My point remains, the demo is meant to demonstrate your product. Who would put out a poor demonstration unless you want people to think your game is bad. Either A the people at Crytech don’t have the slightest knowledge of business or B the demo is like what the final game will be.
I’d just like to point out that two different divisions of Crytek worked on the game, one focused on MP and the other on SP.
A patch is released
Changelog:
* "Press Start to Begin" has been changed to "Press Enter to Begin" on the main menu
* Ping changes in server browser - no ping for anyone now (all 0)
* Fixed crash if getting force disconnected from a dedicated server (although the force disconnect issue has been resolved anyway)
* Account creation now works properly
* G35 headset fix now implemented
* People not able to sign in with certain characters such as "-" or "numbers" in their username, now canSo now you can’t check if a server has low ping or would lag you out immediately? That’s not exactly a fix.
Well, they didn’t fix my problem in that patch.
I can only play 1 round, then when I enter a 2nd round (doesn’t matter if it’s the same server or a different one) it will always crash.
My Video Card failed 
but luckily I also have an Xbox
it seems you’ve got plenty of time for a senseless post like this.
the ONLY FACT is: the game isn’t out already and the demo only runs in directx 9! everybody cries around like a small child “crysis 2 doesn’t look as good as crysis 1 or game or engine XXX does”. i’m always wondering why people always i.e. start to complain an unfinished version with a patched and modded crysis 1 and say before crysis 2 is out “but crysis 1 looks better!” and don’t wait for the FINISHED game to come out with full dx 11 features and compare THAN with crysis 1 or other games!
with the gameplay i agree with you, the rest of your post is fucking irrelevant.
Sorry, mechunit, but I don’t think you thought your post through, because in fact YOUR post is “fucking irrelevant”. You made 2 points: one that this is just a demo rather than the finished product, and also that it is only in DX9 right now.
This demo came out less than a month before release. They aren’t going to be making many graphical improvements (for DX9 mode I mean), so this is probably what the final game will look like in DX9.
As to your second point, its also BS. Crysis 1 in DX9 High, while not exactly easily comparable to this demo because of the different environments, still looks a hell of a lot better IMHO.
Seeing as how “well” Crysis 1 did outside of a select few who could run it on launch, I’d say they actually know jack shit.
That being said, I’m 100% sure the final C2 will LOOK much better than what we’ve seen, and some few select glitches may be gone (some actions don’t show up in kill cams resulting in 3X more frustrating deaths, epileptic ragdolls, other minor shit)… But that’s it.
ok, i forgot something to get my point:
the thing is that the PC-demo is only a XBOX-port and has nothing to do with the final Crysis 2 which was especially developed for the PC and are people forgetting this or just didn’t know but are crying arrount, how bad Crysis 2 on the PC looks. thx PC-version of Crysis 2 is supposed to use dx 11-features and that version (again) has nothing to do with the demo. that’s the point.
if that isn’t true and we don’t see the big difference between PC- and console-ports, then just Crytek was lying at the whole engine-development all the time.
With all due respect, what you just said makes absolutely no sense. Who knows whether or not Crysis 2 is just a port from XBOX, thats irrelevant because there is absolutely no reason for the demo to be a port while the final game isn’t, or vice versa. If the demo is a port then the final version is a port, if the demo is coded specifically for PC then so is the final version; its one or the other.
I don’t even understand how Crysis 2 could be ported from consoles. The engine is made from a pure pc only engine so why the hell should they port a game that could’ve been done for the pc all the time? I am curious about the release and I decided to buy the game after I have pirated it. Those 3 brothers are turkish guys living in germany just like me so I have to show them some respect.
It COULDN’T have been a direct port, because even the DX9 version is technically superior to that of what an Xbox can achieve.
@King, 666 posts.
Maybe the MP part is more of a direct console port than the SP, since the MP is being done by the former Free Radical team in the UK.
They still use the same game engine though, which was developed for PC. Either way, DX11 won’t fix the problems I’m talking about: low-res textures.
Most probably they cut the resolution from the textures in the demo in order to make the demo size smaller.
Why not wait until the game comes out? Its all meaningless speculation right now.
what i’ve posted is just what crytek said: the PC MP-demo is an XBOX 360 port and the PC-game (full version) is an own development.
so it would make sense that the the final game on PC could look better than the 360-version.
it’s, how I already said, what crytek said and it’s realistic so I don’t see any reason to discuss this anymore.
Pretty sure Crytek hasn’t ever said that the PC demo is a console port. That wouldn’t even make sense.
the problem there was, was the leaked beta and everybody talked about it. crytek hasn’t the pc demo ready at this time. to stop talking about the beta, crytek gave a fast converted PC-demo to the people. that crytek didn’t say itself, but german sites like gamestar.de - but it is just a matter of fact that the demo IS a console-port, it IS, what crytek said. they said this because most people were disappointed about the quality of the demo. for me personally: i like the gfx-quality of the demo.
believe it or not. and now let’s wait for the finished game, or what!