I wish there was a modding category for mainstream game awards or showcases, cause there are some pretty amazing mods made by some really talented people that deserve a spotlight.

@virtualinsider

Жыл бұрын

Very true

@TuTAH_1

Жыл бұрын

IMO they deserve it even more than just games, since games today are usually more buisness product than art; while mods are mostly written on pure enthusiasm with the only purpose of doing something awesome.

@Idk_Biguy

Жыл бұрын

Like the creators of bonelab fusion deserve an award because it took so long to make it

@P-Nokota

Жыл бұрын

Well let vote on it

@daniil9150

Жыл бұрын

Arent there anything like that on moddb?

As much as I love the classic USP in the thumbnail, the whole reason Alyx's default gun looks like that is so that when she upgrades it, it becomes the gun you see in Half Life 2.

@KianGaming09

10 ай бұрын

Yeah

@apple120_1E

10 ай бұрын

indeed

@fubar12345

9 ай бұрын

Yep, much prefer the original for this reason. It's the Alyx Gun!

@YourFrenTap

7 ай бұрын

My main problem with the vanilla gun is that once it gets it's frame around the slide it mechanically ceases to make sense. Particularly that the front sight post sticks through a notch in the frame, essentially locking the slide and frame together which means the sight has to clip whenever cycling. Small nitpick but these sorts of things are pretty easy to see in VR so i guess that's what devs get for pushing technology forward.

@ninetee_degrees

6 ай бұрын

@@YourFrenTap What do you expect? It's alien technology, nothing makes sense with the Combine.

Campaign+ is an awesome mod! I love it! It's funny how there's Zombines because in HL2: Episode 1 Alyx is surprised to see a headcrab on a Combine and even makes a joke which gives the Zombine it's name.

@virtualinsider

Жыл бұрын

Thats a good point, probably doesnt make sense for the lore of the game and probably why they arent in by default.

@gerardonavarro3400

Жыл бұрын

I will never forget that moment lol, it was one of the greatest sideyes I've had in gaming

@Echo-22-538

Жыл бұрын

@@gerardonavarro3400 Facts though

@Blurns

Жыл бұрын

@@virtualinsider There are combine ordinal zombies, which are technically zombine. It does contradict Episode 1, but they just don't draw attention to it.

@lenzi5119

Жыл бұрын

@@Blurns I guess in the original timeline, Eli didn't discover the secret of the vault. (The structure in the vault probably didn't exist because I assume they didn't capture Gman in the og timeline for Gman to make a different ending in ep2.) Alyx didn't go to the vault because of course his father wasn't in need of saving and thus, she didn't come in contact with Zombine or the rest of the horrors in the vault.

"Who doesnt like it hard?" wise choice of words

@Thxtnt

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly

@magicmidgetman

11 ай бұрын

🤨

@GL1TCH_DOCTOR

10 ай бұрын

"lets face it, who doesn't like it hard"

@DoNotSubscribetoMePlease

5 ай бұрын

3:05 moment

@chrispylieutenant8658

2 ай бұрын

I read this comment the exact second he said it lol.

Nice clickbait, please stop with this MODDERS ARE FIXING clickbait format, as a modder I despise it. HLA doesnt need "fixing" just say you're showing off some cool mods, just say that.

@EDaley10

7 ай бұрын

based

@trustypotato9998

7 ай бұрын

I completely missread that and thought you said that you despise HLA

@user-rt7mn6vs7l

7 ай бұрын

Yes

@theofficialnerdemoji

7 ай бұрын

Its not a “CLICKBAIT” format hes right the modders do fix HLA with new mods and improvements you are just misreading and are getting mad for a stupid little thing

@Centila

6 ай бұрын

​@@theofficialnerdemojihe ain't gonna fuck you bro

I like to use the USP replacement when playing custom maps, though in the main campaign I prefer the m1911 since Alyx has always used a modified m1911 in half-life 2 and it's Episodes so it feels consistent with the lore to use it in HLA since it's implied that the gun you use in HLA eventually becomes the "Alyx Gun" seen in half-life 2.

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, similar. And there is no real reason to replace the pistol. Half Life 1 has a Glock, Half Life 2 the USP. and Half Life Alyx a M1911. Each game with it's own pistol.

