So I picked this up a few hours ago and wow it leaves a pretty good first impression. The beginning had some great set pieces and the unreal engine is can look great when some color is actually put into. Spent a good amount of time with Anarchy mode and it gets really addicted the further you get into the waves. Looking to play some more but so far it seems awesome.
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Hungry Ghost
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Is there a lot of replay value for this game? I played the demo over at a friends house and loved it, but I don't really wanna drop 60 bucks if its bare bones.
Fuck it, decided to bring out the big guns:
Funny thing is, it plays a lot better on the bigger monitor. Guess there was a resolution thing involved.
On my way to the third chapter now, and damn that boss fight against
was intense. Playing on Very Hard btw.
excuse the crappy pic
Funny thing is, it plays a lot better on the bigger monitor. Guess there was a resolution thing involved.
On my way to the third chapter now, and damn that boss fight against
the big-ass plant
Fucking christ the Penetrator is good. Just got around 2500 on one chain kill because of it, I think people are having a lot of trouble with the Air Strike kill from it(impale a thumped enemy into a standing enemy), and don't realize that after you shoot someone with a charged drill you can hit RT on another enemy to make them fly at them. I just swooped one down and took out 4 guys, got a huge shiskebab score and they then flew up into the sky for a bunch of mile high club.
Teknoman said:
Because these lazy fucks didn't get the game to render 16x10 native. It's better to just run 16x9 and let your monitor handle the black bars, at least then you'll get a minor performance boost. I'm running 1080p instead of 1200 because of this crap.
Untracked said:This game is incredible! Such awesome art, sound and really fun gameplay.
Found a bug on Act 3 Chapter 2 though, this guy is having the same problem...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swnxR6ac-j0
Gonna restart the whole chapter and cross my fingers
Got this on the PC version. It sets you a bit far back, but you pretty much have to restart the chapter. There's a part where you have to use an elevator, just make sure that BOTH partners are on it before activating and it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Certainly not game-killing, just time-wasting.
ConradCervantes
Banned
Neuromancer said:
Surely Cliff and Co. will be adding in such a feature via a FREE Title Update???
Heads up for SLI users :
Found this on the guru3d boards, when I saw that one of my cards was at 1% usage and the other at 99% with terrible performance.
"The .exe they have by default is wrong (shippingpc-geargame.exe). You must add the correct .exe by then clicking on 'Add application to current profile' and selecting ShippingPC-StormGame.exe
- Once added scroll down to SLI section
- In section 'Number of GPUs to use on SLI rendering mode' select 'SLI_GPU_COUNT_TWO' for those that have SLI
- Click 'Apply changes'"
The above steps of course referring to nvidia inspector. Did this and now both cards are around 50% usage but my perfomance is now flawless.
Also, fuck my life for having to ask this : Is there anyway to turn of the aimassist on pc? ._______.
Found this on the guru3d boards, when I saw that one of my cards was at 1% usage and the other at 99% with terrible performance.
"The .exe they have by default is wrong (shippingpc-geargame.exe). You must add the correct .exe by then clicking on 'Add application to current profile' and selecting ShippingPC-StormGame.exe
- Once added scroll down to SLI section
- In section 'Number of GPUs to use on SLI rendering mode' select 'SLI_GPU_COUNT_TWO' for those that have SLI
- Click 'Apply changes'"
The above steps of course referring to nvidia inspector. Did this and now both cards are around 50% usage but my perfomance is now flawless.
Also, fuck my life for having to ask this : Is there anyway to turn of the aimassist on pc? ._______.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Indeed. I have some minor gripes with the game, but it is as about as fun and stimulating as I hoped it to be.lawblob said:
Great job, PCF and Epic!
darkpaladinmfc
Member
Yes, go into the game options.Corky said:
Corky said:
Can you do this through Nvidia control panel? As I'm not very good with Nvidia inspector?
If not could you post a screenie of the settings?
:EDIT:If I change a profile in Nvidia inspector (say mass effect 2) and apply it, what exactly does it change? Do I have to have Nvidia inspector on the whole time to witness the changes or does it alter something in the actual drivers themselves?
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
This PC port is utterly deplorable. Very, very upset with Epic and People Can Fly.
ThingontheFloor
Member
Just ordered this from Amazon.com (still a $20 credit deal going on) on 360 after falling in love with it on PC. Gears 3 beta doesn't hurt either, I assume that they are still selling Epic Edition copies since it's still launch week.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
mrklaw said:
It has significant frame drops if you're not running in a 16:9 resolution (not a problem for me), has shitty GFWL issues, and due to shitty optimisation wont recognise many graphics cards, and will instead default to the lowest settings every time no matter what you set it on. I've had to download a custom tweak from the forums to actually get the game on anything higher than low.
