New Valve VR Recreation Reportedly in Improvement Alongside Lengthy-rumored Standalone Headset

There’s no scarcity of hypothesis with regards to all issues Valve. Tyler McVicker, YouTuber and one of many main voices devoted to deciphering Valve’s numerous inside developments, nonetheless now reviews that not solely is the corporate’s long-awaited standalone VR headset nonetheless coming, however it could arrive alongside its personal Half-Life recreation.

Valve’s a lot hyped standalone, identified solely as ‘Deckard’, is “nonetheless very a lot in manufacturing,” McVicker maintains, saying that based on his sources that Valve “nonetheless intend[s] on transport this piece of {hardware}.”

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Whereas rumors swirl across the subsequent Half-Life recreation, which might not be a VR-supported title (aka ‘HLX’), McVicker speculates a Half-Life recreation constructed particularly to showcase Deckard is probably going within the playing cards, very like how Half-Life: Alyx (2020) confirmed off the capabilities of Valve Index.

Echoing a earlier rumor first reported in 2020, McVicker renews hypothesis that two Half-Life video games could possibly be in growth, making for what could possibly be an uneven co-op recreation throughout PC and Deckard.

The consequence could be “an uneven multiplayer recreation going down within the Half-Life universe,” McVicker says, “the place one participant is in VR and the opposite on a pc. The pc participant would all the time be Gordon Freeman, whereas the VR participant could be Alyx Vance. The thought was that these two characters would work together, with the VR participant experiencing Alyx’s story and the PC participant experiencing Gordon’s story, each having cooperative parts between them.”

Whereas that particular declare continues to be very a lot a rumor, McVicker does a whole lot of sleuthing with regards to code revealed by Valve throughout its numerous first-party titles and providers, which might maintain some clues as to what’s coming down the pipeline. He admits he’s “nowhere close to executed” sifting via all code revealed by Valve in 2024 nonetheless, so we might be taught extra in some unspecified time in the future later this yr.