F.E.A.R Demo Discussion Thread

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: mOeeOm
Grrrr whats with all these people with x800xl saying they are running it maxed at insane resolutions...I did 1024x768 with most stuff maxed some medium....and even then I was getting 60-70 fps...I tried all max and higher resolution, but then 20 fps, which was very slow and choppy....unless you people consider 20 fps playable :S I don't, I needs my 60+.

You really need to do SOME homework kid. You only need high FPS when the action is fast. If you are claiming that you "see" choppiness with slow action at 30fps youre just plain wrong.

 

[rwmega]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: rwmega
Played the demo last night. I certainly was expecting more. The graphics engine is not nearly as tight as say doom or Half-life. It seems chunky and clumsy. Aiming is a bitch and the guns are fairly half-assed. The machine gun I can't tell if I'm firing or not and if I'm shooting at someone the thing is impossible to control. I'll wait til Prey or Quake 4 and definatley Half Life 2 expansion! The only thing I got excited about was the Sierra Logo right in the beginning of the game, they put out some quality games back in their day.

You can't compare a retail game (D3 or HL2) to a demo. If I went solely on the graphics of demos, I would never have bought BF2 cuz the graphics on the demo sucked something awful. The retail is a whole lot better though.

As far as the guns go... they have a lot more recoil than current games which makes it more realistic. This is one of the first FPS where it's not just point the dot at the moving thing and click. You have to keep moving and readjusting your aim. How can you not like that?

I've played many demo's that have influenced my purchase. Act of War demo had me begging for more. Far Cry's demo I literally finished that and jumped out of my seat and went and purchased the game at EBgames that day. The original Duke Nukem freeware and Doom had me purchase the games a well.

 

[btdvox]

well this is just a simple summary , game looks good, yeah for sure. but at my rig i hope to god to get more than what i just played i played at 2x aa and 8 x af and it was ok not smooth at times and smooth at alot of times but the sudden drops are horrid, i dont kno what they want from us but it sure is not working good, i expect a 500 dollar graphics card and 1.5 gb ram to do good, im gomnna get a nother 1 gig ram next week but thats all im upgrading , besides it was just a normal fps with a few perks graphics were a little nicer than doom but not hl2 to me.

 

[dev0lution]

I was a bit dissapointed (but it was pretty hyped up). While the lighting and shadows looked good in some spots, i didn't come away with the feeling that it was anything groundbreaking. And I still think the level of detail in the objects and physics in HL2 were better.

I played it at the settings it auto-detected on my home machine (X800XL), on above average settings (ie no soft shadows) but other details on high on my home machine, and again on the system at work on high w/soft shadows and FSAA and still wasn't overly impressed.

 

[Randum]

id have to agree, hl2 really does well with the detail and has been unmatched I think

 

[Todd33]

It was a good demo, the game looked good at 1280x1024 4x/8x. I'm not sure why they went with that engine, it doesn't look as good as HL2 and runs slower. I like the slowmo effect and weapons.

 

[angryswede]

I was impressed by this demo. I thought it was pretty creepy if you played it alone in the dark. The enemies also have some brains unlike HL2 whose AI would fall for me running out then running back behind the door and waiting for them all to run in so I could pick them off easily. If you pulled back the baddies actually waited for you and in the helicopter section they used grenades quite effectively.

 

[VIAN]

I'm amazed people don't see the crappiness of these graphics. I saw it in D3, I see it in Q4 screenshots, and I'm seeing it again in this game. Per-pixel lighting does not work in this day and age well. Most shadows in this game are pitch black. That's the best way to make a game look completely unrealistic.

I loved the graphics in doom 3. I agree that some shadows are too black, but I still enjoyed them. What I don't Like is the water effects, they suck.

that was a giant waste of bandwidth, the demo sucked. the MP beta >>>> SP demo

I haven't beat it but, from what I've played, the demo is ok, not the KILLER, review websites seem to be egzajerating. And even the part I played in the second fight, the AI seemed a bit more impressive, but still kind of on the dumb side and scripted. Like knocking over the step ladder that happened repeatedly each time I played that part, and then what moron leaves himself open by crawling under the ladder to go to the other side. I guess there is still some glitches, but it is better than anything else I've played.

and the gameplay is above par, at least for the 10 minutes we saw. the guns are great, and varied, and you can't carry a million at once, so you have to pick and choose. i love the gun that fires the huge blue bolts that disintigrate guys. the Max payne/Matrix slow mo is fantastic - the sound and visuals match it perfectly and it really gives the fighting some flavor.

