Crysis 2- I would recommend against buying this game

That_Guy

Don't buy this game.
No DX11 at launch
Call of Duty with cloak
No destructible environments
Manages to look worse than Crysis
Suit powers now mostly useless
Floatly controls
Aim assist in PC version
Mouse smoothing on
Motion blur everywhere
NO DX11 AT FUCKING LAUNCH- Stuck with DX9.

More reasons
Retardedly easy to hack (just editing some xml files.)
No advanced visual settings
Even more motion blur than the demo
No way to turn off the motion blur
Single player is a bunch of chest high walls
AI is fucking retarded.
AI can see through walls (pretends it can't)
Corridor shooter with invisible walls everywhere

Spoit

I'm skeptical about how well the gameplay will translate to a more linear city area, since those were the worst parts of the original, but still have it preordered.

Lord Yod

Playing the first one now.

It's hella fun.

Daemonion

I'm curious how the destructible environments will stake up against DICE's Frostbite 2.0 engine.

I loved Crysis 1, though. Will definitely pick this up.

HadjiQuest

Wow, I never played more than the demo of the original Crysis, but I have Warhead on a shelf. I've never liked Crytek all that much, but when I saw that Rare/Free Radical was making this, I suddenly became much more interested.

I will follow this, and possibly pick it up someday. I hope there's a PC demo on the way.

That_Guy

I have seen some more videos. It looks like both the singleplayer and multiplayer will be pretty open ended. I also saw some of the level editor. It looks like the PC is going to be getting a pretty high end editor, something like what we saw in Farcry 2, only in a city setting. Consoles will be getting an editor worthy of the Free Radical name. I added some links to the OP too.

BarneyL

Is there any news on the engine for this? I'm a little worried that with the move to being a cross platform game we'll see a step backwards graphics wise at least.

TetraNitroCubane

BarneyL wrote: »

Is there any news on the engine for this? I'm a little worried that with the move to being a cross platform game we'll see a step backwards graphics wise at least.

I haven't heard much, myself, but I still feel like the original Crysis looks fantastic even after all this time, so even standing in place would be impressive if they got the optimization down.

Crysis 2 is running on CryEngine 3, if I'm not mistaken. There are some videos out there of the engine being demoed, but they're over a year old. The colors look a little muddied compared to what I remember of the original Crysis, but that's probably just the video.

Cryengine 3 from Oct 2009

One thing I'm wondering about is what kind of DRM we're going to be facing with Crysis. Considering the Crysis games have always carried at least SecuROM, and the fact Cevat Yerli is a tremendous whiner over piracy, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Crysis 2 sported some kind of 'always-online' Ubisoft style DRM.

That_Guy

TetraNitroCubane wrote: »

BarneyL wrote: »

Is there any news on the engine for this? I'm a little worried that with the move to being a cross platform game we'll see a step backwards graphics wise at least.

I haven't heard much, myself, but I still feel like the original Crysis looks fantastic even after all this time, so even standing in place would be impressive if they got the optimization down.

Crysis 2 is running on CryEngine 3, if I'm not mistaken. There are some videos out there of the engine being demoed, but they're over a year old. The colors look a little muddied compared to what I remember of the original Crysis, but that's probably just the video.

Cryengine 3 from Oct 2009

One thing I'm wondering about is what kind of DRM we're going to be facing with Crysis. Considering the Crysis games have always carried at least SecuROM, and the fact Cevat Yerli is a tremendous whiner over piracy, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Crysis 2 sported some kind of 'always-online' Ubisoft style DRM.

It's being published by EA. They have always been somewhat reasonable when it comes to DRM. Sure punkbuster kind of sucks, but even that is better than many games. I would love to see Crysis 2 have Steamworks integration, but that would be pushing things a bit.

rRootagea

Hey wait does real-time sandbox editor mean you can design a level with friend(s)? That might be fun.

Evil Multifarious

Why do they always put the fucking aliens in the game

Nobody wants to fight those fucking things

Nobody likes them

They're not even cool looking

Just let me fight dudes or aliens who look and act largely like dudes

Spoit

rRootagea wrote: »

Hey wait does real-time sandbox editor mean you can design a level with friend(s)? That might be fun.

Unless it's radically different from their previous ones, it means that you can just press a button and jump into the level directly from the editor.

Lord Yod

Just got to the tank part.

Do you really only get 30 shots?

subedii

Lord Yod wrote: »

Just got to the tank part.

