Anyone have any idea what to set the custom resolution (per eye) for Steam VR when using a Rift S?
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Half-Life Alyx |OT| The right woman in the right place
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The amount of people praising the horror aspects makes me very sad they aren't making a L4D. I really hope they consider it.
Just died for the first time because I ran out of ammo. I've been super reserved with my ammo, but ran into too many enemies at once.
just found the shotgun and ran into a bunch of enemies. Are others finding it hard to have enough ammo?
can you do anything against head crabs without ammo? Tried bashing them with the pistol, but that did not seem to work.
How do you get a headcrab off of you? Not sure if it was because I was freaking out, but couldn't figure out how to get it off. The. A second one attacked and I was done.
can you do anything against head crabs without ammo? Tried bashing them with the pistol, but that did not seem to work.
How do you get a headcrab off of you? Not sure if it was because I was freaking out, but couldn't figure out how to get it off. The. A second one attacked and I was done.
An entire Halo game in a dark facility surviving against the Flood would be amazing.
Halfway through chapter 3 and this has exceeded my already high expectations. It is amazing.
One problem I'm having though. When I first loaded the game while sitting, I was the correct height. Now, the only option that keeps me at the correct height while sitting and playing is the sitting crouch option. The main menu and loading screens put my viewpoint as if I were crouching, but when the game loads I am at the correct height. Any idea how to fix this?
Using a CV1.
One problem I'm having though. When I first loaded the game while sitting, I was the correct height. Now, the only option that keeps me at the correct height while sitting and playing is the sitting crouch option. The main menu and loading screens put my viewpoint as if I were crouching, but when the game loads I am at the correct height. Any idea how to fix this?
Using a CV1.
So I haven't played HL, though I did play HL2 about 10 years ago, I didn't really take anything in and can't remember it. I do want to go back and play them, but that's gonna take and while and this just looks so damn good in VR I wanna jump straight in. I'm seriously tempted to just buy this and play it rn, then go back and play the first 2 and then do a replay of Alyx. Would I be doing myself a disservice by doing that though?
Like aaaa it just looks so fun.
Like aaaa it just looks so fun.
I don't have a VR set and I've kinda shat on VR for years but ohhhh man
This game is so amazing looking. I'm just watching gameplay and seeing stuff like crushing cans and using markers is legitimately mind blowing
Some day I'll play it, hope everyone's having fun
This game is so amazing looking. I'm just watching gameplay and seeing stuff like crushing cans and using markers is legitimately mind blowing
Some day I'll play it, hope everyone's having fun
Weird.
Yeah I am using an Oculus. I'll try that next time!
I'm blown away. I did expect it to be good, but holy fuck. I'm in chapter 3 and just got jumpscared by a headcrab. I threw ammo at it. With my hands. I lost that ammo. This is soooo good. BTW, i'm using an Oculus Quest and it's playing/looking great. Pretty happy to be able to play it even without the steam headset
just go into your oculus device settings and adjust floor. I had to do this just recetnly. I was way too tall, it was kind of jarring once I fixed it lol
So long as your play area is around 10m-12m square, roomscale movement works great. Unless you're wireless, bigger issues will be cord management and not walking through walls. There's a fair bit of elevation variation during gameplay, so you'll likely have to shift/teleport in places. Sounds like a great setup though!
edit: whoops, meant meters, not feet.
I think you can just pull them off with your hands? You can also block them with a box/lid/large solid object. Can't kill them with melee as far as I can tell. 19yo Alyx Vance ain't quite the badass she is in HL2 just yet.
As for ammo, make sure you're loading 7 shots in your shotgun whenever possible. Those rounds can be hard to come-by early on, so I guess make them count? Shotgun is really crappy at range in this game. Also check in corners and off the beaten path, because Valve has hidden ammo all over (also in/under things).
if we could mix shift with teleport that would be great for combat, or just give a sprint button of some sort
Taking a break to eat and drink. At chapter 4 now, man this game gets tense in the dark areas.
All the interactivity in this game makes me want a Penumbra/Amnesia remake with this level of interactivity.
im playing on low fidelity and honestly, it looks great. still blown away by all the visuals
Only ammo I've ran out of several times was for the shotgun. I have quite a bit of handgun ammo. I've been using explosive barrels a lot to reserve it. I also back out if I'm getting swarmed to take my time and take good shots. It's also all over the place. I've been exploring every corner so far.
I might have to do a restart. I've been finding ammo, but it definitely sounds like I've been missing some.
So at the Northern Star
Is there a trick to the lightning headcrab or do I just need to pump bullets into it? My first time fighting it I shot him with 20 pistol rounds and 7 shotgun rounds, which was about half my total supply, before I decided that was too much and loaded a save.
