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Half-Life Alyx |OT| The right woman in the right place
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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Got to play for a little while. Definitely enjoying it so far. The main mechanic has become kind of addicting honestly. Fun to just fling shit right into your hand. Need to develop my VR legs a bit more though cuz I needed a break after about an hour and a half.
I can aim fairly well in modern FPS games and the like but I have absolute shit aim in VR since I'm just not used to needing the manual dexterity involved. It's fucking nuts.
Also, has anyone else tried to use their legs to move things around without realizing what you're doing? I was trying to scoot a large crate and went to go kick at it to give it a little extra push lol. Never had that experience in VR and it made me feel real silly.
If you can play for that long sustained, then I'd say you have your legs. Some people can only play for 10-30 minutes at a time. I can go for like an hour, hour and a half, and then I need a bit of a break (playing room scale on your feet also contributes to the need), and I've had VR for a while now (including PSVR)
After an hour and 20 mins I'm not loving it but it's solid
I've played a large amount of VR so maybe it's that.
It's sitting in the high 7 area so far for me.
Performance is perfect
I know the game will expand and throw so curve balls but I'm in the middle right now. Running on oculus rift as well.
I've played a large amount of VR so maybe it's that.
It's sitting in the high 7 area so far for me.
Performance is perfect
I know the game will expand and throw so curve balls but I'm in the middle right now. Running on oculus rift as well.
There's a reason I always recommend Space Pirate Trainer to people. Conceptually, it's nothing more than galaga in VR. A wave space shooter. The really only novel thing it does, it that it's in VR and thus you have manual dexterity. Yet, that change is so enormous that it carries the title. Being able to manually aim in VR with your hands is a strong enough change to let a game devote essentially the entirety of it's "gimmick" to it and retains its fun factor, shit, 5 years later now. I still play Space Pirate Trainer, because gunplay in VR is extremely compelling.
Having some more issues now.
When I first load in all the textures will be fine but as I move further into the level textures simply never load in properly and look incredibly low res and out of place. My settings are still on High/Ultra.
Also still getting that Low GPU memory which I'm not sure why since there is plenty of free memory when running the game.
When I first load in all the textures will be fine but as I move further into the level textures simply never load in properly and look incredibly low res and out of place. My settings are still on High/Ultra.
Also still getting that Low GPU memory which I'm not sure why since there is plenty of free memory when running the game.
I'm using a Cv1. it works just fine. My gripes are with it and not the game, just wish it had higher resolution - but the game looks incredible on it just the same
This may be the only time I think I'm seeing a difference with owning a pcie 4.0 SSD lol. 3 - 4 minutes to unpack.
Still stuck at work though :(
Still stuck at work though :(
Tweaked from settings and it runs better now. A couple drops here and there but it's rare and I can barely tell (as opposed to when that happens in other games). I'm usually sick in 15 mins of VR but i played 1.5 hours of this and I feel great. Gravity gloves rule too
The facial animation in this game is absurdly good. Took a break at the start of Chapter 3. Virtual Desktop + Quest was stuttery for me, but I've had no issues running things on Ultra wired in through Link. This game is magical and everything I was hoping for. Love the character interactions and the pacing so much. Seeing appropriately scaled characters up close is terrifying and amazing.
The slide movement is what I am using now and it feels really good. Usually I go fully analog with movement but the slide works really well.
Absolutely bananas when you see those combine for the first time. I actually felt my self tense on when I was confronted by them. The scale of everything is so insane, I just cant believe it. Valve has once again revolutionized the genre. I've only just begun really, but I've spent 2 hours just checking out all the rooms, top to bottom, searching every corner of the room for resin. The detail and interactivity of everything is nuts.
Anyone else play with the markers on the window when they first started? I was amazing how accurate the input was. Lol
Anyone else play with the markers on the window when they first started? I was amazing how accurate the input was. Lol
Impressions after several hours: without question the best VR game to date, impeccable sound design (best use of binaural audio in VR hands down), the visuals are goddamn gorgeous practically photo realistic in parts, this is no surprise but almost every encounter with a headcrab feels as chilling as the first, it is legitimately spooky which as a horror nut I'm thankful for. I felt a sense of ecstatic joy just from being immersed in the world, it really is that convincing and transportive and leagues beyond most other VR titles in terms of world building and atmosphere (obviously City 17 helps). Need to take a break now because I'm so damn sucked in I'd probably finish it in one sitting but this is something I want to savor and pace out more over a few days. Valve has done it and there wasn't much doubt. Half-Life is back!
Other thoughts: the character animation on Russell looks like some next level shit, they really have advanced their facial animation system a bunch from HL2.
All the little mechanical details and moving parts is a nice continuation from Portal 2.
If you aren't using a headset with attached headphones already you absolutely must find a decent pair to experience Alyx with, seriously this is probably the best sound design and 3d audio I've heard in a game period. At the beginning just hearing a
lumber into view was one of the most oh shit moments I've had in VR to date, and a lot of that is owed to the audio.
