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Der Shovel posted:I had to quit the game shortly after the first free-moving headcrabs were introduced. I have crazy arachnophobia and headcrabs (especially the black headcrabs) were borderline unbearable for me in 2D Half-Life games, but now in VR it's just too much for me. Yeah, I know the feeling. My own issues with arachnophobia aren't nearly so bad but the things creep me out quite a lot and I tend to panic whenever one starts getting close to me. There's a section later with a rickety room suspended above a pit full of the drat things and I ended up sitting there, plinking away at them from where they couldn't reach because I was convinced I was gonna end up in that room and I refused to take another step until they were all dead. Turns out that room isn't a place you go and they respawn so i reloaded my save after I blew literally all my bullets. I end up wasting a lot of ammo and grenades and stuff trying to kill the poison headcrabs from as far away as possible because I can't stand being near them, and I tend to panic and leave the room if one ever comes close or jumps. The normal ones are a little bit better but they still creep me out a little bit. Edit: because I'm a moron who can't spoiler tag lol Glagha fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Mar 31, 2020 |
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theblackw0lf posted:Jeff was the highlight of the game. Agreed. It is interesting how polarizing the section is. Some people truly love it, some people truly hate it. I thought it was INCREDIBLE. Also thank gently caress this thread can get back to actual discussion jesus christ the last two pages were insufferabe. I just wanna talk about Alyx!
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Mar 31, 2020 17:24
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Interesting, I have arachnophobia pretty bad but they didn't bother me on that level nearly as much in this game than in HL2 (specifically all the sneaky poison ones and their clump zombies  )I got creeped out a bit but not nearly enough to stop. I've tried to figure out why and I'm not sure.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:27
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The regular headcrabs are downright cute compared to the poison and armored ones. And whatever the gently caress those electric gigantic sugar glider things are
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Mar 31, 2020 17:29
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Honestly just the weird... biological growth poo poo in general really unnerves me and there's a lot of it. Just... weird twitching growths gives me the heebie jeebies. It took me a little while before I worked up the nerve to even try to get one of the xen grenades.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:31
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Glagha posted:It took me a little while before I worked up the nerve to even try to get one of the xen grenades.  I spent a good ten minutes trying to figure out how to grab whatever that was before giving up and assuming the game would unlock it at some point. Then forgetting about that until now 
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Mar 31, 2020 17:37
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How the hell does the bullet reservoir work on the pistol? I still have to reload after 10 shots.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:39
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i must compose posted:How the hell does the bullet reservoir work on the pistol? I still have to reload after 10 shots. It empties the bullets from the magazine into the reservoir. So if you're completely empty, put a clip it, let it load the reservoir, eject the clip and put another one in, then you have 2 clips worth of bullets ready to shoot.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:41
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Ooohhhhh
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Mar 31, 2020 17:46
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electric dog head crab confused the hell out of me when I first encountered it because I wasn't sure what to do with it. The room felt like a puzzle, it attacked very telegraphed so you could dodge, and it wasn't clear my weapons were harming it. I consider it a low point from their usual tight self discovery gameplay.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:47
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Oh, huh. I didn't have any trouble with that at all. I kind of immediately understood it to be like a hide and seek sort of fight but I guess mileage may vary.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:49
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i must compose posted:Ooohhhhh Yeah I had to inspect the gun a bit to figure it out too. Added bonus though, if you use say, 15 shots, you can eject the clip and load a new one and it'll fill the res and then have only 5 shots left in the mag. I found it incredible useful when managing reloading between encounters.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:51
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Yeah that one didn't really bother me, I got it before long. The thing that broke me down to look up a guide was the Jeff elevator section. Button pressing is juuuust wonky enough that I thought I pressed it a couple different times with nothing happening and Jeff killing me, so I got distracted trying to do other stuff like get out of the elevator after turning on power. Then of course it worked perfectly the first time I tried it after looking up to see that was indeed what I should've done.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:52
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That part had me for a good half an hour. I couldn't get close to Jeff to push the button because he'd kill me. So I tried throwing things at the button, none of it worked. I had no idea what to do, I was getting so frustrated. I went back to trying to press the button, and died - but realized that I had coughed when I did it. OH - I have to cover my mouth. RIGHT. I wish I had kept my gasmask on.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:54
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The thing that I came really close to looking up was the xen grenade. You can see that it's targetable by the gloves, but everytime you go to grab it or gravity snatch it the weird arm is like "nahhh". Who knew all you had to do was gently caress its sac.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:56
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Claes Oldenburger posted:The thing that I came really close to looking up was the xen grenade. You can see that it's targetable by the gloves, but everytime you go to grab it or gravity snatch it the weird arm is like "nahhh". Wait really? I just went up to it and reached for it really fast and you can grab it before it pulls away.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:57
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Don't tell them that! I want them to spend the rest of their playthrough fondling xen tentacles.
