Tonight, Valve held a large-scale Q & A session about Half-Life:
Alyx on Reddit, where it answered many fans’ questions, telling new details about the future game and its development.
• There will definitely not be a transfer of the release, since the development has already been completed. Currently, the team is polishing, and some of its members have already managed to pass the game several times.
• To create Alix, the company formed the largest team in its history – about 80 people. In this case, the passage will take about the same time as on Half-Life 2 – 13-15 hours.
• Valve veteran Mike Morasky, known for Portal 2, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 1-2, is responsible for the soundtrack. He is actively consulting with Kelly Bailey, who worked on the soundtrack for Half-Life and Half-Life 2.
• According to the developers, they had to take a new actress for the role of the main character because of the desire to go in another direction. Recall that Merle Dandridge was replaced by Ozioma Akaga.
• Half-Life: Alyx will be available to everyone, given the fact that you, for example, will play while sitting, use your leading left hand, etc.
• Some testers were very scared to play in sections where there were headcrabs. In general, Valve confidently says that the horror elements of the franchise will not go anywhere in Alix, but you should not expect the horrors of the level of the most terrible representatives of the genre.
• The game will be voiced so far only in English, but at the same time it supports subtitles in other languages, including Russian. Valve is considering the possibility of voicing the game in other languages in the future.
• An interesting detail: players will be able to cover the headcrab with a bucket – it will continue to jump and move around with the bucket. Initially, many testers considered this a bug.
• Valve admitted that some things in Half-Life 1 were done better than in Half-Life 2. Among them, for example, there is artificial intelligence, which in Alyx has been improved.
• Have a train ride. Valve joked that it was illegal to release a game in the Half-Life series without a scene on a train.
• Some creatures from past games in the series will return.
• Teleportation of the main part of the Citadel to Earth is now a canon. After teleportation, the Alliance began to equip the Citadel with resources collected on the planet.
• Closer to the release, Valve will show new gameplay videos, as well as the difference in modes of movement in VR.
New screenshots of Half-Life: Alyx
March 23 release for VR.
Debut gameplay Half-Life: Alyx + second and third parts
Valve opened pre-boot Half-Life: Alyx – it takes up almost 70 GB The exit will take place at 20:00 on March 23rd.
SUDDEN: First Half-Life rating: Alyx
Game ratings from the May issue of EDGE, which will go on sale March 26, were posted by the user of the ResetEra forum under the nickname doodlewhizz. Among other things, he revealed the first assessment of Half-Life: Alyx – the embargo on the publication of reviews on it will fall simultaneously with the release of the game, March 23.
EDGE rated Half-Life: Alyx at 9 out of 10. By the way, the first part of the series got so many points from the magazine, while Half-Life 2 got the highest rating, 10 out of 10, and the result of Half-Life 2: Episode One was 8 out of 10.
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Very very skeptical “cheers.” Probably.
Well, how to look in the Alyx neckline from the first person (and the drawing of the body seems to be stated) is worth a lot. And certainly fashion on this subject will certainly appear. For the sake of this, it is not a pity to buy a helmet. 🙂
I remember the indescribable reaction of YouTube in VR games with such an opportunity.
In fact, they did it initially under VR, and then realized that for a flat version they would have to cut a bunch of very interesting mechanics.
Similar games were born for VR. Anyone who has ever played in a helmet (in a modern helmet in games created for them) knows how dramatically the experience is different.
Here’s https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vA-USbNrineRLTYXVnP2cOJXkCXW_sF-ohIOKPHZL74/edit a piece of fun for tomorrow’s subtitle trailer for the game.
Alyx Vance = 65 108 121 120 32 86 91 110 99 101ASCII. The sum of ascii codes is 939. Each digit is divided by three, this clearly means something.
I hope the new game comes out fit and does not shame the memory of the nights with the passage of the old half-life.
Well, skins with hats are still there, they do not affect the gameplay. Artifact is a card game with paid cards. Without the opportunity to get them for free. There is only a store or paid modes where you can get cards while you continue to win. The game itself is also paid.
But not only in the case of pay, the recent dota underlords lack of donation did not help. Compared to the simultaneously launched teamfight tactics, the riots did not find any popularity.
I hope this is a sign that all the talented people at valve are in the business of developing half-life.
Ohhh, the comments clearly show that they are “overheating.” Interest somewhere near zero. Well, let’s joke a little bit that they waited, but there will be no furore.
Yes, I heard somewhere that there can be optimized. Nevertheless, a) there will still be much more calculations (no matter how you turn it, but the calculation of overlapping objects must be done anew for the new direction of the line of sight), b) even one screen is already significantly larger than FullHD, c) the frame rate is still required higher ( including the most difficult locations).