Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
>>716420510
Alyx takes place when they were still figuring out how best to integrate humans as combine military
so they have all these crazy specialized units trying to figure things out
but eventually they just settle on a 'less is more' approach and we get the soldiers seen in HL2 and episodes
>>716422294 >>716421017 >>716420510
the real reason is that valve was too afraid of filtering people with motion sickness to make a proper vrfps and therefore had to dumb down every encounter and turn every enemy into a slow, retarded version of itself and then make them tanky in order to compensate which turns every encounter into a slogfest
it's immediately apparent of how dogshit alex is is once you get past the graphics and presentation (which i admit is very impressive) once you play half-life2 in vr
>>716423353
But aren't the helmets bolted to the skull? Plus they must have manufactured a lot of soldiers and for them to just change it all suddenly overnight?