@tinmipad4sokabali74

Жыл бұрын

Op4 with a deagle and blue shift with m9.

@BirdRaiserE

Жыл бұрын

Chad opinion

@cr1tikal_arc

Жыл бұрын

@@tinmipad4sokabali74 the desert eagle replaced the revolver in opposing force tbf

@legssohot7640

Жыл бұрын

I'd love if there was a 1911 mod that had the quirks of the USP replacer. However from a gameplay perspective I much prefer the sights of the USP since I'm pretty sure the sights on the 1911 aren't zeroed properly past like 15 meters, along with the grip position. I understand why they went with the teacup grip since most controllers encourage it and Alyx isn't the most experienced shooter by this time, but the index controllers are perfectly capable of a more proper handgun grip

I think that you are doing a great job featuring so many AAA VR games, counterintuitive they not get so much attention in the VR community and they lead the technology forward after all

@ch3cksund3ad

Жыл бұрын

For real, HLA and Boneworks should be the standards for VR games now. Really tired of trash, half-ass VR games, not worth the trouble for me to set it up. Not enough real, full games on VR still

@scrabble567

10 ай бұрын

*cough cough* fallout 4@@ch3cksund3ad

its more that they made the experience more advanced than fixing it, valve knows what they are doing, so they probably know best for how they make their own games

I think all games should have mod support, that's what makes a game better because sometimes Devs don't care or aren't aware/don't have time

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

And it is what makes games live long after the developer is done with it.

@ngregoirenc

Жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios even spawning sucessful new games afrom the mods

@cowboycat298

Жыл бұрын

you can mod all games, it just depends on if people want to or not

@phoenixmarktwo

Жыл бұрын

​@@cowboycat298 Yes and no. Most games are not built with mod support, which can make modding them frustrating and confusing. It's why games kike Half Lift 2 have a billion mods while Call of Duty (insert entry here) has very few.

@Tudorgeable

Жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios It's what made ID and Valve immensely popular

I follow VR stuff daily but I still hadn't heard of a bunch of these, thanks for compiling them in a nice video with links!

@virtualinsider

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

Having Gunman Contracts enabled and playing the main game or other custom levels actually decreases the enemy health to a "realistic" level, making firefights feel much better.

0:55 There's also "sprint button mod" for it.

@virtualinsider

Жыл бұрын

Didnt know about that, thanks

@TuTAH_1

Жыл бұрын

@@virtualinsider ​ It have been here not for too long, through - just about an half-year ago. I was actually wandererd why there weren't such essential thing as sprint, even in mods for a long time. And I was really glad when this mod comed out.

"As Valve didn't like the feeling of 2-handed weapons in VR" I'm pretty sure it's actually because they wanted the game to be accessible to people who could only use 1 controller. Also, I think calling the video "How Modders _Fixed_ Half Life Alyx" is a bit misleading as these mods aren't really fixes, more so just changes.

@Endolas1

Жыл бұрын

I realy don't like title like that, it sound's like modders are intitled. they fix games... because they are better than the devs...

@RongleBringer

5 ай бұрын

2 handed guns in VR feel dumb and janky without a 2 handed controller. Unfortunately no manufacturer makes one apart from PSVR1 Aim controller, but that suffers from PSVR crap tracking

Every time I play Alyx I remember why I bought VR. It’s truly phenomenal. I haven’t played a game that gave me that feeling since

@KingMetalMario

Жыл бұрын

I really want to play HL Alyx bit I feel like it won't be worth the money considering the finite library of games for VR I'm interested in

@TheRealJochen

Жыл бұрын

I never really noticed just how intractable everything in alyx is until I played any other vr game afterwards

@Skrenja

Жыл бұрын

Check out Subnautica and Resident Evil 2,3,7 and Village.

@DeimosPC

Жыл бұрын

@@KingMetalMario Believe me.. I own so many games and Alyx is still by far the best game out there for VR. It’ll blow your mind. The visuals are incredible and the atmosphere is amazing

@DeimosPC

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRealJochen Same. It’s really good. I hope Valve works on more VR titles.

I'm pretty sure the reason that there weren't any zombines in the original game is because in half life: 2 Alyx sees them for the first time, hence the zombine joke

@AveriV1

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm. A Combine zombie. That's, that's like a...a.. Zombine! Right? Heh... Zombine, get it? Heh heh. Okay.

