Crysis 2 DX11 Ultra package!

[zerocool84]

Load up PC demo, press start.

/facepalm

 

[VulgarDisplay]

People obviously have a hard time remembering how Crysis 1 actually was. The graphics in crysis 2 were just as good, and the gameplay was much better.

The only negative things I noticed was that destruction was pretty much done away with, and a lot of the story wasn't spelled out for the idiots playing the game. If you just breezed through you missed a lot of stuff that really filled in the blanks in the story.

Anyways I recommend reading the games novel that is out because it makes sense of the whole game, and is really quite cool. It's told from the perspective of Alcatraz being interrogated by the government about everything that happened during the game.

 

[NoSoup4You]

While that's fine, and people said the same thing about Halo 2 and 3, that you had to read the books to understand everything that's going on... I don't think that's an acceptable trade-off for the majority of gamers that have no interest in reading game related novels. I want to play a game where the story is coherent and well-told, either that or just don't bother with a story and make it pure action (Just Cause 2). But when there's clearly a lot going on that isn't explained to the player, it's generates frustration that didn't have to be there...

My 2 cents at least. I am an avid reader, by the way, I just have zero interest in reading books about a video game, regardless of how well written.

 

[Carfax83]

Crysis 2 was awesome and yet seriously flawed. I am still super excited to play through again on a harder difficulty this time with the enhanced visuals.

This. Although the original Crysis was a great game that pushed the graphical boundaries unlike any other game before it, it was still slow and boring in many places. As a consequence, it took me quite a while to beat the game, as I lost interest a few times.

Not so with Crysis 2. I breezed through Crysis 2 rather quickly because it was action filled and the gameplay was intense!

Now with these graphical enhancements, Crysis 2 will finally become what it should have been, a worthy successor to Crysis that still raises the graphical fidelity up a few notches.

My only worry is that I bought a Steam copy, so I don't know whether I'll continue to get future support or not.

 

[Fenixgoon]

People obviously have a hard time remembering how Crysis 1 actually was. The graphics in crysis 2 were just as good, and the gameplay was much better.

The only negative things I noticed was that destruction was pretty much done away with, and a lot of the story wasn't spelled out for the idiots playing the game. If you just breezed through you missed a lot of stuff that really filled in the blanks in the story.

Anyways I recommend reading the games novel that is out because it makes sense of the whole game, and is really quite cool. It's told from the perspective of Alcatraz being interrogated by the government about everything that happened during the game.

i disagree. i really enjoyed raiding all the encampments, sniping off helicopters because they would kick your ass on the highest skill level. i really enjoyed the aliens being alien, not just another humanoid ripoff with nothing special to them. why wasn't NYC iced over like the island was in crysis1? that was probably one of the best sections of crysis 1 (minus the VTOL)

 

[AdamK47]

more confined map spaces, ridiculous number of tooltips, storyline that barely had any connection to crysis1.

Yeah, that's what I ment.

 

[Aristotelian]

Excellent news, when I get this set up I'll post benchmarks.

Regarding horsepower: at 2560x1440 at 'extreme' settings in game, there were slowdowns on my overclocked 2600K and 580s in SLI (overclocked also). By 'slowdowns', I mean points where the FPS dipped below 35ish. I am curious to see what sort of hit I'll take, turning on these new features as well.

The image quality improvements do appear significant. I wonder how long it'll take for someone to complain that a discarded, greasy pizza box on the ruined streets of NY still isn't as accurately depicted as it might otherwise be, and therefore the game sucks. Stay tuned...

 

[Carfax83]

Regarding horsepower: at 2560x1440 at 'extreme' settings in game, there were slowdowns on my overclocked 2600K and 580s in SLI (overclocked also). By 'slowdowns', I mean points where the FPS dipped below 35ish. I am curious to see what sort of hit I'll take, turning on these new features as well.

Are you sure SLi was working properly? I have a similar set up, and the game plays buttery smooth at 2560x1600 on extreme settings.

Also, if Crytek (or Nvidia) implemented the deferred context rendering feature with the DX11 patch, that should really boost performance significantly.

 

[Aristotelian]

Are you sure SLi was working properly? I have a similar set up, and the game plays buttery smooth at 2560x1600 on extreme settings.

Also, if Crytek (or Nvidia) implemented the deferred context rendering feature with the DX11 patch, that should really boost performance significantly.

I am certain. It was smooth most of the time - have you played through the game fully yet? I don't mean that it turned into a slideshow, but I could feel the jerking of the frames (i.e., it wasn't smooth) most clearly on top of the hotel, later in the game...with the glass houses on the top, the frequent reinforcements, the two larger bots - especially when looking up (for alien positions) and having the sun come through the bars/glass and through the foliage that is everywhere. I honestly think that some people aren't as sensitive to FPS drops as I others are (in this case, me). I look forward to the benchmark - if you have a very similar setup and my scores are significantly lower than yours, perhaps something is wrong on my end, but I don't think so.

It could be that I play the game differently. I've seen some people play this game very passively - stealth, kill, stealth to hide/regen, stealth, kill, and so on. As a challenge, I try to take them on and make it as much of a twitch shooter as I can. I miss Q3, clearly.

