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Jim Silly-Balls posted:That’s weird because Alyx is a 19 year old girl, who even in HL2 was not portrayed as being extremely tall, just average height at best. You’d think they would have tailored the game world to that, so even if you are 6 foot 8, the combine still seem huge and imposing. In the video they talk about how people have a particular view of the world because of their height and they could find it offputting or unusual if their height was not correct.
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Yeah, I guess it might be weird if stuff like coffee cups were gigantic because you're Alyx rather than a 7 foot giant
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Apr 21, 2020 15:20
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Tall people having to duck under pipes in a video game is their penance for challenging God.
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Apr 21, 2020 15:42
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Yeah, playing in games where I am a significantly different height is offputting. Alyx did a good job of things like push button duck/stand which was also really useful since I am 6'3" but play in a basement with a ceiling that is about 6'5", so to do anything over my head I need to IRL crouch and use the button to "stand" in game.
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Apr 21, 2020 15:55
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There was a 'bug' in HL Alyx where a dude kept dying for no reason and it turned out he was so freakishly tall the game kept applying fall damage to him 
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peter gabriel posted:There was a 'bug' in HL Alyx where a dude kept dying for no reason and it turned out he was so freakishly tall the game kept applying fall damage to him Amazing 
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Apr 21, 2020 17:50
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I think he was also the one who asked why the combine were so small
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Apr 21, 2020 18:09
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peter gabriel posted:There was a 'bug' in HL Alyx where a dude kept dying for no reason and it turned out he was so freakishly tall the game kept applying fall damage to him I guess Alyx fell for him.
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Apr 21, 2020 18:09
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Ok, apps worth of checking out in Viveport with Infinity: Nature/Space doc apps Everest VR Earthlight: Spacewalk We are Stars Overview theBlue Apollo 11 Art apps Mona Lisa Beyond the Glass Galactic Gallery Rone Museum of other Realities The Kremer collection Shorts Aripi Lucid Gloomy Eyes Bonfire Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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Enos Cabell posted:Does Alyx scale at all based on player height? I'm 6'3" and found myself having to duck under pipes pretty often, would really suck for someone like 6'8" though. I'd think people who are 6' 8" would be perfectly used to ducking otherwise they'd just bash through every door frame.
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Apr 21, 2020 18:28
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At 6'3" I just take a knee every time I enter a firefight, tired of my giant bulbous head sticking out of all the cover. Edit: Make sure your floor height is set correctly so that touching the ground is really touching the ground. Mine was off by an inch or two and fixing it changed the game from "duck for every doorway" to "crouching sections are somewhat annoying" Gangringo fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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Apr 21, 2020 18:45
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Whattup thread I have a brand new Quest updating next to me. The box is extremely nice.
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Apr 21, 2020 19:10
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Zero VGS posted:I'd think people who are 6' 8" would be perfectly used to ducking otherwise they'd just bash through every door frame. Insert comic strip of Zits where his friend had a growth spurt and kept hitting his head
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Apr 21, 2020 19:29
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Turin Turambar posted:Ok, apps worth of checking out in Viveport with Infinity: Interesting list, put some on my Steam wishlist and scooped up the freebies... not sure if it's on Viveport but Art Plunge is another cool art experience thing
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RPS has another an interesting take on the Vive Cosmos https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/04/21/htc-vive-cosmos-review/ quote:At first, it was all to do with delivering a superior experience to Oculus’ respective headsets thanks to HTC’s superior tracking technology, room-scale VR and higher resolution display, but the onward march of technology has meant that upgrading a Vive headset has become increasingly more costly with every new iteration. Uhh... the modular faceplate gives a different tracking system, but the main thing in a headset, the display/lens, are the same.
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Gort posted:Yeah, I guess it might be weird if stuff like coffee cups were gigantic because you're Alyx rather than a 7 foot giant Thrill of the Fight is interesting, when you "log in" they take your photo to calibrate your height. Then every character you fight is scaled to that height I didn't realize this until I took over a game my wife was playing, and suddenly the opponent was a full head shorter than me If you ever wanted to box a midget, lay your head down on the floor during the login phase. Suddenly you tower over this table-height mini human, and your arm reach is longer than they are tall You might think it's like fighting a child but it's still an angry overweight guy in his 40s, just now he's less than three feet tall
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Turin Turambar posted:Ok, apps worth of checking out in Viveport with Infinity: TY for this. Their search function is absolute trash, reminds me of amazons, where you have to sort through thirty pages of literal garbage to find the 3 things that everyone wants to play. Could really use some curation.
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Apr 21, 2020 19:54
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njsykora posted:Whattup thread I have a brand new Quest updating next to me. Yeah the box is a great carrying case if you add handles or toss it in a bag/backpack. It keeps the controllers from hitting the lens and scratching them, etc.
