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Crysis Sequel Announced, Still PC Only
EA and Crytek have announced a sequel to Crysis , one of the highest rated games of last year. Unfortunately, it seems that still only PC users will be able to celebrate the good news. "In Crysis Warhead, players will don the Nanosuit of Sergeant Sykes, also known as 'Psycho', one of the most memorable characters from Crysis. More brash and aggressive than his Delta Force squadmate Nomad, players will experience Psycho's parallel story during the events of the original game, finding that life on the other side of the island is even more intense and explosive than they ever could have imagined. Luckily, Psycho's Nanosuit is just as capable and he's equipped with an even bigger arsenal of fully customizable weapons and new vehicles, giving players access to the tools they need to dominate any situation. Aside from this new, exciting single player campaign, Crysis Warhead will also feature new multiplayer content."
does this one require dual, dual-gpu video cards and a dual, quad core system just to get 30fps at full settings?
it's sad that the cryengine2 needs so much performance, look at Call of Duty 4, i think it's look pretty much the same like crysis but it doesn't need that much performance :/
are they also going to stop supporting this one after 6 months? 8 Ball says: Outlook not so good.
I would be interested in this, but I just heard about that video showing gameplay for Duke Nukem Forever, so I think I'm going to wait and get that instead.
I have a PC, but as a Linux user I'm left out too! You mean it's only for Windows, not for "PC".
I'm not typically an FPS guy, but I found the first half of Crysis to be one of the best games I've ever played. The found the second half extremely boring. Once the aliens show up, the game just wasn't the same. If Pyscho's story is supposed to involve "life" on the other side of the island, as the release calls it, I have to assume they are talking more about the aliens than the Koreans. Too bad.
You know and I know and most people here on /. know that "PC" is a bad name to call windows machines (particularly 'modern' windows such as XP/Vista, but obviously not 95/98) but this will never happen, given it's become a standard marketing term now, and we all know it.
It's like asking people to stop calling me African-American, because, Africa isn't the only continent that has/had people with dark skin, such as the Caribbeans... *ehem* mon.
"waah waah waaah". God I hate you. You and your scruffy little beard and big bloated belly. You know what the fuck PC-only means. That nomenclature is here to stay, and you can just quit your goddamn bitching about it.
I think it's just a little ironic this will be a PC only title, considering how loudly these guys bitched and moaned about piracy and swore up and down they'd never put out another PC exclusive title.
Are you worried that anyone (other than you, apparently) is going to be confused? Because that, honestly, is not a problem I've run into. Pretty sure most of us understand that "archaism" pretty well, actually.
But Linux is dying...
Err...
Nobody games on Macs anyhoo?
Uhm...
Something something Wii, something something PS-whatever, something something X-Box, your momma wears combat boots!
How does "non-console" strike you? Too ambiguous?
It will probably run on DirectX10 with backwards support for Directx9. IIRC, thats what the xbox uses too, so you'll probably need to specify DX9 or 10 on x86 or x64. More specifically I imagine theres a lower end on the number of processor extensions needed, so probably x86/x64 with at least support for sse3, mmx, sse, etc.
Or you could just not be a douche and say "PC" like everyone else. Leave the specifics for the hardware requirements.
Not saying "PC only" is saying I'm so insecure about myself that I need to arbitrarily use my own terminology because whats popular does not make me stand out. Just like people saying "USian" or "GNU/Linux"
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The really lame thing about this is they've told us they will not be continuing to patch Crysis because of this game being their new priority. In fact they canceled the continued development of the much anticipated 1.3 patch for Crysis.
(http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=29356)
This is a big slap in the face to everyone who bought Crysis with high hopes for it's multiplayer aspect and especially those of us working on multiplayer-focused mods for it. Even those who were just hoping to get more improved performance from a future patch - not yours.
EA seemed to pull the same shit with DICE and the Battlefield series, before this. BF2 expansions and then BF2142 were out before major issues with BF2 were ever resolved. Some of the same old BF2 bugs still exist in all of the games on that engine, today. We've once again been sold on continuing support that ended up amounting to nothing but too-few-patches and hosted community forums. At least DICE continued patching BF2. Crytek seemingly wants us to buy Warhead if we want the 'optimized' and presumably less-buggy CryEngine2. Still, given their track record thus far, I imagine many of the issues that plague Crysis will remain in Warhead. Then you can expect the next installment to end support of Warhead, just the same.
The sad thing is that this should, by most PC gaming standards, be an expansion pack, with the core game being updated with the revamped code and assets. The single player campaign is going to be parallel to the Crysis one, you just play a different character. Yet it sounds like it's going to be a full-priced title.
Personally I've despised EA for years and hate supporting them. I bought Crysis with a frown because of this. Now this. At least I know I wasn't delusional when I flamingly urged the Crytek people to sever ties with EA, once Steam went to free e-publishing.
I for one will not support this sort of bullshit. Boycott EA. Everything they touch turns to fail and AIDS!
I'll probably have a system capable of running the first title.
The folks at Crytek should focus a bit more on optimizations: they make great games but their system requirements are simply out of reality.
It says PC because when it comes to games, there are games for PCs or games for 3 major consoles.
If you have a 'MacOSX' PC, you can still run windows on it and run a 'PC' game.
If you have a 'Linux/BSD' PC, you can still run windows on it off another partition and run a 'PC' game, or run the 'PC' game under WINE, etc.
So yes, folks still refer to 'PC' games because you can run them on a PC, even if you have to go to some effort to set up emulation or a separate partition, but you can't run the 'PC' game on a console because it won't run on it at all.
Get it?
windows games have been labeled "PC" for a LONG time. either you people are complete newbs or just elitist pricks with nothing better to do than cry about your preferred platform.
