Crysis 2 DirectX 11 Patch Coming Next Week
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I can't help but feel that there is alot of hate for Crytek due to a perceived competition between Crysis and Call of Duty combined with rampant CoD fanboyism. Every time there is news on a Crysis game on the Escapist about 80% of the people go "fuck Crytek", and when there is news on yet another Call of Duty game, there's alot of "can't wait to buy this'".
Well at least Crytek innovates and tries to do something new and different with every game, whereas the Call of Duty, Modern Warfare factorys' yearly production schedule features the same graphics and gameplay all over again with different backdrops.
Well at least Crytek innovates and tries to do something new and different with every game, whereas the Call of Duty, Modern Warfare factorys' yearly production schedule features the same graphics and gameplay all over again with different backdrops.
DX11 patched in? Really?!
C'mon! When will game devs quit this BS of "patching" in newer DX support, or simply adding it last minute before the game ships?!
Until game devs start developing titles from the ground up with DX10 or DX11 support in mind, titles will continue to run poorly, be un-optimized, and features will just generally be not worth the hassle to use unless you have a high-end rig.
Devs have got to stop these shennanigans. Decide to develop your title from the ground up with DX11 in mind. If users don't have DX11 capable hardware - oh well. This is how the industry moved forward from DX8 a decade ago . . . YES, AN EFFIN DECADE AGO . . . and devs are still hung up on making their titles DX9 compliant first and foremost; an graphics API that is aging quickly and needs to be left alone to die peacefully. It's run it's course. The industry NEEDS to move on.
Regarding Crytek and C2. Not cool. It's nice y'all finally decided to hook up the PC crowd with the improved visuals we were supposed to have over the console crowd . . . y ou remember, that "feature" that was promised ages ago when C2 was first developed? I can clearly remember a statement from Crytek blatantly pointing out that the PC version will look and play better, as the game's development is being designed primarily on PC for PC. Better visuals and hi-res textures shouldn't be added in later down the road as an after thought . . . they should be there day one.
All this says to me is that the game wasn't 100% ready when it was shipped out the door. We got a finished cake . . . but with no icing.
C'mon! When will game devs quit this BS of "patching" in newer DX support, or simply adding it last minute before the game ships?!
Until game devs start developing titles from the ground up with DX10 or DX11 support in mind, titles will continue to run poorly, be un-optimized, and features will just generally be not worth the hassle to use unless you have a high-end rig.
Devs have got to stop these shennanigans. Decide to develop your title from the ground up with DX11 in mind. If users don't have DX11 capable hardware - oh well. This is how the industry moved forward from DX8 a decade ago . . . YES, AN EFFIN DECADE AGO . . . and devs are still hung up on making their titles DX9 compliant first and foremost; an graphics API that is aging quickly and needs to be left alone to die peacefully. It's run it's course. The industry NEEDS to move on.
Regarding Crytek and C2. Not cool. It's nice y'all finally decided to hook up the PC crowd with the improved visuals we were supposed to have over the console crowd . . . y ou remember, that "feature" that was promised ages ago when C2 was first developed? I can clearly remember a statement from Crytek blatantly pointing out that the PC version will look and play better, as the game's development is being designed primarily on PC for PC. Better visuals and hi-res textures shouldn't be added in later down the road as an after thought . . . they should be there day one.
All this says to me is that the game wasn't 100% ready when it was shipped out the door. We got a finished cake . . . but with no icing.
I had much love and anticipation for it, but it went down pretty quickly , played 15 mins of free MP demo, found out it's a call of duty clone and never touched it again.
Singleplayer was unplayable because of: 1. ridicolously unrealistic depth of field; 2. apeshit crazy motion blur; 3. stupid FOV; 4. clunky controls; 5; nanosuit is ruined 6; feels unoriginal
That nanosuit ann, ... the code appears to be less advanced then crysis 1, i treally FEELS like a poor console game would, sorry crytek.
I think Crysis 2 was a huge disappoint for PC, in terms of gameplay.
But i sill have it and i can't wait to mod in the old crysis levels with the new editor
Singleplayer was unplayable because of: 1. ridicolously unrealistic depth of field; 2. apeshit crazy motion blur; 3. stupid FOV; 4. clunky controls; 5; nanosuit is ruined 6; feels unoriginal
That nanosuit ann, ... the code appears to be less advanced then crysis 1, i treally FEELS like a poor console game would, sorry crytek.
I think Crysis 2 was a huge disappoint for PC, in terms of gameplay.
But i sill have it and i can't wait to mod in the old crysis levels with the new editor
Agree with you 2....also you forget they just out right ported the console version over to the pc and didnt even do a good job to hide the fact they didSmashLovesTitanQuest said:
And wen we say these types of things, were labelled as pc elitist's / pc fanboys etc, yet at the moment a lot of the console players are up in arms over the difference between the console version of bf3 and the pc version lolSmashLovesTitanQuest said:
But despite 4 extra years after crysis 1, worse looking.Andy Chalk said:
Why bother now? Even the fact they called it a "free visual improvement" is stupid it should be called a patch and there is no reason to mention that it's free except to get attention from people who haven't played it
PCgasm... It should have been in at launch even if the PC release was delayed 2 months after the console launch. I really did not think it would arrive after all the rumours. And just at the right time as Crysis 2 is pretty cheap to purchase now. I know it may not be as good as the original as far as open-ended-ness goes, but Crytek have partly redeemed themselves in my eyes. Now the game is so cheap with proper DX 11 support, i.e tessellation, they look to have themselves a sale. Will just wait to see that the patches don't just make the game un-playable due to them doing no optimisation on them just so they can be out the door and the game can be listed as supporting DX11.....
