Crysis 2 Multiplayer Demo

[Tha Last Meal]

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/6263/260332045154.jpg

EA Released demo Crysis and this will be a demo of the Multiplayer :up:
Size 1.55 GB

download link
(http://static.cdn.ea.com/crytek/u/f/crysis2/Crysis_2_Multiplayer_Demo.exe)

[DeltZ]

is it actually active yet? :O I haven't seen any official announcement yet

[Tha Last Meal]

is it actually active yet? :O I haven't seen any official announcement yet

Do you think I lie :confused: ? look here (http://www.ea.com/crysis-2)


Crysis 2 Multiplayer Demo Goes Multiplatform on March 1 3 days ago
The exclusive Crysis 2 Xbox 360 Multiplayer Demo saw over 1.7 million players! Beginning March 1st, Xbox 360 and PC players will have their chance to Be the Weapon.

[InCredible]

very excited.

[DeltZ]

Do you think I lie :confused: ? look here (http://www.ea.com/crysis-2)
Oh i have no doubt that it's true, just wondering if it's active online yet. as in, is the demo playable? Do they need to enable it from their end or anything

[Tha Last Meal]

just wondering if it's active online yet. as in, is the demo playable?

active online Will open in March 1, this demo Only for Multiplayer

[Chrono Detector]

You need to create an account for this, I tried creating one but it did nothing, so therefore the game itself doesn't work unless if you have an account.

[ripken204]

awesome! im dloading it now while the speeds are still good.
hopefully i get to play it online tomorrow :)

[InCredible]

just played a few sessions in hardcore gfx..ran good imo..i forget the command for fps though if any one knows it so i can check that'd be nice...also you can create an account in game..you dont have to use their site which is very choked up right now.

[cold2010]

^
Any pictures?

[Loque]

stuck on the creating account menu.. not even a cancel option.. jeeezzz

[Lokinhow]

only DX9
no DX11 on this demo
Graphics are like the beta.
The multiplayer is Call of duty-like, but better IMO. I liked it.

I'm uploading some screenshots now..PNG, ~3MB each picture :ROTF::ROTF:

[InCredible]

Uploading pics as well...averaging 50fps...dips into 40s and going upwards of 60..1920x1200 hardcore i7 4.2 6970 900/1450
will edit with pics.

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[Tha Last Meal]

only DX9
no DX11 on this demo
Graphics are like the beta.
The multiplayer is Call of duty-like, but better IMO. I liked it.

I'm uploading some screenshots now..PNG, ~3MB each picture

Thanks for the information . I'm waiting the pictures :D

[Tha Last Meal]

lol :banana:

picture (http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/3059/crysis2demo201102282203.png)

[Lokinhow]

:D

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[cold2010]

Any impression on the Multiplayer ?

@
Lokinhow

thx :up:

[Tha Last Meal]

lokinhow

omg :D 27 pictures

Thank you man :up:


InCredible

Thank you man :up:

[DeltZ]

Plays pretty well ^^ Looking forward to playing it with some friends and of course the full game.

[Sgt.McRuff]

Anyone else not getting any sound?

[DeltZ]

I'm getting epic hans zimmer soundtracks =D

I'm pretty pumped for the whole game now=D

[kadozer]

I'm getting epic hans zimmer soundtracks =D

I'm pretty pumped for the whole game now=D

I saw your post and I was like huh? figure of speech probably. Then I googled and Hanz Zimmer doing Crysis 2 (old news I know) just made my day. Pre ordering now.

[[XC] Lead Head]

Would be pretty cool if the registration actually you know, worked.

[Loque]

crossfire performance is terrible.. I can get twice the fps using radeopro but everything gets bloomy as hell, weird thing is gpu usage is always 99% on both cards using hardcore at 2560 1440.. no radeonpro = 31 fps~ and with = 60 fps using vsync.

[Roadhog]

wow... this demo is terrible...

1. I have no sound. Common problem it seems
2. The FOV is as narrow as a crack whores waist. I actually wanted to tear my eyes out after 5 minutes of game play.
3. Graphics suck
4. Menu system is annoying
5. Looks like crap
6. Weapons take up half my screen
7. Looks like COD4
8. BC2 Looks better
9. BC2 is 9001 times better
10. BF3 ftw.

[DeltZ]

Lead Head;4763872']Would be pretty cool if the registration actually you know, worked.

I think you can just make your EA account outside of the game. That's what i used to log in, same i use to log into my bioware related stuff also.

[Leopold Butters]

wow... this demo is terrible...

1. I have no sound. Common problem it seems
2. The FOV is as narrow as a crack whores waist. I actually wanted to tear my eyes out after 5 minutes of game play.
3. Graphics suck
4. Menu system is annoying
5. Looks like crap
6. Weapons take up half my screen
7. Looks like COD4
8. BC2 Looks better
9. BC2 is 9001 times better
10. BF3 ftw.

thanks for the info, with very informative details i might add.

[Loque]

also I can't believe it only has 3 graphic options, like a direct console port, even my gamepad started to vibrate during gameplay T_T

[Roadhog]

thanks for the info, with very informative details i might add.

Not any details to add. It's pretty terrible imo. It's a direct Black OPS rip off. I also don't like that game either. They even look similar...

[Unrealer]

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xN2_8na7JE&hd=1

[Roadhog]

It has aim assist. Nuff said.

[ripken204]

It has aim assist. Nuff said.

what! but... that's impossible!
how could they do such a horrible thing.

