Comment by jbob2000 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jbob2000 | Hacker News Reader

That was a pretty thin article, I gather there's not too much to say at this point.

I used to play Eve heavily, but I no longer play because it is too time consuming alongside a full time job. I'm hoping that Valkyrie will allow me to get back into that universe without the "wait and grind" that is present in Eve Online.

The problem that Valkyrie is going to face is that dogfighting in space gets boring fast. There's a great free-to-play game called Star Conflict that is pretty much Valkyrie, minus the VR stuff, and I had a great time with it for a few weeks. But after the initial "lasers and explosions" excitement wore off and once I got comfortable moving around in 3-space, it became very repetitive.

I really hope Valkyrie has something more than just VR dogfighting because flying in circles, playing the "who-can-get-behind-who-first" game gets old fast.

I really hope Valkyrie has something more than just VR dogfighting because flying in circles, playing the "who-can-get-behind-who-first" game gets old fast.

What made the Descent series so much fun was that it took place in an enclosed environment, with obstacles and other environmental effects to consider.

My ultimate "space sim" would take place in Karl Schroeder's Virga environment, which is a giant air-filled bubble in zero-g. Speed and sight-distance can be realistic, air resistance makes maneuvering fun, and you can have lots of obstacles if desired.

Though I'm hoping that there will be some decent plain old flight simulators coming out with Rift support. That would be a good reason to upgrade my gaming system.

Hardwar was kind of like your "ultimate space sim": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwar_(video_game)

War Thunder has good support for the rift: https://share.oculus.com/app/war-thunder

Considering the physics of EVE: Online, I would be surprised if what you're asking for isn't roughly what EVE: Valkyrie will be.

Due to space-magic in the engines every ship pretty much acts like there is some sort of fluid filling all of space, and EVE is surprisingly non-empty when it comes to obstacles.

A lot of players are very addicted to elite dangerous, even though I personally think it's a very shallow game, some people just love space sims.

Although ED doesn't support the most recent oculus SDK update, 0.7 and it's been 4 months or so I think, so no idea what's so broken they can't update.

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