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Half-Life Alyx |OT| The right woman in the right place
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50k people, on a monday, at like 3 pm no less.
One whose minimum required specs is a 10-series GTX card and 16 gb of RAM.
5PM GMT/6PM CET though, so prime time Europe during it's peak today.
Guys, what is the most comfortable way to play this? Sitting down or standing? Teleportation or full joystick locomotion?
Seems to be more dependent on CPU by what people are getting as their default settings. Mine being 6700k GTX 1080, and another user having a 8600k with a GTX 1070 Ti, the other user defaulted to High fidelity, while mine defaulted to low.
This is up to preference alone I think. But I'd guess sitting with teleport would be least taxing on you. I'm playing standing with smooth locomotion though and having no issues.
It's honestly pretty fantastic. It's certainly better than my CV1. I can easily look past any compression, and don't notice it at all, especially once immersed in the game. I notice zero latency issues. It's kind of remarkable (I'm sure the index is far superior, but I'm happy).
I've got 30 minutes in so far, and it's quite amazing. The details, the sounds, it's all pretty great. There is no way they could have replicated this without VR.
Did you have any issues with smooth locomotion in Boneworks? It got me super nauseous lol.
Had my first crash midway through chapter 3, but god damn. Working through this world is like walking through a theme park attraction that spared no fucking expense. It's extremely convincing and fucking unreal how great this all looks. I'm especially impressed with the character animation work too and how convincing it all is with these characters tracking and talking to Alyx. It really feels like that sort of Half-Life 2 leap all over again.
I think full joystick has been the best so far, just for ease of interacting with elements like doors and not making me feel that bad. If you can get away with it, you should.
I think full joystick has been the best so far, just for ease of interacting with elements like doors and not making me feel that bad. If you can get away with it, you should.
Haven't play Boneworks, but no issues with smooth locomotion in Walking Dead, or WestWorld: Awakening.
I appreciate that smooth locomotion still gives you the option to teleport (specifically for jumping, but works in any setting).
This is easily my GotY so far. I'm on the Superweapon chapter and am taking a break for a bit. This game is still blowing my mind.
THIS is what a good VR game is, THIS is a good new Half-Life.
I'm playing on a first gen Vive and the game still looks incredible. All the mechanics are amazing, the gravity gloves feel so natural. It took me a minute at the start, but after trying it a few times I understood it and it just felt second nature.
Classic HL enemies feel like they have a lot more impact in this game. Barnacles look more terrifying and disgusting than ever, and I love the ways they are utilized in the levels. Headcrabs.. Holy shit they still give me the creeps.
If you can get your hands on a VR headset you absolutely need to play this.
THIS is what a good VR game is, THIS is a good new Half-Life.
I'm playing on a first gen Vive and the game still looks incredible. All the mechanics are amazing, the gravity gloves feel so natural. It took me a minute at the start, but after trying it a few times I understood it and it just felt second nature.
Classic HL enemies feel like they have a lot more impact in this game. Barnacles look more terrifying and disgusting than ever, and I love the ways they are utilized in the levels. Headcrabs.. Holy shit they still give me the creeps.
If you can get your hands on a VR headset you absolutely need to play this.
Been playing on quest for about 5 hours now... For someone reason I kept dropping the link connection to my pc (i'm using the usb c on the front panel and I figured thats why) after a reset I didn't experience another dropped link.
Visually its great, you can see some compression in darker areas maybe but it looks fantastic and plays fantastic and the control scheme for the touch contollers works great and you get some guestimated finger tracking... All in all its a great compromise IMO.
This game guys... holy freaking crap. Nothing compares to this game.
So I'm playing on with a i7-6700k, GTX 980ti, and 16 Gigs of ram and it defaulted to Low. Just for shits and giggles I moved it up to High and... I don't notice any huge loss to performance. Is it bugged out? No slowdown or anything, so I'm gonna stay playing like this for now.
It's just after 10pm, I've played for ~5 hours with only 2 small drink breaks. It's damn fantastic! I upped the difficulty from normal because I was finding it a little too easy and now it feels like the perfect balance between preserving ammo and utilising VR space. The world looks amazing, the guns feel amazing, the story is super interesting. It honestly feels like it's firing on all cylinders, something no other VR game has done for me.
Going to continue playing when I wake up tomorrow. Hope you all continue to enjoy it as much as me while I sleep!
Going to continue playing when I wake up tomorrow. Hope you all continue to enjoy it as much as me while I sleep!
1070, 7700k, 16gb of RAM here. Played the first few chapters and the game runs great. It defaulted to low when I started it up, but even setting it to ultra was mostly fine. A few areas with noticeable frame drops, but after setting things to a mix of medium/high/ultra it's running really great. I believe I have the resolution set to 118%, using an Odyssey+.
Dang ok. I watched a recap video on HL1, but in the video, they said to stop here if you plan on playing HL2 after Alyx (since this is a prequel). I already dove in and played for about an hour or so. I might get HL1 and 2 and try and play them to get caught up, but if not, ill settle on the videos until I have time to go back.
So far though, the game is amazing. It set me on low fidelity at first (rtx 2060) but cranking it up to high didnt seem to effect it at all. However, I did experience a crash after about an hour or more. Ill hop back in later, but its really something else. My only complaint right now is that Alyx's voice is muffled at certain points. It often sounds like they recorded her VO in a bathroom or something.