[DeltZ]

or you could just...remove it. in the option menu

edit: the demo option menu which doesn't even have all the options yet. n1

[Roadhog]

or you could just...remove it. in the option menu

Yes, but the fact is that they touted about how this was going to be a PC game first then a console game second. That doesn't look like the case so far with the press "start" to continue, and the aim assist with limited graphics options.

[DeltZ]

They said long ago it was designed such that you could choose to use a game pad on a PC. you tried aiming against someone with a mouse with a game pad?

And I very much doubt the 3 graphics options available is representative of the final full game.

[Roadhog]

They said long ago it was designed such that you could choose to use a game pad on a PC. you tried aiming against someone with a mouse with a game pad?

And I very much doubt the 3 graphics options available is representative of the final full game.

Never know, the demo just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. If they wanted to sell this game they should put a little more effort into a demo.

[Hornet331]

Meh i don't like the multiplayer... way to much cod like, i hate this annyoing kill messages... and they are everywhere... same for kill cam.

And i miss my custom config... FOV sucks... made for consoles, i think its something like 50 or less.

As for the mp beta... god crap, how i hate aim assist... you basically need no skill at all... just get the "less recoil while aimmode" perk and aim in the general direction of the enemy...aim assist need to be disabled in MP on pc, period.

[Pontos]

Yes, but the fact is that they touted about how this was going to be a PC game first then a console game second. That doesn't look like the case so far with the press "start" to continue, and the aim assist with limited graphics options.
Whoa there! Press "start" to continue? For real?
Good thing they didn't release a single player demo or we may end up seeing the infamous "Saving, please don't turn your computer off" message typical from many, many ports.
In fact, did anyone see that while playing the leaked beta build?

Anyway, this seems to confirm what everyone thought as soon as crytek went multiplatform: The game, not the engine, was made for consoles and then adapted for the PC.
I say the game and not the engine because it's built upon a PC only engine (Crysis') which simply got some optimizations for console's hardware (And hopefully not artificially limited because of it). And because after all, it does have a DX11 rendering path AND features.

[killerxp100]

Seems like a halfass job to me.

[STEvil]

Gave it a run.

It can be summed up in three words:

Well, that sucked.

[HelixPC]

This is pathetic, it tries very hard to be COD and it fails, COD is miles ahead of this game, BF BC2 is a much better game as well. $60 for this? lol no way

[railer]

Nothing has changed.

The most ungrateful.
The most self entitled.
The most whiny.
The never pleased....

Signed
PC gaming community.

Half of your posts here almost makes me puke. No wonder company's develop for PC less and less. Nothing can please you. I haven't even fired up the game but i don't expect much form a 1.5G MP demo done on dx9. Lets play full game before passing judgment.

BF? COD? ha these are nothing special and are cookie cuter games.
You want original? Try Quake, first FEAR, HL2. Really run and gun games are all the same in its core design.

After reading this thread i almost want to go buy an Xbox :rofl:

[kadozer]

Nothing has changed.

The most ungrateful.
The most self entitled.
The most whiny.
The never pleased....

Signed
PC gaming community.

Half of your posts here almost makes me puke. No wonder company's develop for PC less and less. Nothing can please you. I haven't even fired up the game but i don't expect much form a 1.5G MP demo done on dx9. Lets play full game before passing judgment.

BF? COD? ha these are nothing special and are cookie cuter games.
You want original? Try Quake, first FEAR, HL2. Really run and gun games are all the same in its core design.

After reading this thread i almost want to go buy an Xbox :rofl:

They should make a pc game about whining about an upcoming game. Seems more fun to people. Would be epic.

[SpuTnicK]

Vr-zone summary (http://vr-zone.com/articles/crysis-2-pc-multiplayer-demo-pictorial-review-56k-warning-/11398-6.html)


Is the graphics groundbreaking?

Didn't you just see the screenshots?!!

Is the sound earth shattering?

Yes. I've just wet my pants.

:rofl:

[RaZz!]

Nothing has changed.

The most ungrateful.
The most self entitled.
The most whiny.
The never pleased....

Signed
PC gaming community.

Half of your posts here almost makes me puke. No wonder company's develop for PC less and less. Nothing can please you. I haven't even fired up the game but i don't expect much form a 1.5G MP demo done on dx9. Lets play full game before passing judgment.

BF? COD? ha these are nothing special and are cookie cuter games.
You want original? Try Quake, first FEAR, HL2. Really run and gun games are all the same in its core design.

After reading this thread i almost want to go buy an Xbox :rofl:

even though i agree with your last paragraphs, the first one couldn't be more off.

sry, but is e.g. a proper FOV in a pc game really too much to ask for? there are more and more games which are completely castrated fov-wise. on consoles such a low fov is usual (no idea why though, probably due to the view distance to the screen), but on a pc such a fov makes me and a lot of other people puke all over the desktop.

what i don't understand is, that a FOV is such a basic and simple feature to adjust/implement, and yet they don't think it's worth to invest the time for that.
they just port the game with crappy fov over to the pc. i mean, don't they play their own game on a pc? it takes me about 10 seconds and a few mouse moves to immeadiately see if a fov is correct or not.

the reason the pc gaming community is more whiny than the console community is probably because we, the pc gamers, are used to quite high standards. ever since we're fed with more and more consolish crap the devs lowered the bar on the pc significantly. no wonder we're upset...

[Pantsu]

It's the viewing distance that makes the developers choose narrow fov for consoles. The game is hence developed for that narrow fov, and may cause problems if a higher fov is used. Also some excuses claim it's unfair in multiplayer.

