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[PC, Steam, VR] Half Life: Alyx $35.18 @ Steam

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[PC, Steam, VR] Half Life: Alyx $35.18 @ Steam
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scrimshaw on 23/11/2022 - 12:09 store.steampowered.com (701 clicks)
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Half Life Alyx is now on sale, at a historical low price. See price history Sale ends 30 November.

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.

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  • PainToad on 23/11/2022 - 12:14
    +37

    Half Life: Alyx $35.18 @ Steam

    Half Life 3 confirmed.

    • John Doh on 23/11/2022 - 12:29
      +1

      Keep dreaming!

      • PainToad on 23/11/2022 - 12:35
        +23

        Keep dreaming!

        Three “E”s. Half Life 3 confirmed.

        • John Doh on 23/11/2022 - 12:47
          +1

          LOL

          • zonra on 23/11/2022 - 12:57
            +13

            @John Doh: Three letters!
            Half Life 3 confirmed.

            3 Confirmations chained!
            Half Life 3 triple confirmed.

            Wait, did someone say “triple”?!
            (ﾟﾛﾟ)

    • kungfuman on 23/11/2022 - 17:13

      yeah keep dreaming Valve has made no such promise

  • Viospeed on 23/11/2022 - 12:23
    +1

    Hey guys, whats a good VR headset to purchase for this in 2022?

    • botchie on 23/11/2022 - 12:24
      +4

      you missed out on cheap quest 2 last year - they are more expansive now…..guess still the cheapest ?

    • scrimshaw on 23/11/2022 - 12:25
      +11

      Oculus Quest 2 is on "sale" on Amazon. You're still paying full price, but you're getting a $150 Amazon voucher that can be applied on a future "sold by Amazon" order.

    • 9999fine on 23/11/2022 - 12:26
      +1

      Google Cardboard?

    • jt90 on 23/11/2022 - 12:47
      +2

      As others have said the Quest 2 is still a solid choice. However, there is a good chance the Quest 3 will be released by mid-October next year with major upgrades using pancake lenses and the new XR2 Gen 2 chip.

      I would personally wait because pancake lenses are a game changer. I'm using a Pico 4 which has pancake lenses, and its clarity and sweet spot is really good compared to my Quest 2. I can't recommend the Pico 4 though because of software issues and that you can't get one locally.

      • Domingo on 23/11/2022 - 13:41
        +2

        I was in the "wait for quest 3" mindset, however I'd also like to have a VR headset for the next year and there's no guarantee that the 3 will come out on time, nor that it won't be much more expensive than the 2.

        I figure if it's worth the upgrade then the resale on the 2 should still be reasonable

        • polarq on 23/11/2022 - 14:16
          +2

          I agree with you, I bought the quest 2 with the black friday sale offer instead of waiting for the 3. I already waited for the pro to come out which i will never buy. Who knows when and if 3 comes out. And how expensive it maybe when it finally does

        • jt90 on 23/11/2022 - 15:32

          That is fair enough. There definitely is not a guarantee of the Quest 3 being released next year but it is highly likely with it being practically confirmed by the CFO during Meta's earnings call a month ago. I can only see hardware shortages being the main reason why it won't be available in time for Meta Connect 2023. Quest 3 will be mostly like $300-500 USD with Pico in the market now.

          The Quest 2 is still a solid buy right now if you really want to get into VR. I really like that headset, but the optics is really what would deter me from fully recommending it in its current lifecycle.

    • Mondorock on 23/11/2022 - 13:13
      +1

      Oculus Rift S

    • theguyrules on 23/11/2022 - 13:19
      +1

      I played this on a Quest 1 using Virtual Desktop and it was flawless.

      • kungfuman on 23/11/2022 - 17:19
        -2

        60hz is terriable in VR if your not running at 120fps or more motion in VR will make you sick.

        • theguyrules on 23/11/2022 - 18:01
          +2

          That's crazy considering it didn't make me sick and I played the whole game through, as well as multiple other games and apps.

        • RI4V4N on 23/11/2022 - 19:24
          +2

          What horse shit.

          I also played this on the quest 1 without getting sick. The quest 2 is 90hz now anyway.

          The psvr was the true vomit rocket.

          • kungfuman on 24/11/2022 - 08:49
            +1

            @RI4V4N: the quest 2 can do 120hz clearly you didn't get the memo this was made possiable many firmware updates ago. the higher the frame rate the less motion sickness you get play a game with fast motion like a car game or a combat fighter game and then say how much you love 60hz, I own the orginal psvr, oculus Quest 1, Oculus quest 2, and the quest 2 with 120hz never makes me sick the orginal quest though makes me sick.

            • Nom on 24/11/2022 - 13:37

              @kungfuman:

              the higher the frame rate the less motion sickness you get

              So for most people who don't get motion sickness, this isn't an issue.

