Cryengine 2 video

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:00 pm

Thats the next gen Far Cry engine if you didint get it. Theres a short, shaky, video of it in action in this thread to check out, looks good so yay for the next from the Far Cry developers lookin brilliant, boo for the fact it may mean much upgrade for well everyone to get it in full prettyness.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:58 pm

well, didnt see the vid yet, but i have high hopes, FC was great

the only downpoint for FX is the buggines with patches and stuff, they should work on that

Vlad Tepes · Post by **Vlad Tepes** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:10 pm

That was pretty impressive. The day/night cycle looked cool...as well as the leaves when he walked past them. And here I thought I was set for a while in the PC hardware department. Looks like I'm gonna be upgrading...

MKE · Post by **MKE** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:04 pm

anyone...wanna...post a link to the vid so i dont have to sign up for another forum?...plz...

skar · Post by **skar** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:45 am

google is your friend.
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee ... 7007045731

it's amazing... it really is. german developers btw... makes me proud.

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:19 pm

Hmm they've changed it since I made this topic, never used to have to sign up at the steam boards

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:41 pm

bah Serious Sam 2 engine is better!!! and it will have a game that's fun.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:37 am

do not underestimate Crytek...

SS2 is out already, that engine is done, Crytek is still working on their engine, and i have no doubt it will be better

besides, the SS engine is geared towards displaying massive amounts of models on screen, the far cry engine is more geared towards extreme eyecandy and realism, just look at far cry, that game is almost 2 years old now, and still one of the most beautifull out there imho

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:22 am

Crytek were the company that got Ubisoft slapped with massive fines because they had stolen big chunks of the leaked Valve Source engine.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:21 am

SS2 is out already, that engine is done

No it isn't.

Tall Israeli · Post by **Tall Israeli** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:01 pm

Nyarlathotep wrote:Crytek were the company that got Ubisoft slapped with massive fines because they had stolen big chunks of the leaked Valve Source engine.

What?! There was a lawsuit because some disgruntled ex-employee claimed the workers were using illegal versions of some development software. Eventually the cops became involved and raided the offices but everything checked out legit.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:50 pm

BlackAura wrote:
SS2 is out already, that engine is done
No it isn't.

my fault, should have checked, but gamespot has it launching in less then a month (october 10th) so work on the engine should be done already, all recent material is pretty much what we will get from SS2, contrary to those early FC2 screens

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:18 pm

Tall Israeli wrote:Eventually the cops became involved and raided the offices but everything checked out legit.

That was what the crytek press release stated.

The POLICE REPORT issued by the POLICE charged them with criminal fraud, and fined Ubisoft an undisclosed 6 figure fine (in euros) for illegal versions of Maya, 3DS Max and the entire leaked Source sourcecode.
Criminal charges were also made along with the civil charge (fine).

Now YOU (and indeed most gaming press) might prefer the Crytek press release to the official police press release (search for wednesday the 4th July 2004), but I have to go with the unbiased police report on this one.

Plus the fact that charges were made, but not dropped, and fines were paid suggests to me that either:
a) Cryteks lawyer really sucks balls
or
b) everything did not turn out 'legit'

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:48 am

Disheveled DrFreeze wrote:my fault, should have checked, but gamespot has it launching in less then a month (october 10th) so work on the engine should be done already, all recent material is pretty much what we will get from SS2, contrary to those early FC2 screens

That's a lot earlier than I thought.

Still, you can't really bolt new features onto a game engine at any time, especially considering how much content needs to be created for it.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:02 pm

well, considering the SS2 demo is out already....

and while the core engine cant really be changed, they can still optimize and tweak the engine to great extent, giving better performance or just better visuals

also, crytek did significant work on the far cry engine after release, support for sm3.0 was added, a complete port to 64bit was done..

Tall Israeli · Post by **Tall Israeli** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:25 pm

The car crashing into the building was easily the best part of the video.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:33 am

i didnt watch the whole thing yet, when i tried i still had my old video drivers, and divx playback was fucked with those, i should try it tonight when i get home