 

[Maximilian]

i disagree. i really enjoyed raiding all the encampments, sniping off helicopters because they would kick your ass on the highest skill level. i really enjoyed the aliens being alien, not just another humanoid ripoff with nothing special to them. why wasn't NYC iced over like the island was in crysis1? that was probably one of the best sections of crysis 1 (minus the VTOL)

Exactly crysis 1 gameplay was great, kind of sandboxey and it took imagination to play. Crysis 2 on the other hand is just boring linear crap.

 

[gorcorps]

Exactly crysis 1 gameplay was great, kind of sandboxey and it took imagination to play. Crysis 2 on the other hand is just boring linear crap.

:hmm: I think it just comes down to play styles. While the environment in Crysis 2 was more restrictive, I felt the gameplay was more open to inventive play because of the refind controls. I felt I couldn't do much in Crysis 1 without cloak or armor because I died so quickly. It was boring to just cloak and creep so that's why I stopped playing. In Crysis 2 I could go stealth, or go balls out and still do alright if I didn't miss.

 

[Carfax83]

I am certain. It was smooth most of the time - have you played through the game fully yet?

Yeah, I beat it once already, and that was when I had 480 SLi which was very smooth @ 800/1600. I haven't done a complete playthrough on my 580s yet, but I've done some testing, and the 580s offer even smoother gameplay than the overclocked 480s, even at stock settings.

Try turning V-sync on. I found that using V-sync helped to even out the framerates, making the gameplay smoother.

 

[Anomaly1964]

I liked Crysis 2 but not enough to play it again with DX11...

 

[Zanovar]

I liked Crysis 2 but not enough to play it again with DX11...

Same here,thought some of the levels were great.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I'm going to play through it again after I finish the game novel I'm currently reading. It's a damn good sci fi novel so far. Really spells out the plot points most people breezed past in game, and illustrates the reason why Crytek didn't spell the story out for players. Alcatraz had no fucking clue what was going on, and you are playing in his shoes. It talks about how the suit compelled him to do all these things even though he didn't really understand them.

All the stuff in the game was there to tell the story if you played through slowly and listened to conversations CELL had, but no one did they just rushed through killing everything. I know most people had no idea why Commander Lockhart wanted to destroy the nanosuit so bad, but there was one section where the CELL soldiers tell that part of the story.

His nephew was one of the people in the nanosuit program that died. Most likely at Ling Shan. Most likely nomad since he was the only white american in the first game. I'm also very excited for the possibility of flashback sections in Crysis 3 now that Prophet/nanosuit2.0 is melding with Alcatraz's mind. Would be a kick ass way to fill in the storyline when prophet was MIA during the first and second game.

 

[scooterlibby]

I agree that game play is crucial, but have always been interested in graphics advancements since the day I saw the SNES. I'm pretty interested in this patch and am glad I held out because the price has gone down too.

 

[TechBoyJK]

I've played it a few times through already and I paid full price.. I really don't mind and honestly, I realize now there are quite a few ways to play through this game. Crytek's approach of taking the huge open levels and squeezing them down into smaller 'open action bubbles' does help with moving the gameplay around but it's hardly linear. I just played through bulletstorm and that is linear.

One thing to remember is that with Crysis 2, you can go UP, not just out and about. Once you start thinking vertically it really adds to the depth of the level.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I've played it a few times through already and I paid full price.. I really don't mind and honestly, I realize now there are quite a few ways to play through this game. Crytek's approach of taking the huge open levels and squeezing them down into smaller 'open action bubbles' does help with moving the gameplay around but it's hardly linear. I just played through bulletstorm and that is linear.

One thing to remember is that with Crysis 2, you can go UP, not just out and about. Once you start thinking vertically it really adds to the depth of the level.

I started a second playthrough and realized that there are at least 3 ways through each level, and some of them you have to actually search for. I'm looking forward to the patch for another playthrough. I'll also play through once more with it maxed after I build a PC to run BF3 in all it's glory.

 

[Fenixgoon]

:hmm: I think it just comes down to play styles. While the environment in Crysis 2 was more restrictive, I felt the gameplay was more open to inventive play because of the refind controls. I felt I couldn't do much in Crysis 1 without cloak or armor because I died so quickly. It was boring to just cloak and creep so that's why I stopped playing. In Crysis 2 I could go stealth, or go balls out and still do alright if I didn't miss.

i will give you that. armor mode was infinitely more useful in crysis2. i went full armor upgrades and walked around like a badass

 

[TechBoyJK]

I started a second playthrough and realized that there are at least 3 ways through each level, and some of them you have to actually search for. I'm looking forward to the patch for another playthrough. I'll also play through once more with it maxed after I build a PC to run BF3 in all it's glory.

Yea, not only is there usually at least 3 seperate routes to take, how you approach them greatly depends on your play style. Some of the routes are better for stealth, etc.

 

[quadomatic]

I wish I didn't already beat Crysis 2 on Hard mode...I guess I could try it on the hardest mode

 

[reallyscrued]

Damnit, this update makes my 4890 feel old.

 

[wuliheron]

Damnit, this update makes my 4890 feel old.

It is old. Southern Islands will be coming out if you want to feel young again.

 

[reallyscrued]

It is old. Southern Islands will be coming out if you want to feel young again.

Awesome, perfect opportunity to pick up a 6970.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Must one have a dx11 capable card to get the enhancements and patch?

If not this game will most def be the shitbomb it was intended to be.