Star Trek Bridge Crew - VR not required, TNG expansion released

PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **Garth** » Tue May 23, 2017 6:41 pm

Cheeky Devlin wrote:I request that you guys either stream or record this game while you play, as I predict hilarity.

Boldy going where no one has gone before..... Over there by the beef burgers.

YES! Do this or I'll ban the gooseberry fool out of all of you.

PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **Lagamorph** » Tue May 23, 2017 7:24 pm

How much does the PS4 capture/stream with PSVR? Will it capture all the microphone input and such?

Lagamorph wrote:How much does the PS4 capture/stream with PSVR? Will it capture all the microphone input and such?

If your streaming direct from the system and as long as everyone has their PS4 set to share their voice on streams then it should.

I'm up for this. I was holding off purchasing due to not wanting to play with the scary wide world, but you guys.... you guys are ok.

PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **Lagamorph** » Tue May 23, 2017 9:30 pm

Well the PS4 version is out on Tuesday, which is also my first day off work for 4 days, so I've got Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to play next week.

I should have a couple of hours on Wednesday evening (6-8 ish).

Might be worth deciding now who takes which positions.

I think we've got,
Captain
Tactical
Helm
Engineering

Right?

I work in the evenings during the week so won't be back until just after 9 at the earliest, sorry.
As I said I'm fine with any station.

PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **mic** » Wed May 24, 2017 11:41 am

This looks great! What's the cost of entry for pc?

I'm genuinely at the point where I'm ready to drop cash on PSVR a Camera and Move controllers. This game has pushed me into "I'm ready for one of these" territory.

But....... It's a lot of money and I can't really justify the expense right now...... hnnnnn

PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **Lagamorph** » Wed May 24, 2017 1:27 pm

mic wrote:This looks great! What's the cost of entry for pc?

Depends what you've already got.

If absolutely nothing, £700-1000 for a PC then another £700-800 for a headset and controllers.

PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **mic** » Wed May 24, 2017 5:02 pm

I've got the pc with a vr ready card... but £7-800 for a headset and controllers? That's outrageous! Is that for occulus? Isn't there a cheapo option?

PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **Lagamorph** » Wed May 24, 2017 6:31 pm

mic wrote:I've got the pc with a vr ready card... but £7-800 for a headset and controllers? That's outrageous! Is that for occulus? Isn't there a cheapo option?

Occulus is the cheapo option.

PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **HSH28** » Wed May 24, 2017 6:42 pm

Lagamorph wrote:
mic wrote:This looks great! What's the cost of entry for pc?

Depends what you've already got.

If absolutely nothing, £700-1000 for a PC then another £700-800 for a headset and controllers.

That's not right, the price has dropped on Oculus, the bundle is now just under £600. Its still expensive, but a little less than it was. Headset on its own is now £500.

EDIT - Vive is £759

PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **mic** » Thu May 25, 2017 12:43 am

I'd better get saving.

This game has so much potential. I've never used modern equipment, but couldn't the game actually work just as well without the vr? Standard FPS controls would allow for looking and even movement around the bridge, with a mouse pointer providing even more precision...? Okay, we wouldn't have all the hand-waving but, especially not having experienced it personally, I can't help feeling this deserves a wider audience.

You could probably say that about most VR titles, but then you're breaking the whole immersion angle. In other games that's less of a factor as you're playing as a game character. The whole point of Bridge Crew is that you are there on the bridge. Without the VR it would lessen the whole experience far more than removing the VR from something like Batman Arkham VR.

Boomerang dispatched this to me today so I should have it Tuesday

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PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **Lagamorph** » Sat May 27, 2017 5:09 pm

My Amazon order still shows as arriving on Tuesday as well.

PostRe: Star Trek Bridge Crew PSVR. by **mic** » Sat May 27, 2017 8:15 pm

You rich BASTARDS! I hate you! Jeremy Corbin will increase your taxes, then I'LL be playing VR, not you!

mic wrote:You rich BASTARDS! I hate you! Jeremy Corbin will increase your taxes, then I'LL be playing VR, not you!

There's a feature of the PSVR that makes it stop working if it detects it's being used by a poor person :roll:

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It doesn't even really like being linked to a normal PS4 but just about accepts it.

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