TheForgetfulBrain Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 I know what your thinking gay rave Instant buy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Extra respect to Crytek for that Easter Egg. :'D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 When the whole of New York has gone to shit, what else you gonna do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 I just noticed, it's kinda cool that your HUD/UI 'moves' around a bit with you. (I am saying this as someone who never played Crysis or the Crysis 2 'demo') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Crysis 2 is 3D. I'd imagine unlike most games that have a fixed 2D HUD, Crysis HUD is actually 3D, hence it bobbing and moving around. Quite alot of the menu and such is 3D too. Which when you're on a 2D system like 99% of people does get a tad annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Is it a 3D thing? I just thought it was a nice little touch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 I can make find out. I don't know if it's 3D is compatible with free 3D vision stuff or it's own thing. I think the leaked games 3D ias actually for the 360 cos the description clearly mentions having the right type of TV. btw I loaded up Crysis earlier, wondering if anyone was interested in a live stream later on? For those yet to play it may highlight a couple differences. Though I play a lot slower on Crysis 1 than 2, so I guess it could get a tad boring. Also I need to go in and tweak the config files, the energy is a bit low. I will say I'm actually a fan of Crysis 2 suit power control scheme over Crysis 1. Much more fluid in the second. The first you kind of use speed to dash, then you use defense to recharge n take bullets, then strength to punch them across the island. The levels are much nicer still. I guess Crysis 1 would be miles ahead if it had Crysis 2 controls, at the moment it's only a tidgy bit ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirandello Posted February 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 The game does look nice. Was watching what leaked footage there was and multiplayer/singleplayer were higher than what I expected them to be. Especially considering multiplayer, the guy playing it was running it at lowest possible settings (but moderate widescreen resolution) and it still looked something impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 I think I'm all set for Crysis 2. At 1680x1050 Very High everything, 4xAA and 16xAF the new 6950 never drops below 30fps and usually hovers around 40fps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Huh. I was just on Steam's page for Crysis 2, since that's now up. Under the rating: 'Blood Partial Nudity Strong Language Violence' The others are a given - but Partial Nudity? I was not expecting any T&A from Crysis. Granted, Partial Nudity tends to mean diddly, usually just like a swimsuit or something, but I have no idea where even that would come from in this game. Billboards or ads, maybe? Or maybe we get to see some dude's butt when he's doing some Crysis suit changing. Either way, weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Huh. I was just on Steam's page for Crysis 2, since that's now up. Under the rating: 'Blood Partial Nudity Strong Language Violence' The others are a given - but Partial Nudity? I was not expecting any T&A from Crysis. Granted, Partial Nudity tends to mean diddly, usually just like a swimsuit or something, but I have no idea where even that would come from in this game. Billboards or ads, maybe? Or maybe we get to see some dude's butt when he's doing some Crysis suit changing. Either way, weird. Always assume that partial nudity = man butt until told otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-02-22-crytek-crysis-2-leak-a-real-financial-concern I'm amazed, weeks on they've still not admitted to their gaf despite it being so fucking plain and obvious.And now they're spinning their own leak as "well you know, pre-order it, support us". And what was pretty sad. I was reading this story on D'toid yesterday n folks were saying they'd do just that. It's like some guy burning his house down, and then lamenting about how the chavs that were stood outside watching are a menace to society, and that's the bit everyone focuses on. Then a week later he laments that there's chavs in every town now, and requests money to help rebuild his house despite it being pretty obvious that since he was the only one in the house at the time, it was him. I'm losing substantial amount of respect of Crytek over this. You sleep in the bed you make. Also nice to see he's not kept up with the news, most folks are aware it's initial settings are pretty ugly, a fair few have figured out how to change them. But it's not the look folks are focusing on, it looks good even on medium, but the gameplay. And that won't change. The fact the only official demos coming out for it are MP ones should show they didn't really want people to see the campaign until the game loaded up in their drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Are you saying the SP is going to suck? I think of it more as the call of duty tards they want buying their game in large quantities focus on MP and not SP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Not going to. As I've said the past week or so, it does suck. At least from the perspective of someone who has played the first. I guess if it's a newer experience there's very little to compare it too except things like CoD, and it's on par or so with those. I'm still waiting on the PC demo to 100% say on MP, but the 360 demo seemed to strongly suggest that Power Struggle, my fave mode, has been scrapped in favour of just having the smaller "instant Action" TD style game. It'll be an okay game, especially if you're just used to COD, but apart from control scheme it's a shadow of it's predecessor. Here's Power Struggle: (btw Prestige Points are per game, not like a levelling up scheme like FPS have these days. So you start each game with 0 points n basic equipment then use PP as cash to buy weapons or vehicles. Oh yeah, Vehicles. Not gonna have those on the rooftops of NYC) And this is Instant Action: On board one of the boats that is the spawn point in one of the Power Struggle maps. In case you're wanting a scale of size between PS maps n IA maps. No vehicles on IA maps, or capturing stuff. You earn PP purely from killing. You got the cash you've got access to the alien tech. Man...power struggle was awesome. I used to primarily go around capturing places. I'd do it enough, and there was enough PP in it, that even with the lowest kill count I'd be on top of