Half-Life Alyx

[FMPONE]

I think we should report Oliver to the police for simply balling out of control  

[dux]

[Minos]

On 8/17/2020 at 4:59 PM, Minos said:

Finally got an Oculus Rift S! After fucking around trying to get it to work for days, I found out that my USB 3.0 didn't provide enough power. Got a new USB card, put it on, Oculus works once, then craps out. I switch around HDMI ports and then it works. I then jump into this game, eager to play it... and I get this annoying stutter every second or so (When I move my head sometimes one frame freezes and I can see the black borders around it).

Now here I go spend another week to figure out what's causing that. I'd guess it has something to do with Oculus Home always being on and using resources unnecessarily. Seems like if you play VR games on Steam not only your GPU has to render the game itself, but also Oculus and SteamVR bloatware in the background. This whole thing feels hacky as fuck (Oculus, not Alyx).

Hopefully I can sort these problems out and enjoy this baby

Turns out the reason why Alyx runs like shit for me is that I have an old CPU. Guess it's time to get a new computer, this baby here has served me very well for 8 years already

[Pericolos0]

oh boy 8 years! Yeah the game is quite CPU intensive

[blackdog]

A team is recreating part of the HL2 campaign in VR

Fantastic that there’s a group committed to recreating HL2 assets for mapping/modding purposes 

 

[Mitch Mitchell]

On 8/19/2020 at 10:28 AM, PogoP said:

Im looking forward to the day when we're not allowed to open our refrigerators until we've logged into Facebook.

Oh, that's a meme in the making.

I'm looking forward to the day when X is not allowed to do X until they've logged into Facebook.

[That50'sGuy]

So I finally got a VR headset to play this. And I must say, it was well worth the wait!

There's immersion, and then there's "Ducking for dear life when the Combine shows up" immersion. This is incredible!

[Beck]

On 10/4/2020 at 2:09 AM, That50'sGuy said:

and then there's "Ducking for dear life when the Combine shows up" immersion. This is incredible!

It's the black headcrabs man. I hate them.

https://www.twitch.tv/beckmech/clip/LachrymoseArborealSalmonTTours

I really need to finish this game.

[Zarsky]

On 10/6/2020 at 11:31 AM, Beck said:

I really need to finish this game.

Same here....Jeff scared me away. Really want to see how it ends.

[Beck]

On 10/7/2020 at 2:00 PM, Zarsky said:

Same here....Jeff scared me away. Really want to see how it ends.

I finished the Jeff area a couple of nights ago. I really enjoyed it!

Moved into the next area and it's a really interesting setting, I have a ton of fun just exploring and checking out the environment in this game. I think my viewers are going to get sick of hearing me say "Damn this game is beautiful"

[Beck]

Finished this last night.

Overall I enjoyed it quite a lot and it really got me craving further Half-Life games. But non-VR ones.

Don't get me wrong I loved the VR and seeing the Half-Life universe from my perspective was amazing. I loved exploring and searching for items in VR and shooting is always cooler in VR.

Spoiler

But seeing the ending with the alternate timeline following Episode 2 just made me miss those games and really crave another mainline HL game.

 

 

[blackdog]

A new look at the liquid shader

 

[That50'sGuy]

7 hours ago, blackdog said:

A new look at the liquid shader

I must admit, I probably spent a good 10 minutes in the hotel lobby staring at those bottles. I probably looked like a doofus!

The way the light reacts to the liquid is what impressed me the most. Putting the bottles up to the windows reflects the light in a very convincing manner. 

Speaking of bottles, it was fun throwing bottles at Jeff and watch him flail around trying to figure out what hit him. That was great.

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Also, I can't be the only one who wants to have the funky wallpaper from Russell's lab in real life. It's so pretty!

 

Edited January 4, 2021 by That50'sGuy

[blackdog]

I have been going through a bunch of game industry podcasts in the last few months, I had skipped this episode on Alyx in fear of spoilers but since I had to drive a bunch Sunday, I took the leap. It’s all about Valve and their project management, or other aspects of the game.

 

[Bunglo]

Is there spoilers? I speed scrolled to the last post in this thread. Don't you fuckers spoil this game for me. Also, someone buy me an index.