You're welcome man! I've actually had so many requests just like your own so I appreciate it! Because it was a top request, I knew that I had to put this game in my rotation. 🤩
i had the oppotunity to experience half life 2 for the first time in vr. It was one of the most immersive non-vr vr games i have played. I am now a half life fanboy lol
Would definitely reccomend installing some of the iron sight mods through the game's steam workshop, the ones making the front sights red. It's a simple change that doesnt compromise the vanilla feel of the game.
I’m playing through Half Life 1 in VR before I take this on. Not watching this video yet, to avoid spoilers, but just dropping a comment and a thumbs up to help the channel!
@@beyond_xen Only stumbled onto you channel a couple of days ago. You make very entertaining videos and I've been binge watching, keep up the good work. I would love to see you try Dr Beef's Quest standalone mod for Return to Castle Wolfenstein - it's great fun, fairly easy to install and looks better than many standalone games available for the Quest ecosystem.
See, this is already the second game you are playing before I do. Been into VR for years, easily played a triple digit number of games, but neither Alien Isolation nor Half-Life 2 made the cut yet. So I won't watch these to keep spoilers to a minimum. Especially since I haven't played *any* Half-Life game yet except for Alyx, gotta get to it at some point.
Oh nice, that's unexpected that you started so early with HL2VR, but I'm glad. I don't know if you're using it already because I just started the video, but just to remind you - HL2VR Essentials Modpack makes this game even better.
Thanks, yeah I hadn't planned on playing this so early, but with the many requests and decreasing views on other series I decided it would be best to add HL2VR in the rotation. :) Thank you for reminding me about the Essentials Modpack. I forgot about that but seem to remember something said about that previously. I'll have to check into it.
@@beyond_xen Search for that or other hd texture pack, it's a big difference but low impact on performance. Not use pack that add a lot of objects, incredible visuals but perfomance go to hell XD
Ok thanks. I got the Essentials Modpack installed as well as the zDak Total Textures pack that AShok0 recommended. I just hope that these don't do that gross stuff to Alyx. I'm going to wait to react to the textures (hopefully installed correctly) for when I do my next playthrough.
@@beyond_xen I'm glad you were able to install it and I hope it works out-of-the-box for you (I remember that I had to do some tweaks and I think I had to install some specific .Net framework from Microsoft site because of some error, but nothing hard that googling answers won't solve and generally all the instruction You have on github). I'm not sure what You mean by gross stuff but I didn't notice anything inappriopriate or something, but basically on that github page You got list of all the mods in this modpack. For sure if it will work then first thing You should notice are higher resolution textures (from zDak).
Nice playthrough! Subbed. I am playing HL2 VR at the same time as you. But I also installed Unleashed mod where it let's you beat people up. Also those metro cops at the beginning, you can box them and kill them haha. Anyway, will check your vids from time to time. Great energy bro!
Dude. Congrats for the great videos of VR games. You know, I never get tired of playing Half Life saga, games since many years ago. When the VR boom began, it was a dream come true for me to play Half Life games in VR. A textures MOD is highly recommended. You can find some good mods in the official workshop for HL2. You can even bring assets from HL Alyx to HL2 VR. In addition, you can use reshade mods to enhance visual qualities. By the way, you can also play Black Mesa in VR. Peace.
Thank you! I'll be trying a mod pack hopefully soon once I get the Essentials mod downloaded from GitHub. It's taking forever. That will be amazing to experience it all in Higher textures!
Nice video! I fking love to watch to you playing new vr games, I am really hyped to see you play Red Matter 2, Into the radius, vertigo remastered and vertigo 2, the walking dead saints and sinners and many other vr games. Btw, I played Black mesa (half life 1 remake) in VR, half life 2 vr, the episodes in vr and alyx, and all are amazing experiences in VR
Thanks, it's cool to know what you enjoy seeing! I didn't know you could play Black Mesa in VR. I really enjoyed that one when I played it flat for the channel.
you should invest in htc base stations (2), valve knuckle controlers and a htc tracker. the tracker for tracking you headset with knuckle controlers on the base station. im not sure if you know about the controlers, its finger tracking. my setup is HTC base station with HTC Vive pro/pro2 (I use pro1 because of the oled panels, LCD just washes black. the blacks and colors in oled are DAY AND NIGHT!) with knuckle controlers. for me that its the ultimate setup for vr
Would these work with a Quest 3 or is this HTC only? I'd want to be able to play Oculus games too. Although I think I'm getting ready to buy a Quest 3 in the near future anyway - fingers crossed.
