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Far Cry 2 |OT| of Money, Diamonds, and Military Checkpoints
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endlessflood
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Here's the higher-res version of that video:mileS said:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ljGw68cjMsE&fmt=18
Nizz
Member
It's from some company called Splitfish. It's like a PS3 controller split in two...Solideliquid said:
http://www.splitfish.com/?uid=4nkpfqinh2cvv3t0 The left analog stick you use to control your character onscreen, while with the mouse it comes with, you use to aim... I've never tried it myself but I'm kind of curious.
Anasui Kishibe
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Chiggs said:
yuck, thanks. So, 8.10 everyone for now? ( I have a 4870x2)
rollingstart
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cameltoe said:
wow
CrazedArabMan
Member
fps fanatic said:
Yeah, its been leaked on torrent sites but its just the editor that works, they can't break into the single player yet.
Yixian said:
I'm a graphics whore, so having it look nice is important to me, I've played a lot of big releases on my laptop and everything ran at great speeds, everything except Crysis (17-24FPS on Med/Low). I want it to look nice and run nice at the same time. Compared to the Crytek engine is the engine in FarCry2 better optimized for todays current hardware?
I do have a gaming rig but when I'm home I don't have much time to be in my office playing games. I game mainly when I have time... at work
chespace said:ATI ...
Do you think my 4870x2 will be okay with FC2 even without this hotfix?
I've no issues with the hotfix drivers Che..... The high temps come from the GPU idle bug which cen be fixed by creating a profile a manually editing it to change the idle clock speeds. (Mine is 300mhz gpu, 300mhz mem.) CCC will load your profile after boot and automatically set the new clocks. All ATI drivers have this bug on the 4870x2
Kibbles said:
Sorry for my late reply, but I'm from PAL land and I just woke up from a good night of sleeping. This is the stream I'm talking about:
http://nl.justin.tv/farcrytwo
Kibbles
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Yay for Counterstrike remakes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_gbBHStRhw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_gbBHStRhwFar Cry 2: Coagulation Remake
http://gamextract.com/?p=3539
http://gamextract.com/?p=3539
EGM92 said:I'm a graphics whore, so having it look nice is important to me, I've played a lot of big releases on my laptop and everything ran at great speeds, everything except Crysis (17-24FPS on Med/Low). I want it to look nice and run nice at the same time. Compared to the Crytek engine is the engine in FarCry2 better optimized for todays current hardware?
I do have a gaming rig but when I'm home I don't have much time to be in my office playing games. I game mainly when I have time... at work
Well I know that Far Cry 2 is much less graphically intensive than Crysis, and it'll tax other things like ram and CPU more than the GPU thanks to draw distance and open world streaming etc.
I mean, in all honesty, although this games looks GREAT and on a very high end desktop can look almost Crysis quality, by and large it's not as pretty as Crysis and so it's going to run better on your rig than that monster.
No, it would not have. Crysis doesn't allow destruction on that scale. You were limited to destroying shacks and shanties in Crysis. Anything built from cement or bricks could not be touched. Consider the town in the second mission. None of the major buildings (which are generally smaller than what was shown in that FC2 video) could be destroyed. Crytek designed smaller structures out of individual materials (wood boards, for instance) that were pieced together in such a way that they could easily be destroyed. No material could actually be destroyed, however, just broken apart.otake said:
Macho Madness
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Sooooooooo.... does the 360 version have the horrible dead zone ala Far Cry Instincts Predator? Anyone who's played it knows what I'm talking about.
truly101 said:
From everything I've read/heard/seen about Far Cry 2, it seems very much tailor-made for the more hardcore FPS players, from the unforgiving health system to the entirely open-ended design. Several people have also said that the start of the game is pretty grueling, in trying to get your bearings.
Having said that, I'd still strongly recommend it as it seems to be very different from the vast majority of shooters out there, including Crysis since FC2 seems a lot more open in its freedom of movement and gathering of objectives.
