Half-Life: Alyx's bottles now have sloshing liquid, and it's a bit magic

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Infants have long known the joys of shaking a bottle to watch its contents slosh and bubble, and nowHalf-Life: Alyxplayers can experience that joy too. Valve last night updated the VR explore-o-shooter with fancy new mock bottle fluids, and even as someone whose body wholly rejects VR I am captivated watching players play with bottles of booze. It’s like a real beer, but it’s not even there! Our Katharine hit the bar to shake and spin bottles like a virtual Tom Cruise, and enjoy what is perhaps the closest any of us can get to a quiet drink in the pub. Come watch!

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“Spent a good chunk of lock-down doing this important work,” Valve visual effects developer Matthew Wilde proudly declaredon Twitterafter the update launched. I agree, it is important. Alyx isn’t the first game to do this but: it is very nice.

Update 1.4 brought a few other changes.Alyx’s new mod supportis bolstered with access to the Postprocessing Editor, some example maps, and more technobits for modders to fiddle with. Subtitles are in for Brazilian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. And some bugs are fixed. Seethe 1.4 patch notesfor everything.

Graham’sHalf-Life: Alyx reviewdeclares it “is theHalf-Lifegame you’ve been waiting for, even if it’s not the one you were expecting – and even if you’ll never play it.”

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