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- Half-Life: Alyx
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 making the game 70% off for the ne…
Store3 changesGameplay - Half-Life: Alyx
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
Announcement2 changesFixWorkshop - Half-Life: Alyx
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 that transition. Content Build…
Announcement2 changesWorkshopGameplay - Half-Life: Alyx
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 for the creativity of mod-mak…
Announcement3 changesWorkshopGameplay - Half-Life: Alyx
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 been creating that bring so…
Event20 changesWorkshopGameplay - Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.5.2 released
Changes New honorary achievement for Gnome Chompski's upcoming journey into space on Rocket Lab's "Return To Sender" mission. Content Build ID: 5850798
Patch notes1 changeGameplay - Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.5.1 released
Game Fixes Fixed a case where developer commentary would appear to turn off when continuing from an autosave generated at the start of a map Correctly display commentary panel on primary hand in single-controller mode C…
Patch notes2 changesFixMaps - Half-Life: Alyx
Commentary Update
Developer Commentary contains significant spoilers. We highly recommend that you play the game to its conclusion before enabling commentary As you may recall, the Half-Life: Alyx team was in the process of finishing the…
Patch notes5 changesWorkshopUI/audio - Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.4.1b released
Game Fixes Fixed recent problem preventing creating or updating new Workshop items. Content Build ID: 5292973
Patch notes1 changeFixWorkshop - Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.4.1a released
This update includes some small fixes discovered after the bigger 1.4.1 Update released earlier this week. Game Fixes Fixed a regression where attempting to hack a tripmine could crash. The in-game Addon menu no longer…
Patch notes4 changesFixPerformance - Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.4.1 released
Game Features & Fixes Added option to turn off Valve Index pre-order weapon skins to the Preferences menu. Fixed wine bottle labels that had been regressed by the liquids update, and fixed several issues with the liquid…
Patch notes21 changesFixGameplay - Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.4 released
Game Features Added subtitles for: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Bottles now appear to have liquid inside them that sloshes around as you shake them. UI appea…
Patch notes18 changesFixGameplay - Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.3.1 released
Changes: Added missing tools lighting preview environments and associated assets. Fixed Hammer's "entity-only" compile mode not working properly. Fixed a bug that prevented interactive prefabs and other physics entities…
Announcement7 changesFixWorkshop - Half-Life: Alyx
The Half-Life: Alyx Workshop is now open
Half-Life: Alyx has been updated to include Steam Workshop support. This includes a beta release of our community development tools, as well as support for Linux and the Vulkan rendering API, and a few small quality of…
Patch notes18 changesFixCompatibility - Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx Soundtrack - Chapter 1 Now Available
We are excited to announce the launch of the Half-Life: Alyx Soundtrack. Today we are releasing Chapter 1. Entanglement, which includes 9 tracks in both MP3 (320K) and FLAC formats. We will be releasing all 11 chapters…
Store2 changesGameplay - Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx Update 1.2.1 released
Changes: Fixes for issues with carrying contained objects (e.g. objects in a crate). Fix for hand orientation on Windows MR and Vive systems. Fix for some missing haptic feedback on Windows MR and Vive systems. Fix for…
Announcement2 changesFixGameplay
