To be fair, the first game had mine levels, and those were pretty linear. So was the alien ship, although that was really awesomely designed.
That said if we get extended periods of vent crawling I'm going to weep.
Warhead had the most beautiful mine level (with a smattering of alternate pathways), and (if you can find it) a vent system above the train station in the same level that you can silently snipe people from. That was pretty fun. In fact, the whole of the mine level from warhead was brilliantly designed. While their strength is open environments, crytek can make some pretty good linear sequences.
But I will still cry if it loses the attack any way design philosophy, and forces you too much.
It does really work the best IMO when they change. A linear level is a nice break from the more open stuff. The thinking gets even more tactical and less strategic.
Yeah, as much as I would like it to keep the same gameplay style... Crysis and Warhead are still there for that. If they change Crysis 2, but it's still good, and I want some gameplay more liek the originals, I still have them.
If only Warhead didn't crash a lot for no reason at all, I'd never uninstall it. It really improved performance with the equivalent graphics of Crysis.
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edited February 2010
You know, the best looking parts of Warhead were the indoors parts. The shaders, ambience and AA make it look fucking incredible. Can't wait to see New York.
With proper building destruction. I'm gonna need a new graphics card.
I'd actually say probably not. If the building destruction is going to be happening on the consoles then odds are you'll be fine if you can currently run Crysis as it stands. I doubt they're going to be pushing the system specs much further than what they already are for Crysis. You could arguably add in extra shinies for the PC version but the core game ought to look good and play well without them anyway.
Just because it's on consoles doesn't mean it uses the same kind of specs. They've already stated that the PC will be far better looking than the 360 and ps3 versions. Crytek aren't going to water it down for PC players.
I'm certain that the game will visually be at least up to Crysis' level. What I'm saying is that I don't expect them to push the specs much further than that. Their focus with this iteration is getting it to play on as many systems as possible instead. I expect maybe a few optional new visual additions, but realistically I don't believe it's going to be pushing system requirements much higher.
It's funny because the Crysis engine is still like a thousand times better than the next best competitor. They could stay completely level in terms of their technology and still be ahead of the curve. I don't know what the heck they feed their coders but it's some powerful stuff.
I'm at the part with the TAC in the first game. The thing about locking on is now up there with "get on the hydra's back." Looking on other parts of the internet, I have to destroy armor or whatever before I can lock on despite her telling me to lock on?
It's funny because the Crysis engine is still like a thousand times better than the next best competitor. They could stay completely level in terms of their technology and still be ahead of the curve. I don't know what the heck they feed their coders but it's some powerful stuff.
It runs pretty well at medium on my computer. It starts off a bit slow when it is still loading some crap and there are a few annoying slowdowns with some of the bigger set pieces involving a decent amount of people, but it still plays better than a lot of worse looking games.
It's funny because the Crysis engine is still like a thousand times better than the next best competitor. They could stay completely level in terms of their technology and still be ahead of the curve. I don't know what the heck they feed their coders but it's some powerful stuff.
It runs pretty well at medium on my computer. It starts off a bit slow when it is still loading some crap and there are a few annoying slowdowns with some of the bigger set pieces involving a decent amount of people, but it still plays better than a lot of worse looking games.
Heck look at the recent Battlefield Bad Company 2 beta. I mean I can run Crysis in DX 10 and Crysis Wars maxed out except for one or two bits. BF:BC is hacking and coughing most of the way if I try. Even setting everything down to medium it still chugs sometimes.
People whine about the Cryengine being "unoptimised" but they don't know what they're talking about. For what it achieves it's actually really impressive. The complaint is more to do with the fact that for most you still can't max it out yet compared to other games. And that's also why I don't think they're going to be adding much visually to CE3. Realistically, they don't need to, and any additions would just push the system specs more.
Plus I'm certain the relative lack of foliage in NYC is going to help them run the levels faster still. I just hope the gameplay remains largely the same.
