Half-Life: Alyx’s (opens in new tab) modding scene is surprisingly vibrant contemplating the comparatively small variety of VR headsets within the wild. Ongoing tasks vary from the spectacular Half-Life Alyx: Levitation (opens in new tab), to a mod that transposes Alyx’s VR gunplay into Bioshock’s Rapture (opens in new tab). However these are all nonetheless closely in growth. Half-Life: Incursion (opens in new tab), however, you’ll be able to play proper now.
Incursion is a “wave-based expertise” that is designed to check your VR capturing abilities towards a small military of Metropolis 17’s mix troopers. “We felt the marketing campaign was a bit missing in problem as it is extremely pleasant to new VR customers,” say the devs on the mod’s Steam Workshop web page. “Consequently, it is a difficult stage for skilled Half-Life: Alyx gamers.”
The mod sees Alyx Vance turn out to be trapped at a mix checkpoint on the mistaken aspect of Metropolis 17’s Quarantine Zone. She should “handle her assets and use intelligent techniques” to outlive the following battle. These aren’t idle phrases, both. Incursion is designed to be extra of a sandbox expertise than the official marketing campaign. The mod takes place in a big, open-ended stage the place each enemies and assets spawn in semi-random places, that means the expertise might be barely completely different every time you play. A few of these assets, like resin, could be dropped at a Mix fabricator to craft a wide-array of weapons and weapon attachments. This features a new weapon within the type of Half-Life 1-style journey mines.
The trailer above makes Incursion seem like fairly intense stuff, with numerous alternatives for improvisational fight techniques. It is also value noting the mod has its personal bespoke voice performing for Russell, which is pretty respectable, though he sounds much less like Flight of the Conchords’ Rhys Darby and extra like a soccer commentator.
In any case, you may give Incursion a whirl by downloading it here (opens in new tab). Set up is all finished through the Steam workshop, so it needs to be pretty simple. When you do not personal a VR headset, fear-not, there’s loads of different customized Half-Life motion within the works, together with a Ravenholm (opens in new tab)mod, a fan-made Opposing Force sequel (opens in new tab), and a large marketing campaign the place you play as a Combine soldier (opens in new tab).
