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Half-Life: Alyx Announced
- Thread starter Nzyme32
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You'll see a lot of people who never play VR comment on this when watching someone else play. Lots assume it's the game or VR's fault when it's just the micro movements of our head.
While what u say is likely to be true, it is an assumption, Where as the "50 devs, for 4yrs" is somthing from the horses mouth.
we got confirmation from many of the developers at Valve that they got pulled into development on this in some way in the past year.
maybe that only did get up to 50, I could totally see a team of 50 talented, well rested, happy developers creating a 12-16 hour game like this in 4.5 years.
No, and it's never going to happen. Quest is too weak and doesn't support Steam VR without connecting it to a PC.
Crossing my fingers that this gets a release on PSVR when the PS5 launches. I can see this being shown whenever they officially announce PSVR2.
Yeah I was actually going to comment earlier that they did some good "cheating" in there to avoid typical pitfalls with VR trailers. The hand 'acting' stuck out as working well too, when they were bracing themselves on walls and tables the way you wouldn't in actual VR. Really helped sell the experience and smooth over the typical jank you see when you're watching VR instead of using it. It's like if Ubisoft/EA party dialogue during press conferences was good.
Other's have answered but to be very clear.
It literally can't happen. The quest isn't powerful enough.
it would be like asking someone to port Cyberpunk 2077 to the switch at max settings.
It needs a dedicated PC to be able to properly run it and we are likely at least 3 years away from it being able to run on something like the quest and that is only if they figure out eye tracking and make a new version of it optimized for eye tracking and even then it might be a few more years before mobile tech is there to support it.
no chance it releases at the ps5 at launch unless there are new controllers for the VR as well. There's no chance the move controllers can handle a game like this.
odds are it will be one of the launch titles with PSVR2 though.
Reinstalled Episode 2 there due to the hype. Forgotten how good the soundtrack was.
You think in that second image the player is going to fly around in that space in a jet pack? It's just a skyline shot
Valve is in "'all hands on deck mode" for the game. TF2 updates were put on hold and devs from Dota and CS:GO teams were pulled onto HLA within the last few months.
Portal 2 did the same thing. 30-40 people worked on it for most of its dev cycle but the team grew a ton around Mid 2010. HLA is "Valve's largest project in terms of team size" so it would have to be bigger than what Portal 2 had at the end of its dev cycle.
Fun observation I saw on Twitter: in the shot of the tripods walking through the city, they have platforms on their heads for the Combine to stand on. That platform is about the size of the minimum play space...🤔
You know something, it is goddamn time I replay the whole thing. Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and Ep1 & Ep2. Fucking holy shit!
nah it can happen, says so on the site for the game, just with an asterisk*
Quest connected to PC via Link Cable (USB-C) will run the game as if it were running on a PC Oculus Rift or Rift S. (There are also streaming solutions from PC to Quest that could be fine considering the single player nature of this title)
Pick up that can.
Now put it in the trash can.
Can't wait to see Valve going all out on the unique interactions.
The quest itself can't handle it period. it needs to be connected to a gaming computer in order to be able to be used as a headset for this game. Don't pointlessly try to confuse people.
It needs to be clear the quest can't handle it without the gaming computer.
If you read past my post to the one I was responding to it was " Have they confirmed Quest support? As in Quest-only not plugged into a computer. " so obviously I'm strictly talking about the quest not being plugged into a computer which would be impossible for it to run.
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There are ways to work around this like inverse kinematics (eg Boneworks and other games) but this really does not work very well, can't be predicted perfectly, and definitely takes you out of the kind of immersion Valve are chasing.
Hands only, makes perfect sense when in VR, when they precisely match 1:1 what you are doing.
my mistake i missed that qualifier! however I think saying the "quest cant handle it period" is more confusing for discourse. every headset that plays this game is plugged into a gaming pc
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Yeah, you really don't think about it when you're in it, because they BECOME your hands. It just looks funny on a 2D screen.
Hands-only is the right choice for tracking until far more detailed and accurate whole-body tracking is available (so many years from now).
Many older Valve came out on consoles, despite (in(famous hate of Gaben towards PS3.
Am I the only one to see the resemblance? ;)
Am I the only one to see the resemblance? ;)
Gabe was kinda right about the PS3 though. Cell turned out to be a dead-end architecture. Valve didn't even handle the PS3 port of the Orange Box.Many older Valve came out on consoles, despite (in(famous hate of Gaben towards PS3.
Am I the only one to see the resemblance? ;)
Valve upload's 4k image of G-Man to the HL:A website
Hey finalflame. With today's reveal the "extra" thing you said that was tied to it you think it's gonna be shown at TGA, at release, or was probably shelved?
Half life 2 and the orange box in general were too good. Some of the best and most memorable experiences in gaming I have had. This is a no brainer for me. Pre-ordered the game, I will buy the VR kit whenever the game is released.
Hope he talks in TGA trailer.Valve have updated the Half-Life: Alyx website with 4k image the G-Man.. nice
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Well PC Gamer confirmed the Shapiro is back doing the voice - so he will definitely talk!
Which VR kit? If going all out on index they will give you the game free.
I hope they pull a reverse-Kojima, even if in the final fifth of the game, and lswitch you from playing as Alyx to playing as Gordon. Not sure how they'd make that work, but that would be goddamn fantastic.
I am not even sure which one. I guess I will buy the Valve one in March. I actually wanted to pay for the game to support more Valve games and single player games in general
You mean it sucks that you'll choose to play this on YouTube.
Valve currently employs 360 people at the company. At some point, I'm sure everyone lent a hand.
Let's not be like that, there are people that can't afford it for real and valid reasons. Don't rub it in.
Many older Valve came out on consoles, despite (in(famous hate of Gaben towards PS3.
Am I the only one to see the resemblance? ;)
My wife said this after I showed her the trailer, so you're not alone!