Crysis 2 thread;Crysis 3 announced(2013,PC/360/PS3)

[Great Rumbler]

If everything Evilore says is true, then fuck this game.  I wanted Crysis on consoles, not Crysis tailored for consoles.  I can't believe they "streamlined" the power system...was it really that complicated?  By streamlining it, they effectively kill one of my favorite aspects of the game--switching between different powers on the fly to do crazy shit.  Watch the SP levels be totally linear...

The first suit's Strength and Speed modes have been combined into one Power mode, the suit binoculars function has been replaced with an advanced Tactical mode, Cloak mode has been modified to allow increased sensory input and silent melee stealth kills and has been renamed to Infiltration mode, while the Armor mode has been left more or less as is.

[Joe Molotov]

The melee stuff is really powerful and feels sloppy. A perfect example of something they get wrong that Halo gets right.

Sounds awesome, now they should just take guns out of the game entirely. I PUNCH YO FACE! 

[Stoney Mason]

You have to go pick up their dogtags to trigger the killstreaks

[Bebpo]

This is terrible.

-The Sound design is garbage
-Gunner is the best class without question
-Hit detection is really fucking spotty
-Net code sucks like an EA shooter
-Air Stomp seems broken
-No explanation on how killstreaks work
-Maximum armor is the win button
- Melee is crazy. I can be a few feet away and still land that one hit kill.

Some pros

- The slide is cool (and every shooter should have it) but the map is too small to feel really useful.
- Feels more responsive than I expected
- Is fairly nice looking

To be fair Crysis has never been good at MP.  Yet the SP was AMAZING in the original.  So hopefully that's the case here.  I doubt I'll even touch the MP (although I doubt I'll even play it until 2012 when I get a card decent enough to run it well on PC).

[Stoney Mason]

You have to go pick up their dogtags to trigger the killstreaks

Do I just kill dudes to get them or do I have to stand over them and pick them up?

I believe you just have to go over them.

[cool breeze]

this isn't good

controls are sloppy and it there is no impact when shooting or getting hit.  everything seems random, like you died or kill a guy by chance.

single player could be fun.  sliding is fun.  sliding is the best new 'thing' in shooters.  conviction, vanquish, this, medal of honor, bulletstorm, killzone 3, etc.  I don't know how it started, but it's a good trend.

[Stoney Mason]

Crytek has said it has plans in place for a Crysis 3 storyline. However, the development of a third installment depends entirely on the success of Crysis 2

Speaking with CVG, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli said that even though there’s plans in place for the progression of the series’s fiction, it doesn’t mean the game is currently in the works.

“We definitely want to make Crysis 3,” said Yerli. “I’m not making a formal announcement. We’d like to make Crysis 3 but the second game needs to be successful first. I will mention that there is a plan for how the fiction of Crysis should roll out, but again, it depends on the success of Crysis 2.

“If it doesn’t meet our goals, for whatever reason, and doesn’t even break even, then there may not be a Crysis 3. But if it sells anywhere near what Black Ops has, there may be more from Crysis."

 

http://www.vg247.com/2011/01/26/crysis-3-story-planned-development-depends-on-the-success-of-crysis-2-says-yerli/#more-141397

[Great Rumbler]

 

[Eel O'Brian]

does anyone really care about crysis mp?

i never even bothered installing the mp from crysis warhead

[Sho Nuff]

Similar sales to COD?

Do you want to tell them or should I

[Stoney Mason]

I have a casual friend who likes COD and Halo who I play both with so I told him to download the Crysis demo so we would play together and try it out. I told him nothing about what I thought about it so as not to poison the well.


He hated it. He was mad at me because I told him to download such a big file in fact because he hated the game so much. I have a feeling that MP demo ain't gonna convert a lot of people. 

[maxy]

Great player playing it,i like the way he plays it,like a true Predator
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]


Framerate analysis
[youtube=560,345]VrtOkNOgm1Q[/youtube]

pretty much rock solid 30 fps

[Smooth Groove]

Best take yet:

[youtube=560,345]cubUeyQfHEE[/youtube]

[Herr Mafflard]

[youtube=560,345]68BJX6NdA10[/youtube]

this actually looks quite neat

[Stoney Mason]

I got up to like level 10 while the demo was up.

I still had lots of issues with it especially on the feel side, but I also hated that map. I think it was a terrible choice to use that one.


