There’s no scarcity of hypothesis with regards to all issues Valve. Tyler McVicker, YouTuber and one of many main voices devoted to deciphering Valve’s numerous inside developments, nevertheless now stories that not solely is the corporate’s long-awaited standalone VR headset nonetheless coming, however it could arrive alongside its personal Half-Life recreation.
Valve’s a lot hyped standalone, recognized solely as ‘Deckard’, is “nonetheless very a lot in manufacturing,” McVicker maintains, saying that in line with his sources that Valve “nonetheless intend[s] on transport this piece of {hardware}.”
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Whereas rumors swirl round the next Half-Life game, which will not be a VR-supported title (aka ‘HLX’), McVicker speculates a Half-Life recreation constructed particularly to showcase Deckard is probably going within the playing cards, very like how Half-Life: Alyx (2020) confirmed off the capabilities of Valve Index.
Echoing a previous rumor first reported in 2020, McVicker renews hypothesis that two Half-Life video games may very well be in improvement, making for what may very well be an uneven co-op recreation throughout PC and Deckard.
The outcome can be “an uneven multiplayer recreation happening within the Half-Life universe,” McVicker says, “the place one participant is in VR and the opposite on a pc. The pc participant would at all times be Gordon Freeman, whereas the VR participant can be Alyx Vance. The concept was that these two characters would work together, with the VR participant experiencing Alyx’s story and the PC participant experiencing Gordon’s story, each having cooperative components between them.”
Whereas that particular declare continues to be very a lot a rumor, McVicker does a whole lot of sleuthing with regards to code revealed by Valve throughout its numerous first-party titles and providers, which may maintain some clues as to what’s coming down the pipeline. He admits he’s “nowhere close to completed” sifting by means of all code revealed by Valve in 2024 nevertheless, so we might be taught extra sooner or later later this yr.
