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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Dwg115 on March 01, 2011, 07:22:02 AM
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you can grab it here: http://www.ea.com/crysis-2/1/demo (http://www.ea.com/crysis-2/1/demo)
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About damn time. Now I can play it and not feel bad. Yoink.
Oh, and grabbing at a solid 1.5megs off the EA servers. Glad I got home from work when everyone else was heading TO work.
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About damn time. Now I can play it and not feel bad. Yoink.
Oh, and grabbing at a solid 1.5megs off the EA servers. Glad I got home from work when everyone else was heading TO work.
im third shift too
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I'm getting 2.5 megs
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Also available on Steam
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Downloading
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Wow, so this completely and utterly sucks so far. I was logged out of the game at least 5 times, none of the North American servers I tried worked at all, and the one Euro server I was able to join I got dropped from because of the aforementioned logouts. In the pre-game chat, there were people saying to press the Ready button, but there was no Ready button to be found anywhere that I saw. WTF is going on!?
Way to go EA! Another fine quality product you've put out.
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I also had lots of trouble logging into a server. & no I did not see a ready button either
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I was able to log into a server no problem. I left the game detail level on "gamer," picked a server with a ping of 93 that wasn't full (I filled the last slot) and went about my business. It ran damn smooth and I got killed a few times without doing any killing due to my lack of experience with the available gun.
Like: Ease of use. Press a button, turn invisible. Press a button, get armor. Jump and press a button, smash the ground like Hulk. It lends itself well to fast multiplay matches.
Dislike: Ease of use. "Easy" settings for detail levels (not all pc gamers are that goddamn stupid). Suit powers are limited this time around.
Will give this a few more runs, but I'm more focused on my DoW2 expansion. No Tau yet though, so I GUESS that I can deal with the brutal Blood Ravens.
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I was able to connect and play but I dont like how ya can't toggle zooming down the scope. Ya have to hold the button down. Lame.
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That's console-itis for ya. Hold down the trigger button and you get your scope. Why should mouse and keyboard have it any easier, right?
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I usually bind my zoom/alt fire button to Mouse 3. Fire is Mouse 1, Jump is mouse 2. Hard to manage that all with this set up.
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I was able to connect and play but I dont like how ya can't toggle zooming down the scope. Ya have to hold the button down. Lame.
I'm kinda used to it since I was playing alot of borderlands since I got general knoxx's armory expansion. you're right though, it is a bit of a pain to hold the aim, shoot, and try to move with your target.
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Starting on page 4 this demo just gets TRASHED!
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1589519&page=4 (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1589519&page=4)
A part of me agrees. I downloaded the leaked "beta" and shared it over DC++ at the LAN. It was missing alot of things and didnt work right in a few areas so i chalked it up to just being a "beta" and didnt want to pass too much judgement. This demo just echos those problems.
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I haven't had the start problem but there are other things about this game that im not fond of. It kinda feels like UT3. the graphics look nice but dont feel dynamic like they did in crysis. Smallish linear maps where crysis had large outdoor envirnments. the demo isnt all bad but just not what i was expecting and hoping for.
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So it's out today. Has anyone taken the plunge? Is anyone going to? I want to get it, but what with it having a console feel this time around I'm not too sure about it unless the single player story is action-packed. After all, that's $60 for a PC title.
There's also a rumor of DX11 support after/when Nvidia's GTX590 launches, but I can't confirm anything solid. If the team is willing to add in a feature with a patch, then it makes me lean towards wanting to get it. After all, BC2 was a port and it was damn fun.
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I'll
get buy it. I already have the engine SDK though, it's keeping me more than entertained.
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I'll get buy it. I already have the engine SDK though, it's keeping me more than entertained.
does it allow ou to make your own maps as easily as the cryengine2 did?
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I never played with the Crysis sandbox, but yeah it is pretty easy. The real time editor blows away the UDK editor. But I hear the public will get to play with this SDK (or a lite version of it) soon enough. They plan to do the same thing with the CE3 engine as the UDK.
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Hmm... couple reviews pretty much give Crysis 2 overwhelmingly positive scores. It's got glitches, like enemy AI crap, but overall it's supposed to be a very cool time to be had by all. Maybe I'll pick it up this weekend. Maybe.
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I was playing the SP last night. Got to the parking garage and went stealth. Decided to sneak behind a car and kick it to take out two guards. I got stuck in the damn level, after I kicked the car. It hit the NPC characters but they just stood there.
:headscratch:
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Their power level was over 9000?