@trianglemoebius

10 ай бұрын

In all fairness, she could have just not thought of the pun the first time she saw them.

@Generalmacka

7 ай бұрын

When she first said that I just said “no it’s a Combie” then started giggling until it started charging at me with a grenade

The reason why she uses an M1911 is because HLA takes place before Gordon's return. When Earth still had supplies of human weaponry. There obviously wasn't much of a coordinated resistance back then that there is after Gordon's return.

"how modders fixed hl alyx" >beangun

great to learn about the Merciless mod! The way headcrabs and antlions telegraphed their attacks, and the overall ease of combat was my biggest issue with Alyx.

this video is so well made that i've already watched it 5 time over.

I liked Alyx but I don’t think I played more than twice Your video really got me interested to go back and check out the mods Nice editing too!

Very comprehensive!

This is amazing, I was just recently looking for some sort of compendium of Alyx mods worth trying, as I've seen so many mentioned but didn't know where to start. This is a great "what to do next now that you've finished the game". Nice!

Zombines are present in HLA. You encounter them at railway intersection when you go to the generator room to retrieve batteries for operating combine console.

@magicmidgetman

11 ай бұрын

thats what I'm saying!

It is genuinly so insane that this game can have weapons added, that aren't actually proper weapons, that opens so many possibilities for the future, especially for any VR-based GMod like game

I'd love to mod it so that time to kill for both enemies and the player is lower - for a bit of a more milsim feel. Something like 2-3 bullets for enemies (1 if headshot) and double that for the player

@MisterChief711

Жыл бұрын

not really realistic but i see what you mean

0:40 I just got a Katwalk C2 Core and I'm glad to hear it's slow.

i'm playing the 'from here to there' mod at the moment, pretty good, but the gunman mods are definitely my favorite, its just they've become too easy because there's no random behavior of the NPCs

@jimbob9086

Жыл бұрын

Here to there was incredible, the creator was an ophthalmologist and it shows, with his eye for detail lol

replacing Alyx's 1911 with USP is definitely not a fix altough nice vid

@agarlicsorbet6482

Жыл бұрын

uuuuuuuuuuuuugh you beat me to it. Yes. 1911 is good as it is. For the game USP is og but come on it's 1911.

@Dima_Stardust

Жыл бұрын

​@@agarlicsorbet6482 wdym og? earlier guys below remembered that in each HL there were different pistols

@SirCheeseEater

Жыл бұрын

​@@Dima_Stardust The real og would be the Glock 17

@chiefdanny5058

Жыл бұрын

@@Dima_Stardust HL2 came out 19 years ago. The USP match is old enough to vote. It definitely qualifies as an Original Gangsta

Thank you, you have a very professional method.

A proper portal 2 vr mod using the source 2 engine is all i can hope for

1 mod i like is called sustenance by chrjen, that basically just let you eat and drink the different foods and bottled drinks that you find around the game, such as canned goods and headcrabs to bottled water and vodka

The modders are probably on the valve’s future employee list now

fun fact: scripted item test range is a map in SteamVR Home, thats why in HL:A its called MK2, or i could be all wrong, even though most of the weapons are in the mk2 version

Thanks for all your videos, especially these ones about mods (both Flat>VR, and modding VR games). Don't have as much time nowadays so these videos go a long way! Cheers

0:28 so we're just lying now are we? this game had the most spectacle and awesome set pieces in the series so far

3:29 "USP Match" Yet its not a USP Match, just a regular USP.

I hope more indie vr games are made with the half life Alyx engine

@thisnameisbad3609

3 ай бұрын

(it's called source 2)

At this rate Half Life Alyx will be the greatest VR game ever

You have a very interesting definition of 'fixing'.

3:08 that's what she said.

one thing with the usp match from half-life 2, is that it is missing what makes it a usp match and not a usp. it is missing the barrel weight in the front to reduce recoil.

I honestly thought the channel was going to have over 100k subscribers, but I am thoroughly suprised at how underated you are!

I think Valve did this as a precursor to a Gordon Freeman title or Half Life 3 in order to test and hash some features out before shifting to higher level VR technology that's likely to come out.

