The Crysis 2 Thread

[crow1001]

There are only three GFX level settings you can edit, 1-3. You can't improve the GFX over the highest settings you can choose in game, it's a fail PC title.

 

[cookiemonster]

Hi found this don't know if it works as I haven't got Crysis 2 bought Crysis 1 and Warhead but not sure about this one yet.

Crysis 2 - Advanced Graphics Options Utility.

http://www.fileplanet.com/219312/210000/fileinfo/Crysis-2---Advanced-Graphics-Options-Utility

 

[qubit]

I wasn't sure whether to buy this or not. I viewed the demo and a couple of videos and it looked kinda cool. Steam offered the limited edition version if prepurchased and at £30 it really wasn't that expensive, so I bought it.

And yes, I'm glad I did. The graphics look really good and I like the cinematic movie feel to it. Console port or not, it's still very good as it is. I've just replaced my GTX 285 with a new GTX 580, which really helps to keep the frame rate up.

I'm more interested in the single player game than multiplayer and will check that out when I've finished the single player.

Good as it is though, it's not as compelling as Half-life 2. That really rocked. I've never found any other story-based FPS that grabbed me like that did. I really hope we see another instalment.

 

[alexsubri]

For settings/tweaks ingame it's as follows:

1 - XBOX 360 Graphics
2 - PS3 Graphics
3 - Low
4 - Medium
5 - Maximum

 

[Mussels]

ok i figured it went like that, but setting it to 4 or 5 does nothing then?

from the leaked beta, those were discussed as the console settings.


Edit: nevermind, look one post up

 

[ctrain]

Crysis v crysis 2 texture comparison. Nice HDR and bloom effects, shame about the rest of the game. Crysis 2 is one big ugly blur, it may look half decent on a 360 from 6 feet away sitting on the couch, on a high res monitor from a few inches away it looks like turd.

err

edited, just look below now

vs

if that crysis 1 picture was crysis 2 people would be bitching about awful textures.


edit: more because i love the thought process of people.

~* find bad texture, decide entire game has same quality, ignore fact that Crysis 1 had iffy spots too *~

 

[human_error]

err

https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/o/nk...q3PCGzPyWOTkzzXZo/10565193/1301281200/3f740f4

https://photos-2.dropbox.com/i/o/ax...ZTIFkPSQ8UG59ghRc/10565193/1301281200/08a6af4

vs

http://static.pici.se/pictures/uQNvefbtT.jpg


if that crysis 1 picture was crysis 2 people would be bitching about awful textures.


edit: more because i love the thought process of people.

~* find bad texture, decide entire game has same quality, ignore fact that Crysis 1 had iffy spots too *~

https://photos-4.dropbox.com/i/o/wZ...Ilz-5PBxNkctOYCWQ/10565193/1301281200/fd6dc57
https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/o/LJ...WvLyMV5oGFt5NYn0s/10565193/1301281200/67254ce
https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/o/qL...D-8agd0VAdO9KSvzY/10565193/1301281200/daa162d
https://photos-3.dropbox.com/i/o/bI...yPRMLh4RWOE_zMfLE/10565193/1301281200/85195f8
https://photos-6.dropbox.com/i/o/mn...7y06nOZWb4lmSRrY4/10565193/1301281200/4d5c3a5
https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/o/28...ppE4V7XUxKEaQwaBs/10565193/1301281200/4b261e3
https://photos-2.dropbox.com/i/o/YI...QxFbYIAfPPZNhDT_E/10565193/1301281200/d0e00fd
https://photos-6.dropbox.com/i/o/wr...STiRWmDuoEdMRWkN8/10565193/1301281200/ef40b88
https://photos-6.dropbox.com/i/o/UM...2RzZQvvZguzFMWqgY/10565193/1301281200/f4f1606
https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/o/dr...nNiNswjvp3TJkCxis/10565193/1301281200/4c5de6f
https://photos-3.dropbox.com/i/o/Yw...9VVVqw7kXOiLzsPys/10565193/1301281200/f30d088
https://photos-3.dropbox.com/i/o/U0...9J3GwXWiKKAFLmerc/10565193/1301281200/b9bdc46
https://photos-2.dropbox.com/i/o/bf...CQbj-nAQsbdJ4TY-k/10565193/1301281200/4bc969d

Umm none of those dropbox links work - they all 404. Probably best to upload them to TPU's free image hosting.

