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Crysis
So I was able to play the beta recently courtesy of a friend's Fileplanet account. (spoiler'd for TLDR reasons)
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So, anyone excited about this game for reasons beyond the graphics? (I can't wait to superpunch a few soldiers into the stratosphere.) |
I can't wait for the single player. Looks like FarCry but with weapon modding and plasmids. Which is a good thing might I add. I can't comment on my multiplayer views due to lack of contentual knowledge, unfortunately ^^;
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Looks solid enough, but sadly it appears to collide with the release of Mass Effect. :(
I'll wait for the reviews and player reactions. I've heard people saying it looks totally unimpressive gameplay wise, complaining about the employed "run and gun" tactics shown in some of the gameplay trailers, but I've never really understood why. O_ô Besides from that, I really, really want this game. I've loved Far Cry to pieces, and here we are, having a "spiritual succsessor" that actually builds upon its predecessor. That suit stuff looks really neat. And, well, the engine too, but hey, it's Crytek, so that's kinda to be expected. Far Cry's engine mopped the floor with id's DooM3 thing... |
I ran it today on my 8800GTX and it ran fine, but I was lagging for some reason, so I had some issues. Load times were a piece of cake. Not all that excited about the multiplayer as it tries to be BF2 and Counter-Strike at the same time. I'm pleased to know that my machine can handle it and this is really the peak of the strain. The level is pretty damn big and there's a lot going on, so its a good measure of testing machines.
Reminds me too much of the demo for BF2 as this is basically Wake Island. Oh well. |
Where are you guys getting the demo? Is it a subscription only at Fileplanet?
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I'd love to check Crysis out but I don't have the necessary Dual Crossfire 3gb model of the Geforce x1950HDXGT Ultra.
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Def getting this game.
Now let's see.. I only need to upgrade pc now X_x |
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Here's an interesting GFW Radio interview with Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli. It has lots of info about PC requirements. Yerli states that an SLI/crossfire system is required to run the game at max settings, but a single 8800 will run the game at med-high just fine.
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SLI should not be required to run this game. Sure it looks pretty. But I'm sure if they spent more time on the technology they could get it to run perfectly fine on a single 8800. Seriously. Let's see how pratical this is.
Probably 20% of the gaming market plays "state of the art" PC games today. Perhaps 70% of them have an 8800. And maybe 50% of them have SLI. So that's about 7.5% of the total gaming market. Yeah... this is gonna be great. I could be totally off, this is just how I feel about the issue, it's not fact. However I suppose the initial sales will be high until the average person realizes what it takes to get the graphics to look as good as the back of the box. Then expect sales to plumed. |
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4.56 % of the steam userbase is running an 8800. Also, a message for the people who are pissed at Crytek for making such a power-hungry game: Nobody is making you buy it. |
I'm not so much mad about it as I find it a funny thought that they would think that making a game with such high demands would be profitable.
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Besides, last time I ran a "modern" game (Lost Planet), it was running at 5-10 fps on the absolute lowest settings in 800x600. So even at low settings, Crysis probably wouldn't budge on my rig. I'm getting a new card this week but it wont really help much (Radeon x1950 512mb - I'm still on AGP mind you). |
Why spend money on something that "won't really help much?"
So basically I've got an 8800GTX and I've got it all maxed (1680x1050) without AA on yet. I'm going to run some FPS checks, but the multiplayer seems to get me more and more hungry for some action in the campaign. Counterfield 2 here is getting boring already. |
It'll still double performance on anything else, it just wont really help much as far as Crysis goes (it'll run at 4 fps instead of 2 - whoop dee doo).
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you should be able to run the game at around 20-30fps atleast with decent resolution and medium settings with a x1950 but also depends on the rest of your hardware :p
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Well a Public Beta was released today, so hurry and get your keys!
I will enjoy this graphical orgasm in a few hours. |
I wonder if I should download this and try it on my midrange system from three years ago for lols. As a yardstick, Oblivion looked like Wolfenstein 3D when I ran it at 640x480.
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Hmm to bad, the keys are all gone again. Hope they give keys soon again.
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I'm sorry that people will be disappointed, especially if they've played Battlefield 2. Also, yes, we're all aware of the audio bugs with a machine gun permanently firing in the background. Just be enthused about the SP demo.
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That audio bug already was in Far Cry... O_ô
At least... On my old rig it was... |
I had a bug like that in Counterstrike way back in the day, actually. Same with now and then in Call of Duty. I think it even happened once or twice in Battlefield 2.
Is there some reason this bug keeps popping up? |
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Am I feeling an overall negative vibe from this thread regarding Crysis as a game? While it doesn't hold a candle to some of the things BF2 got right, I think that as a game, it's great fun to play, and it's certainly a positive experience.
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(Err, no, as in, it's not a good experience.) |
Yeah I've been getting that too, which is why I haven't posted here in a while. But I'm still looking forward to the game, I'm not much of an online gamer anyhow so the multiplayer isn't a concern for me. I'm just excited about the whole weapon customization part.
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What sounds like real fun is using that suit in single player.
Good tactical resource management is always fun. Well, I'm really looking forward to Crysis, sadly it's release date kind of crashes with that of Mass Effect... *_* |
Again, I like the game, but the general feel along with the bugs (yes, I know this is beta) just screams Battlefield 2. I just think that they shouldn't have even done this multiplayer and stuck with the SP demo.
