#EVE VALKYRIE REVIEW FOR FREE#

ThereвЂ™s still no word on when the Oculus Rift will be released for consumers, but EVE: ValkyrieВ seems to have established itself as the gold-standard for showing off what the hardware can do.

Much like the Latency Tester, these guidelines are meant to ensure that gamers can enjoy a consistently polished experience once VR content becomes accessible to a wider audience. In short, itвЂ™s a standardized set of suggested rules that are aimed at helping developers as they take their first steps toward creating virtual reality content. The Best Practices Guide is simpler to explain. The Latency Tester, in turn, enables developers to take a quantitative measure of this blurring effect. This is a huge contributor to the dizziness/nausea that many feel when spending time in VR. In simple terms, if the latency of the RiftвЂ™s head-tracking is too high, you get a distinct blurring effect as the in-game image attempts to catch up with itself when you move your head. Latency is a big stumbling block that must be overcome before products like the Oculus Rift can come to market. Confirmation from Oculus of the publishing deal is also joined by more developer-centric news, specifically the release of a Latency Tester and a Best Practices Guide for VR development. The showвЂ™s theme вЂ“ вЂњthe new golden age of gamingвЂќ вЂ“ fits right in alongside the in-development VR headset, which promises to shake up the way many of us think about games in the coming years. The news was announced as part of CCPвЂ™s joint presence with Oculus VR at the 2014 D.I.C.E. ItвЂ™s not a tremendous surprise, given the groundswell of excitement thatвЂ™s built around the game once known as EVE-VR.В ThereвЂ™s still no release date, for either the consumer headset or the game, but CCPвЂ™s Newcastle studio is working full-time on turning Valkyrie into more than the tech demo it was born as.

Oculus VR has struck a co-publishing deal with EVE OnlineВ and Dust 514В developer CCP Games that means lots of different things, but most notable for gamers is the fact thatВ space dogfighting sim EVE: Valkyrie is now confirmed as an Oculus Rift exclusive. For a $60 game with microtransactions, feeling outgunned by people who pay more to progress faster doesnвЂ™t sit very well. So when someone has a hard-hitting ship unlocked you really see it in the after-action numbers. The ability to knock out an opponent quickly by taking them by surprise before they can evade racks up kills faster than anything else. ItвЂ™s annoying, because even though most unlockable ships seem to be simply redistributing the same number of points through their stat values, I find increased firepower to be a huge advantage.

#EVE VALKYRIE REVIEW FOR FREE#

The whole process feels like something out of a grindy free-to-play game, presumably trying to squeeze some microtransaction cash out of all the Oculus Rift pre-order customers who got Valkyrie for free with their headsets, which made up the majority of players until the PlayStation VR came along. ThatвЂ™s even using вЂњimplantsвЂќ that boost your XP gain temporarily, which can be purchased with earned in-game currency or with real money. The problem is that progression through the unlocks is frustratingly slow. вЂњThere are a lot of ship varieties to unlock, each with different stats and different weapon loadouts, so thereвЂ™s lots of interesting combat potential.

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