They're fine. (I've been playing HL1 VR). They're not as good as headcrabs or manhacks.
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Half-Life: Alyx - Development & Speculation Thread
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That reads more like they're making mod tools available. Though I suppose those tools will probably be enough to make a full game, like you could with the older versions of Source.
I can imagine what they'd do with them in a game designed to be VR from the ground up, and I hope that's what they've done.
But. MANHACKS need to be in the game. They're brilliant in VR.
It's not the full SDK from what they are saying, so it isn't much outside HL:A
That makes it sounds like they are releasing a new version of Hammer but not the full SDK.
A mouthful of LED christmas lights, so you can see all of it in its gruesome glory?
In that article the other day that talked about play testers doing longer sessions in the game, they talked about people having trouble loading Alyx's gun. That sounded like there will only be one gun? I would guess in a VR game, since so much in the environment will be usable as weapons, we might not need more permanent guns. I wonder if maybe other guns are temporary, such as you kill a combine soldier and take his rifle, you use it for a while , keep getting ammo and reload it, then you find another gun you like better and just drop the first one because you can't hold onto it anymore.
At the very least you have a gun that's upgradable. There seem to be at least two guns in the trailer.
It really did not sound like that, and that would be pretty out of character for HL
If Boneworks does many different guns, crowbars, etc well then there is no reason why Half-Life: Alyx shouldn't as well.
I would assume Valve would stay away from stuff like barnacles or l4d smokers in a VR game (stuff that yanks you).
The game has some problems but I have heard no complaints about the weapons at all. Still I hardly doubt you will only get one gun in a 15 hour Half-Life game. I think they focused on the pistol in the launch trailer just to show off how it functions in VR.
They said they smoothed it out during post processing for the trailer.
I'm gonna guess they would have a way to handle it to not induce motion sickness. They seem to really be playing up accessibility of VR for this game.
I don't know how they would do it in VR, but I would LOVE if they somehow did a mechanic where you use a barnacle tongue to swing across a gap or get to a higher ledge, killing it when you need to get off. I actually thought about that while playing Black Mesa and in the iconic cliffside part, there's a jump with a very long barnacle tongue hanging in the gap. You're obviously supposed to kill the barnacle first, but I was thinking: what if you could use it to swing across.
Maybe if you get pulled up it switches to third person?
There are definitely barnacles in the game, you see them a few times in the trailer.
There are definitely barnacles in the game, you see them a few times in the trailer.
What's the best way to play through Half Life 1 and 2 in VR? I know there was a mod some time ago for 2 based on the old Rift Devkit 1 but surely we've got a really nice way to play by now.
I feel like if Barnacles are terrifying in this game, I doubt it switches to third person. It would likely lose a lot of the impact in third person.
I'm really curious about headcrabs...I'm imagining something like a Metroid latching on in the Prime games, but scarier and seeing it's little mouth gnaw at you. They did say you could pull a headcrab off your face and throw it at all enemy.
Yeah. Valve posted on Twitter it won't be there.
So weird. Was it going to be a demo? Surely a trailer would've been done weeks ago.
I love how the robo headcrabs function in Boneworks, they're essentially VR headsets with robotic legs that latch onto you and when they do your vision is replaced by another environment, and you can pull them off with the tracked controllers and manipulate each limb. I figure the HL: Alyx headcrabs you'll be able to pry off you as well.
What's your best theory on them canceling tonight? Game delay? Oh god it's a game delay isn't it
I really don't know and it'd be irresponsible for anyone I can ask to tell me :)
My best guess, which are just my own thoughts, it's likely they were trying to execute a live demo and something went wrong during preparations. But no insider info there.
I still stand by my previous comments that there were other, larger initiatives tied to HL:VR, and VR in general (and I'm not referring to L4D:VR; that did not exist in a playable state during my time), which have either been scrapped, or are still to be announced. It would've made a lot of sense to me for them to announce the other project alongside the bigger HL:VR announcement at TGA, but who knows what's going on these days.
Thanks, I appreciate your thoughts.
If it was a demo and it fell through, that must be incredibly frustrating for them and Keighly.
Super excited for this! If anyone wants a discord place to talk about Alyx/ other VR games, I made a discord,
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Simple, when grabbed, obscure the outer regions of the fov with red shade and visible veins, to suggest strangulation.
Reloading requires muscle memory, if you are new to VR you'll do it slowly. I'm experienced with VR guns so I just do it without looking. It's not difficult, it just requires a bit of patience.
I really do hope the game has a decent selection of guns to play with. Playing though boneworks and the pathetic gun selection is insulting.
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Oh I know it's something that takes getting used to, I have Pavlov VR and some of the guns in that took me a bit to figure out how to reload. The sawed off shotgun and revolver took a few tries to consistently get right without accidentally dumping the fresh ammo out, lolm
I don't think anyone has made a thread about it here (or it got buried due to lack of interest), but Valve is doing a TGA game festival with time limited, exclusive demos:
I wonder if it's possible they were going to have HL:A be part of this "festival", and were going to demo it and then tell people they could demo it on Steam right now (for a limited period).
It certainly makes more sense than Tyler's explanation that they were too lazy to implement a smooth locomotion option in time for TGS. Even a programming dipshit like me could have that implemented in a couple minutes.
That video was nuts. It's like post-HL reveal he's gone off the deep end.
Nah he already was way before the reveal. It was always an unhealthy obsession and the longer he stays in it the more crazy he gets about it because now that proof emerges he wants to be validated for all the whistleblowing he did.
Not trying to sound like an armchair dev, but implementing smooth locomotion should not be a difficult task -- just a boring one. Geoff has played the game with teleportation from start to finish, so they are definitely in the polish phase. Someone just needs to be buckle down and implement smooth locomotion. No real reason to think it won't make March at this point.
Sure, but now that he has credibility from "HLVR" all his wild speculation is attributed directly to super reliable sources inside Valve, and his weird cult of personality fan base actually buy it.
I somehow glossed over that. Glad there's more weapons. I'm curious how you'll switch weapons, although I'm guessing it will likely be by moving the right stick on whatever controller you use (right touchpad for Vive wands). Or they could go Pavlov style and have a belt/carrier rig you look down at to grab gear.
I didn't think it was coming in march when the trailer released. The recent stuff just makes me a little bit more certain.
Yeah I'm starting to feel that way too unfortunately.
I guess more time to get used to the Knuckles controllers I ordered. They're supposed to come in Saturday and I ordered them with money I made from selling one Dota 2 item.
Valve is a unique case though, they rebuilt the last levels of HL2 simply because one dev didn't end up liking the Hydra that much. I would not be surprised to see them start redesigning levels for smooth locomotion, then causing a delay.