The game really comes down to managing the energy level on that power suit. If you're not constantly cloaked or using the armor you're playing it wrong I found. That does make it somewhat distinctive on the actual gameplay side, but I also found myself incredibly annoyed by all the camo stealth play that was going on. Like I like the suit in single player when you're doing that to the ai but I found it more annoying in MP because everybody is using it. But that's just probably just my problem since that's more a playstyle choice selection thing.

[Herr Mafflard]

Well if they implement this 'perks that complement your playstyle' feature well, you might find that you may not need to rely on stealth or armor that much, and other abilities that you're more comfortable with might come into play.

Personally, I rarely used those abilities in the demo and I still managed to do okay in the multiplayer. But then again, most of us are conditioned with CoD so after playing this awhile we might lament the fact that the next CoD doesnt have armour or stealth on the fly.

[maxy]

PC version has leaked,some early build tho

[maxy]

gameplay video(start of the game,second level),EA will probably nuke it

pretty big spoilers for spoilerish people

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[close]

[Stoney Mason]

Oh it's a sp build. I thought it was an mp build. Guess I'll "try" it out.

[maxy]

Yeah,it's a whole game,tools and drm keys

Youtube is full of videos and it looks fantastic,even on medium settings
My planed gpu purchase will be accelerated,finally a PC game that is worthy of a new PC
PC gaming

This is a supersoldier

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

 

 

[dicklaurent]

nice video. game definitely looks better than I was expecting. might end up buying it.. even after swearing never to buy a crytek game ever again after the first one (because yerli is such a fucking superdouche).

[Stoney Mason]

Downloaded but I can't get that far. I think it's probably optimized for certain setups and cards but not others at the stage that code was leaked. After the initial bit of being on a sub mine always crashes.


Edit: spoke a bit too soon. I was able to play now although its just really buggy. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. I was able to play the first level but that's about all I will since its so unstable. It feels like COD mixed with Crysis. It's a bit easier to run and gun. But you can still stealth it if you want. What I think a lot of people who loved the first will bitch about is that the areas are definitely smaller compared to a wide open jungle at least on the first level. Much like the first you enter an area and there are lots of guards spread out in different directions. So you can try to stealth your way through or fight your way through. But since the area is smaller it feels a bit different. Like in Crysis you felt like you could really go out of your way to avoid them by taking a really long about approach. It doesn't felt quite that open in this initial level but maybe the areas get bigger as you go on. The combat distance as a result of this feels a bit closer. I always felt the combat distance in Crysis was a bit extended compared to other games. But this feels like the combat distance is closer compared to that. Maybe this was different in warhead which I never played though so.

Well that's enough. I only played a level so it would be a bit wrong for me to completely presume how the rest of the game is.

[maxy]

dx9 hardware very high settings mean this




Crytek 

[Stoney Mason]

Was bored so I actually played through 3 or 4 levels or so. It seems okay. I stopped because the AI is just too janky to be enjoyable in this state.

Basically you move from level to level doing your business. You can unlock abilities for your suit  which you can use in game which I assume are essentially the perks in mp. Every time you kill an alien you get like 100 nanopoints and then you use those nanopoints to unlock the suit abilites.

Seems fun although like I said I have a feeling that if a person loved the original crysis for very specific reasons they will probably like this one less. It still has the elements of crysis it's just more structured and the levels are a bit smaller or less wide open than the previous game. I was enjoying myself until the AI just got broken which I assume will be more fixed in the retail version.

[dicklaurent]

so if crysis1 was trespasser, crysis2 is halocombatevolved?

[Stoney Mason]

If Crysis was Far Cry mixed with stealth then I would say Crysis 2 seems to be Crysis 1 mixed with COD. It's still a sandbox. Its just a smaller sandbox. You still go into areas. There are still lots of guys patrolling around. You can either kill everybody and play it gung-ho or sneak your way through it. Or do what normally happens with me which is start stealthy and then things fuck up and you go gung-ho. I guess some people will compare it to Halo once the fighting breaks out especially with the aliens but I don't think the combat is as challenging or varied as that. And Halo has no real stealth element to speak off other than sniping somebody from a mile away. 


Its an interesting mix of a game. Like I said I think you will hear a lot of bitching from a certain type of gamer that its been streamlined too much.

I think the original Crysis was a pretty unique game when it came out.I liked it. I think it certainly had flaws but overall it was a pretty unique take on a shooter. At least in the sense that it's farcry mixed with a super suit and stealth gameplay.