@@Mind_ConTroll full flat2VR mods are much better than UEVR. Even with a 4090 the games tend to run pretty poor, the 3D effect is pretty bad, and getting a good controller config can be a royal pain in the ass. HL2 VR on the other hand is S-tier VR content.
@@poundtown808 Yes, and full intercourse is better than a handjob, but sometimes we make due with the lesser choice because the better option doesn't exist
@@poundtown808Yeah, it's almost like trying to force a game to run in a way it wasn't intended to be ran is a bad idea or something. (/S) Also it completely fucks the games design and creative intent (e.g what turned me off it completely as watching vr footage of 40k boltgun, you can tell because of the boomshoot design and pixel art that the game plays like ass in vr, it's a worse experience than the one the Devs carefully crafted for the player).
heya buddy! i palyed hl2 VR and ill tell you this, the weapon reloads are cool because you have to actually reload them properly and such, and a little tip if you have 1 bullet left you dont need to re-cock the gun which is a need detail! as in normal hl2 its the same reload no matter how many or little bullets!
Steam also has a vr mod for the original half life. Its not by the same people of the HL2 mods, but it would be cool to see your playthrough of that mod as well.
Depending on your GPU, you could probably push the resolution to 150 or 200% for this game on the Steam VR settings. It's amazing how something that would take just a few minutes playing flat, can turn into an hour in VR. This game took me a bit more than double the time it normally takes me to beat it normally flatscreen lol.
30:19 you didn’t get that achievement. You just got one part of it. It shows that every time you find a lamda cache and you’ll notice it tally’s them up until you find all of them, then you get the achievement. You made the same mistake when playing the regular version of Half Life 2. That little achievement box popped up each time you found a lamda cache and you said “why do I keep getting the same achievement?”. You weren’t getting it. it was just telling you that you made progress towards getting it.
You should probably check settings, for example you can sprint just with a stick click instead of double tapping. There's also "physical hands" setting which may sound nice, but in reality it kinda janky imo. Also there's one trick for vehicles: before you get in, sit down on the floor. It may look silly, but can give a bit more immersion and maybe decrease motion sickness if you'll have it.
Okay thanks I'll have to check those settings out. No problem sitting down - sounds like a good idea. I did when I played the Jeff chapter in Half Life Alyx.
Another vr game I'd love to see you play is Boneworks. It's my favorite vr game, one of my fav games in general. To me, it's more like the half life 2 of vr than half life alyx.
I assume you're aware you can play the original Half-Life directly on the Quest. If you're unfamiliar, basically the Team Beef devs released a free port. You just need to copy some files from your PC to the Quest. They've got free ports for ALL the 90's DOOM engine games. They've got free ports for the 90's Jedi Knight titles, and a bunch more. You just need to copy over some files. Their ports have a gui that let's you load mod too. I'm happy to explain further if anyone has questions.
Yeah that's a bummer. Was it when the combine were shooting at me? I had thought about commenting on the citadel briefly while Barney was talking but then I got distracted by the crowbar and completely forgot about it.
@@essamahmod the tricky thing is these things can be so specific to each system. I was having mystery stuttering with games until I updated my headset and drivers I think.
If you're not aware, Meta is releasing the Quest 3S really soon and it is expected to cost $300-$400. It has the same chipset as the Q3 but uses the Q2's fresnel lenses (the Q3 uses pancake lenses). The 3S will also have color pass through and be able to do MR like Q3. All that said, if your budget allows I recommend the Q3 as it is a much lighter device. But the 3S is very likely going to be the biggest selling headset ever--there's a slight chance Meta will give away a copy of Batman Arkham Shadows, and that game is being positioned to be a system-seller with millions of Arkham fans really pumped about that game.
@@DKStanford well idk tbh much about Vr but i do know about the quest 3s i heard something about it its seems nice for the price but we don't know the release date and that's the problem see i don't have that good budget because im aiming at the 512gb version of the quest 3 because its allowing me to install a lot of games and i have a pc so i can run extra games if i want to im trying to get it less than 2 months but in the country that i live in its 700 dollars so its kinda hard but im trying
I've been in VR over 4 years and the driving in this one can still get me feeling gross, especially if you roll or get knocked around 🤮 It's a great VR game though for sure.
