DO NOT BUY!

The discontinued support for this game.

I purchased this game because I enjoyed it so much on PS4. But since my PSVR headset broke, I decided to play it on PC instead. Saw it was on sale and said what the heck. But the game wouldn't save my bindings for my controller and when I reached out to customer support for help, they simply said they do not support this game any more. Why it is still on Steam, IDK.

THE GAME IS DEAD
It's a mulitplayer focused game, that rarely has multiple players on at the same time.
No updates since 2017.
Steam charts read an average of 3 players online at the same time.
THREE
As in single digits.

It's a damn shame.
The game would have been awesome if it was alive.
The models are detailed, the worlds are fascinating.
You really get the scale of the ships in EVE.

Everything is in place for it to be a great game.
Except that there are no players, so it is nothing.

This game has flaws, and nothing is perfect.
Lets be honest though, really honest.

When it comes to competitive space shooters, the newtonian model is horrendous, that makes the list of games in this ones genre fairly small these days, ED and SC are good at what they do, but they're not combat games.

This one.
This one captures the essence of those late 90s Space Shooters, the FreeSpaces, the XvTs, and combines it with Overwatch style team meta mechanics.
If you want to compete in space, this is where you do it.

Few comments:
MTX complaints are stupid, they have about as much effect on game play as Overwatches.
The VR crowd have a very slight advantage, if you learn to use your radar it's almost insignificant.
If you're not good at this game, it's your own fault, the best pilots in the world, were terrible at it at some point, I watched them all go from rookies to rulers. Dust yourself off, and get back out there.
The concurrent player count is always higher than the steam stats, because this includes PSVR and PS4 and Oculus Rift pilots, they all fly in the same space.

It's a great dog fighting game. However it is made to be played with a controller of some sorts. I wouldn't recommend playing with a keyboard and mouse.

This game does take a bit of getting used to but once you get used to it, it's an overall fun game to hunt down your enemy and blap them in the face. Valkyrie has a good selection of drones. All with their own learning curve, along with learning how to pilot the drones. The ship tree adds a nice touch allowing you upgrade your ship with exp that you get from matches. Be warned most upgrades come at a cost to something, let that be less shield but more rate of fire.

Loot boxes are a nice touch, really no pay to win aspect, other then getting some implants to boost your exp gain in order to upgrade the ships further fast then getting exp from a match.

The map selection and overall game modes are fun. You get put into a lobby and the game mode that you grt each time is different then before. Games can range from 5 minutes to bed 10 minutes depending if you are playing extraction or carrier attack.

All in all I would recommend this game. Just remember that it's not really keyboard and mouse friendly, it is possible but I would recommend a x box controller or really any controller.

Do not buy if you intend to use Oculus Rift Touch or the keyboard. It will not work and the Eve team refuses to help with any support. If you want to play with the advertised features, you need to buy it directly from Oculus.

Hopefully Steam will stop promising features that are not available.

Poor game, ♥♥♥♥ customer service, have to link account to another account to play game, registration glitches, game does not connect to other account, game crashes and just over all looks like a good game but is poor in more ways then one.

DONT BUY

discontinued service for the game. no support and no games but with bots.

Great in VR (on the Vive) and can use multiple joysticks with ease. It recognizes all of my CH Products joysticks, throttle, and pedals.

One drawback is that the flight model is pretty simplified, you don't have six degrees of freedom, and you can't even really control your thrust, you're just always going forward and you can boost and brake. But it makes for a lot of fun, fast battles.

EDIT: Steamcharts shows very little players online at a time, which is true. But it's also important to realize that this is cross-platform including Oculus Rift and PS4. I've had it for about a week so far and haven't had a problem finding a match with at least one other player (the lobbies get filled in with bots, which are pretty decent anyway). Most of the time there's at least 4-5 players in a match at a time. I've mostly played on the weekend and evenings Pacific time so far.

