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Half-Life: Alyx impresses with many modern technological solutions. However, it turns out that the game still has elements that are more than two decades old.
A fan named Joey Chirio noted that in Half-Life: Alyx, the lights flicker at the same rate as in 1996’s Quake. This indicates that Valve is still using some of the old man’s code.
A couple of years ago another player showedthat this element is identical in Half-Life: Alyx and the first Half-Life. Half-Life was built on the Quake engine, so Joey Chirio sought out the same element in id Software’s classic game and made a videocomparing this game to HL: Alyx.
It is worth noting that this is not the only major novelty that uses technologies with such old roots. The first Call of Duty was built on the Quake 3 engine, since then Infinity Ward has gradually developed its technology (the so-called IW Engine), but even today some elements of Q3 have been preserved, as in the credits of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II you can find a mention ID Tech.
