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Half-Life Alyx: cool, non-gaming things you can do in VR
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I have to hit out the individual glass shards in a window with the shaft of my pistol to get a good aim.
When facing headcrabs I usually grab a nearby object as a left-hand shield i.e. a bucket or a house-phone.
When facing headcrabs I usually grab a nearby object as a left-hand shield i.e. a bucket or a house-phone.
there is a fully functioning piano in half life alyx
And yes, there are already tons of videos out of people playing various songs in HL:A. With the index controllers, you can actually play with each finger independently.
Also, I didn't take a video of it, but I was able to juggle 3 cans with the index controllers. The tracking is so superb it feels natural.
And yes, there are already tons of videos out of people playing various songs in HL:A. With the index controllers, you can actually play with each finger independently.
Also, I didn't take a video of it, but I was able to juggle 3 cans with the index controllers. The tracking is so superb it feels natural.
When you meet the
in chapter 2, there are a bunch of headcrabs in cages along one wall that you can interact with. Each one in each cage reacts differently. Like one, if you stick your finger in the cage, will try to bite it off, and other, if you walk up to the cage, will cower in fear in the corner while whimpering, another will play with your hands with its claw, etc.
Vortigaunt who sees the future
the shader they use to paint textures with the markers blend with what's below them correctly. If you take one of the markers and draw on a television screen, for example, the color will blend with the image on screen. Example, there's a spot later on with a blue screen of death on a computer monitor, and if you draw on it with a red marker, the streak will look purple because red and blue mix to make purple. If you draw on a television, you'll see the color blend with each pixel being shown on the screen.
Wow. Somehow it impressed me more than the headcrabs in chapter two trivia.
This. So much this. I felt like an action hero ducking down and hitting the glass shards with my gun and then taking aim.
OK I'm removing Alyx from blocktube for this thread!
Magical that even watching it makes it feel normal after a couple of minutes. Spectator mode can smooth this further for the students too from what I understand. Very impressive. Him looking for the marker made me smile. I'm replaying Skyrim and couldn't help but think of the times you catch a bucket and send it flying around the room. His marker is probably in the tower lol
Also cool af teacher talking like it's his locality in lockdown, really strange parallels heh
(am I just ancient or does teacher sound about 15?)
OMG More of this please haha
Magical that even watching it makes it feel normal after a couple of minutes. Spectator mode can smooth this further for the students too from what I understand. Very impressive. Him looking for the marker made me smile. I'm replaying Skyrim and couldn't help but think of the times you catch a bucket and send it flying around the room. His marker is probably in the tower lol
Also cool af teacher talking like it's his locality in lockdown, really strange parallels heh
(am I just ancient or does teacher sound about 15?)
OMG More of this please haha
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There is a fully functional whiteboard in The Lab on Steam as well if you want to draw in a more clean environment lol
There's a fully functional piano in Batman Arkham VR right at the beginning in Wayne Manor.
Not sure if it supports those new controllers or not. I only have it on PSVR.
Actually, did it ever even come to PC or was it a Sony exclusive?
Ahh man. I'm gonna have to do another playthrough. Played chapter 5 yesterday and didn't see a piano. I keep missing these neat things!
Do you know if it supports the controllers with individual finger tracking?
It did.
It didn't at release, and I thought that was still the case, but apparently it got a new patch last year that added finger tracking.
it got updated to support the controllers natively, so you wouldn't have to re-map controls to suit the index, but it does not support finger tracking.
if you look closely at the epi-healing pens, the blue gel inside is floating free form in the tube. If you shake, it, you can see the gel swirl around for a bit after you stop shaking.
You can feed the grub in Alyx's apartment right at the beginning with fish grub food.. You get an achievement for doing so.
I dunno if people have been noticing, but all the computer and video equipment in the game is based off of real life things. Like, for example, there are multiple sony PVMs all over the place, the very same model I have at my home. This is the kicker, though:
That's just amazing. The ending was great, when he introduces his "irritable" neighbour and wipes the "science" off the whiteboard, haha
I wouldn't say that you can play with each finger independently, I have the knuckles and am a piano player and when I got to that part I immediately tried playing a song and with the current basic finger tracking tech in the knuckles the best you can do is the video you linked...
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It is not the issue that it won't be possible. It would just be a completely different game(play).
Everything would be basically a QTE fest.
Opening a door? Press Button X and scroll the mouse wheel up and down to open or close the door, it would even register the speed at which you scroll.
Changing a roll of paper? a QTE prompt at the roll halter.
Reloading a weapon? just click "R"
Looting a shelf? just click the shelf and a list of loot will be displayed. It can even have the same searching for loot animation that you do in VR, just that you select the item beforehand and then the animation plays.
Any other action can be done by pre-recorded animations and a QTE button press.
Like I said, a completely different game.
"Perfectly executed tactical reload" lmao
Reddit comments are sometimes really good.
There's a moment early on in the elevator where you're told to put your hands up. I moved my hand slowly and hit the elevator button and the guard stopped the doors from closing and said something like "don't touch that!" Just the little touches like that and attention to detail are so good.
I hadn't really been paying attention to the combine chatter until I was talking to someone yesterday and they mentioned that they had stopped and hid and listened to their radio chatter for a bit. After a while, one combine soldier started yelling loudly in a fake friendly sounding voice, "Alyx! Hey Alyx come here! We won't hurt you!" and his partner who was helping him look apparently died laughing at that.
I have no idea where that is in the game but hearing about it has made me start paying attention to the combine chatter much closer.
Yeah that happened to me too (I thought it happened to everyone) as afterwards Alyx comments that they were saying her name. It's just after you start encountering combine.
I completely missed that, didn't hear them say that at all. I'll have to keep an ear out on my next playthrough.
That's creepy. I didn't think the Combine were capable of those sorts of tactics. Makes it seem like they actually retain quite a lot of their humanity, which is fairly distressing.