The problem is it will still be a disappointing PC launch for them, but you reap what you sow....
The problem is it will still be a disappointing PC launch for them, but you reap what you sow....
I wasn't saying that it was a good thing that the game shipped without these things, I just think it's silly to off on a ridiculous rage about it. Be realistic. These devs aren't idiots, if they do something then it's going to be for a reason. Mod tools take time to develop, and I can see no reason why a dev would just randomly decide "TROLOLOLOL WE'RE NOT GONNA INCLUDE DX11 FOR NO REASON AT ALL TROLOLOL", odds are that if a dev says they're going to do something and it takes an extended period of time to do so, then there is a good reason for it. After all, removing DX11 for such a long time would do nothing but decrease profits from people wanting to get the most out of their hardware.
When I post a picture of a panda riding a toy horse with the caption "Haters gonna hate", I'd have thought it'd be pretty clear that it is a bit of a joke. I wasn't making fun of your point, because I agree that DX11 should have been in the base game, I was simply making fun of your inflammatory way of presenting your point to which I could only sit back and laugh at people getting angry over this while I simply just enjoy the brilliant game, DX11 or not, that Crytek have made.
When I post a picture of a panda riding a toy horse with the caption "Haters gonna hate", I'd have thought it'd be pretty clear that it is a bit of a joke. I wasn't making fun of your point, because I agree that DX11 should have been in the base game, I was simply making fun of your inflammatory way of presenting your point to which I could only sit back and laugh at people getting angry over this while I simply just enjoy the brilliant game, DX11 or not, that Crytek have made.
Good Christ PC gamers love to rage. I mean seriously, the fact that the game shipped without DX 11 probably isn't even Crytek's fault. It's probably caused by an EA set deadline that they can do nothing about. At least they then carried on developing it, and released it, even if it was late.
Anyway, I actually loved the game, and I seriously doubt that I would even be able to tell the difference once they've added all their fancy stuff. Maybe if PC gamers weren't so graphics obsessed, developers would take more time to make the PC versions better, since less sophisticated graphics = less dev costs. That way there wouldn't be a million cries of "Oh look, another crappy console port. HURDUR CONSOLE TARDS TOOK OUR DEVS!"
Anyway, I actually loved the game, and I seriously doubt that I would even be able to tell the difference once they've added all their fancy stuff. Maybe if PC gamers weren't so graphics obsessed, developers would take more time to make the PC versions better, since less sophisticated graphics = less dev costs. That way there wouldn't be a million cries of "Oh look, another crappy console port. HURDUR CONSOLE TARDS TOOK OUR DEVS!"
He's clearly not alone, I thought it was brilliant too. Better than Call of Duty, that's for sure.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
I did read the article, so how exactly am I ignorant? In what part of the article does it say "This was completely Cryteks decision, and totally wasn't forced on them by EA"?
And seriously, the fact that I can't tell awesome graphics from slightly more awesome graphics means nothing. I know plenty of people who don't bother with stuff like anti aliasing, because they don't notice the difference anyhow. Maybe the graphical improvements would be slightly noticeable, but they'd only serve to make one of the best looking games I have ever seen look EVEN better. They aren't exactly turning Crysis 2 from ugly to beautiful.
Also, I wasn't making fun of the article, I was making fun of people like you, the commenters who are raging.
If you're just going to insult me, then I'm not even going to dignify this with with any more of a response.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
I think I'll just end this by saying that there are plenty of people that love to play Crysis 2, as evidenced by the fact that there is still a plentiful community playing the game and enjoying it, not bitching about it and insulting people unjustly. I agree that it is silly of Crytek to have not included DX11 in the original release, however I remind you that they are not idiots. If they were, then they would be cleaning toilets, not designing complex pieces of software and with complex pieces of software, things sometimes take longer than they should. I completely agree that it was silly of them not to even mention the exclusion of DX11 until they end up bringing it back and that indeed was a good point, but sandwiching it with needless insults is a very dickish way to go about life.
Really, enjoying something that harms no one nothing to insult someone about since all that means is that there is one more thing that I can enjoy in life that you, presently, are not.
I'm happy to continue this discussion if you leave the insults at the door, but otherwise this is time I could be spending doing something a lot more fulfilling.
I'd reinstall if they release the level editors. I wanna edit the levels to make them a little more sprawly. They were a little too cramped for my comfort. As for the DX11 being left out, it was due to matching the release date for all systems. Consoles do not support the thing and therefore crytek decided it would be a better idea to release the same game on all platforms so that people could actually play the game instead of just delaying it. In the end it was all for the good.
Yeah, I probably didn't need to make such a big thing about what I felt to be an insult, it just annoyed me a wee bit and annoyed people love to overblow shit.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
On the topic, I completely agree with that it was a bit of a dick move not to even mention they were leaving out DX11 and while I'm sure there was a reason, a lack of communication does horrors for a company and... well, there's nothing left for me to say really. I guess the only real thing I disagreed with you about was the whole "Fuck Crytek" thing I remember being in your original post and I hate negativity for the most part. Oh, and I really wanted an opportunity to use that panda picture, since who doesn't love pandas?
But yeah... aaahhm... truce? *goes for internet handshake*