3:07 "Let's face it, who doesn't like it hard?" Very poor choice of words

The enemies now are a joke to me now but I remember the first time playing half life alyx as my first VR game I was huffing and puffing and absolutely terrified of everything. Props to valve for striking a good balance for Alyx being a beginner entry point for people new to VR.

Song at start is “triage at dawn”

lets be honest a game without a workshop for modders is just silly

Never allow this guy on a shooting range. Somehow he managed to animate a gatling gun to shoot on its own and go on an autonomous killing spree, and he's clearly not concerned about things others would consider lethal with the way he just tanked that launcher's backblast like it was a morning breeze.

@christhefirst

4 ай бұрын

imagine getting drafted in 2040 and you fail training because you e-killed everyone at the range after glitching out the e-machine gun

Thanks for this! That movement speed one is a real game changer for me, I can’t understand why so many vr games insist on having you move at a snails pace, it really bugs me

@SimplexPL

Жыл бұрын

When I played After the Fall for some time, then came back to Alyx for Levitation I was gobsmacked at how painfully slow the walking speed is. More like crawling speed. This option should be in the menu. I wish that video came out before I finished Levitation 😅

@Skrenja

Жыл бұрын

Slower movement speed tends to make people less motion sick.

@SimplexPL

Жыл бұрын

@@Skrenja Yes, but it doesn't explain why there's no in-game option to speed it up

@dragon_melon69

Жыл бұрын

I know right? I had already been playing Half life 2 VR for a while when I got alyx and was so annoyed with the lack of a sprint and jump button

@user-tzzglsstle585e38

Жыл бұрын

@@SimplexPL Since the main goal is to make people not motion sick; a lot of the gameplay are then designed around that slower movement speed, like enemies like combine and antlions (aka all enemies) being generally slower, grenades having longer fuse, the map and enemy encounters, jeff, etc.

Some great HLA mods there.

The most informative VR channel on YT! Great work my man!

I'm so glad you returned to your old content. :)

2:30 reminds me of half life 1 and 2 when they didn’t give a warning at all

Half life alyx weapons are pretty ok. And lore friendly

Gamemode: Realistic Combine soldiers will have a 5/50 chance of missing it's target, and take more hits, however the damage output is the same on the head. Antlions and crabs will go straight for the kill, crabs will die in one shot since they're just meaty. Zombies, sicne controlled by the crab, dont have a pain tolerence on the body, so they take a lot of shots to the general body, if hit in the spine, they lose the ability to use the host body and the crab jumps off, a shot to the crab is a one-shot kill. Upon the combine knowing where you are and you are encountering them daily, pistol and shotgun ammo are scarce, and you have to rely on scavenging for Unused pulse SMG magazines from dead combine units. You will die from a single poison crab hit. The electric dog will kill you in two hits. You have to shoot the spine of an armored headcrab zombie. The zombie Combine soldier exists, and it's usually a Pulse SMG ammo or a resin drop once killed. If a headcrab lands on you, it'll take around 5 seconds to reach your head, once that happens, you're a zombie now. Game over.

Oh mein gott! Is that the Heckler & Koch USP in .45-ACP from the hit game Half-Life 2??!11!

you can hold the default pistol with 2 hands too

I was very underwhelmed by Gunman Contracts but I'll give the rest of these a shot

who else heard the distorted trumpets in the background?

11:25 Bro is in Ibiza

Alyx has Workshop support? Brb buying now.

0:25 I find that with the limited amount of space I have to play I end up getting overwhelmed by enemies in HLA due to being worried about hitting stuff around me. This started after I punched the corner of my desk so hard while playing a VR game that I split my hand open and started bleeding pretty badly. So imo it doesn't lack challenge but I guess I could see how more active people with more space could be disappointed. My real disappointment comes from it not feeling like a Half-Life game gameplay wise. While VR is cool I prefer normal FPS Half-Life.

I just find it odd that Valve didn't think to take out the tells for the headcrab and the antlion for the official hard mode... Thank gaben for mods though.

Man, the sounds of the modded Tau Cannon makes me sad.

execuse me, GOON SQUAD?

imagine garry's mod but a VR version with all this graphics and content

@TheeBluestBerry

Жыл бұрын

Half life 2 got ported into VR and it’s arguably more fun than Alyx, highly recommend!

