Crysis Warhead dropping exclusively on PC this Fall

[tdream]

Cevat Yerli indicated that they could rename quality presets in crysis warhead. If thats the case than they cant be compared like this. I know they are working on several optimizations and some new features but further confirmation is needed.

"We are upset at ourselves actually, because we miscommunicated some of the things. We labeled certain things wrong inside the game, like configuration for example. We could have labeled it more efficiently, saying that very high [detail] should have been ultra high, and high should have been very high, because our high compared to other games' high was a generational difference. But the perception from the gamer was that if he qualified for medium, he said, "Hey, I'm playing other games at high. Why don't I play Crysis at high, too?" And it's a fair enough question.

It was just a naming convention issue, because our medium could easily compete with any high, and very high should have been ultra high as a means of futurizing. Then we might have received less critiquing about configuration issues, and this created the feeling of, "I will not play this game until I have the right PC because I don't want to spoil my experience." This kind of excuse happened even between my friends. I said, "Guys, play the game now. Don't wait for it like three months, six months, because it's out now."

I think we are fixing a lot of this with Warhead."

http://pc.ign.com/articles/884/884757p1.html

I remember reading that too. So does that mean the above graph is Crysis on Medium settings?

[rocketr2]

The trailer looks great !!!

[Luka_Aveiro]

I remember reading that too. So does that mean the above graph is Crysis on Medium settings?

Not exactly, but it may mean that cvar values matching high on Crysis Warhead may be different from Crysis.

[flopper]

The talk of piracy is common, its funny they dont know how to stop piracy, dont make it hard to crack, make it open and easy to do and make a good multiplayer and people will buy it.
oh, lower price and offer some digital download would hurt either.

Seems developers dont understand the behavioural mechanics behind piracy.
Its not gonna stop due to saying largely nonsense as they do, people are not changing behaviour based on what could happen to PC gaming.

I buy my games I play, and they are few.
Most games I see are copies of some other game idea, no innovation makes piracy thrive.
Doom, silly, quake silly, any more fps shooters made, I trow up.

The market has changed in what gamers want, the devloeprs havent got that as yet.

However the game looks good.
(not gonna buy it)
silly shooters.

[initialised]

I had a brief go on WarHead a preview version at i34, sadly it was running on the SCAN White Cobra (QX9770 @ 3.6, I get these to 4.0-4.2GHz routinely) and crashed within minutes. Either unstable software or a very poor OC!

Nowt like killing a rivals 'Dream PC'!

[oohms]

If they can make fun deathmatch + team deathmatch modes, with smaller more fun maps it would be awesome.

[IvanAndreevich]

The trailer might be out but gametrailers is SO DAMN SLOW. Been waiting for it to buffer on an 8mb connection and i've given up after 20 MINUTES.

So just download the 720p WMV

[villa1n]

the new trailer is up on the site now too.
http://crysiswarhead.ea.com/media/p/733.aspx

[RAW-Raptor22]

Haha,

Raptor Team.

Liked Crysis, though it was short and needed better MP.

[mascaras]

Crysis Warhead is Coming to Steam


Crytek and Valve today announced an agreement to bring Crysis Warhead and Crysis to Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world.

"The millions of gamers logging into Steam every week to play today's best PC games are going to love Crysis Warhead," said Avni Yerli, Managing Director at Crytek. "Crytek Hungary has done a terrific job creating this new experience while optimizing CryEngine 2, and we're looking forward to delivering it and the original Crysis as our first offerings on Steam."[---]

"Crytek is one of the industry's great success stories, emerging new technology and talent," said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. "Crysis is one of today's leading PC franchises and delivering the original and Crysis Warhead via Steam is landmark for the platform."

The follow up to Crysis, one of the highest rated PC games of last year, Crysis Warhead will take players through the parallel story of Sergeant Michael 'Psycho' Sykes as he embarks on an intense, explosive adventure on the other side of the island. With waves of more challenging human and alien enemies to navigate through, players will once again be outfitted with the revolutionary Nanosuit and an arsenal of new weapons and vehicles to help Psycho complete his critical mission.Crysis Warhead will also come with Crysis Wars, a tailor-made experience for multiplayer gamers, featuring three diverse match types and 21 maps.

