|
They kept giving you grenades in boxes, but more than you can hold. Could you put a bunch of grenades in a box, then carry the box around like the world's deadliest shopping basket?Koorisch posted:Man, watching this is making me wish I had my own VR headset so I could play this myself. 
|
#
?
Oct 6, 2022 02:34
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 8, 2024 08:39 |
|
|
Ceebees posted:They kept giving you grenades in boxes, but more than you can hold. Could you put a bunch of grenades in a box, then carry the box around like the world's deadliest shopping basket? In theory, yes, at least up until the next loading zone. There are multiple points in the game where you require ammo to shoot locks off doors - notably, there's one as soon as you get Russel's gun. The game has contingencies for every single locked door in the game to make sure you always have ammo. Someone found an exploit that lets you farm bullets off Russel for a maximum of 1011 bullets (1000 in the backpack, 10 in the clip, 1 in the chamber). Samovar posted:It's the only VR game I've seen which looks... Y'know, like a game and not a proof of concept. Well, that's not totally fair: I have nearly 200 hours into Beat Saber and I've heard good things about Blade And Sorcery. There's also every mainline Amnesia game and I believe both Subnauticas are VR-capable. And your player character is explicitly better in VR in Phasmophobia. Resident Evil 7 and 8 are both VR-capable as well. VR developers seem to trend towards the horror genre, which makes sense: if you want to get spooked, there's no better medium for it than putting yourself directly into the game. There are lots of VR titles that work really well... but there is an abundance of horror-based titles, which might not be your fancy, and most of them are developed for regular monitor, mouse-and-keyboard gameplay first and VR later. Half-Life Alyx, Blade And Sorcery, and Beat Saber are the most famous VR only titles, of which, to be fair, there are not many, which makes sense: there is a very small market for VR-only titles. And then, of course, there's Skyrim. Todd Howard's done it again. Maple Leaf fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Oct 6, 2022 |
|
#
?
Oct 6, 2022 03:22
|
|
|
Subnauticas VR Mode never got really fixed and still has some issues you need to fix with mods, Below Zero has no native VR mode.
|
|
#
?
Oct 6, 2022 09:46
|
|
|
That's lamer than I thought!
|
|
#
?
Oct 6, 2022 10:17
|
|
|
Ceebees posted:They kept giving you grenades in boxes, but more than you can hold. Could you put a bunch of grenades in a box, then carry the box around like the world's deadliest shopping basket? You can carry things past loading zones. I carried a cardboard box full of all the things I couldnt use on the spot through most of the game!
|
|
#
?
Oct 6, 2022 15:35
|
|
|
Chronische posted:You can carry things past loading zones. I carried a cardboard box full of all the things I couldnt use on the spot through most of the game! Hobo simulator
|
|
#
?
Oct 6, 2022 16:26
|
|
|
Nostalgamus posted:Hobo simulator It was usually full of grenades, and a few spare health grub containers. Of course, after a while it was so full that things began to clip out of the box, so I had to use the items a bit more profligately!
|
|
#
?
Oct 6, 2022 16:47
|
|
|
Alyx has a backpack, might as well bypass its restrictions with a box of loot!
|
|
#
?
Oct 7, 2022 02:41
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Oct 8, 2022 02:43
|
|
|
GodDAMN but Valve can do fantastic environmental design when they actually MAKE a game. And ripcord being the code-name for a grenade would BE fantastic if... you know, you actually primed a grenade in this game the way you prime a grenade in real life.
|
|
#
?
Oct 8, 2022 05:20
|
|
|
 Those plugs on the TV are SCART connectors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART
|
|
#
?
Oct 8, 2022 10:16
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Oct 10, 2022 20:06
|
|
|
Say... Those Xen grenades look awfully like the one from OpFor to me...
|
|
#
?
Oct 10, 2022 20:29
|
|
|
Samovar posted:Say... Those Xen grenades look awfully like the one from OpFor to me... But Alyx doesn't get a cute little living gun to spit them out. Plus side, they work a lot better!
|
|
#
?
Oct 11, 2022 00:58
|
|
|
 I've been trying for one update every three days, but we're having a minor hiatus in updates because of scheduling conflicts. Be back soon! Maple Leaf fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Oct 14, 2022 |
|
#
?
Oct 14, 2022 03:15
|
|
|
Take your time! Yeah... With the lightning dogs also being able to infect bodies, it does make the fauna of Xen seem very creepily more parasitic/symbiotic than life on Earth. It's nice and alien!
|
|
#
?
Oct 15, 2022 11:25
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Oct 25, 2022 16:26
|
|
|
Clips are used to load ammunition into magazines. Most older firearms (mostly rifles, but a few pistols) had internal magazines that were loaded via stripper clips, whereas most modern firearms use removable magazines that are pre-loaded. So, Alyx's pistol uses magazines to reload, but her shotgun has an internal magazines that must be loaded by hand.
|
|
#
?
