Some players just don’t notice it enough.”Īnother problem was that Valve couldn’t figure out how to make melee combat in Half-Life: Alyx fun. We could buzz your hand with haptics, but we found that’s never foolproof. In real life, you would feel your arm getting tugged as you hooked the curve of the crowbar on something, but we have no feedback like that in VR. So for us, it was like ‘What do we do now?’ We tried various things like the end of the crowbar turns it physics off, or stops colliding when it’s off screen. They’d be walking along, and then they’d hook it on a door.
“The lack of force feedback meant that players would often hold their crowbar out of their sight, because that’s what you do when you’re holding a real crowbar-you wouldn’t look at it all the time,” Walker said. The first of these involved basic positioning. How could Valve forget to include Gordon Freeman’s weapon of choice?Īccording to designer and programmer Robin Walker, Valve did in fact try to get a crowbar into Half-Life: Alyx because it “unlocked a lot of gameplay,” but the weapon had to be scrapped due to various problems that the team ran into. Half-Life: Alyx is an incredible game, but it’s missing one of the most iconic elements of the franchise – a crowbar.
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