{"id":50357,"date":"2020-03-24T16:36:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T23:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=50357"},"modified":"2020-03-24T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T23:36:46","slug":"valve-expects-some-modder-will-fix-half-life-alyx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2020\/03\/24\/valve-expects-some-modder-will-fix-half-life-alyx\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve expects some modder will fix Half-Life: Alyx"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Half-Life: Alyx, Valve&#8217;s return to the universe of headcrabs and Combine radio static may be great, but if you don&#8217;t have the VR gear, you can&#8217;t play it. Don&#8217;t fret about missing out on the greatest Half-Life since Lost Coast. Valve&#8217;s Robin Walker fully expects someone clever will mod the game so even the non-VR plebs will be able to play it. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/features\/interview-valve-on-half-life-after-alyx\/\">VGC<\/a>, Walker says he&#8217;s looking forward to it, because he thinks it will make people appreciate what the studio did even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;As a result, what I&#8217;m confident will happen is that when people get that butchered version, and they&#8217;ll have lost all the things that we\u2019ll have got from moving to VR, they will then understand very clearly why we made that choice.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don&#8217;t miss what you never had. Later in the exchange, Robin Walker says whether or not Valve&#8217;s next Half-Life story is VR-exclusive will depend on the reaction to Alyx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half-Life: Alyx, Valve&#8217;s return to the universe of headcrabs and Combine radio static may be great, but if you don&#8217;t have the VR gear, you can&#8217;t play it. Don&#8217;t fret about missing out on the greatest Half-Life since Lost Coast. 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