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[Tested] Half-Life: Alyx Hands-On! Tested on 8 VR Headsets
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Boneworks didn't really do it for me, although it was quite fun. Hoping H-L: A does all the physics fun stuff whilst also providing a good story.
lol doubt they tested something below min spec (I really need to replace my 970 soon...)
They played it for 4 hours and give impressions. Oculus, Vive, and Odyssey controllers get about as much screentime as the Index ones. This isn't a video about the Index.
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They actually talk about what goes into developing the world and what differences there are with the VR headsets, etc. They talk about some in-depth stuff but it isn't obviously a comprehensive review of the actual game, it is "just" a hands-on. It's more impressions than it is an advertisement. They go very in-depth with some of the VR stuff though.
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There IS new footage in this video. It is off-screen, but there's actually quite a lot. (Although a bunch is in the same/similar areas)
For people trying to stay blind: It's a lot of 10-45 second clips of them playing Half Life: Alyx with the screen of gameplay right behind them.
(If you just want to hear more about the game you can absolutely just listen to this video without watching it)
Footage includes things like
Shooting zombies while going through the interior of a train
Throwing grenades(?) at enemies and into the tongues of Barnacles
Moving around physics objects (He shakes a box with a couple things in it which looked kinda cool)
Pulling things with the "Grabbidy" Gloves
Walking through some sewer(?) sections
He kills a headcrab and picks it up to look at its underside
tl;dr: Looks spicy. They talk about a lot of interesting VR stuff.
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The Valve Index exists so you can comfortably watch the entire full-length Fresh Prince intro in VR
Will: "I would play on everything we used today, maybe not so much the [Vive] Cosmos"
They also mention how the front heavy headsets (Quest, OG Vive) aren't great for long play sessions (however Oculus Link works very well) and recommend to mod the Quest with the Deluxe Audio Strap.
just got to that part, it really sounds like the quest just needs to fix their strap situation to be the best bang for the buck solution for vr.
though i think i'm gunna go with the index. i'm betting valve will release a wireless mod at some point.
I've played quite a bit of it (in Boneworks) and IMO its not noticable much at all, the stream is very high quality. The wireless inside-out solutions of the Quest are so good that I'd still recommend it over any other headset rn.
I can't decide if I'd rather play this on my Rift CV1 or my Quest.
I find the Quest quite uncomfortable compared to the Rift, but the Quest is easier for 360 degree play but the Rift will be fine for sitting down play.
I find the Quest quite uncomfortable compared to the Rift, but the Quest is easier for 360 degree play but the Rift will be fine for sitting down play.
Definitely an awesome look at the game. Surprised by some of the meatier changes to more fundamental Half-Life gameplay -- like having what appears to be 3 health units rather than 100 health / armor -- and of course utilizing iron sights for essentially everything you do in VR is going to slow things down a lot but also bring those things closer to you, making the experience much more intense.
From the VR side, it looks like movements are really fluid, and there's clearly a lot of polish on display even here. I love the idea of reaching behind you to grab ammunition, and the quick reload / muscle memory stuff. Throwing especially looks fucking great. So much of what Half-Life is is going to adapt almost flawlessly here.
Excited to see more up close and with some accompanying sound. An oddly candid look, too, at all the headsets, so Valve isn't puting the lens through which we're viewing the game (figuratively and literally-speaking) on a pedestal. Makes it even more likely that the TGA absense was due to a technical problem.
From the VR side, it looks like movements are really fluid, and there's clearly a lot of polish on display even here. I love the idea of reaching behind you to grab ammunition, and the quick reload / muscle memory stuff. Throwing especially looks fucking great. So much of what Half-Life is is going to adapt almost flawlessly here.
Excited to see more up close and with some accompanying sound. An oddly candid look, too, at all the headsets, so Valve isn't puting the lens through which we're viewing the game (figuratively and literally-speaking) on a pedestal. Makes it even more likely that the TGA absense was due to a technical problem.
One of the hosts stated he could see the compression in volumetrics like fog/smoke effects and text was harder to read on the Quest vs the Rift S. One of them said the Quest was uncomfortable using the link cable and his neck was sore after 30 min from the headset being front heavy.
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Yeah, luckily if you set your quality levels right you can help fix this a bit. Wont be really fixed fully until we get the 3.1 cable speed support though probably
The detail on that headcrab is insane when he picks it up to examine it. Giveittomenow.gif
This makes me really want the knuckles controllers. Maybe I'll order after the holiday craze (and probably get it in Spring 2020 :P).
This makes me really want the knuckles controllers. Maybe I'll order after the holiday craze (and probably get it in Spring 2020 :P).
I'm surprised they're fine with just showing off screen footage after the big TGA debut got cancelled. The graphics are excellent.
Can't watch the full video rn, but was the bolded tested on a Quest? I imagine that would be a pretty quick way to run into tracking issues for all the people who bought a Link to play this.
For anyone looking into a more affordable VR headset the Samsung Odyssey + is a great option. On sale now for $230USD, usually is on sale for $300. Comes ready out of the box, though I do suggest you purchase the third party headstrap and possibly the leather face guard cover thingy too.
Haha...I hate reloading in games,it always seems to happen at the wrong moment so I am not sure actually having to do all the reload movements with my hands while I am getting shot at will be something I like ;) but damn,this looks great.
Maybe just me, but this reads like a bad blackmail email in a bad movie lol. What?
I'd have to watch the video again, but I don't think anyone ran into any occlusion issues with getting at ammo. It just looked like a gesture-based thing, but also they did say some functions were ultimately mapped to buttons on other devices because of some of those differences. They said the experience was good on every piece of hardware for the most part.
Diving them into two/four buttons is a pretty common thing. It works fine, feels kind of like weapon switching on a 360 controller dpad.
