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We tried a few iterations of jumping, but ultimately found that even in continuous motion, players preferred dealing with those jumps with a teleport-style movement.” Original Alyx coice actor was once involved The only time you need to jump is to traverse a short gap, which happens very rarely. “For instance, if you need to get past an obstacle like a crate, you mantle up rather than jump up. Jumping also won’t come into play very often during gameplay, either. So among testers I still seem to be the outlier on horror tolerance.” No jumping Some of our gorier visuals tend to evoke a grim fascination rather than revulsion or panic, and apart from myself, we’ve hardly ever seen anyone nope out of a playtest, even during the creepier sections. “Disappointingly for me, it seems that I’m the only one on the team who can’t deal, we handle the scarier parts pretty well in terms of making the game accessible. Horror is part of the franchise, and through playtesting, we feel like we’ve gained some confidence about where to draw this line.
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If I’m testing the game, and I’m in an area where I know one of those things is around, I’ll remove the head set and hold it off my face as I attempt to navigate on the 2nd monitor screen, to lessen the impact of headcrab discovery.” “I admit I cannot deal with headcrabs in general, and definitely not in VR. It looks like UploadVR’s Jamie isn’t alone when it comes to VR horror – one member of the Alyx team admitted he struggled to play through headcrab sections. We don’t want to spoil anything, but there’s an example of this we’re particularly excited about.” Horrific headcrabs “Similarly, Combine soldiers definitely return, both in the form you’ve previously seen them as well as with new variations to keep players busy and take advantage of VR. Some creatures respond to audio more than others. Playtesters all keep reporting it as a bug.” “You can put a bucket on a headcrab, and it’ll move the bucket as it crawls around. As with many aspects of working on this game, we’ve had to find new ways to take well-worn mechanics and other Half-Life staples into the specific framework of VR.” “We experimented with moving the player, but moving the player without their input in VR didn’t work very well. You’ll deal with them in familiar ways, but the opportunities afforded by VR also give you new methods to use against them.” They also talked about how classic Half-Life monsters and enemies, like Barnacles, Head Crabs, and Combine soldiers, will work in VR. The developers also confirmed there will be a train ride in the game. “It’s actually illegal to ship a Half-Life game if you don’t spend at least a little time riding in a train.” These will also showcase movement options and other VR-specific elements. The developers confirmed that more gameplay videos are on the way before release. But in the end, we are very happy with how it’s been received, and we’re really excited to get it finished and into your hands.” More gameplay details, videos on the way On the team we joked that releasing the game was much less scary than announcing it. I have a teenage son, and for 4 years I’ve refused to tell him what game I was working on, because I knew he wouldn’t be able to keep it to himself. “Working on HL:A before we announced it was pretty worrisome.
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Interestingly, the Half-Life: Alyx development team consists of around 80 people, which is the largest single team that has ever worked on a Valve project. The developers also noted Half-Life: Alyx is comparable in length and content to Half-Life 2. We’re confident we’ll hit our intended release.” Right now we’re primarily polishing and fixing bugs, which is where we’d hope to be at this point in the development cycle. Lots of us at Valve, as well as playtesters, have played through the entire game multiple times. “With the exception of some tweaks to the absolute final scene, the game is done. The developers joked that “Valve Time,” a running joke about the studio’s delays, happened during the pre-announcement development cycle and the game is on track for its March release. … Generally, this is how we’ve done SDKs in our previous Source 1 titles as well - making the game takes precedence, and after that’s done, we start looking at what’s next.” It’s finished “Source 2 is a new toolset, much of which hasn’t been previously released.
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The team is “not currently planning on shipping a full SDK.” They said it may come at some point, but it would be a lot of work at the moment, when they could be polishing the game instead.