Do you really only get 30 shots?

Can't say I felt I ever really needed more.

Part-way through the level there's another tank as well that you can grab.

Kadoken

That multi video? Yeah. It's retarded and staged.

Crytek should actually come out with some gameplay.

Edit: And no, I'm not taking it back because there are "people playing the game fer realz". Its staged.

Spoit

subedii wrote: »

Lord Yod wrote: »

Just got to the tank part.

Do you really only get 30 shots?

Can't say I felt I ever really needed more.

Part-way through the level there's another tank as well that you can grab.

And also, there are plenty of missile launchers at each concentration of enemies

subedii

Spoit wrote: »

subedii wrote: »

Lord Yod wrote: »

Just got to the tank part.

Do you really only get 30 shots?

Can't say I felt I ever really needed more.

Part-way through the level there's another tank as well that you can grab.

And also, there are plenty of missile launchers at each concentration of enemies

Yeah, what's awesome about that level is that it's just as viable to get out and do it on foot if you want to. It's a pretty large map.

Lord Yod

Hmm. I'll give that a try then.

Arrath

subedii wrote: »

Spoit wrote: »

subedii wrote: »

Lord Yod wrote: »

Just got to the tank part.

Do you really only get 30 shots?

Can't say I felt I ever really needed more.

Part-way through the level there's another tank as well that you can grab.

And also, there are plenty of missile launchers at each concentration of enemies

Yeah, what's awesome about that level is that it's just as viable to get out and do it on foot if you want to. It's a pretty large map.

My problem wasn't ammo in the tank, it was that my tank got blown sky high almost off the bat.

Ghosting around and taking out checkpoints, planting C4 on tanks, AA guns, etc was more fun anyway.

subedii

That's the best thing about Crysis. You can choose how you want to play it, and the gameplay will fit around that.

Well, until you get to the linear bits at the end I guess.

Waka Laka

The XBox 360 closed MP Beta was pretty good. People were swapping classes all the time (stealth, strength, speed) on the fly. Upgrades were plentiful, graphics were great ( I sat there for a couple of minutes just admiring the textures on the ground, the little details scattered around and the overall look). I was surprised the 360 was doing what it was doing. Shame there was only 1 level to run around too, and it was fairly small (basically the rooftop of a building with a small penthouse and garden), I was hoping for at least one larger level, but alas. When players got used to power-swapping, you would start to see things like chasing and shooting guys only for them to disappear out of sight and appear behind you with a knife in the back, or people dashing away at full speed from a large concentration of gunfire. A few objects in the world were destructible, but nothing major like entire walls coming down from a grenade.

Few jarring things like texture fade-in, object pop in and a few other quirks put me off, but hey... BETA. Some pretty crazy things could be done too, like jumping from a height and ground stomping the enemies below resulting in a smattering of flailing bodies. Guns felt awesome, and a few of the favourites sound different (Scar wannabe has more oomph and the shotgun is sex). Theres also a kind of battlechatter like the one seen in BF:BC2 so soldiers will call out snipers and grenades as well as other events in the playfield. At one point, I don't know if it was intentional, I lost all sound for a few matches and so did a few other people. Kinda sucked.

I spent about 8 or so hours just playing the Beta and enjoyed it, it did a large amount of things right and felt fast paced and exciting.

Waka Laka

Also :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1YDkLIGtqU&hd=1

XBOX 360 DEMO ANNNOUNCED

Mark your calendars for the 25th of Jan.

Edit -> Irony that "Invaders Must Die" was also used for the DNF trailer.

FyreWulff

Any word on if the 360 version will have a map editor like Far Cry: Instincts/Predator?

You would think the *Cry* legacy of map editors + Timesplitters team that also had a map editor in their game would = fucking awesome map editor on the 360 version.

kriegs

So... from the video that Waka just posted, I can roleplay Sam Gideon from Vanquish?

Why are my pants all sticky?

subedii

The powers are way exaggerated in that trailer, but I have to admit that gunslide looks cool.

MrMiscreant

What the heck is a "skill assessment" (as per that video)?

Peewi

That multiplayer trailer does a good job of making it seem more exciting than the multiplayer in Crysis 1. Although I guess that isn't too difficult.

I don't like that the multiplayer demo is 360 only and I hope that they put out a singleplayer demo for PC.

That_Guy

The fist think that came to mind when I saw that trailer was Brink. It's got the same parkour sort of movement. I wonder if parkour is the new regenerating health or chest high walls.