Too bad the demo doesn't represent the final DX11 graphics. It's basically useless now other than presenting gameplay mechanics.

[Olivon]

Thanks Last_Meal :up:

But no DX11, no chocolate ! :D

I will wait for the final version :yepp:

[STEvil]

Nothing has changed.

The most ungrateful.
The most self entitled.
The most whiny.
The never pleased....

Signed
PC gaming community.

Half of your posts here almost makes me puke. No wonder company's develop for PC less and less. Nothing can please you. I haven't even fired up the game but i don't expect much form a 1.5G MP demo done on dx9. Lets play full game before passing judgment.

BF? COD? ha these are nothing special and are cookie cuter games.
You want original? Try Quake, first FEAR, HL2. Really run and gun games are all the same in its core design.

After reading this thread i almost want to go buy an Xbox :rofl:

Please do, leave us whiney PC gamers to revel in our utter disgust of the crap being thrown at us and called a "game" these days.

http://goofygifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/funny-gifs-u-mad.gif

[RPGWiZaRD]

Crysis MP has never been a strong point really... I never even played multiplayer of it but finished single player campaign using some gameplay changing mod though.

[initialised]

Where's the benchmark tool for this?

I can't be arsed playing it, I just want to use it to bench. Get on it ppl?

[zalbard]

No DX11 = this demo is pointless as a performance benchmark. :(

[initialised]

Fair point, but I still want to bench with it, c'mon Crytek where's the support for the PC Hardware crowd?

[DeltZ]

in the full game according to that VR zone article (According to some "reliable source")
There will probably be a fov console command when there's a console too

[Hornet331]

Nothing has changed.

The most ungrateful.
The most self entitled.
The most whiny.
The never pleased....

Signed
PC gaming community.

Half of your posts here almost makes me puke. No wonder company's develop for PC less and less. Nothing can please you. I haven't even fired up the game but i don't expect much form a 1.5G MP demo done on dx9. Lets play full game before passing judgment.

BF? COD? ha these are nothing special and are cookie cuter games.
You want original? Try Quake, first FEAR, HL2. Really run and gun games are all the same in its core design.

After reading this thread i almost want to go buy an Xbox :rofl:

:ROTF:

We usually only whine when devs try to force us down generic crap, and crysis 2 MP is just that.

Crysis 2 got so much consolized is not even funny... they had a original Multiplayer (mode), but instead on expanding and improving on it they just copied CoD.

The SP on the other hand is good, thought its quite liniar it has a good atmosphere.

You think the PC community is bad? Buy an xbox and play some games online and then come back and tell me that again.


in the full game according to that VR zone article (According to some "reliable source")
There will probably be a fov console command when there's a console too

Yes, but if they don't change things like they are in beta, if you expand the FoV to much you get clipping of the hand/weapon models, beacsue they don't reach that far... :lol:

And you know whats funny, if I wouldn't have played the beta and only the MP demo I would have cancled my preorder... Because the MP is not even worth 30€...

[Lanek]

baah reading your comment, i m not too angry about not be able to register an account. mycrisis.com stay locked at " being create your account "....

Edit: fixed by using an old GameSpy ID.

[DTU_XaVier]

I don't like the fact that they tried copying COD multiplayer, but at least in a Crysis setting it makes sense to have perks and upgrades and the like.... And I understand the reasoning behind the decision... When you look at the gaming-scene today, you'd have to be blind not to see the massive succes of COD, despite individual opinions on quality... The COD MP is what people want, and many are obviously shelling out 60$ a year for a re-skin plus a few twists... So I fully understand why CryTek might've thought "We can do it better", and try to get some of that player-base... Give people what they want, and a surprisingly large group of people want COD multiplayer...
I just wish it was built from the ground up as a PC multiplayer expirience, with perks and upgrades tailored to a PC gaming enviroment.... Next time I guess...

Still love Crysis after 3 years, having played through the SP 6 times, and enjoyed every single playthrough... Truly looking forward to this one in the SP department, because from the trailers, it seems they actually tried to craft a proper Single Player story, and not just throw big set-pieces and annoying on-rail like sequences together...

Best regards :toast:

[cowie]

Did you guys play the first crysis or the last few cod's?
I think they both suck equally hard gameplay wise.
not that most of the gamers give a crap about game content in the last 4-5 yrs.
They buy any crap game with bf cod in the title no matter what.
I would never want the makers to think about making more junk like this so i wont buy it.
ok just me ranting sry

[DTU_XaVier]

Did you guys play the first crysis or the last few cod's?
I think they both suck equally hard gameplay wise.
not that most of the gamers give a crap about game content in the last 4-5 yrs.
They buy any crap game with bf cod in the title no matter what.
I would never want the makers to think about making more junk like this so i wont buy it.
ok just me ranting sry
"Most of gamers"... Well, I guess generalization isn't half as dead I hoped it would be by now...

It's all a matter of opinion I guess... I enjoyed Modern Warfare and World at War MP for a while, and though I never really played Crysis MP, as I said, the SP has stayed a stable part of my games-to-install list over the last three-and-a-half years, along with maybe one or two other games... Warhead held me over for a bit, but I enjoy Crysis' single player levels more for their slower pace and more methodical feel, opposed to Warhead's straight-on action feel (the game was very much focused on making you hurry up, whereas the first felt like it was letting you take your time)...