I'm very upset about this. UE3 games usually work really well on PC, and I wouldn't have expected issues like this from Epic.
Narpas Sword0
Member
ConradCervantes said:
they'd have to reset the echoes leaderboards.
i hope they focus on fixing their fucking broken checkpoint system that ruins 2/3rds of the game.
Z_Y
Member
Wasn't a fan of the
sequence. Seemed pretty limited on how I could kill enemies...thus low scores...and went on far too long. Also trying to shoot the Vultures out of the sky with the lag between when I squeezed the trigger and shots fired was difficult for me.
Did I miss something during that sequence? Was there a more creative way to handle it?
remote control dinosaur
Did I miss something during that sequence? Was there a more creative way to handle it?
I haven't really had an issue with the PC port. I'm not getting huge frames, but then again, I'm still on a 4 year-old rig (planning for a massive, all-encompassing upgrade sometime this year). I still have it maxed out, though, and it's perfectly playable. The 16:9 thing is a shame, though.
Mouse is a bit laggy in the menus but in the actual game, it feels perfect (unlike Dead Space 1 where it was laggy both in menus and in-game).
Playing the actual game feels great, since PCF knows how to make it feel great. They know how important responsiveness in both the movement and shooting is to the feel of an FPS, so they put clear emphasis on those things. I haven't played a game that moved or felt this smooth and responsive since, well, probably Painkiller.
Though I guess UT3 felt pretty good as well, as a rare modern example of that type of game.
Mouse is a bit laggy in the menus but in the actual game, it feels perfect (unlike Dead Space 1 where it was laggy both in menus and in-game).
Playing the actual game feels great, since PCF knows how to make it feel great. They know how important responsiveness in both the movement and shooting is to the feel of an FPS, so they put clear emphasis on those things. I haven't played a game that moved or felt this smooth and responsive since, well, probably Painkiller.
Though I guess UT3 felt pretty good as well, as a rare modern example of that type of game.
ThingontheFloor
Member
big_z said:
umm, doesn't it? I'm not at my computer right now but I could've sworn if you go into campaign mode, and then chapter select, it should tell you how many bug swarms/newsbots you've collected for each chapter.
Lunchbox said:
So.... I don't suppose I could get in on that? XD
I haven't had a chance to play with a good team yet, but if that achievement really takes 4 hours... then goddamn. I don't have enough friends that have this game and would be willing to do that. And I thought the ODST Endure achievement was bad...
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Beat it on PC last night. I had a complete blast with it. A few segments really made me think of Painkiller. Lots of great action moments. I laughed pretty hard when
Funny stuff. I'm a little sad there was no
All in all, it's probably my favorite first person shooter since Painkiller.
I can't wait to see what People Can Fly do next.
Edit:
Man, I mentioned Painkiller a lot. I must love it.
the general said I wouldn't like this new set of soldiers, the door opens and there was a chain gun surrounded by troops staring me right in the face.
real face off with the giant beast. Yeah yeah, you shot him from the helicopter but I wanted a Painkiller style showdown.
I can't wait to see what People Can Fly do next.
Edit:
Man, I mentioned Painkiller a lot. I must love it.
<3 Painkiller
FrostuTheNinja said:
Painkiller is fucking awesome. I wasn't surprised by either the visuals or the gameplay in Bulletstorm because Painkiller had already nailed both several years back.
A lot of people may not recall but in 2004, Painkiller was viewed by many as possibly the best-looking game out there, in a year that saw Half-Life 2, Far Cry and Doom 3 also come out (2004 was quite the year for PC tech).
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Zeliard said:
No joke. Painkiller just hit so many notes correctly. People Can Fly did some amazing work with the weapons, enemy flow, boss fights, powers, level/enemy design, etc. And they did it all with such technical finesse.
I remember people giving me so much crap for playing more Painkiller than any of the games you mentioned. "Bu bu but head crabs! Bu bu but island! Bu bu but flashlights!" My reply was usually, "Bu bu but stake gun!"
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Spookie said:
Here. I dont know if it will actually improve performance, but it allowed me to set graphics higher than low as it kept defaulting back.
I've sunk in some time now, up to Act 2, and despite my woes with the PC port the actual game is fucking amazing. Its so much fun. This is how shooters are supposed to be.
AgentOtaku
Member
Is the mouselook/aiming really that fucked up by default? Guess I'll find out soon...
Neuromancer
Member
I didn't know you could do this either, that's good. I guess all your weapons don't carry over from the end of the game though, is that correct?big_z said: