Half-Life: Alyx

Half-Life: Alyx

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The plank experience for Alyx
   
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Addon Type: Maps
Environment Types: Urban
Enemy & NPC Types: Combine Soldiers, Antlions, Jeff
Difficulty: Hardcore
Tags: Alyx Addon
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505.975 MB
Mar 2 @ 3:40pm
Mar 3 @ 11:20pm
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The plank experience for Alyx

Description
The crane lifts you up to the top of the Vertigo-Skyscraper from CS2, where the plank awaits you. Step onto the thin, cracking wood if you dare. You can also balance on the steel beams at dizzying heights.
Other mini-games are: Push me (inspired by the famous map "Push people into hell") and Fly me gently (experimental). And of course you can fight if you really want to: Against waves of Combine and Antlions.

Notes
- There is no fall damage, you can jump from any height
- The falling speed in Alyx seems to be hard-coded and is very slow
6 Comments
PENGUINO Mar 27 @ 1:28pm 
why is there a cs 2 map in this?
FAGET_WTF Mar 10 @ 11:40am 
I can't wait to try out this new map after having played all the existing ones for a while...
Vanx  [author] Mar 10 @ 11:24am 
Thanks a lot for the comments and videos so far. @JediPunk: I startet a fix that included autosave points, but ran out of memory due compiling the 8K lightmap. Dont know why this happens now, the map was made with a 8K lightmap, so I will leave everything as it is.
@ Hypernukeleosis: If you go too far forward on the plank, you don't fall, but stop in mid-air. This has to do with the tricks I had to use to get the falling to work properly in the first place. You can't get onto the crane, the map is a C2 port and the upper part is just a texture with transparent parts without any great mesh geometry
@ Hypernukeleosis and @ Willhart: you both have found a way to the backrooms of the map. You may consider this an unintentional easteregg. They are the most valuable ;-)

Watch the videos here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBoXxBMBVB0 and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUFa9AIGmZE
Hypernukeleosis Mar 9 @ 5:24pm 
This was really fun, excellent timing since Richie's Plank experience has been talked about recently because it got delisted from the Meta Quest store. I even recorded my own playthrough of the map and explored some of the places I wasn't suppose to be at the end, lol.
Is there a way to climb up the crane? Feels a little disappointing to have that hang over you and not be able to climb up, even when you could see a ladder there. Otherwise, fun and unique map, thanks for making.
JediPunk Mar 8 @ 8:11pm 
Hey, I spent about 35 minutes in your mod, tried out a few things, and died a couple of times. I'm a real graphics junkie, and I think your map is an A+ audiovisually! This completely new environment was just amazing.

Obviously, I'm not height-proof, but for that very reason, I'd recommend everyone to try it at least once. The sense of height and vastness is really well done.

Unfortunately, I had to ride the elevator from bottom to top multiple times because I forgot to save, so I would have loved an autosave point at the top especially since, on my first run, the touchscreen display only spawned Jeff, and none of the other inputs worked. I reloaded, and then it worked fine.

I won’t spoil anything, but I'll just say that the view is fantastic and that there’s plenty to do to stick around for a bit. Great job!
λrokh Mar 7 @ 6:01am 
Nice one. I especially like the Push Me minigame.
Glad I'm not afraid of heights, Vertigo is going strong with this one.
My playthrough: https://youtu.be/Ll7xPE0a_eM