Crysis Multiplayer Beta

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: Doom Machine
medium settings/high water/1024x resolution
2007-09-25 07:58:51 - Crysis
Frames: 3229 - Time: 120000ms - Avg: 26.908 - Min: 14 - Max: 43

foilage aside from palmtrees looks very 2d. foilage sways too fast

its not no BF 2142 thats for sure. its alot slower to do stuff like buy tanks n stuff.
you can hide in foilage though.
die to quickly, spawns always at base

little diversity in wildlife, frogs,birds and crabs, no life underwater
explosions drop frames terribly
starting off with a pistol and barehands isnt fun, most chatters i've seen on the beta agree the assualt rifle is the best and apparantly is only weapon really used much

overall it will get boring very quickly. no hype here, move along now

-you don't have to always spawn at base
-other games in this genre have little or no wildlife at all
-you can purchase weapons upgrades immediately upon spawn, you almost never have to start with only a pistol, plus fists can be the most devastating weapon in maximum strength mode
-i personally would rather have it be hard to get tanks so that everyone isnt driving around in one halfway through the match... you have to earn them as a team

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: SexyK

Originally posted by: Doom Machine
medium settings/high water/1024x resolution
2007-09-25 07:58:51 - Crysis
Frames: 3229 - Time: 120000ms - Avg: 26.908 - Min: 14 - Max: 43

foilage aside from palmtrees looks very 2d. foilage sways too fast

its not no BF 2142 thats for sure. its alot slower to do stuff like buy tanks n stuff.
you can hide in foilage though.
die to quickly, spawns always at base

little diversity in wildlife, frogs,birds and crabs, no life underwater
explosions drop frames terribly
starting off with a pistol and barehands isnt fun, most chatters i've seen on the beta agree the assualt rifle is the best and apparantly is only weapon really used much

overall it will get boring very quickly. no hype here, move along now

-you don't have to always spawn at base
-other games in this genre have little or no wildlife at all
-you can purchase weapons upgrades immediately upon spawn, you almost never have to start with only a pistol, plus fists can be the most devastating weapon in maximum strength mode
-i personally would rather have it be hard to get tanks so that everyone isnt driving around in one halfway through the match... you have to earn them as a team

i saw a school of fish in the water.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Are only certain maps active at any given time? I got in last night but only saw one map active, and tbh it's pretty underwhelming. What bothers me, really, is that foliage and stuff in the distance looks extremely aliased even at 1680x1050, and turning up AA doesn't seem to help much. It doesn't perform too badly, but the aliasing really bothers me.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
Are only certain maps active at any given time? I got in last night but only saw one map active, and tbh it's pretty underwhelming. What bothers me, really, is that foliage and stuff in the distance looks extremely aliased even at 1680x1050, and turning up AA doesn't seem to help much. It doesn't perform too badly, but the aliasing really bothers me.

Did you enable TSAA? I believe foliage, leaves, fences, etc are transparent textures... Enable TSAA and let us know if that solves the problem.

 

[pontifex]

uninstalled it after only maybe 30 minutes total play time. utter piece of crap right now.

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: Doom Machine
medium settings/high water/1024x resolution
2007-09-25 07:58:51 - Crysis
Frames: 3229 - Time: 120000ms - Avg: 26.908 - Min: 14 - Max: 43

foilage aside from palmtrees looks very 2d. foilage sways too fast

its not no BF 2142 thats for sure. its alot slower to do stuff like buy tanks n stuff.
you can hide in foilage though.
die to quickly, spawns always at base

little diversity in wildlife, frogs,birds and crabs, no life underwater
explosions drop frames terribly
starting off with a pistol and barehands isnt fun, most chatters i've seen on the beta agree the assualt rifle is the best and apparantly is only weapon really used much

overall it will get boring very quickly. no hype here, move along now

lol, sry to make fun of you, but you can spawn at any bunker by double clickign it =) (to ahev to own it though)

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: pontifex
uninstalled it after only maybe 30 minutes total play time. utter piece of crap right now.

I almost uninstalled after my first session, but stuck with it and have really grown to like it. Give it another shot if you've still got the installer on your system.

 

[Nightmare225]

Originally posted by: pontifex
uninstalled it after only maybe 30 minutes total play time. utter piece of crap right now.

That's Beta to you.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: SexyK

Originally posted by: pontifex
uninstalled it after only maybe 30 minutes total play time. utter piece of crap right now.

I almost uninstalled after my first session, but stuck with it and have really grown to like it. Give it another shot if you've still got the installer on your system.