Actually, from a story point of view, Crysis is one of the better shooters of the last couple of years.. True, it's just aliens, and stereo-typical NK bad guys, but there is just enough mystery in there to keep you intrigued, with a mysterious first act, a foreboding and dramatic second act and a climactic and desperate third, and I'm hoping the second will expand on that... If the trailers are anything to go by, it will in a big way... But trailers are that way usually... :)

And before you start telling me to play other kinds of games than FPSs, I enjoyed Mass Effect 1+2, Dragon Age, Splinter Cell series, Dawn of War 1+2 and various Total War entries in the same time frame, enjoying some for their strategic elements and others for their stories... But sometimes, I just like to make things go boom as well :p:

Best Regards :toast:

[Loque]

avira detected 3 trojans inside the Crysis_2_Multiplayer_Demo.exe file, anyone else ?

must be false positives..

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/7370/98751544.jpg (http://img846.imageshack.us/i/98751544.jpg/)

also inside the game..

[cold2010]

This joke, simply the avira fail :D

Edit :

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/6067/260332054748.jpg

Nothing

[Loque]

oups, the virus database was a few days old, newer version is fixed :)

oh well, my bad :D

[CARDB0ARDfoxx]

wait, how did you guys start5 playing? i downloaded it but i am just stuck at the login screen man. i have tried my mycrysis account and my gamespy account but nothing works. i even tried to make an account but it just stays stuck on the login part! hare the servers down? how did you get around this?

[cowie]

"Most of gamers"... Well, I guess generalization isn't half as dead I hoped it would be by now...

It's all a matter of opinion I guess... I enjoyed Modern Warfare and World at War MP for a while, and though I never really played Crysis MP, as I said, the SP has stayed a stable part of my games-to-install list over the last three-and-a-half years, along with maybe one or two other games... Warhead held me over for a bit, but I enjoy Crysis' single player levels more for their slower pace and more methodical feel, opposed to Warhead's straight-on action feel (the game was very much focused on making you hurry up, whereas the first felt like it was letting you take your time)...

Actually, from a story point of view, Crysis is one of the better shooters of the last couple of years.. True, it's just aliens, and stereo-typical NK bad guys, but there is just enough mystery in there to keep you intrigued, with a mysterious first act, a foreboding and dramatic second act and a climactic and desperate third, and I'm hoping the second will expand on that... If the trailers are anything to go by, it will in a big way... But trailers are that way usually... :)

And before you start telling me to play other kinds of games than FPSs, I enjoyed Mass Effect 1+2, Dragon Age, Splinter Cell series, Dawn of War 1+2 and various Total War entries in the same time frame, enjoying some for their strategic elements and others for their stories... But sometimes, I just like to make things go boom as well :p:

Best Regards :toast:

I did not mean to troll sry
ok so who buys these newer games to make the devs keep putting out cookie cutter bland awful junk?
most gamers i would think :D
ofcoarse you can buy and play what you want.
I cant argue that crysis does not look great but that did not help it much as a game i would want to play long.
Its just that if you have not noticed most fps games have melled into the same games.
I guess we have no one to blame for console ports,regen health,lack of real severs and the like but ourselves.
I for one am sick of the teeny boppers calling the shots of whats inside a game,cus they would buy anything and everything.

What it comes down to they have never seen a real fps.
ok no mas from me enjoy your console port.

[Philip_J_Fry]

i wonder if it has DX10? dling now

[[XC] hipno650]

so I DLed it and played a couple games last night and I need to say that I could not be more disappointed with this game so far... I will go through my legitimate beefs in point form.

1. Console Menus: the first thing you notice when you start up the game, "Press start to continue" not to mention the movement is sluggish and obviously made for a game pad. (Crysis Warhead never had this problem)
2. Lack of Graphics and Sound options: So I can change my resolution, turn V-sync on and off and then change between presets... No shadder tweaking or lighting tweaking.... (Crysis Warhead never had this problem)
3. Only 6v6 Multiplayer: For God sakes COD has more players... (Crysis Wars never had this problem)
4. The game looks like overall Crap even "maxed out": Even on Hardcore the game looks no better then COD MW2 and no-ware even near Crysis, Crysis Warhead or Crysis Wars (Crysis Warhead never had this problem)
5. Aim assist: Nuff said (Crysis Warhead never had this problem)
6. The gameplay feels very sluggish: The game is not snappy and responsive and control of the game feels like it was meant for a gamepad... (Crysis Warhead never had this problem inf act it was one of the best games for "gunplay feel")
7. The MP is a Direct COD ripoff: Get a 3 kill streak for radar and 7 kills for a "Ceph gunship" are you kidding me? Thats a direct rip off, i would be surprised if COD does not sue.... (Crysis Wars never had this problem)
8. Small Crappy Map: The release map is broken.... nuff said... (Crysis Warhead never had this problem)
9. FOV is totally junk: my gun takes up half my screen (Crysis Warhead never had this problem)
10. Overdone animations: Walking, running, jumping, aiming and shooting are WAY overdone and make the gameplay seem sluggish in return (Crysis Warhead never had this problem)
11. The Nanosuit functions suck: Armour mode goes down over time???? the balance of the suit was great in the first game.... (Crysis Warhead never had this problem)
12. SLI and CFX support are broken: I played the entire demo last night with my second GTX 480 not going above 0% usage..... other are pointing out issues with CFX (Crysis Warhead never had this problem)

I could go on all day with other things that piss me off about this demo. Honestly Crysis Wars is how old and still not only looks much better but plays much better... the only thing that I like so far is the menu music....

I have not been this let down with a game since SupCom2..... I really hope they can fix it before launch but I really doubt it.... the issues are so deep that it would take an engine change....