              • kungfuman on 24/11/2022 - 13:38

                @Nom: where is your hard data supporting this? I think you will find its the opposite especially for people that are new to VR. Alot of it is to do with people not getting IPD right as well but also motion sickness.

                • Nom on 24/11/2022 - 13:57

                  @kungfuman: I have none, and I pulled that statement directly from thin air.

                  And most people don't get motion sickness.

    • kungfuman on 23/11/2022 - 17:14

      the best value for money option is still the Oculus Quest 2.

    • LinkMonkey on 24/11/2022 - 15:21
      +1

      I'm aware that I'm on Oz-bargain and going to cope neg's for this

      If you can't afford a great gaming PC as well, then just get a Quest.

      If you have the cash to splurge on an epic gaming PC then get the HP reverb.

  • kehuehue on 23/11/2022 - 12:38
    +2

    Rip a Headcrab off your face and throw it out the window.

    didnt know this was possible in the game, would be hard to do with the quest 2 controller design

    • Budju on 23/11/2022 - 12:45
      +4

      You just rip the head set and throw it, detection is perfect

  • John Doh on 23/11/2022 - 12:50
    +1

    I have this game. The items that are near me look clear, but stuff a bit far away inlcuding electric wires etc look blurry, aliazed. Is this the limitation of my GTX 1080 or the resolution of Quest 2? I thought it would be crystal clear no matter how far the items are.

    I use wifi router and 90FPS to stream wirelessly.

    • OzJunkGain on 23/11/2022 - 13:05
      +1

      yes

    • scrimshaw on 23/11/2022 - 13:21
      +1

      This is video image compression and you might have to increase the streaming bitrate to get a higher image quality. If you see pixelation (stair-stepping effects), you may also need to increase the rendering resolution. The higher the resolution, the more GPU resource it'll use.

      Increasing both settings will come at a cost of bandwidth however and your gaming PC should ideally be hooked up (ethernet) to a Wifi 6 router.

      • John Doh on 23/11/2022 - 13:26
        +1

        I get the suggested bandwidth on a wifi 5 router. I have set the streaming bit rate at the maximum. Get the full speed. Somewhere I read that if I increase FPS, the quality goes down on lower end cards. Let me try downing that to 70 FPS and see.

    • RetroMetro on 24/11/2022 - 08:16

      could be your router thats the bottleneck. You could directly plug in your headset and compare the two.

    • ihfree on 23/11/2022 - 13:12
      +3

      What do you think is a reasonable price?

      • typhoonadventure on 23/11/2022 - 13:16
        -5

        it's nearly 3 years old now, on playstation or xbox physical release atm you'd be seeing that as a budget title in the 10-20 bracket.

        I get that steam fanatics decry steam sales as all their savings justified, but the age old argument has always been that once a game shed it's physical media it would be so much cheaper as no resources used to print or transport, no one to sell it.

        Yet here we are with a property that valve own, is nearly 3 years old and on discount it's not even hitting a budget level price.

        No one else finds that off?

        • Switchblade88 on 23/11/2022 - 13:27
          +11

          To be fair, this is considered THE flagship title for all VR. There simply isn't many other AAA VR games that will be competing for consumer's attention (e.g. CoD, Battlefield etc) so there's no incentive to compete on price.

          Also, if this was a Playstation title you'd be on the third version of the same game (cough TLOU1 cough) still being charged full RRP. So that's not much of a issue with Valve specifically.

          Finally, the distribution network (either physical or digital) is the least expensive part of the total game cost. 50c for a DVD, paper and case isn't much savings to make - it's the labour hours involved in programming and art that are actually expensive, and that's certainly on display here (more so than other recent releases like Pokemon that are being memed to hell).

        • ihuntbargains on 23/11/2022 - 13:52
          +3

          Remind me again how much pokemon games get discounted… (hint, not 60% off thats for sure!)
          or how about BOTW…

          This wouldn't be a "budget title" because its not just any game, its a very well done VR game.

          • typhoonadventure on 23/11/2022 - 14:02

            @ihuntbargains: nintendo first party / pokemon are an outlier, not the rule.

            Honestly i've played this, it's ok, it's not the perfection everyone is claiming.

            Steam fanatics just seem to get upset and conduct a cult beating on anyone who speaks ill of the gaben…

            • Lebofly on 23/11/2022 - 14:05
              +5

              @typhoonadventure: Your opinion is wrong, it's a (profanity) fantastic game

              • typhoonadventure on 23/11/2022 - 14:07
                -4

                @Lebofly: it's doing nothing that hasn't been seen before.

                It's just more half life that the cult demands. Valve could literally release a half life symbol on a lunchbox and you'd have pileups to buy it and people combing over it for hours to find evidence of half life 3 and praising the lunchbox as genius.