To reiterate this is next level VR game design ya'll. Just across the board polish. Can't wait to go back in again later.
Other thoughts: the character animation on Russell looks like some next level shit, they really have advanced their facial animation system a bunch from HL2.
All the little mechanical details and moving parts is a nice continuation from Portal 2.
If you aren't using a headset with attached headphones already you absolutely must find a decent pair to experience Alyx with, seriously this is probably the best sound design and 3d audio I've heard in a game period. At the beginning just hearing a
strider
To reiterate this is next level VR game design ya'll. Just across the board polish. Can't wait to go back in again later.
So happy to hear this. Source 1 had such amazing facial animations.
Little things, like how NPCs eyes follow you, are amazing. They have such expressive eyes. The eyes sells it all.
Do you have any background processes that might be using GPU memory?
How does slide movement not make you just as sick as full analog? Is it a little smoother or something?
Yes, I've kicked at a few crates lol. Also, there's one train car thats on an incline. Going back down, I found myself leaning backwards to balance myself, it's insane
How much Vram you got? Its using 10.5gb of my 1080ti on ultra textures.
It feels smoother and I go precisely where I want to go. My hands shake like a mofo and I move my head around a little too much for either analog option to feel steady. It makes me feel like I'm getting vaguely sea-sick when I use them.
Goddamn right. It's the reason I love VR as much as I do. The immersion is extremely next level.
Also, surprised how well it's running on my 1070 in ultra. I haven't checked my FPS, but I haven't seen a single hiccup yet. Just flawless.
i just played the first section and, and i'm totally a ridiculous human being, but i was kind of in awe? like holy shit, i can't believe they actually did this.
for anyone reading this for whom its relevant: i played with an oculus quest with link, and after restarting once, it played flawlessly with a i5 6600K and a GTX 1080 on high settings.
i have to go to work, but man, wow.
for anyone reading this for whom its relevant: i played with an oculus quest with link, and after restarting once, it played flawlessly with a i5 6600K and a GTX 1080 on high settings.
i have to go to work, but man, wow.
The classic example of VR presence thus far has been the budget cuts demo, when people inevitably try to put their face through the floor because they think there's a hole there.
The first upgrade to the shotgun was pretty neat hehe. Just a simple little touch of inspiration.
I don't think so.
Assuming I looked in the right place I see this:
Is this not enough?
I'm running it on a 970 & overclocked 2600k @ 4.1ghz, everything on Low apart from the Textures on Medium. Runs pretty consistently at 90 unless lot'ss of enemies turn up but it does settle down; I've played 2 hours and enjoyed it thoroughly. Tempted to lock it to 45 and see how I cope so I can turn some settings up.
Playing wirelessly with my wireless adapter is so good. I love those moments when I take the headset off and I'm in a completely different part of the room than I thought I was in. Having absolutely no wires or tether makes it so easy to get lost in the world. You feel like you're there.
I tried searching on Google but haven't found anything, when is Alyx - The Final Hours by Keighley going up? TBA?
I was worried my pc was going to struggle with this but on low fidelity it runs great.. until I crashed grabbing something from the backpack
The feed on my monitor isn't fullscreen, anyone have this problem? I didn't see anything in the settings.
After an hour, I have to say that I'm underwhelmed... I've played enough VR games that the VR gimmicks don't impress me any longer and if this was a non-VR game I wouldn't be impressed by it.
It's well done for what it is, but I don't think it's anything special at all.... at least not after the first hour!
It's well done for what it is, but I don't think it's anything special at all.... at least not after the first hour!
Darn, I'll keep an eye out for it eventually. I know Portal 2's launched around the same time so I'm excited to read up on what's been happening at Valve for the past 8 years (besides DOTA2).
Fair enough, I just started feeling a bit off so I saved and shut down. Hoping to hop back in a bit more later perhaps.
Yes, I invested in the HTC Wireless kit last year and since then I've struggled to consider even any other headset (aside from a Vive Pro) because I cannot...will not....go back to being tethered.
I'm forcing myself to stop for the night since it's quarter past 9 and I dont wanna be playing to close to when I go to sleep but holy shit, I've played about 2 hours and it's everything I could imagine.
The only complaint so far is that I couldn't always seem to grab more ammo from my shoulder when I needed it in the heat of the moment which was obviously fairly crucial.
The only complaint so far is that I couldn't always seem to grab more ammo from my shoulder when I needed it in the heat of the moment which was obviously fairly crucial.
does anybody know how to make the spectator window full screen? Not the Steam VR mirror, but the one the game itself creates that displays the HUD and allows smooth movement for viewers.
I could have gotten a valve index headset, but passed because I refuse to go back to a wired setup. Fully wireless PC VR is my absolute minimum.
