Crysis 3

EA is footing the bill for a popular series expected to be a visual treat. I've read here that Crytek has military contracts too.

 

CryEngine also is available for licensing from any developer. So that's a potential income stream as well to justify increased R&D for engine developement.

Frostbite is in the same situation, but is limited to EA developers I believe.

Regards,
SB

 

That graph is pretty cool.

If ATI cards perform similar I should be looking at around high settings. I need to upgrade A.S.A.P

 

No. A guy added like a 100 shadow casting lights very close to each other to fake the area shadow effect.

 

BETA is up Origin for all you interested

 

Yep I just played for about 30 mins. Performance was ok with all settings on high or very high. Graphics and art design are disappointing though. Everything is kinda murky. Also the guns don't have any real kick to them.

Overall pretty mediocre. Maybe single-player is better.

 

Cannot wait to test it for myself...my 670 is ready (my ol i7 920 not so much...)

 

Disaster, how? Details, please.

 

Played a bit of Hunter mode this morning. Interesting concept but it might get old really fast. If the hunters get one or two kills at the start it's basically game over.

Maybe it's the maps but there isn't anything about the modeling or textures that stands out as particularly impressive during gameplay. The sound effects were forgettable too.

I'm gonna try it on PS3 tonight to see how things look there.

 

Everything on high, except textures on very high. Runs okish ony 670...but looks awsome!!!

Up to some more...

 

Around 40 FPS average at lowest with no AA on 1080p on the HD 5770. Around 30 FPS average with the medium presets, with noticeable drops in fights
Let's not talk about very high however

 

Will the beta run on my 4850? Or do they still have that stupid dx11 only crap?

 

It's a DX11 only game, And believe me THIS is the first to do this, It won't be too long till other games do this too.

OK i tested the Beta and it's better optimized than Alpha, But MP sucks, Who am i kidding, Who plays Crysis for MP.

Also i hope they have indirect shadows in the final game.

 

Oh, that's a little disapointing. Not a true dynamic effect... Not very different than this:

Spoiler

from: http://www.crydev.net/viewtopic.php?t=54177

Yet, it is good that it can give us an idea of what this type of game would look like if it did have very detailed indirect lighting, even if such implementations are doctored and not very realistically viable
The technical presentation video was cool to watch, despeite the presenter beeing a bit clumsy. It did cover about the same topics from the leaked pages from crytek's internal guide for presentations similar to this one, although i didn't get to see my real time glossy reflections... Oh GI...

 

But it still is missing the most important thing which is Indirect Shadows.

 

Latest 7 Wonders trailer, maybe best one yet.

 

I'd guess part of the murkiness/fuzziness and just weird oddness to the image quality overall is something to do with whatever causes some weird rainbow artifacts at outlines of some objects. I uploaded a screenshot to highlight what im talking about. Thankfully they made it easy to turn off other "murkiness's" such as lens flares and motion blur, but they forgot the fuggly ambient occlusion, unless they attached it to the shadow or some other settings that only disables on low. Haven't tried.

There's also other weird stuff i'v seen, but that rainbowish effect is what irks me often, it's as if they forgot to turn off some 3D parameters and some stuff is still getting some color band separation at some buffer... don't know, layman's wild and wrong guess.

Screenshot was taken with very high settings and i think smaa2x