Apart from making some of the influential VR video games up to now, Valve additionally made certain 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 Setting Artist and Designer at recreation writer Annapurna Interactive, which is thought for titles similar to Outer Wilds, Stray, and What Stays of Edith Finch.
Final Friday Grove launched their first solo HLA mod mission, known as ‘Re-Schooling’, one thing the setting artist calls a “medium-length marketing campaign (half-hour to an hour) that includes customary Half-Life Alyx fashion gameplay with a concentrate on slower pacing and environmental storytelling.”
You may try the trailer under:
In Re-Schooling, the thought is to scavenge, discover, and make the damaging 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 manner by a long-abandoned college to entry the swap that unblocks the tracks, however the activity might show tougher than anticipated,” the DLC’s description reads.
The free DLC may be downloaded although Steam Workshops, which in fact means you’ll want the bottom recreation to play.
This isn’t Grove’s first HLA mod both. You might also 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-Schooling 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 just’d swear is direct from Valve.
