater level of immersion that only VR can provide. One year ago the virtual reality device known as the Oculus Rift launched with an EVE Online spin off, EVE: Valkyrie, though the game later became available on the HTC Vive and PlayStation VR, complete with cross platform play. How game developers can win in the Virtual Reality.Originally released in 2003, EVE Online has proven to be one of the more enduring MMOs, with its number of active subscribers steadily climbing each year as the game continues to improve and evolve with expansions and updates. The Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive and PlayStation VR are heading a new wave of hardware that has the opportunity to influence gaming in meaningful and significant ways.CCP announced today that EVE: Valkyrie will support the PlayStation VR and the HTC Vive later this year. There's really so much more to this deal than just, ' EVE: Valkyrie is bundled with the Oculus Rift,' though. EVE: Valkyrie has the privilege of being that game for the Oculus Rift.
These games showed us the potential VR had to be an amazing gaming experience, but only delivered the wow factor in a few aspects.Confirmation that the EVE Valkyrie game will be arriving on the HTC Vive was made by the official EVE Valkyrie Twitter account explaining that the game would be available sometime during 2016.Its October and still no release date but its suppose to release in 2016 for the Vive. That’s not to say the games weren’t fun, they just caused more excitement about what we could see in VR gaming further down the road then what was in front of us. Having sampled virtually every VR title that was available at events like PAX, most of the games felt like glorified tech demos compared to some of the non VR games that were also in development at the time. Share.When EVE: Valkyrie launched, VR games were still trying to find their stride. Sorry if this is the wrong section to ask these questions in advance.
Today, CCP Games is excited to launch the Winter Update for EVE: Valkyrie. Its October and still no release date but its suppose to release in 2016 for the Vive. Where the hell is EVE Valkyrie. May cant get here fast enough for my Vive.
The best analogy for me is the VR immersion creates a gaming experience that is like how I always wanted After Burner to play when I was a kid, except better because EVE: Valkyrie is about dogfights with spaceships. Most of the criticisms do not stem from the game play being bad, in fact EVE: Valkyrie received praise for its visceral dog fighting action and satisfying game play. Valkyrie was built from the ground up for VR, and does have respectable Metacritic scores (71/100 PlayStation 4, 69/100 PC). EVE.EVE: Valkyrie was among the more impressive titles to debut with the Oculus Rift.
Unlike real life, games will allow us to make fatal mistakes over and over again, granting us do over privileges in hopes that we learn from our mistakes and eventually get it right. The second, more personally entertaining one is that it almost gives the impression of the game being self aware that it is a game. The first is that it adds an element of realism to how he is able to return to the fray after dying repeatedly. The idea of playing a character in a game who is able to remember his death amuses me on two separate levels. While these criticisms may be valid points, EVE: Valkyrie still has the distinction of being one of if not the best title that was available at the launch of the Oculus Rift, and even these criticisms suggest that what we have with EVE: Valkyrie is something good, they just wanted more.In keeping with the heavy emphasis on clones in EVE Online, EVE: Valkyrie also makes heavy use of clones, having the player control a pilot that remembers his previous missions, successes, failures, and most importantly deaths. Player vs player combat was the main attraction, and the limited single player experience was noted in several reviews as a low point.
Because of the quality of EVE: Valkyrie I am looking forward to seeing what CCP Games does with future VR titles. Being in VR is the main selling point for this game, but it succeeds because the developers built EVE: Valkyrie with the fundamentals of making a good game and not just using the VR factor as a gimmick to move units off the shelves. Without there being a plethora of VR games spanning multiple decades to construct a template, EVE: Valkyrie was an impressive title in a relatively new gaming format. The visuals are stunning and the level of immersion through the headset gets you about as close to being in an intergalactic warzone without actually receiving any training from NASA. We would all be horrible people for inflicting endless deaths upon them over and over again.While not perfect, EVE: Valkyrie does feel like a game and not just a moderately entertaining tech demo. If only game characters were self aware and had feelings.
Are there any other focal points that you would like to explore from the EVE universe in VR? The EVE Universe is so vast that the possibilities are endless. Plus, ‘immortal space pirates’ is a very appealing fantasy to convey.EVE: Valkyrie and EVE: Gunjack were both VR games that cover different sides of space combat, dog fighting in spaceships and manning defensive gun turrets respectively. They allowed us the opportunity to resurrect some old EVE characters like Fatal, whilst at the same time giving us the freedom to create our own new narrative of the Valkyrie. A fully fleshed out universe with as much depth, history and backstory as anyone could ever want.The challenge for Valkyrie was to find a fantasy within that rich universe that would be immediately understandable to people with no prior knowledge of EVE, but at the same time would resonate with the EVE Online players.The pirate factions were perfect for this. What are some of the things that had to be taken into consideration when shifting the universe from a living and breathing community of hundreds of thousands of people to a single player and small scale multiplayer experience? The EVE universe provided us with the great backdrop Valkyrie.
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More details on that soon.Do you believe it will be feasible in the near future to have EVE Online crossover into a VR supported MMO? That’s definitely more a question for the Reykjavik team to comment on. We have already released four free updates with more coming soon. The plan is to keep growing and developing Valkyrie along with the game’s community. With CCP poised to break even on the initial thirty-million-dollar internal investment in VR, we have the confidence and momentum to look further into the future with EVE: Valkyrie. The tech the Valkyrie use has been shared and adapted by the Guristas – a fearless, professional and highly-organized pirate faction – so it’s a little more rough around the edges that the tech used by the Corporations.Are there any major expansions planned for EVE: Valkyrie? Yes, definitely. What was the inspiration for this idea? The whole concept of clones is central to the EVE Universe and the Capsuleers.
We still don’t have a standardized input for VR so I imagine there’ll be more advances to get us close to something we’ll consider the best method of interacting within VR. Tough life, right?As VR technology becomes more advanced what are some ways you would like to see it implemented in games? The year ahead is incredibly exciting. Our desks were often buried under cables and cool tech.
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