Crysis 2 Demo Released

Technology and Gaming
#101

The only problems I experienced was connecting to some servers (it said a server was full even if it wasn’t), and actually beginning a match when I was in one (it either didn’t start a countdown or went down to 1 and stuck there). I also noticed various bugs like the server ping not displaying correctly, and there being a long delay between sending an IM in the server chat box and seeing it come up.

In-game, it was shockingly like Modern Warfare multiplayer. The nanosuit mechanics definitely added some enjoyability, and the invisibility/armor mode are well-balanced, giving you a sense of power when activated without being too powerful. I enjoyed MW multiplayer (probably because aside from counter-strike and HL2 deathmatch its the only FPS multiplayer I’ve ever played), so this was still fun for me and I did pretty well, but I would’ve liked something new.

The graphics were definitely disappointing. I’m not really a graphics whore, but I expected a lot more from Crytek. Hopefully the single-player DX11 mode won’t disappoint.

#102

The demo was dx9 only. Final game should look much better… should…

#103

Still gonna pirate this thing. Might buy it when the price drops.

#104

Didn’t we all do that already? heh

#105

I really doubt there’s going to be too much of a difference visually from DX9 to 11. Unless they increase the texture size considerably and somehow improve the shitty water and glass, I think Crysis 2 will look worse than Crysis 1 did (purely my opinion, clearly they can’t be compared as they are two different atmospheres).

#106

Didn’t DL the leak. Might as well wait for the official version, hopefully less buggy.

#107

The water isn’t choppy enough. Not even New York water is as smooth as the C2 water. I hope it’s editable.

The overall reactions of the water are much better though. I’m pretty sure they still use impact decals, but it looks a fuck of a lot better now.

#108

I’m having a problem logging into the Crysis 2 demo. Whenever I put in my username and password, it gives me an error message saying that I can only use digits and letters in my name, but my username is Daedalus253. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

#109

make a new account that consists of smallcaps, letters only

#110

I’m a little ashamed to admit this, but after a few days of playing and ranking up to the max (level 10), I JUST realized that there’s something called nanovision.

Now I love this multiplayer. Nanovision is literally the best thing in it IMO

#111

k thx

#112

Ok, I created a new account with the nickname echowolf, but i’m still getting the same problem.

#113

It’s a stupid ass name, but yeah. It’s awesome.

#114

Agreed. I kept thinking “Where are people getting heat vision?” only to finally discover “Nanovision” in the control settings. Why the opening video doesn’t mention this is absurd, but whatever.

I do, however, think that the guy who felt “N” was the appropriate place on the keyboard to put such a useful feature should have all his internal organs rearranged…

#115

Oh good. Maybe my computer will actually run it. Crysis 1 runs on my comp on high, but the sound glitches all the time and I uninstalled.

#116

It looking worse =/= it will run better

Cryengine 3 is supposedly a hell of a lot more optimized, and some sources IIRC said that crysis 2 on consoles is comparable to crysis 1 on high.

#117

In which case, I’ll rent one of the console versions.

#118

I knew about nanovision basically from the start, I don’t look at control lists or whatever just test different buttons and I found that.

I re-bound it to my mouse4 because I use it so much.

#119

NANOVISION ENABLED
NANOVISION ENABLED
NANOVISION ENABLED

#120

At least it sounds cool when the voice says it.

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