Story mod “Levitation” breathes new life into “Half-Life: Alyx” - MIXED Reality News

Image: Shawn Snelling / Corey Laddo

The escaped Half-Life: Alyx mod “Levitation” continues the communicative of the champion VR game. Is it worthy your time? (Spoiler: Yes, it is)

“Levitation” is 1 of the astir elaborate modifications for Half-Life: Alyx, alongside “Bioshock: Return to Rapture”. While the playtime is lone 3 to 4 hours – the travel to Rapture takes implicit a twelve hours – it inactive offers an wholly caller communicative run with Alyx successful City-17.

Responsible for the mod are task manager and level decorator Shawn Snelling aka “FMPONE” and Corey Laddo. Snelling is known successful the assemblage for his high-quality Counter-Strike maps. Laddo is simply a filmmaker and 3D animator liable for the animations.

Levitation sends you backmost to City-17

The communicative picks up straight from the events of Half-Life: Alyx: The G-Man sends maine connected a journey, his intentions unclear arsenic always.

Next, I conscionable Alyx’s person Russel successful a unusual imagination world: helium is searching for 2 missing rebels. There’s a concealed Combine probe task that the 2 rebels were investigating earlier they disappeared. Over the adjacent fewer hours, I sprout and puzzle my mode to Sector X to possibly assistance these mediocre guys.

The Levitation mod is dubbed passim and adjacent uses its ain dependable histrion for Russel alternatively of conscionable playing dependable snippets from Valve. The narration is alternatively dilatory but offers a astonishment astatine the end. While it can’t lucifer the communicative qualities of the original, it does supply an due inheritance for the existent prima of the mod: the environments.

Levitation’s spot lies successful its environments, which is cleanable for VR

The way to Sector X is varied and leads done a total of 8 antithetic levels. From the street, it goes implicit rooftops into the sewers and a subway oregon done Combine facilities – each level is extended and has its ain twist.

On the mode you’ll unlock caller weapons, conscionable much enemies and aged acquaintances, lick puzzles oregon respect the awesome environments from Snelling’s 3D kit.

Many scenes are fantastic to look at, including the operation tract with the gigantic bucket-wheel excavator known from the trailer. This yellowish behemoth looks overmuch much awesome successful VR than connected the 2D monitor, since you tin respect it successful its archetypal size.

When you roam done abandoned apartments oregon excavation done infested subway shafts, the emblematic Half-Life feeling comes up. The maps are afloat of details, and it’s worthy discovering them: you’ll beryllium rewarded with resin, the crippled currency that volition fto you amended your weapons.

Levitation doesn’t scope Valve’s heights, but it’s an awesome mod

The puzzles are inventive and adhd assortment to the shooting sections. The modders travel Valve’s proven scheme: shoot, search, puzzle, repeat.

Here, however, a quality betwixt Valve’s archetypal and the unofficial sequel becomes apparent: The environments are impressive, but the puzzles oregon combat passages successful them consciousness forced. They are not arsenic seamlessly integrated into the gameplay arsenic we are utilized to from the original. There are besides a fewer bugs, but the squad is gradually fixing them.

All of this is disapproval connected a precocious level: I had a batch of amusive returning to City-17, wandering done fantastic environments and enjoying the proven and VR-optimized gameplay. The squad adjacent managed to see immoderate brag fights successful their mod.

If you privation to acquisition much Half-Life, you should decidedly download Levitation. Half-Life: Alyx Levitation is disposable for escaped successful the Steam Workshop. The mod is divided into 5 parts. When you’re done with Levitation, I urge you instrumentality to Half-Life 2 successful VR.

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