Edit 5/5/2019: Added a gameplay video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9huRxq27_4

I expected better from CCP...
There's good things in EVE: Valkyrie Warzone but also bad things.

The graphics are great, art direction is really good with fantastic space landscapes.
The game offer a good variety in ships selection, there's also a lot of maps which provides great design.
In VR it was a fantastic experience few years ago, it's ok on flat screen too but there's not that whoaah effect.

Before Warzone i also played the original EVE: Valkyrie for like 10 hours, so with this one i have almost 50 hours of playtime in both vr and flat screen.

There is two main problems with EVE: Valkyrie:

1. The gameplay is way too slow for me, there is no real sense of speed, compared to a fast paced game like Strike Vector, it's a letdown.

2. The controls are also too slow, no matter what settings you choose, even at the highest mouse sensitivity it will recquire at least 2 or 3 complete turns with your mouse to do a 360°.
That leads to frustration, chasing your ennemies endlessly in a retarded way.

Anyway as of 30/4/2019 it's still a great game for VR, but i can't recommand it to non-vr players (or get it on sale).
Such a shame CCP abandoned the game long ago because it failed commercialy.

At the time writing this review there was only one afk player online who was farming xp.
So yeah sad but true it's almost completely dead online.
It's still possible to play vs bots but really not interesting tbh.

EVE: Valkyrie could have been a fantastic game, in the end it's just an ok game, too bad CCP had to let it die.
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Short version: the transition from a VR-only game to a non-VR game still needs a lot of work.

While it is admirable that CCP attempted to revamp Eve: Valkyrie to make it more accessible to those who don’t have the gear, the game suffers from an incomplete transition. A gorgeous game, play is still hampered by the original design based on VR – players situational awareness is derived from looking around and that is lost when played on a 2d screen.
Ignoring the frustrating menu issues (a mix of grid and “lazy susan” navigation which don’t work together with a single control scheme, at the moment) which can be addressed short term, the key failing is giving non-VR players the situational awareness required for this sort of game.

Being unable to change from a fixed-forward field of vision, having a HUD that supplies information about what is happening around the player is key. The HUD as currently implemented leaves a lot to be desired.
The “radar” at the moment shows coloured triangles: no distance or relative position indications are anywhere to be found. Designs for a 3D degree radar have been solved over many games over many years so I am at a loss as to why this particular design wasn’t enhanced for 2D screens. As it is, it just takes up screen real-estate and doesn’t provide much in terms of information to the player.

Which leaves the HUD as the primary means the player must identify both friendly and enemy position and bearing and that falls woefully short. The off-screen indicators (triangles at the edge of a circle in the HUD) does provide a direction and even how far behind a player ship is (by the number of triangles used) but does nothing to indicate distance: you could see five enemy fighters are outside of your field of vision, get an idea if they are above or directly behind you, but no indication how far or near they are.

When a ship enters the field of view, they are too easily lost on the screen: the triangle disappears and is replaced by … a dot. Sure, if the ship is close enough you can see the ship but with the various objects and colours in the arena, they can be easily lost.

The third necessity is knowing if and when you are being hit and an attempt is made to use audio cues (although some ships specifically do this silently) to do this. However, the sound design of being hit is indistinguishable in the barrage of tones being played for things like target lock, missile lock, etc and the direction fire is coming from is only indicted by flashing arrows if the ship is off screen. Again, being locked into the forward view prevents the player from doing the shoulder checks that can be done with VR.

The game does have some potential. The variety of games modes are fun, the number and diversity of ships allows players to experiment with different ships and find a playstyle they like and the game does look absolutely gorgeous.

But without the ability to look around using other means besides a full VR rig combined with the lackluster HUD and audio cues the potential for the game (and for keeping a player base) is lost. I will be keeping an eye on what CCP does with EVE: Valkyrie as I do think the issues I have with it are solvable (and in many cases have already been solved in other titles). In the meantime, I’ll just stay in my clone vat.