Tyler lacks some critical thinking sometimes. Valve has heavily worked with physics since HL2 and even the VR playhouse in Steam has physic elements with the toys you can move around. Heck, they have now their own physics engine separate from Havok that they internally developed! They probably liked the game and tested it but not to the degree he says.
It would explain why the Index bundle game is shipping like a year late.
I mean the vast vast majority disagree. You're entitled to your own opinion, but it's one that hardly anyone else would agree with.
His list of getting things wrong is much longer than getting things right.
A lot of games ask you to pick a dominant hand so that they know which one to put any hand specific interactions on (usually UI elements). Other games might actually restrict which hand can hold things like your weapon (see No Man's Sky).
The part where you were never impressed from pre-release to release.
I think its more to do with having the option for the movement analog stick be on the right hand instead of the left hand.
Ah yeah. Stuff like that too. Anything that's specific to one hand instead of mirrored on both.
That's a pretty generous read. He says the game only has "physics based interactions" because of Boneworks and specifically mentions the part in the trailer with the ammo behind the boxes as being an example of impressive physics interactions.
I could see Valve being more distant on naming it a HL game until they had launched the first proper HL game on VR and Valve might have wanted to wait until after that to allow them. Still, I dont believe the Physics part mainly because Valve has an inhouse physics engine built for VR. Physics were always going to be a thing in HLA.
Mostly, it could use the capacitative touch on the grab button to make your fingers not stick out straight all the time...
Do you own a VR headset or is this entirely speculation based off of footage you've seen? Because when it comes to VR, the actual experience of being immersed in a world, the feeling of your brain being tricked into actually believing you're in that space...it's incomparable to watching footage of the game.
Is this enough for you?
Anecdotal but other than the Viveport software being complete ass and fucking up the Link one time for me, Oculus Link has been flawless. Works as expected with no glitches.
