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If you like a lot of headcrabs, Half-Life: Alyx now has a horde mode modSweaty 17
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The lack of an SDK hasn’t stopped people from working on mods forHalf-Life: Alyx. We’ve already had one this week that sort of lets you play the gamewithout VR. Today, I discoveredXenThug, a horde mode map that throws an ever-growing number ofHalf-Lifeenemies at your face. I’d be playing it right now if I weren’t writing this.
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It’s an unsurprising release. A lot of VR games follow the horde mode template, and Alyx’s gunplay never really got an extended workout in the full game. It does in this. You begin scouring a warehouse for guns and ammo, while a slow but steady dripfeed of headcrabs skitter across the floor towards you. Every dead creep will drop some resin, a currency used in vending machines to buy more ammo and health. You’ll grow to love those vending machines.
In order to actually play this, you need to download the latest release fromhere.
Now go to yourHalf-Life: Alyxfolder and cut and paste the contents of the archive into theHalf-Life: Alyx/game/hlvr/folder.
Right-click Half-Life: Alyx in your library and select Properties. In “set launch options" put in+map warehouse.
When you load up the game the map will load. If you want to play the full game again, just delete the launch option setting. Oh, and enjoy!
