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[Dennis]

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

At first I thought the frog was going to say "get out".

 

[iNvid02]

hahaha

 

[Stallion Free]

Looks amazing, but these engine developers need to stop encouraging the use of lens flares and that type of garbage.

 

[Megasoum]

Looks amazing, but these engine developers need to stop encouraging the use of lens flares and that type of garbage.

Yeah and they have the BF3 dirty lens effect too.

 

[Dennis]

At first I thought the frog was going to say "get out".

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

lol

 

[Majanew]

.gif should say 'Toad You' as in Crytek toad you UE4 is late.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Right Click>Save As

 

[Zombie James]

Yeah and they have the BF3 dirty lens effect too.

Isn't the Crysis character guy wearing a visor?

 

[Ace 8095]

That there's one pretty toad.

 

[clutch.as.it.gets.]

if the new xbox comes out fall 2013, there will be a crysis collection (hopefully) at launch.

I hope that too. Crysis pc, Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 on max. settings. I would buy such a crysis trilogy box.

 

[Mango Positive]

Way stoked. Top secret toad tech. I just finished installing my new GTX 680. I should probably see what the Crysises or Metro look like.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

I want a platforming game starring this toad.

 

[iNvid02]

they should do what squeenix did for hitman and offer a sniper challenge type bonus for preordering

pre-order crysis 3 and get a small playable demo level as toad, beats getting a shitty preorder weapon pack

 

[XOMTOR]

CryEngine delivers again, simply stunning.

 

[RoboPlato]

Watched it again and the particle lighting scene is one of the best visual things I've ever seen. If they optimize this engine well I could see them finally getting a decent number of licensees for next-gen. I really want there to be more engine competition.

 

[sk3]

Hopefully they are using tesselation wisely this time instead of throwing thousands of polygons at square blocks like in Crysis 2. It's like they wanted that game to run like shit.

 

[Dictator93]

Looks amazing, but these engine developers need to stop encouraging the use of lens flares and that type of garbage.

In crysis 3, you are in a suit, with a lens.

 

[Corky]

I wish more games used the cryengine engines :/... more non-f2p korean mmo games...

 

[nelsonroyale]

Now that looks a proper step up for crytek...I can happily say that, even if it is just a tech demo, blows away the first crysis visually

 

[RoboPlato]

In crysis 3, you are in a suit, with a lens.

Yeah, it makes complete sense here. I get why people didn't like it in BF3 though. I wear glasses normally so I mentally filter that stuff out so I didn't even realize those effects are in until someone points them out.

 

[Cwarrior]

why does this look so cool

dat toad tech.

I haven't been impressed like this in a long time.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Am I the only one who's more impressed with Cryengine 3 demo than the Unreal 4 demo?

 

[subversus]

Am I the only one who's more impressed with Cryengine 3 demo than the Unreal 4 demo?

they look pretty much the same.

 

[Meccanical]

Am I the only one who's more impressed with Cryengine 3 demo than the Unreal 4 demo?

I was completely unimpressed by the Unreal demo so...nah, you ain't the only one.

I thought Samaritan looked better than the UE4 demo.

 

[Megasoum]

Isn't the Crysis character guy wearing a visor?

Sure, and anyway, I have to admit, it never bottered me, even in BF3. Always thought it looked cool but I know that a lot of people don't like it.

 

[Corky]

they look pretty much the same.

Guess the difference is the "end result"...

one engine is giving us c3, the other fortnite.

 

[Graphics Horse]

No really toad, stop turning your neck, you're not supposed to be able to do that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00jrXRMlZOY

 

[childplease]

Pc gaming has ruined me. Anyone else not impressed at all with the video ?

I can't help but feel that I have seen or played better already.

 

[Strife91]

Absolutely stunning. I honestly believe Crytek are 100% justified in saying that CryEngine 3 is already doing next-gen level stuff and things that UE is just catching up on. Some of the things in this trailer impress me significantly more than Particle Engine 4.

http://youtu.be/9Leohvejqyo?hd=1

 

[Always-honest]

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

That Toad is incredible.

As is the rest of the demo.

 

[Meccanical]

Pc gaming has ruined me. Anyone else not impressed at all with the video ?

I can't help but feel that I have seen or played better already.

I'm not impressed by anything that just looks pretty.

So honestly as cool as all this is my overall reaction is just "okay".

 

[RoboPlato]

Am I the only one who's more impressed with Cryengine 3 demo than the Unreal 4 demo?

I agree.

