There’s a levelling up and ship upgrade system, which through play allows you to tinker with your load outs. The Oculus Rift store rates Valkyrie’s comfort level as ‘Intense’ for a very good reason.īut for all the depth in design Valkyrie remains a fairly shallow experience. Hull integrity can be boosted by picking up floating armour packs-I did say it was an arcade experience-which glow tell tale green against the backdrop of explosions and general space chaos ensuing around them. Enemy ships leave a very clear red tail behind them, much more so than would normally be found in your typical dog-fighter, just to make it that little bit easier to crane your view in their direction. When it comes to the world outside of your cockpit there are further appreciable design tweaks to enable or reinforce your probably soon-to-be aching neck’s influence on proceedings. Having sunk hundreds of hours into both of those aforementioned games, I invariably found myself looking around my Valkyrie cockpit and wishing I could interact with the myriad levers, buttons and flashing doo-dads that fill the space. Those of us weaned on the likes of Elite: Dangerous or prior to that, Freespace, will find their cockpit stripped back and built for shorter, shallower, yet more bombastic combat experiences. Valkyrie, by its nature, is an arcade experience. I couldn’t get my Dad into bowling on the Wii yet here he was happily downing spaceships in an Eve game. I even tested it on some non-gaming relatives-it’s easier to show people what the Rift is than to explain why there is now a mountain of cables and hardware taking over your living room-and it had them gasping, cooing and ahhing. The thrill of having the Kill indicator popping up in front of your face as you wheel away from a hard-earned barrage of death ‘splosions to your rear is something everyone can appreciate. It’s intensely satisfying stuff, and the sort of videogame joy that’s immediate and clear. Hear the beeping indicator alerting you of a lock-on, and then release your left trigger to let loose the payload.
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Get yourself in a prime position, free of nearby debris and with an open view of your quarry. The longer you’re able to keep a bad ‘un in view, the more of your missiles you can unload on them at once. Pressing left trigger then eyeballing foes and following their trajectory up, down, and all around allows time for your missiles to achieve lock-on. Missiles meanwhile are where all that VR innovation suddenly becomes a much more active ingredient.
Lasers fire straight forward, requiring active tailing of foes and proper positional awareness in order to fire just ahead of them in time-honoured flight-fighting fashion. Holding a gamepad in your hand and using the sticks to control the pitch and yaw of your vessel is a breeze, while your weapon systems are tied to the two triggers. The most immediately arresting, and perhaps surprising thing about all this, especially considering its foundation in the famously complex Eve Online universe, is just how intuitive it all is. It’s proper gasp-out-loud stuff, seeing enemy ships zoom past and being able to follow them with real life head turns as they go.
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