EVERSPACE 2 MOUSE OR CONTROLLER PS4

Fast-forward eight months to today and here I am writing this Early Access Preview after spending over 20 hours in the Early Access build of EVERSPACE 2. I had big hopes for the future of the game, and I guess, I was right. Therefore, we decided to look at VR as a separate platform that requires a solid business case to make it worthwhile to support.Back in May 2020, I got to try out EVERSPACE 2 with an Early Access Prototype which offered around 4-6 hours of gameplay and I absolutely loved my time with the Prototype. Last but not least, it would actually be hard to justify to our entire community if we spent a lot of development resources exclusively on a feature for a comparatively small group of players. While on the other hand, quite a lot of VR players miss or have trouble altering graphic settings in games with optional VR support, resulting in negative reviews and complaints about performance issues in VR, which of course hurt overall sales.

On the marketing side of things, we have seen non-VR players who ignore or hesitate to buy games with a VR tag.

EVERSPACE 2 MOUSE OR CONTROLLER PS4

To elaborate a bit further, optimizing for PSVR on a regular PS4 all the way to the brand new Valve Index with its proprietary VR controllers takes even more effort than porting a typical PC game designed for mouse + keyboard input to also run console with proper gamepad controls from last-gen to current-gen and even to the next-gen. However, the technical requirements for VR, as well as significant fragmentation issues and major marketing challenges, have to be factored in. At first sight, that number doesn’t look too shabby.

All we can say is that based on the experience from the predecessor, supporting VR is a ton of work for many reasons (like overhauling the UI, rebalancing the game, optimizing to demanding VR specifications) for a total addressable market of presumably close to 35 million on PC and console. “Now, before some of you ask: We still haven’t decided if we will support VR at some point. Rockfish Games had this to say about VR support back in March 2020, when the game was deep in alpha: How does a developer best avoid complications that arise from implementing VR support? By not supporting it at all. VR support for Everspace was pretty meh at best, and ROCKFISH Games have made it clear they aren’t exactly keen on repeating that experience in the sequel. Everspace 2 does not support VR, and likely never will. If what developer ROCKFISH Games has said on the matter remains true it’s looking like Everspace 2 will not support VR until well after the console launch, and even then it’s a large “maybe”.

The first Everspace had VR support, so fans have asked if Everspace 2 – which recently entered Early Access – will as well.

Everspace 2 mouse or controller