I'm a part of a larger VR organized gaming group. A couple of us have given this game a shot in VR, and it has so much potential that we're oozing excitement.
But, many of them won't touch the game for a few reasons.
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Piloting air assets is broken
First, there's no way to fix serious control issues with rebinding controllers, and there's serious control issues when piloting any aircraft. Controls are rotated, which completely botches any muscle memory. It's very hard to pilot air assets when left is down, down is right, right is up and up is left. This completely ruins any ability to manually pilot air assets well enough to use in battle.
This is a two in one issue. First, those controls should not be so borked in the first place. Please fix that.
Second, we have no way of rebinding controls. So this and any other or future problems have no work around.
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Missing feature in VR that exists in Pancake: Full Holomap controls
Watching folks play in pancake, there's all kinds of controls for the holomap and perhaps other maps that aren't accessible in VR. We can't measure distance or interact directly with the holomap in any way other than to pan the map.
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Missing feature in VR that exists in Pancake: Gimball Camera Steady Toggle
We can't activate the gimball camera's steady "lock on" option. The only things we can do are move the camera, activate/deactivate the camera, switch or switch through carrier weapons or switch throuhg other weapons groups in the craft. We don't have access to the camera steady toggle.
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These are just issues I've discovered in the first 10 hours, I'm sure there's more. If we could use controls other than the motion controls while in VR, that might even mitigate a couple of these issues.
Additionally, gotta sneak a feature request in here. A large portion of our gaming group uses HOTAS within VR when piloting. Without the ability to switch over to HOTAS it makes it very difficult to make the jump to purchase this game. If the above issues were resolved, more of us would jump on board, but if you also unlocked HOTAS, even more would be down
