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Half Life: Alyx - Reveal Trailer & Interview (March 2020 for SteamVR)
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Looks fantastic. Half-life visuals using modern tech is a beauty.
The obvious hands-on approach to guns and having a double-barrel shotgunpistol which requires plenty of manual reloading... will bring out the John Wick in all of us. And having to properly loot for and pick up individual shells to defend yourself with. It doesn't re-invent the VR wheel (from what seen in this short trailer) but it goes all in on the tried and true with thoughtful implementation (the shotgunpistol being a good example) and a proper AAA budget.
A tent pole title for the medium. Will be playing it with an Oculus Quest w/Link unless we manage to get a Valve Index in the office.
The obvious hands-on approach to guns and having a double-barrel shot
A tent pole title for the medium. Will be playing it with an Oculus Quest w/Link unless we manage to get a Valve Index in the office.
A prequel? Eh... Like it looks good, but I'm not trying to go through a retelling of Half Life 2.
The second I saw City 17 for the first time since Episode 2...
You and me.
I was already interested on the Index, but hesitated on the price. Not anymore.
Yeah, why not?
Asgard's wrath looks amazing and it's out, I would get an Higher res headset, but the vive tracking is awesome so I dunno.
Unless those people have at least 5 worthwhile VR games they want to play then they have more money than sense, same goes with consoles above £300.
Any word on how long they're doing the index deal? I won't be living in a place that could even support VR until May.
I might need a drink or two to calm my nerves before having to deal with those headcrabs. Horror in VR is not my thing but I have to play this.
It's before HL2... so not a retelling or a different perspective
Yes, and many do right now.
No. If you want a solution without base stations, you'll want to buy system with inside-out tracking. Consider a Rift S
or a Vive Cosmos.
or if you want to save, the Oculus Quest should provide an acceptable experience, albeit sub-optimal.
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That said, I remain a big fan of the base stations if your environment can support their setup. They're just a little bit more consistent right now.
And people who only bought the controllers, great promotion from Valve.
You won't be playing it at all since there will be no tracking
wat. The quest has better tracking than the cosmos and is on par if not better than the Rift SYes, and many do right now.
No. If you want a solution without base stations, you'll want to buy system with inside-out tracking. Consider a Rift S
or a Vive Cosmos.
or if you want to save, the Oculus Quest should provide an acceptable experience, albeit sub-optimal.
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As tkato said, you wouldn't be able to play at all due to not having any tracking (Index/OG Vive/OG Rift=base station tracking required). However, remember that this is NOT an Index exclusive, so you can play on a Quest/Rift S or a WMR set (from my experience, tracking is far better on Rift S/Quest than WMR, thanks to extra cameras). Those headsets don't require any external tracking solution.
You know what I mean. The lore of Alyx and her father was known before Gordon comes into play in HL2. This is basically the playable version of it.
Looks fucking great and I hope to be able to play it somewhere around next year.
To the people upset about it being VR only: something like this had to happen eventually. The VR platform was bound to get an exclusive game big enough to attract this kind of attention and controversy and it just happened to be Half-Life. However, I think Valve was still careful enough to not make it actually HL3 but instead a prequel, as I'm sure HL3 is actually coming after this and it will support both traditional platforms and VR, as Valve wouldn't be daring enough to also make HL3 a VR exclusive.
To the people upset about it being VR only: something like this had to happen eventually. The VR platform was bound to get an exclusive game big enough to attract this kind of attention and controversy and it just happened to be Half-Life. However, I think Valve was still careful enough to not make it actually HL3 but instead a prequel, as I'm sure HL3 is actually coming after this and it will support both traditional platforms and VR, as Valve wouldn't be daring enough to also make HL3 a VR exclusive.
Oh bummer, I wanted to buy it staggered so I could offset the cost.
I prefer giving the money to Valve than to Facebook. I'll start saving then.
Heart please hold on.
If I buy an Index now will I get the game free still?
also please tell me what PC to build for this k thanks
also please tell me what PC to build for this k thanks
That's like saying it'll never be Christmas when it's November 21st.
If that's the case, and you really want that experience, you can buy a used Vive headset, that will get you all you need but the index controllers, which you can buy and will work with the original lighthouse of the Vive.
This. I have not done a ton of VR gaming, but the floating hands/items is a bit weird. Outside of that, this looks fucking great.
My big question is how long of a game this is? Seems like anything VR that is really good is really short. Astrobot on PSVR is fantastic but damn is short.
I see this as a necessary bridge to get there, a project where they can learn AAA VR game development, they really are in uncharted waters in a lot of ways. They can take all this knowledge going forward and make the ultimate game with HL3, should HL: Alyx be successful.
Tom Francis has known of the game for 4.5 years, and folks like myself pointed out this may well be why when he randomly went to do his own work at Valve for period.
Quiet shout out to those of us that pointed it out, and obviously Tom Francis - who managed to keep that secret safe!
Now can someone tell me how modders will mod this to pancake gaming? Do people think modders will make a ton of canned animations for these types of interactions?
Inside the headset, unless you've got properly tracked arms (and I hope we get there tbh) floating hands are less distracting. Valve have been prototyping this stuff for years. I know it sounds counter intuitive, but for them not to be there is preferable to them not lining up. You get used to them being missing and then forget about it, but if they're there, every time they're glitching or lined up inappropriately it takes you out of the experience.