Or do I just need to avoid it?
Or do I just need to avoid it?
seriously, even on low it's one of the best games I've ever seen. the lighting and materials are incredible
All the talk about snap rotation and such, if you're playing with a wireless kit, becomes completely moot. I don't use any stick to rotate, I actually turn in place IRL.
which headset and GPU are you using?...I have a GTX 1070 and I'm debating getting this (my friend would lend me his Oculus Rift)
Low settings kinda means something different in VR games than with regular games. Low still has to be a good experience and hold a very solid framerate, so even meeting low spec means you'll have a great time. Low spec in a lot of regular/flat games tends to be merely passable and not the greatest experience.
As like a civilian or a marine would be fun.
All different kinds of flood like hunters and brutes.
Just bumped mine up to high and had been playing on low, looks phenomenal on all settings really. The lightning and geometry on objects is really something else.
Is it just me or does it or stereoscopic 3D more, or just more effective than other games? Couple scenes really made me notice it in ways I haven't before especially when
the vortigaunt pops his head out at you through the lil window on his hide out in the sewers
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This game revolutionizes VR graphics. I am shocked at how good it looks.
Vibration is used well to simulate touch. I could lean over a balcony while I was given a vibrating cue for when my hands are touching the railing. I saw a woman biking away. I forgot it wasn't reality for a few seconds. Moving a dial on a radio was also on fleek.
The movement systems, hand system and gameplay info are all top notch. With that said, I couldn't open a matchbox, or the pages of a book, or take a VHS tape out of its sleeve. Clearly VR controls still have a ways to go.
There is some 3D/VR wonkiness and you must adjust your fingers well on the Index before playing or the middle finger might not be properly recognized. I managed to insert a bike into a wall and to clip into some walls. There are many objects that are non-interactive such as a tv settings sliders. Room for improvement there but nothing unforgivable.
That's what I got from 1h of gameplay.
Vibration is used well to simulate touch. I could lean over a balcony while I was given a vibrating cue for when my hands are touching the railing. I saw a woman biking away. I forgot it wasn't reality for a few seconds. Moving a dial on a radio was also on fleek.
The movement systems, hand system and gameplay info are all top notch. With that said, I couldn't open a matchbox, or the pages of a book, or take a VHS tape out of its sleeve. Clearly VR controls still have a ways to go.
There is some 3D/VR wonkiness and you must adjust your fingers well on the Index before playing or the middle finger might not be properly recognized. I managed to insert a bike into a wall and to clip into some walls. There are many objects that are non-interactive such as a tv settings sliders. Room for improvement there but nothing unforgivable.
That's what I got from 1h of gameplay.
I'm glad snap rotation is an option. I've been using that along with shift movement. I haven't had a headache yet. I did try smooth locomotion and turning my head to move about and it instantly gave me a mild spinning sensation. Noped out of that real quick.
Use the jump function on the right stick. It's basically the same thing as the shift teleporting. Continuous + jump is the best of both worlds tbh.
I don't have a wireless kit since I'm playing with a WMR headset, but I largely stopped using the snap rotation after the first hour or so. Yeah, sometimes I'll turn 270 degrees to the left instead of 90 degrees to the right because I don't want to get wrapped up in the cable, but its still a better solution than snap turning.
The big trick, honestly, is to think about it from the perspective of the game: you want to give your throw nuance -- exaggerate the action, but don't worry about "speed" -- and then just release. If you're talking about accuracy, sure, it can be tricky, but sometimes people botch it because they are trying to throw too hard or too fast, and most VR games don't put too much stock into that. They just want exaggerated movements. It's like throwing the boxes and breaking them on the ground: next time, just grab them, hold them up, and then do an exagerated and slow arc downward and release; you'll get the same result.
I've tried making products involving throwing objects in the past, I did a whole basketball thing for the Rockets that involved throwing basketballs. I can't stress enough how impressive valve's physics for throwing things are here. It feels natural, and I don't know what kind of wizardry they are doing to achieve it. I have never felt another VR game nail the feeling of throwing stuff so well, even entire games that revolve around physics and throwing items, like H3.
If you've never actually tried to make this kind of system before, you just can't appreciate how impressive it is. That saying, "when you do something right, nobody will be sure you've done anything at all" applies.
If you've never actually tried to make this kind of system before, you just can't appreciate how impressive it is. That saying, "when you do something right, nobody will be sure you've done anything at all" applies.
I'm in Chapter 3, looking for a battery for a train section -- can't find it anywhere. Just those bad guy lockers with one weird alien disc in it -- can someone point me in the right direction? I'm genuinely stuck.