the score board with my Major's ranking. I'd like buddy up with 1 or 2 other guys also into the habit of capturing places and we'd be some kind of strike force(Buildings all have similar layout, and most folks tend to stay in the same place when defending. It's a very grenade friendly place). When I wasn't doing that I'd hole up n go sniping (once I had the Gauss rifle though), or go about in a helicopter just causing chaos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 I've heard very little of the SP actually. How much did you play and what are your thoughts in a bit more detail? (though i'm suspecting "more linear" at the minimum) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 http://tay.gappoi.or...dpost__p__35876 Read here, there's a video too though the first 5 minutes is very very spoilerific (sorry for anyone who watched that live) not so much for stuff from Crysis 1, still unsure how that ties up, but maybe something you'd want to find out first when you're the one behind the control pad. If you wish for any more info just ask. As for how far, I got to this lab place then it glitched out. At least I assume it glitched out. The guy in the helicopter gun seat took way too many clips to the head compared to everyone else. Also when I restarted that section the guys in the lab I'd killed before were now in the T-pose. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110221181002AAqPbqe Somehow this guy apparently beat it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Not sure how Crytek's development works, but isn't it possible that people involved in other parts of the production could have leaked it? Possibly somewhere at the publishers? Happens a lot with films and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Crytek n Crytek UK. The engine was inhouse. I don't think there was any review code sent out (I'm not sure but I don't think review copies come with the tools to build the game too ) In films there's many spaces to have things leaked, like Wolversine Origins was leaked from the SFX house. A film can end up spread amongst many different places, from the place doing the foley, the place doing the sound track/orchestra, can be a dozen SFX houses working on it. Plenty room for things to get split up and leak. Though fairly rare that a film will be leaked in that stage. They're also all water marked. Most of the movie leaks happen around distribution stage. It's the copy folks want. Same with games. Rarely any point releasing the film without audio or effects. Same with a game without levels complete, sounds n VA put in. Crytek employ over 500 people(600+ including Crytek UK). This isn't some dinky studio where you can spin the bottle n find the culprit. I'd imagine that there is some internal investigation going on. It's just a bit annoying that as a company they're not accepting any fault in this. If they had increased security then they'd be hunkey dorey. Also some more thought on the financial loss comments, I don't think they're talking about not selling copies of the game. I think since the leak also came with a bunch of dev tools, that they're talking losses on selling on the engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Can't read that article while I'm at work so I'm a little in the dark. That's my point though, I don't know if Crytek have people outside doing scores or sound effects and such. Possibly an unfinished version was given to EA as a demonstration of what's going on. Is QA and testing all done inhouse? I'm not talking about review copies (which clearly this wasn't). If we're talking major assets and stuff though, it's a bit lapse; but then I doubt a studio's going to want to say 'we're a bunch of cock-ups and we can't trust our employees'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 I can't see why they'd ship off the full game with tools to a VA studio though. (and at the size of the studio I'd guess they have their own internal sound dept) As for coming out n saying "whoopsie, our fault", it's not a hard thing to say. Just a quick "we don't understand how this could of happened, but there is an ongoing internal investigation. Everyone is disappointed this happened, but Crytek staff are keeping an upbeat attitude". Boom. No need to come out with this whole "dirty PC gaming pirates, you can see why it's packaged goods is failing". Fuck I wonder what they'd say if it was the PS3 or 360 build that got leaked. Which the settings on the game and pointers in the files suggest it actually is the pre-compiled 360 version anyway. (I don't know of many keyboards that come with a "Start" key for you to press ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 http://torrentfreak.com/crysis-2-leak-fails-to-result-in-massive-download-fest-110213/ It's pretty old, only recently come across it. I wonder if this article is what spurred EG's recent look back on the HL2 source code leak, since that gets a mention in this article with how it affected it diddly squat. 12million diddly squats in fact. Though they also comment leaks aren't a huge issue "unless they’re terrible games of course." I'm maybe a glass half empty guy on this situation but I wouldn't say folks aren't picking this up because they want to support Crytek n throw their weight behind the devs, but because the words "Developer build" are pretty scary and while folks may be up for cracking a game, they may not be comfortable that they'd know how to get a developer build working. Probably think it requires programming skills. (Though torrent freak do briefly touch on that possibility at the end) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 A new trailer. It gives the start of Crysis 2 more sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excaliburps Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 PS3 footage incoming... Finally confirmation that PS3 users will get a MP "beta". Use that term lightly as I know it'll be a demo more than anything. You guys been liking the MP from what you tasted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 i dont get your wording. a "demo" is BETTER than a beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excaliburps Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 i dont get your wording. a "demo" is BETTER than a beta. I mean that they're going to be using the term "beta". But the game's done so it's not really a beta. Unless they give us the beta build. Demo, beta in this case is kinda moot I think. Unless they're willing to change some gameplay mechanics from our feedback. I do want to try it out though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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