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Quick bit about Crysis 2 graphics settings. Even though you can only set the basic crap in-game, it still allows you to change the advanced stuff in the cfg file. Better yet, someone has made an application for this! http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=33008 (http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=33008)
(http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/253/crysis2advancedgraphics.png)
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niiiiiiiiiiiiice. That didn't take long.
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Hmm... couple reviews pretty much give Crysis 2 overwhelmingly positive scores. It's got glitches, like enemy AI crap, but overall it's supposed to be a very cool time to be had by all. Maybe I'll pick it up this weekend. Maybe.
The original Crysis was good for single player. It might be the last FPS I played the full single player campaign. This one should be better by far with the improved programming.
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Well, I did buy it with the $50 in best buy dollars that I was going to use on a gtx460.... but best buy didn't have any of the 460's on the shelf, so Crysis2 was the next choice.
It's pretty cool. Also, the base detail level of "high" (out of high, very high and extreme) runs smooth as silk on my machine at 1680x1050. I don't regret buying it so far. Will have to test the other detail levels as it's still a dx9 game.
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And they still plan on releasing DX11 support in a patch.
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saw no options in multiplayer for starting your own server. is this another hosted server shindig?
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So I finally beat Crysis 2 SP. VERY good SP campaign. Not too long, not too short (that's what she said), pretty good story, and action packed the whole time. And god damn.. the visuals! A couple times I was fighting the aliens I forgot I was playing a game. The graphics kick up the immersion tenfold. Would definitely play through that again. It replaced CoD4 SP as my favorite first person shooter SP campaign.
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What I like best about the SP is the sense of depth and scale. The instant I actually got INTO the city at the start of the game, I was taken aback by how the buildings actually looked like tall buildings. Like I could go onto each floor and everything would be to scale.
Enemy AI needs work, though. I see what the reviews are talking about. I can create a diversionary tactic by shooting a red barrel to draw troops away from me and they act accordingly, but from time to time I get that one or two "short bus" trooper that runs in a small circle as if it's the greatest thing in the world. DAAAAH CIRKLE!!!!
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Damn you guys are gonna talk me into spending more money on games that i dont have!
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I actually never saw any AI glitches at all. Granted, I was too busy blowing Crap up to notice or care :P
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I still come across the occasional squid or trooper that wants to try to walk through a wall. That is, until I snipe it/him in the head. Then it/he wants to fall down.
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really nice review showing how older hardware and newer hardware (including comparing nvidia to amd and intel to amd) all using Crysis. With no dx11 patch out yet, this is dx9 only right now.
http://www.techspot.com/review/379-crysis-2-performance/ (http://www.techspot.com/review/379-crysis-2-performance/)
For me personally, it's just nice to see where my Q6600 and radeon 4850 is at in the lineup of newer silicon.
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Running on my dual-core and 8800 and the game runs fine at 1680x1050 as opposed to the article saying dual-cores struggle. Probably due to tweaking it a bit with that launcher program. In fact, I changed the graphics to the highest setting in-game and it still runs fine.
Eh, whatever.
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Err those numbers are seriously off compared to what I experienced. I mean, I know my RAM is higher than what most gaming PC's have, but it shouldn't have made THAT much of a difference. I have the GTX 460 1GB, and the Phenom II hex. From what that article says, Crysis 2 only uses 4 of the cores. I ran the game at the highest possible settings (including the AA/AF) @ 1920x1080 and I had to turn vsync on due to the tearing, which means I was getting at least 60fps. According to that article I should have gotten half that performance. Sooooo does 16GB of ram really boost performance that much? (wouldn't think so)
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Version 1.7 of the tweaker program is out. He added more options.
I just beat the SP campaign and I'm actually pretty satisfied with the "ending" of it. You can tell that they're going to continue the story and it's turning out to be one hell of a sci-fi/action pc game. Technical "shortcomings" aside, I'd say it's worth $50 of the $60 cost because I can forgive certain things if the story is well-written and presented. Voice acting ain't half bad, either.
The AI is a bit easy to get around on "normal" difficulty, however. The final fight in the game against *SPOILER* the 4 cloaked hunters was super easy as all I had to do was hide in the pipe that I entered the area from and snipe their heads off. You'd think that for elite soldiers who follow you around during the entire game, they'd figure out to attack you when you have a limited range of movement, instead of standing around in an open area. Hell, even the regular shock troopers were programmed to fire off their personal short-range EMP blasts while roaming around a piece of land.
However, there is ONE major knock against this game. In Crysis1 you could pick up a chicken, go max-strength mode and punch said chicken miles into the ocean. MILES. In this game, there is no max-strength mode and there certainly aren't any chickens. Any game that lacks that level of chicken punching is... well, it leaves an empty spot in my heart.
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mmm i like KFC!