Reloaded also promises enhanced environmental interactivity, an overhauled user interface and “improved movement options.”

It doesn’t sound like a purely cut down version of the game. I get the sense this will have more substantial environment/gameplay changes made than the existing mode, which mostly wraps vr controls over the original game.

I’m not surprised eye tracking and adaptive triggers won’t work on PC, but no HDR is unfortunate. I doubt any pcvr games have HDR right now but first we need a capable headset.

I don’t reencode anything, I keep the raw bdmv rip and remuxed mkv for jellyfin. Even if the difference is imperceptible, as long as I have the storage space there’s no reason to spend time fiddling with conversion when it can only make things look worse.

I haven’t used GM since studio, but support for other languages than GML is cool to see

You can find this newspaper in Half Life Alyx, specifically