Why? Cause of the Wands? I do agree the Index controllers are miles ahead, I bought a pair last year and they were night and day compared to the wands.
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Half-Life 3 Gameplay videos [“Alyx” videos inside]
- Thread starter Chairmanchuck (另一个我)
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Why? Cause of the Wands? I do agree the Index controllers are miles ahead, I bought a pair last year and they were night and day compared to the wands.
These trailers have convinced me investing in VR mainly for this was still a good idea.
Music in that 3rd video was so remiscent of the old days, the combat scenario looked incredible too. It's almost weird to see what basically looks like modern HL2 but with all these new features like gun upgrades and new enemy types.
Think I'll start with locomotion but it has made me feel a bit ill in other games so I can imagine I might move to the shift style.
Music in that 3rd video was so remiscent of the old days, the combat scenario looked incredible too. It's almost weird to see what basically looks like modern HL2 but with all these new features like gun upgrades and new enemy types.
Think I'll start with locomotion but it has made me feel a bit ill in other games so I can imagine I might move to the shift style.
Precisely. If I'm gonna play a new Half-Life game I'd rather play it with a controller that doesn't get in the way. Especially when there's this much interactivity.
The ideal way would be playing in an empty warehouse and physically running around the environments.
Well, it won't be cheap. If you look at the minimum requirements on the Steam page that should get you started. You could probably build a PC for maybe ~$600 (guesstimate), then get a Rift S or Oculus Quest for $400 (if you can find one in stock). You can go cheaper on the VR headset, but you'll start sacrificing pretty important things like quality hand tracking. So you're pretty much looking at a grand for a solid total experience...even then, it will probably take a pretty big hit graphically. If someone was truly interested in buying in for this game from scratch with max cost effectiveness (most bang for your buck), I'd personally recommend building a ~$1000 rig and getting a Rift S. Just know that your PC probably wont be next gen ready.
This looks fantastic. After my initial excitement, I've been playing less VR games lately but HL Alyx looks like the next step in immersion and VR game design and I'll be there day one.
edit: lol, good title change. Would have been a real missed opportunity otherwise.
edit: lol, good title change. Would have been a real missed opportunity otherwise.
Watch all the videos. They each show a different movement option.
As has been pointed out 37 times already lol
It's one of the movement options. The video also features continuous movement after a certain point.
That's how VR footage when someone is playing looks when rendered on a flat screen, if anything they probably had to smooth the footage here to make it look more palatable. It looks perfectly fine when you're playing of course
Yep. I'm thinking the first video should have started with smooth locomotion...or maybe Valve had the extremely unrealistic expectation that people would get through all ~10 minutes of gameplay before complaining about it on forums lol!
The reason for teleportation is that a good portion of people get motion sickness from smooth locomotion in VR. It seems pretty slow paced though so I think smooth will be the way to go for the vast majority.
You guys should really try Lone Echo. Is there a Locomotion option for this game? Teleporting is wack
Not really your fault but with the amount of times it's been asked in this thread I think this image should be attached to the OP.
Teleportation is probably the default, and what I imagine most people (especially those new to VR will play, at least initially), so starting with it seems fair.
Those are some really smooth videos. Probably edited to look good when viewed on a normal screen since I believe VR videos tend to be twitchy and have a lot of nuanced movement.
So, decided to watch them. Wow!
The IGN video was probably the most impressive to me as it is just a chunk of real gameplay (the other videos looked a bit tweaked in comparison with some dialogue changes, careful head movement & steps cut out - for example there no light puzzle on the fabricator in the Valve gameplay clip.) .
The art style and gameplay in all the videos is just great, really can't wait for this. Currently still playing through Walking Dead Saints & Sinners which does a lot of stuff incredibly well but this admittedly does look like another step up with much higher production values.
Anything is possible, but I think it would be really slim chance. I believe that Oculus link is going to be the only way to play on Quest.
Agreed, I don't think people who haven't tried VR realise how disconcerting it is to be moving like a normal game / using a joystick. I have fully acclimatised to it now but it took a few weeks of playing games with such movement.
Default teleportation with options in the menu is 100% the way to go for a game like this that people new to VR could be playing.
The IGN video was probably the most impressive to me as it is just a chunk of real gameplay (the other videos looked a bit tweaked in comparison with some dialogue changes, careful head movement & steps cut out - for example there no light puzzle on the fabricator in the Valve gameplay clip.) .
The art style and gameplay in all the videos is just great, really can't wait for this. Currently still playing through Walking Dead Saints & Sinners which does a lot of stuff incredibly well but this admittedly does look like another step up with much higher production values.
Anything is possible, but I think it would be really slim chance. I believe that Oculus link is going to be the only way to play on Quest.
Agreed, I don't think people who haven't tried VR realise how disconcerting it is to be moving like a normal game / using a joystick. I have fully acclimatised to it now but it took a few weeks of playing games with such movement.
Default teleportation with options in the menu is 100% the way to go for a game like this that people new to VR could be playing.
I'm gonna say zero chance. Ignoring the technical limitations, which are huge, Valve made this game to push PC VR.
I don't have a powerful PC or a VR headset, but this looks like an exceptional title. It's just so good!
This is something the tested guys commented on. Valve put a lot of work into it.
(8:28)
I can't imagine how this would possibly look in order to run on a Quest at the required framerate.
Shift locomotion
Teleport
Thanks for this, but you may wanna add smooth locomotion in there or people reading may think those are the only two options. Keep them Jiffs comin!
This is why Oculus Link rules!
Cant watch yet, has one of them players tried to put on a headcrab? Curious what would happen in vr
Now I'm wondering if the hard hat would give you some protection against headcrabs considering they do for the barnacles.
I don't understand why they use that dumb Myst-style movement in the trailers if it can be toggled to be smooth normal movement in the options. It makes the game look like a collection of chained stale scenes.
Anyone able to speculate on the difference between "Continuous" and "Continuous Hand" locomotion? As seen in the movement settings in the IGN video.
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