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Aliens Versus Predator Official Thread of Interspecies Carnage and Bill Paxton Quotes
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So, I will be getting this game after work today, impressions are good from gaffers with the game, right?
I trust the opinion of gaffers over reviewers who are intimidated by predator and alien controls that apparently are not exactly the same as playing a human in COD :lol
About the graphics on PC, judging from the screenshots posted it looks ok, but are some of the texture a bit low res and disappointing ? Weapons for example ?
I trust the opinion of gaffers over reviewers who are intimidated by predator and alien controls that apparently are not exactly the same as playing a human in COD :lol
About the graphics on PC, judging from the screenshots posted it looks ok, but are some of the texture a bit low res and disappointing ? Weapons for example ?
DennisK4 said:
It looks great, not stunning, but it does the job. Kinda rough around the edges in parts but there are some really great looking set pieces and vistas. The character models are particularly good. Seeing aliens crawling around the environment is poetry in motion. Weapons look good and very true-to-source - the pulse rifle is perfect.
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...but you see the Alien in that movie and it is man sized, 7 foot max. Besides, have you not seen Aliens? Is not like the first one where you never see it. :lolevalue said:
You just made me realize I missed out on some real tension in Alien. I think I saw Aliens first as a kid, so I already knew what the creature would look like in Alien. I should watch that movie again to see if there's some truth to this new revelation.I should be doing hw said:
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Yeah, the two movies are entirely different in that respect. Alien's only real merit (for me) as a movie was that you didn't know what the fuck it was. When the chestburster emerged it was like "HOLY SHI-" and then you had no idea what it looks like apart from brief glimpses where it shows to have grown. Aliens ruined that aspect by showing the Aliens in full detail for extended periods of time. Not that I think Aliens is bad (my favorite movie) but the effect of know what they look like lessens Alien's dramatic effect. With Aliens being so fucking awesome I gladly sacrifice the first one though. :lolUnicorn said:
I mean even the lore was sort of different in the first, I think that in the original script humans became the pods, there was no Queen at all. I prefer that they are like ants so Cameron's take is better (to me). I know there are Alien purists out there somewhere though.
TheVisualizer
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I should be doing hw said:
I just got around to seeing the original Alien all the way thru last week for the first time, I always used to catch the very end of it when flipping the channels. I was never really interested in it being spoiled by the awesomeness of Aliens, but its a great movie in its own right, its got really good pacing and puts new context on some of the things that happen and are said in Aliens.
Tokubetsu
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Phloxy said:
Yea I don't think I could play this alone then. I tried playing Dead Space when I had just gotten my Sennheiser 595s...Never again.
In the whole alien and aliens arguement though, as some said earlier, each really bring something to the table. Alien has GREAT pacing and really puts the fear of god in you. That clicking, the tail its just so great.
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Oh, of course it is. But the original effect is lessened by a degree because imagination is always more powerful than reality.TheVisualizer said:
No shit, it being the first movie and all :lolTheVisualizer said:
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The noise the pods make when opening... grossest sound effect ever.Tokubetsu said:
Finished the marine campaign. lol sequel.
Took me about 6 hours, quite comparable to the campaign length in avp2, only this one didn't have a truckload of weapons you never got a chance to use. (seriously, you got to play with the sniper rifle for 3 SECONDS at the very end of the campaign in that one). The jungle and temple areas were definitely the weakest, but still had some great moments. It got a lot better towards the end, and a certain enemy that shows up late in the game is really tough and intimidating, unlike it's past versions. Great game, now on to alien.
Rookie spoilers:
Took me about 6 hours, quite comparable to the campaign length in avp2, only this one didn't have a truckload of weapons you never got a chance to use. (seriously, you got to play with the sniper rifle for 3 SECONDS at the very end of the campaign in that one). The jungle and temple areas were definitely the weakest, but still had some great moments. It got a lot better towards the end, and a certain enemy that shows up late in the game is really tough and intimidating, unlike it's past versions. Great game, now on to alien.
Rookie spoilers:
he's black 
MisterAnderson
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How are the difficulty levels? Are people finding normal to be too easy/just right? I normally choose hard but I don't want to feel like some kind of pansy ass predator due to an unbalanced/cheap hard mode.
MisterAnderson said:
I found the difficulty to be pretty good. Hell I died at the first alien I fought after getting the freaking pulse rifle because I totally underestimated him. They're not pushovers, and later swarms can kill you easily if you don't stay on top of them. Most of the time it's not too difficult though. I think hard will be a great challenge, and I'm terrified of doing the last 2 levels on nightmare.
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Hmm...so I just played the Predator training level (ran in Direct X 11 mode - card only supports DX10). Ran great even with 4x forced AA. No slowdowns or hiccups or anything - max graphics settings. After the training, it goes to load the next stage and crashes during the loading screen. Now every time I try to play, it freezes on the loading screen, except if I choose to do the Predator training mission (so far the only successful time I've gotten the game to run). I haven't tried Direct X 9 mode yet, but will continue to experiment.