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Apr 21, 2020 19:59
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I have my Rift S box on a shelf behind me like some rear end in a top hat youtuber would
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Apr 21, 2020 20:07
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Please click the bell for future updates
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Apr 21, 2020 20:08
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Turin Turambar posted:RPS has another an interesting take on the Vive Cosmos People I know with the (OG) cosmos all say the same thing "Great headset, Good optics n poo poo, Hecking tracking." While the elite is a bit high priced for 1.0, like, I kinda want one. >_>
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Apr 21, 2020 20:18
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Have anyone got the v16 firmware for Quest? I got the pc app updated, and the funny thing is how it warns me that I should update the Quest when I connect it... as if I had the choice.
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Apr 21, 2020 21:18
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Merijn posted:it's theoretically possible to play Alyx VR on this, and Minecraft too? Sweet. It's not theory. I played the entire thing without a hiccup (Alyx). I recommend Pistol Whip for your next game purchase with the Quest.
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Apr 21, 2020 22:09
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Just did a half hour on BoxVR and that was a hell of a workout for my recently sedentary rear end. I can easily see 30-60 minute daily workout to keep the old ticker in shape. The gamification aspect made it fly right by.
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Apr 21, 2020 23:13
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Gangringo posted:At 6'3" I just take a knee every time I enter a firefight, tired of my giant bulbous head sticking out of all the cover. I'm confused. You can set the controls to allow for hybrid mode so you can click a button to crouch. Does that not work?
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Apr 21, 2020 23:24
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Nuts and Gum posted:I'm confused. You can set the controls to allow for hybrid mode so you can click a button to crouch. Does that not work? My immersion!
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Apr 21, 2020 23:28
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Gangringo posted:My immersion! oh lol if you're standing then yeah I can see the annoyance. I'm still surprised at how much easier it was to adjust my height with the Oculus software. This is also another reason Boneworks owns, you can't even start the game without manually telling it how tall you are (or letting it guess).
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Apr 21, 2020 23:35
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Hadlock posted:Thrill of the Fight is interesting, when you "log in" they take your photo to calibrate your height. Then every character you fight is scaled to that height Haha. I'm gonna try this tonight.
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Apr 22, 2020 01:12
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TraderStav posted:Just did a half hour on BoxVR and that was a hell of a workout for my recently sedentary rear end. I can easily see 30-60 minute daily workout to keep the old ticker in shape. The gamification aspect made it fly right by. New workouts the 23rd!
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Apr 22, 2020 02:57
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Turin Turambar posted:Have anyone got the v16 firmware for Quest? I got the pc app updated, and the funny thing is how it warns me that I should update the Quest when I connect it... as if I had the choice. Heard mine reboot today (well the USB unplugged and plugged back in noise in Windows) so I think I have it. Yes, those prompts are loving annoying since you can't force an update.
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Valve said in a video about Alyx locomotion that they didn’t do any scaling for height because in play testing they found people were the most comfortable at their natural height and that the world felt scaled correctly because desks, doors, ceilings were all where they expected them to be in real life.
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What's the situation with Beat Saber on the Quest and the global scoreboard for custom maps? Friend of mine got a Quest, and when I tried to find out about BMBF, I ran in a blurb about Scoresaber not being supported since a long while. That true? PCVR and Quest users essentially playing for themselves nowadays?
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Apr 22, 2020 06:09
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Yeah any of the custom songs don't get high score tables. It sucks but for me at least I'm never going to challenge any expert scores.
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GutBomb posted:Valve said in a video about Alyx locomotion that they didn’t do any scaling for height because in play testing they found people were the most comfortable at their natural height and that the world felt scaled correctly because desks, doors, ceilings were all where they expected them to be in real life. Yeah, it worked out great once I got the ground calibrated right, I just take a knee to sort of simulate the crouch walk that my creaky fat rear end can't do. Ducking under pipes and stuff in an industrial setting is second nature, it was just obnoxious hitting my head on every doorway, which has happened, particularly in older buildings, but doesn't happen often.
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njsykora posted:Whattup thread I have a brand new Quest updating next to me. Nice! I just got mine this week. Just played half an hour of Job Simulator, it's hilarious.
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Apr 22, 2020 13:00
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Hadlock posted:Thrill of the Fight is interesting, when you "log in" they take your photo to calibrate your height. Then every character you fight is scaled to that height Family Christmas Simulator
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Apr 22, 2020 13:26
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I know the OP says the Quest speakers are weak but turns out they're very much loud enough to annoy my downstairs neighbours when playing Beat Saber at 2am.
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njsykora posted:I know the OP says the Quest speakers are weak but turns out they're very much loud enough to annoy my downstairs neighbours when playing Beat Saber at 2am. Seems more likely that you stomping around on their ceiling at 2 AM is annoying them, rather than those speakers. I find them adequate, and like that I don't have anything on my ears, but I'm no audiophile.
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Gort posted:Seems more likely that you stomping around on their ceiling at 2 AM is annoying them, rather than those speakers. I was trying to think of a polite way to say this too. When we were moving we tested how well noise the houses filtered out noise. Me stomping on the ceiling was usually much more audible in the room below than the speakers we brought to test.
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