How Modders Fixed Half Life Alyx

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My settings including removing dynamic resolution:
-console -vconsole +vr_fidelity_level_auto 0 +vr_fidelity_level 3 +hlvr_continuous_normal_speed 100 +hlvr_continuous_combat_speed 130
Campaign+ steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Merciless AI Mod: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Weapons
USP Match Pistol: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
TAU Cannon: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
CSGO AUG: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Recurve Bow: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Stun Sticks: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Energy Sword: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Scripted test area: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Alyx Like Campaigns
Levitation: steamcommunity.com/workshop/f...
Re-Education: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Loco-Motive: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Pyromantic Gatekeeper: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
C17YSCAPE: steamcommunity.com/workshop/f...
Field Studies: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Half Life 2 Levels
Canals: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Across The Coast: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Seesaw Bridge: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Prospekt Attrition: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Custom Levels
Gunman Contracts 1: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Gunman Contracts 2: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Operator: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Return to Rapture 2: steamcommunity.com/workshop/f...
Aperture VR: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Goldeneye 007 Alyx Dam 3: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
The Undertow: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Goon Squad: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Horror(ish) Themed Levels
Paralysium: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Belomorskaya Station: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Quarantine Street: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Great Zombie Levels
The Underground: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Industrial Discharge: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Great Antlion Fight
Victory Mine: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
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0:00 Intro
0:35 Movement Speed
1:10 Custom AI
3:10 Custom Weapons
6:30 Alyx Like Levels
8:27 Half Life 2 Levels
8:55 Custom Levels
11:35 Horror(ish) Levels
12:15 Great Zombie Levels
12:38 Great Antlion Level

[@fabledorchid8410]

I wish there was a modding category for mainstream game awards or showcases, cause there are some pretty amazing mods made by some really talented people that deserve a spotlight.

[@virtualinsider]

Very true

[@TuTAH_1]

IMO they deserve it even more than just games, since games today are usually more buisness product than art; while mods are mostly written on pure enthusiasm with the only purpose of doing something awesome.

[@IdkBig_guy]

Like the creators of bonelab fusion deserve an award because it took so long to make it

[@P-Nokota]

Well let vote on it

[@daniil9150]

Arent there anything like that on moddb?

[@handlessuck589]

As much as I love the classic USP in the thumbnail, the whole reason Alyx's default gun looks like that is so that when she upgrades it, it becomes the gun you see in Half Life 2.

[@KianGaming09]

Yeah

[@apple120_1E]

indeed

[@fubar12345]

Yep, much prefer the original for this reason. It's the Alyx Gun!

[@YourFrenTap]

My main problem with the vanilla gun is that once it gets it's frame around the slide it mechanically ceases to make sense. Particularly that the front sight post sticks through a notch in the frame, essentially locking the slide and frame together which means the sight has to clip whenever cycling. Small nitpick but these sorts of things are pretty easy to see in VR so i guess that's what devs get for pushing technology forward.

[@cbwe3cbs]

@@YourFrenTap What do you expect? It's alien technology, nothing makes sense with the Combine.

[@Echo-22-538]

Campaign+ is an awesome mod! I love it! It's funny how there's Zombines because in HL2: Episode 1 Alyx is surprised to see a headcrab on a Combine and even makes a joke which gives the Zombine it's name.

[@virtualinsider]

Thats a good point, probably doesnt make sense for the lore of the game and probably why they arent in by default.

[@gerardonavarro3400]

I will never forget that moment lol, it was one of the greatest sideyes I've had in gaming

[@Echo-22-538]

@@gerardonavarro3400 Facts though

[@Blurns]

@@virtualinsider There are combine ordinal zombies, which are technically zombine. It does contradict Episode 1, but they just don't draw attention to it.

[@lenzi5119]

@@Blurns I guess in the original timeline, Eli didn't discover the secret of the vault. (The structure in the vault probably didn't exist because I assume they didn't capture Gman in the og timeline for Gman to make a different ending in ep2.) Alyx didn't go to the vault because of course his father wasn't in need of saving and thus, she didn't come in contact with Zombine or the rest of the horrors in the vault.

