After years successful development, and loads of ups and downs on the way, the developers of a virtual world mod for the archetypal Half-Life 2 person announced a nationalist beta that’ll beryllium kicking disconnected adjacent month.

Half-Life 2: VR has been successful improvement for truthful agelong that it was primitively portion of Steam’s Greenlight programme backmost successful 2017, and so has been worked connected by immoderate progressive successful the task since 2013. The dilatory going has been mostly owed to the information that, dissimilar Alyx, the crippled simply wasn’t designed to beryllium played successful VR, and truthful determination are galore sections that person been hard if not intolerable to larboard to a headset.

Buoyed by “overwhelmingly affirmative feedback from our backstage beta testers” successful caller weeks, however, the developers person steeled themselves and present judge “that the crippled arsenic it is present tin not lone beryllium afloat completed from commencement to finish, but it’s besides precise enjoyable to bash so”.

As a effect they’ve announced that adjacent period they’ll beryllium holding a nationalist beta showcasing everything that’s up and moving truthful far. Which, judging by the trailer below—that includes conveyance sections—is a lot:

By present you’ve astir apt got immoderate questions, peculiarly astir question and vehicles, which the developer’s FAQ conception has answers for:

What question options are available?

The mod features creaseless locomotion, wherever the absorption of question tin beryllium configured to either travel your caput oregon immoderate of the 2 controllers. Turning tin beryllium configured to beryllium either creaseless oregon successful fixed intervals (snap turns).

There is presently nary teleport question available, and it is unclear if it volition go a viable enactment successful the future.

How volition you grip the conveyance sections? I don’t deliberation I tin tummy them successful VR.

Right now, the conveyance rides bash so necessitate beardown VR legs. However, determination are immoderate comfortableness options disposable to assistance you past them. A classical question vignette is disposable and tin beryllium activated for the conveyance rides. While riding the vehicles, the borders of your surface volition beryllium blackened, reducing your tract of presumption and reducing the interaction of the question sickness. Additionally, you tin take to acquisition the conveyance rides from a 3rd idiosyncratic camera perspective. In this mode, the camera is pursuing the conveyance astatine a region and is not straight subjected to the vehicle’s accelerated movements and turns, which should trim question sickness dramatically. It does, however, marque controlling the vehicles a small much awkward.

In the future, we whitethorn instrumentality an further mode wherever the conveyance rides are enactment connected a virtual 2D surface successful beforehand of the user, truthful that everyone has a accidental to get done the conveyance sections successful the game. This mode would of people beryllium little immersive than the existent ones arsenic it’d region immoderate 3D effect from the experience.

That virtual 2D surface enactment sounds perfect for anyone who gets queasy! You tin work much astir the project, and spot which areas they’re inactive tackling, at its website.