 

[DerZuhälter]

To bad Crytek doesn't have a good sense of art direction to go along with that tech.

I hate their lighting choice and overall aesthetic for Crysis 2 and Crysis 3.

They should have gone further in this direction:

iknowthatfeel.jpg

Somehow everything looks like clay and kind of rubbery. Especially the trees. In certain spots Crysis 2 artstyle looked down right cartoonish.
Still prefer Crysis 1 (with the right mods).

 

[scitek]

Pc gaming has ruined me. Anyone else not impressed at all with the video ?

I can't help but feel that I have seen or played better already.

where?

EDIT: Here's the difference. Everything in that video is from an actual, playable level in Crysis 3.

 

[KageMaru]

Looks great, can't wait to see how horrible it will look on consoles =p

It's better than Bungie who released 1080p screenshots of Halo 3 in all their marketing with some insane amount of SSAA applied

You act like every other studio doesn't use bullshots, oh wait they do...

Because why not? We need devs who are willing to push the PC. I'll take every bell and whistle we can get.

My main concern would be how they implement these effects. IIRC tessellation was used in a very inefficient way with the DX11 update in C2.

CryEngine is best engine. Hopefully more people use Crytek's offering come next gen rather than the Unreal Engine overload that we got this generation.

While the engine is robust, I've heard the tools lag behind Unreal Engine, which is a big deal if true.

 

[clutch.as.it.gets.]

Am I the only one who's more impressed with Cryengine 3 demo than the Unreal 4 demo?

No, you are not the only one.

 

[Stallion Free]

Isn't the Crysis character guy wearing a visor?

In crysis 3, you are in a suit, with a lens.

Gameplay comes first.

 

[scitek]

IIRC tessellation was used in a very inefficient way with the DX11 update in C2.

I think it's more that the hardware available at the time was bad at tessellation.

 

[les papillons sexuels]

In crysis 3, you are in a suit, with a lens.

in reallife I wear glasses, guess what when my glasses are dirty, it still doesn't look that gross, also i rearely ever see a lensflare, and I never see light cascade around a subject like they show. It's garbage, unrealistic, ugly and only creates needless clutter on the screen and interferes with the gameplay.

 

[RoboPlato]

I think it's more that the hardware available at the time was bad at tessellation.

They didn't do it well. For some reason things like cement blocks had really complex tessellation maps inside of them, completely invisible but a huge drain on performance. I assume that, with 3 being built with tessellation in mind from the beginning, it'll be done better. Nvidia cards had no problem with it but AMD's struggled.

 

[DJIzana]

You know what. I'm not huge in first person shooters. I've realized the only type of first person shooters I DO enjoy, are futuristic or as close to futuristic as possible. (Halo and Unreal Tournament, mainly.)

THIS... this is my FPS this generation. Crysis is amazing. I'm more than tempted now, to upgrade my graphics card, than ever!

 

[AJSousuke]

Wow, that looks like 100x100 million times better than the elemental demo.

I seriously think that CE3 > UE4X1000

 

[scitek]

They didn't do it well. For some reason things like cement blocks had really complex tessellation maps inside of them, completely invisible but a huge drain on performance. I assume that, with 3 being built with tessellation in mind from the beginning, it'll be done better. Nvidia cards had no problem with it but AMD's struggled.

My 6950 struggled with tessellation in every game with it, even Metro 2033 and Arkham City.

 

[Sini]

You can read here how bad job they did with tessellation in C2
http://techreport.com/articles.x/21404

 

[Demon Ice]

Not bad. Spotted a few areas where Maldo's Texture Mod would offer clear improvements. I still dream of the day that devs take full advantage of PC GPUs with ridiculously detailed textures.

 

[subversus]

My Nvidia likes tesselation.

 

[Dictator93]

Gameplay comes first.

It could be part of the gameplay. Where you are limited by your visor visually at time. Like blinded perhaps (see metro last light).

 

[Sinistral]

I'm hoping these new consoles can take advantage of this stuff at 60fps 1080p.a I was really impressed with the fog/sky break up shadows. Lighting/GI, soft shadows and real time reflections will be critical next gen for graphic fidelity. Being littered with thousands of particles. As a 3D artist myself, these are the first things I notice.

Was reading some Siggraph white papers today, really interested in seeing where Sparse Voxel Octree technology goes. I don't know if there is a Siggraph thread but, this was interesting to read through, which lead me to looking up SVO. http://www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/new-13912730

Edit: I do hope we see a nice spread of engine use among devs. PS360 was no doubt UE3's domain.