The long-awaited VR mod for Half-Life 2 (2004) is obtainable free of charge in beta beginning immediately, bringing to the long-lasting Valve title a near-native stage of VR immersion we’ve been ready for.
In case you didn’t catch our latest VR Modding Month-to-month article, right here’s the lowdown: growth on a VR mod for HL2 started almost 10 years in the past, though because of work/life/the whole lot the lead developer needed to sideline work on the mod after transferring to Rockstar Video games.
Final yr although, modder Cabalistic joined Wormslayer and the remainder of the Supply VR workforce to lastly carry Half-Life 2 in its entirety to VR. At this time, it launches on Steam in early entry free of charge. Granted, you’ll want a duplicate of the sport to play, however you will get that in varied bundles at a really affordable value.
Right here’s a full checklist of options coming at launch, taken from the mod’s Steam web page:
- Full room-scale VR with tracked movement controls. Bodily stroll round, decide up objects and climb ladders the best way that solely Digital Actuality permits
- Intuitive and reasonable weapon interactions, with fast and simple weapon switching through a radial menu, ammo storage over your shoulder, useful iron-sights, two-handed weapons, and guide reloading
- Management choices together with; full left-handed help, a laser sight, and arcade type “fast reload”
- Consolation options like movement vignette and third particular person automobile digital camera. (Observe: there may be at the moment no teleport motion possibility)
- Playable on any VR headset which is supported by SteamVR
The workforce additionally has a roadmap so gamers can maintain tabs on new options and bug fixes too. Right here’s a style of what the workforce has in retailer:
Whereas we definitely can’t “remaster” HL2 to appear to be a recreation developed in 2022, we’re engaged on overhauling belongings and textures by a mixture of AI upscaling and guide touches to present them that additional little bit of element and sharpness beneath the VR headset that’s lacking from the unique. All updates are supposed to remain devoted to the unique. Moreover, all maps within the recreation will get a facelift and are being improved with up to date lighting, extra particulars and bug fixes along with VR-centric changes like clean stairs.
We’ll be following alongside when the mod drops later immediately. On the time of this writing there’s solely three hours left till we will bounce in, which simply gained’t come quick sufficient. Once more, you’ll be able to obtain the mod free of charge on Steam right here.
