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Crysis: Freeze rays, Koreans and You
Zzulu
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So, what is Crysis?
Crysis is a first person shooter developed by Crytek, the company who also made Far Cry.
What's it about?
Storyline
Earth, 2019.
A team of US scientists makes a frightening discovery on an island in the South China Sea. All contact with the team is lost when the North Korean Government quickly seals off the area.
The US responds by dispatching an elite team of Delta Force Operators to recon the situation. As tension rises between the two nations, a massive alien ship reveals itself in the middle of the island. The ship generates an immense force sphere that freezes a vast portion of the island and drastically alters the global weather system.
Now the US and North Korea must join forces to battle the alien menace. With hope rapidly fading, you must fight epic battles through tropical jungle, frozen landscapes, and finally into the heart of the alien ship itself for the ultimate Zero G showdown.
Why should I play this?
Many reviewers are proclaiming it the best game released this year, and the ones who are not are still praising it for the quality gaming experience.
Crysis: Warhead
This is an expansion to the original game where you play as another teammember of the special ops force tasked to deal with the events in Crysis. This time you take the role of "Psycho", and go on a rampage through the landscapes of the game to battle koreans and aliens alike.
Crysis 2
The sequel is currently under development. Here is the trailer they have chosen to release of the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBwReBKYs2s
Crysis is a first person shooter developed by Crytek, the company who also made Far Cry.
What's it about?
Storyline
Earth, 2019.
A team of US scientists makes a frightening discovery on an island in the South China Sea. All contact with the team is lost when the North Korean Government quickly seals off the area.
The US responds by dispatching an elite team of Delta Force Operators to recon the situation. As tension rises between the two nations, a massive alien ship reveals itself in the middle of the island. The ship generates an immense force sphere that freezes a vast portion of the island and drastically alters the global weather system.
Now the US and North Korea must join forces to battle the alien menace. With hope rapidly fading, you must fight epic battles through tropical jungle, frozen landscapes, and finally into the heart of the alien ship itself for the ultimate Zero G showdown.
Why should I play this?
Many reviewers are proclaiming it the best game released this year, and the ones who are not are still praising it for the quality gaming experience.
Crysis: Warhead
This is an expansion to the original game where you play as another teammember of the special ops force tasked to deal with the events in Crysis. This time you take the role of "Psycho", and go on a rampage through the landscapes of the game to battle koreans and aliens alike.
Crysis 2
The sequel is currently under development. Here is the trailer they have chosen to release of the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBwReBKYs2s
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I think this is needed, I hate the intro nonsense. EA really went over the top this time with them.
And here is another one, make Koreans speak Korean on all difficulty levels:
Crysis tweaking guide: http://www.tweakguides.com/Crysis_1.html
Now that all of that is out of the way, I have a question, can I turn off Cloak or do I need to wait for it to run out of energy and turn itself off?
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EDIT: you can turn of cloak by just switching to one of the other modes (or fireing and completely draining your energy)
When I switch modes it just sticks me in that mode with cloak still on. I think?
But anyway, the (male) voice of the suit is pretty badass. Makes me feel like a tuffguy when I change modes and hear it speak to me.
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Are you sure? Maybe you should check again. Changing back to maximum armor seems to work for me.
Has anybody been playing with a gamepad (preferably a 360 one, but others count too) and if so, what are your impressions?
DO NOT respond to my question by trying to insist that gamepads are inferior, or whatever. This is not the place for a stupid flamewar, and I'm not here to advocate anything, just to get some information for personal use.
I'm wanting to know how it is on the 360 pad too. Please enlighten us!
Apart from that though, the game is pretty amazing. It's a completely different FPS experience from most other games, with STALKER being the only thing that comes close to it. I love the play mechanics of the nanosuit, it adds so much to the game. And they seemed to have paced the game really well so far. Everytime I'm starting to get a little bored of what I'm doing they manage to switch up the environment or add in little things. AI kinda pisses me off with any patrol craft or helicopter able to spot me the instant I uncloak, and they're more accurate with their machine guns than I am with my High Powered Sniper rifle.
Crysis is, probably in a lot of ways a victim of it's own success. The graphics are soo good that you end wanting to turn them up way past the edge of playability. And it's ability to present a realistic (well, as realistic as aliens in nanosuits go) environment makes it the game seem tame compared to Brukheimer-esk explosion fests such as CoD4. That's not to say one game is necessarily better than the other, but they achieve such disparate things that any comparison will immeadiatly seem unfair depending on the goal of the reviewer. If you want to star in a movie, CoD4 is the way to go. If you want to learn how to massacre Koreans, then Crysis probably offers you a pretty good training manual.
edit: as for 360 version/pad. I can't really see this being hard to play on a controller, especially compared to fragfests such as HL2. All my movements are real slow and steady, with an emphasis on movement, and stealth usually overriding twitch action gameplay.
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Yes, the visuals kick ass, everyones got that part down. The physics are fairly top notch, although there are a few oddities, like not being able to move bodies etc, although I'm not sure if that has to do with my physics settings or not. I pretty much have to run everything at medium on a 7800GT.
