You can now play Star Trek: Bridge Crew without a VR headset

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If you're a fan of the Star Trek universe, you've probably already heard of Star Trek: Bridge Crew. Released back in May, Bridge Crew brought Star Trek's exciting sci-fi universe into the world of virtual reality, allowing players to take over the bridge of their own spacecraft.

Developed by Ubisoft, Bridge Crew has been met with a "Very Positive" user reception on Steam, despite a few below-average reviews from prominent gaming news outlets. In the game, players must "operate as a crew to make strategic decisions and coordination actions as a Captain, Helm, Tactical or Engineer."

As intriguing as that sounds, there's no denying that the need to own a virtual reality headset has proved to be a significant barrier to entry for many potential players, both in terms of price and often-beefy VR system requirements.

Fortunately for those players, Ubisoft understands these issues and recently updated Bridge Crew to be playable for gamers without VR headsets.

In a Dev Diary YouTube video, the Bridge Crew team explained their decision:

"At its heart, Bridge Crew has always been a social experience. It's about bringing people together to fly a starship and now we've removed one of the barriers to that."

If you want to check out Bridge Crew for yourself, now is the perfect time to do so. The title is currently available for $24.99 as part of Steam's ongoing Winter Sale (ending on January 4). It is normally priced at $49.99.

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[ghostf1re]

This is cool. It's a fun game. I play in VR and I think that's a pretty fun experience. Especially because you can just sit in your chair and play just fine.

 

[IAMTHESTIG]

It sure as hell won't be half as good as it is in VR... but nice that they are throwing a bone to the non-VR folk.

Honestly though, VR is worth it if you like any level of immersion, especially with the prices of first gen headsets coming down. I got the Oculus for $350 and it was absolutely worth it, really the best purchasing decision where I've felt I got my monies worth...

And this whole extreme gaming system requirements thing is a little excessive. It really isn't that much more. If you think about it you are processing two 1080x1200 displays, which in the end is 2160x1200. Not much more than 1920x1200. If you can play newer titles in 1080p at over 60 fps you'll probably be just fine with most all VR games now. I only have a nvidia GTX 780 w/3GB VRAM and haven't had a single performance issue. The more modern graphics games I play are Project Cars 2, Doom VFR, Robo Recall. All run fine with my setup and I'm below their minimum requirements.

 

[mattfrompa]

I appreciate them creating the patch. Enough for me to try it out!