If you're on Discord and streaming through that it'll allow you to stream directly from the game which creates the Spectator mode view for people. I dunno if it does the same thing with Twitch or recording, but it seems like things can read Alyx separately from SteamVR which hasn't been in the case in the past in my experience.
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Half-Life Alyx |OT| The right woman in the right place
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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as long as Half Life 2, or roughly twice as long as Episode 1 and 2 combined.
Look around your environment, specifically off to the right.
Played for appr. 2 hours. Really like it so far, happy there are plenty of difficulty levels to choose from.
Only negative thing for me is the lack of smooth turning. Why??? I know it's one of the worst offenders when it comes to motion sickness, but it's so much better if you can handle it. (I'm hoping I just didn't see the option and someone tells me where to find it)
Only negative thing for me is the lack of smooth turning. Why??? I know it's one of the worst offenders when it comes to motion sickness, but it's so much better if you can handle it. (I'm hoping I just didn't see the option and someone tells me where to find it)
Wow this game is really mind blowing, at parts it feels like a ride at Disneyland. And I fucking love the gravity gloves mechanic and the little sound it makes when you yoink an object towards yourself.
Played for about 2 hours and it's just amazing, had to stop because my back is killing me.
Had an odd bug though, in the train my left hand just disappeared. Reloading the save and the issue persisted, same with restarting the game and then the save. Reloading to an earlier save solved it.
Apart from that, just such a fun experience. Cant wait to pick it up again tomorrow. Boneworks was the first real VR game I really enjoyed and thought wow, and this just continues that in a different way. Just love it.
Had an odd bug though, in the train my left hand just disappeared. Reloading the save and the issue persisted, same with restarting the game and then the save. Reloading to an earlier save solved it.
Apart from that, just such a fun experience. Cant wait to pick it up again tomorrow. Boneworks was the first real VR game I really enjoyed and thought wow, and this just continues that in a different way. Just love it.
Yeah wow. Damn. Just. Damn
Holy shit.
This game man, this game.
Follow the wire and trust the eye
Holy shit.
This game man, this game.
Follow the wire and trust the eye
There is a big grey box with some buttons on your right, after exiting the tunnel from where you came (not the cave with the glowing paintings). The eye shows you which buttons to push.
It's actually for my husband to watch in the room while I play. The HUD and camera smoothing are great, but it not being full screen makes it much less compelling to watch, unfortunately.
It's completely fine on CV1, I've been playing for a couple of hours and it's great.
Are you on the latest Nvidia driver package? The HL:A game ready package?
Im sad reading this reactions. The game is constantly crashing for me.
1080ti
8700k
Oculus Rift
new drivers for everything.
Crying.
1080ti
8700k
Oculus Rift
new drivers for everything.
Crying.
MetaCritic: 93
EDGE: 9/10
" Every Half-Life game has had its defining tool. Half-Life: Alyx has the Gravity Gloves. Here is what the Gloves actually do: they extend out the range of your arms in VR, enabling you to reach any item you can see. So the Gloves don't revolutionise interactivity in quite the way their forebears did — they're arguably more solution than invention. But that's all in service of the larger leap in interaction, as Alyx removes the keyboard-and-mouse-shaped barrier between you and Half-Life's world, and lets you get your hands dirty. The hole the Gravity Gun was patching over, we start to realise, was that tapping E to grab a crate and hold it in your hands never quite felt satisfying — so instead HL2 gave you a superpower, the ability to blast objects around as if they were weightless. Alyx goes the other way: you don't need to fling objects because, not only can you pick them up and hold them, you can sweep them aside dramatically or prod with one outstretched finger to see if it'll cause them to topple. These are the nuances of motion Alyx is interested in — letting you express yourself in the way you open a door or handle a rag-dolled body. Every action comes with added physicality. "
VRForums: 100
"You know perfectly well that Valve wasn't going to make a flagship VR title using its beloved Half-Life franchise and do a half-arsed job. A stunningly rich experience from start to finish, Half-Life: Alyx is one of the best VR titles available, a perfect showcase for what VR gaming is capable of. It doesn't exactly break new ground, instead providing familiar Half-Life gameplay all wrapped up in a highly polished VR gift bag. Let's just hope this is the start of things to come and Valve decides to make another Half-Life: Alyx."
VG237: 5/5
" We're in an unprecedented moment in time and we're all scared, we all have our worries – whether it's about family members, yourself, or losing your job. In these crazy times it's so hard to focus on anything, but a VR set and Alyx is like your own personal headcrab, blocking out the senses and letting you puppeteer someone through a series of events where you're the sole agent of change. Where you don't feel powerless. Alyx's main fault is its hardware barrier – I wish more people could afford to experience it. The last thing we need is more people locked off from each other. My neighbours might be quiet, but if we all open our windows at the same time, we'll hear the same birds singing their song. "
GameInformer: 9/10
" Half Life: Alyx is a must-play game worthy of the series' legacy. Despite some puzzles and encounters that feel like filler, the overall experience is strong. The stunning setpieces, beautiful world, and smart writing stand out no matter the medium, and mark a return to form for Valve. If you were waiting for a killer app before you made the investment into virtual reality, this is it. "
IGN: 10/10
" Back when VR first became a real thing and we all started spitballing which game worlds we'd most like to be fully immersed in, Half-Life topped my list (tied with BioShock). It took a few years, but Half-Life: Alyx has more than realized that potential. With it, Valve has set a new bar for VR in interactivity, detail, and level design, showing what can happen when a world-class developer goes all-in on the new frontier of technology. In a lot of ways, it feels like a game from the future, and one that the rest of VR gaming will likely take a good long while to match, much less surpass. "
PC Gamer: 92.100
" The ending is, frankly, wonderful, surprising, exciting, not to mention more than a bit puzzling when you really stop to think about it. I'm eager to see Half-Life fans react and dissect and discuss it, as I'm sure they will for months afterwards, and it makes all sorts of follow-ups to Half-Life: Alyx seem possible. I just fervently hope whatever that follow-up is, that Valve (please, please) doesn't make us wait another 13 years for it. "
Not even breaking 50,000 players? 93 Metacritic rating? this game is dead on arrival guys.
