The Next Half-Life Game is Facing Massive Issues

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Valve News Network (VNN) is now Tyler McVicker.

#HALFLIFE #HLX #VALVE

[anonymouskaiju]

Lol you could have uploaded this title at any point in the past 15 years

[OrangeFreeman]

1. Be infenitely rich
2. Create product or service
3. Sell it below the market price for years
4. Eliminate all the competition, because they can't afford to sell this low
5. When your product becomes a part of customer's life, raise prices
6. Profit

That's how Amazon, Microsoft and Apple conquered the market. Valve has infinite money, they can afford to play the long game.

[leanderklan]

3:29 THIS and THAT... Thank you for perfectly showing us what it can do lol

[Bleats_Sinodai]

"Facing Massive Issues" wouldn't be a bad title for a game set in the Half-Life universe tbh

[HALFPEEPS]

$900 - $1200 is my guess
The new headset is going to have to do something incredibly special if I'm going to replace my Index. The PCVR space is just no longer worth such a big investment when there are only 2-3 games that make full use of AAA hardware.

Not to mention the fact that we are still probably at least 18-24 months away from the release.

[Daburubareru]

I feel like the deckard might be using for HLX or either, "citadel" that Valve is working on. It feel really mysterious and good that Valve is back again to make games again!

[mcmoozack]

I love watching Tyler's room slowly fill with more and more interesting things.

[fomod_]

Whatever valve is doing right now, my grandchildren's grandchildren are gonna love it when it comes out

[mrJMD]

Your wife needs to do all your ad placements from now on, dude she killed it. Hilarious!

[The_Great_Lucius]

I think Valve uses most of its profits from Steam to keep these projects alive. They do not seem to think very economically, they behave more like artists.

[danedewberry]

Really interesting conversation. Honestly, if a headset was to fill the same role as the quest with direct internal compatability with valve, that would be enough for me to pay index level prices.

[luc]

I am pretty sure that you will be able to play the new Half Life games on older VR headsets, like they did with Half Life Alyx. That would be the smart move, I do not see Valve making the newer games exclusives for one specific VR headset.

[luckmaster.exe_]

Honestly i wish they’d do a game about the 7 hour war i don’t care if they’d do it VR only i’d just love to see the 7 hour war made into a game made by valve.

[Cheesepuff]

Tyler’s good at putting into perspective how weird this stuff is

[Aremisalive]

If they put a RDNA 3 integrated gpu in there, I think it will run the majority of currently released VR titles. Also, I didn't buy an Index for Half Life Alyx, I bought an Index for VR. A new one would be an upgrade, like a new console. But I would also expect HLX to run on the index just fine.

[crackster]

My guess is the Deckard will be similarly priced to the Index (perhaps even slightly pricier), but with varying price points like the Steam Deck. Maybe one version will come with a smaller battery or have flash memory as opposed to a high-speed nVME with more storage. I hope Valve learned their lesson making the Index so expensive, and given that they even offer different versions of the Steam Deck with more/less hardware options tells me they may go in a similar direction with a standalone headset like Deckard.

[zeke]

Valve does incredible optimizations on their titles. Getting it to run on a Deck is possible.... But not very well, at least right now. Assuming all the hardware is the same that is.

I can see Valve going the Deck route and listing different models depending on their capability.

In theory pricing based on $400 Steam Deck:
$600-800 DeckARD

What I think Realistic pricing will look like:
$500 wired/wireless PCVR only, HMD only, no standalone capability. No trackers needed as Valve may have found a way to make the knuckles backwards compatible for standalone (speculation).
$700 wired/wireless PCVR only. No trackers needed, controller bundle. Marketed a visual upgrade to the Index. (Not implementing a standalone version can lower prices for components or those who require those features... I own 0 Quest games.)

$1000 base LCD DeckARD
$1200 OLED DeckARD
Storage upgradable or +$200-300 for a 1TB model.

[CaptainCortisol]

Half Life is one of my favorite games. That being said. It's becoming harder and harder to stay excited for new half life games when our only options are to purchase expensive hardware.

[Perenbarn]

I just know Deckard will be backwards compatible with lighthouse / vive / index controllers. I would pay up to 1500 for a whole set. more than that is pushing it for me. Most importantly the display quality needs to be way up. I do not care about wireless. It would be cool if wired could be a less expensive variant.

[TheGreatPooyah]

A headset that could run not only Alyx, but other steam titles would easily go for $1500+