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I decided to release this a day earlier than planned - because why not? 🥳 Thanks for all the requests for this one. Let me know your thoughts!
You actually listened to my suggestion! You are maybe the best VR Content Creator I've ever seen, continue like this!
You're welcome man! I've actually had so many requests just like your own so I appreciate it! Because it was a top request, I knew that I had to put this game in my rotation. 🤩
So glad you tried HL2VR, it's an amazing way to experience HL2! I loved it so much.
It's so good!
i had the oppotunity to experience half life 2 for the first time in vr. It was one of the most immersive non-vr vr games i have played. I am now a half life fanboy lol
That's neat! My first was flat screen but I'll bet in VR for the first time was spectacular.
That's cool that you're able play this in VR now!
Yes indeed
Would definitely reccomend installing some of the iron sight mods through the game's steam workshop, the ones making the front sights red.
It's a simple change that doesnt compromise the vanilla feel of the game.
Once I played this mod, I couldn't go back to flatscreen
I can see why
Such an impressive mod. A whole new way to experience this legendary masterpiece.
Yes indeed it is. I was shocked it would be this fun to be honest.
Its nice to visit the channel again and see you playing one of my favorite games in vr
Glad you enjoy it!
I’m playing through Half Life 1 in VR before I take this on. Not watching this video yet, to avoid spoilers, but just dropping a comment and a thumbs up to help the channel!
Thank you man! Have fun!
Looking forward to seeing you in Ravenholm 😬😅
Oh goodness, yes I thought about that yesterday lol. I think I'll be prepared from the Alyx adventures.
@@beyond_xen Only stumbled onto you channel a couple of days ago. You make very entertaining videos and I've been binge watching, keep up the good work. I would love to see you try Dr Beef's Quest standalone mod for Return to Castle Wolfenstein - it's great fun, fairly easy to install and looks better than many standalone games available for the Quest ecosystem.
@@alanbarker2279 Thank you Alan!
See, this is already the second game you are playing before I do. Been into VR for years, easily played a triple digit number of games, but neither Alien Isolation nor Half-Life 2 made the cut yet. So I won't watch these to keep spoilers to a minimum. Especially since I haven't played *any* Half-Life game yet except for Alyx, gotta get to it at some point.
It's cool there's so many games out there for everyone. Have fun!
Oh nice, that's unexpected that you started so early with HL2VR, but I'm glad. I don't know if you're using it already because I just started the video, but just to remind you - HL2VR Essentials Modpack makes this game even better.
Thanks, yeah I hadn't planned on playing this so early, but with the many requests and decreasing views on other series I decided it would be best to add HL2VR in the rotation. :) Thank you for reminding me about the Essentials Modpack. I forgot about that but seem to remember something said about that previously. I'll have to check into it.
I'm currently trying to download AShok0's Essential's modpack from their GitHub, but it won't download :/
@@beyond_xen Search for that or other hd texture pack, it's a big difference but low impact on performance. Not use pack that add a lot of objects, incredible visuals but perfomance go to hell XD
Ok thanks. I got the Essentials Modpack installed as well as the zDak Total Textures pack that AShok0 recommended. I just hope that these don't do that gross stuff to Alyx. I'm going to wait to react to the textures (hopefully installed correctly) for when I do my next playthrough.
@@beyond_xen I'm glad you were able to install it and I hope it works out-of-the-box for you (I remember that I had to do some tweaks and I think I had to install some specific .Net framework from Microsoft site because of some error, but nothing hard that googling answers won't solve and generally all the instruction You have on github). I'm not sure what You mean by gross stuff but I didn't notice anything inappriopriate or something, but basically on that github page You got list of all the mods in this modpack. For sure if it will work then first thing You should notice are higher resolution textures (from zDak).
that is so amazing i love this classic graphics way more ty for the video man
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks
Playing this again myself - still holds its own
Yeah I was surprised how enjoyable it was from the get go and I've only just barely started.
I'm glad you took my advice and tried this!!!
Thanks for the idea!
Nice playthrough! Subbed. I am playing HL2 VR at the same time as you. But I also installed Unleashed mod where it let's you beat people up. Also those metro cops at the beginning, you can box them and kill them haha. Anyway, will check your vids from time to time. Great energy bro!
That sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks!
Yay! Excited to watch. 😃
Hope you like it! Thanks mom
@@beyond_xen Great vibes, I'm liking it so far!