[hurrdurr]

What I liked a lot about Crysis and Crysis: Warhead was its superb tight controls... if they lost that it's hardly going to be something good.

Also, people... the game's single player campaign was leaked to torrents like one month ago, and the game is still not released... with a situation like this do you think it makes a lot of financial sense for Crytek to really focus on the PC experience to make it better?

[zalbard]

Also, people... the game's single player campaign was leaked to torrents like one month ago, and the game is still not released... with a situation like this do you think it makes a lot of financial sense for Crytek to really focus on the PC experience to make it better?
We've gone through this discussion already.
People who buy games will still buy it if it's good. People who don't will still pirate it.
And if they don't bother fulfilling their promises of a decent PC version then they can say buh-bye to those sales they could still actually get.

[Hornet331]

What I liked a lot about Crysis and Crysis: Warhead was its superb tight controls... if they lost that it's hardly going to be something good.



Yup handling is totaly down the drain in crysis 2... delays between actions everywhere, I had hopes that they would tweak it till release for pc... but oh well...

The most annyoing stuff is the sprint/jump delay... WTF do they have to put a delay between those two actions... :slapass:

[SubZero.it]

I'm getting epic hans zimmer soundtracks =D

I'm pretty pumped for the whole game now=D

Nice choice :up:

@Loque: avira is a virus...why using it? :D

[DTU_XaVier]

I did not mean to troll sry
ok so who buys these newer games to make the devs keep putting out cookie cutter bland awful junk?
most gamers i would think :D
ofcoarse you can buy and play what you want.
I cant argue that crysis does not look great but that did not help it much as a game i would want to play long.
Its just that if you have not noticed most fps games have melled into the same games.
I guess we have no one to blame for console ports,regen health,lack of real severs and the like but ourselves.
I for one am sick of the teeny boppers calling the shots of whats inside a game,cus they would buy anything and everything.

What it comes down to they have never seen a real fps.
ok no mas from me enjoy your console port.
No trolling detected, we're good :D
My point was that from a financial perspective, it made sense for CryTek to look at what was selling well, and then trying to improve that formula, and let's face it, COD is the heavy hitter these days (sadly)...
Yep, most FPS' these days are very... same-y is probably the right word (is it a word?)...
Regenerating health is not that unreasonable in Crysis, if you think about the suit-tech... It makes a whole hell lot more sense than in COD for example (and most every other game which ever implemented it)... But I see your point :)...
The problem today I guess, is that some people, a lot of people apparently, don't want to have time to think when they game... Look at COD's multiplayer, even compared to CS back in the day... It's frantic, sure, but it's ridiculous how people are running around without thinking, purely relying on reflexes, luck and overly generous developers...
I truly hope the MP demo is what it looks like, a quick, crude port of the console-beta/demo, and that the final release of the game on PC will be as PC-friendly as they come these days... I truly hope they were just lazy and gave in to the PC-market clamoring for a demo :)

Best Regards :toast:

[trinibwoy]

Played for a few hours and these are my initial thoughts.

Performance: Great so far, 60fps hardcore GTX 580, Q9550, 1920x1200 vsync-on.
Graphics: Amazing for DX9. Really good AA in DX9 on a deferred engine, how'd they do it? Looking forward to DX11 settings.
Gameplay: Run and gun, tactical, not team oriented, gets old fast - i.e. consolized Call of Duty clone. Run of the mill weapons plus a few cool moves that are hard to actually pull off.
Sound: Extremely poor, sound effects have no depth or detail.
Controls: Decent, could be tighter.
Maps: Laughably small and uninspired, about the size of one stage of a Rush map in BC2 - yes that small.
Overall: Quake/UT fans will probably like it, kiddies will love it.

[Hornet331]

Na quake fans will hate it, since the controls are garbage.

[biohead]

if it wasn't for the narrow POV and the instant replay (is this a GAME or an action movie?) i'd think the demo is all right. but as it stand this is just another fps you played three years ago.

watching an instant replay just makes my blood boil. it entirely destroys the continuity of the game. if you could disable the instant replay, widen the POV, and give us a config file to adjust controls etc (can't get an accurate mouse sensitivity, it's either too slow or too fast), it wouldn't be so bad.

[DeltZ]

if it wasn't for the narrow POV and the instant replay (is this a GAME or an action movie?) i'd think the demo is all right. but as it stand this is just another fps you played three years ago.

watching an instant replay just makes my blood boil. it entirely destroys the continuity of the game. if you could disable the instant replay, widen the POV, and give us a config file to adjust controls etc (can't get an accurate mouse sensitivity, it's either too slow or too fast), it wouldn't be so bad.

I'm personally fine with instant replay. As a long time CS player, there's no instant respawn, or respawn after 3 seconds or anything like that. It's if you die, you wait up to like 1-2 minutes for the round to end. The respawn time in crysis including instant replay is pretty fast compared to other games i've played. I actually quite like instant replay sometimes, as it shows how you died and can be constructive in knowing what it's like to face yourself, easier to be self critical on your technique, or if you just got owned in the back by some camping noob.
The mouse accuracy is likely due to similarities with crysis having weapon inertia, it is simply made to make aiming harder, because aiming with a mouse is too easy especially if you're throwing multi platform controllers into the mix for multiplayer.
I don't really see where the comments about lag /delay come from, we even have Q and E to switch between modes way faster than mouse 3 ever could.

[[XC] hipno650]

Played for a few hours and these are my initial thoughts.

