Half-Life: Alyx

Half-Life: Alyx

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Recurve Bow - Campaign Addon
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Aug 30, 2020 @ 4:24pm
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Recurve Bow - Campaign Addon

Description
An addon for Half-Life: Alyx which adds a recurve bow to the main campaign.

A version of this mod for those who use the left handed weapon mode can be found here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2233465880

Features

This bow can be used as an alternative to your regular arsenal of weapons.

It can be picked up like a physics object and features an unlimited supply of arrows, drawn from over the shoulder.

these arrows will make short work of zombies and headcrabs while tougher enemies will pose more of a challenge. Aiming for headshots will take down most foes in one hit though, so keep steady and aim true!

Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


How to use this mod

Found towards the start of most levels before combat, the bow is located in any map after entering the quarantine zone barring the vort hideout, distillery and ending.



  • Make sure this addon is enabled in the menu

  • Choose START GAME WITH ADDONS after selecting a chapter

  • If no bow is present, try disabling all other addons

Known issues

This mod comes with a couple of issues that are workarounds of limitations present in the tools.

  • The distillery map (Jeff) does not seem to work with map extensions, the bow cannot be brought into or found within it.
  • This addon will not work in the left handed weapon mode, please use the alternate addon linked above

If the bow does not spawn in a compatible level then the "respawn_bow" command should fix this

Please let me know if you find any other issues.


Notes

This mod took a great deal of time to get to this stage, far more than my previous Minigolf addon. I hope Valve updates the tools in the future in order to make custom weapons easier to implement and possibly integrate into the existing weapon wheel.

The code for this addon is now available on Github![github.com]

I'll also be happy to answer any questions about how this addon works in the comments.


453 Comments
ToadyFrawg Apr 12 @ 6:12pm 
@The Krieg Dont use the iron sights on the bow. Use your instinct. Keep messing around with it you'll see. Its a really fun weapon!
MarioWalrus  [author] Apr 5 @ 6:29am 
@seagull any that use map addons are a no otherwise it should be fine depending on how the modder set them up!
seagull Apr 4 @ 1:15pm 
can you figure out specifically which addons this doesn't work with? quite big task im asking you to do but i just wanna know if i can keep my custom gloves
The Krieg Mar 29 @ 9:08pm 
quite difficult to aim, but I guess it's because of my lack of archery skill.....and probably my slightly shorter-than-average arms
MarioWalrus  [author] Jan 8 @ 6:39am 
@H3000, sorry about that. The way I got this to work back in the day makes it not very compatible with other stuff especially map addons!
H3000 Dec 26, 2024 @ 2:52pm 
Ok it works when i unsubscribed all other mods.
Nice mod, although shooting from a far distance makes the arrow shoot kinda tilted, and that makes me feel like im shooting with a toy bow, but not in close encouinters though, that feels nice.
H3000 Dec 26, 2024 @ 2:10pm 
My game crashes after a short while playing in every chapter.
H3000 Dec 26, 2024 @ 2:01pm 
After subscribing to the mod, my game keeps crashing early within chapter Northeren Star.
MarioWalrus  [author] Nov 21, 2024 @ 5:56am 
I actually thought about that when I made it! I tried finding a way to get the normal weapon laser effects working but couldn't figure it out. When I used debug lines to see what it would look like I actually felt like aiming was then way too easy!
If I had more time it would've been cool to figure out if the bow could be upgraded with resin to add things like this as optional upgrades.
Xitrin Nov 16, 2024 @ 8:35pm 
have you thought about adding laser sight for bow?