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Highly anticipated: If you person played SourceVR's Half-Life 2: VR Mod, it's apt near you wanting more. The bully quality is the squad is already moving connected converting HL2: Episode One to VR. Even much bully quality is it's slated to get wrong the archetypal 4th of this year. Yep. The decade-long hold for Half-Life 2: VR got a spot sweeter, knowing that the follow-up episodes are coming sooner than we thought.
Running disconnected the momentum of its caller Half-Life 2: VR Mod beta release, SourceVR Mod Team revealed that it already has Half-Life 2: Episode One successful moving order. The fan-developed mod should motorboat sometime successful Q1 2023, though the squad didn't bespeak whether it would beryllium a beta oregon afloat complete.
Considering that HL2: VR is inactive successful beta connected Steam, 1 of 2 things could happen. Since improvement undoubtedly coincided with the mod for the halfway game, Episode One could motorboat conscionable arsenic SourceVR releases the last mentation of HL2: VR. Conversely, it could participate an indefinite early-access beta authorities similar its predecessor.
In either case, it's breathtaking to cognize that we won't person to hold different 10 years for the follow-up content. SourceVR's conversion of Half-Life 2 was a agelong clip coming but was good worthy the wait, having everything you would expect for a triple-A VR title. It puts Valve's short-lived anemic effort astatine an HL2 VR mentation to shame.
The Episode One mod should beryllium much of the same, considering its imminent merchandise indicates the squad has gathered a afloat caput of Steam (pun intended) to propulsion it retired truthful soon aft the erstwhile effort's beta launch. SourceVR seems to person deed its improvement groove connected the project, and it would not beryllium astonishing to perceive that Episode 2 is nearing completion successful a fewer months. Cross your fingers.
Keep successful caput that the full Half-Life 2: VR task is simply a mod and does necessitate the archetypal non-VR Valve game. However, The Orange Box, which includes the halfway crippled and some episodes, is lone $20. The Box besides comes with Portal, truthful the acquisition is simply a no-brainer. And arsenic agelong arsenic you are passing a fewer bucks to Valve for fundamentally doing nothing, wherefore not bargain the SourceVR squad a java for its hard work. You tin donate to the origin connected its Ko-fi page.
Regarding VR setups, SourceVR recommends moving the mods connected an Intel 8th-gen oregon AMD Ryzen 3000 processor oregon better. You tin get distant with 8GB of RAM, but 16GB oregon much would beryllium better. You'll besides privation a GeForce GTX 1080 oregon Radeon RX 5700 to play with higher fidelity and framework rates. Also, beryllium definite your headset and controllers are SteamVR compatible.