r/HalfLifeAlyx

This is a continuation of my play through from my previous post. I hope you like this one as well. ITR2 is awesome but doesn’t look this good.

I really want to play Half-Life Alyx but I can’t afford a VR headset (like most of humans on earth) but I heard there is a pc port. My question is : Should I play it ?
Bc I’ve read hundreds of times, since I started Half-Life, that if you don’t play it on VR you won’t get the full experience wanted by Valve and that it’s way less good on pc etc.
So it’s why I’m asking y’all.

This game is amazing! Half Life Alyx has stunning next generation graphics and animation. It’s not often that I see people doing play throughs of this experience so I recorded one for myself as I needed to take a break from ITR2. I hope this community enjoys this video. For those who watched thank you and for those who didn’t also thank you. I started this channel to show my son that if you love gaming or anything to turn your passion into profit. Or at least try to make it into something that benefit to you even if it means putting yourself out there in someway shape or form.

Okay, this is obviously a joke, but hear me out.

I noticed something funny about Half-Life: Decay.

Half-Life released on November 19, 1998, while Half-Life: Decay released on November 14, 2001.

That's:

2 years, 11 months, 26 days

And I specifically chose Decay because a half-life is the time it takes for half of a radioactive substance to decay.

So I decided to use the Half-Life → Decay interval as my completely stupid "Half-Life decay constant."

STEP 1: THE DECAY CONSTANT

Half-Life → Decay = 1,091 days.

There are 7 Half-Life games in the set I'm counting:

1. Half-Life
2. Opposing Force
3. Blue Shift
4. Decay
5. Half-Life 2
6. Episode One
7. Episode Two

So:

1,091 × 7 = 7,637 days

Now add that to the original Half-Life release:

November 19, 1998 + 7,637 days = October 17, 2019

And here's where it gets WEIRD.

Half-Life: Alyx was announced on November 21, 2019.

That's only 35 days later.

I didn't choose the formula to land near Alyx. It just... did. 💀

STEP 2: WHERE DID THE 28 YEARS COME FROM?

Then I tried another version.

Instead of simply multiplying the Decay interval by 7, I looked at how far each Half-Life game had released from the original Half-Life.

Approximately:

Half-Life → 0 years Opposing Force → 1 year Blue Shift → 2.56 years Decay → 2.99 years Half-Life 2 → 5.99 years Episode One → 7.53 years Episode Two → 8.89 years

Add them together:

0 + 1 + 2.56 + 2.99 + 5.99 + 7.53 + 8.89 ≈ 28 years

28 YEARS.

And what happens if you add 28 years to Half-Life 1?

November 19, 1998 + 28 years = November 19, 2026.

Which is...

NOVEMBER 19, 2026 🚨

The 28th anniversary of Half-Life.

So the completely insane theory is:

The Half-Life → Decay interval predicted a date only 35 days before the Half-Life: Alyx announcement.

The cumulative release timeline gives us 28 years.

28 years after Half-Life = November 19, 2026.

Therefore:

HALF-LIFE 3 — NOVEMBER 19, 2026?

Probably absolutely not.

But if Valve announces it that day, I'm going to become INSufferable. ☢️💀

I have a quest 1 and use air link with my pc. My GPU is an rtx2060 6gb. I'm curious if I upgrade to a quest 3 if I will see a performance decrease.

All Good Things is a mod for Half-Life 2: Episode Two, inspired by Marc Laidlaw's Epistle 3, and begins after the conclusion of Half-Life: Alyx. From the creator of Deep Down and Deeper Down, Jim Partridge, in association with BBP. Coming to the Steam Workshop this year.

Unfortunately there seems to be limited information/documentation on the sound tech of half life Alyx, however this is one of the better videos with a minor caveat- Neither Phonon, SteamAudio, Or Alyx utilizes Wave tracing but rather Ray Tracing.

Interestingly enough this game was finished after SteamAudio integrated AMD TrueAudio and Radeon Rays GPU offloaded Ray traced audio but uses neither(aside from potentially using Radeon Rays during dev work to speed up audio baking.

Other related videos:

https://youtu.be/jTXnZ64ehRM?is=dJU-cwhqiyKWfg4T

https://youtu.be/9CrLSQHSgvA?is=1AELUV61uugDU2C9

So I've been looking to get a laptop and I really want to play hla. I already have a quest 3 so I'm just wondering if there are any laptops that could comfortably run this game with out issue.

I am having an issue where Half-Life Alyx crashes in the first loading screen when you open the game. It will be normal for like 5 seconds but then the audio will glitch a little and the game will just close. I have never gotten past that loading screen and to the valve screen ever. I have reinstalled the game over five times, I have messed with startup options, I feel like I have done everything I could find and nothing has worked. And I cannot seem to find anyone who is having the same issue as me.

I believe it is an issue with software on my Pc because I have an Rog Ally, and I tested the game on the Ally, and it booted up with no issues.

Here are my specs on my Pc

RTX 4060 GPU

Ryzen 5 5600x-6 core CPU

32gbs DDr4 Ram

(I do not know the exact model of motherboard, but I do know it is an MSI motherboard.)

I have never had any issues running any other game on my Pc, I do however have issues running other VR games like blade and sorcery, which run slow and have occasional stuttering (but nothing too bad)

I forgot to mention that my headset is a Quest 2 using Steamlink.

I do not believe it has to do with my headset since it worked on my Rog Ally.

If anyone has the same issue as me, or has any fixes that may help, please for the love of god tell me. I am going insane I have tried to fix this for months.

If you need any videos or extra information I can provide it if you want.