[@andrej1551]

"Who doesnt like it hard?" wise choice of words

[@Thxtnt]

My thoughts exactly

[@magicmidgetman]

🤨

[@GL1TCH_DOCTOR]

"lets face it, who doesn't like it hard"

[@DoNotSubscribetoMePlease]

3:05 moment

[@chrispylieutenant8658]

I read this comment the exact second he said it lol.

[@Walternity]

I like to use the USP replacement when playing custom maps, though in the main campaign I prefer the m1911 since Alyx has always used a modified m1911 in half-life 2 and it's Episodes so it feels consistent with the lore to use it in HLA since it's implied that the gun you use in HLA eventually becomes the "Alyx Gun" seen in half-life 2.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, similar. And there is no real reason to replace the pistol. Half Life 1 has a Glock, Half Life 2 the USP. and Half Life Alyx a M1911. Each game with it's own pistol.

[@tinmipad4sokabali74]

Op4 with a deagle and blue shift with m9.

[@BirdRaiserE]

Chad opinion

[@cr1tikal_arc]

@@tinmipad4sokabali74 the desert eagle replaced the revolver in opposing force tbf

[@legssohot7640]

I'd love if there was a 1911 mod that had the quirks of the USP replacer. However from a gameplay perspective I much prefer the sights of the USP since I'm pretty sure the sights on the 1911 aren't zeroed properly past like 15 meters, along with the grip position. I understand why they went with the teacup grip since most controllers encourage it and Alyx isn't the most experienced shooter by this time, but the index controllers are perfectly capable of a more proper handgun grip

[@DanieL12001]

I think that you are doing a great job featuring so many AAA VR games, counterintuitive they not get so much attention in the VR community and they lead the technology forward after all

[@ch3cksund3ad]

For real, HLA and Boneworks should be the standards for VR games now. Really tired of trash, half-ass VR games, not worth the trouble for me to set it up. Not enough real, full games on VR still

[@scrabble567]

*cough cough* fallout 4@@ch3cksund3ad

[@davidchandler5432]

I follow VR stuff daily but I still hadn't heard of a bunch of these, thanks for compiling them in a nice video with links!

[@virtualinsider]

Happy to help!

[@farukleonaltinsoy9151]

I think all games should have mod support, that's what makes a game better because sometimes Devs don't care or aren't aware/don't have time

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And it is what makes games live long after the developer is done with it.

[@ngregoirenc]

@@HappyBeezerStudios even spawning sucessful new games afrom the mods

[@cowboycat298]

you can mod all games, it just depends on if people want to or not

[@phoenixmarktwo]

​@@cowboycat298 Yes and no. Most games are not built with mod support, which can make modding them frustrating and confusing. It's why games kike Half Lift 2 have a billion mods while Call of Duty (insert entry here) has very few.

[@Tudorgeable]

@@HappyBeezerStudios It's what made ID and Valve immensely popular

[@TuTAH_1]

0:55 There's also "sprint button mod" for it.

[@virtualinsider]

Didnt know about that, thanks

[@TuTAH_1]

@@virtualinsider ​ It have been here not for too long, through - just about an half-year ago. I was actually wandererd why there weren't such essential thing as sprint, even in mods for a long time. And I was really glad when this mod comed out.

[@STNKbone]

great to learn about the Merciless mod! The way headcrabs and antlions telegraphed their attacks, and the overall ease of combat was my biggest issue with Alyx.

[@Karv3r]

Having Gunman Contracts enabled and playing the main game or other custom levels actually decreases the enemy health to a "realistic" level, making firefights feel much better.

[@HarutoAogami]

The reason why she uses an M1911 is because HLA takes place before Gordon's return. When Earth still had supplies of human weaponry. There obviously wasn't much of a coordinated resistance back then that there is after Gordon's return.

[@josephvrbackcatalog]

I liked Alyx but I don’t think I played more than twice Your video really got me interested to go back and check out the mods Nice editing too!