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Mar 31, 2020 17:59
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SCheeseman posted:Don't tell them that! I want them to spend the rest of their playthrough fondling xen tentacles. *Xentacles
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Mar 31, 2020 18:04
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Is that a thing you can do though? I also assumed the game would just tell me how to get one later since it pops up a hint for jumping every drat time I reach an edge. Eventually I just snatched one and that worked.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:05
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Glagha posted:Wait really? I just went up to it and reached for it really fast and you can grab it before it pulls away. Haha holy poo poo.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:10
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chaosapiant posted:*Xentacles 
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Mar 31, 2020 18:16
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ashpanash posted:That part had me for a good half an hour. I couldn't get close to Jeff to push the button because he'd kill me. So I tried throwing things at the button, none of it worked. I had no idea what to do, I was getting so frustrated. I went back to trying to press the button, and died - but realized that I had coughed when I did it. OH - I have to cover my mouth. RIGHT. I had the same issue. Is there a way to disengage the grenade launcher? I know you can pull the grenade off of it if you have it armed, but it seems like there should be another way to disarm it.
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Mar 31, 2020 18:39
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I did not know you can rub the Xen monster's tummy and he'll present you with a Xen grenade, saw it in a stream and it blew my loving mind
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Mar 31, 2020 19:00
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Now I feel like a total jerk stealing them.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:01
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how does one single person make such an amount of truly awful posts that could be considered hate crimes in some nations. please repeatedly probate the shoelace guy
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Mar 31, 2020 19:13
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anyway half life is back and im so impossibly happy that apprently its pretty good.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:14
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far distant eyes look out through your vr headset.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:15
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End of Shoelace posted:As a comparison, you've surely heard people groan at their TV when they make a mistake in Super Mario:
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Mar 31, 2020 19:15
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Endorph posted:this is the funniest post ive ever read aw come on, mario!
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Mar 31, 2020 19:15
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Cojawfee posted:Now I feel like a total jerk stealing them. The fact that they animated it to get really sad after your steal it made me feel like a jerk
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Mar 31, 2020 19:27
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Anyone else keep calling the gravity gloves "grabbity gloves" in their head?
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Mar 31, 2020 19:28
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ArfJason posted:aw come on, mario! https://youtu.be/VJwFUNHtCJQ
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Mar 31, 2020 19:34
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gently caress YOU GORDON, YOU DUMB QUIET poo poo GUESS YOUR PHD WASN'T IN PHYSICS PUZZLES
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Mar 31, 2020 19:51
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Glagha posted:Yeah, I know the feeling. My own issues with arachnophobia aren't nearly so bad but the things creep me out quite a lot and I tend to panic whenever one starts getting close to me. There's a section later with a rickety room suspended above a pit full of the drat things and I ended up sitting there, plinking away at them from where they couldn't reach because I was convinced I was gonna end up in that room and I refused to take another step until they were all dead. Turns out that room isn't a place you go and they respawn so i reloaded my save after I blew literally all my bullets.
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Mar 31, 2020 20:15
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ArfJason posted:aw come on, mario! Not sure what your avatar is but it's the stuff of nightmares! Edit: Half-Life stuff, replaying the Ravenholm section of HL2 with MMOD and it's loving gorgeous with the fire effects! Also game is spooky as poo poo with 7.1 surround headphones.
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My thoughts on the ending I don’t think it’s time travel. I honestly think G-Man is still loving with Alyx from Ep2 in some kind of sub-conscious space and he creates this alternate reality that Alyx is running through during the same time as her travels with Gordon. Think about it - no Barney. No Kleiner. No dog. Just about ZERO interaction with her dad in this “sub-space”. Even Russel looks VAGUELY like GMan even if the personality doesn’t match. How do we know this prequel is even a TRUE historic precursor to Half Life 2? Again. I call GMan fuckery here. There’s no way he’d allow himself to be caught and imprisoned. He wants Alyx to willingly come to him and seek him out during a moment she’s weakest to succumb to him. That’s why the game immediately hands it back off to Gordon. Like - ok - Alyx made a poor choice that she didn’t have to make only because she didn’t know she was in Gmans LaLaLand and being subconsciously mine controlled to do his bidding. Now go save her. My two cents. SabinBlitz fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Mar 31, 2020 |
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Has anyone played this with only 8 gigs of RAM? I know 12 is minimum recommend but usually this works with less and I don't want to by any more DDR3 at this point. I updated and reinstalled everything that was possible and the game still crashes at startup (no errors but it creates a minidump) so that's kind of my last guess because otherwise machine is rock solid (and heart touching)
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Mar 31, 2020 21:39
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SCheeseman posted:It empties the bullets from the magazine into the reservoir. So if you're completely empty, put a clip it, let it load the reservoir, eject the clip and put another one in, then you have 2 clips worth of bullets ready to shoot. Oh god gently caress me I feel dumb as poo poo, the extended ammo for the Pistol was my second upgrade I think and I NEVER loving loaded it up twice. weeeeeelp. Also, where's the Gnome so I can go for that loving achievement (someone said that's a thing). Please tell me I can stash the stupid thing in my wrists (I'm pretty sure you can't) and how far do I have to go with it for the achievement to pop?
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Mar 31, 2020 23:06
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TerminalRaptor posted:Anyone else keep calling the gravity gloves "grabbity gloves" in their head? You can call them the Russells if you really want to Captain Hygiene posted:gently caress YOU GORDON, YOU DUMB QUIET poo poo It was in Button-Pushing, duh
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sigher posted:Oh god gently caress me I feel dumb as poo poo, the extended ammo for the Pistol was my second upgrade I think and I NEVER loving loaded it up twice. weeeeeelp. I bet in your heart you know the answers to those last two questions
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