Is it just me or is the Far Cry demo really f'ing hard?

[waylman]

i suck at this game, i get killed right away. help!!!!!!

 

[sman789]

if on easy you suck

 

[tec699]

eh?

 

[BD2003]

Its just you. I can beat it on hard without dying. Just be quiet, sneak up around them and aim for the head. Its not quake.

 

[waylman]

thanks. going to try sneakin up on them!

 

[igowerf]

Hide in the foliage. They can't see you.

 

[adelphi]

need to upgrade my xp1600 geforce ti4200!

at 640x480 32bit color, the speedboat doesn't even show most of the time (massive frame drops!)
but the water ripples/waves show, wtf!

 

[brxndxn]

I agree. The game is fvcking hard - and I play a lot of fps games. I can never seem to tell where they're coming from.

 

[Argo]

How do you sneak up on them? They hang out in bunches and as you kill the first guy 3 more start shooting at you.

Btw, how can I see FPS in this game?

 

[Sunday]

I come up on the island and crouch down in the bushes. Keep crouched and head straight forward and you can go under the deck. Head straight while under the deck and then turn left. At the end of the left turn you'll see the open sea upon which u swim under and u-turn right. That puts you at the boat. Hop in and shoot straight out. make a u-turn left and head back towards the beach in a flanking direction (paralleling the island and just use the boats weapons to lay waste to the 4 or 5 guys on the 1st part of the island...from there on its pretty straight forward. This is just one of many ways to do it. But its one of the more fun ways i've found.

 

[hdeck]

stay in the water and run to the trees then play the pickoff game

 

[StageLeft]

I wouldn't know. You need a geforce 15 to play that $*#(ing pig.

 

[xSauronx]

its easy on hard difficulty, crouch, stay in bushes, short burts alternated with rock throwing....theyre retards when it comes to noise

 

[xcript]

waylman, it's just you.

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I wouldn't know. You need a geforce 15 to play that $*#(ing pig.

It runs fine at 1024x768/medium detail on my 128MB Radeon 9100.

With the latest catalyst drivers anyway. Had some major problems before I updated (~0.5fps).

 

[Argo]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I wouldn't know. You need a geforce 15 to play that $*#(ing pig.

It's fine at 1024x780x32 on my Geforce 4 4400.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: xcript
waylman, it's just you.

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I wouldn't know. You need a geforce 15 to play that $*#(ing pig.

It runs fine at 1024x768/medium detail on my 128MB Radeon 9100.

With the latest catalyst drivers anyway. Had some major problems before I updated (~0.5fps).

Yeah if you don't have a DX9 capable card you're SOL on this game. I play UT2004 like a champ, but my geforce 3 ti ~500 can't play far cry, even on the lowest of the low settings with a Barton 2500+, 512 ram.

 

[Rent]

*continues playing @ 1280x1024 high detail*

 

[CubicZirconia]

Yeah if you don't have a DX9 capable card you're SOL on this game.

Please stop spreading lies. As I stated in another thread, my aging system (running with a ti4400) runs the game just fine. Just because your system can't handle it, doesn't mean no one else's can.

Edit: And comparing the game to UT2k4 is weak. I love UT2k4, don't get me wrong (in fact I have it preordered). But graphically, Far Cry is in a completely different league. It blew my mind the first time I played it. The ut2k4 graphics are solid, but nothing that spectacular.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia

Yeah if you don't have a DX9 capable card you're SOL on this game.

Please stop spreading lies. As I stated in another thread, my aging system (running with a ti4400) runs the game just fine. Just because your system can't handle it, doesn't mean no one else's can.

I never said that juts because I can't run it nobody else can

In regards to DX9, the game is catered toward it much more heavily than UT2004, so you're at a serious disadvantage if you've an old car like a GF3 - which I might add is still capable of playing almost anything else.

But graphically, Far Cry is in a completely different league. It blew my mind the first time I played it. The ut2k4 graphics are solid, but nothing that spectacular.

Tell me something I don't know. Far cry has better graphics and guess what? That requires hardware. More so than UT2004, so are you agreeing with me...?

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia

Yeah if you don't have a DX9 capable card you're SOL on this game.

Please stop spreading lies. As I stated in another thread, my aging system (running with a ti4400) runs the game just fine. Just because your system can't handle it, doesn't mean no one else's can.

I never said that juts because I can't run it nobody else can

In regards to DX9, the game is catered toward it much more heavily than UT2004, so you're at a serious disadvantage if you've an old car like a GF3 - which I might add is still capable of playing almost anything else.

But graphically, Far Cry is in a completely different league. It blew my mind the first time I played it. The ut2k4 graphics are solid, but nothing that spectacular.

