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Da Dego · 13th Aug 2007, 23:30

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/...s_on_preview/1

We got some playtime with the upcoming Crysis beta at i31 this weekend. It's the most anticipated title of the year, but how's it going to hold up? Read on to find out.

Neogumbercules · 13th Aug 2007, 23:42

Nice article. I hope they polish it out more based on your complaints. I have a few questions:

1. Do you auto heal in every suit mode, or just armor mode? How fast do you auto heal? (I f'n hate auto-healing)
2. When you hold enemies up by their necks, can you punch them in the face?
3. How many weapons did you get to use?
4: Do you know what kind of hardware you were working with, and how did it run?
5. Do you fear this game will carry the EA curse?

Ramble · 13th Aug 2007, 23:43

Hopefully the suckage AI can be put down to it's alpha/beta status. In my experience devs usually balence the game later on after most issues are out of the way.
Looks gorgeous though.

Caj Darkmoon · 13th Aug 2007, 23:54

Most anticipated FPS of the year?

Common, that stuck out like a sore thumb. Easily HALO 3 takes that title among the general population.

stephen2002 · 13th Aug 2007, 23:56

You punched a chicken

I want to see this game more than play it, but hopefully on somebody else's computer. Somehow I doubt that it will look very good on my 6800GT.

Tim S · 13th Aug 2007, 23:57

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Originally Posted by Neogumbercules

Nice article. I hope they polish it out more based on your complaints. I have a few questions:

1. Do you auto heal in every suit mode, or just armor mode? How fast do you auto heal? (I f'n hate auto-healing)
2. When you hold enemies up by their necks, can you punch them in the face?
3. How many weapons did you get to use?
4: Do you know what kind of hardware you were working with, and how did it run?
5. Do you fear this game will carry the EA curse?

1. You only heal in armour mode
2. I don't think you can - Rich was the more accomplished punch/grabber
3. A pistol, an SMG and the fists so I guess that counts as three

4. I believe it was playing on an 8800 GTS 640 and a Q6700... gameplay was very fluid and I'd imagine you can push settings up a bit more on that card. I'd be highly surprised if you couldn't come release (once it's been through QA, play testing, and so on)...
5. I hope it won't, and I don't think EA would be stupid enough to do that... there's a lot of work to do on the balancing, but I think most of that can be put down to alpha/beta status. I'm still looking forward to it, even if I am slightly underwhelmed by that experience.

Tim S · 13th Aug 2007, 23:57

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Originally Posted by Caj Darkmoon

Most anticipated FPS of the year?

Common, that stuck out like a sore thumb. Easily HALO 3 takes that title among the general population.

When is that game coming out on the PC?

Noobkiller · 14th Aug 2007, 00:00

will a Nvidia 8800GTS graphics card handle this monster?

Neogumbercules · 14th Aug 2007, 00:02

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Originally Posted by Tim S

When is that game coming out on the PC?

By the current trend some time around 2011?

Thanks for answering my questions btw

When I first saw footing of grabbing an enemy soldier by the neck, the first thing I thought was "Man! I hope you can punch them in the face like that!" I don't know why. Maybe that says something about me

The_Beast · 14th Aug 2007, 00:09

From what I have heard Crysis only gives about 10 hours of single player gameplay

kenco_uk · 14th Aug 2007, 00:12

Can you shoot any part of a tree and it breaks where you shoot? Or is it sort of a pre-done animation, i.e. shoot it anywhere and it breaks in the same place?

capnPedro · 14th Aug 2007, 00:17

http://www.bit-tech.net/content_imag...s-grab-800.jpg 404

Nice tree snapping action!

And my God, couldn't they provide some screenshots? Or something?
Taking photos of a screen is soooo lame. No offence, of course.

Tim S · 14th Aug 2007, 00:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Beast

From what I have heard Crysis only gives about 10 hours of single player gameplay

Yep, I think we broke that news here: http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/...d__fps_games/5

Quote:

Originally Posted by kenco_uk

Can you shoot any part of a tree and it breaks where you shoot? Or is it sort of a pre-done animation, i.e. shoot it anywhere and it breaks in the same place?

From what I've seen both in and out of game, you can shoot the trees and it breaks where you shoot. As far as I'm aware, you can break the tree down and then continue firing (and breaking) either the stump or the broken branch/trunk.

Tim S · 14th Aug 2007, 00:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by capnPedro

http://www.bit-tech.net/content_imag...s-grab-800.jpg 404

Nice tree snapping action!

And my God, couldn't they provide some screenshots? Or something?
Taking photos of a screen is soooo lame. No offence, of course.

