When will it get virtual reality support ?

[benjybobs]

Can this currently be played in virtual reality with any mods because that is the way many of us will want to play it. I would like to know if this is going to get official virtual reality support. It will be the most amazing way to play this fantastic game.

[Sotomar0]

On Friday the 13th of october 2032 on 11.45 pm. Don't forget this great moment.

[DIGITAL SPORTS]

We won't officially support VR, I'm afraid. Sorry!

[Rushi]

If we're talking about an official release, I'd have to say an approximate release date would be on the 32nd day of the 13th month on the year the world comes to an end.

[benjybobs]

Originally posted by BMS DIGITAL SPORTS:

We won't officially support VR, I'm afraid. Sorry!

Thanks for the reply, I really hope that mods or something get this working, I would buy the game as it's awesome but due to my virtual reality addiction, I find it very hard to play a game in 2d on a monitor. I'm using gary's Vr mod for half life 2 at the moment, I hope maybe someone will get it working then I will buy it. If you ever change your mind let me know, thanks.

[Thoemse]

Same here. Will buy if a VR mod arrives. I cannot play flat games anynore no matter how good.

[Mixon]

I have VR too, but you guys are getting a tad bit too desperate.

[Riekopo]

Can VR be modded in?

[beer is good for migraines]

Originally posted by Riekopo:

Can VR be modded in?

you can use vorpx but you will have issues with the lighting graphics, scale of weapons and maybe some other stuff(s). There will be no motion-tracked controller support either.

[Thoemse]

Originally posted by ZERO KAY PER CENT:

You are probably a VR user who never played or heard about Half-Life before you played Alyx. And you think that every HL game should be like it.

These are just new generations of gamers who do not know that HL is not primarily a vr franchise

There is no point in having this in VR. Since it was not designed for VR from the ground up it will probably be a terrible experience, so do not ask for it because you won't like how it will be implemented

While Alyx is a terrible experience without VR this does not go the other way round. Playing HL2 in VR was actually quite satisfying and so could this. It will miss the hand interactions of Alyx and be more bland than Alyx for that reason but it would still feel like being in there.

[benjybobs]

Originally posted by ZERO KAY PER CENT:

Originally posted by Thoemse:

While Alyx is a terrible experience without VR this does not go the other way round. Playing HL2 in VR was actually quite satisfying and so could this. It will miss the hand interactions of Alyx and be more bland than Alyx for that reason but it would still feel like being in there.

Dude, I got all the programs that let you enable VR like Vorpex and there is another one. I played Alien Isolation and a bunch of other games and while I remember my keyboard layout by heart, it was not really a great experience. This fake VR is not what the games are designed for and playing something keyboard and mouse without a dedicated controller takes away from VR.

At least on PSVR the games are designed for the ground up to be VR even if they use a controller but transfering non VR titles using fake VR tools is silly and if you pay attention you will notice how the screen can curve at the sides and what not. Not to mention countless bugs, some areas being too bright. Per game support is limited. This would be a poor's man VR if the said man cannot get his hand on a proper VR title. Except you still pay for a headset and these programs

I've played Alien isolation with mother Vr mod, the latest, it is very good and effective. Doom 3 bfg edition with high resolution textures works very well indeed. Some games can be made to look proper and some can't. I've played half life 2 in vr with Gary's mod. I am sure something for it could work but how well is another question. From the ground up Vr games and amazing but Doom 3 bfg with vr mod is much better than doom Vfr that were built for Vr. I hear Halo is going to have a Vr mod too. I'd love to be able to play this game with virtual reality for the being there experience if it is done properly. Vorpex is terrible and doesn't look right, I've played outlast using it and the scale were all wrong. I hope one day it works with this game as it looks impressive.

[Thoemse]

VorpX ist crap. I own i too. It's a crutch at best. The mentioned Doom3 Mod shows howit can be done though. It's a fantastic VR game.

[beer is good for migraines]

Originally posted by ZERO KAY PER CENT:

Originally posted by Thoemse:

VorpX ist crap. I own i too. It's a crutch at best. The mentioned Doom3 Mod shows howit can be done though. It's a fantastic VR game.

there isnt Vorpx and what not. Honestly, even playing Half Life Alyx is not that amazing anymore. When I 1st played Superhot vr that was cool. Like Matrix. Later on I played many PSVR and PC VR games. So i would rather play a normal game the normal way because VR lost its novelty to me and I often think twice before playing vr nowadays. I enjoyed Asgard's Wrath on my vive (it played nicely), Robo recall was rly bad. Didn't play stormlands yet, farpoint was amazing too played a heap of other VR games, Res Ev7 vr was bad

Originally posted by ZERO KAY PER CENT:

Originally posted by Thoemse:

VorpX ist crap. I own i too. It's a crutch at best. The mentioned Doom3 Mod shows howit can be done though. It's a fantastic VR game.

there isnt Vorpx and what not. Honestly, even playing Half Life Alyx is not that amazing anymore. When I 1st played Superhot vr that was cool. Like Matrix. Later on I played many PSVR and PC VR games. So i would rather play a normal game the normal way because VR lost its novelty to me and I often think twice before playing vr nowadays. I enjoyed Asgard's Wrath on my vive (it played nicely), Robo recall was rly bad. Didn't play stormlands yet, farpoint was amazing too played a heap of other VR games, Res Ev7 vr was bad

You say you have VorpX but don't spell it right or know the actual price, said Robo Recall is bad, and act like HL:A is no big deal. I have to wonder if you are making all this up and maybe don't even have PC VR hardware.

[benjybobs]

Originally posted by ZERO KAY PER CENT:

Originally posted by benjybobs:

I've played Alien isolation with mother Vr mod, the latest, it is very good and effective. Doom 3 bfg edition with high resolution textures works very well indeed. Some games can be made to look proper and some can't. I've played half life 2 in vr with Gary's mod. I am sure something for it could work but how well is another question. From the ground up Vr games and amazing but Doom 3 bfg with vr mod is much better than doom Vfr that were built for Vr. I hear Halo is going to have a Vr mod too. I'd love to be able to play this game with virtual reality for the being there experience if it is done properly. Vorpex is terrible and doesn't look right, I've played outlast using it and the scale were all wrong. I hope one day it works with this game as it looks impressive.

I mean it is not an easy process. Setting up PC VR is not as easy and fast as plugging in a console and you add up a lot of trial and error and mixing up things to get a game playable in VR and the result is not always good and then you gotta wait until someone mods it right. And who knows maybe it is still not good but for some people who are obsessed with this and nothing else. This is too much wasted time on testing things and such and then you can get a visual error on later levels and what not. It is just not worth it for people and me including (even though I already tried that in the past).

Oh and do not get me started that these Vorpex and other mod programs often cost money and a significant amount to just try and use them too. Like for example 20$ just to test it out and then try hard to get the intended result. And if it doesn't work. Well sorry you already bought it. So you end up buying several tools like Vorpex. And then the creator stops updating them. Not worth it

Only 1% of VR gamers would do that so there is no point as VR gamers are already a 1% of total gamers so that is 1% of 1% (of course I do not have the actual percentage but I merely point out that it is a small fraction of a fraction)

Mods don't require anything and are very easy to install. If you say Half life alyx isn't impressive you definitely are against Vr because It is insanely better than anything else right now. Especially on higher levels. Each to their own. I am glad I brought Vorpex at the time, it let me test out many games and learn which games work ok and which didn't. The main reason why I hated it is the performance hit it gave, I needed more power to run the games decent. Outlast wasn't what it should be but were cool to try. I'd go back and play it if I had a next gen gpu. Most of the mods and stuff is free but yes I wouldn't bother for anything else. Alien isolation and doom are brilliant and it's not hard to install, Console users are lazy but Pc today isn't difficult and it is worth it and made easy but each to their opinion.

[Gabi]

^ So you knowingly got excited for what was a silly arena shooter.... then was disappointed that it was a silly arena shooter? Scratches head.

[benjybobs]

Originally posted by ZERO KAY PER CENT:

Originally posted by OrthicViper:

You say you have VorpX but don't spell it right or know the actual price, said Robo Recall is bad, and act like HL:A is no big deal. I have to wonder if you are making all this up and maybe don't even have PC VR hardware.

Not that I need to prove anything to you, but it has been about a year since I last used that pos and same goes to other programs like Vorpex. I don't really care to look up their names to spell them correctly and I do remember buying a program similar to vorpex (I bought at least 2 others with price between 10-20$. I have no real desire to fake VR anymore. If you want to play tacked on VR games with official support there is Skyrim, Fallout, Resident Evil 7 and Borderlands 2 VR versions. All of them are terribly boring and more fun to play in normal mode. And that is with official dev support. Vorpex is much worse. It is fake VR.

Robo-recall is really a bad game. It was hyped beyond measure and when I finally played it I was disappointed. I used Revive and it played well but I did not like that is was just a silly arena shooter. SuperHot VR is a much better game.

The last game that I was excited to play in VR was Asgard's Wrath. (Also beat the game using Revive) And it is really good. Initially I was really amazed. But when you play a really long game in VR that is amazing you no longer really feel very excited about VR in general after that because the initial thing wears off and your standards become higher. At least with most people. I owned VR since it came out. On PS4 and PC and I played lots of vr games.