Like you, I found the first half the game much better (and CERTAINLY more replayable) than the second. The second part was fun for about 10 minutes with the whole floaty thing, but that is only novelty value.
Why, yes I have been touched by His noodly appendage. And I plan to sue.
So true.
:)
The best is when people compare it consoles - where you have no choice on quality and it is locked at whatever the devs could get to run.
I guess the take away "winning strategy" from this is just to artificially limit the settings so stupid people don't bitch and give your game a bad reputation. Then 2 years later release a "graphics upgrade patch" that removes the limits
Future-proofing AND idiot mitigation. Win! (Profit???)
It's all perception. People want to think they are running it at "The Best Settings" and feel cheated if they aren't. Because, by God, they are entitled to the best settings no matter what their computer is like. It's just not fair otherwise!
Why, yes I have been touched by His noodly appendage. And I plan to sue.
You know exactly what "PC only" in this context meant. So you're just being pedantic.
Random and weird software I've written.
Linux server plan got axed too. :(
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I was thinking the same thing - I thought PC gaming was so rife with piracy that PC only (more specifically Windows only) games were a no-go for studios? Either someone was lying about that or they're making a stupid choice, and I'm guessing the former.
I thought that Crysis was fun. But the final 1/4 of the single player game left much to be desired -- it was buggy as hell. (Falling through the world in the final boss fight, anyone?)
I expect that a game of this calibre should actually be finishable -- not be impossible to complete because of clipping issues with the world terrain and corrupted savegames. Their lack of support on Patch 1.3 is a slap in the face.
I haven't played Crysis, but the description in the summary (no, I didn't RTFA due to being in a rush) sounds *exactly* like an expansion pack. Sequel, my ass.
/facepalm
The Half-Life series did this several times with Opposing Force, Blue Shift, and arguably Portal as it has ties to that universe indirectly... This doesn't seem to be advancing the main plotline in the same way that a true sequel would, but then again, I think I'm hair splitting here.
Hell, I seem to remember Quake mission packs billing themselves in the same manner... but at least they didn't kid themselves that it was an expansion and not a full blown sequel...
Sometimes I wonder if I think too much.
it will take before the official release date that the cracked version of the game will be on the bay this time. Last time I believe it was 3 days. If they keep that secuROM crap or any other debilitating DRM on it I'm not buying it. I got Crysis 'free' with my graphics card. I wasn't going to install it because of this. But then I found out that Daw of War: Soulstorm had already installed it on my computer anyways without me knowing. If you have it on your game list it on the box! I'm sick of this shady manipulative bullshit some software companies are pulling these days...
As far as the new one, are they doing a parallel timeline to when nomad was inside the ship or continuing the timeline after the end of Crysis? In the first case I can see why they are changing characters. In the second I don't really understand the point to changing to psycho.
As far as the tech requirements go. I'm damned glad that damn near nothing will run it at highest quality. It pushes the hardware technology to its limits. If you dumped buttloads of money into a badass system why should you have to limit yourself to low quality games (relatively speaking). If every company catered only to the mid to low range systems we'd never see any drive for improvement in graphics cards. There's a point where you have to stop pushing extra fps out of an old game that no one will, or can, visibly notice and start utilizing new technologies that will focus more on greater effects.
I have an expensive new system. I like having an extremely taxing game to see how badass I can get it. I have other games to play when my friends have a lan, that are still fun, that everyone can play. Someday in the future Crysis will be one of those games. Hell, Doom 3 IS one of those games. Used to be NO ONE could play it. Now every one of my friends can play it even on 'shit' systems.
And if I'm feeling insecure you have my assurance I won't reduce myself to ad hominem attacks in a public forum.
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The sad part is, companies don't see lack of sales equating into that no one likes their game. They look into some divine epitaph and conjure up some bullshit numbers stating that piracy was the reason why the game sold poorly. The game couldn't have been bad, right? All the while not releasing where they get their sources of information.
I am in the middle of playing it now. Do you turn off AV when playing? What about indexing services (Msft indexer slows me down / distributed clients (FAH, Seti) / Torrents
/frame.)
I'll double check everysingle setting I have on, but if your running a high res (like I do, I am either @ 1280 or 16x1200 can't remember, but I'll check tonight) TURN OFF AA. The higher the res, the less AA you need! 800x600 You need it up there. as you increase resolution, decrease AA. so for 1024x768 go down to 4x (or 2x), and 2x (or none)for 1280x1024 (asuming 4:3 ar) and just drop it from there up.
Most people want to run 8x AA on a 2048x1536 screen becuase it's the "MAX setting" but AA was designed for medium/poor resolutions. If your up in the 1280+ range, do you need it? Because the higher the res you go, the Harder (more FR costly) AA is to implement (pixel averaging a line w/ Greater and greater pixel counts, and more lines
I wasn't trying to be too much of a jerk but 3K is a lot if your designing your machine for games. I build gaming rigs for friends / family / coworkers. First thing I tell them, set a budget, cause the sky is the limit on specs. But thats the hard work. The rest is easy, spec out w/ their budget, divide your budget (3K) into 3rds, spend ~ 1/3 (or a touch less) on proc, 1/3 on videocard(s) (again or a touch less), and scrape teh rest together w/ what's leftover 8') Most procs take a 10% OC stock. Level load times are Proc dependant not so much HDD. Two mid to cheap drives Raid 0 are often faster than 1 fast drive, and often cost less. PSU / Mobo is important don't skimp, but be reasonable. You don't need a $150 PSU! Good mobo's are about 130-230. Ram is cheap these days. You allready have a Case/mouse/Keyboard/Monitor right? If not Then re-start calc dividing it into 1/4ths w/ 1/4 budget going to monitor (the Main Output of your PC) 1/4 going to proc, 1/4 going to vid, and scraping the rest together.
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.