I think the base concept probably hasn't been advanced very much in this one but it still seems rather solid mostly. Especially with the polish the final version will have I assume. It probably doesn't hit as hard for me or seem as fresh as the first one did but that's not uncommon with a franchise.

Here is one of the missions I did earlier although this isn't my video or me playing or anything.

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[maxy]

EA and Crytek decided to jump on hype train

360 footage

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Aside from some rather aggressive lod and dodgy framerate it looks fantastic




[youtube=560,345][/youtube]
 

[maxy]

Game is apparently about the same length as Crysis

http://www.hans-zimmer.com/fr/newsite.php?rub=detail&id=1013

 

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]#at=40[/youtube]

[maxy]

PS3 SP res discovered

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=422660&page=6

Although the shot was taken from a video feed, I'm 100% certain about this result.

Probably the biggest fail for PS3 hardware, since Crysis 2 is the most tech advanced game ever.

BTW, Cevat Yerli you are a liar.

Juicy console,developer wars incoming

spoiler (click to show/hide)

1024x720...horizontal scaling is much less noticeable
btw,R&C is 960x704

[close]

Next gen please

/bored 

[Herr Mafflard]

*yawn* ps3 version of multiplatform game is slightly  inferior, news at 11

[maxy]

Disagree,this gen is too old now...multi-billion transistor PC are common stuff,consoles have like max 400 million

I payed like $600 for my near launch 360,ready to do that again,MS take note*.Besides this gen consoles won't disappear immediately

This year looks like this gen peak,what more can we expect this gen? Saints Row 4,Gears 4,Elder Scrolls 6,RDR 2,etc?Nobody even dares to release some new IP anymore
I don't think so,next year start the buzz,release in fall 2012/2013

They are crippling PC development now,so many beautiful transistors that nobody cares for :'(

/PC cigarillo

*Not close to launch

[Eel O'Brian]

I'm not buying a new console until I see a video of someone jumping up and down on it then plugging it in and playing a game.  This generation's hardware build quality is terrible.

[maxy]

With only a month to go before the release of Crysis 2 – one of the most hotly anticipated games of 2011, EA and Crytek are pleased to confirm that a new Crysis 2 multiplayer demo for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system and PC is coming March 1. The PlayStation®3 demo is coming soon. Crysis 2’s dynamic multiplayer is built around the franchise’s signature Nanosuit, an advanced exoskeleton giving every player super powers that will allow them to be strong, be invisible and be fast on the battlefield.

Last month over 1.7 million players downloaded an early multiplayer demo on Xbox 360. Since then, Crytek has taken player feedback to help improve the experience even more.

All versions of the new demo will include two maps, “Skyline” and “Pier 17”, as well as two modes “Team Instant Action” and “Crash Site”. Crysis 2 multiplayer will include six intense, action-fueled gameplay modes: Instant Action, Team Instant Action, Crash Site, Capture the Relay, Extraction and Assault, set across 12 maps in Crytek’s visually stunning recreation of the Big Apple.

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[naff]

Disagree,this gen is too old now...multi-billion transistor PC are common stuff,consoles have like max 400 million

. Yeah, most people don't give a fuck. it's still much too early for the next gen imo, i say let hardware/graphics enthusiasts have their PC's and consoles hold their ground with the populace.

[maxy]

Disagree,this gen is too old now...multi-billion transistor PC are common stuff,consoles have like max 400 million

. Yeah, most people don't give a fuck. it's still much too early for the next gen imo, i say let hardware/graphics enthusiasts have their PC's and consoles hold their ground with the populace.

Peasant.Save $1 per day and you will be able to buy it in 2 years.Nobody is stopping you to play these dinosaur age consoles forever.

As soon as someone announces their next console the rest will follow.
Nintendo,do your thing

[cool breeze]

demo for PC is out

It won't let me log on; tells me I have the wrong nickname.  I go to the website and the nickname is fine. I try to sign up for a new one; it doesn't let me.  ok.  wait, Gamespy? what year is this?

[fistfulofmetal]

played for a few minutes. on hardcore and 1920x1080 and i average around 35-40fps. doesnt look that impressive tbh. textures just look muddy.

