I will 100% be playing this again on the hardest difficulty and spending some more time looking at things in detail. This will be the VR benchmark for years to come.
This is absolutely where that genre should go, but I worry so many have disappointed financially that we won't see many more made anytime soon, especially not for a "riskier" medium.
I feel like i stopped at the beginning of 3 and the only enemies I saw were barnacles up to that point.
All those faux-pick lockpicking mini-games would suddenly have a gameplay purpose
It's funny you mention how much more comfortable the Rift S is. I personally wasn't a fan of the Halo design on the PSVR and preferred my Rift CV1 comfort wise. Never liked how bulky it was and how it put pressure on my forehead. The Index is sort of a hybrid between the two designs and it's my favorite comfort wise of the 3 devices(CV1, PSVR, Index) I've owned. Tons of people rave about the PSVR(Halo) being the most comfortable of the manufactures but I just was never too hot on it. Comfort is a very personal thing that varies from person to person as it turns out lol
You can actually do the squeeze on Rift controllers too, by squeezing both grip and trigger and one of the face buttons (forget which) - you can pick up a soda can like in the opening scene and crush it by doing this.
I'm pretty sure they're in chapter 2.
Would you say you really took your time exploring? That's a nice length.
I know that's true for the TPCast, but that's not the case for the Vive solution. The system/steamvr can't tell the difference (even if it has received software updates overtime to account for the accessory), but the DisplayLink Software HTC licensed does realtime compression of your videocard's output on the CPU before sending it to the vendor locked intel equipment that comes with the kit. The performance cost increases significantly in the jump from the OG vive to the Vive Pro, even giving people with 9700k/9900k's trouble.
I had no idea about the cost increase from the OG Vive to Vive Pro. I have the OG Vive and bought the wireless adapter and started using it about two weeks ago, and hadn't really noticed a difference. I'm using an i9-9900k.
Absolutely. Can't wait to replay this, over and over.
Yep, from about 80% picture quality on the OG to under 50% on the Pro (if you go by the math I did based on that reddit post). Higher resolution=Needs more compression=Needs more power to fit in the ~5 gb/s limitation. Quest users should breath a sigh of relief that Oculus Link uses their GPU for compression instead. The DisplayLink software does scale linearly with more threads, I think up to 24 (I cannot find the reddit post where I gleaned that from, so YMMV).
TBH I have barely noticed a difference in picture quality from wireless vs wired. Even if it's really as much as 80% of it on the OG Vive, it's worth it IMO. Alyx still looks great on wireless.
Oh yeah this, even with a 2x2 meters play space I feel anxious not to hit a wall...
You're absolutely right, its very clean and there's basically no latency. Most of the compression is in the color information/contrast. I never want to go back to the wire!
The literal first second of the game spoils the very last thing that happens in Episode Two.
There is one chapter coming up a few chapters ahead of where you are you are not gonna like then, hahaha.
I heard about the real fucked up headcrabs and I am dreading it. There was a moment last night where I literally backed up into my couch, lol. Glad I had my back to it.
