>> Seriously, I'm loving the funky suits we all get to wear. Whoever designed 
>> that thing... awesome! And I figured out that there's several different 
>> modes to it, and I'm slowly discovering what all the HUD elements mean. 
>> But I'm still puzzled as to how to survive the game.
> 
>     Well, your suit is the key. As you go through the game you'll find a 
> need for all elements of that suit.

The only really useful elements I've discovered so far are speed (so you 
can skip the boring bits - or just run away once you've been spotted) 
and stealth. Turn on stealth, walk 10 paces, hide, turn off stealth, 
wait, turn on stealth, walk 10 paces, hide, turn off stealth, wait, turn 
on stealth, walk 10 paces.... it gets repetative very quickly.

(Also, I've discovered that people apparently can still kinda see you if 
you're moving. Fortunately, stealth lasts almost forever if you stand 
still. Not sure what happens if somebody actually walks into you...)

The binoculars seem surprisingly unhelpful, and it's generally extremely 
hard to tell if there's anything hostile around. Which means you 
basically play the whole game covering ground using the 
stealth-walk-wait routine.

>> All the weapons I have seem completely ineffective. Every time I meet an 
>> enemy, I get cut to pieces before I can do any real damage. The weapons 
>> just don't seem to work from more than point-blank range.
> 
>      Using the FY71 with a scope and silencer is probably the best general 
> weapon to have. Don't forget that you can pick up weapons from dead enemies, 
> so always keep your eye on what they were using because if you find one that 
> has all accessories, you'll also get things like the 'sleep dart', (press 
> 'x' to rotate through them, and press 'c' or middle mouse button to select).

Love the way all the weapons have names like FY71. How memorable.

Anyway, I discovered the multiple firing modes, but I have yet to figure 
out what any of them do. I have at least figured out how to turn off 
iron sights and get a propper sight that you can actually use to hit 
things. That made the game significantly easier.

You'd think with infinite armour and health, the game would be quite 
simple. But I've already died several times. (Especially when trying to 
figure out how to take down a tank using only an SMG...)

As for "pick up the guns the bad buys have", that's what you do in 
FarCry. Unfortunately, in Crysis everybody seems to be armed either with 
pistols or shotguns, neither of which are very useful.

>    Speed mode is great. :) Try running and jumping at a rock in speed mode. 
> WEEEEEE! ;)

I must admit, I haven't tried jumping in speed mode yet.

>> As yet, I have no idea what on earth strength mode might be useful for... 
>> ;-)
> 
>     Have you grabbed an NK yet?

Er, no. Because if I got that close to one, I'd already be *dead* :-P

> Hit 'f' when it says 'grab', switch to 
> strength mode and punch him (or throw him)!

Well, that's what happens in the video. (The 20-minute video that plays 
every time you launch the game and doesn't appear to be skippable... 
including the 16 sponsors of the game and the retarded "online 
experience is not rated" message. Let me guess, it also contains nuts, 
right?) But it turns out *most* of the stuff in the video can't be done 
in the real game.

> Punch the cabins, punch everything.

Won't that just result in injury?

> Jump up rocks, jump up ladders

Haven't seen any ladders yet. I have, however, seen a really freakin big 
flying monster, BTW...

> jump over your enemies and 
> whilst in mid-air, switch to cloak, turn around and kill 'em all! :)

Yes. Because you can get that close without dying. And, during the 0.5 
second flight time, you will be able to execute the 5-second "change 
suit mode" procedure. Not to mention that the guy's buddies will all be 
shooting at where they last saw you.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just, you know, shoot the guy in the face if 
you're that close? One shot and you can hardly miss...

>> PS. I also love the way that all the weapons you can pick up look 
>> *completely identical*, so you can't tell them apart. That's really 
>> helpful.
> 
>     Huh? Which ones?

Well, there's a pistol - which looks like a pistol. And then there are 
several shotguns and machine guns, which all look... like a long black 
weapony thing. One of them is a shotgun (so it fires slowly, reloads 
even slower, needs reloading constantly, and has no ammo anywhere). Of 
the remainder, one of them fires accurately, one of them fires 
inaccurately, one of them is loud, one of them is quite quiet, one of 
them takes hours to reload, one of them takes a clip with 31 bullets, 
one of them takes a clip with 41 bullets... and I have no idea which is 
which!

>     So what's your FPS? Bring the console down in-game, and type: 
> r_displayinfo 1

Depends. I've turned all the graphics settings up to "high", and 
antialiasing to 8x, and it's playable. With AA set to 16xQ, it became a 
little bit too laggy. Even with all details set to "low" the game lags a 
little, so I think it's the CPU load that's the problem, since the 
graphics settings don't make a huge difference either way (until you get 
*very* high up). The motion blur lags noticably, and the characters 
don't quite lipsync properly.

(BTW... The characters look friggin *amazing*! And turning the graphics 
up to "high" really does make the game look even more awesome...)

I'll let you know about the framerate. Which key is it to access the 
console?

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