Far Cry

RE*AC*TOR

Played Far Cry yesterday. The only word is WOW! First of all it definetly runs smoother than the demo. The graphics are stunning (even on 1024x768 and medium quality settings). I'm about 3 levels in. The one thing you really notice is the requiremnt for tactical thought. Its a hard game and you can get killed quickly. So I find myself taking my time, looking around, using th ebinoculars before launching an attack on a camp or whatever. The enemy AI is truly astounding, the best I've ever seen in any game. I haven't gotten to any of the "scary" parts with mutants and stuff, mostly outdoor so far. Been in Dune Buggy, Jeep and hang-glider (sweet). There's not much more I can say - its probably the best game i've played since.... Half Life.

I think its due for retail release in 2 weeks.

talla

Yeh March 26 is release date. Can't wait for it after playing both demos.

Mr. Fancypants

And it's only £17.99 sterling on Play.com. Credit card is getting hit the next few weeks. Have Far Cry and Unreal 2004 ordered from Play for 17.99 and Splinter Cell from mx2 for 17.99 too.....and i still have to kick this CM 03/04 addiction!!

talla

Originally posted by mbroaders
And it's only £17.99 sterling on Play.com.

How did you get it for 17.99?? Its 24.99 on the website.

Mr. Fancypants

Nasty, must of gone up. I had ordered a couple of weeks back. (Even posted about it in the bargain forum)

Although......Just noticed its only £17.99 at Blackstar too http://www.blackstar.co.uk/game/item/6000000000389

patch

Originally posted by davidwwalsh
Played Far Cry yesterday. The only word is WOW! First of all it definetly runs smoother than the demo.

What graphics card are you using Bud?
It runs a little rough on my ti4200, I was thinking I'd have to upgrade earlier than I intended. So hopefully not now!

talla

cheers

Agent Orange

Can you save at any time, or is it still some kind of waypoint system? I hate those.

Creamy Goodness

in the pczone issue they review it saying it does the way point system of saving.

i like it as it makes it more challenging because if it's a quick save you rush into everything knowing that you'll only lose 10 seconds of gameplay if you die

can't wait for next friday as

far cry is out
CS:CZ is out (i'll be renting it)
Splinter cell: PT is out

too many good games out that day. lol

kensutz

Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow is very good and a lot better than the first one. I've been playing it the last week on and off.

mr_angry

Originally posted by davidwwalsh
Played Far Cry yesterday.

How did you swing that?

kensutz

newsgroups???

L5

For anyone looking to order it from blackstar for 17 sterling including delivery, you have to order before tomorrow or else it wont be shipped on release day, due to high demand. According to the site anyway. Ive just ordered my copy. 24 euro, not bad.

kensutz

did anyone order from these before?

L5

review out

here


link wont bring you to review, but its up on the site

talla

cant find the review anywhere on that site, all i can find is a preview

suppafly

Originally posted by Cr3m0


CS:CZ is out (i'll be renting it)

who rents out PC games anymore?

daveg

Originally posted by kensutz
newsgroups???

God bless deviance.

po0k

Just finished the demo there (got it on a promo CD from Smyth's).
If it hadn't been for the CD i'd never have looked at the game.
I thought it needed a beast of a machine.
I turned everything down to the bare minimum (had eMule dogging away in the background) and it ran smoothly (surprisingly so actually) on my rig.

P3 800
100Mhz FSB
640meg ram
GF4 Ti4200-8x 64meg DDR @ 270Mhzcore/587Mhzmem, AGP2x
Win2k Sp4
Dets 53.03

I do believe I'll be buying this game in the near future, along with DF:Vietnam, Doom3 and HL2.

Ground Control2 is also on my watch-list.

RE*AC*TOR

Originally posted by patch
What graphics card are you using Bud?
It runs a little rough on my ti4200, I was thinking I'd have to upgrade earlier than I intended. So hopefully not now!

my system:
AMD 2800+
1 GIG PC3200 RAM
Radeon 9700 pro 128mb

RE*AC*TOR

Originally posted by daveg
God bless deviance.

yeah you could say I'm a deviant.
but ahh not newsgroups - bittorrent.

po0k

/me laughs at daveg's stealthy double-entendre

PiE

Gah, great game... but I'm stuck.

Anybody got to/remember the bit where you have to deactivate the regulaters? When you have to "find the first junction", then the 2nd...? How the feck do you open the door to the 2nd junction?! I can open the 1st and (what I assume is the 3rd) with the keycard, I've ran all over the places I can go but I can't find any other keycards to open the 2nd door

Help appreciated...

silent

there are three keycards, I was missing one too but there is a stairway bit out of sight. I'll try to draw in ascii where

................................D......S
D

---

D

D being door and s being the staircase, . being jsut place holders
the corridor is quite tight and long, I think it was allmost black/dark in there too
hope it makes sense

PiE

I think I know the one you're talking about... the concrete stairs look all broken right? And there's two guys in blue-ish uniforms behind the door at the top, with a glass window looking out at the floor below... and there's an armour boost... but I can't find any keycard!

silent

that's the one - all three keycards where in the middle of a desk, well 3 desks in different locations actually. blue, red and yellow I think. This office upstairs had the blue card me thinks. each card per regulator
only advise other than that it run arround some more sorry

PiE

Hmm... loaded up the 2nd last save and tried again... I can get the blue and red cards... there was one up those broken stairs... don't suppose you remember where the yellow was?

Edit: Nevermind

Cheers

tman

Originally posted by Agent Orange
Can you save at any time, or is it still some kind of waypoint system? I hate those.

according to eurogamer, there'll be a patch out next month that includes a quicksave feature:)

Praetorian

Originally posted by daveg
God bless deviance.

