Boneworks 1.4 - The [redacted] Chamber 

If boneworks and HLAlyx had workshop support they would singlehandedly tide over the VR community until the next big AAA

They could sell the boneworks engine. That would be a really good starting point for many VR games.

I don't think that's a good idea Pfaeff, since this game spins around the physics

@@Pfaeff That would open the doors for a lot of asset flips, not a great thing to associate with their brand.

@@bemo_10 They don't have to sell the engine to everybody. They can be selective about it.

*Brandon, not Brendan lol

That will mean it wont be good because its not random

ditto that

Copy that

i'm with OP i honestly like your game way more then Alyx, not to say i don't like it either, but your game feels so in depth and immersive because of your choice of mechanics that i feel it's unrivaled.

Couldn’t of said it better

That would be cool, but they're so backed up on bug fixes that I think they're more focused on things that add more substance to the game as opposed to something aesthetic like that

all we have right now is texture changes so maybe use the asset bundle extractor to retexture the arms or even body

@@monkeyballs188 yeah thats already a thing

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I fully agree. BW has been able to develop both better weapon feel and easier backpack function than HLA, in my opinion.

BW is not better because it has 2 handed weapons, alyx wanted to make 1 handed gameplay accessable

I understand the accessibility concern. I'm saying that BW still definitely has its place in a post HL:A world. I don't feel like I can explore as many combat scenarios with HL:A, also because it doesn't have an Arena mode.

@@weebsters7181 That's just your opinion, dude. Many of us, me included, were disappointed with the lack of weapons and their anemic feel in Half-Life Alyx. If that doesn't bother you, cool, but don't say that it doesn't make Boneworks better objectively, because for many of us it does.

CZ Productions very few people feel the way you do

gets arms stuck in a wall: "Why is it called boneworks when they don't!"

Better said from him than Todd Howard

kind of like king crimson

zille3000 his home is where he lives. he doesn’t need a massive office for a ~12 person team

Fyi, the biggest difference is due to HLA being a game that anyone can jump into and play, and even those sensitive to motion sickness will not have to worry. Hardly anyone can play Boneworks without motion sickness. Boneworks is only for very advanced VR players, and even then, we got incredibly motion sick from the bounce-y disconnected virtual horizon (I got acclimated in about 4 hours). Boneworks set out to prove that people want full freedom and can acclimate to motion sickness. The problem is that Valve is right and SLZ were wrong. Most people are going to enjoy HLA over Boneworks because of comfort. In regards to workshop support, Boneworks will never have it, the engine is locked down due to how fragile the engine is. HLA however is open for full modding here pretty soon once hammerhead and source 2 SDK drop very soon.

"A lot of the features in Boneworks become really natural when you get used to them and other games feel really strange when they lack those features" This was an issue for me going to HLA. I'm so used to the freedom of Boneworks and the quality weapons there and in Pavlov that HLA was no more than a good looking movie for me. I couldn't immerse myself because of the lack of arms or any form of body presence (even the vest outline in pavlov is enough for me there) and the gunplay felt very anemic and uninteresting. It just felt like a modern quality game on PC with a VR camera and some motion control features thrown in. I understand how this would be fun for someone taking up VR for the first time, but for me it just felt totally unfinished as a full VR game. I could honestly have enjoyed this game just as much with keyboard and mouse as in VR. It's got a good story and it looks good, but it doesn't feel as satisfying to play as games from other devs.

id say he's more of an ogdan morrow. / woz

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Gabe Newell is Halliday

reddit moment ! ! !

Funny you say this, I was thinking exactly this but with Valve and Half Life Alyx, they're getting there.

@Lambert Yeah. The only time you hear him speak is when he makes a announcement.

made me check my discord ffs

Phil der komische typ hmmm bist ziemlich komisch Phil. :D

@@NotAtAllLegit saaame

Like the Portal advanced chambers? That would be fun

Ya it sounds like they knew HL:A was coming for a long time, so I'm sure they prepped for it to he a huge launch.

I remember seeing the ad for boneworks on oculas [hope I spelled that right] so if you have a oculas quest that may work and be cheaper. [Though look it up, don't take my word for it I'm new to the vr scene]

Jorge Castillo are you enjoying VR?

I straight up bought the knuckles controllers for boneworks. Never regretted the decision

Oh come on, it's great but you can't have enjoyed that part at the end with the 3 sliding suspended platforms. That was bloody horrible.

@@littlefrank90 I did, because there's several ways to do it. Some people actually line them up and try to get across, i brought a plank and made a ramp from the bottom and just walked up and put the cube on the button. There's other ways to do it as well. Just gotta think outside the box and utilize the physics

Valve of VR for sure!

Alyx was designed to be the "perfect VR beginner title". Easy to play, easy to use etc. If you throw an index at someone`s head and say "Play Boneworks!" this Person would take a break after a couple of minutes or he/she starts to vomit after some more. Boneworks is a far more advanced physics title than HL:A, but that is also it`s curse. The only real difference between the two, in my opinion, are the physics based bodies of all Boneworks characters and their interaction. I assume (not only) because of that is the physics engine in Boneworks a lot more performance-hungry.

I agree, with the exception of the grabbity gloves. The gloves are such a simple mechanic, yet feel so much more satisfying and (in my experience) reliable than the force powers you have in Boneworks. It'll be hard to go back.

@@BTechno-hp4kd I guess I'm a rare case, but upon getting my Index on March 14th, I jumped straight into Boneworks to hold me over for HLA, and dispite me being a gargantuan Half-Life fan since I was ~8 years old in 2012 when I started with the series, I still love Boneworks far more than HLA, in many ways

SLZ and valve collaborating would be an intresting... experiment

@@BTechno-hp4kd in my case it's opposite,half life alyx chew much more cpu and make the game barely playable while i can play boneworks quite fine

He's appeared in a few Corridor Cast episodes. Talked about VR stuff and general life stuff too.

Hell no don't try and encourage that dlc garbage in our VR games go back to pancake games if you wanna be nickel and dimed for tiny add ons and levels that add no real content this is just sandbox add-ons and would be horrible to charge for wtf blind groveling like you are doing is why dlc is already so bad now cause fans just eat it up no matter if it's anti consumer or not just take my money what a joke

fuck yes!

Valve could have gone full physics too, they just chose not to because a lot of this stuff ends up becoming clunky and unfriendly to people new to VR.

@@steel5897 For sure. It's a really "unsafe" option to do something that relies heavily on physics when you're trying to move hardware. But that's what play testing and refinement is for. Hopefully they'll figure something out when the next one comes around.