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Steam has Half-Life: Alyx (PC VR Digital Download) for $29.99.

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Product Features:
  • Single Player
  • Requires a compatible virtual reality headset to play.
    • Visit the Steam VR Support section here for more info.
  • "Half-Life: Alyx is Valve's VR return to the Half-Life series. It's the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity's only chance for survival."
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Steam [steampowered.com] has Half-Life: Alyx (PC VR Digital Download) for $29.99.

Note, Steam account and client application required to purchase/play this title (free to register [steampowered.com]).

Product Features:
  • Single Player
  • Requires a compatible virtual reality headset to play.
  • "Half-Life: Alyx is Valve's VR return to the Half-Life series. It's the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity's only chance for survival."
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  • Offer ends February 3, 2022
  • This price is $30 lower (50% savings) the standard list price of $59.99.
  • This offer also matches our very popular frontpage deal from December.
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Best VR game I ever played. Worth every penny even with full price.
Without question the best VR game you can play. Story was compelling, the graphics were phenomenal, and the immersion was a showcase for what VR can do. and the art direction was jaw dropping at times. There were levels where I would just look around in awe. They continually push the mechanics of VR in interesting ways throughout the game. I've never been so immersed and scared and impressed all at the same time....also, Jeff can suck it
I played a few of the Oculus store games and was a little underwhelmed. Then I got Virtual Desktop and entered the world of SteamVR with this game as my first purchase. I've played about 4hrs and am completely blown away. It's on a whole different level of immersion and is totally worth the buy.

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boogak
01-29-2022 at 06:48 AM.
01-29-2022 at 06:48 AM.
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So a 3rd party app works better than something developed by the makers of the device? I was wondering whether I should invest in VD or if Airlink was as good as it gets.
If you have an AMD GPU, it might be worth purchasing Virtual Desktop for the higher bandwidth streaming. For some reason, Air Link caps AMD GPU's to 100mb/s whereas Nvidia can go up to 200mb/ (something to do with the GPU hardware video encoding/decoding capabilities I've read).

I have a 6600XT and there's a noticeable difference in pixelation artifacts and general smoothness using VD vs Air Link.
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Moooshe
01-29-2022 at 06:58 AM.
01-29-2022 at 06:58 AM.
Quote from boogak :
If you have an AMD GPU, it might be worth purchasing Virtual Desktop for the higher bandwidth streaming. For some reason, Air Link caps AMD GPU's to 100mb/s whereas Nvidia can go up to 200mb/ (something to do with the GPU hardware video encoding/decoding capabilities I've read).

I have a 6600XT and there's a noticeable difference in pixelation artifacts and general smoothness using VD vs Air Link.

Good to know, thank you! I have a 6900xt so it sounds like I would benefit from it even more.
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Xtasy1435
01-29-2022 at 07:33 AM.
01-29-2022 at 07:33 AM.
Can I play this game with original Oculus Quest + Virtual desktop? I got a decent gaming laptop.
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froglegz
01-29-2022 at 07:37 AM.
01-29-2022 at 07:37 AM.
Quote from scrapplejoe :
Ill pick this up, like I said before though, Vader Immortal interrogation room was jaw dropping.. so awesome seeing vader in front of you then proceeding to punch him in his boys (10 year old came out in me)
Vader has nards????
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Obiwan_Stormblessed
01-29-2022 at 07:45 AM.
01-29-2022 at 07:45 AM.
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Best VR game I ever played. Worth every penny even with full price.

It is a testament to how good it is but I can't finish it. I am simply too much of a wus. The game at times is too intense for me. And that's not even talking about JEFF. You can watch on YouTube but it's not 1/10th of what it feels like in VR. There were many moments where my heart was racing so much I had to stop.

I agree if you play on quest 2, which I suspect most of us are, the best route is virtual desktop. I even have the link cable but it runs better on VD for whatever reasons

Regarding chasing the dragon for games this good….my recommendation is play galaxies edge game WITH the added content purchase. That is THE signature game for the Quest 2. All of the other games, and I have played a lot of them, feel like very low grade Nintendo Wii games

The galaxies edge game when you factor in the add on content like the IG88 quest is simply amazing. They took all the lessons they captured in the Vader games and applied it to this game.
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Golden_Bear
01-29-2022 at 07:58 AM.
01-29-2022 at 07:58 AM.
Quote from Gotchaforce :
welcome to metas race to the bottom where every dev is trying to cash in on peoples boredom and nothing more. really doubt valve made money on alyx, im sure it cost them an enormous amount of money to make that game (fueled mainly by steam store and dota)

whats sad is the quest controllers are garbage, the game is quite a bit different if you get a chance to play with index controllers (prohibitively expensive though, $580 for the base stations and controllers)

What makes the index controllers so much better, in your opinion?

I played through all of Alyx on a quest two and didn't feel like I missed anything. So you're comment comes if as typical Quest bashing
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dieselfrog
01-29-2022 at 08:38 AM.
01-29-2022 at 08:38 AM.
Quote from BruceW :
What is a good laptop I can buy off the shelf at Best Buy that will run this?

Don't go laptop. Build a proper gaming rig and ascend to join the PCMR. Even a GTX 1070 plays this just fine so you don't need a super expensive set up
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PandemicHoax
01-29-2022 at 09:29 AM.
01-29-2022 at 09:29 AM.
Quote from BruceW :
What is a good laptop I can buy off the shelf at Best Buy that will run this?

What is your budget? You can RUN it on just about anything, but if you want a decent experience I will make a suggestion but are you constrained by a budget or what?
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shogunreaper
01-29-2022 at 11:12 AM.
01-29-2022 at 11:12 AM.
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What do you mean? The required minimum specs are really low. It only requires an I5 and GTX 1060 or RX 580. All of them are over half a decade old and cheap.
to be fair anything that matches it these days cost more for barely any improvement.

I bought my 1060 in 2016 for $250.
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BruceW
01-29-2022 at 11:21 AM.
01-29-2022 at 11:21 AM.
Quote from SmilingAlpaca108 :
What is your budget? You can RUN it on just about anything, but if you want a decent experience I will make a suggestion but are you constrained by a budget or what?
Like to keep it below $1500
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TheCBB
01-29-2022 at 11:34 AM.
01-29-2022 at 11:34 AM.
This game changed my life.
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01-29-2022 at 11:42 AM.
01-29-2022 at 11:42 AM.
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Do you have a link to a good article/video describing the ideal settings or can you provide your own? I tried tweaking with the settings. I have a dedicated router with only the Quest on it, it's on the 5ghz network, and the router is in the same room. My PC with a 2080 is wired to the router also. However I can't get a crisp resolution comparable to my G2 on some games, like Alyx. The only thing missing is that the router is not WiFi 6. Wondering if I'm being too optimistic here about the resolution it can achieve. Not to say I'm expecting g2 quality out of the Q2, but some games like alyx are very blurry in comparison, while other games are pretty close

Of course you can't. This has nothing to do with settings. You can't magically upgrade the Oculus's screen resolution. This is such a weird question that it sounds like a troll.
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Derek173
01-29-2022 at 12:40 PM.
01-29-2022 at 12:40 PM.
Just bought this full price, haven't played more than two minutes to see if it works. Can I return and rebuy?
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steph280
01-29-2022 at 01:42 PM.
01-29-2022 at 01:42 PM.
That Jeff level alone is worth the price of admission. It's very cleverly done, utilized the full potential of VR. Don't spoil it with youtube videos. Experience it in VR as it should be.
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