I don't think the point of crow1001's post was to say that crysis 1 was perfect for textures - we all know games have bad spots. The point is that overall the textures in crysis 2 are worse than crysis/warhead.

 

[ctrain]

Umm none of those dropbox links work - they all 404. Probably best to upload them to TPU's free image hosting.

I don't think the point of crow1001's post was to say that crysis 1 was perfect for textures - we all know games have bad spots. The point is that overall the textures in crysis 2 are worse than crysis/warhead.

i'll fix it in a second, show up for me fine. guess i can't directly link a gallery picture.

 

[CDdude55]

The game looks great for a DX9 game. Can't wait for the DX11 patch to roll out.

The actual story and gameplay is nothing new really and does feel like just another FPS game as opposed to anything really special. Im liking it so far though.

 

[qubit]

The game looks great for a DX9 game. Can't wait for the DX11 patch to roll out.

The actual story and gameplay is nothing new really and does feel like just another FPS game as opposed to anything really special. Im liking it so far though.

+1 on that DX11 patch: watch the FPS tank!

And sometimes more of the same gameplay is just fine. If one really enjoyed the first version, then the same thing set in a new scenario is perfect.

I tell you what though. Switching system specs in the Options menu from High to Extreme didn't seem to make an obvious difference, other than the FPS dropped. I'm sure it's all there, but it's not immediately obvious. I had an impression of more detail, I think.

 

[ctrain]

https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/10565193/1/crysis2?h=e560f6

tons of pics, almost done with the game. do look at them in full size because dropbox shits all over the preview pic quality.

not to spoil anything, but there's a really well written speech nearing the end.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Anyone else notice crysis 2 looks better in screenshots than it does in motion? It's usually the other way around. Just finished it. Story may have been better, but overall it sucked hard. It felt like every other shitty COD style shooter. Your character is too slow and too heavy, you have no freedom of gameplay. All you can do is headshot and assassinate for the first half of the game. The entire time I just felt like I'd be twice as effective in the crysis 1 suit with some real vehicles and angles of attack.

That of course is just the gameplay end, then there's the locked files, crippled console and lack of sandbox 3.... all of which are available on the leaked beta. Sad when you buy a game only to discover there's a vastly superior free version out there. Feels like crytek and crysis 2 are part of some poorly planned xanatos gambit against pc gaming.

 

[RejZoR]

Does anyone know how to fully enable ragdolls? We are in freakin 2011 and shooting dead soldiers doesn't move them even for an inch. And they also drop down like in Half-Life 1. I want corpses to fly around when i nail them. So far only one has fell of a bridge and even that one i suspect it was scripted. Games have an extra fun factor just because of ragdolls. Another stupid remain of the consoles that apparently don't have enough power to process few ragdolls...

 

[pr0n Inspector]

Lol it's almost like convention now: if a sequel is less convoluted than the original it must be bashed to hell and back.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

wtf happened to large epic multiplayer Crysis maps? and why is it 16 player max instead of 32? -_-.. gone is power struggle with large maps complete with vehicles and vtols. This thing downgraded to COD!

 

[RejZoR]

Lol it's almost like convention now: if a sequel is less convoluted than the original it must be bashed to hell and back.

Everything in the world gets better over time and with new innovations. Just PC gaming is going the other way. Makes you wonder what the hell is wrong with them.

 

[Marineborn]

im not bashing it but the first crysis and crysis warhead i was involved in i could sneak threw the bushes, and punch people WHAT HAPPENED TO HAVING YOUR FISTS OUT AND WAILING ON PEOPLE....now we got this gay melee hit....*sigh* now im stuck in a linear new york city with the same bland building textures everywhere, im gonna wait for the mod community to turn this game into a real pc game, this is a absolute disgrace.

 

[RejZoR]

It's hard to turn concrete into anything more beautiful. Even the parkways that are suppose to look nice don't give the feeling of green. They feel just like yet another concrete room. And that's the problem. In original Far Cry and Crysis, you could sometimes just stand still and admire the levels. I only did this once in Crysis 2 next to the river where that bridge was. That scene was nice but so far the only one as well...