Dude. Congrats for the great videos of VR games. You know, I never get tired of playing Half Life saga, games since many years ago. When the VR boom began, it was a dream come true for me to play Half Life games in VR. A textures MOD is highly recommended. You can find some good mods in the official workshop for HL2. You can even bring assets from HL Alyx to HL2 VR. In addition, you can use reshade mods to enhance visual qualities. By the way, you can also play Black Mesa in VR. Peace.
Thank you! I'll be trying a mod pack hopefully soon once I get the Essentials mod downloaded from GitHub. It's taking forever. That will be amazing to experience it all in Higher textures!
@@beyond_xen I recommend you: th-cam.com/video/TjHrf-82I3c/w-d-xo.html
Dude HL2 in VR actually looks great. Looking forward to trying it myself someday too :)
And I've been told about the upgraded texture mods too so I'm looking forward to trying that also.
Nice video! I fking love to watch to you playing new vr games, I am really hyped to see you play Red Matter 2, Into the radius, vertigo remastered and vertigo 2, the walking dead saints and sinners and many other vr games.
Btw, I played Black mesa (half life 1 remake) in VR, half life 2 vr, the episodes in vr and alyx, and all are amazing experiences in VR
Thanks, it's cool to know what you enjoy seeing! I didn't know you could play Black Mesa in VR. I really enjoyed that one when I played it flat for the channel.
you should invest in htc base stations (2), valve knuckle controlers and a htc tracker. the tracker for tracking you headset with knuckle controlers on the base station. im not sure if you know about the controlers, its finger tracking. my setup is HTC base station with HTC Vive pro/pro2 (I use pro1 because of the oled panels, LCD just washes black. the blacks and colors in oled are DAY AND NIGHT!) with knuckle controlers. for me that its the ultimate setup for vr
Would these work with a Quest 3 or is this HTC only? I'd want to be able to play Oculus games too. Although I think I'm getting ready to buy a Quest 3 in the near future anyway - fingers crossed.
I have been loving this Mod! I have the episode 2 VR mod also, can't wait to get into those!
Cool you can also play the other episodes in VR too
youre such a cool guy.favourite vr tuber.
This warms my heart - thank you 🔥
Loved this!
Glad so!
Remember UEVR Mod makes ANY Unreal Engine game a VR game, you will never run short of content.
This isnt uevr tho
@@trille_boi I know, but there isn't full on mods for many games, with UEVR, it gives him more options to play other games.
@@Mind_ConTroll full flat2VR mods are much better than UEVR. Even with a 4090 the games tend to run pretty poor, the 3D effect is pretty bad, and getting a good controller config can be a royal pain in the ass.
HL2 VR on the other hand is S-tier VR content.
@@poundtown808 Yes, and full intercourse is better than a handjob, but sometimes we make due with the lesser choice because the better option doesn't exist
@@poundtown808Yeah, it's almost like trying to force a game to run in a way it wasn't intended to be ran is a bad idea or something. (/S)
Also it completely fucks the games design and creative intent (e.g what turned me off it completely as watching vr footage of 40k boltgun, you can tell because of the boomshoot design and pixel art that the game plays like ass in vr, it's a worse experience than the one the Devs carefully crafted for the player).
HL 2: Episode 1 and 2 are available in VR as well :-)
heya buddy! i palyed hl2 VR and ill tell you this, the weapon reloads are cool because you have to actually reload them properly and such, and a little tip
if you have 1 bullet left you dont need to re-cock the gun which is a need detail! as in normal hl2 its the same reload no matter how many or little bullets!
That's cool man, thanks! I'll try to remember that. So can you not dump a half mag? I thought it was like Half Life Alyx.
@@beyond_xen oh Nono you can. Just make sure to pick it up when you drop it
Steam also has a vr mod for the original half life. Its not by the same people of the HL2 mods, but it would be cool to see your playthrough of that mod as well.
That's cool
I am going to have to give this a try too!
Yeah it is a blast! And there's texture packs you can install for the weapons and enemies.
Depending on your GPU, you could probably push the resolution to 150 or 200% for this game on the Steam VR settings.
It's amazing how something that would take just a few minutes playing flat, can turn into an hour in VR.
This game took me a bit more than double the time it normally takes me to beat it normally flatscreen lol.
Good to know. Yes, so much to look at indeed.
