[Official] Half-Life: Alyx! Discussion thread.

[Mindweaver]

Just got it yesterday, second time playing VR (last time was a Vive i think). Overall amazing experience, trying to get used to the adjustments for the head display as my glasses are getting in the way . Other than that zero complaints, Half Life Alyx is great as well! Super immersive.

Nice! How big is your play space or are you playing it sitting down. I'm actually impressed at how well you can play this sitting down. I do a little of both. I'll play standing and when I get tired I'll sit. It's funny because the first time I played for 4 hours straight in any VR game was in FO4VR and I was super tired when I stopped. I only played that sitting down after that for the most part because I knew I would play it for so long. But with Alyx I prefer standing to explorer stuff in rooms and small details. lol I'm going to play through HLA again soon.

 

[Deleted member 197986]

Currently experiencing a bug where a door / fence is attached to my hand and cannot get rid of it ...

 

[Skywalker12345]

Make sure to turn up that super sampling! Let your 2070S work!

Thanks for the recommendation, i was curious about that setting does it have a large FPS hit?

Nice! How big is your play space or are you playing it sitting down. I'm actually impressed at how well you can play this sitting down. I do a little of both. I'll play standing and when I get tired I'll sit. It's funny because the first time I played for 4 hours straight in any VR game was in FO4VR and I was super tired when I stopped. I only played that sitting down after that for the most part because I knew I would play it for so long. But with Alyx I prefer standing to explorer stuff in rooms and small details. lol I'm going to play through HLA again soon.

My play area is about 7 Feet by 14 Feet so i play hybrid where im mostly standing still and move around corners, duck , etc.. with my body movements. Works quite well actually, still trying to figure out the best setup as ive only have it for a few days. I do occasionally play sitting down as i get tired after two hours or so. Looking at setting up a wire harness from my cieling as well as i keep getting tangled up in my VR cord .

Currently experiencing a bug where a door / fence is attached to my hand and cannot get rid of it ...

Can you load a previously saved game?

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What is life!? Bookmarked

 

[Mindweaver]

Currently experiencing a bug where a door / fence is attached to my hand and cannot get rid of it ...

I had something like this happen and the only thing I could do is go back to a save before the bug happened like @Skywalker12345 suggested.

My play area is about 7 Feet by 14 Feet so i play hybrid where im mostly standing still and move around corners, duck , etc.. with my body movements. Works quite well actually, still trying to figure out the best setup as ive only have it for a few days. I do occasionally play sitting down as i get tired after two hours or so. Looking at setting up a wire harness from my cieling as well as i keep getting tangled up in my VR cord .

The cable management systems work will I bought this one and used this zip ties to attach them to the cable when I'm using it and take them off when I'm done. If you don't fix them to the cable then they slide together when playing.

 

[Deleted member 197986]

I had something like this happen and the only thing I could do is go back to a save before the bug happened like @Skywalker12345 suggested.

Hi, yes, done that, currently fighting my way through train station. How do these people nowadays do that playing the game in 7 days, is that 24/7?

 

[Mindweaver]

Hi, yes, done that, currently fighting my way through train station. How do these people nowadays do that playing the game in 7 days, is that 24/7?

Yea, it's crazy that some people have beat it in one day, but they are full-time streamers and youtubers. I took my time and I was around 19 hours to complete it but that was over 2 months. I'm going to start over soon.

 

[Skywalker12345]

Yea, it's crazy that some people have beat it in one day, but they are full-time streamers and youtubers. I took my time and I was around 19 hours to complete it but that was over 2 months. I'm going to start over soon.

Yeah im only 8 hours in after a few days, also playing a few other VR games such as XPLANE 11

 

[Mindweaver]

Yeah im only 8 hours in after a few days, also playing a few other VR games such as XPLANE 11

They aren't perfect but if you haven't played FO4VR or Skyrim then I would suggest them. It's pretty broken in just vanilla but with Mods they are pretty amazing.

 

[xkm1948]

FO4 VR with good immersive mods are absolutely AMAZING, same with Skyrim.

 

[de1@]

When alyx was first coming out I did the will my pc run HL Alyx it came back good , my rift s arrived the other day and I ran the test again this time it said my gpu was too weak laptop gtx1070 8gb
I can still run most pancake game with no issue , do you think its worth risking getting I know theyv'e enhaced the game alot since release but do you think it might run it on its lowest settings ? mind you I don't know how to get steam vr to work with oculus.

 

[toilet pepper]

When alyx was first coming out I did the will my pc run HL Alyx it came back good , my rift s arrived the other day and I ran the test again this time it said my gpu was too weak laptop gtx1070 8gb
I can still run most pancake game with no issue , do you think its worth risking getting I know theyv'e enhaced the game alot since release but do you think it might run it on its lowest settings ? mind you I don't know how to get steam vr to work with oculus.

You can play it. AFAIK it has dynamic framerates where it lowers visual clarity depending upon your PC's capabilities.

Linus did a video about it.

 

[purecain]

This is the standard of the game. I've streamed 3 quarters of it up to now. This moment really stuck with me though. I had almost run out of bullets and there wasn't a save poin in 20minutes of really tough play. So the pressure was on. This is what happened.
I cant upload the individual clip as its too large... damn... clips too big... meh

 

[iolaus]

Wow, this thread certainly was an entertaining ride!

I bought HLA back soon after it shipped, but due to non-gaming issues, I've never completed it. I think I'm in chapter 3 right now. It was encouraging to see someone say it was playable seated, because I have some recent mobility issues. I need to roll the stool back out to the play area in the living room and get back to it.

I can agree that it's not always ignorance. I really don't care for that word or its use, but it works here.. I think @R-T-B correct and it's mostly real estate, but honestly, with the Rift S it's not a problem. it's really portable using it's inside out tracking. It's so easy to set it up and it will remember multiple rooms.

I've got a Quest 2, and it actually remembers where the play area is relative to another. When I fire it up at my desk in my office (or in the library, even further away), I can sometimes see the play area cage out in the living room, even though there's a hallway and 2 right turns to get there.

I don't think 3's release will be far behind Alyx, but not before a L4D game I would imagine.

Obviously that didn't happen, but I'm sure many of us have seen a lot of buzz about a 2025 possibility recently.

I wish I could, vr gives me motion sickness so unless they make a non vr version I'll never get to play it.

I think a lot of that depends on the game. There's few that still make me nauseous, even when the style of locomotion is similar to games than don't.

Make sure to turn up that super sampling! Let your 2070S work!

I have a 9700K and was running a 2070S, but now I have a 4080S in that machine. I was just running stock settings with untethered PCVR and my Q2. I'll have to look into that.