[fistfulofmetal]

hardcore is the highest settings right?



this isnt impressive to me at all

[cool breeze]

parts of it look alright, but it has a weird always out of focus look (because of the aa solution I think), and hdr and stuff is way overblown.

the weird thing is that the controls are also laggy on PC.  It feels like playing onlive.

also, the new large map kinda breaks a lot of the game choices. There are a lot of times when you don't spawn near the action, so you run towards it, then you get there and your energy is all out.  Moving at a decent speed reduces energy, so does stealth and armor and everything else.  Multiplayer becomes more about managing energy than shooting people, which kinda blows because they take too much damage and the accuracy on the guns is messed up.  You watch the trailer and think "whoa, I can slide around and shoot people" then you try that in the game and not a single bullet hits them.

[Stoney Mason]

I mentioned some of this same stuff earlier on my thoughts on the demo on consoles. The mp game is really about managing that energy supply. If you aren't constantly using the camo or armor ability then you are at a competitive disadvantage. So I found myself constantly stopping to recharge my engery before I got into the action. It promoted a sort of camperish mentality in me. Its the same system as Halo Reach where you are waiting for a recharge but it takes so long in comparison to kill someone in halo that I didn't feel the need to always wait for the recharge as much and stop moving around.

And while I find it fun to use the camo feature on the enemy AI in single player everybody having the ability to be camo cloaked at any time really isn't very much fun at all in mp. for me There are perks that help you against camo people along with the heat vision but they still have a pretty huge advantage. The camo snipers suck/are annoying in Halo and they will be extra power in this game since everybody has access to the camo feature.

[Stoney Mason]

 

That Crysis thread over on GAF is in meltdown mode with dissappointment about the demo. Hilarious.

[Smooth Groove]

That's just MP, right?  SP should have much better graphics, just like Crysis 1. 

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, I'll reserve judgment until the full game comes out and people get a good look at the single player.

[naff]

Disagree,this gen is too old now...multi-billion transistor PC are common stuff,consoles have like max 400 million

. Yeah, most people don't give a fuck. it's still much too early for the next gen imo, i say let hardware/graphics enthusiasts have their PC's and consoles hold their ground with the populace.

Peasant. Save $1 per day and you will be able to buy it in 2 years.Nobody is stopping you to play these dinosaur age consoles forever.

As soon as someone announces their next console the rest will follow.
Nintendo,do your thing

I've spent thousands on consoles this gen. Sure the hardware is aging but I still represent a minority, PS3 at launch, 360 a while later, HDTVs, peripherals etc, shit adds up, not including software. How many people still use their 360's with SD televisions. I know a bunch. Much more important for HD sets to properly saturate the market before more hardware. As I see it, a new gen would be bad for devs and consumers right now unless they're selling middleware like EPIC, more pressure on upgrading tech when they should be focused on more important aspects of game dev like making games.... And Nintendo doesn't count since they're behind a generation still, techwise and I can't imagine their next iteration truly breaking any ground outside of ridiculous sales numbers and a gimmick or two.

[maxy]

Disagree,this gen is too old now...multi-billion transistor PC are common stuff,consoles have like max 400 million

. Yeah, most people don't give a fuck. it's still much too early for the next gen imo, i say let hardware/graphics enthusiasts have their PC's and consoles hold their ground with the populace.

Peasant. Save $1 per day and you will be able to buy it in 2 years.Nobody is stopping you to play these dinosaur age consoles forever.

As soon as someone announces their next console the rest will follow.
Nintendo,do your thing

I've spent thousands on consoles this gen. Sure the hardware is aging but I still represent a minority, PS3 at launch, 360 a while later, HDTVs, peripherals etc, shit adds up, not including software. How many people still use their 360's with SD televisions. I know a bunch. Much more important for HD sets to properly saturate the market before more hardware. As I see it, a new gen would be bad for devs and consumers right now unless they're selling middleware like EPIC, more pressure on upgrading tech when they should be focused on more important aspects of game dev like making games.... And Nintendo doesn't count since they're behind a generation still, techwise and I can't imagine their next iteration truly breaking any ground outside of ridiculous sales numbers and a gimmick or two.

You won't have to buy new TV next gen,I fully expect that native console res will wobble between sub-hd and full hd.
Some console designed like 360(powerful and flexible) would be nice.Yes it would bring some learning curve,platform specific bugs,etc but on the other hand it would bring much more cpu,gpu power, memory,bandwidth,etc,etc.