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edited February 2010
I like the idea that they are going for something different than what they've done in the past. Of course, urban environments are nothing new. Hopefully Crytek has some nice twists up their sleeves.
I wouldn't be surprised also to find that something they are doing with the new engine is optimizing hardware scaling. That would only make sense with consoles in the equation.
I like the idea that they are going for something different than what they've done in the past. Of course, urban environments are nothing new. Hopefully Crytek has some nice twists up their sleeves.
I wouldn't be surprised also to find that something they are doing with the new engine is optimizing hardware scaling. That would only make sense with consoles in the equation.
That's pretty much the whole point of CryEngine 3. There's no way that CE2 would run reasonably on console hardware. CE3 was designed from the ground up as a multiplatform engine. It's even possible for devs to run levels through the editor on all 3 systems concurrently to get an idea of performance.
I'm at the part with the TAC in the first game. The thing about locking on is now up there with "get on the hydra's back." Looking on other parts of the internet, I have to destroy armor or whatever before I can lock on despite her telling me to lock on?
I believe you have to keep shooting her with everything you've got, though the game rarely ever gives you a visual confirmation that you're doing damage. Eventually something will "open up" and the TAC will be ready to use.
It's a very poorly done boss fight. At least your alien warship didn't fall through the aircraft carrier deck, as often happens!
I'm at the part with the TAC in the first game. The thing about locking on is now up there with "get on the hydra's back." Looking on other parts of the internet, I have to destroy armor or whatever before I can lock on despite her telling me to lock on?
I believe you have to keep shooting her with everything you've got, though the game rarely ever gives you a visual confirmation that you're doing damage. Eventually something will "open up" and the TAC will be ready to use.
It's a very poorly done boss fight. At least your alien warship didn't fall through the aircraft carrier deck, as often happens!
All you need to do is destroy the 4 ice-beam cannons mounted on it (Guass rifle does this reasonably well IIRC). Once that's done you can lock on to a few bits and blow them off.
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I'm at the part with the TAC in the first game. The thing about locking on is now up there with "get on the hydra's back." Looking on other parts of the internet, I have to destroy armor or whatever before I can lock on despite her telling me to lock on?
I believe you have to keep shooting her with everything you've got, though the game rarely ever gives you a visual confirmation that you're doing damage. Eventually something will "open up" and the TAC will be ready to use.
It's a very poorly done boss fight. At least your alien warship didn't fall through the aircraft carrier deck, as often happens!
All you need to do is destroy the 4 ice-beam cannons mounted on it (Guass rifle does this reasonably well IIRC). Once that's done you can lock on to a few bits and blow them off.
You destroy the Ice Beams, and shields drop on sections. Left wing, center, right wing, IIRC. Once you nuke each section, it will fly over you, and there's 4 more ice beams. Destroy them and a door opens. Quickly lock the TAC on the open door and fire.
It's not a hard boss fight, just keep dodging the ice beams. If you get frozen, one of the little bastards can shatter you.
I must have run into a bug. I did all that but couldn't lock on. It started working once I reloaded a save a few minutes earlier. That boss fight was very poorly done. Because I didn't have much ammo, I was pretty much force to run away from the enemies while trying to lock on to the stupid thing.
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Yeah, the final bosses (final level in general) is really buggy. I had a bug where the big walking tank thing just stood there invincible. Reloading a couple of minutes back fixed it, but it's annoying that the end of such an awesome game was so riddled with bugs.
Ammo wise - there's shitloads on the flight deck. You just need to look for it. There's a huge stash of railgunthing ammo, but it's close to the walking tank. You need to speed run in, grab it, and speed run out.
I fell through the floor into greyness quite a few times. The game was good except for that part. I didn't even mind the aliens because there weren't in the game for that long.
My bug on that section was that the huge Walker right before the mothership just walked up into the sky and stood there forever, untouchable. It was frustrating
There doesn't seem to be much of a way of telling how much you are damaging the walker on the last level. There was the occasional shit flying from him but not much else.
