Far Cry

Oh my goodness this game rocks. They were kind enough to release a patch two days after release which dealt with some of the multiplay lag issues, and man am I impressed. I hope the guys at Valve are aware of the benchmarks being set by others. While I still am a died in the wool Half Lifer, I have no problems loving this game. Plus a retail price tag of only 39.95 makes this one to beat. Anybody else have it yet?

No, but it sound juicey. Whats the scale of the game like?

Well it uses the CRY engine(From Crytek of course, hehehe). Theres no reason for me to post screenies when Theres is an excellent supply here:

http://onesneakymouse.com/farcry.html

The maps are vast, the landscape is very realistic, with trees and grass which all sway in the wind. The AI is truly challenging (at times), and the textures and artwork are way cool also. You can drive (or fly) most vehichles, except the choppers, Doh! and since they patched it, the multiplay is actually fun now. Amazing looking and playing game. No quicksaves though, just check points, so if you are playing on the most difficult setting(there are 5 of them) it can get hairy.

The game comes on 5 disks also. Rather large. There is actually a topic in the forums about how much people are spending to upgrade their rigs just to play this one, although the minimum specs suggest a PIII would work. You can also switch to a cel shaded version at the click of a button to tone down the hefty requirements.

The gameplay is anything but linear, and you can usually travel as far as you can see(like up to a mile, no kidding). There are certain areas which will call out the gaurd choppers who quickly mow you down, but there are few if any other limitations.

definitely one to have.

I've got it but it won't load :sad: It gets as far as the CD check bit and then my computer hangs. When it finally wakes up again, it tells me to insert the correct CD (which I have!), and then continues to remove my CD drive from my system Strange...

Ditto, got mine Thursday.

I reviewed it, find the review Here.

The game comes on 5 disks also. Rather large.

I thought it was DVD only?

It will load in a dvd or a cd player, but Note!:

Older DVD and CD-ROMS may not load this game. You need a minimum of 4X DVD, and 16X CD-ROM. I suspect thats why a certain amount of people are having rouble loading the game from their CD's.

That isn't really much of a problem, you can upgrade either for a small price.

I plan to go out and get it next week when I can afford it. I think it's just DVD only in the UK or Europe, because I went into town yeserday and only saw the DVD version on the shelf.

Juim, a reason most people cant start up I heard is due to the protection on UBI softs dics. Basically, it wont let them load the game, even they have it legit, because Ubisoft has a protection system on their CDs, which is sometimes to powerful. It sees stuff on your PC that it doesnt like (Like Nero, or Dameons Tools), and then tells you to insert the CD.

Yet, while I am awaiting my game (comes monday), I downloaded the RIP, and got no problems. A lot of people complained about how the legit customers cannot even play it, while the people who burned it are having the times of their lives.

heres a little teaser screenie from multiplay.:



keep in mind, so far I have been getting 40-60+fps in every server I have been in.

sounds pretty cool. I just got UT2k4, so I don't want to fork out for another game yet, but I'll definitely pick this one up when it hits the $20-$30 mark in a few months. I haven't played a good 1player fps in a while, and the online looks fun too :biggrin:

Wow... looks great 'cept for that knife weapon thingy.... Jesus that thing looks like ass.

LOL!

Agreed.

Must BUY!

It all looks somewhat plasticy. Not that I'm saying it looks bad, it doesn't, I just don't like this 'look', it's like the Doom3 videos.

Have you played it Jeff, or just bitching about the screenshots? Looks just as 'plastic' as Unreal 2004 does :razz:

The only part of the graphics I would fault is the water -- looks like jello sometimes. Otherwise, I'd say they're very un-plastic in look.

The irony is that UT2k4 is equally plasticy.

Far Cry is better looking ingame - pretty amazing, actually - but the plastic stuff is still weird, kind of trademark of games since Quake 3.

yeah, UT2k4 is a bit like plastic sometimes. I think the problem is with smeshes that are not well-textured. I see that in DOOM3 videos, too. The wall may have all these amazing round pipes etc. on it, but they are barely textured at all and come off looking strangely monochrome or smoothshaded, and thus 'plastic'. I've looked through the smesh packs, quality varies a lot, some are great others are godawful plain.

Still, I think part of what you are talking about is the colorfulness of the game, water animations, etc.. I think a lot of it is the look they go for in the retail UT game, more than the engine. I mean, complaining that a game called "Unreal" doesn't look realistic is kind of silly

Yeah, but when it's evident that they shoot for a realistic style, it is appropriate to call them on it when they fail. To be honest, it looks like a game of action figures.

