There’s no scarcity of hypothesis in relation to all issues Valve. Tyler McVicker, YouTuber and one of many main voices devoted to deciphering Valve’s numerous inside developments, nonetheless now reviews that not solely is the corporate’s long-awaited standalone VR headset nonetheless coming, however it might arrive alongside its personal Half-Life sport.
Valve’s a lot hyped standalone, recognized solely as ‘Deckard’, is “nonetheless very a lot in manufacturing,” McVicker maintains, saying that in response to his sources that Valve “nonetheless intend[s] on delivery this piece of {hardware}.”
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Whereas rumors swirl across the subsequent Half-Life sport, which might not be a VR-supported title (aka ‘HLX’), McVicker speculates a Half-Life sport constructed particularly to showcase Deckard is probably going within the playing cards, very similar to how Half-Life: Alyx (2020) confirmed off the capabilities of Valve Index.
Echoing a earlier 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 sport throughout PC and Deckard.
The end result can be “an uneven multiplayer sport going down within the Half-Life universe,” McVicker says, “the place one participant is in VR and the opposite on a pc. The pc participant would all the time 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 numerous sleuthing in relation to code revealed by Valve throughout its numerous first-party titles and providers, which might maintain some clues as to what’s coming down the pipeline. He admits he’s “nowhere close to achieved” sifting via all code revealed by Valve in 2024 nonetheless, so we could be taught extra in some unspecified time in the future later this 12 months.
