New Ace Combat 7, exclusive to PlayStation VR

Mobius 1 · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:58

Hype overload

love me some ace combat goodness!
And in VR. This is going to be amazing to be able to look around the whole cockpit with your head. Especially while flying upside down etc.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/12/5/9854104/ace-combat-7-launch-date-trailer

http://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/ace-combat-7-headed-playstation-4-vr/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/12/06/ace-combat-7-announced-for-ps4-will-support-vr/

No release date yet... Unfortunately.

Screenshots.

Some info from famitsu:

-everything from the trailer was real-time.
-you can pick certain cloud in the sky and fly toward it, and the cloud will be there properly.
-The orbital elevator is the symbol of this title
-The big airship is imaginary ship that fly around and protect the orbital elevator
-PSVR is something that seems to fit the concept of flying freely in the sky, so they decided to implement right away
-development is about 20% done.

iamtheoneneo · 8 Dec 2015 at 14:02

No release date, no footage, no screen shots.
Not excited by CGI trailers

Mobius 1 · 8 Dec 2015 at 14:24

Updated my post with some info from famitsu.

Edit. And screenshots

Nismo · 8 Dec 2015 at 15:42

It will not look like that in VR unless this is for the PlayStation 6...

Still, excited for any fresh VR news

Warbie · 8 Dec 2015 at 15:45

Same. I'm actually more excited about Rez HD. That the PS4 could pull off. Plus it's one of the best games to grace any console ever!

I do like some Ace Combat tho - so will keep an eye on this.

JoeBoi · 8 Dec 2015 at 15:52

It might look like this, just at 5fps and you can only 'play' for 3 minutes before your PS4 overheats.

Nismo · 8 Dec 2015 at 19:21

JoeBoi said:
It might look like this, just at 5fps and you can only 'play' for 3 minutes before your PS4 overheats.

Or you puke up.

msmalls74 · 8 Dec 2015 at 20:14

Seems its PS4 not just PS4VR, sounds like its PS4 only but a lot of PR is worded quite careful and do not always mention other platforms.
More info from Famitsu
-everything from the trailer was real-time.
-you can pick certain cloud in the sky and fly toward it, and the cloud will be there properly.
-The orbital elevator is the symbol of this title
-The big airship is imaginary ship that fly around and protect the orbital elevator
-PSVR is something that seems to fit the concept of flying freely in the sky, so they decided to implement right away
-development is about 20% done.

Mobius 1 · 8 Dec 2015 at 20:38

That famitsu info is in the bottom part of my first post

and indeed. It's for ps4,and you'll be able to play it without VR headset.

msmalls74 · 8 Dec 2015 at 22:08

Tauren said:
That famitsu info is in the bottom part of my first post and indeed. It's for ps4,and you'll be able to play it without VR headset.

Just need a decent flight stick now

neoglow · 9 Dec 2015 at 07:56

Read New Ace Combat 7, got excited.
Read exclusive to Playstation VR, lost excitement.

EDIT:

Tauren said:
That famitsu info is in the bottom part of my first post and indeed. It's for ps4,and you'll be able to play it without VR headset.

Excitement back!

Seanspeed · 9 Dec 2015 at 11:18

JoeBoi said:
It might look like this, just at 5fps and you can only 'play' for 3 minutes before your PS4 overheats.

Nonsense. It will be 60fps minimum and wont overheat the PS4.

Mobius 1 · 9 Dec 2015 at 11:40

ace combat has always run at a constant FPS. im sure they've hit 60 for pretty much every game. i could be wrong though!

Nismo · 9 Dec 2015 at 12:11

It won't look like that in VR at 60FPS

Mobius 1 · 9 Dec 2015 at 12:29

I thought to work VR has to be 60fps? Or am I totally wrong?

Nismo · 9 Dec 2015 at 12:33

Tauren said:
I thought to work VR has to be 60fps? Or am I totally wrong?

Higher the better, ideally around 75-90FPS is recommended by Oculus for the Rift, but 60FPS is absolute minimum really.

Point is the PS4 isn't powerful enough to render two 960 x 1080 images (albeit on the PSVR with a single screen) at such a high framerate with that level of detail unless they do something very clever with frame doubling etc. I can see them dropping the visual effects when using VR mode, a bit like they did on the PS3 with 3D-enabled games, but keeping the full-fat graphics for non-VR gameplay.

JoeBoi · 9 Dec 2015 at 13:27

Seanspeed said:
Nonsense. It will be 60fps minimum and wont overheat the PS4.

Bit ambitious, with those graphic pal.

hyperseven · 9 Dec 2015 at 14:42

JoeBoi said:
Bit ambitious, with those graphic pal.

Wireframe for the win

JoeBoi · 9 Dec 2015 at 14:46

Nismo said:
Higher the better, ideally around 75-90FPS is recommended by Oculus for the Rift, but 60FPS is absolute minimum really.

Point is the PS4 isn't powerful enough to render two 960 x 1080 images (albeit on the PSVR with a single screen) at such a high framerate with that level of detail unless they do something very clever with frame doubling etc. I can see them dropping the visual effects when using VR mode, a bit like they did on the PS3 with 3D-enabled games, but keeping the full-fat graphics for non-VR gameplay.

Out of interest can the rift display those frames above 60?

Nismo · 9 Dec 2015 at 15:44

JoeBoi said:
Out of interest can the rift display those frames above 60?

It's rated to 90Hz I believe, but much higher resolution at 2160×1200 over 2 displays so each eye gets 1920x1200.

The PSVR is actually 90/120Hz, but a single 1080p panel split to give each eye 960x1080. You can talk about re-projection so the image is rendered at 60Hz on the console then re-projected to the eye at 120Hz (presumably for peformance benefits?), but I lose track after that