Indeed

L5

I have a problem with the game. Its not keeping my save points at all. I reload it and have to start a new game every time. How can i fix this?

rabbitinlights

When you go to "load saved game" make sure the box on the left is selected and then the saved games should appear in the box on the right,Im doing this from memory so, if this makes no sense, ignore me, I got very little sleep last night.

satchmo

Originally posted by tman
according to eurogamer, there'll be a patch out next month that includes a quicksave feature:)

Excellent, looks like I'll have to buy it so!

mr_angry

Guys - please! Use spoilers for the benefit of those of us for whom the postal strike is delaying our enjoyment of the game! :mad: :mad: :mad:

rabbitinlights

how much did you pay online? its only E40 in Xtra vision.

Sean

feylya

You can get the patch for V1.1 here

27 megs or so. And now to wait for the postman.

Dcully

Ok single player games are all well and good but the real meat is in the online play.
Any feedback about online play? netcode? etc please.

Sir Random

The full game runs much faster than the demo .
I had expected it to be laggy, even at 800x600, but I'm playing at 1024x768, medium detail 4xAF and it's smooth as silk . Excellent game engine and awesome game so far.

I had shader problems inside the carrier though, the wall textures were ultra-bright and models were really dark (silhouettes). I used the OpenGL drivers instead of D3D9 and it's fine now.

Is there anyone else here using an Nvidia DX8 card (GF2/3/4) to play Far Cry?
Did you need to use the OpenGL drivers or are there FX drivers that work with D3D?

feylya

Sir Random, try downloading the patch. It's supposed to double nVidia performance and fix the shader issues.

Sir Random

Originally posted by feylya
Sir Random, try downloading the patch. It's supposed to double nVidia performance and fix the shader issues.

Ok, I'll try that.
Double performance? :eek: :cool:

feylya

Apparently so.

- Improved shader speed (up to two times faster) for NVidia Geforce FX cards on very high settings
- Fixed fog bug with NVidia drivers
- Added support for NVidia NV40 chipset
- Fixed realtime shadows from blended trees
- Made improvements to lighting shaders on very high settings
- Fixed bug with lake reflections
- Added support fro PS3.0 shader profile

Sir Random

The Improved shader speed for FX cards refers to PS2.0 shaders, but I only have a DX8 card so it doesn't really apply . I read a few posts about the 1.1 patch messing up the game for some people so I won't install it unless I have to. The game looks gorgeous anyway, and plays really smooth with OpenGL so I'll leave well alone.
I'll have to play it again when I get a new gfx card to see it in all it's glory .

Praetorian

I acquired the game a few days ago. I think it's absolutely fantastic. The graphics are a cross between Half-life 2 and Doom 3; bump mapping and shaders are used everywhere! It runs extremely well at 12**x1024 with max details on my 3ghz P4 with a radeon 9800 pro, I have to say I was a little surprised.

The vehicles work really well, and the weapons are fun to use. I like the idea of no quick saves to be honest, those b1tching have no skill

Mr E

I agree. Checkpoints make the game challenging (without being impossible), and they are pretty frequent. PC users have been spoilt by quick saves, and this game is a wakeup call for crap gamers

satchmo

Oh so I guess you two have never ever used a quick save in your life, because you're so "l33t" eh? suuure :rolleyes: No one's forcing you to use them so I don't see what you're on about (apart from the "hey look at me I'm so cool" factor).

Tell you what... next time you're playing a game with quick saves, get an egg-timer and every time it goes off (or every second or third time depending on your difficulty level), then you're allowed save. Voila, checkpoints

Then the rest of us can then play on without having to play the same pointless sections again and again.

Mr E

If you keep dying during certain sections, try a different approach. That has happened to me a few times in Far Cry. For example,

just after the treehouse level, there is a ruined fort. The fort is linked to another fort by a roped bridge. Every time I crossed that bridge, I kept getting sniped by the guys on the second fort. Rather than retry and retry, I came up with a new plan to go back to the first fort, climb a guard tower, and snipe them from a distance

.

Another example was

the beach leading up to the path to the satellite dish, early in the game. The beach was pretty hard.... I found it easier to nick a boat and pick off the soldiers from a distance.

Its alot more satisfying than "kill one guy, quick save, kill another guy, quick save, kill another, quick save" etc. etc.

I stick with my original point about Far Cry, though... the checkpoints are just the right distance apart to make the game challenging rather than frustrating.

satchmo

Well I agree that's fair enough if they're in the right places and often enough, then it can be good. Too many games have very sparse checkpoints, meaning you need to wade through 10 minutes of easy and boring gameplay in order to get to the challenging bit to try a different approach!

I guess with Far Cry's more freeform approach this isn't necessarily the case.

MisterAnarchy

Will this work on a Geforce MX ?
I bought Deus Ex2 ,Silent Hill 3 and Turok Evolution before to find I couldnt play them !

rabbitinlights

What I find annoying is playing game WITH quick saves and forgetting to use them and then dying....................

Mr E

Originally posted by Jazz
need to wade through 10 minutes of easy and boring gameplay in order to get to the challenging bit.

I'm about half way though, and this hasn't happened yet.... Its never easy or boring!

satchmo

Well that's a good sign! heheh I guess I should just play the game first eh?!

monument

I’m playing it since Sunday; I’ve had it for about a week, but got a bit carried away with BFV last week.

Like others have said – I think the save points are just right. Playing it on “challenging” which is hard but not impossible.

What does everyone think about the feel of the multiplayer, and is the net code any good? (Ubi hasn’t giving me a CD code with the review code – so no net play for me.)