Found the water. Pretty nice looking, though honestly it just looks like the nice water in the first game ^^; (very high + nvidia water = on). Crysis still has the best looking water imo.
Freed 3 settlements. I think the trick is to find all the collectathon items in the non-hostile ones before you start shooting.
Is it just me or do most of the cars/bikes go really slow in this section? I found a taxi once that was super fast, but most of the cars have been ridiculously slow. That combined with his slow run speed means I'm basically grappling -> parachute all the time.
One thing that I hope they improve in a patch or something is the camera controls when parachuting. I reaaaally do not remember them being so bad at seeing where you are going in the first game.
Hmm, weird. If I turned off AO, RFG ran at a perfect 60fps maxed on mine. Which is why it's hard for me to get used to this at 20-30fps with less destruction. JC2 definitely is much better looking though.
Then again I heard RFG's framerate depends more on CPU because of the geomod, whereas JC2 is GPU dependant. My CPU is top of the line, my GPU is old news >_<
I think I left AO on in RFG as it didn't make a huge difference for me. My CPU is a bit more behind the times than my GPU so that would probably explain the difference, as you've guessed. My 8800GT died and I replaced it with a GTX 275 fairly recently... my processor is an oldish intel quad core, Q6600. Major destruction definitely had an effect on the framerate.
Yeah, AO kills my framerate in RFG. It goes from 60fps with it off to 15-25fps with it on. AO kills my framerate in JC2 but I really think it looks a lot nicer with it on at least "low".