Wouldn't allow us unfortunately

Fixed the dead links - thx

Krikkit · 14th Aug 2007, 00:21

That looks brilliant - the water effects are absolutely mindboggling. Farcry brought us very pretty water, Crysis brings us uber waterage. I'll probably end up just jumping in and out of the water for like an hour.

Jodiuh · 14th Aug 2007, 00:26

Damn...I was so pumped to read through this. Oh well, Bioshock demo rocked.

MonkeyNutZ · 14th Aug 2007, 00:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neogumbercules

1. Do you auto heal in every suit mode, or just armor mode?
2. When you hold enemies up by their necks, can you punch them in the face?

1. I hate to counter Tim on this one, but you do heal in every mode, just really slow. Armor heals you much faster.
2. Yes you can, snoop around IGN for their E3 videos

Veles · 14th Aug 2007, 00:30

Blimey I almost mistook some of those screenshots on the last page to be real life from the thumb nails, it looks incredible, and hopefully the final version of the game will be a lot cooler with respect to AI and the like.

Tim S · 14th Aug 2007, 00:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by MonkeyNutZ

1. I hate to counter Tim on this one, but you do heal in every mode, just really slow. Armor heals you much faster.
2. Yes you can, snoop around IGN for their E3 videos

Thanks for the correction on that point, much appreciated

poenanie · 14th Aug 2007, 00:56

Any idea on what settings this was running on ? resolution and graphical settings ...

Nice to know it'll run at some quality with 8800 cards .

BTW : You actually do have teammates in crysis , you just don't in that level ...

13th Aug 2007, 23:30	#1
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Neogumbercules Ultramodder Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,495	Nice article. I hope they polish it out more based on your complaints. I have a few questions: 1. Do you auto heal in every suit mode, or just armor mode? How fast do you auto heal? (I f'n hate auto-healing) 2. When you hold enemies up by their necks, can you punch them in the face? 3. How many weapons did you get to use? 4: Do you know what kind of hardware you were working with, and how did it run? 5. Do you fear this game will carry the EA curse? __________________ Abit AB9 Pro, Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU, 2GB Corsair DDR2 6400, nVidia 8800GT, Seagate 160 GB HDD. Last edited by Neogumbercules; 13th Aug 2007 at 23:48.

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Ramble Ginger Nut Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Exeter, Devon/Wantage, Oxfordshire Posts: 5,235	Hopefully the suckage AI can be put down to it's alpha/beta status. In my experience devs usually balence the game later on after most issues are out of the way. Looks gorgeous though. __________________ Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Ensign Ricky are beaming down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back.

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Caj Darkmoon Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: US of A Posts: 113	Most anticipated FPS of the year? Common, that stuck out like a sore thumb. Easily HALO 3 takes that title among the general population.

13th Aug 2007, 23:56	#5
stephen2002 Multimodder Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 182	You punched a chicken I want to see this game more than play it, but hopefully on somebody else's computer. Somehow I doubt that it will look very good on my 6800GT.

14th Aug 2007, 00:12	#11
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capnPedro Deaf forever to the battle's din Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: North-East England Posts: 2,988	http://www.bit-tech.net/content_imag...s-grab-800.jpg 404 Nice tree snapping action! And my God, couldn't they provide some screenshots? Or something? Taking photos of a screen is soooo lame. No offence, of course. __________________ ASUS M4A785TD-M Evo \| AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE \| D-Tek FuZion 4GB Corsair XMMS3-10666 \| Corsair TX650 Point Of View 8800GTX \| EK FC-8800

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Krikkit Don't panic! Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Lancs, UK Posts: 15,209	That looks brilliant - the water effects are absolutely mindboggling. Farcry brought us very pretty water, Crysis brings us uber waterage. I'll probably end up just jumping in and out of the water for like an hour. __________________ \|E8400 @ 4.4GHz\|WC: 2*120.1 GT's, MCP350, Storm G5\|4GB Dominators\|DFI LT X48-T2R\|8800GT\|74GB Raptor\|Chieftec BA01\|OCZ ModXStream 600W\|Dell 2208WFP\| The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The LOL!!1!!1!, The Zlad!, The Kempness, The Braaaaaains...

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Jodiuh Multimodder Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tempe, AZ Posts: 77	Damn...I was so pumped to read through this. Oh well, Bioshock demo rocked.

14th Aug 2007, 00:56	#20
poenanie Minimodder Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 40	Any idea on what settings this was running on ? resolution and graphical settings ... Nice to know it'll run at some quality with 8800 cards . BTW : You actually do have teammates in crysis , you just don't in that level ...