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Half-Life Alyx |OT| The right woman in the right place
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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Headcrab attack made me jump backwards, hit the bookshelf, ripped the cable from the PC, had to restart.
The sense of place is uncanny. Valve could say "VR starts now" and nobody would dispute their claim.
The sense of place is uncanny. Valve could say "VR starts now" and nobody would dispute their claim.
Just bought a Rift S from the Oculus store, and I'm suddenly finding myself having to soak up all the lore in the next few days. Haven't played a HL game for years and remember next to nothing. Will be fun! Also I've never tried VR!
Holy shit I just got grenades.
With the abundance of nades they give you in the first few rooms, I was frugal and had plenty left over. I filled both my pockets and tossed the rest with me down the hall to the next combat encounter with the combine and wrecked shop. Tossing these things around is so much damn fun.
did you see the dev video they put out a while back? Really awesome insight into the design process:
Mind blowing part: They DID give you a tutorial. They consider that entire opening chapter a very long, very well designed tutorial that they put together with tons and tons of player testing.
It's not that they didn't give you a tutorial, its that their tutorial is so well designed that people don't even notice it.
You should try and make a quick play-through of at least the Half Life 2 episodes.
If this is your first taste of VR I can't imagine how mind blowing this will be, please post impressions. I haven't seen too many people whose first taste of VR is Half Life Alyx. As someone who's been deep into VR since 2013 already, and thus has seen the progression to this point, Alyx is still blowing my mind, so I'm actually envious of someone who gets to jump into the deep end right from the get go. When I first got my DK1, the novelty of being in VR alone, with no positional tracking and no hand tracking, was so strong alone that it mesmorized. You're going to get both your astonishment at what VR is, PLUS the astonishment of seeing a game this well put together in VR, all at once.
I can't imagine how mind blowning Alyx must be for a first time experience. I've been deep into VR and it's still making me go "Woah", and I'm not even that far into the game.
It really takes all the ideas and concepts that previous VR games have had and combines them together into one incredible package.
I haven't watched it, but I get what they're saying, I never felt I can't do something because the game didn't tell me about it, it's just it doesn't give you directions or objective markers to stuff, you go and explore and you'll know what you need to do when you see it, I just love that approach, even in normal games, Dark Souls comes to mind in that regard.
Holy crap do I feel like an idiot. Yeah that makes things way better. I literally had to switch in the options a couple times cause I had a tough time maneuvering through certain parts.
My dad played through most of the day with me yesterday -- he has his own headset and has been right by my side in this whole VR thing since 2013. He's 70 and doesn't really play video games. He used to back in the Sega Master System days, but modern video game controls are too much for him. 12 buttons and 2 thumbsticks and a dpad and all that. He honestly has no idea how to hold a modern game controller, let alone use one.
So VR is a big deal for him because the abstraction barrier is so low that he can get it instantly. It's really just two buttons and a trigger at the easiest teleportation settings. You don't have to teach him how to aim in VR, he already knows how to do it from IRL experience. He played Doom VFR, but that's a much different beast from a modern narrative driven game, the sort that dominate the market.
So Half Life Alyx is basically his introduction to modern gaming after being away for like 30 years, and he keeps telling me outloud that he "never thought something like this could exist." He says he doesn't feel like he's played a game, it's more like he lived through something incredible, like an actual experience he has memories of.
Half Life Alyx is so damn cool, it makes me so excited about where VR games are going. I want more games of this quality, perhaps in wildly different settings. VR feels like you get to live an action movie.
This is really touching. And also super exciting, when you imagine what us modern players might experience in another 30 years. It will probably be like magic.
If we continue playing during that time, then the jumps may feel more incremental than what your dad describes, but if the reaction to Alyx is anything to go by, we should still be in for some treats.
Oh man, this is making me really, really excited! Nice to hear Alyx is still blowing your mind after all this this time in VR. Hope i won't be too much for me haha. It will arrive around april 2. Will definitely post impressions around then!
Was thinking of starting with black mesa actually, then working my way up as I got a little bit of time on my hands.
One thing I love about HL:A is how much of a throw back it is to classic game design. Entirely single player campaign, no online elements, no regenerating health. It's cutting edge and endearingly classic at the same time.