The guns didn't sound very fulfilling. They sounded weak. Something was a miss about them. I do like the slow down because it doesn't remind me at all of Max Payne, they use it in a different way or make it seem different enough where it seems unrelated.

Pulled the entire demo in from a filemirrors link only to find Firefox sit at 100% and never finish the file. WTF? These little Firefox quirks push me closer to going back to IE6... :/

Oh joy. Now I've got a file on my desktop that will no delete. Even after clearing Firefox download history and rebooting I still can't delete the file. Bubye Firefox...

That same thing happned to me and now I'm back to IE6 with noooo problems. Love it.

where are you all changing the detail settings? Am I'm seeing in the resolution settings.

Under performance.

Aside from that, the game does look pretty good. It seems to have some really nice combat effects that are better than other games'. It is also pretty fun, but it is no half life 2.

Thank god.

So my X700 Pro won't be able to play this at all??

I sure it would.

 

[jamautosound]

Tagged for later.

 

[Literati]

I ran it maxed and FINALLY I AM ONE OF YOUSZZSSZ@!#

I have been stuck on such a crappy rig for the longest time man... so I went ahead and blew a few bucks on a 6800GT, AMD 64 Venice, 1G of ram (soon to be 2G's today?) WD Raptor blah blah blah...

Holy schnikes!

Imagine a kid, with a crappy rig, who thought RTCW:ET was an awesome blend of graphics, now just playing FEAR. I was almost screaming like a little girl the whole time. I have never seen graphics like this except for in screenshots, but I'd never imagined that there's more to these games then the screenshots.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

The demo was surprisingly short, was a bit when the boss thing appeared and it faded to black. That rail gun thing is quality, the slo-mo thing is so-so, not fussed on the idea really.

 

[Sureshot324]

Cool game, but damn it uses a lot of ram. I played through it with max textures and checked my max commit charge in task manager aftwords and it was 2.5gb! So even 2gb of ram wouldn't be enough to run it without paging to the harddrive at all. No wonder the game would pause every time i went around a corner.

 

[Literati]

Originally posted by: angryswede
I was impressed by this demo. I thought it was pretty creepy if you played it alone in the dark. The enemies also have some brains unlike HL2 whose AI would fall for me running out then running back behind the door and waiting for them all to run in so I could pick them off easily. If you pulled back the baddies actually waited for you and in the helicopter section they used grenades quite effectively.

Yea I was caught off guard the first time the helicopter came. I was like "They're coming to pick me up!" and ran out there like an idiot.

The second time I just triggered the helicopter, sat back and waited until the ropes dropped. Then I SlowMo's it when they came out and they didn't get 3 feet down the rope before I plasma-rifled-thingy them into the side of the warehouse wall.

Maybe on the 36th time around, I'll try to hit them with grenades in the air? Who knows?

I've played this demo out like theres no tomorrow.

 

[JasonSix78]

I don't know what kind of hardware some of you guys have but it worked flawless on my PC, what some of you might call an outdated or underpowered system. It configured the game to run at medium settings but I bumped a few things to max.

My specs:
AMD-64 2800+, 2x512 PC-3200, MSI 6600GT AGP, with a dual-monitor setup running 1024x768.

Someone please explain to me the need for 2+ gigs of ram and a $500 video card. I've played all the hardware-taxing games like HL2, Doom3, FarCry, etc. with no problems on my system, no chopiness with all of those on the highest settings. I'm just curious to know, I see alot of people saying they need this stuff but it seems like a waste of money if the game runs fine.

-Jason

 

[Literati]

Because the more you spend on your computer the bigger your weenie gets!

 

[OvErHeAtInG]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324
Cool game, but damn it uses a lot of ram. I played through it with max textures and checked my max commit charge in task manager aftwords and it was 2.5gb! So even 2gb of ram wouldn't be enough to run it without paging to the harddrive at all. No wonder the game would pause every time i went around a corner.

Eh, silky smooth for me, I'm only running 1GB. On the other hand, I was running medium textures.

Just played the demo, those few scenes were frightening which was cool. It was alright but I'll pass on the retail product. Probably play thru it once it's 14.99 preowned

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

I had no framerate issues. 1 gen old video card...mid level.

And I gave up on teh demo. Great concept, but was kinda mindless.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

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[meltdown75]

that was a really short demo!!