Warhead gives you a lot of new action sequences and awesome setpieces, and significantly improved the player's performance (buck) with awesome graphics (bang) over Crysis, which wasn't all that badly optimized to begin with.
It also crashes a lot, usually with no reason whatsoever, so save a lot. Still worth playing through.
Also there are a few times where you get to fight alongside other good-guy nanosuit soldiers, which is kind of cool. Like Rainbow Six but with cloaking and superjumping.
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I'm wondering if I should try running Warhead on extra high. I tried Crysis on extra high, on the level with the Ice Dome in the distance, and it ran at about 25fps (that's a guess - it was playable, but the slowdown was noticeable). If Warhead optimized better?
I'm wondering if I should try running Warhead on extra high. I tried Crysis on extra high, on the level with the Ice Dome in the distance, and it ran at about 25fps (that's a guess - it was playable, but the slowdown was noticeable). If Warhead optimized better?
Warhead supposedly runs a lot smoother. It did for me. Not a huge change, but you might get over 30fps with the same settings.
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I've just started playing with no shield (apart from for a few seconds if I'm about to fall or get blown up) or cloak, and it's SO FUN. Most of the time I'm in speed, and even without sprinting, it's so fast, and enemies never seem to get a lock on me. And then I run into them to knock them over, and then jump 10 metres through the air to shotgun them in the face.
I'll hate it if you lose the ability to long-jump when they combine strength and speed. This is truely the best way to play the game.
I've just started playing with no shield (apart from for a few seconds if I'm about to fall or get blown up) or cloak, and it's SO FUN. Most of the time I'm in speed, and even without sprinting, it's so fast, and enemies never seem to get a lock on me. And then I run into them to knock them over, and then jump 10 metres through the air to shotgun them in the face.
I'll hate it if you lose the ability to long-jump when they combine strength and speed. This is truely the best way to play the game.
This is something everyone should try at some point. You always hear "OLOL it's just armour mode!", but it's Speed mode that gives you the real edge in combat.
Also, I'm hoping that the combination of Strength and Speed means you'll be able to perform mega- jumps, like I always wanted to in Crysis. You can either jump high, or jump far, you can't do both. Whilst Speed jumping can be good enough, I was always craving to be able to jump far and high, traversing bases like a big ping pong ball with the enemies unable to get a decent lock on you.
I've just started playing with no shield (apart from for a few seconds if I'm about to fall or get blown up) or cloak, and it's SO FUN. Most of the time I'm in speed, and even without sprinting, it's so fast, and enemies never seem to get a lock on me. And then I run into them to knock them over, and then jump 10 metres through the air to shotgun them in the face.
I'll hate it if you lose the ability to long-jump when they combine strength and speed. This is truely the best way to play the game.
This is something everyone should try at some point. You always hear "OLOL it's just armour mode!", but it's Speed mode that gives you the real edge in combat.
Also, I'm hoping that the combination of Strength and Speed means you'll be able to perform mega- jumps, like I always wanted to in Crysis. You can either jump high, or jump far, you can't do both. Whilst Speed jumping can be good enough, I was always craving to be able to jump far and high, traversing bases like a big ping pong ball with the enemies unable to get a decent lock on you.
I could have sworn you can do a super longjump if you pop strength while you're still at speed-mode speeds and hit jump immediately afterwards
So I recently upgraded (rather forcibly) to a Radeon 5770, and I reinstalled Crysis. I can run the game at a stable 30fps with the settings cranked to Very High.
I want to commit to this game, having owned but never played past the first level, but I wanted to know the best way to optimize this game. Wasn't there a mod that was supposed to offer the same level of visuals but also reduce the resources?
Also, is there any way to play the game at 1920x1080 without black borders?
Finally, I hate the default 360 controls. Is there a way to customize them?
I get a black border around the screen in some games when outputting to my TV instead of my PC monitor. It could have something to do with your monitor.
Remember to go into the options and turn on suit shortcuts. With it on you'll switch to strength if you double tab jump or melee, switch to speed if you double tab sprint, switch to cloak if you double tab crouch or prone and switch to armor if you double tab back (as in walking backwards).