[@CricetoFunni]

"As Valve didn't like the feeling of 2-handed weapons in VR" I'm pretty sure it's actually because they wanted the game to be accessible to people who could only use 1 controller. Also, I think calling the video "How Modders _Fixed_ Half Life Alyx" is a bit misleading as these mods aren't really fixes, more so just changes.

[@Endolas1]

I realy don't like title like that, it sound's like modders are intitled. they fix games... because they are better than the devs...

[@RongleBringer]

2 handed guns in VR feel dumb and janky without a 2 handed controller. Unfortunately no manufacturer makes one apart from PSVR1 Aim controller, but that suffers from PSVR crap tracking

[@daniellemarie6186]

this video is so well made that i've already watched it 5 time over.

[@TheActualDylan]

This is amazing, I was just recently looking for some sort of compendium of Alyx mods worth trying, as I've seen so many mentioned but didn't know where to start. This is a great "what to do next now that you've finished the game". Nice!

[@kellymoses8566]

At this rate Half Life Alyx will be the greatest VR game ever

[@DeimosPC]

Every time I play Alyx I remember why I bought VR. It’s truly phenomenal. I haven’t played a game that gave me that feeling since

[@KingMetalMario]

I really want to play HL Alyx bit I feel like it won't be worth the money considering the finite library of games for VR I'm interested in

[@TheRealJochen]

I never really noticed just how intractable everything in alyx is until I played any other vr game afterwards

[@Skrenja]

Check out Subnautica and Resident Evil 2,3,7 and Village.

[@DeimosPC]

@@KingMetalMario Believe me.. I own so many games and Alyx is still by far the best game out there for VR. It’ll blow your mind. The visuals are incredible and the atmosphere is amazing

[@DeimosPC]

@@TheRealJochen Same. It’s really good. I hope Valve works on more VR titles.

[@notgudatgame1667]

its more that they made the experience more advanced than fixing it, valve knows what they are doing, so they probably know best for how they make their own games

[@PeterPlayerOne]

Very comprehensive!

[@FPChris]

0:40 I just got a Katwalk C2 Core and I'm glad to hear it's slow.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

Thank you, you have a very professional method.

[@KB-du3rh]

Thanks for all your videos, especially these ones about mods (both Flat>VR, and modding VR games). Don't have as much time nowadays so these videos go a long way! Cheers

[@VosDa033]

I'm pretty sure the reason that there weren't any zombines in the original game is because in half life: 2 Alyx sees them for the first time, hence the zombine joke

[@AveriV1]

Hmmm. A Combine zombie. That's, that's like a...a.. Zombine! Right? Heh... Zombine, get it? Heh heh. Okay.

[@trianglemoebius]

In all fairness, she could have just not thought of the pun the first time she saw them.

[@Generalmacka]

When she first said that I just said “no it’s a Combie” then started giggling until it started charging at me with a grenade

[@Pigness7]

Nice clickbait, please stop with this MODDERS ARE FIXING clickbait format, as a modder I despise it. HLA doesnt need "fixing" just say you're showing off some cool mods, just say that.

[@EDaley10]

based

[@trustypotato9998]

I completely missread that and thought you said that you despise HLA

[@user-rt7mn6vs7l]

Yes

[@AydennThaHoodie]

Its not a “CLICKBAIT” format hes right the modders do fix HLA with new mods and improvements you are just misreading and are getting mad for a stupid little thing

[@Centila]

​@@AydennThaHoodiehe ain't gonna fuck you bro

[@TheSateef]

i'm playing the 'from here to there' mod at the moment, pretty good, but the gunman mods are definitely my favorite, its just they've become too easy because there's no random behavior of the NPCs

[@jimbob9086]

Here to there was incredible, the creator was an ophthalmologist and it shows, with his eye for detail lol

[@master_ace]

I'd love to mod it so that time to kill for both enemies and the player is lower - for a bit of a more milsim feel. Something like 2-3 bullets for enemies (1 if headshot) and double that for the player

[@MisterChief711]

not really realistic but i see what you mean

[@justpassingby298]

It is genuinly so insane that this game can have weapons added, that aren't actually proper weapons, that opens so many possibilities for the future, especially for any VR-based GMod like game

[@rgazdic]

Zombines are present in HLA. You encounter them at railway intersection when you go to the generator room to retrieve batteries for operating combine console.