Performance: Great so far, 60fps hardcore GTX 580, Q9550, 1920x1200 vsync-on.
Graphics: Amazing for DX9. Really good AA in DX9 on a deferred engine, how'd they do it? Looking forward to DX11 settings.
Gameplay: Run and gun, tactical, not team oriented, gets old fast - i.e. consolized Call of Duty clone. Run of the mill weapons plus a few cool moves that are hard to actually pull off.
Sound: Extremely poor, sound effects have no depth or detail.
Controls: Decent, could be tighter.
Maps: Laughably small and uninspired, about the size of one stage of a Rush map in BC2 - yes that small.
Overall: Quake/UT fans will probably like it, kiddies will love it.

i dunno man i found the graphics on hardcore to be a HUGE letdown. Hopefully they will be better with full DX11 on release but they were no better then any other console port. also i would disagree when you say that Quake and Ut fans will like it as Crysis 2 is nothing like those games. COD fans will like it but thats it I imagine. and hardcore Quake or UT player would bash their own brains in after using those sloppy controls for a few min........ I know I almost did...

if they can't fix these problems then I think I will no longer have faith in any game Dev out there. Crytek WAS one of the last bastions of PC gaming..... now it seems like total trash....

[fiskov]

>>Push Start to Begin.. "START"
>>Enter Login Details to play

My face :/

Exit, Uninstall.. game.co.uk -> account -> cancel pre order

[RaZz!]

Na quake fans will hate it, since the controls are garbage.

actually it's not that bad.

i'm a huge ut and q3 fan and... so far i really like the crysis2 mp :p: i didn't expect that since crysis wars couldn't convince me at all, but i'm pleasantly surprised ;)

imo, the crysis2 mp feels a lot like fear combat. similar weapons and gamestyle.

performance is great as well. 50-80 fps with a gtx570 and q9550. feels very smooth :up:

[trinibwoy]

I actually quite like instant replay sometimes, as it shows how you died and can be constructive in knowing what it's like to face yourself, easier to be self critical on your technique, or if you just got owned in the back by some camping noob.

Same here, I found it very useful for self-evaluation. A couple times I "thought" I was well hidden only for the replay to show that I was actually pretty easy to spot. I like the feature.


hipno650;4764791']i dunno man i found the graphics on hardcore to be a HUGE letdown. Hopefully they will be better with full DX11 on release but they were no better then any other console port.

We'll be able to do a proper comparison if/when we get access to the underlying graphics settings in the full build.

[Pontos]

hipno650;4764791']if they can't fix these problems then I think I will no longer have faith in any game Dev out there. Crytek WAS one of the last bastions of PC gaming..... now it seems like total trash....
The game that was the prime example of the PC capabilities is now the prime example of a lackluster port job :(

Both IW and Crytek have shown the finger to the PC community in their own ways.

[Hornet331]

hipno650;4764791']if they can't fix these problems then I think I will no longer have faith in any game Dev out there. Crytek WAS one of the last bastions of PC gaming..... now it seems like total trash....

Luckly we still have valve.

[kazuyakun]

Noticed auto-aim is broken and/or hitboxes are all over the place...

Autoaim on meant every so often headshots missed and sometimes when I MISS visually means a hit. GFX looks slightly better than MW:BO but it plays just like it, encourages for high Kill : Death than team play.....

Looks like another company broke my heart once again and watered down whatever potential it had for the garbage that is COD. I just hope the gfx looks better than this in DX11, DX9 looks like crap.

[zalbard]

The gameplay is decent. Quite fun, actually.
The server manager thing, on the other hand... complete garbage.
95% of servers that are shown as not full indeed are. Half of the remaining ones time out. Some servers don't start the game as time runs out, some are just sitting packed full even without any server start countdown whatsoever.
It's quite fun once you finally get in, though. Graphics are nice, too.

[cowie]

Well guys its not all bad they did at least put out a demo for free no pre order or nuttin.. thats old school.:D
I do like some of the foul mouthed taunts too.

[Pontos]

From Tweakguides.com:

"Crysis 2 is fairly much locked down in terms of advanced tweaking, but there is one working method of implementing cvars, and that is to add them to the launch box for the main executable. Right-click on the Crysis2Demo.exe file found under the \Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis 2 Demo\bin32\ directory, select Properties, and one blank space after the last character in the Target box, add your command(s) with a plus sign in front of them. This method is detailed at the bottom of this page of the Crysis Tweak Guide, and at the moment many of the commands from Crysis 1 can be used as shown in this section of the guide. For example, adding +g_skipintro 1 skips the intro screens, +cl_fov 85 changes your field of view to 85 degrees, +r_glow 0 disables the heavy glow effect visible particularly in Hardcore graphics, and so on."

This is good news for those who were annoyed by the narrow FOV, but just like with Bulletstorm and their encrypted ini BS we're forced to rely on non in-game customization for virtually everything...

I can only hope the final version will be different.

[Olivon]

Crysis 2 only DX9 - DX11 will be "later" (http://translate.google.fr/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sweclockers.com%2Fnyhet%2F13594-crysis-2-endast-dx9-dx11-kommer-senare)


At a presentation to Nvidia's new graphics card in the GeForce 500-series revealed that Crysis 2 initially will not include support for DirectX 11, instead, all PC gamers had to make do with the six year old DirectX 9.

In practice this means that all graphics hungry gamers with later generations of graphics cards can not take advantage of graphics-enhancing features such as tesselering. According to Nvidia promises the developers to include a DX11 mode in a future update, when exactly is still unclear.