The only times I ever used the suit menu with that on was to go strength when I wanted to snipe.
So I recently upgraded (rather forcibly) to a Radeon 5770, and I reinstalled Crysis. I can run the game at a stable 30fps with the settings cranked to Very High.
I want to commit to this game, having owned but never played past the first level, but I wanted to know the best way to optimize this game. Wasn't there a mod that was supposed to offer the same level of visuals but also reduce the resources?
Also, is there any way to play the game at 1920x1080 without black borders?
Finally, I hate the default 360 controls. Is there a way to customize them?
Your monitor has a 16:10 ratio (max resolution 1920x1200 right?) and not 16:9.
I get a black border around the screen in some games when outputting to my TV instead of my PC monitor. It could have something to do with your monitor.
Remember to go into the options and turn on suit shortcuts. With it on you'll switch to strength if you double tab jump or melee, switch to speed if you double tab sprint, switch to cloak if you double tab crouch or prone and switch to armor if you double tab back (as in walking backwards).
The only times I ever used the suit menu with that on was to go strength when I wanted to snipe.
I've gotten pretty speedy with the suit menu. I can do things like make a Speed boosted long jump off of a high point and switch to strength before I hit the ground so I can take the landing, or when in stealth, instead of firing from stealth and going instantly to armor mode with depleted energy right at the beginning of a firefight, I quickly switch to Strength for better accuracy with the assault rifle or Speed for Run & Shotgun.
I rarely fumble it now.
But, now that you mention it, there really isn't a reason to not enable suit shortcuts. I guess I should do it so I have another method at my disposal.
So I recently upgraded (rather forcibly) to a Radeon 5770, and I reinstalled Crysis. I can run the game at a stable 30fps with the settings cranked to Very High.
I want to commit to this game, having owned but never played past the first level, but I wanted to know the best way to optimize this game. Wasn't there a mod that was supposed to offer the same level of visuals but also reduce the resources?
Also, is there any way to play the game at 1920x1080 without black borders?
Finally, I hate the default 360 controls. Is there a way to customize them?
Your monitor has a 16:10 ratio (max resolution 1920x1200 right?) and not 16:9.
Gotta buy a 16:9 one.
I'm playing it through my Samsung '45 LCD. It can max at 1920x1080 for PC.
I get a black border around the screen in some games when outputting to my TV instead of my PC monitor. It could have something to do with your monitor.
Remember to go into the options and turn on suit shortcuts. With it on you'll switch to strength if you double tab jump or melee, switch to speed if you double tab sprint, switch to cloak if you double tab crouch or prone and switch to armor if you double tab back (as in walking backwards).
The only times I ever used the suit menu with that on was to go strength when I wanted to snipe.
I've gotten pretty speedy with the suit menu. I can do things like make a Speed boosted long jump off of a high point and switch to strength before I hit the ground so I can take the landing, or when in stealth, instead of firing from stealth and going instantly to armor mode with depleted energy right at the beginning of a firefight, I quickly switch to Strength for better accuracy with the assault rifle or Speed for Run & Shotgun.
I rarely fumble it now.
But, now that you mention it, there really isn't a reason to not enable suit shortcuts. I guess I should do it so I have another method at my disposal.
I prefer the suit menu to the shortcuts. The shortcuts I'm always triggering by accident, and I've never really had any problems using the mouse-click menu, I can pretty much use it as rapidly as I want.
I'm getting some choppy audio while playing the game in 5.1 on my home theater. It's like the quality of the audio can't catch up. Is there a way to increase the audio performance so it sounds better?
Wasn't there a mod that was supposed to offer the same level of visuals but also reduce the resources?
You might be thinking of the Natural Mod, although I imagine there's several similar things since .cfg tweaking seems to be a big part of Crysis modding.
If you want to get your hands dirty, you could try the 'cheap' very high mode, documented over at TweakGuides. I think it's just what the Natural Mod does, though, so it might not be that useful.