I beat HL Alyx. And it is a nice game. In fact it is very good but after having experienced a lot of really cool VR games and also really bad vr games the feeling has become tame. It is like playing AAA game for me now. Which HL Alyx is but in VR. It is really nice for VR (if it was normal pc game it wouldn't have enough enemies). There were some jaw dropping visuals in the game, especially during the strider moment. I finished it in 3 days. 1st day I played standing but like always (same with Asgard's Wrath even though it is a melee game) I ended up just sitting on my chair because it is just not worth it when you play a game this long. So here is one of the reasons why VR is not so engaging when you play AAA games on it. If you play games like Pistol Whip or Superhot where you *have* to move around the room because there is no controller option to move, then it is an actual VR experience, That is when you get the most fun dodging projectiles and things. Playing games like Alyx and similar is basically just playing your normal game but in VR (it actually requires minimal player movement and dedicates most of it to controller movement so you do not need to jump around the room and crouch etc.) And it is not what VR was going for originally. At least HL Alyx has standing option for height.

Now I do not think you own PSVR but before any other major VR game came out (and there are really 4 AAA VR games out right now and some really good indies, I will name you all the major AAA VR games: Farpoint, Asgard's Wrath, HL Alyx and Stormland) Anyway, Farpoint came out 1st of them all on PS4 and I had the opportunity to play it with the aim gun controller or whatever. And it was my 1st time playing AAA game in full VR and it is actually a lot similar to HL Alyx in the way you use weapons and run around.

So to answer your question: No I no longer get excited about VR. It has been years since VR been out, besides these AAA games there were lots of cool indie and ported PC games that I played in VR. So while I can appreciate HL Alyx it is no big deal to me. In fact out all 4 AAA for VR games, I haven't played Stormland still. Even though it looks a head above other VR games i just found the gameplay videos too boring. But I would still play it over and other badly made indie VR shooter. I just dont VR much anymore.

There is nothing NOTHING special about VR. It is just a headset that used to be pricey but now is just above average unless you go for index. And only people who get excited by VR are either new to it or do not have the money to buy it. If you have the means to buy VR then it is not more special than normal videogames and if I was asked if I would like to keep playing VR or stick with normal AAA games I would go AAA games. I am sorry I hurt your feelings by not liking your VR so much. And while you are feeding your delusions you could have added to your post: "maybe you do not even own a pc, and just go to internet cafes or something like that". lol

Oh btw look at the post below you, a guy claims to have bought vorpex but he spelled it wrong too. But he defends it. Are you going to say he doesn't own it and therefore his defense makes no sense?

Originally posted by benjybobs:

Mods don't require anything and are very easy to install. If you say Half life alyx isn't impressive you definitely are against Vr because It is insanely better than anything else right now. Especially on higher levels. Each to their own. I am glad I brought Vorpex at the time, it let me test out many games and learn which games work ok and which didn't. The main reason why I hated it is the performance hit it gave, I needed more power to run the games decent. Outlast wasn't what it should be but were cool to try. I'd go back and play it if I had a next gen gpu. Most of the mods and stuff is free but yes I wouldn't bother for anything else. Alien isolation and doom are brilliant and it's not hard to install, Console users are lazy but Pc today isn't difficult and it is worth it and made easy but each to their opinion.

I am not against VR but HL Alyx is not impressive, you can read above why I think that way. Also HL Alyx is not better than any other VR game. It cannot compete with Asgard's Wrath because that game is on top of its game in its genre.

On higher levels? What do you mean? Difficulty? Graphics? Or Chapters? Difficulty wise it can be much harder on higher levels it would make sense to run away from certain encounters. Graphics wise it is very pretty. Probably the prettiest VR Game. I ran it maxed out on 3900x Ryzen 3 that is a 12 core cpu with 2 threads, last gen. 2080 RTX and 64 gb ram. Chapter wise I would not say that final chapters are better than the initial chapters. They all have their own allure and you cannot say the final chapters are better just because you can unlock all gun upgrades and there are slightly more enemies. Or because there is some revelation in the story.

Need I really say more?

I did mean Vorpx but anyhow, Half life alyx, I have heard complaints about how hard it is. There is absolutely no reason why the game won't get mods with more weapons and more enemy's with more bullets fired. At first I moaned about the way you select weapon but then I thought to myself, maybe it helps in dark area's. For sure they could make the gun glow when the hand is near. There is so many more ways things can be done in Vr. It's just a matter of time. A hell of a lot of work went into Alyx with all those details and it's stunning visuals. Maybe in a few updates time it will be even more amazing. For me personally, When I first tried alyx. I were beyond amazed. I've not seen graphics so good. I've not seen such a story and not to mention Jeff. I just liked some of the things they had done. It is different for many people, some people are flat screen gamers even though they have never given Vr any chance at all. The positive reviews show how good the game is with the majority of people and all those still waiting for their headsets are more than likely going to fall in love with it. I've had my Vr for years and this game impressed me, but each to their own.