

Present in materials\ac2d\card_promotion_battle. These can be found if you remove the "-ac" parameter. There's about 90, all revisions of the Battle Mode maps. That was enough to arouse anticipation at a new Half-Life game, which shows just how ready fans are for March.With the exception of a few NPCs (Colonel Odessa Cubbage and Fast Headcrabs, for example) and Gordon Freeman himself, most models are used somewhere in-game. When asked about a potential Half-Life VR game in 2015, Valve programmer Jeep Barnett told Kotaku: "We're not saying no." We can't wait for people to experience this."Ī Half-Life VR game has been rumored about and hoped for since Valve demoed its VR technology, which would later become the HTC Vive and Valve Index headsets.

"For that to come in the form of Half-Life feels like the culmination of a lot things we care a lot about: truly great games, cutting edge technology, and open platforms. "VR has energized us," Valve founder Gabe Newell said in a statement. Half-Life: Alyx gives millions of gamers a reason to jump into a new reality. Valve, Sony, HTC and Facebook-owned Oculus have all invested big in virtual reality, but the platform has yet to spawn a Super Mario 64-esque killer app that gamers need to experience. Half-Life 2 sold more than 12 million copies and is as highly revered as games get.

Second, as a full-length game and not an expanded tech demo, it's by far the highest profile title to be released in VR. Regardless, Alyx is an official Half-Life game that's easy to get excited about.
Fans have been waiting for literally over a decade for news on Episode 3, but nada. Half-Life: Alyx has created huge buzz for two reasons.įirst, It's the first Half-Life game since Half-Life 2: Episode 2 launched 12 years ago.