Macho Madness
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They were both Ubi Montreal.dark10x said:
It seems that, due to the low cost of ram, PC manufacturers are just filling their boxes with gobs of ram. You don't need 6gb of ram. My brother in law just bought a PC with 6gb of ram and an AMD processor that also included some $40 ATI graphics card that can barely run World of Warcraft. A lot of games run worse on that machine than on a 4 year old P4 + Radeon 9700 Pro combo. It's just incredible. A $120 8800GT would allow that machine to run just about anything out there, yet the companies are all about including absolutely awful GPUs.Raide said:
This is the kind of thing that is really bad for PC gaming as most of the PCs you'll find on shelves that an average consumer might purchase simply can't run any recent games at a decent framerate. If your brand new late-2008 PC can hardly run Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, you know you're in trouble. I've never seen such a massive divide before.
BobJustBob
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thewesker said:
I hear that Ubi Montreal is a big place.
dark10x said:
Ya, and we can all blame Intel for devastating PC gaming. Integrated graphics can be single handedly blamed for eliminating the semi-casual hardcore gamer. There are millions of people out there who want to play games, but they don't know what a video card is, and they don't understand why their $1200 PC can't play Doom 3. Nowadays, you're either an enthusiast buying gaming PCs or building your own PC, or you're a casual that can only play flash games and The Sims 2 and Spore.
It makes absolutely no sense that people are buying Q9450/E8500 PCs with 4GB of RAM and Intel Integrated! If the OEM just went down 1 level with the CPU, the difference in money would buy a competent video card.
cleveridea
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how long are most of the missions? I plan on playing the console version, where you can only save at safehouses and I have 2 concerns:
1. Dying from enemies I cannot see, and having wasted time I have to repeat from the start (esp if a hard mission)
2. Not being able to save at my convenience, I often get a chance to play like 1/2 or 1 hour at a time and it sounds like I have to book a large chunk of time.
The fact that the PC can save anywhere suggests to me its going to be much harder on console. Also, if i feel I can die any second I tend to not enjoy travelling around and exploring everything.
I think Oblivion had a good system, where you can save anywhere but not around enemies.
I hate games with time limits too, and the
If this game wasnt launching around others I wouldn't mind but fallout 3 is a game I dont mind spending huge amounts of time on, similarly Fable II. I tend to only put up with extremely long games with good RPG's because at least I feel like I am progressing.
1. Dying from enemies I cannot see, and having wasted time I have to repeat from the start (esp if a hard mission)
2. Not being able to save at my convenience, I often get a chance to play like 1/2 or 1 hour at a time and it sounds like I have to book a large chunk of time.
The fact that the PC can save anywhere suggests to me its going to be much harder on console. Also, if i feel I can die any second I tend to not enjoy travelling around and exploring everything.
I think Oblivion had a good system, where you can save anywhere but not around enemies.
I hate games with time limits too, and the
malaria thing sounds like a annoying time limit
If this game wasnt launching around others I wouldn't mind but fallout 3 is a game I dont mind spending huge amounts of time on, similarly Fable II. I tend to only put up with extremely long games with good RPG's because at least I feel like I am progressing.
The PC version does have quicksave, but I think I might try not to use it, at least my first time through. Far Cry 2 seems like the type of game where quicksaving will actually take away from the experience, since the game is all about survival in a large, harsh land with mostly your own wits and tools. Quick saving every few minutes would rob it of some of that, IMO.
Chiggs
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Sushen said:
No. There isn't really a reason for developers to avoid making a pc port, considering they're not paying licensing fees, and the effort is minimal to put out a decent port. Besides, despite the large gap between sales for CoD4, the pc version still has done pretty well.
botkiller said:
Yes it will but between 360 consoles. Same for PS3 to PS3 owners and PC to PC owners.
Maps will be uploaded to Ubi servers where people can rate and download when they want. If you don't want to upload, people can just download your map direct from you once they connect to your game. The Ubi Server ones will be the main ones to get rated and appear in the Map List of best community stuff.
Wollan said:
Well, the FCI one was pretty good, so just make advancements and additions to that and you know what to expect. You have much more control over terrain and also objects too. Being able to put down a watchtower and then stick your own ladder on it is great. :lol
Plus the Map Maker in FC2 gives you much more control over the maps you make, so you're not restricted to just making various island shapes. You can make some truly bizarre maps now for FC2. Add to that the Far Cry 2 stuff like weather, day and night etc and you can use them all in your MP maps.
Its great to see Halo and CounterStrike maps appearing already.