Peewi

When I first played Crysis I ran with all settings on high, because that's what it suggested when hitting the auto-settings button, and it didn't run particularly great. Right now I'm playing Crysis Warhead and I lowered a bunch of settings to medium and it is fucking smooth. And to be honest, I haven't noticed a big difference in visuals between high and medium. Then again, I almost never pay attention to shadows and stuff like that.

Lalabox

That_Guy wrote: »

The fist think that came to mind when I saw that trailer was Brink. It's got the same parkour sort of movement. I wonder if parkour is the new regenerating health or chest high walls.

This wouldn't be a bad thing. Emphasising movement is multiplayer seems to be a good idea.

Rakai

Lalabox wrote: »

That_Guy wrote: »

The fist think that came to mind when I saw that trailer was Brink. It's got the same parkour sort of movement. I wonder if parkour is the new regenerating health or chest high walls.

This wouldn't be a bad thing. Emphasising movement is multiplayer seems to be a good idea.

Given that movement in fps games has been complete crap for years this would be a very good thing.

kleinfehn

What is up with the suit powers this game? I heard they put the strength and speed powers together, and that you can combine two powers for a short time for a while. Is this true?

surrealitycheck

I laughed at the name "SCHMOKEIT" in the MP Trailer. And then I watched the live demonstration and thought they were on pcs at first because I saw the keyboards, then saw the controllers and was sad.

Mechanical

subedii wrote: »

The powers are way exaggerated in that trailer, but I have to admit that gunslide looks cool.

Reminds me of Far Cry 2, appropriately enough. A map editor on the 360 version would be nice and probably swing this higher on my list, but I'm not holding my breath.

Zxerol

Peewi wrote: »

That multiplayer trailer does a good job of making it seem more exciting than the multiplayer in Crysis 1. Although I guess that isn't too difficult.

I don't like that the multiplayer demo is 360 only and I hope that they put out a singleplayer demo for PC.

What, after Yerli whined about demos being too expensive and shit? Eh. Besides, EA isn't really enthused about about putting out demos for the PC peasants.

That_Guy

Zxerol wrote: »

Peewi wrote: »

That multiplayer trailer does a good job of making it seem more exciting than the multiplayer in Crysis 1. Although I guess that isn't too difficult.

I don't like that the multiplayer demo is 360 only and I hope that they put out a singleplayer demo for PC.

What, after Yerli whined about demos being too expensive and shit? Eh. Besides, EA isn't really enthused about about putting out demos for the PC peasants.

We tend to get "betas" around the same time as consoles get "demos", so it all works out. Crytek knows it's roots. They are not going to let PC players get shafted on this game.

And I think the parkour thing is pretty cool. I just hope it doesn't get overplayed or they ruin it somehow. Regenerating health was pretty cool before every fucking game started using it.

Lalabox

The demo for the original crisis came with the editor. I had so much fun goofing around with different weapons and vehicles.

subedii

That_Guy wrote: »

Zxerol wrote: »

Peewi wrote: »

That multiplayer trailer does a good job of making it seem more exciting than the multiplayer in Crysis 1. Although I guess that isn't too difficult.

I don't like that the multiplayer demo is 360 only and I hope that they put out a singleplayer demo for PC.

What, after Yerli whined about demos being too expensive and shit? Eh. Besides, EA isn't really enthused about about putting out demos for the PC peasants.

We tend to get "betas" around the same time as consoles get "demos", so it all works out. Crytek knows it's roots. They are not going to let PC players get shafted on this game.

People said that about Infinity Ward.

Just sayin'.

Warcry

http://tubedubber.com/#M1YDkLIGtqU:-dKAX7Jp8wo:0:100:0:0:true

You know it's amazing

Jutranjo

Lalabox wrote: »

That_Guy wrote: »

The fist think that came to mind when I saw that trailer was Brink. It's got the same parkour sort of movement. I wonder if parkour is the new regenerating health or chest high walls.

This wouldn't be a bad thing. Emphasising movement is multiplayer seems to be a good idea.

So it's just a few steps from returning to '99 rocket/impact hammer jumping.

PMAvers

That_Guy wrote: »

The fist think that came to mind when I saw that trailer was Brink. It's got the same parkour sort of movement. I wonder if parkour is the new regenerating health or chest high walls.

The slide reminded me of a multi-player version of Vanquish. ROCKET BOOTS GO!

Except you can't punch a hole the size of a basketball in a dude from doing it.