The name doesn't have anything to do with the look of the game either. :smile:

Adam Hawkins said:
I've got it but it won't load :sad: It gets as far as the CD check bit and then my computer hangs. When it finally wakes up again, it tells me to insert the correct CD (which I have!), and then continues to remove my CD drive from my system Strange...

consider, locating the program "game drive"

also consider, locating the program "virtual CD"

both bypass many/all copy protections.. i cannot say it will work on this game, but i can vouch for many older ones.

i personally have virtual CD, it works fine.

I have been playing FC for two days now and am well into the game. I think that HL2 will have nothing further than this to offer graphically, save for the european setting versus tropical. Same with Doom3. I cant say for sure but I have a hunch I'm right. It's the same system really. Bump mapped textures to keep the polys down.

this guy was looking for me really hard!



super looking in game trust me. You can also knock these torpedoes off and kick em around. I hope they're duds!

I think alot of the HL2 and D3 textures will look just as plasticy simply because of the types of textures used. They will not be photo-realistic because they were created artificially. So except for the superior story line and hopefully superior multi-play(Gabe Newell has hinted at something big, but he has lost alot of credibility lately IMO) this game is a wonderful precursor to HL2. Gets you ready for whats coming.

(BTW, I get 25-75 FPS in game at mostly very high settings)

What part are you on Juim? Im at the Acient Temple in the forest.

Well, I have been rather busy since I bought it so total playing time is maybe 3 hours, and I am at the fort level, the one from the demo. I really enjoyed the aircraft carrier. Took me awhile to clear the deck topside. I went to jump into the raft and missed it, landing about 50 feet below in the water, so I shot the chains and dropped it. Way fun stuff.

whats the commands for things like FPS?

my son is playing demo2 now

/r_displayinfo 1

also you can add -DEVMODE 1 to the command line in the shortcut. Also heres a list of tweaks and commands for the demos. Highly customizeable game.

http://www.hotdeathdiner.com/downloads/fc_demo_info.htm

Just copy and paste the address in your browser

enjoy!

I'm curious- what system specs are you two (vash and Juim) running this on?

I've got a GF4 TI4400, 1.5 Ghz proc., 512 megs DDR, and I was wondering if it would run decent with moderatly nice looking settings.

I was in a store yesterday and could have picked up a copy for abou 32 bucks, but I don't wanna get it yet if it's gonna run like crap.

I have a GeForce4 FX 5200 w/ 64 MB, P4 2.6 GHz, and 512 MB DDR... AND FAR CRY LAGS EVEN AT THE LOWEST SETTINGS! This makes me sad.

BTW - I haven't bought the game yet I played the demo.

I have a P4 2.8cpu

Radeon 9700 Pro ALL-IN-WONDER

1 gig PC 2700 ram, I think thats your problem Skeletor.

I manage about 25 to 40 FPS in the most busy multiplay, and about 30 to 75 FPS in single play depending on whats going on.

Heres, the settings I use:

Renderer:Direct3d9

AA: lLow

Texture quality; Very high

Texture filter quality: Trilinear

Anisotropic Filtering: 2

Particle count: High

special effects: very high

Environment quality : Very high

shadow quality: High

water quality: Very High

Lighting Quality: Very high

The game feels a bit sluggish at times but I manage to make it through the levels so far on the realistic difficulty setting.

I was going to buy it so i downloaded the demo, didnt work on my comp very well. All the walls and stuff were flashing when i was walking around and some just disappeared. I got acording to the front of the computer I got NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440.Im not to good about the harware sides of things.

I got:

256MB Ram

Nivida Geforce 5600SE

18 gig Hard-Drive

1.5GHZ P4

I ran it all in low settings; but when I switched to medium, I got the same as I did in low (Frame-late and such).

I have a GeForce 4 MX 420 and it ran fairly well on the lowest settings. Got to the end of the demo with the helicopters and such. :smile:

Finally got the bugger running - though I had to d/l a nocd crack :sad: Apparently the copy-protection goes as far as searching to see what programs you have installed and if any are black-marked by it, it simply wont load Only software I have that could be remotely classed as 'dodgy' is Ahead Nero

Stupid stupid Ubisoft!

Oh, and if you're having trouble with performance, try changing the rendermode to 'OpenGL'...runs smooth as silk with all settings high for me, while in Direct3D it chugs even on medium settings.

Hawkins m8, quite a few games are doing the same thing & yes what its detecting is nero.

It's a little over the top on Ubisofts' part though...not allowing you to run a game (that you payed for!), simply because you have a perfectly legitimate copy of Nero installed.

Great game though (even though it took me best part of a day to get it to load and then tweak the settings to my satisfaction :wink: )