It's almost unplayable to me though. i have the re set to 1680x1050 and the AA or whatever that is to 4x and everything else is LOW and it still lags and drags. I even get weird yellow splotches every now and then.

Opteron 170 or 175 dual core
2 gb dual channel ram
8800 gts 320
3mb dsl

the game runs horribly. it's also too much like BF2, which I hate with a passion. maps are too big, player characters are too small and hard to see until you get right on top of them.

one good thing is everyone starts out equal. otherwise it would just degenerate into a sniper fest. i'll bet you get lots of snipers in this game with all the nice foliage to hide under/behind, unlike BF2 where there is no way to conceal yourself.

i'll stick with TF2

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: SexyK

Originally posted by: pontifex
uninstalled it after only maybe 30 minutes total play time. utter piece of crap right now.

I almost uninstalled after my first session, but stuck with it and have really grown to like it. Give it another shot if you've still got the installer on your system.

It's almost unplayable to me though. i have the re set to 1680x1050 and the AA or whatever that is to 4x and everything else is LOW and it still lags and drags. I even get weird yellow splotches every now and then.

Opteron 170 or 175 dual core
2 gb dual channel ram
8800 gts 320
3mb dsl

the game runs horribly. it's also too much like BF2, which I hate with a passion. maps are too big, player characters are too small and hard to see until you get right on top of them.

one good thing is everyone starts out equal. otherwise it would just degenerate into a sniper fest. i'll bet you get lots of snipers in this game with all the nice foliage to hide under/behind, unlike BF2 where there is no way to conceal yourself.

i'll stick with TF2

The quality of this game for me will be single player

 

[Polish3d]

Originally posted by: Doom Machine
medium settings/high water/1024x resolution
2007-09-25 07:58:51 - Crysis
Frames: 3229 - Time: 120000ms - Avg: 26.908 - Min: 14 - Max: 43

foilage aside from palmtrees looks very 2d. foilage sways too fast

its not no BF 2142 thats for sure. its alot slower to do stuff like buy tanks n stuff.
you can hide in foilage though.
die to quickly, spawns always at base

little diversity in wildlife, frogs,birds and crabs, no life underwater
explosions drop frames terribly
starting off with a pistol and barehands isnt fun, most chatters i've seen on the beta agree the assualt rifle is the best and apparantly is only weapon really used much

overall it will get boring very quickly. no hype here, move along now

I COMPLETELY DISAGREE.

Without giving anything in particular away, it is really quite spectacular. DL nvidia beta drivers for perf if you have nvidia card


Latest xp32 beta drivers made the difference between superb and not playable for me

 

[NYHoustonman]

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
Are only certain maps active at any given time? I got in last night but only saw one map active, and tbh it's pretty underwhelming. What bothers me, really, is that foliage and stuff in the distance looks extremely aliased even at 1680x1050, and turning up AA doesn't seem to help much. It doesn't perform too badly, but the aliasing really bothers me.

Did you enable TSAA? I believe foliage, leaves, fences, etc are transparent textures... Enable TSAA and let us know if that solves the problem.

No change.

It's really not so much the foliage as, well, everything else. Buildings, poles, etc., look pretty horrid from a distance to me.

 

[manowar821]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
Are only certain maps active at any given time? I got in last night but only saw one map active, and tbh it's pretty underwhelming. What bothers me, really, is that foliage and stuff in the distance looks extremely aliased even at 1680x1050, and turning up AA doesn't seem to help much. It doesn't perform too badly, but the aliasing really bothers me.

Did you enable TSAA? I believe foliage, leaves, fences, etc are transparent textures... Enable TSAA and let us know if that solves the problem.

No change.

It's really not so much the foliage as, well, everything else. Buildings, poles, etc., look pretty horrid from a distance to me.

They may have skimped out on distant object textures or something for the beta... I don't know. TSAA was going to me my suggestion, as well.

 

[Polish3d]

Force 16xAF

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: pontifex
player characters are too small and hard to see until you get right on top of them.

This I agree with and it makes the game extremely difficult for me.

KT

 

[NYHoustonman]

Thing is, it's not just the textures, although they do look pretty horrid... It seems like anti-aliasing does nothing to things that are far away. Stuff at a certain distance just looks like it's at 640x480 or something, for lack of a better explanation.

Even some things viewed from closer (primarily on the ship you start out on as US) look pretty bad. Texture detail is great... I'll try and take screenshots later to show what I mean.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent

Originally posted by: pontifex
player characters are too small and hard to see until you get right on top of them.

This I agree with and it makes the game extremely difficult for me.

KT

i have the same issue with BF2 as well, probably another reason why i hate it so much.