Playtests and beta access for Half-Life: Alyx
What has opened up so far, and how testers got in.
Developer updates
- Half-Life: Alyx Original Soundtrack coming to vinyl and CD After five years waiting in the vault, the Half-Life: Alyx Original Soundtrack is breaking into the physical world with new vinyl and CD releases coming April 24th. To celebrate, we're makin...
- Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.5.4 released Fixed transition from a1_intro_world_2 to a2_quarantine_entrance. Allowed Workshop Tag dialog to be resized. Content Build ID: 8694564
- Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.5.3 released Updated the Workshop Tag list, based upon the community's suggestions. Changed the method used to transition from a1_intro_world to a1_intro_world_2. This fixes addons being broken across th...
- Half-Life Alyx, One Year Later It's been quite the year since we launched Half-Life: Alyx, our full-length virtual reality return to Half-Life. Shortly after its debut, we enabled Steam Workshop support to open the doors...
- Exploring some favorite Half-Life: Alyx mods As we celebrate the one-year anniversary since the launch of Half-Life: Alyx (more on that here), we thought it would be interesting to look at some of the great mods that the community have...
Highlights
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Tutorial skips a step, easy to miss the parry
The tutorial moves on before it explains the parry timing. I only found it by accident twenty minutes later. Easy fix, but new players will miss it.
The tutorial moves on before it explains the parry timing. I only found it by accident twenty minutes later. Easy fix, but new players will miss it.
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Which specs do I need for the test build?
Wondering whether a 1660 is enough for the test build, or whether that is wasted effort.
Wondering whether a 1660 is enough for the test build, or whether that is wasted effort.
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Earn your seat in the next test
Half-Life: Alyx is out, and that is what makes it worth covering: you can play it tonight, and what you write goes on your tester profile.
- It counts. Reports build the profile we read when a studio asks us for testers. An empty profile is why most applications go nowhere.
- First in line. Cover Half-Life: Alyx and you hear about its next playtest before it shows up on this page.
- Two minutes is enough. One bug, one performance note, one honest paragraph. That is the kind of thing a developer can act on.