My drivers are up to date and I reinstalled them anyway just in case. Just now it crashed to a freaking blue screen talking about a memory dump or something, and it auto-rebooted my computer. What the hell gives? Is anyone else having this issue? I have:
W7 64-bit
i7 920
Radeon 4890 1gb
6 GB ddr3 RAM
Edit: It works in DX9 mode, although forcing AA doesn't seem to work at all in this mode. (come to think of it not sure if it even worked in DX11 mode). Regardless, not sure why the hell the game keeps crashing to all hell if I try to load a level in DX11. I thought maybe it was because I was running D3D Overrider to force triple buffering but even after turning that off there's no change.
My drivers are up to date and I reinstalled them anyway just in case. Just now it crashed to a freaking blue screen talking about a memory dump or something, and it auto-rebooted my computer. What the hell gives? Is anyone else having this issue? I have:
W7 64-bit
i7 920
Radeon 4890 1gb
6 GB ddr3 RAM
Edit: It works in DX9 mode, although forcing AA doesn't seem to work at all in this mode. (come to think of it not sure if it even worked in DX11 mode). Regardless, not sure why the hell the game keeps crashing to all hell if I try to load a level in DX11. I thought maybe it was because I was running D3D Overrider to force triple buffering but even after turning that off there's no change.
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brain_stew said:
As a buyer of graphics hardware i couldn't give a toss if it makes things easier for developers! This is actually Direct x returning to it's dissapointing form, back in the day it was always a poor mans glide, open gl.
I'm guessing you're talking about those alien ribs on walls, do they jut out with tesselation?
I wanna play!
DarkoMaledictus
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WuselDusel said:
Its the textures, they are extremely low quality, even on pc it doesn't look very hot. Was extremely hyped for this game... until I played the demo
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WuselDusel said:
Playing it on the PC, I'm thinking it might be toned down on the consoles and that's where the graphics are suffering. Yeah, the bad graphics complaint on the PC is just silly.
DarkoMaledictus said:Its the textures, they are extremely low quality, even on pc it doesn't look very hot. Was extremely hyped for this game... until I played the demo
Nope, not seeing that.
Mister Anderson said:
Aliens are deviously hard to kill. I'm playing on normal, and they take a few shots to put down for sure. Shot placement is very important because some pieces are easy to knock off than others. Still though, you can cause them to be spurting blood and they will still come after you. I've had more than a few come after me after taking off one of their legs (albeit, they are much slower then).
But what is really killer about aliens is their agility. In a couple of the previous games, they pretty much run at you in a straight line. In the last one, they added surface climbing, but it was still pretty much straightforward. Yeah, not so much here. They will jump surface to surface. Run behind than over obstacles. They are constantly moving and only sometimes in their whole path to you do they run in a straight line. This game will improve your overall aim.
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as far as i am aware AA is DX11 only... and only through their in game solution. it was a nice surprise to me, cause the type of lighting they use doesn't work with MSAA at all as far as i know and was expecting the game to have no AA.Truant said:
Dave1988
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I just received my Survivor Edition (PS3), which comes with 4 multiplayer maps. As of yet, the maps still aren't online, but here's what it says about them.
Multi maps:
Docks - Horror comes from the deep at Weyland-Yutani's abandoned dockyard.
Outpost - Reclaimed by BG-386's voracious jungle plant life, this is the perfect hunting ground for all manner of wildlife.
Survivor maps:
Hive - Deep in the heart of Freya's Prospect lies the Xenomorph Hive. Beware all who enter here.
Machine: Will you brave the Refinery? The light may be on, but nobody's home...yet.
Multi maps:
Docks - Horror comes from the deep at Weyland-Yutani's abandoned dockyard.
Outpost - Reclaimed by BG-386's voracious jungle plant life, this is the perfect hunting ground for all manner of wildlife.
Survivor maps:
Hive - Deep in the heart of Freya's Prospect lies the Xenomorph Hive. Beware all who enter here.
Machine: Will you brave the Refinery? The light may be on, but nobody's home...yet.
Insane Metal
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Oh welp, they can't hide those muddy textures, they're all over.
/sarcasm
Anyway the demo is really shitty, is the final game any better? The graphics seem nice, but what about gameplay?
/sarcasm
Anyway the demo is really shitty, is the final game any better? The graphics seem nice, but what about gameplay?
plagiarize
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all modeswinnarps said:
you can customise the number or private slots and whether to have friendly fire on or off.BattleMonkey
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Playing it a bit, the visuals are not bad, they kinda get mediocre looking once you leave the dark areas though. The game shines in the dark environments and really fits the theme of the movies, but the outside stuff is kinda meh.
The Alien AI is pretty wonky too, they seem to often get stuck on terrain or just don't make much sense in how they come at you where they are on you one minute and suddenly one will randomly start wandering off slowly before turning back to charge again. Also had couple aliens basically hide behind terrain... guess they got stuck, but it looked funny since they appeared to be in hiding yet there wagging tail was sticking out of crates.
The Alien AI is pretty wonky too, they seem to often get stuck on terrain or just don't make much sense in how they come at you where they are on you one minute and suddenly one will randomly start wandering off slowly before turning back to charge again. Also had couple aliens basically hide behind terrain... guess they got stuck, but it looked funny since they appeared to be in hiding yet there wagging tail was sticking out of crates.
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If you die in survivor mode, do you ever come back? Its a little silly to be dead for more then 5 minutes as your buddy still kicks ass and you and another guy have to just sit and wait till he dies.
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Is it out yet? I only see 10.1 on the site.WuselDusel said: