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Posted 18 July 2022
[Steam] Half-Life: Alyx (PC) - £23.24 @ Steam Store
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Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2.
Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival. The Combine’s control of the planet since the Black Mesa incident has only strengthened as they corral the remaining population in cities. Among them are some of Earth’s greatest scientists: you and your father, Dr. Eli Vance.
As founders of a fledgling resistance, you’ve continued your clandestine scientific activity—performing critical research, and building invaluable tools for the few humans brave enough to defy the Combine.
Every day, you learn more about your enemy, and every day you work toward finding a weakness.
ABOUT GAMEPLAY IN VR:
Valve’s return to the Half-Life universe that started it all was built from the ground up for virtual reality. VR was built to enable the gameplay that sits at the heart of Half-Life.
Immerse yourself in deep environmental interactions, puzzle solving, world exploration, and visceral combat.
Lean to aim around a broken wall and under a Barnacle to make an impossible shot. Rummage through shelves to find a healing syringe and some shotgun shells. Manipulate tools to hack alien interfaces. Toss a bottle through a window to distract an enemy. Rip a Headcrab off your face and throw it out the window.
COMMUNITY-BUILT ENVIRONMENTS
A set of Source 2 tools for building new levels is included with the game, enabling any player to build and contribute new environments for the community to enjoy through Half-Life: Alyx's Steam Workshop. Hammer, Valve’s level authoring tool, has been updated with all of the game's virtual reality gameplay tools and components.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2.
Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival. The Combine’s control of the planet since the Black Mesa incident has only strengthened as they corral the remaining population in cities. Among them are some of Earth’s greatest scientists: you and your father, Dr. Eli Vance.
As founders of a fledgling resistance, you’ve continued your clandestine scientific activity—performing critical research, and building invaluable tools for the few humans brave enough to defy the Combine.
Every day, you learn more about your enemy, and every day you work toward finding a weakness.
ABOUT GAMEPLAY IN VR:
Valve’s return to the Half-Life universe that started it all was built from the ground up for virtual reality. VR was built to enable the gameplay that sits at the heart of Half-Life.
Immerse yourself in deep environmental interactions, puzzle solving, world exploration, and visceral combat.
Lean to aim around a broken wall and under a Barnacle to make an impossible shot. Rummage through shelves to find a healing syringe and some shotgun shells. Manipulate tools to hack alien interfaces. Toss a bottle through a window to distract an enemy. Rip a Headcrab off your face and throw it out the window.
COMMUNITY-BUILT ENVIRONMENTS
A set of Source 2 tools for building new levels is included with the game, enabling any player to build and contribute new environments for the community to enjoy through Half-Life: Alyx's Steam Workshop. Hammer, Valve’s level authoring tool, has been updated with all of the game's virtual reality gameplay tools and components.
More details at Community Updates
Edited by a community support team member, 18 July 2022
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sorted by- Oculus Quest 2
- A PC/Laptop with Core i7 or AMD equivalent, 16GB of DDR4 RAM (very important to have 16GB), a Geforce GTX 1660Ti or AMD equivalent.
- a cable to connect your PC/Laptop to the Oculus Quest 2
- an app from the Oculus Quest store. Can’t remember which one but it’s called something like Virtual Desktop and it costs around £20 and there are guides on YouTube.
I think that’s it. You connect the Oculus Quest 2 to your PC/Laptop with the cable. Put the Oculus Quest 2 on and open the Virtual Desktop app so you can see your desktop in the Oculus Quest 2. You run the game from your Virtual Desktop on Oculus Quest 2 and that’s it. The Valve logo appears, the famous Valve sound from the old Half-Life days plays and you’re in! Works great. Enjoy! (edited)
Heard the game is short, but have some good mods.
What good mods are there?
There are so many though you will find plenty as there is a big community for this.
The game isn't too short, think I completed in about 10 to 12 hours but the game is so good, I have played it through twice, by far the best vr game released do far
Any advice is welcomed
Having said that, if the thought of face crabs jumping at you in the dark seems unsettling then don't bother, I nearly had to stop playing a few times.. (edited)
Playing in VR is a completely different experience and takes a lot longer as you gradually work your way through it. If you played it as a standard 2D FPS you could breeze through it in a hour or so.
Sadly I have not finished it yet, for the simple reason being... I am too scared to jump down a hole and confront my Demons LOL (edited)
This shows what VR can be really like in generations to come and nothign comes close.
does give quite a bit of scare jumps .. Ive found myself playing the mods to give me a break lol ... Theres an excellent John Wick type mod where youve got to get up through a building to kill a guy on a chopper.