This is the most amazing VR game I've ever played. I don't think I'd go so far as to say the most innovative game I've ever played, period, but damn. Valve has clearly paid attention to how VR games evolved over the past three or four years, and it paid off. HLA is incredible.
I suggest starting with the default teleportation method and do the entire intro sequence without interruption. Wait until the moment you are given a pistol (it's an early and obvious point), at which point you'll be in a sort of parking lot. You can burn through as much ammunition as you want in this sequence so long as you don't open the locked door leading to the next sequence... you'll constantly be given extra ammo if you run out, cuz otherwise, you'd be trapped.
At this point, go into the menus and test all the different motion options. Practice moving and shooting. Take your time.
Anyone know how to find the
Also the combine take a lot of headshots from that pistol.
missing brain cylinder thing for the control panel? Soon after you first fight the combine?
Also the combine take a lot of headshots from that pistol.
Do you close one of your eyes to aim in VR? If so do you know which of your eyes is your dominant eye? If you are closing the wrong one that could be why your aim is off.
I'm a fool and never got around to the original games in the series... Even though I kept telling myself I would. I can probably contain the hype and be patient so...
Should I sort myself out and play through the previous games first? Or should I just say screw it and jump right into this?
Should I sort myself out and play through the previous games first? Or should I just say screw it and jump right into this?
I just started chapter 3, it's excellent so far. The animation on everything is amazing.
I will say I thought the Reflex sight upgrade was a no brainer but I actually feel like my aim actually got worse with it, since I got used to the iron sights here and am used to it from other VR games.
Also pro-tip, kill barnacles even when you can avoid them. They will typically drop ammo or resin.
I will say I thought the Reflex sight upgrade was a no brainer but I actually feel like my aim actually got worse with it, since I got used to the iron sights here and am used to it from other VR games.
Also pro-tip, kill barnacles even when you can avoid them. They will typically drop ammo or resin.
There's a room right next to it, just go in and open up some stuff
My right eye is my dominant and if I do close one eye it's my left. I just have zero experience with this particular sort of hand-eye coordination, so it's just a matter of practice!
12GB is the minimum. It'd probably run with 8GB, but I presume Valve recommends at least 12GB since even throwaway items are highly detailed and as much game data as reasonably possible needs to be held in RAM to minimise pop-in and such.
You can always refund if the experience is poor, and you can use Offline Mode to experiment with settings as long as you need to, as time played while offline doesn't count against the refund window.
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Fun fact about barnacles. They can eat ammo if you try and pull a magazine out from under them. :')
So is it really the case that there's no smooth turning? Only snap? That's a bummer if so. I have no issues with motion sickness and far prefer smooth locomotion and turning whenever possible.
Nevertheless, excited to give this a go later today!
Nevertheless, excited to give this a go later today!
I'll try in a few as I have the same specs, I'll re-quote you with results. Does it look significantly better?
Do people really want smooth turning? I never get sick in VR from smooth locomotion, but smooth turning destroys me.
Yeah, my aim also got worse with the sight on. I keep pointing my gun down more than I should. I usually do better when I just go by feel and don't really aim down the sight.
Really fun throwing around bottles and shooting them in the air.
I'm not surprised. Wonder if they can eat resin too.
Curious how finite resin is, I was surprised when they dropped some so I'm wonder how hard it will be to upgrade everything.
Also, a time when plenty of people work from home due to the Coronavirus.
It's in the room to the left behind the control panel. There are a bunch of red handles you can pull to reveal the brain cylinder.
The only thing comparable from an immersion point of view imo is RE7, which obviously looks significantly worse on PSVR.
that took few a few minutes to figure out. The door next to the closet has a handle I didn't see at first and can be opened. There's combine lockers in there and it's in one.
Only played a short while, but wow. It's unbelievable - everything works and feels so natural. It looks fantastic, it sound great, it's amazing.
Nothing else I've experienced in VR comes anywhere close to this. Which of course is understandable - no one else has invested this much time and money into a VR game before, most companies aren't anywhere close to as fortune as Valve.
Nothing else I've experienced in VR comes anywhere close to this. Which of course is understandable - no one else has invested this much time and money into a VR game before, most companies aren't anywhere close to as fortune as Valve.
You wouldn't have been able to tell, but in the reveal trailer for Half Life Alyx, the trailer ends with the very last line of dialog spoken in the entire half life universe so far, indicating that it at least references the totality of the current Half Life story.
Don't want to get into too much spoiler or lore discussion, but there is an entire race of characters in Half Life that experience time in a non-linear fashion. So "prequel" doesn't really mean too much necessarily.
Wait, is smooth turning possible? I don't really like the snap turning but turning it off just made it so I couldn't turn at all
Yeah this has been my only let down. Please add smooth turning Valve!!
It's gotta be a bug. The option is there it just doesn't work. I'm holding out for a quick patch
Supposedly, yes. When I turn it off nothing changes it's just the same snap turning at whatever degree you set.
Are you using teleport or some of the other options? I get motion sickness very easily and have had absolutely no problem in this game with the standard teleport.