So I recently upgraded (rather forcibly) to a Radeon 5770, and I reinstalled Crysis. I can run the game at a stable 30fps with the settings cranked to Very High.
I want to commit to this game, having owned but never played past the first level, but I wanted to know the best way to optimize this game. Wasn't there a mod that was supposed to offer the same level of visuals but also reduce the resources?
Also, is there any way to play the game at 1920x1080 without black borders?
Finally, I hate the default 360 controls. Is there a way to customize them?
Your monitor has a 16:10 ratio (max resolution 1920x1200 right?) and not 16:9.
Gotta buy a 16:9 one.
I'm playing it through my Samsung '45 LCD. It can max at 1920x1080 for PC.
Oh, it's a TV.
Yeah, PC to TV's are fucked regarding aspect ratios. You need advice I can't give.
Perhaps asking someone at the widescreenforums would yield positive results.
Also urr, what is your computer config besides the new Radeon?
So I recently upgraded (rather forcibly) to a Radeon 5770, and I reinstalled Crysis. I can run the game at a stable 30fps with the settings cranked to Very High.
I want to commit to this game, having owned but never played past the first level, but I wanted to know the best way to optimize this game. Wasn't there a mod that was supposed to offer the same level of visuals but also reduce the resources?
Also, is there any way to play the game at 1920x1080 without black borders?
Finally, I hate the default 360 controls. Is there a way to customize them?
Your monitor has a 16:10 ratio (max resolution 1920x1200 right?) and not 16:9.
Gotta buy a 16:9 one.
I'm playing it through my Samsung '45 LCD. It can max at 1920x1080 for PC.
Oh, it's a TV.
Yeah, PC to TV's are fucked regarding aspect ratios. You need advice I can't give.
Perhaps asking someone at the widescreenforums would yield positive results.
Also urr, what is your computer config besides the new Radeon?
Sometimes its the settings on your TV itself to get it to work with the PC and format the aspect ratios correctly.
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Yeah, as much as I would like it to keep the same gameplay style... Crysis and Warhead are still there for that. If they change Crysis 2, but it's still good, and I want some gameplay more liek the originals, I still have them.
I'm certain that the game will visually be at least up to Crysis' level. What I'm saying is that I don't expect them to push the specs much further than that. Their focus with this iteration is getting it to play on as many systems as possible instead. I expect maybe a few optional new visual additions, but realistically I don't believe it's going to be pushing system requirements much higher.
It runs pretty well at medium on my computer. It starts off a bit slow when it is still loading some crap and there are a few annoying slowdowns with some of the bigger set pieces involving a decent amount of people, but it still plays better than a lot of worse looking games.
Heck look at the recent Battlefield Bad Company 2 beta. I mean I can run Crysis in DX 10 and Crysis Wars maxed out except for one or two bits. BF:BC is hacking and coughing most of the way if I try. Even setting everything down to medium it still chugs sometimes.
People whine about the Cryengine being "unoptimised" but they don't know what they're talking about. For what it achieves it's actually really impressive. The complaint is more to do with the fact that for most you still can't max it out yet compared to other games. And that's also why I don't think they're going to be adding much visually to CE3. Realistically, they don't need to, and any additions would just push the system specs more.
Plus I'm certain the relative lack of foliage in NYC is going to help them run the levels faster still. I just hope the gameplay remains largely the same.
I wouldn't be surprised also to find that something they are doing with the new engine is optimizing hardware scaling. That would only make sense with consoles in the equation.
That's pretty much the whole point of CryEngine 3. There's no way that CE2 would run reasonably on console hardware. CE3 was designed from the ground up as a multiplatform engine. It's even possible for devs to run levels through the editor on all 3 systems concurrently to get an idea of performance.
It's a very poorly done boss fight. At least your alien warship didn't fall through the aircraft carrier deck, as often happens!