I knew this game was a mistake, the only way to fix this is somehow this game retconned Episode 2 and we got to play a real Half-Life game with Gordan Freeman.
Sigh.
I'm at chapter 3 and completely in awe. This is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life, hands down.
So, question, on the index controllers, does anyone know how to toggle between single and burst fire on the pistol?
I know this is satire but man, sub 50k for a freaking Half Life game absolutely sucks. Luckily Valve had a pretty expensive gadget to sell which would help.
so has anyone found any good no commentary playthroughs yet... i found a few but the couple i did find had the annoying subtitles on, and the ones that dont only uploaded like 2 hours .. -__- guess its really gonna be til the end of the week until a decent NC HD play-through is out. :(
Playing HL:A is so exciting in a way that's hard to quantify. You know you're basically playing the absolute top of the line technology right now when you play with it. That something like this finally exists is part of the joy.
I think you'll see the number go up quite a bit as the work day wraps up.
Think Valve has repeatedly said to replay HL2 and the episodes before playing, so.....yeh?
Played for two and a half uninterrupted hours straight and am only just taking a break because my Quest needs to recharge. Game is fucking wonderful. I'm up to Chapter 4 and so far, may favourite part in spoilers...
Tony Todd was the absolute highlight for me. He's an incredible Vort and was great in the Episodes, but holy shit I was howling at that him and that entire interaction! "My brain... ow!"
The story is one of the absolute best part of the half life universe (and portal is a very big part of that story, too). HL:A is the latest chapter in a long running story with lots of details. It very much expects you to be caught up with things.
To give a comparison, it's kind of like jumping into MGS3 without knowing the previous MGS stories.
VD was extremely stuttery for me at the start, which caused me to switch to Link (in a much smaller room), but giving it a second try now it seems to work just fine, and the game loads a lot faster than before, which makes me wonder if there was just some more going on under the hood on initial launch. Definitely switching to Virtual Desktop for here on out!
Maybe, but just some perspective as someone who keeps tabs on concurrent VR players: Boneworks had the next most concurrent players as far as I'm aware, and it peaked at about 8k (and has probably sold close to a half million copies). This is over 5x that.
2 hours in...can't play any more as I need a break from standing up now despite the time having absolutely flew by.
As a Half Life fan back to 1998 this shit is just truly incredible. I actually had a tear in my eye when the second Strider went by (the one that takes out Russel's drone).
Have not noticed anything personally.
As a Half Life fan back to 1998 this shit is just truly incredible. I actually had a tear in my eye when the second Strider went by (the one that takes out Russel's drone).
Have not noticed anything personally.
How does the game hold up in Quest ? I would like to know more about visual fidelity. I sold off my oculus headset and have been debating whether I should put $1000 towards Index or if Quest will work fine for this.
Try disable/enable (depending on what's your current setting) Shadercache in your Nvidia settings.
Also set energy settings in Nvidia settings to maximum performance.
Also check your Windows Energy settings and set them to highest performance.
I've been very impressed, specifically with how the OLED screen responds to low light areas. The FOV/refresh rate of the Quest is less than the Index, but the option to play wirelessly makes up for it for me, and visually looks really nice, even if it means holding newspapers up closer to my face than usual, in order to be able to read the text on them.
Just trying to get some clarification, is the not being able to disable the snap turning bug happening to everyone or is it just an issue for particular headset/controller setups?
Hoping for a quick fix as I'd much rather continue this journey with smooth turning instead of the immersion factor being reduced every time I turn.
Hoping for a quick fix as I'd much rather continue this journey with smooth turning instead of the immersion factor being reduced every time I turn.
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In Alyx's apartment if you point the camera towards the black square that is painted in the window is that the G-Man you see in the camera's viewfinder or my eyes are playing tricks?
More fun on this front - the game has released on a Monday. As a Single player experience, those on a binge may finish the game pretty soon. Sunday would usually be the day to see the peak concurrent users, but that Monday release may change that. Curious to see where it lands.
Regardless, only 3hrs or so in, and I love it. The best VR experience I've had in so many ways and the game is pretty incredible all ready!
Not to mention Boneworks released a month after the Alyx trailer hit, so in addition to being the VR darling of the moment, it also caught a big wave of interest at a time when headset stock was relatively plentiful. Alyx's peak of ~45k may be a far cry from, say, Skyrim's ~280k, but it's actually higher than I would've guessed.
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