@hodayfa000h

Жыл бұрын

sandbox might have that... though sandbox is more of a game engine when it releases so even vr might be possible

I see you play carx 😎

Victory mines is basically the same area like in Half Life 2 Episode 2 Which says Shahta pobedy which is Russian for Victory mines

@1tsFawkes

Жыл бұрын

Was about to say that, I'm surprised he missed that

Replacing the M1911 with USP among other things is not considered "fixing" the game so the title is a bit off.

i just came back to this video and i was at 3:09 and the first thing i hear is "let's face it, who doesn't like it hard" 😭

3:30 the pistol alyx uses in this game becomes alyx's gun from hl2, so it shouldn't be the USP mach

Another great video! Love your channel man, keep up the great content! Any plans to do content on psvr2?

@virtualinsider

Жыл бұрын

When I finally get one I will be covering PSVR 2 stuff on the channel

tbhH THE 1911 is kinda accurate because the 1911 was a human weapon, like the normal one, but then the combine got a hold of it, upgraded it and turned it into the one from the hl2 games, since alyx takes place in the past and she gets the pistol from Russel instead of a metropolice

Man now I wish i had the money for a Vr headset

"like it hard" 💀 3:07

my biggest gripes with this game (im only a minute into the video) was the movement speed/lack of sprint, the lack of an actual jump button (there were platforming sections that forced you to teleport), and how slow and lame the antlions were and how terrible of a shot the strider was (mixed with the slow movement, made for a boring section when it should have been epic)

there's a dismemberment(gib mod) with a crap tonne of blood. i have never looked at the workshop before lmao oke imma have so much fun now. why tf have i never looked at it :s

i can hear distorted trumperts

also a good vr game is half life 2 vr mod, rn im just after the sandtraps chapter but i can already tell you that its worth playing as a first vr game

7:13 oh hello little niva! ive played way, way to much My garage....

Valve and modding is the cutest love story ever

I wish I knew how to play this on a Quest 2.

We need Gmod VR

3:07 sus

Imagine a runaway Gatling gun

Actually. The current pistol is correct to alyx as a character at later iterations.

Valve absolutely knocked this game out the park so it's a shame to undermine that by saying modders "fixed" the game. If they were bugs then yeah - fixed would be appropriate. But suggesting it's broken because there is room for improvement is a disheartening thing to hear as a developer when you've spent years building something. It's like the other day, someone tweeted that someone had "fixed" Akira by using AI to change the aspect ratio to vertical so it works with a phone display.

CUSTOM PISTOL IN PARALYSIUM IS LUGER P.08

3:08 😏

hla is pretty much perfect already imo

Got the game not even finished it only played 1hr if that 😂 this made me want to play and finish it

i heard distorted trumpets on 3:08

They need to make Portal: Chell. Basically portal 3 but vr, then drop half life 3 which will be just half life but with portal gun.

ty very much! u make me really hyped for vr!

I don't think you can fix one of the finest games ever made.

hey just wanted to say the usp match is from cs source

I'm not the only person that wants a Combine centered Half Life game, right? Whether it be before or after the events of Half Life 2. And being able to see another city besides City-17 would also be a treat. I like the idea of Loyalist safe havens for those that support the combine, but are either workers or not interested in joining the armed forces.

@therat3006

Жыл бұрын

Play Entropy: Zero and Entropy: Zero 2

@peppermillers8361

Жыл бұрын

There's a couple of good HL2 mods that do it well. Combine Destiny, Combine Combat demo (a bit messy but neat), Human Error, and Entropy Zero 1+2. Minerva Metastasis and the upcoming Inhuman mod also sort of count, but not really.

@hodayfa000h

Жыл бұрын

not me sounds evil... still if not canon then sure 👍

@peppermillers8361

Жыл бұрын

@hodayfa000h I don't know what's your issue, there's nothing wrong with a game where you do bad things.

@odstlogan276

Жыл бұрын

@@hodayfa000h Who's gonna tell him that the good guys don't win all the time. This isn't Steven Universe

Are there any more community bugfix mods for this game?

source 2 goes hard

I would love to see a video dedicated to just cool maps and campaigns someday, with basically everything that you think is worth playing. Either way that was a good list of mods, I'm saving this video for later when I feel like replaying HLA.

@virtualinsider

Жыл бұрын

I put a link to my favourites in the description which has all the Custom Levels I played and enjoyed.