Oct 25, 2022 19:24
|
|
|
racerabbit posted:Clips are used to load ammunition into magazines. Most older firearms (mostly rifles, but a few pistols) had internal magazines that were loaded via stripper clips, whereas most modern firearms use removable magazines that are pre-loaded. I knew, I just KNEW this would be the first response. ...I guess the proper name for the bullet-holding device of a revolver is the cylinder?
|
|
#
?
Oct 25, 2022 20:37
|
|
|
Yes, as far as I know. The whole magazine/clip thing is just one of those personal peeves that's been with me since my dad got it wrong many, many, many years ago.
|
|
#
?
Oct 25, 2022 22:09
|
|
|
Otoh annoying gun people is fun, and assault-rifle-15 clips are too big
|
|
#
?
Oct 26, 2022 01:50
|
|
|
ikanreed posted:Otoh annoying gun people is fun, and assault-rifle-15 clips are too big I prefer to keep my bullets in a quiver, for ease of transport! Just attach it to an arrow and fire the arrow into the chamber, then another to pull the trigger, easy as that.
|
|
#
?
Oct 26, 2022 03:57
|
|
|
ikanreed posted:Otoh annoying gun people is fun, and assault-rifle-15 clips are too big Both parts of this sentence are too true to be argued with.
|
|
#
?
Oct 26, 2022 06:09
|
|
|
I load my guns by manually inserting one bullet at a time into the chamber, or as I like to it, the boom-hole.
|
|
#
?
Oct 26, 2022 07:36
|
|
|
I'm pretty sure someone's made a clip magazine.
|
|
#
?
Oct 26, 2022 14:27
|
|
|
Bootcha posted:I'm pretty sure someone's made a clip magazine. I, uh, think that there's even something like that in this game - the expanded "mag" for the pistol would be something like that, wouldn't it? Bullets are fed from the magazines into what would could only be called the added clip.
|
|
#
?
Oct 26, 2022 14:45
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Oct 28, 2022 06:36
|
|
|
Best Barnacle ever.
|
|
#
?
Oct 28, 2022 18:11
|
|
|
Nostalgamus posted:Best Barnacle ever. No, that's the barnacle grapple from Opposing Force!
|
|
#
?
Oct 28, 2022 18:47
|
|
|
How could you not recognize Barney, from Black Mesa?
|
|
#
?
Oct 28, 2022 18:55
|
|
|
Man, G-Man really hooked Barney the Barnacle, from Black Mesa, with a sweet retirement home. Infinite food supply? Check. Historic neighborhood with plenty of real estate to attach to? Check. No Gordon Freeman? Check. Not have to be a grappling hook? Check. Still able to help the occasional human get by? Check. That kind of barnacle would volunteer to be a local pollster and crosswalk guard, I tell yah.
|
|
#
?
Oct 28, 2022 23:29
|
|
|
Huh. Guess the poison headcrabs still poison you after all! Just not as much as in HL2.
|
|
#
?
Oct 29, 2022 09:54
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Oct 31, 2022 06:15
|
|
|
The characterization of these vortigaunts are making me feel really guilty about mowing all those aliens in the original Half-Life.
|
|
#
?
Oct 31, 2022 22:19
|
|
|
racerabbit posted:The characterization of these vortigaunts are making me feel really guilty about mowing all those aliens in the original Half-Life. Play Black Mesa for more guilt.
|
|
#
?
Nov 1, 2022 03:30
|
|
|
So, the Vortigaunts are good guys from Xen. Headcrabs are parasitic fauna from Xen. Lightning Dogs I assume are also a Xen derivative? Is there a scale of good/bad Xen denizens anywhere?
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2022 09:32
|
|
|
Bootcha posted:So, the Vortigaunts are good guys from Xen. Headcrabs are parasitic fauna from Xen. Lightning Dogs I assume are also a Xen derivative? Basically just the vorts Everything else will either kill you or parasitize and kill you. Also xen is a sort of borderworld between dimensions, we dont actually know whats native to it and what just fell through from other worlds. From interactions with the vorts we know that the main antagonist in hl1, the nihilanth, occupied xen and enslaved the vortigaunts, and hid xen and itself from things like the combine. Once the nihilanths psychic veil dropped xen opened to thr combine and presented a direct path to earth Ooh and on that note Im just noticing that something very notable is missing that was in previous games. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Nov 2, 2022 |
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2022 10:19
|
|
|
Rigged Death Trap posted:Ooh and on that note Crowbars! ...Security Guards! ... ...microwaves?
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2022 15:33
|
|
|
Rigged Death Trap posted:
A thin man in a suit?
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2022 17:52
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 8, 2024 08:39 |
|
|
Samovar posted:
My god man, what ARE you doing!
|
|
#
?
Nov 2, 2022 17:54
|
|