Artists make large majority of dev staff and by now they should be familiar with shader based stuff,btw that is the biggest reason for graphics improvement...not some mythical untapped power,just artist chain working better and better
In short good tech,shit artist chain=shit looking game...bad tech,good artist chain=good looking game
Next gen will be familiar stuff,not like this gen...PS2 to shader based stuff,uhhh

To be fair,you will see improvements(artists yay) this gen in linear games like Gears,Uncharted,etc but open world games(Rockstar) could use next gen hardware easily

Nintendo is mentioned just as a kickstart,competition won't leave them alone on the market

/rant end


 
 

That's just MP, right?  SP should have much better graphics, just like Crysis 1. 

PC SP demo was leaked ages ago,i saw nobody complaining...youtube is full of videos
In fact,it's highly praised even though it's locked to medium settings no matter what you choose
Lots of PC gamers liked multiplayer too...

People are having fun with some small mods too

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Stoney Mason]

Gamertag Radio claims that a Crytek developer confirmed the shooter would not include the system, saying that Crytek chose instead not to be a “testbed”: the system was offered to the developer early on in its development.

The site also claims that the German developer wasn’t looking “to put a wall up to keep people away from the multiplayer.”

EA has included the Online Pass system in all of its titles, including fellow EA Partners title Bulletstorm from Epic-owned People Can Fly.

EA hasn’t commented on the matter yet, but has told VG247 that it’s waiting for an official comment from Crytek.

Online Pass is a system EA uses to make buyers of secondhand games pay an extra fee for online services.

Crysis 2 releases on March 22 in the US and March 25 in the UK for PS3, 360 and PC. Multiplayer demos for PC and 360 launched today, with a PS3 version coming soon.

  if true

[Stoney Mason]

I'm not a filthy poor so online pass doesn't bother me at all.

Even though I rent most games I don't like onlines passes period on one specific principle. It reduces numbers in the online community for any game as most of the used customers do not purchase it. It tends to hurt population counts and more is always better when it comes to competition and reducing lag and finding people closer to play with.


I haven't decided if I'm buying Crysis 2 or not. (Probably not since I'll mostly likely pick up homefront a week earlier) but those online passes aren't good for people who play a lot of mp games.

[demi]

I'm not a filthy poor and I dont care because this game will be shit online anyway

[Bebpo]

I tried the PC demo to see how it would run on my old ass card that gets ~30fps on very high Crysis tweaked and ummm...hmmmm....

Takes me like 20 mins to get into a match.  We had 12 people in a room and everyone is like "HOW DO WE START GAME?!??", wtff
Got in finally and on GAMER setting it runs pretty smooth 30-50fps but it looks like jaggy ass/low-res.  On whatever the next one is it looks nice but runs at like 15-20fps and is pretty unplayable and I didn't even bother with the setting above it.

Ran around and couldn't figure out how to kill anyone.    I thought this game had a Vanquish slide?  I spent the whole demo trying to figure out how to do it.  I could dash, put on armor, cloak, jump high and smash down, zoom in with scope, and that was about it.

Hmmm...guess I will wait until I get a new videocard.

[cool breeze]

as you're sprinting, hold crouch to slide.  It's not really a vanquish slide.  It's the same as Killzone 3, except you can shoot while sliding, but it is pointless since hip fire accuracy is really, really bad.

[pilonv1]

[fistfulofmetal]

hopefully this trash bombs. then crytek will realize they need to return to their PC roots. fucking hooligans

[duckman2000]

Not very impressive (on 360). Granted that I was never into Crysis MP, but this was more boring than expected.

[Stoney Mason]

I got around to trying the updated demo on 360. Most of my comments still stand but I will say they improved the hit dection somewhat. I enjoyed it more this time compared to the last two beta's because of that.

hopefully this trash bombs. then crytek will realize they need to return to their PC roots. fucking hooligans

OR Crytek will make more console deals after Kingdoms moves like 4 million copies.

lol. Pretty much. The reason people move away from their "PC roots" outside of a few exceptions is shit sales on that platform.

[maxy]

[Stoney Mason]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[maxy]

Magazine scores are coming in

OXM-9
German PCAction-9
Hungary PCGuru-9.5

just a cover
http://www.pcguru.hu/pcguru/img/galery/GURU-Extra-PC-GURU-Cimlapok-PC-GURU-2011_1.jpg

[Stoney Mason]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=424439

PS3 fanboys mad.

 

[maxy]

hmm

sdf is very angry and bitter lately

[duckman2000]

hmm

sdf is very angry and bitter lately

Oddly, that Lyr kid seems to be the angriest dude in the thread.

Anyway, now that BF3 is off the table for good, I may just end up getting that new PC now instead of waiting.