holy molly! ALYX is actually a full-blown 60USD game!
I though it was short experience 20 USD game due to steam regional pricing.
I though it was short experience 20 USD game due to steam regional pricing.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Tkumpathenurple
Veteran
It's in a lot of them, yes. Personally, I don't like it (for the reason you stated) and always pick free movement where possible. A quick Google suggests that to be an option for this game.
As someone who hasn't really played VR much I wasn't really aware of this but makes sense, thanks.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
There's 3 movement modes for the game.
- Free movement with the analog stick.
- Teleport movement (to combat motion sickness for many people).
- Slide movement. This is basically teleport but you slide to the new position instead of just appearing there.
SB
Aww, no room scale unlimited walk locomotion 
It feels awesome in tea of God. But I guess it will destroy the carefully crafted level design....
It feels awesome in tea of God. But I guess it will destroy the carefully crafted level design....
Tkumpathenurple
Veteran
Huh, I was unaware of that distinction between the latter two forms of locomotion. Probably because I only ever bother with free movement.
Aww, no room scale unlimited walk locomotion
It feels awesome in tea of God. But I guess it will destroy the carefully crafted level design....
It'd probably destroy the level design when you went thudding into a wall. Or careering down a gully. Depending on your IRL setting.
Unlimited real life walk locomotion won't make you thud a physical wall. As the game will automatically change the corridor turns, etc to fit the level into your play area.
Tkumpathenurple
Veteran
Can you link me to any videos of this please? I've never seen it and I'm really rather curious.
I found a video that I think show this locomotion quite good
You don't need a space that big. 2x stationary experience is enough
Yep. The level must be designed in chunks and to be enjoyable when experienced randomly. So item placements, enemy placements and logic, all need to be cleverly weaved together.
Btw this makes me remember left 4 dead that originally was designed with procedural level design by the AI DIRECTOR. So each level will be made of many chunks that can be on different places on each run. Depending on what the ai directir thinks will give the best game experience to the players
In the end, valve cut that out and only left the procedural item (and tank?) placements
Btw this makes me remember left 4 dead that originally was designed with procedural level design by the AI DIRECTOR. So each level will be made of many chunks that can be on different places on each run. Depending on what the ai directir thinks will give the best game experience to the players
In the end, valve cut that out and only left the procedural item (and tank?) placements
Silent_Buddha
Legend
That's basically how Hellgate: London (the original) did it. Not sure if the current game (which isn't the original game) still does that.
It's also similar to what Remnant: From the Ashes does.
Regards,
SB
That video was 4 minutes long, and I was already bored in the firt 40 seconds.
Watching for less than a minute Should be already enough to show the locomotion
Thank you for noticing it got released! Just purchased, waiting for download to finish
Will report back once I have tried it out.edit. 48.3GB. that is going to be a ... .... while ... ... come on bits, you can do it, run like the wind!