I hope with the game being VR and having different forms of locomotion , they won't alter their signature level design too much. By that, I mean the platforming bits and tight space/vent crawling.
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Half-Life: Alyx - Development & Speculation Thread
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Kind of feels like they'd have to, no?
With that said, I'll eat my hat if we can't ride on a Strider now that they've added a platform to them which is suspiciously similar in size to a roomscale playspace.
That really worries me, its a huge part of what makes Half-Life so great. Without it, I'm worried it'll just transform into yet another shooter game.
If it absolutely is a half-life game as folks playing it have said, I don't think there is much to worry about in that regard
A bit off topic but I just watched the trailer again. 1st it's fantastic. 2nd, 8.5 mi views.
I missed Half Life. And I was not the only one!
I missed Half Life. And I was not the only one!
But the whole point of the gravity gloves is so you can reach stuff far away from you.
Also, we're supposedly getting more info/possibly more footage/screens on the 12th at TGA, so, really looking forward to that. Still doesn't feel real we're getting a new HL game so soon(hopefully).
Here's a handy image from the GAF thread about Valve's move:
I don't think I've ever had such a turn-around on a game in such record time, and I haven't even played this thing yet. Like, I saw the trailer and my immediate reaction was "I'll never play this" because it's PCVR. Within, shit, I think within a week that take had turned into "Well, I am going to play it, but it'll be with an Oculus Rift or something." Then, after a bit of thinking about it, I've started to convince myself that I *need* the fucking finger-tracking for Alyx, and so it'll have to a Valve Index. So, here I am, ready to drop 1k to play a fucking Half-Life game. And I'm not even mad about it, because it's a fucking Half-Life game.
I'm going through HL, HL2, Ep1 and Ep2 again to prepare. Finished HL, and just got to the Prison in HL2. It's crazy how fucking good HL2 is, still, this many years later. Superlative game design. If I was ever doubtful, and I was, actually replaying the series has reminded me that Valve just doesn't make SP games unless they have something to say in that space and somehow move the artform forward. I thought Cyberpunk was going to be the defining experience of 2020, but now? It's gonna be a helluva thing to have these games nearly 1 month apart.
I'm going through HL, HL2, Ep1 and Ep2 again to prepare. Finished HL, and just got to the Prison in HL2. It's crazy how fucking good HL2 is, still, this many years later. Superlative game design. If I was ever doubtful, and I was, actually replaying the series has reminded me that Valve just doesn't make SP games unless they have something to say in that space and somehow move the artform forward. I thought Cyberpunk was going to be the defining experience of 2020, but now? It's gonna be a helluva thing to have these games nearly 1 month apart.
So... neither place is opposite Bungie. 🤔Here's a handy image from the GAF thread about Valve's move:
Reminder that Epic is literally a few floors below Valve. Maybe all the anger Tim has is because of the constant moving of desks and people stomping and walking with their VR headsets.
I would be happy to be proved wrong. I purchased a Valve Index so I could play this game!
But I think if you look at the gameplay shown in the trailer, the most logical conclusion is that you will be in relatively small areas for most of the game.
They have an office in the same Lincoln Square tower where Valve is in Bellevue, WA. Saw their elevator lobby all the time on the way up.
I guess what I mean is that Tim Sweeney ain't gonna be there 😅
The image reminds me a bit of Brighton. There are so many games industry businesses in Brighton. In our current location we receive the wi-fi signal from two of them.
The first Valve youtube ad?
That's so weird to see. When was the last time Valve had a ad? Portal 2?
yeah and even better since Alyx is VR only which means sacrifices are done tot he engine. A non VR game using Source Engine 2 would look phenomenal.
Something most people expected, but I know it's been asked a bunch: Valve currently has no plans for a PSVR version.
Keep the PSVR2 hope alive
Keep the PSVR2 hope alive
Wait, seriously? Epic store team is in the same building as Steam team? WTF :D
Yeah Google "Epic Bellevue Jobs" and it will be quite obvious; it's mostly web / full stack dev jobs.. and then more obvious stuff.. "Backend Engineer, ECommerce."
It's more than JUST the store team there, but they are there.
And the Valve employees are aware of this fact; I have a good friend who works there and they literally are in the elevator with people with Epic badges pretty frequently and know it's often the store team folks.
That might've been the graphic Valve had on the HLA website?
edit: https://www.half-life.com/en/alyx/vr
One thing I'm noticing after rewatching the trailer, I like how it doesn't have the typical shakiness that a lot of VR footage has. It's a good choice for showing how VR feels.
I didn't realize there was a website! I tried looking for it and Google wasn't turning it up. Must have been buried.
I'm amazed more footage doesn't "smooth" it out like Valve did. I assume this is the "steadicam" feature they added to Source 2.
No worries - it doesn't seem to show up on Google, I had to find it through the Steam page for the game.
Yeah they've mentioned multiple times how they smoothed out that motion so that the trailer looks good in flat screens. Should be the standard for all VR game trailers or VR footage, that head shakiness for obvious reasons is not there when you actually play in VR and it misrepresents how the games actually look.
Surprised to see nobody here has talked more about the Gravity Gloves. (I was out of the country when all of this stuff went live, so I pre-wrote my story ahead of the end-of-November reveal.) Here's what I've learned from sources, in Seattle and otherwise, about how they function:
And from another article of mine:
And from another article of mine:
Because they sold out of their existing and back-ordered stock shortly after HL:A was announced.
Why is Valve scraping good names for their products XD First Valve Knuckles got renamed to Index Controllers and now Garabbity Gloves to Gravity Gloves XD
The second snippet makes me hope that Valve makes Source 2 available for other developers making VR games going forward. A lot of the work they're putting in here would likely be very useful to prospective VR devs.
Well shit, noticed this one way too late.
Sorry ya'll!
Seriously though, if this doesn't have manhacks in it they fucked up. They are the absolute best thing in HL2 VR.
Poison head crabs were terrifying. That bit in EP1 where a load of them drop out of the ceiling onto your face in that hospital... Yeah I shall remember it well.
Poison head crabs were terrifying. That bit in EP1 where a load of them drop out of the ceiling onto your face in that hospital... Yeah I shall remember it well.