 

[ctrain]

Does anyone know how to fully enable ragdolls? We are in freakin 2011 and shooting dead soldiers doesn't move them even for an inch. And they also drop down like in Half-Life 1. I want corpses to fly around when i nail them. So far only one has fell of a bridge and even that one i suspect it was scripted. Games have an extra fun factor just because of ragdolls. Another stupid remain of the consoles that apparently don't have enough power to process few ragdolls...

i don't think you could shoot ragdolls in crysis 1 either. there was a reason for it. something like they could sell it somewhere so and so something dumb so they just removed it from all versions.

it was actually bannable on their forums for a while if i remember right to post a mod that let you shoot ragdolls around.

 

[kurosagi01]

Heres my screenshot of the game at 1680x1050 everything on high apart from sound, AA on 2x and AF16x and motion blur on camera and objects and edge blurring:

 

[Mussels]

i don't think you could shoot ragdolls in crysis 1 either. there was a reason for it. something like they could sell it somewhere so and so something dumb so they just removed it from all versions.

it was actually bannable on their forums for a while if i remember right to post a mod that let you shoot ragdolls around.

germany, but lately thats specific to german versions of the games. crash test dummies falling out of cars and such, instead of people.


the reason people are pissed, is sequels come out, costing more than the original... and we get less of a game. then we get told piracy is killing sales, destroying the industry, etc etc.


No... its just that we're getting asked to pay more for less, and people dont like it.

 

[pantherx12]

+1 on that DX11 patch: watch the FPS tank!

Not 100% sure what tank means in this context, but if you mean drop.

Not necessarily.

Play STALKER COP with everything set to as high as possible except don't put on the dx11 renderer.

On my 6870 no dx11 = 25-30 fps average DX 11 on = 40-45 fps average.

Depends what they using DX11 for, if they don't just tack blur effects on and needlessly tessellate things you should get a performance boost.

 

[HalfAHertz]

http://www.computerandvideogames.co...iving-hackers-a-job-and-make-better-pc-games/

Not exactly on subject but a nice insight of the PoV of some of the game designers:

PC players and console players are completely two different types of consumer. It's always unfair to not design the game for the consumer you're targeting. The PC version is always a second thought [for publishers], like: 'Oh, and we need a PC version too.'

 

[RejZoR]

I don't quite get the german policy. If you shoot someone, cogs don't fall out. Blood does. What this does is just encourage ppl to kill others more. Look, just some cogs will fly out of his head if i shot him... I'm also sure no one who cut himself with a kitchen knife by mistake seen any cogs falling out of his finger... violence and realism of it in games doesn't encourage ppl to do it. It's their sick mind that does that, not the games. So punishing normal ppl just because some don't have everything straight in their head is just lame. If not anything else, games are the vent to flush out such curiousity. I mean, Soldier of Fortune was really the only way i'll ever see someone's guts flying out when i shot him with a shotgun up close. Or leg fall apart. Or brains flying around when i put a magnum slug in someone's head. Because to be frank, i have no need to see someone's real brains or guts. But it's fun to do it in game. Without any harm to anyone. Some mass slaughter baby seals, i prefer digital slaughter. And that makes me better by default. Ha.

 

[Mussels]

I don't quite get the german policy. If you shoot someone, cogs don't fall out. Blood does. What this does is just encourage ppl to kill others more. Look, just some cogs will fly out of his head if i shot him... I'm also sure no one who cut himself with a kitchen knife by mistake seen any cogs falling out of his finger... violence and realism of it in games doesn't encourage ppl to do it. It's their sick mind that does that, not the games. So punishing normal ppl just because some don't have everything straight in their head is just lame. If not anything else, games are the vent to flush out such curiousity. I mean, Soldier of Fortune was really the only way i'll ever see someone's guts flying out when i shot him with a shotgun up close. Or leg fall apart. Or brains flying around when i put a magnum slug in someone's head. Because to be frank, i have no need to see someone's real brains or guts. But it's fun to do it in game. Without any harm to anyone. Some mass slaughter baby seals, i prefer digital slaughter. And that makes me better by default. Ha.

lets just say they're playing it safe after a failed world domination bid and leave it at that, k? same reason japan doesnt have an army. lets focus on crysis here.