Crysis Warhead and Crysis will be available for pre-purchase via Steam starting this weekend, and expected to be released in mid September. Both games are published by EA Partners. For more details, please visit Steam Games and Crysis Warhead website.


http://www.techpowerup.com/71243/Cry..._to_Steam.html

regards

[Papu]

regards

Already pre-bought

mega!

[Knight]

regards

My prayers are answered.

Just hope the "optimized" game runs better this time.

[Tonucci]

IGN said in a recent review that it runs faster while looking better. I wanna see it broken down in reviews from hardware sites.

[Lightman]

Already pre-bought

mega!

+1

Can't wait to see the other side of the island .

[iTravis]

And here comes the review from IGN:
http://pc.ign.com/articles/909/909584p1.html
It appears that Crysis Warhead is well optimized than Crysis. And you only need the old 8800GTS to play it smoothly at high settings @ 1680x1050.

I played Warhead on a high-end machine with a quad core CPU and the latest Nvidia graphics card at high resolution (1680x1050) with all the details set to Enthusiast, which is essentially very high. It looked cutting edge and the frame rate was solid. Next, I checked the game on a slightly older PC with a two-year old 8800GTS and I was still able to crank it to Enthusiast settings and the same resolution and get solid results. Finally, I checked it out on the "$700 PC" that Crytek and EA have been touting. It really is a $700 machine built on the latest mainstream parts (the video card is a 9800GT), and I was able to play the final boss battle at the same resolution and at Enthusiast settings and get solid frame rates. I also tried it the Gamer setting, which is essentially high, and the frame rate was buttery smooth. You do lose some visual quality stepping down from Enthusiast, but even at Gamer Warhead still looks better than almost every game out there.

[Hazzan]

I still wait for this game.....

[afireinside]

Pretty excited for warhead. 4850 CF should be enough power to run a crysis game by now, especially if it's somewhat optimized for once.

[bowman]

I preordered it on Steam already. 8800GTX plays the original very well at 1680x1050, even with this CPU that belongs in the attic, so this should be even better.

[[XC] hipno650]

just watched the video review. looks like Warhead will be what we hoped for int he original and then some. good thing i just got that second 8800gtx maybe it's optimized enough to run on "enthusiast" with 8XAA at 1680x1050 on a 8800gtx SLI? i sure hope so!

[Monkeywoman]

"A common theme began to emerge over the course of my conversation with Crytek producer Bernd Diemer: this company has learned a lot since the release of Crysis.

Crysis Warhead, the result of Crytek's accumulated knowledge, will be released on Tuesday, and already the game is receiving high marks from critics.

In our lengthy interview, Diemer went over the major changes made to the Crysis formula in Warhead, whether Crysis itself will be patched to bring it up to speed, the importance of the new Crysis-branded PC, and the future of the Crysis franchise. "

very nice interview with a Warhead developer; http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=999

goes on saying they MIGHT patch crysis to run like warhead!

[oohms]

Nice to see it on steam, hopefully they wont price discriminate as much as they do with other titles.

[Stukov]

O.o, I was not going to buy this because of DRM and EA, but if it is on Steam...now now that might change my opinion. Anyone know if it is going to have any DRM on Steam or its just gonna be normal steam type game?

[RPGWiZaRD]

At first I wasn't very excited about this game but it gets more and more interesting, maybe I'd even finish this game, Crysis never captured me, it felt too slow paced and boring at times and the rather low fps with AA wasn't very nice either and disabling AA made the trees look like crap. Hopefully I could play this game at 1280x960 @ AA2x with still sufficient fps on a single 8800GT. And thanks for adding the grenade launcher, love this weapon.

[y2kbos]

Im going to play this at medium with some AA and enjoy the game.Couldnt be arsed watching my pc cripple again like last time.

[RaZz!]

does the retail version also work on steam? so that i could use my warhead key on steam?

e.g. dark messiah worked like that.