Tell me something I don't know. Far cry has better graphics and guess what? That requires hardware. More so than UT2004, so are you agreeing with me...?

You stated above: "Yeah if you don't have a DX9 capable card you're SOL on this game." That is false. The game will run fine on a dx8 card, albeit with less bells and whistles. That was my point. I referred to UT2k4 because you stated: ?I play UT2004 like a champ, but my geforce 3 ti ~500 can't play far cry, even on the lowest of the low settings with a Barton 2500+, 512 ram," implying, at least to me, that there is something inherently wrong with FC because it won't run on your system and ut will. I might have misinterpreted you, but it sure seemed that way to me. If I did, I'm sorry. But at any rate, the line I quoted above is false, end of story.

Edit: You said above: "I never said that just because I can't run it nobody else can." And you're correct. What I should have said (and what I really meant), was that just because your non-dx9 system doesn't run the game doesn't mean someone else's non-dx9 can't.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia

Yeah if you don't have a DX9 capable card you're SOL on this game.

Please stop spreading lies. As I stated in another thread, my aging system (running with a ti4400) runs the game just fine. Just because your system can't handle it, doesn't mean no one else's can.

I never said that juts because I can't run it nobody else can

In regards to DX9, the game is catered toward it much more heavily than UT2004, so you're at a serious disadvantage if you've an old car like a GF3 - which I might add is still capable of playing almost anything else.

But graphically, Far Cry is in a completely different league. It blew my mind the first time I played it. The ut2k4 graphics are solid, but nothing that spectacular.

Tell me something I don't know. Far cry has better graphics and guess what? That requires hardware. More so than UT2004, so are you agreeing with me...?

You stated above: "Yeah if you don't have a DX9 capable card you're SOL on this game." That is false. The game will run fine on a dx8 card, albeit with less bells and whistles. That was my point. I referred to UT2k4 because you stated: ?I play UT2004 like a champ, but my geforce 3 ti ~500 can't play far cry, even on the lowest of the low settings with a Barton 2500+, 512 ram," implying, at least to me, that there is something inherently wrong with FC because it won't run on your system and ut will. I might have misinterpreted you, but it sure seemed that way to me. If I did, I'm sorry. But at any rate, the line I quoted above is false, end of story.

It would seem my statement was rash. Still, I do maintain that there is "something wrong" with FC insomuch as it requires an awful lot from a system. Maybe my vid card sucks more than I like to admit, but I know ut still rules, and I have no doubt that HL2 will run on it too!

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia

Yeah if you don't have a DX9 capable card you're SOL on this game.

Please stop spreading lies. As I stated in another thread, my aging system (running with a ti4400) runs the game just fine. Just because your system can't handle it, doesn't mean no one else's can.

I never said that juts because I can't run it nobody else can

In regards to DX9, the game is catered toward it much more heavily than UT2004, so you're at a serious disadvantage if you've an old car like a GF3 - which I might add is still capable of playing almost anything else.

But graphically, Far Cry is in a completely different league. It blew my mind the first time I played it. The ut2k4 graphics are solid, but nothing that spectacular.

Tell me something I don't know. Far cry has better graphics and guess what? That requires hardware. More so than UT2004, so are you agreeing with me...?

You stated above: "Yeah if you don't have a DX9 capable card you're SOL on this game." That is false. The game will run fine on a dx8 card, albeit with less bells and whistles. That was my point. I referred to UT2k4 because you stated: ?I play UT2004 like a champ, but my geforce 3 ti ~500 can't play far cry, even on the lowest of the low settings with a Barton 2500+, 512 ram," implying, at least to me, that there is something inherently wrong with FC because it won't run on your system and ut will. I might have misinterpreted you, but it sure seemed that way to me. If I did, I'm sorry. But at any rate, the line I quoted above is false, end of story.

It would seem my statement was rash. Still, I do maintain that there is "something wrong" with FC insomuch as it requires an awful lot from a system. Maybe my vid card sucks more than I like to admit, but I know ut still rules, and I have no doubt that HL2 will run on it too!

I am not in any way doubting that UT2k4 rocks. I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my SE preorder. Moreover, I am perfectly willing to admit that FC isn't exactly the most optimized game ever. But here's how I look at it. The graphics are really really good. We're talking head and shoulders, leaps and bounds better than other games. Nothing even comes close to the "awe factor" that the FC environements induce. When you have graphics that good, frankly, I don't expect the game to run well on a video card generations and generations old. Granted, my gf4 is only 1 generation newer, but that's night and day when it comes to video card tech. I guess part of me is glad that a developer is really trying to force people to get some new hardware if they want to experience a game.

 

[StageLeft]

yeah the graphics definitely did seem better than anything I've seen before, even if it is a slideshow more than anything else