Half-Life 2

SolKutTeR · 20. Juli 2022

Frisches Juli-Statusupdate von fholger:

Half-Life 2 VR: July progress update
It's been about two months and nearly 200 commits since the last progress update, so I figure it is that time again
I had hoped this would be the update with which we could have announced our Steam store page in time for the VR festival. Alas, the review process has been dragging along for longer than we anticipated, so it was sadly not meant to be. I do still hope that we will be able to present it soon, including the awesome trailer that Mavis and EchoSmoker put together for our store presence! We might even have a release date for the public beta

Anyway, a majority of development work has been going into bugfixes and addressing player feedback from the closed beta test. Of which there are plenty, despite some Youtubers making it seem otherwise Thankfully, we welcomed three new developers (AugustCoder, HigherFlyer and Markyparky) to the team who are helping out with the bug squashing!

I won't bore you with details about bugs you'll hopefully never have to encounter yourselves, so I'll just give you a quick glance at the features we managed to sneak in.
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Toggled crouch and seated mode were added

The amount of highlighted items was reduced and the highlight color was toned down. You can also completely turn off item highlights if you prefer.

The gravity gun received an overhaul and now has functioning animations and effects both for the standard and the mega cannon. (No hand poses, yet, though.)

Doors can now be grabbed and opened manually (very experimental and incomplete feature, though!)

The shotgun pump action handling is improved and a bit more intuitive.

Dismounting from ladders received an overhaul as a lot of people seemed to struggle with it.

A quick reload mode for weapons was added. In this mode, you eject the empty magazine (if applicable), then lower the weapon to your hip to instantly reload it.

A reordering of VR API calls resulted in a minor CPU performance improvement.

Smoke volumes in Ravenholm and Anticitzen One were improved for VR rendering so they appear less jarring.

Preliminary WMR controller bindings were added and the bindings for Vive wands received some updates to make them better (though Wands are, unfortunately, still the least enjoyable way to experience this mod)

The HL2 tutorial hints have been modified to show VR-specific controls and messages.

The mod has now been properly parented to Half-Life 2, meaning that Steam will ensure you own the original before being able to download our mod. This allowed us to now change our build such that HL2VR is a standalone install. So it no longer requires the base game to be installed, you just need to own it. Should make for an even simpler install once the mod releases.

Fixed a ton of crashes and some other issues with the episodes. (Note that the episodes are not currently our main focus and will release some time after the mod releases for the base game.)

The updated assets are under heavy development, as well, with further map improvements and fixes, additional texture upscales etc.. (The updated assets will not be part of the initial public beta, which will use base HL2 assets. The updated assets will later release on a separate Steam branch, so you can always opt out of them if you prefer.)

That's all I have for you for this update. We are not quite there, yet, but we are getting closer. Thank you for being patient with us
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SolKutTeR · 10. August 2022

Im September startet endlich die Public Beta und die weitere Roadmap steht.

Public beta will release in September, but might not make it onto Steam
Good news, everyone! The wait is nearly over - the Half-Life 2: VR public beta is launching in September. And yes, we do mean this year

A project as large and ambitious as Half-Life 2: VR is never truly finished. There is a lot that we still want to do, and still want to improve on, to make it the best VR experience we possibly can. You can find the most important areas we are still working on in our Roadmap.

However, the overwhelmingly positive feedback from our private beta testers over the past few weeks has convinced us that the game as it is now can not only be fully completed from start to finish, but it’s also very enjoyable to do so, and we wish to give you the opportunity to experience it for yourselves. So go and retrieve your crowbars from storage, and we will see you soon!

We do not have an exact release date yet, and will update you when we do, but it will likely be a Friday. The mod itself will be free of charge, but you do need to own a copy of the original Half-Life 2 on Steam.

Unfortunately, at this point in time, we do not know if the initial public release will happen on Steam. We are still waiting for approval by Valve, and we do not know how much longer that will take. If our Store page gets approved by September, we will launch on Steam as planned. If not, we will prepare an alternative launch outside of Steam. Either way, we are excited to have you play the mod in September!

The Source VR Mod Team

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Pulverdings · 20. August 2022

A similar thing happened with us, they asked us to do a couple more things to show it's a mod (including renaming it to "Half-Life 2: VR Mod") and updating the artwork to not use Valve art as a base.
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Diese Änderungen wurden wohl jetzt auch schon gemacht und Valve wieder zur Prüfung geschickt. Kommt also dann wahrscheinlich doch auf Steam.

Pulverdings · 26. August 2022

https://store.steampowered.com/app/658920/HalfLife_2_VR_Mod/

16.09.2022

komisch · 26. August 2022

Ich habe HL 2 nie gespielt und von daher gibt's und ein "echt cool"

SolKutTeR · 26. August 2022

Ich kann's nicht abwarten.. geil, geil, geil nach so langer Zeit
Direktmal im Eröffnungspost erwähnt.

kellerbach · 26. August 2022

Hatte die ganzen Episoden auf Halde gekauft, nie gespielt. Hoffentlich funzen die auch in dieser Mod. Und hoffentlich gibts die Option auf linkshändiges Zielen.

Odyssey_Plus_Man · 31. August 2022

Marco (MRTV) hat es gerade gestreamt auf YouTube und es sieht richtig, richtig gut aus. Technisch sehr sauber umgesetzt!

joe209 · 1. September 2022

Habe es dummerweise vor alyx Release in flat durchgespielt... Echt... Schade, werde es aber auf jeden Fall in vr anspielen...

Hoshi82 · 2. September 2022

Zitat von kellerbach: ↑

Hatte die ganzen Episoden auf Halde gekauft, nie gespielt. Hoffentlich funzen die auch in dieser Mod. Und hoffentlich gibts die Option auf linkshändiges Zielen.
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Episode 1 und 2 wird erstmal nicht unterstützt, soll aber evtl. später folgen.

Die Mod hat kompletten Linkshänder Support, kann man in meinen Videos auch sehen. Das Erste was ich in VR Spielen/Mods teste, als Linkshänder.

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