[@magicmidgetman]

thats what I'm saying!

[@myztklk3v]

my biggest gripes with this game (im only a minute into the video) was the movement speed/lack of sprint, the lack of an actual jump button (there were platforming sections that forced you to teleport), and how slow and lame the antlions were and how terrible of a shot the strider was (mixed with the slow movement, made for a boring section when it should have been epic)

[@yeti4269]

A proper portal 2 vr mod using the source 2 engine is all i can hope for

[@ottorask7676]

"how modders fixed hl alyx" >beangun

[@sagepuppet]

you can hold the default pistol with 2 hands too

[@despressod]

The most informative VR channel on YT! Great work my man!

[@D3ADSHOT1337]

1 mod i like is called sustenance by chrjen, that basically just let you eat and drink the different foods and bottled drinks that you find around the game, such as canned goods and headcrabs to bottled water and vodka

[@Super-id7bq]

Valve absolutely knocked this game out the park so it's a shame to undermine that by saying modders "fixed" the game. If they were bugs then yeah - fixed would be appropriate. But suggesting it's broken because there is room for improvement is a disheartening thing to hear as a developer when you've spent years building something. It's like the other day, someone tweeted that someone had "fixed" Akira by using AI to change the aspect ratio to vertical so it works with a phone display.

[@allu2681]

3:29 "USP Match" Yet its not a USP Match, just a regular USP.

[@CatIsNotLoaded]

fun fact: scripted item test range is a map in SteamVR Home, thats why in HL:A its called MK2, or i could be all wrong, even though most of the weapons are in the mk2 version

[@leossmallengines]

why the fuck are the corrupted trumpets in my walls

[@Blaze422UK]

Got the game not even finished it only played 1hr if that 😂 this made me want to play and finish it

[@ieatants11]

I honestly thought the channel was going to have over 100k subscribers, but I am thoroughly suprised at how underated you are!

[@clearlyanartistanimations6915]

I think Valve did this as a precursor to a Gordon Freeman title or Half Life 3 in order to test and hash some features out before shifting to higher level VR technology that's likely to come out.

[@PostMortalForm]

Thanks for this! That movement speed one is a real game changer for me, I can’t understand why so many vr games insist on having you move at a snails pace, it really bugs me

[@SimplexPL]

When I played After the Fall for some time, then came back to Alyx for Levitation I was gobsmacked at how painfully slow the walking speed is. More like crawling speed. This option should be in the menu. I wish that video came out before I finished Levitation 😅

[@Skrenja]

Slower movement speed tends to make people less motion sick.

[@SimplexPL]

@@Skrenja Yes, but it doesn't explain why there's no in-game option to speed it up

[@dragon_melon69]

I know right? I had already been playing Half life 2 VR for a while when I got alyx and was so annoyed with the lack of a sprint and jump button

[@user-tzzglsstle585e38]

@@SimplexPL Since the main goal is to make people not motion sick; a lot of the gameplay are then designed around that slower movement speed, like enemies like combine and antlions (aka all enemies) being generally slower, grenades having longer fuse, the map and enemy encounters, jeff, etc.

[@Ur_Laggin]

I hope more indie vr games are made with the half life Alyx engine

[@thisnameisbad3609]

(it's called source 2)

[@nytrul3159]

The enemies now are a joke to me now but I remember the first time playing half life alyx as my first VR game I was huffing and puffing and absolutely terrified of everything. Props to valve for striking a good balance for Alyx being a beginner entry point for people new to VR.

[@SnaxOnSnaxOnSnaxOnSnaxOnSnax]

They need to make Portal: Chell. Basically portal 3 but vr, then drop half life 3 which will be just half life but with portal gun.