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Which crashes with gaming's most expensive month ever with things like Rock Band, Unreal Tournament 3, Assasin's Creed, Call of Duty 4, Army of Two, Haze Kane & Lynch and Area 51.
Whew, I need to catch my breath now. Oh, grand total: $580 + tax @Lukage It's not a demo, it's a beta. Big difference. |
Hnn, I don't know about everyone else, but I really enjoy the MP beta. It feels like Command and Conquer Renegade. I'm running it quite well on a 8600 GTS, all settings on medium, high resolution, and maybe 25% of settings on high.
I noticed one thing though, no one seems to pay attention to grenades, I get so many kills from them. I've only played this game for 1 day so far (I don't know how much time I'll have later though with midterms) and my experience so far has been very positive, very enjoyable. I'm sure there is bugs and stuff, but the only one I've experienced is where I loaded up the game for the first time, and all the textures were messed up in yellow colours and things loaded up. Ah, one beef about the game though, when you switch you stealth, you go into it right away, I kind of wish it was activated by SHIFT and deactivated the same way. (perhaps a option to turn on and off in the options menu I missed :P) |
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SP Crysis demo available.
link1: http://na.llnet.cdn.ea.com/u/demos/Crysis_SP_Demo.exe filefront got it also: Crysis SP Demo - FileFront.com |
Just finished playing the demo. I think it fails to live up to the hype a tad..like MOH and Jericho did. Decent games for sure..just not completely mind blowing the way they were described by their devs. Had it on medium with a dual core/3 gigs/x1900 and was....eh. Water was nice..but other textures were so so. Looked a LOT like Far Cry. Actually had more fun with the UT3 demo than this..but we;ll see I suppose.
One bother I had was that it took 6 shots to down a soldier unless it was a headshot. A definite WTF moment. Now I;m more looking forward to Timeshift and gears of war for pc. |
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I LOVE how interactive the environments are, destructible foliage and breakable buildings work like a charm. |
If you're looking forward to TimeShift then I'm afraid you're going to be disapointed once again based on the 360 demo that is. It's a really average game. Blinx did a lot better job with the time stuf then TimeShift. Still worth a play I supose however.
As for the Crysis demo. I can't say much because I haven't played it yet ^^; Still at work I'm afraid. I'll check it out when I get home. Should run fine on high with my hardware so I'm looking forward to it. After I apply the new nVidia BETA driver for the demo and update to the new version of DirectX10 that just came out yesterday. |
I have to say, the demo looks absolutely gorgeous, even on my x2 3800+ and 7900gs. I set most options to medium or high and bumped the resolution down to 800x600 (so that it could run relatively smooth), and even then it's without a doubt graphically unequalled. The characters and environments are just spectacular, and the day/night cycle and destructable objects are wonderfully done. The only thing that graphically looks slightly out of place is that the interiors of buildings are oddly lit, like they're being evenly illuminated by a non-existant light source. Aside from that, the game will probably look unbelievable on high-end hardware.
The gameplay was fairly fun as well, although I already got the hang of that from the MP beta. The areas feel much more open than Far Cry, and with the suit capabilities you have a few different ways of going about your goal. The enemies were pretty generic, but I'm going to assume that fighting the aliens will be more entertaining than the typical gun-weilding soldiers that we've seen in every FPS game to date. And because of the way you can break down trees, it's the first FPS I've played where you can't just take cover behind a 5 inch wide tree and get protection from bullets as you peek around the corner and pop people off with ease. Was also fun to shoot into foliage where enemies are hiding and seeing all the trees and brush falling down, reminds me of that scene in Predator. The AI seems a bit more persistant now though, after I had driven past a couple of enemies in a truck, I noticed a few minutes later that on the radar it still showed them running toward where I went. Didn't really expect them to pursue me for that long. |
The game is decent. If you're really into the FarCry games and what have you, this is the same sort of deal, just with a technical beef-up. All the powers and that, straight out of FarCry Instincts. Game design and atmosphere... FarCry. Honestly, if it wern't for the suits, you COULD call this FarCry 2. This just isn't different enough for me.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great technical showpiece. I was running everything on High with a solid framerate, and it looked gorgeous. But it in itself doesn't revolutionize anything for the genre. As for myself. I think UT3 and Gears of War will be more then enough to keep my attention along with all the other great games coming out in November (i.e. Assasin's Creed & Rock Band) where I can probably hold off this one till it hits the $30 mark. And with PC games, that doesn't take very long. |
So where is this CryENGINE 2 demo? I see people talking about it on forums, but I can't find it anywhere in the single player download I got, what the crap D:
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Am I the only one who finds the AI really stupid? I can be standing about 20 feet away from the guy, with no cloak on, and he doesn't see me. Or I can be running circles around him with the cloak on, still doesn't see me. The cloak isn't supposed offer 100% invisibility. Also, boat drivers will get stuck on docks, and gunners will refuse to switch seats when drivers get killed.
Other than that, A+. |
I'd also like to point out that the enemies, even at the easiest difficulty, seem to be made of kevlar. Headshots seem to work well though.
..... and where is CryENGINE 2 editor? >=(!!! |
Here's something interesting: It appears that Crytek simply "grayed out" the option of Extra-High settings in XP, and you can actually modify the cfg files to make it work! Check it out here.
I put everything on max (Extra High) settings on a Core2Duo E6600, 2GB PC2-6400 3-3-3-12, 8800 GTS 640MB system and I had to turn off AA to make it run smoothly. I hate playing without AA, so it looks like I'm upgrading! |
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