(If you want to play Valve VR games with friends, we do hear a credible rumor that Valve’s second full-length VR game may be Left 4 Dead VR.) There is one other way that Half-Life sadly won’t be a flagship release in the Valve series, though: Walker tells us that, unlike Half-Life and Half-Life 2, there’s currently no deathmatch or other multiplayer modes in the works.
Walker says small things like the fact that you don’t have to constantly grip the Valve Index’s controllers to hold them (since they’re strapped to your hands wrists) can make a difference. Alyx supports a lot of them, and experience has shown us that not all VR headsets are equally comfortable. That’s an impressive claim, and it may depend heavily on which headset you use. While the team originally designed the game to be played in shorter bursts, Valve saw that players’ first reactions would often be “Wow, that was the longest I’ve ever been in VR,” and they wound up playing it for longer. “Today, we generally see playtesters go for 2-3 hours before taking a bathroom break,” programmer Robin Walker told The Verge over email. Valve also suggests that you’ll be able to play it for hours on end - even though you’ll be wearing a headset that’s physically tethered to a computer.
In the 23 days since Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx, its first full-length VR game, the company’s Valve Index headset has continually been number one on Steam’s top sellers list - until yesterday, when another VR game called Boneworks surpassed it.Įven though Alyx may be pushing some to spend serious money on VR, the company tells The Verge that it’ll be a traditional Half-Life game in some key ways: it’ll be a linear adventure from start to finish, one that’ll let you save the game whenever you’d like. The first Half-Life game in 13 years might prove to be the first killer app for VR.
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