[@bruhmoment879]

The modders are probably on the valve’s future employee list now

[@some_random_toaster]

Oh mein gott! Is that the Heckler & Koch USP in .45-ACP from the hit game Half-Life 2??!11!

[@randomcamera746]

one thing with the usp match from half-life 2, is that it is missing what makes it a usp match and not a usp. it is missing the barrel weight in the front to reduce recoil.

[@microgamestation]

I'm so glad you returned to your old content. :)

[@Druxer1]

which vr headset are you using

[@PieroMinayaRojas]

3:07 "Let's face it, who doesn't like it hard?" Very poor choice of words

[@kroysteamvr]

Some great HLA mods there.

[@branchie8979]

0:28 so we're just lying now are we? this game had the most spectacle and awesome set pieces in the series so far

[@n9ne]

there's a dismemberment(gib mod) with a crap tonne of blood. i have never looked at the workshop before lmao oke imma have so much fun now. why tf have i never looked at it :s

[@Gamers-of-the-Abyss]

3:08 that's what she said.

[@Dima_Stardust]

replacing Alyx's 1911 with USP is definitely not a fix altough nice vid

[@agarlicsorbet6482]

uuuuuuuuuuuuugh you beat me to it. Yes. 1911 is good as it is. For the game USP is og but come on it's 1911.

[@Dima_Stardust]

​@@agarlicsorbet6482 wdym og? earlier guys below remembered that in each HL there were different pistols

[@SirCheeseEater]

​@@Dima_Stardust The real og would be the Glock 17

[@chiefdanny5058]

@@Dima_Stardust HL2 came out 19 years ago. The USP match is old enough to vote. It definitely qualifies as an Original Gangsta

[@papayer]

You have a very interesting definition of 'fixing'.

[@cdgonepotatoes4219]

Never allow this guy on a shooting range. Somehow he managed to animate a gatling gun to shoot on its own and go on an autonomous killing spree, and he's clearly not concerned about things others would consider lethal with the way he just tanked that launcher's backblast like it was a morning breeze.

[@christhefirst]

imagine getting drafted in 2040 and you fail training because you e-killed everyone at the range after glitching out the e-machine gun

[@vasili9524]

I see valve still doesn't know trigger discipline

[@zefhi1433]

hey just wanted to say the usp match is from cs source

[@lool289]

ty very much! u make me really hyped for vr!

[@MChishu7177]

also a good vr game is half life 2 vr mod, rn im just after the sandtraps chapter but i can already tell you that its worth playing as a first vr game

[@rylievalentine7109]

tbhH THE 1911 is kinda accurate because the 1911 was a human weapon, like the normal one, but then the combine got a hold of it, upgraded it and turned it into the one from the hl2 games, since alyx takes place in the past and she gets the pistol from Russel instead of a metropolice

[@calccalccalc]

I just find it odd that Valve didn't think to take out the tells for the headcrab and the antlion for the official hard mode... Thank gaben for mods though.

[@GiggaGMikeE]

Another great video! Love your channel man, keep up the great content! Any plans to do content on psvr2?

[@virtualinsider]

When I finally get one I will be covering PSVR 2 stuff on the channel

[@Fattoxthegreat]

I was very underwhelmed by Gunman Contracts but I'll give the rest of these a shot

[@SonnoMaku]

0:25 I find that with the limited amount of space I have to play I end up getting overwhelmed by enemies in HLA due to being worried about hitting stuff around me. This started after I punched the corner of my desk so hard while playing a VR game that I split my hand open and started bleeding pretty badly. So imo it doesn't lack challenge but I guess I could see how more active people with more space could be disappointed. My real disappointment comes from it not feeling like a Half-Life game gameplay wise. While VR is cool I prefer normal FPS Half-Life.

[@pocketgames6147]

lets be honest a game without a workshop for modders is just silly

[@panema0]

i just came back to this video and i was at 3:09 and the first thing i hear is "let's face it, who doesn't like it hard" 😭

[@AJ-po6up]

I would love to see a video dedicated to just cool maps and campaigns someday, with basically everything that you think is worth playing. Either way that was a good list of mods, I'm saving this video for later when I feel like replaying HLA.