The suit powers are pretty cool and add some depth to the game, and you'll have to make good use of them. The realistic car physics rock, in terms of shooting people's tires out or jumping into them etc. Best part? Literally breaking apart houses to mow down enemies, or shooting down whole parts of jungle, watching trees fall everywhere. It really redefines a lot of what you can do to affect the world in an FPS, in terms of environmental effects on how you handle your enemy. Damn though, those Koreans are sharp sighted.
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First half of the game is awesome.
Second half is Doom 3.
Completely untrue, I felt that the game got better and better as it progressed.
To be fair though, the Vtol (Are they actually called Vtols?) ride more than makes up for it....
I love me some motherfucking Vtols.
(Seriously, if I am just rambling, I'm thinking of the US dropships.)
VTOL, an acronym. Stands for Vertical Take-Off and Landing. Refers to V-22 Ospreys, the new F-35, which technically is a SVTOL (because it can go supersonic) and the Harrier.
Thanks, for a moment I thought I had made that name up....
The Vtol ride is excellent. I need to install the editor and make me some Vtol maps.
They US dropships are indeed VTOLs, but VTOL is not really a designation, it's a type of craft as it stands for Vertical Take-Off and Landing. Therefore a Harrier jumpjet counts as a VTOL, but that's not the actual craft's name, if you get my meaning. *EDIT: Beat'D!*
This game is truly spectacular. I've been lucky enough to play it on max settings minus anti aliasing with a very steady framerate. If there was one thing that really blew me away though it was the zero-g segment that was alluded to in early previews. That really blew me away as well as the ice stuff. I can't wait to see a solid multiplayer community spring up around this game. Running around in the plethora of vehicles, filled with allies seems like so potential awesome, as well as long games that go through the day/night cycles.
Also, am I the only one that thinks this game needs a mod where your skin is changed to Grey Fox and you get a sword weapon as well? The stealth and speed aspects really made me yearn for this.
Mod-community! Make this happen!
So you put AA on and the foliage looks more jaggy than befor.e
AMD 3700+
7600GT
1 gig ram
The Koreans are getting back up again? Whenever I throw anything it always seems to die as soon as it's thrown. I do normally have the strength mode on at the time though. I've also not experimented much with melee weapon attacks, such as pistol whipping, as I completely forgot such a thing was possible.
Were there any issues of having to use menus not present in the KB&M control scheme, because of a lack of buttons, or anything?
Also, can anyone confirm if prone controls for a gamepad do exist in the full version, and also if there are any other commands missing on a gamepad?
I don't have the adapter yet to use my360 controller on my PC, but as long as it is properly implimented, this is a game I think it would be worth picking up for.
All of the menus worked fine with the gamepad, with the exception that in the weapon mod menu if you pressed B to exit it would disable your right stick for looking until you opened and closed it again. Though if you closed it with the same button that opens it (I don't recall which right now) it worked fine. I never would have used the prone function anyway as doing anything other than standing seemed useless.
Overall the gamepad was perfectly fine to use in the demo, though turning speed really should have been adjustable. I didn't use KBAM because my PC was hooked up to my TV in the living room at the time.
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Yeah, I don't put on strength mode... I just like seeing them suffer.
Hmmm...
Anyone who owns the full game want to look in the gamepad control options menu for me, and see if they list the prone comand as being mapped to anything? Even if it is rarely used, or entirelyuseless, I hatethe idea of losing one of my commands.
I have noticed it quite often, running on a e6600 w/ 8800gts.
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I noticed it more with rocks and grass than with trees.
But this was in the demo, with an e4400, and a 8400gs, so I wasn't suprised by it.
It runs surprisingly well on my old-ass rig (Athlon 64 1.8GHz, 1.5GB PC3200 DDR RAM, Audigy SE, Radeon X800XL) at low-medium settings... which doesn't look all that bad. I just ordered an 8600GTS OC so I should see some improvement there.
If I have one significant complaint it's that the weapons are too weak. This is especially true at longer ranges and with the suppressor equipped. That's when it takes nearly one and a half mags to take down a baddie. Of course, head shots are instant kills (sometimes, I found), but the weapons should be a little more powerful than that.. geez.
You can manually alter the settings so you don't get this.
e_cull_veg_activation 70
e_vegetation_sprites_distance_ratio 1.5
e_view_dist_ratio_vegetation 50
e_detail_materials_view_dist_z 256
e_detail_materials_view_dist_xy 4096
r_texturesstreaming 0
Might want to cancel the order for the 8600GTS, the Radeon 3850 is much faster and around the same pricepoint
Point:
Alien levels without ammo are Goddamn stupid you dumb sons of bitches God damnit rabblerabblerabble
Question:
In order to insta-kill those wearing a helmet with a headshot, YOU'VE GONNA SHOOT THEM IN THE FACE!
Does anyone else have the issue where you put the DVD in the drive, and it clicks and whirrs for 30-45 seconds? This morning when I booted my computer it wouldn't go past the BIOS screen until I opened the DVD drive. I've found many posts about it on the interwebs, but no real solutions.
Sounds like there might be a problem with your game/system interface because there is definately a ton of noise from walking around through the foliage. I haven't come across any waterfalls (I haven't played that much yet) so I cant say about that.
I'm playing it on hard too, and its kind of silly (and also manly) to fight the aliens barehanded. A Strength punch still one-shots them, I think, but they just move too Goddamn fast.
Which file to I put that in? The game.cfg? Do I need to do anything special? It says in there the game regenerates it all the time.
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