Don't have the game but watched all the plathroughs and have been reading the thread. I'm enthralled by how absolutely in love you are with this game. It's infectious haha
It's very easily one of the best games I've ever played, it's a watershed moment for gaming and I've been following video games very closely for over 30 years now. It feels like one of those moments you know people are going to look back and remember. I haven't felt this feeling like it's a new frontier in gaming in a very long time. It's a tantalizing peak into the future of games, something I've been talking endlessly about for the last 7 years. Like, it's finally here.
If you stay close to them they'll just waddle away from you. Just keep your gun pointed at their stomach while they waddle around, and eventually they'll try and raise up on you, and you pretty much get a free kill on them.
you can also flip them over with objects in the game. Grab something and throw it at them the right way and they can flip over exposing their weak spot.
Do aggree. Or at least let us pick em up and toss em out a window.
Didn't even think of doing that. I just like staying close to them so they try and waddle away to try and get distance on me.
Just a heads up for Oculus users with performance issues, found some redditors that claim updating to the Oculus public test channel might significantly help. Not sure what headset these people were using, but my guess is Quest + Link considering I have a CV1 and it works fine plus some complaints Quest users seem to be having. If it doesn't work/causes other issues, just opt back out and restart computer/OVRserver process and it should revert. Check your updates to see if it's downloading for both opt in/out.
Thank you a ton for quoting me, I wouldn't have seen this tonight otherwise. HERE WE GO!!
Guys, I needed to reach over the doors to take out the metal bar locking it from the other side.
I leaned in the door to peak around and see what was ahead and realized I was in a video game. There was nothing IRL to support me and I fell to the ground.
This shit is insane.
Also, the sound design... do we have a candidate for best sound design if all time?
I leaned in the door to peak around and see what was ahead and realized I was in a video game. There was nothing IRL to support me and I fell to the ground.
This shit is insane.
Also, the sound design... do we have a candidate for best sound design if all time?
You can technically kill headcrabs with bricks and other heavy things but it's pretty difficult to tell when you're damaging them and really doesn't feel right.
Sorry if it's been answered already, but does anybody know if there's a away to maximize the social screen? I'd like to make it easier for my wife to watch.
Alt-enter doesn't work?
Also did you check the spectator settings in the game?
Maybe their next attempt they'll learn from Blade & Sorcery and improve on the melee.
Yeah I'm wondering if that's a way they'll differentiate Half Life 3 from Alyx.
Holy fuck, chapter 5 :|
Look, y'all, if you're having ... issues with the black headcrab spiders -- just get over it. Do everything you can to get over it.
edit: also, *everyone* should be getting the laser sight for the pistol. Save up for it, it is TOTALLY worth it if you have issues aiming. You can actually aim from the hip with it easily.
Look, y'all, if you're having ... issues with the black headcrab spiders -- just get over it. Do everything you can to get over it.
edit: also, *everyone* should be getting the laser sight for the pistol. Save up for it, it is TOTALLY worth it if you have issues aiming. You can actually aim from the hip with it easily.
Everything about Alyx but melee combat like Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners mixed with Blade and Sorcery? You couldn't make a better game. Games would just have to stop after that.
I have no problems pulling ammo out from over my left shoulder.
when you go to switch your weapons, it should show a visual display of exactly how much ammo you have for your weapon. Verify that you actually have ammo. If you do, the hot spot for where your ammo is is near your left ear.
yeah its saying zero and I've tried reloading the game, so I'm restarting and verifying files.
so there's a possibility that you might have been accidentally dropping your ammo when you went to store it? If you are doing it correctly, you should hear a relatively distinctive sound when you let go of the ammo that sounds like a bag rustling or something. Do what you normally do and then check the floor to see if you accidentally have discarded the ammo. If that is what is happening and you are placing it in the right spot then it could be an occlusion issue or something — consider running through the steamvr room scale setup tool again to make sure everything is correct.
Are you hearing the confirmation "chirp" when you're storing the ammo? Also, are you using a Quest or WMR headset? Someone earlier here with a Quest/Link was having shotgun shells not completely go into their inventory when he stored them.
Submit a Steam ticket. This could possibly pass for a game related issue.
Have never had it fail on the Rift-S which also uses inside-out tracking so I dunno.
You know, I thought about that after the fact. I'm still thinking with video game brain and not enough real world brain.