[@virtualinsider]

I put a link to my favourites in the description which has all the Custom Levels I played and enjoyed.

[@screech.8299]

Gamemode: Realistic Combine soldiers will have a 5/50 chance of missing it's target, and take more hits, however the damage output is the same on the head. Antlions and crabs will go straight for the kill, crabs will die in one shot since they're just meaty. Zombies, sicne controlled by the crab, dont have a pain tolerence on the body, so they take a lot of shots to the general body, if hit in the spine, they lose the ability to use the host body and the crab jumps off, a shot to the crab is a one-shot kill. Upon the combine knowing where you are and you are encountering them daily, pistol and shotgun ammo are scarce, and you have to rely on scavenging for Unused pulse SMG magazines from dead combine units. You will die from a single poison crab hit. The electric dog will kill you in two hits. You have to shoot the spine of an armored headcrab zombie. The zombie Combine soldier exists, and it's usually a Pulse SMG ammo or a resin drop once killed. If a headcrab lands on you, it'll take around 5 seconds to reach your head, once that happens, you're a zombie now. Game over.

[@acc_rcng6962]

Are there any more community bugfix mods for this game?

[@melbi9688]

whats name of this music at start of vid?

[@juniorsilvabroadcast]

Half life alyx weapons are pretty ok. And lore friendly

[@Flormph]

Song at start is “triage at dawn”

[@JasonLihani]

Alyx has Workshop support? Brb buying now.

[@Jinbustu]

2:30 reminds me of half life 1 and 2 when they didn’t give a warning at all

[@chickendrawsdogs3343]

Man, the sounds of the modded Tau Cannon makes me sad.

[@djaydeved]

7:13 oh hello little niva! ive played way, way to much My garage....

[@fucka1386]

11:25 Bro is in Ibiza

[@iplz]

2 handed weapons in HL2 VR worked and pumping the shotgun was fun. I liked it more than alyx.

[@AveriV1]

execuse me, GOON SQUAD?

[@party4lifedude]

It's really disappointing that Valve is doing so little to help modders. All it does is expand the life of their game and give more people a reason to buy VR headsets, but they are just being really stingy with it for some reason, and I feel like they are really shooting themselves in the foot with this.

[@liq__7420]

imagine garry's mod but a VR version with all this graphics and content

[@TheeBluestBerry]

Half life 2 got ported into VR and it’s arguably more fun than Alyx, highly recommend!

[@hodayfa000h]

sandbox might have that... though sandbox is more of a game engine when it releases so even vr might be possible

[@libertarianterminator]

I didn't know there were so many great mods for half life alyx out there. I guess it's time for me to revisit it.

[@slav4335]

3:30 the pistol alyx uses in this game becomes alyx's gun from hl2, so it shouldn't be the USP mach

[@TeurastajaNexus]

Replacing the M1911 with USP among other things is not considered "fixing" the game so the title is a bit off.

[@A_very_tinly_can]

hla is pretty much perfect already imo

[@LEGODarthVader912]

who else heard the distorted trumpets in the background?

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

WTF is a _"200 weapon"??_

[@therangerhelix7126]

Victory mines is basically the same area like in Half Life 2 Episode 2 Which says Shahta pobedy which is Russian for Victory mines

[@1tsFawkes]

Was about to say that, I'm surprised he missed that

[@MrSinister98]

I see you play carx 😎

[@TheIndogamer]

3:08 "Let's face it, who doesn't like it hard?" Me who just wants to relax after a stressful day: "Let's agree to disagree"

[@HWJ40]

Man now I wish i had the money for a Vr headset

[@Splarkszter]

Modding is the best.

[@n8n8n8n]

This game could be a great addition for VR peripheral owners, but milions of gamers are waioting for new HL game with Gordon Freeman.

[@d1zel705]

bro got vape in his hand: 0:16 💀

[@chadchadelston8635]

Valve and modding is the cutest love story ever

[@nikdi]

Nice vid. Also love your "coostom" and "boonch" spelling, very cute