You literally just confirmed what I was saying, that he didn't write all the dialogue in the Lab.
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Half-Life: Alyx Announced
- Thread starter Nzyme32
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Inb4 this ain't enough and people complain that valve don't make games
On topic happy half life fans finally get another game!
On topic happy half life fans finally get another game!
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Why would you jump to that, when Valve created OpenVR - the open vendor agnostic API, and donated it to Khronos Group as the foundation for OpenXR - the open api for VR / AR hardware, for which most companies have unified on, even the Sony and MS are collaborating on it
SteamVR is based on that - vendor agnostic to hardware - this is what Valve do - support the Open PC ecosystem
After being burned so bad with EP3 I am a little jaded. But god damn if HL isn't my favorite (and I would argue most influential) franchise ever.
A little giddy with what this may be...
A little giddy with what this may be...
I'm assuming you've used a Vive or Rift that was setup correctly on a PC powerful enough?
never played half life or half life 2 but im excited to see what this is, I gotta save up for pc vr
Steam is headset agnostic and Valve doesnt believe in exclusives (that doesn't mean they will go out of their way to release on other platforms). You should be able to play with HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality
Some people don't like VR and some people don't want another expensive purchase for just one game.
what part of Valve's history indicates that they would do something like this
these posts are sad, literally can't be excited about anything and have to just think of every possible bad thing that's going to ruin it
Enthusiasts will notice things like... higher resolution, field of view, colours, shadow smearing, brightness, lots of lil technical things.
Casual user will probably just notice the different in hand input. We have wands, Touch controllers (partial finger tracking) and Index Controllers (full finger tracking + no grip strap)
I think we expect the physics stuff to be amazing but aside from this I'm most interested to see just what HL: Alyx looks like. A continuation of The Lab/Portal aesthetic, or perhaps a much bigger bump in detail than that? VR doesn't need melting face visuals to get its point across but it certainly helps. Regardless the wait for Thursday...cartmanfreeze.jpg
Oh do I have a thread for you
Yes, I know worse tracking is one of the disadvantages. But they probably have a much better cost benefit than a Vive. I only used the Vive I have. I would wait for the list of compatible vr headsets with this game to begin considering a purchase. I just saw an Acer 1440p headset for $200 on Amazon. I have no idea how good it is
Half-Life.
That's a really powerful word in gaming, Mr. Freeman. You have to know when you are ready to use it.
I'm hoping this game lives up to that and pushes VR and thus gaming forward.
Also hope they think about some accessibility choices for people who want to play it but require an alternative. RE: motion sickness or disability
That's a really powerful word in gaming, Mr. Freeman. You have to know when you are ready to use it.
I'm hoping this game lives up to that and pushes VR and thus gaming forward.
Also hope they think about some accessibility choices for people who want to play it but require an alternative. RE: motion sickness or disability
It's not mainstream.
I consider myself a big time gamer, yet I don't have a VR kit, and I dont honestly plan on buying one, even for such a big game, but I hope they can convince me though.
So i'm guessing this is why there isn't 47x more hype.
It's pretty good hype, but it isn't "Half Life 3" and there is still a very big cost gap for people, and there's a lot that don't own a PC for it either.
Imagine a new Mario game by Nintendo announced exclusively for Neo Geo in 1992. You wouldn't hope to ever play that.
You won't need a Valve headset, but it'd say $1,000 for a PC and $400 for a Rift S
Yep, I've tried Superhot, Gorn, and Obduction on the Rift (not for any super extensive amount of time though), all 3 of them gave me a headache and made me feel nauseous.
That would be like modding a PC FPS to work on a mobile phone with touchscreen controls. Yes, it's possible but it wouldn't be the same game when you're done.
Half-Life and Valve are both trending on U.S. Twitter, so I think there's plenty of hype. Not as much as something called Half-Life 3 would've been, though.
I would guess around $700 for PC + headset, at least. We could get a better guess with the required specs for the game
This is much more exciting to me than a flat Half-Life 3 would have been. Definitely will want to upgrade at least my GPU before this comes out though. With Boneworks coming out soon, and a VR Half-Life game coming out, it's a great time for VR.
I have a PC, but it's got a 2nd series i5 and integrated graphics. It's old. Guess it's time to build a new one.
If the game is playable with a controller, it can be played with M+K. If the game is hand/motion tracking exclusive....it's maybe possible with some hacking, but not probable.
