In addition to making one of the crucial influential VR video games up to now, Valve additionally made positive Half-Life: Alyx was simply as moddable as its different iconic titles. And fortunately there’s no scarcity of gifted modders on the market who’ve constructed prolonged campaigns and new ranges for the PC VR shooter.
One such HLA modder is Nate ‘Polygrove’ Grove, an Atmosphere Artist and Designer at sport writer Annapurna Interactive, which is thought for titles resembling Outer Wilds, Stray, and What Stays of Edith Finch.
Final Friday Grove launched their first solo HLA mod venture, known as ‘Re-Training’, one thing the setting artist calls a “medium-length marketing campaign (half-hour to an hour) that includes normal Half-Life Alyx type gameplay with a concentrate on slower pacing and environmental storytelling.”
You may take a look at the trailer beneath:
In Re-Training, the thought is to scavenge, discover, and make the harmful journey whereas en path to a safehouse on the outskirts of Metropolis 17. There, Alyx finds her commandeered prepare has been halted by a Mix barricade.
“She should make her approach via a long-abandoned faculty to entry the change that unblocks the tracks, however the activity could show harder than anticipated,” the DLC’s description reads.
The free DLC might be downloaded although Steam Workshops, which after all means you’ll want the bottom sport to play.
This isn’t Grove’s first HLA mod both. You may additionally acknowledge the developer’s ‘Polygrove’ deal with from the credit within the Half-Life: Incursion mod as properly, which included the abilities of Maarten Frooninckx (Hammer scripting), Ross Joseph Gardner (script writing), and Joey Bracken (voice over).
There’s a number of nice content material to discover outdoors of Re-Training and Incursion too, with considered one of our high picks being the Half-Life: Alyx ‘Levitation’ mod, which brings round 3-4 hours of Mix-ganking enjoyable in an unofficial chapter that you simply’d swear is direct from Valve.