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Quote from will2k

3 hours ago, will2k said: Protip for people working from home

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This article cleared up a question I had

https://kotaku.com/why-you-cant-u…alyx-1842491319

It just occurred to me that the chapter names don’t type out on the screen like they did in both prior Half-Life games. Sadface

I have a Valve Index.

Pros:

The Index is a pretty heavy fucker, my neck gets a good workout from it... but I think that might be a feature rather than a bug, because I think it will probably give posture benefits in the long term building up those neck muscles.

The knuckles are excellent to hold, very light, very comfortable, superb in that regard.

Set-up was easy.

I agree with Oli that the sound is incredible. I love the way the speakers hang, amazing work there.

Cons:

I agree that the Index is surprisingly blurry. I wear glasses with a very, very mild prescription, but I feel like a 90 year old man looking at my Index screen sometimes. Because my prescription is so mild I just take the glasses off, because I don’t notice an improvement with them on, and because it hurts to wear them.

Perhaps we just aren’t there with resolutions yet to make things feel appropriately sharp and defined. For instance, in HL:A I took an old rotted apple out of a cupboard and held it up to my face to inspect it, and I started to hallucinate because it just felt so fucking blurry and weird. It’s like, good enough to give presence, not good enough to withstand close scrutiny.

The cable is annoying, but since I have limited space I use the quick turn function and therefore don’t have too many issues with it. I agree that VR needs to go wireless ASAP.

I also agree that the button layouts on the knuckles are pretty bad. The track pad is garbage, throw it into the trash. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? The placement of the “start/select” type button is also terrible, makes no sense and is incredibly hard to reach with your finger tip. There are two perfectly good buttons on the controllers, but I think Valve doesn’t want people to use them because then it would just feel like you’re in a video game. Instead they want you to use the trigger or the bizarre track pad.

I lose tracking sometimes, mostly when I get close to one of the base stations.

I really like the combat in this so far.

Just curious, what did everyone write? I wrote two four letter words, beginning in F and C respectively.

Also, it’s interesting to see some CSGO textures and remade HL2 textures in there. It’s a really nice engine upgrade but I dare say if you’re really picky you can see the “optimizations” at work, how surfaces aren’t always meshed out that much, and are just nicely shadered cubes. I don’t think it’s exactly UE4 tier on the low end, on the high end it looks comparable. I also notice that a lot of the materials aren’t substance-driven (hi textures.com decals), not that most players will care, but people like us may notice. /end nitpicking

Quote from [HP]

30 minutes ago, [HP] said: My FOMO is real... :[

I know this is not helping... but it's real good ?

it fucking rocks

Quote from dux

2 hours ago, dux said: What I don't understand is they stripped all of this excess and unnecessary weight out of doom 2016 then added it all back in for eternal

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It doesn't suck but it's a big disappointment for me personally.

So, not the glowing reviews I've been reading, then

Prevailing opinion seems to be that this game sucks, good thing the mainstream press gave it passing reviews

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hell-comi…-185019616.html

”Right now 2 million Americans are infected with the coronavirus. The total U.S. death toll by April 15th will be more than 20,000. We estimate that 80 thousand of the 2 million infected Americans will be hospitalized over the next 2 weeks. That’s why we are short-term bullish on hospital stocks.”

I think the time has come, Tyrinni is banned for constantly flooding threads with long, boring, pedantic arguments. May this be a second celebratory moment for our community.

Eternal Bragging Rights

A Spotlight on Mapcore (linking to each epic WIP thread)

A Monetary Prize ($7,500)

Map added to Mapcore’s FACEIT HUB platform for 4 months!

Special Valve prizes! (CS:GO/Valve merchandise, courtesy of Valve Software)

Eternal Bragging Rights

A Spotlight on Mapcore (linking to each epic WIP thread)

A Monetary Prize ($4,500)

Map added to Mapcore’s FACEIT HUB platform for 4 months!

Special Valve prizes! (CS:GO/Valve merchandise, courtesy of Valve Software)

Eternal Bragging Rights

A Spotlight on Mapcore (linking to each epic WIP thread)

A Monetary Prize ($2,000)

Map added to Mapcore’s FACEIT HUB platform for 4 months!

Special Valve prizes! (CS:GO/Valve merchandise, courtesy of Valve Software)

Eternal Bragging Rights

A Spotlight on Mapcore (linking to each epic WIP thread)

A Monetary Prize ($1,000)

Map added to Mapcore’s FACEIT HUB platform for 4 months!

Special Valve prizes! (CS:GO/Valve merchandise, courtesy of Valve Software)

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Quote from Interfearance

59 minutes ago, Interfearance said: We definitely have more than a couple thousand cases if celebrities including NBA stars are getting it. Our testing here sucks and they refuse to close down the schools because kids will starve. It really is time to move to Australia already...

You mean that place that was entirely engulfed in flames a couple of months ago?

The world is going apeshit, but we still have each other at Mapcore Dot Org...

Quote from dux

10 hours ago, dux said: Had some bills that needed paying off first. Payday is just around the corner, so had it all planned out.

True.

I’m excited to finally crack mine open and run the environments and try Boneworks. I don’t have adequate space for VR so that’s an issue.

Its not just that you need $1,500, plus a good PC, you also need fucking real estate to enjoy VR. At least Alyx is seated also.

Quote from dux

21 hours ago, dux said: Hah, nice. I bet they will get sold out before I even get a chance to open the page

Just curious what made you wait to get it at first? I got mine in the initial round (yes, I know they’re not cheap. Not saying anyone is stupid if that’s the reason they waited.)

Quote from Minos

3 hours ago, Minos said: It will become a game soon, once they add more motivating challenges, with exciting and meaningful rewards and progression.

I can't wait to face motivating challenges, to be excited by meaningful rewards, and to progress.

I feel like this isn’t even a real game outside of headlines about how it’s being rebooted. Does this game even exist? Has anyone actually seen it in the wild?

After a thorough review of the Data, we've got one correction to make: Mocha has been added top the Top 10. Thanks to Puddy for double checking. I take full responsibility for this one, it's my mistake.

As for scores, each judge has the full greenlight to release their own scores after the Contest. We feel that is a good balance between transparency and people bickering about the results.