Reviews - Half-Life Alyx NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx

The mod's only saving grace is that you can play HLA beginning to end, ironic how it won the Best Singleplayer category considering that it actively removes certain puzzles, mechanics and weapon upgrades. Extra depth my ***.

Overall the entire thing feels jank as hell, you WILL get stuck on small props and geometry, you WILL fall out of the map if you try exploring areas that are normally supposed to be clipped off, I could go on.

The weapons feel horrible, both mechanically and animation wise (but not all of them... that much)
- The pistol has clean animations besides the aim firing being rather bad, no wonder they added the crosshair being always on your screen.
- The shotgun is clean for the most part but has clipping issues during the reload, the firing animation is also rather weak for what is essentially a one-handed (in this case two) pistol sized shotgun AND is slowed down because???
- The SMG is just... eurgh. The posing is horrid, the reload blocks the middle of the screen and the posing for the gripping on the mag is just not good at all during it.
- The Grenade is the same as the SMG, posing is awful, the animation for throwing looks more like trying to place it on a wall, it's like Alyx suddenly became a toddler who has no idea how to handle weapons in any capacity.
- The Multi-tool is of the same issue as the other two mentioned above, posing once again is awful, the animation for interacting with hackables is just ehh.

You have too many animators for a project that only has 5-6 weapons which not only results in inconsistency style wise but also quality. You could've easily let a singular animator do everything as long as they have the time, the fix is not getting other animators that do one thing or absolutely nothing.

I am truly sorry if I ****** off anyone on the team, I just have an incredible distain to your Project Manager who seems to care way too much about his own ego that anything below 7/10 makes him go rabid only to confront, harass or even undermine the reviewer by review bombing their mods with ******** "feedback."
Not to mention throwing a hissy fit over being asked to rename the mod to avoid confusion between the other NoVR mod.

SoMNst's version truly couldn't come any sooner.

Well, this mod is awesome. It lets you play the complete game without a vr glasses. As of right now, I had no bugs and problems with playing. The only thing that could be better are the gun sounds and some animations, but that's just a little problem.

I have always loved the Half-Life Series, not because it is an action game and not because it was released in such an intricate way but because of the storyline that the Valve team has presented to fans worldwide.
I do not know the number of half-life fans and portal fans who are there today, but it is great that you have stuck with us even if the time you have spent with game are only brief.

The reason why I love this mod is because it allow us to play game with no VR equipment.
I don't have the necessary equipment to play the actual game but this is a great way for people to experience this game in way cool and amazing way.

I give a ginormous round of applause to the team that made this happen and I can't wait to see what happens next in this community.

just WOW so good

first VR game that rly makes fun and feels like AAA

11/10

Es empresionante este mod gracias a ustedes puedo jugar a este juego son los mejores

Mükemmel

Good but needs work.

The best way to play Alyx is and always will be in VR. It was designed for it and only really fully works in VR.

That said, if you don't have a VR headset or just cba to set up VR (sometimes I cba either) this is a decent alternative.

It's a bit jank right now and definitely needs things like ammo counters to work and the animations to be a bit smoother but it works. I do feel a bit disappointed that a lot of the interactions basically just skip by pressing E, it would be nicer if interacting with objects was more like it is in SOMA.

The combat works, feels like a Half-Life game, guns feel nice and punchy and it doesn't feel too easy.

Ammo and resin need to be made a bit more visible somehow, when not in VR they are very hard to see. Maybe having them flash orange like they do in VR when you are targeting an object with the Grav Gloves would work.

Assuming hacking puzzles are missing just because not sure how to implement them yet. I really would like to see these in this mod.

Overall this is the best way to play this game without VR, it does lose a lot of what makes this game so special but again if you can't afford a VR headset and want to keep up with Half-Life until the next game releases in another century then this is the mod to use.

looking forward to play halflife alyx thanks for making my dream became true.

Wasn't a big fan. It feels very incomplete thus far and just feels like a slightly smoother way to go through HLA without having to open the console.

This is mostly a belated review of the pre-animation update. Once I get through the new version I will definitely update this.

Animation update edit:

Shooting feels janky and weightless. Menus still flicker (for reference I've got an Nvidia card, not an AMD one). For an animation update this just feels extremely half-baked.

Alyx's weak *** grenade throw is hilarious. Sighting in and out of guns with reflex sights tends to be janky - if you press twice by accident mid anim it kind of locks you in a weird aiming-but-not-aiming mode. Shotgun reload animations flicker, and the altfire has... no animation?

I would rather watch someone play this in VR or save up and buy a VR headset instead. Also, saying your mod has 9.2/10 user ratings when it's sitting at 8.9/10 is blatantly false advertising. Your mod isn't also the #1 popular mod.