Hope that's not true, if so, Maximum Fail :(

[zalbard]

What? Seriously?
The graphics are nice, but come on... Shame on you, Crytek, shame on you! What a console fail...

[Hornet331]

lol im with zal... wth...

Crytek was pimping crysis 2 for years to be more visually advance then crysis 1 and then it ships only with dx9 support... :slap:

[Pontos]

Crysis 2 only DX9 - DX11 will be "later" (http://translate.google.fr/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sweclockers.com%2Fnyhet%2F13594-crysis-2-endast-dx9-dx11-kommer-senare)

Hope that's not true, if so, Maximum Fail :(
I can see it now: This news will generate many pre-order cancellations and change the mind of those who were going to buy it at or after launch.
As a result, Crytek will inform that due to lower than expected sales they wont be bothering implementing DX11 as they originally intended.

Vicious circle at its best :rolleyes:. Here's hoping i fail as a seer though, heh.

2007, Crysis is launched with DX9 and DX10 support natively.
2011, Crysis 2 is launched with DX9 support only. DX11 to be added "later".
Is that progress?

[biohead]

One round of applause for mediocrity.

[zalbard]

Crytek was pimping crysis 2 for years to be more visually advance then crysis 1 and then it ships only with dx9 support... :slap:
Newsflash: Crysis 3 to come out using DirectX 8 only. Entertainment for everybody, even those stuck with Pentium 4's! PC gaming community, rejoice! Crytek is thinking about every single one of you guys!!!
:shakes:

[JohnZS]

Newsflash: Crysis 3 to come out using DirectX 8 only. Entertainment for everybody, even those stuck with Pentium 4's! PC gaming community, rejoice! Crytek is thinking about every single one of you guys!!!
:shakes:

Blimey, time to dust off the Northwood and Geforce 7!!

:D

Joking aside this is completely ridiculous, if not for reasons stated in the other thread that nVidia and ATi's drivers are not mature enough..(lacking a certain DirectX11 threading feature).

John

[zalbard]

Well, they could at least make it DX10 compatible, then. Crysis from 2007 uses DX10... And we've had DX11 games for a while.
It's just an excuse.

[JohnZS]

Well, they could at least make it DX10 compatible, then. Crysis from 2007 uses DX10... And we've had DX11 games for a while.
It's just an excuse.

Seriously I agree.

Between you and me I quite liked Crysis, yes it was a bit short and yes it wasn't all that original, but it was quite fun in areas. Until nVidia broke Crysis on the GTX 295 with drivers newer than 191.07 it was also a very pretty game to look at too:p:

I am confused as to why Crysis 2 did not move on from this with DirectX10 as a minimum?!

John

[Hornet331]

btw. for everyone who wants bigger fov:

add after the shortcut:

+cl_fov=90 +r_DrawNearFoV=90 +pl_movement.power_sprint_targetFov=90 +r_MotionBlur=0 +g_skipIntro=1

Also removes intro and motion blur.

[Philip_J_Fry]

so this turn out to be another console port pc game, a crappy one i might add.

[phantomferrari]

went over to the crysis2 ea forum site to give them a piece of my mind and its down. i wonder why? maybe they are busy removing all the negative topics they have :D

[tbone8ty]

this needs alot of work

beta looked alot better in terms of graphics...

it just feels not polished like in terms of stats its hard to read. totally confusing look to it

also charterers look like there cut and pasted on the screen.

also seems slow reloading between matches.

[hurrdurr]

We've gone through this discussion already.
People who buy games will still buy it if it's good. People who don't will still pirate it.
And if they don't bother fulfilling their promises of a decent PC version then they can say buh-bye to those sales they could still actually get.

You serious about this? The first Crysis was not only PC exclusive, but it smashed bars in graphics quality and detail, (like the gameplay or not) became a big sensation which is still used as the decisive graphics benchmark.

And it did not sell a lot of units. Because it was for PC, and everybody pirated it.

"People who buy games will still buy if it's good, they say bye bye to PC sales with this"

Well, like they care about the 7 people who would have bought the game but will not now.

[N19h7m4r3]

You serious about this? The first Crysis was not only PC exclusive, but it smashed bars in graphics quality and detail, (like the gameplay or not) became a big sensation which is still used as the decisive graphics benchmark.

And it did not sell a lot of units. Because it was for PC, and everybody pirated it.

"People who buy games will still buy if it's good, they say bye bye to PC sales with this"

Well, like they care about the 7 people who would have bought the game but will not now.

Are you seriously saying only 7 people will buy crysis 2?

Get a grip man and stop lying to yourself.

The original game sold alright given the crazy system demand for it.
People expected this to be the next step in pc graphics.

It is not how ever. That's why it won't sell aswell, along with the fact that it's simply a console port now.

[bfar]

Crytek were never a AAA developer, Crysis and Farcry were decent games and no more.

Not expecting much from this graphically given it's cross platform developement, but hows the gameplay? I always thought the Crysis games had serious untapped potential.

I agree with people who get annoyed with narrow fov's, mouse acceleration and auto aiming. They're the most irritating things. If developers can't do a suitable control interface for PC ports, then why bother at all? Seems like really basic stuff to me. Maybe they're just cheapskates.

[SubZero.it]

Would like to see people posting here (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=267505) instead of this thread.
We could also make some kind of petition

[lizardmech]

You serious about this? The first Crysis was not only PC exclusive, but it smashed bars in graphics quality and detail, (like the gameplay or not) became a big sensation which is still used as the decisive graphics benchmark.

And it did not sell a lot of units. Because it was for PC, and everybody pirated it.