                • mxlegend99 on 23/11/2022 - 14:39
                  +2

                  @typhoonadventure: You say people would buy anything with thr Half Life symbol on it… So exactly what reason do Valve have to drop this to $20 or less?

                  $35 is great value for this game. Its basically still the best VR game you can get so anyone who wants to see how great their headset can be will happily pay $35 for it.

                • lookingforTV on 23/11/2022 - 17:49
                  +2

                  @typhoonadventure: "it's doing nothing that hasn't been seen before" - what the actual f***. Clearly has not played any video games or Alyx - likely to be Gabe/Steam/Valve hater.

                • LinkMonkey on 24/11/2022 - 15:14

                  @typhoonadventure: Yes! Yes I would!

        • wetsandwich on 23/11/2022 - 14:27
          +3

          All that actually matters though is whether people are buying it at this price. They probably are. You can get a $20 VR game and it's a barely playable 30 minute sandbox, at very best. I can't think of anything else that actually counts as a full game that isn't some cartoony arcade pistol shooting game.

          There just isn't anything close to a competitor to this game.

    • John Doh on 23/11/2022 - 13:27
      +5

      This is a niche market. Not many people own VR headsets. They have spent decently on this game and have to get the money back.

      • GandalfTheCheap on 23/11/2022 - 17:18
        +1

        They have spent decently on this game and have to get the money back

        Actually the only reason this game exists is Valve doesn't have to get their money back.

        There's a major chicken-and-egg problem where Devs can't afford to make real full-length high production value AAA games in VR because their aren't enough headset owners to make their money back.

        And their aren't enough headset owners yet because there aren't enough killer AAA games for VR yet.

        Only Valve have so much money, and no public shareholders to appease, so they can make a AAA game just because they want to.

    • lookingforTV on 23/11/2022 - 14:18

      “On any other system” - no other systems can handle a VR game like this. Even on PC, no other VR games are crafted like Alyx. Why would they need to compete on price?

  • lookingforTV on 23/11/2022 - 14:19
    +4

    Keep saying this on every Alyx deal. I don’t regret spending money on Quest 2 at all to play this. Mind blowing experience.

  • kungfuman on 23/11/2022 - 14:37
    +3

    100% worth it for this price I bought this and finished it day one on my quest 1 and then again on the quest 2. hands down the gold standard of VR games.

    • Budju on 23/11/2022 - 15:29
      +1

      It's really the only AAA quality game on VR right?

      • lookingforTV on 23/11/2022 - 16:03
        +1

        Yea, it is unfortunately. I played Alyx first and tried other alleged AA/AAA titles. Nothing came close to Alyx personally. But, Alyx itself justified the cost of Quest 2 for me.

        • Budju on 23/11/2022 - 16:05

          Yeah I played Alyx for a bit it seemed really good. Gaben needs to get off his ass and make another VR title, or has he sold enough head sets already

          • lookingforTV on 23/11/2022 - 16:09

            @Budju: Valve mentioned that they didn’t make Index and Deck to make profits. Gabe said that his role model is Nintendo where they have the integration and ecosystem of both HW/SW.

            Even if Quest sells well, Valve will invest more in VR games. Don’t think ROI went into Alyx was that great but they can afford it I guess. I really hope HF3 comes out in VR again.

            • Budju on 23/11/2022 - 16:36

              @lookingforTV: It's a good sign that Valve is making more games, because most of the VR games seem to be shovelware. Maybe PSVR2 will bring some new titles.

      • kungfuman on 23/11/2022 - 16:33

        its a full half live game in VR

  • Willowtip on 23/11/2022 - 16:09
    +8

    I've been gaming since 92 and this is by FAR the most impressive thing I've seen in the last 20 years. Well worth the investment.

    • Hyena on 24/11/2022 - 11:58

      That's a good endorsement! What's the movement like within the game ? Is there an option to move around a bit if you have a large space ? Standing on the spot and clicking around to move seems like one of the last things that would break the immersion.

      • Willowtip on 24/11/2022 - 14:01
        +2

        It has a few movement options, click to teleport is the default I believe because it's the least nausea-inducing if you're new to VR, but I played it with standard controller movement and it was incredibly immersive. I don't have a big space to play in, but that would make it even better.

  • GandalfTheCheap on 23/11/2022 - 16:16
    +5

    If these comments haven't convinced you to buy this yet, then let's talk about the mods.

    Just the BioShock mod for Half Life Alyx is probably in the top twenty best VR games.

  • Schrodinger on 24/11/2022 - 09:44
    +1

    At this price, I feel like buying this eventhough I don't have a compatible VR headset yet

  • coathanger007 on 28/11/2022 - 08:07

    I couldn't get this to load with the oculus rift s. This video got things going
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAnyD2NYDo

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