Unfortunately Half-Life: Alyx’s weapon roster left much to be desired both in terms of number and diversity of weapons.Ī mod to bring some of Half-Life’s iconic weapons-like the crossbow, revolver, RPG, and pulse rifle secondary fire-to Half-Life: Alyx would spice up the combat for your next playthrough. The Half-Life series is home to as many iconic weapons as it is enemies to shoot them with. Bonus if I can Spartan-kick a Combine soldier out a window. Some games already support the use of Vive Trackers for tracking more parts of the player’s body, and a mod for Half-Life: Alyx which would allow for foot tracking would be quite compelling even if it meant I could kick objects in the world for added embodiment. I’m not the only one who became so immersed in Alyx that at one point I tried to kick something with my foot, only to remember that the game doesn’t know where my feet are! This one might seem silly but it could be a major immersion booster. Stormland (2019) showed several smart solutions to these issues (like floating weapons in front of the player for a few seconds if they drop them) which modders could use as a basis for a holster mod in Half-Life: Alyx. Though I’m quite certain Valve did this to avoid the clunk that can come from an iffy holster system, and to prevent users from dropping their weapons, we’ve seen several games that manage to do holsters and detached weapon interactions well. I find this approach wholly unimmersive compared to being able to grab my weapons with whichever hand I see fit, or even set them down. And rather than grabbing your weapons from a holster and returning them when done, you use a menu to equip and unequip your weapons into your hand. This was one of the things that struck me right away in Half-Life: Alyx instead of acting like independent objects, weapons are stuck to your selected ‘Weapon Hand’. I’m splitting things up into ‘Practical’ and ‘Less Practical’ sections based on how complex they’d likely be to build. Valve hasn’t made clear when they intend to release Half-Life: Alyx mod tools just yet, but considering the popularity of the game we expect to see a lot of action when it does.įrom my own take on the game, and some suggestions from Twitter, below I’ve listed a handful of mods I’d love to see for Half-Life: Alyx. Though the modding tools aren’t available yet, here’s list of Alyx mods that we’d love to see. While we don’t expect to see any major post-release changes to the game from Valve itself, the company has committed to releasing tools so that the community can tweak the game with mods for Half-Life: Alyx. Half-Life: Alyx has only been out for a week now, but many who have finished the game are already itching for more.

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