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Crysis 3 |OT| 1. Nomad / 1.5 Psycho / 2. ??? / 3. Prophet
- Thread starter DieH@rd
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You can redeem the key on origin and not actually use the disc
What do you mean? The physics are still present. Reduced, yes, but you can still destroy huts, slice trees in half, and splinter crates. Unfortunately, while object blur is used in some capacity, they disable it on objects with physics applied which kills some of the impressive effects one could experience on PC. Object blur made a world a difference in how the physics looked in motion.
Oh really. Well, that changes things... thanks!
THE LETHAL WEAPONS OF CRYSIS 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PwrluMgmQJI
:-O @ that facility @ 1.25
:-OOOO @ shotgun blast at the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PwrluMgmQJI
:-O @ that facility @ 1.25
:-OOOO @ shotgun blast at the end
I did this with Dead Space 3. I almost wish Amazon would have opened the box, read me the key and thrown away the box and disc....
Fuck. I dont have any money. No Crysis 3 for me for a while
I know that feel broham.
And then I'm gonna have to stay away from this topic, too.
BloodMoney
Banned
I think the majority of arguments coming out of the PC camp arn't the result of the engine not being capable of running open levels, but the fact that Crytek obviously designed Crysis 2 with console constraints in mind (which resulted in a corridor shooter instead of a semi-sandbox shooter).
Crysis 1 was a beast, and chewed up modern PC hardware at the time. Only now can you run C1 max'd with min 60fps... its easy to do that with C2. To explain that fact people love to say "oh C1 wasn't well optimized" which is a BS argument. Crytek simply dropped the ball on C2 so they could get it in the hands of more people (people with consoles).
Its simply a shame to see how things changed from C1/warhead to C2. Those changes upset the PC camp... which i think is understandable.
PC fanboy rant aside... regardless of the fidelity of C1 on consoles, i was personally amazed it happened.
I'm sorry but Crysis 1 did suffer from optimization issues, whether you want to believe it or not. It had memory leaks, it had excessive render calls in some areas, effects that weren't properly optimized. There's a reason why Warhead managed to keep a lot of the open space but ran miles better.
HoneyBunch360
Member
Also got my key from GMG and preloading on Origin. Check the "Keys" tab in your GMG account.
I wouldn't call C2 a corridor shooter, while certainly more straight forward than C1, it also had a lot more verticality and less wandering around
BloodMoney
Banned
ok. i can't disagree with that, but do you think C2 runs substantially better than C1/warhead because of optimization, or because of constrained level design and reduced fidelity?
Probably both, but mainly because of the latter.
Warhead was a much more optimized version and yet it had much larger environments as well.
Crysis 2 looks great on ultra, the reports of the console version gimping it are exaggerated, like most things people on the internet get upset about.
I can't personally draw any direction comparisons to the performance of Crysis 2 with any previous games due to all my hardware upgrades but if there was any substantial performance gains it does mainly come down to a lot of engine work. They did do a lot of optimization on the CryEngine after Crysis 1. I mean, Crysis 2 is more confined but I'd also say that Crysis 2 has a lot more advanced geometry, A LOT more attention to detail, crazy good looking effects and action going on around you. The old Crysis games was basically an illusion of free roam with a ton of trees and sparse villages / objects in that world. There's a lot more effort gone into Crysis 2 than 1 when looking at the levels.
Also a reason why they managed to fit Crysis 1 onto the consoles, due to their updated engine and all their hard work on optimization.
But I do still prefer Crysis 1 / Warhead because I love the feeling of open space, not that keen on urban settings.
I would wager that another factor in its increased performance is the lack of interactivity with the environment. In Crysis 1 and Warhead you had destructible trees and buildings. I can only think of a handful of things that you can actually interact with in the world in Crysis 2.
BloodMoney
Banned
very good point. it was pretty amazing in C1/warhead to shoot down a trees, or be in a heated battle throw a grenade and then see multiple trees fall over as a result of the blast.
Not expecting much since Crytek threw out any semblance of good art after the first game.
The inside of the alien ship was amazing.
BloodMoney
Banned
Yea, the color pallet does look a little Killzone 2. On the plus side, open'ish level design seems to have returned... at least base on the final Seven Wonders video.
angular graphics
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This. For a game that's supposed to have (at least?) 7 different environments.. I'm somewhat disappointed.
Yeah its the reason that Gears of War on the Xbox looks miles better than something like Red Faction Guerrilla.
In RF:G you can blow up and bring down whole buildings piece by piece. In the first Gears of War there is almost nothing that is dynamic in the environments. The only things that had physics were corpses when they "rag dolled". In fact, they had a shelf full of stuff (cans, bottles etc) in one of the MP maps that you actually could blow up and they had to remove it because if any of it ended up near a certain edge where you could climb up, you character would fall through the map.....
I would give up a significant jump in graphical fidelity in the next console gen for better physics and more building/terrain deformation - although I maybe in the minority on this.
BloodMoney
Banned
Totally agree, physics need to play a larger part in next gen. A game like Watch Dogs will be infinitely better if the driving engine is akin to modern racing games (insert GT5, Forza, Projects Cars) and if the shooter mechanic takes into account stuff like bullet trajectory (bullet fall over distance based on velocity/gravity).
You really, really shouldn't.
Anyone mind giving me the skinny on the PC MP. I bought Crysis 2 and it was... Inadequate. Everything was so floaty, rampant cheating, no FoV slider and laggy. Is this the same all over again? I'd like to play a shooter but I'm not pre ordering another Crytek game unless I know exactly what's in it.
Edit: Found this so it's CoD with power ups and rampant cheating again. Fuck paying £30 for that.
Edit: Found this so it's CoD with power ups and rampant cheating again. Fuck paying £30 for that.
Can we ask you what game you were alluding to when you talked about a blu ray drive ?
For some reason that intrigues me.
It was Crysis 3. But it's not a retail disc. It's from EA's in-house build authoring facility.
BloodMoney
Banned
so you've played it. any comment on the claim the SP campaign is only 5 hours long?
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
I know they may not have showed them all, bu it doesn't look like there are as many new weapons as I was hoping for. That's one thing that really held back Crysis 2 multiplayer. I really hope they didn't get rid of the k-volt, I haven't seen any footage of that.
Oh, thank you for your answer.
We were speculating that C3 on PC could ship on blu ray discs but I suppose the manufacturing costs must not make this worthwile.
HoneyBunch360
Member
Available to play a little earlier than release? (located in western Canada MST).
Agent Ironside
Member
And people want nextgen games to look better than this?
I really like where GAFs expectations are at this point. A lot of people are going to be blown away with next gen goodness.
I expect
Thanks for my new wallpaper!
Of course they will. C3 was designed to run on old consoles, and therefore it still has many limitations that will be apparent even on the most strongest PC [number of enemies in each zone for example. their number and abilities will always be fixed bacause they need to be present in the same form on consoles].
so is it five hours?
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