Friend’s wife started playing Half Life: Alyx. You can only carry two grenades at a time in the game, but she figured a way around that. She now carries grenades around with her in a box throughout levels.
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This is why women live longer than men.
Tactics Level 100
She thought inside the box.
I’ll see myself out…
Edit: [She blew herself up accidentally](https://imgur.com/a/vEu8Puk), but now she is [back with a vengeance.](https://imgur.com/a/ICfdve8) Then she had an [accident on the stairs](https://imgur.com/a/HwKbdEj). It’s getting [tough to clean up](https://imgur.com/a/yIOJBBY). Apparently every time she gets scared she drops the box.
Half life Alyx was the first “Real” VR gaming experience. Everything else was a demo.
You can also put on most hats/helmets you find to get a ‘get out of jail for free card’ with barnacles…didn’t work this out till over half way through the game lmao. My 1st VR title alongside Arizona Sunshine, both have ruined all other VR titles for me imo..
In boneworks, any items you drop in this bin at the end of each level , become available for the sandbox mode. Since you only have a few slots to hold item and there’s tons of things in each level. I ended up dragging a big plastic trashcan I filled with guns and swords and item capsules through the level while fighting off all the enemies . Eventually gets so heavy and precariously balanced you need two hands just to drag it
Can’t remember the creator, but I watched this vid on a guy showing his partner some games to assess how a non-gamer would solve gaming problems.
Her biggest complaint was that she couldn’t solve the problems as creatively as she wanted to and since she didn’t know common gaming tropes (like look at the thing in the room that’s a weird colour), it was difficult to figure out solutions that the games would actually accept.
Also, love how this lady thought outside of the box by putting things in it!
I never went anywhere in Alyx without my trusty bucket.
It’s unconventional, but creative, remember to think beyond what the developers intended.
Haha genius
omfg
This is exactly what I did the first few times I played! Then did an insane mode no box challenge (use everything where you get it) and struggled a bit lol
That is a big brain play
Real world problems require real world solutions.
I don’t like a lot of VR stuff, but this is cool and exactly the freedom that could make VR more legitimate
My son suggested the same! I had a bucket of grenades. Friendly bucket of fun.
IQ = 1,000!!!!
TO hell with safety protocols!
I remember seeing a similar thing from a guy playing boneworks. Dude was just pushing around a shopping cart full of guns, whenever a bad guy showed up he’d just reach into the cart, pull out a gun and blast away.
Oh wow, flashback moment.
In Half-Life 2, when I was younger, I carried a saw blade (the ones that appear almost immediately after getting the gravity gun, to teach you how to use it as a weapon and to cut zombies in half) through the entire game. Lol
At one point in the game, you get teleported to the next chapter, but guess what? You end up in a sewer with: you guessed it! Saw blades. I saved so much ammo. I’ve never played the game again (besides the episodes) so that’s how I remember the game.
I remember doing this when i was playing. I found a glitch due to my specs that caused grenades to respawn in a fridge. So I would just happily fill my box full of infinite nades, then trip and lose everything
Half life always rewarded creativity.
That’s what made it better than every other game IMO.
I got 58 more goddamn rounds in this 4 round magazine
This is the way.
She’s a genius! How many of you would have taught about that ?
Every time I did this the game would crash if I had to many in the box. Have the fixed it?
Why have I never thought of that
It’s a great example of a “think inside of the box” appeoach.
Something similar in Fallout. You can steal items by dropping them in a bucket and carrying the bucket away.
This is the most ironic possible instance of “thinking outside the box”…
“Now you’re thinking with boxes! Hell, we should make companion boxes. Somebody write that down!”
– Cave Johnson, probably
That’s….*puts on shades* out of the box thinking
I member when this crashed the game on release
I just finished playing through it and I cannot BELIEVE I never thought to do this. Especially with how often I tried to throw objects at aliens and get barnacles to eat random enemies/objects. By the way, barnacles don’t die when they eat a venomous headcrab like they do in HL2.
I’m also disappointed that there are hammers and such you can pick up, but you can’t at least stumble others by whacking them with one.
I never felt like I didn’t have ammo in at least one gun at any time, but I still would have endlessly abused a gravity gun given the opportunity to.
She is not the first and won’t be the last, but glad you made another post about it.
Oh women and their bags…
My dumb ass didn’t even realize you had storage on both wrists until the final level
I can’t be trusted with grenades. I just push the button, walk up to the enemy and start booping them on the nose with it until I stop existing suddenly.
Reminds me of how i played skyrim.
Since resurrected bodies didn’t have a carried item weight limit, i would speed-grind getting conjuration to 100 to unlock undead thrall. Since the thrall doesn’t turn to ashes, they can be resurrected again and again as long as their body stays in one piece.
So when my inventory got full from stealing everyone’s tableware, i would just re-dead them, shove a good 300-400 pounds of stuff in there, and re animate them again so that i could continue my journey with my undead pack-mule.