What blows my mind is just how much interactivity there is in the world. Bottles? Smash 'em. Cans? Crush 'em. Stuff on shelves? Shove it out of the way. Oh hey, here's a resin block I would've missed if I didn't pick up this bucket off the ground! Here's a few shotgun shells!
They can! They'll drop it if you kill them. Same goes for ammunition.
I tried hitting them with the metal bar keeping the train doors closed and it didn't work :(
I know, I just posted that lol. That's why I'm curious how stringent upgrading everything will be, because Resin dropping from barnacles suggests that the game will give you more than you need by the end, but you never know.
Chapter 2 stuff:
lol, I still fondly remember people freaking out at how huge VR Glados was years ago.
Similar to the shotgun, the handgun reservoir is kinda weird: when you fire the pistol, it fires bullets from the magazine first, then from the reservoir. It's basically an "I don't have time to reload and need more bullets" kind of thing, and not an extended magazine. When you load a magazine with the reservoir partly or completely depleted, it'll siphon bullets from the magazine and leave you with a partly empty mag. It's a bit of a pain, but it provides an interesting bit of insight into Half-Life: Alyx's ammo economy, and how well-considered bullets are as a resource you need to be conscious of.
I am, specifically around other characters. The immersion of picking things up and inspecting every item, as well as every room just feels so choice.
I got super sick in Boneworks after 15 minutes and played Alyx today for 2 hours straight with smooth locomotion and felt fine. I also think the option to 'move where your hand is pointing instead of your head' helps considerably. If I look at a thing to the side I'm not just running into the wall.
Definitely. It helps that every single animation seems to look right. Other characters talking to you is especially impressive.
I have a 1080 and it defaulted to low, upped it to high and its working fine
This is a great summary of how I feel about this game. Top of class art direction definitely helps, but it's the multitude of tiny interactions that you can't hell but notice in VR that we're never even thoughts in game dev before.
In Alyx's Accessibility settings, there's an option to adjust your height, try that.
Its almost unbelievable. I could only play for thirty mins before needing to go to work, but even during that time I kind of couldn't believe they actually did this.
Is the performance flawless for you now or do you get small micro-stutters here and there - totally random? What settings are you using ingame, in Oculus Debugger (if any) and Steam VR Supersampling?
I was getting stutters, but restarting the game fixed it. I also raised the priority of the OculusServer priority to "real-time", not sure if that helped. But from the point it was completely stutter free.
