Apart from making some of the influential VR video games so far, Valve additionally made positive Half-Life: Alyx was simply as moddable as its different iconic titles. And fortunately there’s no scarcity of proficient 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 Surroundings Artist and Designer at sport writer Annapurna Interactive, which is understood for titles resembling Outer Wilds, Stray, and What Stays of Edith Finch.
Final Friday Grove launched their first solo HLA mod challenge, known as ‘Re-Schooling’, one thing the surroundings artist calls a “medium-length marketing campaign (half-hour to an hour) that includes normal Half-Life Alyx fashion gameplay with a deal with slower pacing and environmental storytelling.”
You may take a look at the trailer under:
In Re-Schooling, the concept 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 practice has been halted by a Mix barricade.
“She should make her means by way of a long-abandoned college to entry the swap that unblocks the tracks, however the activity could 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 sport 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 effectively, 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 certainly one of our prime 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.