All you need to do is destroy the 4 ice-beam cannons mounted on it (Guass rifle does this reasonably well IIRC). Once that's done you can lock on to a few bits and blow them off.
You destroy the Ice Beams, and shields drop on sections. Left wing, center, right wing, IIRC. Once you nuke each section, it will fly over you, and there's 4 more ice beams. Destroy them and a door opens. Quickly lock the TAC on the open door and fire.
It's not a hard boss fight, just keep dodging the ice beams. If you get frozen, one of the little bastards can shatter you.
Ammo wise - there's shitloads on the flight deck. You just need to look for it. There's a huge stash of railgunthing ammo, but it's close to the walking tank. You need to speed run in, grab it, and speed run out.
How is Warhead? I'm installing it right now.
It also crashes a lot, usually with no reason whatsoever, so save a lot. Still worth playing through.
Also there are a few times where you get to fight alongside other good-guy nanosuit soldiers, which is kind of cool. Like Rainbow Six but with cloaking and superjumping.
Warhead supposedly runs a lot smoother. It did for me. Not a huge change, but you might get over 30fps with the same settings.
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I'll hate it if you lose the ability to long-jump when they combine strength and speed. This is truely the best way to play the game.
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This is something everyone should try at some point. You always hear "OLOL it's just armour mode!", but it's Speed mode that gives you the real edge in combat.
Also, I'm hoping that the combination of Strength and Speed means you'll be able to perform mega- jumps, like I always wanted to in Crysis. You can either jump high, or jump far, you can't do both. Whilst Speed jumping can be good enough, I was always craving to be able to jump far and high, traversing bases like a big ping pong ball with the enemies unable to get a decent lock on you.
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I could have sworn you can do a super longjump if you pop strength while you're still at speed-mode speeds and hit jump immediately afterwards
I want to commit to this game, having owned but never played past the first level, but I wanted to know the best way to optimize this game. Wasn't there a mod that was supposed to offer the same level of visuals but also reduce the resources?
Also, is there any way to play the game at 1920x1080 without black borders?
Finally, I hate the default 360 controls. Is there a way to customize them?
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Remember to go into the options and turn on suit shortcuts. With it on you'll switch to strength if you double tab jump or melee, switch to speed if you double tab sprint, switch to cloak if you double tab crouch or prone and switch to armor if you double tab back (as in walking backwards).
The only times I ever used the suit menu with that on was to go strength when I wanted to snipe.
Your monitor has a 16:10 ratio (max resolution 1920x1200 right?) and not 16:9.
Gotta buy a 16:9 one.
is to use a keyboard and mouse
you silly goose
Limed for truth.
I've gotten pretty speedy with the suit menu. I can do things like make a Speed boosted long jump off of a high point and switch to strength before I hit the ground so I can take the landing, or when in stealth, instead of firing from stealth and going instantly to armor mode with depleted energy right at the beginning of a firefight, I quickly switch to Strength for better accuracy with the assault rifle or Speed for Run & Shotgun.
I rarely fumble it now.
But, now that you mention it, there really isn't a reason to not enable suit shortcuts. I guess I should do it so I have another method at my disposal.
I'm playing it through my Samsung '45 LCD. It can max at 1920x1080 for PC.
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I prefer the suit menu to the shortcuts. The shortcuts I'm always triggering by accident, and I've never really had any problems using the mouse-click menu, I can pretty much use it as rapidly as I want.
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You might be thinking of the Natural Mod, although I imagine there's several similar things since .cfg tweaking seems to be a big part of Crysis modding.
If you want to get your hands dirty, you could try the 'cheap' very high mode, documented over at TweakGuides. I think it's just what the Natural Mod does, though, so it might not be that useful.
Oh, it's a TV.
Yeah, PC to TV's are fucked regarding aspect ratios. You need advice I can't give.
Perhaps asking someone at the widescreenforums would yield positive results.
Also urr, what is your computer config besides the new Radeon?
Sometimes its the settings on your TV itself to get it to work with the PC and format the aspect ratios correctly.