TL;DR: Valve launched the Steam Frame VR headset with an Arm-based Snapdragon chip, aiming to run Half-Life: Alyx natively and streamed from PC. The new hardware features a “Frame Verified” status for optimized games, while rumors suggest two upcoming Half-Life titles supporting PC and VR cooperative play.
I was worried when they didn’t show off Alyx on the Frame and only streamed it. Getting Alyx to work natively on the Frame would be fantastic to show off VR on the go.
And here I just want Half Life 3 to be Linux exclusive for 1 year. I mean, if you make a console-like, you might as well go some exclusives. :)
Exclusives don’t benefit anyone.
Of course they don’t but it would be funny to see if Windows users spend their time with compatibility layers just this once. You know, for the sake of chaotic good.
Half Life 3 would be such a big sales boost for the Gabecube
I thought Alyx had a STEAMOS native build already, is that not true?
Not for ARM processors
Oh you mean running directly on the headset? That would be a literal game changer!
Related: has anyone actually tried Alyx on Linux recently? I set up ALVR with my facebook quest the other month and every game except Alyx was fine. Half-assed googling makes it sound like that was a known issue but there are also probably like five people on the planet trying Alyx in Proton.
I played the native Linux version of Alyx on my Valve Index last week, worked fine.
i just played yesterday, alyx is one of the few that run without issues.
oh except, controller plugged in usb prevents it from starting (same as vr home)
why run it in proton?Completely stops it launching? Most recently I could get to the main menu but would crash on loading a save, previously I could get to early quarantine zone before crashing on a level transition when I gave up. But if it’s that simple I’ll have to try unplugging my flight sim gear.
Same. I played it with steam link on my Pico 4 and it runs great. And it’s a phenomenal vr game.
Great game, but lets get the next installment instead.
Half Life: Alyx, Chapter 2
And then…
Half Life: Fred.
Let’s get an escape room game playing as Eli escaping the crumbling black mesa!
What about Half Life: Barney ?
Half Life: Blue Shift already happened.
(I appreciate the Flintstones joke, though.)
Ah, I should play that
you can play the og, or the black mesa version, although that may not be fully finished
I haven’t played through Half-Life anyway so I’ll do them all at some point. Would you recommend I play the original HL, or Black Mesa? do they work on Linux?
both have a linux native version, both are pretty expensive for how old they are lol, but hl original has the advantage of 1600+ free mods, but obviously it doesn’t look as great as black mesa
i would put both on the wishlist, and if you’re bored you probably could easily get a pirated hl copy
in both cases, the intro is long, be prepared for that
I just want to say, I find it so goddamn funny that we got Half-Life 3 before Star Citizen. Anyone remembers that?
Alyx is not Half-Life 3. But that will probably be the case, yeah.
the gpu is weak, but with proper foveated rendering it is absolutely good enough I think
