Alyx non VR

[Ghidrah1]

I was surfing this aft and came across the game Alyx, In so many words said without VR headgear.
I listened to the guys commentary stating that there was a mod you could install into the game to play without VR.
Has anyone here done that and played without issues?

[Tighty-Whitey]

I finished the game with no issues. Don't read any comments or anything like that, just go ahead and play the non-vr mod, it's a very good mod and barely differs from the VR experience. you are gonna see pretty much everything the game has to offer. the only thing is that it makes this game's flaws more apparent, but it's pretty much the same thing. the experience in vr is as flawed as in non-vr in hl alyx.

[IanL]

The game is fully playable without VR via the free mod but it is certainly not anything like the same experience as playing it as it was designed to be played in VR. But if you don't have a VR headset or planning to invest in one any time soon then it's a viable way of at least enjoying the Alyx story line.

The game looses a lot of its appeal outside of VR though, which is the reason why the developer stated it would not be releasing a non VR version but would not stand in the way of modders enabling that if they wanted to.

[LemonyNebula]

It's playable.
It cuts out a lot of puzzle/interaction content and loses most of what makes Alyx special as it is not how it was designed to be played.
Some physics things have tried to be replicated but is a bit of a pain flat (such as rotating some wheels), and others are assigned to a single button push practically bypassing them.

I played it both ways. If you are ever going to use VR in your lifetime, I suggest you wait until you have a headset so you get to experience it at its best first run.
If you are certain you won't ever get one, the mod should work fine if you only care for the story.

Make sure to download a difficulty mod too. It's faster movement, not being able to fumble your shots or have really any tension at all really makes combat too easy.

[Ghidrah1]

I watched about have the vid, wasn't sure why the players movements were so spazzy, figured he had his dpi turned up too high.

I did notice how some of the scenes seemed a bit chopped, (abruptly changed) but not due to scene change or loading time. He wasn't cutting out errors, had bunches of restarts and wasn't cutting out load times.

Also noticed player had real hard time manipulating objects, picking up and or engaging items with other objects.

[Chrille 🎃]

I have played it non_vr for several hours. And 80 % of the VR-game mechanics are still there. The Non_vr mod is amazing if you want to play the game in a conventional fashion and it gets updates regularily. I would absolutely recommend to play it. But do not buy the game for full price, buy it on a sale. It is not worth it full price.

[Ghidrah1]

After watching some of the vid, I got the winter sale email but after watching the vid was wondering if it was worth it. It didn't seem as exciting as the HL2 offerings

[DioMeD22]

I only have one real issue with the mod. The puzzles can't be solved without vr, so they are cut with the mod and you auto-unlock everything (at least according to walkthrough videos). However, for me puzzles still appear from time to time, making it impossible to open containers with loot. I even had to use noclip once (chapter 2) to go through the door bc i could not take an item to open it. The item was in container guarded by an insolvable puzzle. Kinda annoying and i am shocked this sht is not fixed. Or maybe i am just so lucky.