Still reeling from yesterday’s EVE Online F2P announcement? Switch targets to EVE Valkyrie for a moment, then. The spinoff VR title expands to PlayStation VR next month — October 13th, to be precise — and CCP is kicking up some hype with a new dev blog on how the game has been designed to take advantage of the full 360-degree field of view. But players don’t necessarily take advantage of it the way you might think.
“We’ve been staring at 2D screens since the start of our gaming careers. You can’t blame people for forgetting,” CCP’s Andrew Robinson writes. “I remember the initial playtest of our Eve: Valkyrie prototype before we added the missiles. Excited to share and show off the demo, we sat down a few unsuspecting developers at CCP and asked them to give the game a try. We were confident that they would shortly be enthralled in a Deathmatch like they’d never experienced before. Over the short rounds we were really surprised how stationary everyone was, simply facing forward and playing in a traditional way. We immediately knew [mobility] was a skill we needed to teach.”
The studios have a new video out this week starring actress Katee Sackhoff, who voices Valkyrie leader Rán Kavik in the game. Watch below!
