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Crysis 2- I would recommend against buying this game

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Hey guys, I think I need some tech support here. The game is telling me to press start to begin, but it looks like I don't have that key. Is there a way around this or do I have to upgrade my keyboard?

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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    THAT'S ANOTHER THING

    why do games ALWAYS HAVE that fucking POINTLESS SCREEN that just makes me push a button for no fucking reason

    Singularity has it

    mass effect 2 has it

    this game has it

    WHY IS IT THERE?

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Spoit wrote: »
    Shimazu wrote: »
    The reddit discussion of the Crysis 2 PC demo is full of people saying that aim-assist is on, and enabled on multiplayer servers. Is this true? ={

    It's an option in the menu. Pretty sure you can turn it off

    It's still pretty silly that it's on by default.

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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    A competitive multiplayer game on the pc with aim assist on?

    lol

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    THAT'S ANOTHER THING

    why do games ALWAYS HAVE that fucking POINTLESS SCREEN that just makes me push a button for no fucking reason

    Singularity has it

    mass effect 2 has it

    this game has it

    WHY IS IT THERE?

    Console ports

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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    no but I mean

    why would they keep it

    Surely it takes like 3 secs to just remove it

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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Finally get the game working, and then when I get into a game it crashes. Fun times. Not a hugely positive experience this so far

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Can't create account.

    Ace job Crytek, EA, Gamespy.

    Medals all around.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I'm sure I'm late to the party of "wait gamespy?" but seriously, wait gamespy? If borderlands hadn't come out not too long ago I'd be saying I didn't know gamespy still existed.

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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Also gamespy on such a high budget title too

    why would they even

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  • subediisubedii Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Probably because the last game used Gamespy.

    Granted I've been able to actually log in, but it doesn't seem like Gamespy's a detriment to the multiplayer itself so far. At least from the few minutes I played anyway.

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  • DietarySupplementDietarySupplement Still not approved by the FDA Dublin, OHRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Why would they use anything else? Why would they embrace Steam when they have their competing cloud-based store?

    Not saying I agree but I can see why they wouldn't use Steam (which is my platform of choice for things like multiplayer)

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    If anyone wants to play this instead of complain, my in game name is Peewi and you can add me or something.

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  • alset85alset85 Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I'm also playing this. alseT ingame.

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  • WarcryWarcry I'm getting my shit pushed in here! AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Not impressed so far. Suit powers are just plain negligible. With armour on you just die 20% less fast. This reeks of CoD through and through and I'm just plain pissed off at the lack of graphics options. Fucking Crytek gave us a console port.

    Crytek

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Finally got into the damn game, but I am unable to join any servers. My internet tested fine. It says unable to connect to host on the dozen or so servers I tried with varying ping.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Macro9 wrote: »
    Finally got into the damn game, but I am unable to join any servers. My internet tested fine. It says unable to connect to host on the dozen or so servers I tried with varying ping.

    I can't join any servers either, but I was able to play fine earlier.

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  • Waka LakaWaka Laka Riding the stuffed Unicorn If ya know what I mean.Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    BlackDove wrote: »
    Can't create account.

    Ace job Crytek, EA, Gamespy.

    Medals all around.


    Message from community manager :

    @NanoSmartCasual - Account creation should now be functioning correctly in the PC demo, if you have any problems let me know.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    no but I mean

    why would they keep it

    Surely it takes like 3 secs to just remove it

    Actually, I believe M rated games must have a front title screen that is for general audiences and can no longer go into an attract video due to ESRB rules. Something about how nobody can claim they were unwillingly shown M rated content or something.

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  • WarcryWarcry I'm getting my shit pushed in here! AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Conclusion 1: Stealth is the only suit mode that may make a slight bit of difference in a fight.

    Conclusion 2: The aiming is so fucking weird for some reason.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    WHY WONT YOU LET ME FUCKING LOG IN

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  • Lord_MordjaLord_Mordja Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Stop.
    Don't do anything. Don't even think about doing anything before going into your shortcut and changing the target to look like "+cl_fov=90" or whatever value you want. Hopefully it'll stop you from blowing chunks due to the fucking 30 or whatever fov.

    Nothing can fix the back-asswards serverlist though.

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  • donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I cant even connect to any servers in the first place. NAT Type: Moderate. Great, fucking great.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    donhonk wrote: »
    I cant even connect to any servers in the first place. NAT Type: Moderate. Great, fucking great.

    I see a bunch of servers that show a ping of 0 and I can't connect to those. I can connect just fine to servers that show a ping.

    I tried out 90 FOV and discovered that it can be used to see through walls. It also gives a slight fisheye lens effect.

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  • donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Peewi wrote: »
    donhonk wrote: »
    I cant even connect to any servers in the first place. NAT Type: Moderate. Great, fucking great.

    I see a bunch of servers that show a ping of 0 and I can't connect to those. I can connect just fine to servers that show a ping.

    I tried out 90 FOV and discovered that it can be used to see through walls. It also gives a slight fisheye lens effect.

    Ill give it a shot. :o

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  • DiamondDiamond Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    THAT'S ANOTHER THING

    why do games ALWAYS HAVE that fucking POINTLESS SCREEN that just makes me push a button for no fucking reason

    Singularity has it

    mass effect 2 has it

    this game has it

    WHY IS IT THERE?