"People who buy games will still buy if it's good, they say bye bye to PC sales with this"

Well, like they care about the 7 people who would have bought the game but will not now.
It's probably more microsoft's fault than piracy. They basically propped up the xbox for almost a decade throwing billions at it and bought then destroyed quite a few PC developers and game series. They then ruined dx10/11 adoption by limiting it to vista. They also fragmented windows machines by selling both 32bit and 64bit versions of vista and windows 7.

All of this seems terribly short sighted, what are they going to do when ARM based machines can run xbox ports? It seems like killing windows gaming will only hasten consumers ditching windows for all the new tablet and netbook devices as they mature.

Surely it's bad news for AMD, Intel and nVidia as well, why am I going to ever upgrade my GPU if all games are console ports.

[Unrealer]

Another video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xN2_8na7JE&hd=1

[Tha Last Meal]

OMG ..:banana:... Look at this big machine gun :D
this game Amazing :up:

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/707/crysis2demo201103020758.jpg

[kaktus1907]

http://www.abload.de/img/desktop_2011_03_02_17_hnyg.png (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgizpmXDiXI)

What happened to the PC being the best version of the game and not a console port? :(

[Philip_J_Fry]

wow so like BF 3 will be one of the only good shooter made for PC? this year that is

btw Crysis 2 looks awful lot like FEAR 2, takes place in urban/ city environment, and the graphics as well

[Loque]

snip
What happened to the PC being the best version of the game and not a console port? :(

haha, damn I couldn't hold the laughing.. co-workers looking at me.. :ROTF:

[RaZz!]

btw. for everyone who wants bigger fov:

add after the shortcut:

+cl_fov=90 +r_DrawNearFoV=90 +pl_movement.power_sprint_targetFov=90 +r_MotionBlur=0 +g_skipIntro=1

Also removes intro and motion blur.

fov 90 is too much and looks like crap on a 16:10 screen.

proper fov on a 16:10 screen should be 74, as it seems crysis 2 uses a vertical fov instead of a horizontal fov - like bc2 does.

[Hornet331]

Also even if its not the "correct" fov for 16:10.. who cares... I want to see my surroundings in the battelfield especial in MP, and not just a tiny corridor... hell back in HL days i even played often with fov greater 100 in fisheye view. Your at an advantage when you see your enemy earlier, I notice this a lot in crysis MP that people run just past you even when they should have seen me... well better for me if people play with narrow vision... :p:

Also, noone forces anyone to use 90... :lol:

Everyone can juge for themself:
Fov=55 (default)
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5296/72864225.th.jpg (http://img269.imageshack.us/i/72864225.jpg/)
Fov=75
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8969/38041482.th.jpg (http://img135.imageshack.us/i/38041482.jpg/)
Fov=90
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/2033/43494443.th.jpg (http://img829.imageshack.us/i/43494443.jpg/)

[RaZz!]

i just wanted to let everyone know that the fov of 90 that's suggested everywhere is not the PROPER fov for that aspect ratio. people tend to copy & paste such things because they don't know any better and then think it's THE PERFECT setting even though it isn't ;)

16:10 -> 74 vertical fov (= 100 horizontal fov, which is used in e.g. unreal engine and source engine based games)
which is equivalent to
4:3 -> 74 vertical fov (= 90 horizontal fov)

[Hornet331]

source uses horizontal fov, its one of the view engine that still does it and im glad they do it... unreal on the other had uses vertical... just remember how they :banana::banana::banana::banana:ed wide screen gaming in bioshock.. :p:

[DeltZ]

half life 1 and bioshock made me feel ill. Even HL2 made me feel ill until FOV was increased 90 in console. Crysis 2 doesn't make me feel ill strangely.

[STEvil]

I remember running FOV at 120 in Quake 3 and HL1 before steam.. :p

A bit less extreme of a number is better for single player though haha.

[bamtan2]

i just wanted to let everyone know that the fov of 90 that's suggested everywhere is not the PROPER fov for that aspect ratio.

what do you mean proper? it is a video game on a flat screen an undefined distance away from your head, so what is the definition of proper FOV? and how are we sure a value in one game means the same thing in another?

[Luka_Aveiro]

i'm getting motion sickness already, stop tlking about fov

[vodka3dg]

the demo is so freaking awesome!!!! this game is a must in my shopping cart :D

[DaKon]

Any "PC" game that begins with "Press Start Button" to me equates a fail.

[EagleRock]

http://www.abload.de/img/desktop_2011_03_02_17_hnyg.png (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgizpmXDiXI)

What happened to the PC being the best version of the game and not a console port? :(

Hahaha that was very funny, You made me sad :p:

[Oztopher]

I've been playing this the last couple of days. I was frustrated as much as everyone else was when i first played it, constantly plagued with problems etc. But today, it's much better, i can actually join most servers now, and levelling up is now sticking (would always go back to level 1 after restarting the game).

It's playable on hardcore setting, but i like advanced just for that extra 60-70fps+ multiplayer playability.

The gameplay is really settling in on me, after finding out that Q and E are suit menu shortcuts for armor and stealth, things became A LOT easier and streamlined :D I love trying to be a ninja hehe...

[Vardant]

I remember running FOV at 120 in Quake 3 and HL1 before steam.. :p

A bit less extreme of a number is better for single player though haha.

I think I was actually using even higher FoV setting in my Q3 "progaming" days. It starts to look like the alien vision in AvP.

Btw. the DX11 patch should be available on the launch day, don't know if anybody mentioned that. It's sort of like the PhysX patches from NV.