30:19 you didn’t get that achievement. You just got one part of it. It shows that every time you find a lamda cache and you’ll notice it tally’s them up until you find all of them, then you get the achievement. You made the same mistake when playing the regular version of Half Life 2. That little achievement box popped up each time you found a lamda cache and you said “why do I keep getting the same achievement?”. You weren’t getting it. it was just telling you that you made progress towards getting it.
Haha Evidently the wording achievement wording confuses me.
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
You should probably check settings, for example you can sprint just with a stick click instead of double tapping. There's also "physical hands" setting which may sound nice, but in reality it kinda janky imo.
Also there's one trick for vehicles: before you get in, sit down on the floor. It may look silly, but can give a bit more immersion and maybe decrease motion sickness if you'll have it.
Okay thanks I'll have to check those settings out. No problem sitting down - sounds like a good idea. I did when I played the Jeff chapter in Half Life Alyx.
Another vr game I'd love to see you play is Boneworks.
It's my favorite vr game, one of my fav games in general.
To me, it's more like the half life 2 of vr than half life alyx.
Yeah that's another I will have to visit at some point too.
I assume you're aware you can play the original Half-Life directly on the Quest. If you're unfamiliar, basically the Team Beef devs released a free port. You just need to copy some files from your PC to the Quest. They've got free ports for ALL the 90's DOOM engine games. They've got free ports for the 90's Jedi Knight titles, and a bunch more. You just need to copy over some files. Their ports have a gui that let's you load mod too. I'm happy to explain further if anyone has questions.
I do seem to remember reading the original HL can play natively on the Quest. Pretty smart people out there!
Dang you didn’t even look up at the scale of the citadel when you left the train station. That’s easily the most impressive part of that scene.
Yeah that's a bummer. Was it when the combine were shooting at me? I had thought about commenting on the citadel briefly while Barney was talking but then I got distracted by the crowbar and completely forgot about it.
Can’t wait for ravenholm >:)
Ooooh me too! Especially if I can get a texture upgrade
it with prop and texture HD replacement can become to like half-life: alyx
That's in my list to try soon 😃
27:34 You don't crouch physically. 🤣
Lets go
970 sub!
Thank you so much! I can't believe I'm about to hit 1000!!
im trying to run it on my pimax crystal it not running it crash to desktop
I'm sorry to hear that. I wish I knew how to help you.
@@beyond_xen I wish you make a video on settings and running the game
@@essamahmod the tricky thing is these things can be so specific to each system. I was having mystery stuttering with games until I updated my headset and drivers I think.
should i get quest 3 as my first Vr
If you can afford it, yes - because now the Quest 2 is kinda obsolete.
If you're not aware, Meta is releasing the Quest 3S really soon and it is expected to cost $300-$400. It has the same chipset as the Q3 but uses the Q2's fresnel lenses (the Q3 uses pancake lenses). The 3S will also have color pass through and be able to do MR like Q3. All that said, if your budget allows I recommend the Q3 as it is a much lighter device. But the 3S is very likely going to be the biggest selling headset ever--there's a slight chance Meta will give away a copy of Batman Arkham Shadows, and that game is being positioned to be a system-seller with millions of Arkham fans really pumped about that game.
@@DKStanford well idk tbh much about Vr but i do know about the quest 3s i heard something about it its seems nice for the price but we don't know the release date and that's the problem see i don't have that good budget because im aiming at the 512gb version of the quest 3 because its allowing me to install a lot of games and i have a pc so i can run extra games if i want to im trying to get it less than 2 months but in the country that i live in its 700 dollars so its kinda hard but im trying
You remind me of Ellis from l4d2.
Since I haven't played that game, in what way?
You can actually crouch physicly
What was I doing wrong? It seemed like it had no affect when I tried it. Maybe I didn't realize?
@@beyond_xen you just crouch you seemed to do it under those planks
@@trille_boi Thanks, I'll have to pay more attention then.
I've been in VR over 4 years and the driving in this one can still get me feeling gross, especially if you roll or get knocked around 🤮 It's a great VR game though for sure.
Oh my! Wish me luck!
@beyond_xen Not saying you can't do it bro! It just wasn't designed for VR so it's particularly intense. You got it.
tbh i like hl2 in vr more than hl alyx
It'll be interesting to see
@@beyond_xen mb it's because i played hl2 many years ago when i was young:) it blows my mind now in vr
How old are you lol?
Nearly 33 in body, but in mind - I have no idea lol