    It's so in the future they can put 'insert credit(s)' on that screen and charge people to play all of their games.

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  • ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I think the "press start" screen was at one point an archaic thing that the console manufacturers forced developers to include, I have no idea why it's still done but it gets carried over into lazy PC ports these days.

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  • DiamondDiamond Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Scosglen wrote: »
    I think the "press start" screen is an archaic thing that the console manufacturers enforce developers to include, and these days the developers are too lazy to remove them from the PC ports.

    Yea, that's what I've heard. I actually like title screens myself, call me crazy but I liked them even more when they were super fancy and flashy. (Killer Instinct Gold, One Must Fall 2097, Robotron 2084, and so on)

    Best part of the game right here :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FerF8SoZVeM

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  • donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    donhonk wrote: »
    Peewi wrote: »
    donhonk wrote: »
    I cant even connect to any servers in the first place. NAT Type: Moderate. Great, fucking great.

    I see a bunch of servers that show a ping of 0 and I can't connect to those. I can connect just fine to servers that show a ping.

    I tried out 90 FOV and discovered that it can be used to see through walls. It also gives a slight fisheye lens effect.

    Ill give it a shot. :o

    Works, and surprisingly, even with all the bad stuff, I quite like the game. And it runs pretty smoothly on my SLI'd 9900GTX's.

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  • Lord_MordjaLord_Mordja Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Just confirming, you can't actually unlock any new guns in the demo, or can you?

    Whatever, this has been incredibly unfun for me. I've never been a fan of the hyperlethal shooters where whoever shoots first wins. It tends to favour good snipers and leads to boring ass weapons- a variety of ARs, SMGs, snipers and shotguns with maybe a grenade launcher or something. Woohoo. Still, I've played them and had enough fun.

    But the biggest problem with this demo is the fucking motion blur. Someone starts running and they're just this brown splotch that I can't hit and now I'm dead; I've got most of my points taking the crash pods. I mean, it's not even the pace of the game or anything; I can hold my own in UT and Quake (though yeah, I tend to prefer the relatively slower paced games like BF) but I am getting intense motion sickness here, a first in all of my gaming years. After playing for a couple hours, I had more fun with the MOH beta and that game was shit.

    E: Oh, yeah it looks pretty and runs nicely on my poor laptop so that's a plus. And the whole mantling system and vertical map design's neat.

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  • DarlanDarlan Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I honestly wasn't expecting anything worthwhile out of the multiplayer in the first place, it's just a shame they didn't go for a single player demo. It's an odd choice, you'd think showing people the crazy pretty campaign visuals would do a lot more for convincing people to buy the game than HEY GUY OUR GAME IS KINDA LIKE COD BUT SHITTIER

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  • ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    So, GAMESPY powered multiplayer, required user account for demo (harvests emails for advertising), completely inscrutable graphics customization (your choices are ADVANCED, HARDCORE, and GAMER, whatever the fuck those mean, with no fine tuning options whatsoever).

    The gunplay feels loose and unsatisfying (the only remotely powerful feeling gun is a detatched mounted machine gun), the camera jeers around very "immersively" but it's a bit disorienting and annoying.

    On the positive, I'm very impressed by how well optimized the game is and it's quite pretty. I look forward to a dirt cheap discount single player experience in the very distant future.

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I've gotten the delightful catch 22 of having an account name that doesn't work, and an email address that's already registered. Every variation on my gamespy or fileplanet account has failed, half of them are supposed to be impossible. I've even changed it manually, still doesn't work.

    And the official site has been completely broken all day, so I can't even try a password recovery.

    Good times so far.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Has anyone tried using comrade? I remember that helping in borderlands gamespy problems

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I am going to hop on for a little while. Add me and we can get a squad going.

    thatguy3141

    I will also be in vent. Why don't you join me?

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  • HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    This game is pretty lame browser wise. I rather take instant match making right now then this broken shit. Also fuck the lack of settings for graphics. The fuck does gamer mean other then an insult in SE++?

    Looks fine and the plus so far compared to 360 is no in game texture loading.

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  • AntithesisAntithesis Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I thought you all were talking about the intro screen in general and then I realized that it actually does say "Press Start" there. Hm.


    I'm Morinaei, starting out the fun times in a moment.

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  • ArchonexArchonex No hard feelings, right? Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    So I take it that there isn't anything like the first game's possibly multi day warzone matches in MP?


    If so, then fuck this game. That was the best part about the game, once you got done with SP.

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  • subediisubedii Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Going online in a bit, I'm subedii on Gamespy. Will see about adding you guys as well.

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  • Lord_MordjaLord_Mordja Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Archonex wrote: »
    So I take it that there isn't anything like the first game's possibly multi day warzone matches in MP?


    If so, then fuck this game. That was the best part about the game, once you got done with SP.

    Seriously, the first game's MP had enormous amounts of potential with a complicated spin on the ol' capture the points gameplay and I think I preferred the money per game system to the persistent one. Also you could buy handheld nukes and blackhole tanks and just blow people up instead of any basekilling nonsense.

    Oh, and it also gave us the amazing Mechwarrior mod.

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