"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> Ah yes, as with so many games, I have now reached an impass. :-}
>>
>>       Which part?
>
> I'm at one end of a large valley. I need to get to the other end along the 
> river. Except that that's the way I just came, and the entire KPA is 
> already looking for me there.

    And? Take them out. Reload that level and go take'em out Soldier! >:o(


>
> I've tried everything I can think of, but I can't find any way out of the 
> valley without going past all the patrols. It could take months to stealth 
> past them all - and one wrong move and I'll be instantly cut to mincemeat 
> by the hopelessly outnumbering hordes.

    :)


>
> Still, I guess this is what hardened game players call "fun". (Personally, 
> I prefer having a possibility of victory. When defeat is certain, that 
> isn't fun for me.)

   Lol, you gave up before you even started. What difficulty level did you 
play it on?

     Try the hardest. ;)


     ~Steve~

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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>
>>     So what's your FPS? Bring the console down in-game, and type: 
>> r_displayinfo 1
>
> I swam onto the beach at the beginning of the game, and got about 40 FPS. 
> If you swing the camera around enough for motion blur to kick in, it drops 
> slightly, but not much. Night vision appears to make no difference.
>
> The cutscene where they find Astec dropped to about 18 FPS. Some really 
> large scenic vistas take it as low as 15 FPS (though curiosly an entire 
> frame full of dense jungle is no problem, only long-range views). 
> Typically the framerate stays above 25 FPS, which is all the monitor can 
> physically display anyway, so I'm happy.
>
> This is at 1680x1050 (the native resolution of my LCD) with everything set 
> to "high" plus 8x antialias.

      Well, that all sounds pretty damn cool, I'm in for an upgrade at some 
point then. :)

       ~Steve~



>
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> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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>> I swam onto the beach at the beginning of the game, and got about 40 FPS. 
>> If you swing the camera around enough for motion blur to kick in, it drops 
>> slightly, but not much. Night vision appears to make no difference.
>>
>> The cutscene where they find Astec dropped to about 18 FPS. Some really 
>> large scenic vistas take it as low as 15 FPS (though curiosly an entire 
>> frame full of dense jungle is no problem, only long-range views). 
>> Typically the framerate stays above 25 FPS, which is all the monitor can 
>> physically display anyway, so I'm happy.
>>
>> This is at 1680x1050 (the native resolution of my LCD) with everything set 
>> to "high" plus 8x antialias.
> 
>       Well, that all sounds pretty damn cool, I'm in for an upgrade at some 
> point then. :)

Heh. Maybe if I'd gone for the triple GTX 280 option it would have given 
me consistently high framerates all through. :-P But I actually suspect 
my CPU is the bottleneck here. They recommend on quite a bit faster than 
what I have.

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>> I'm at one end of a large valley. I need to get to the other end along the 
>> river. Except that that's the way I just came, and the entire KPA is 
>> already looking for me there.
> 
>     And? Take them out. Reload that level and go take'em out Soldier! >:o(
> 
> 
>> I've tried everything I can think of, but I can't find any way out of the 
>> valley without going past all the patrols. It could take months to stealth 
>> past them all - and one wrong move and I'll be instantly cut to mincemeat 
>> by the hopelessly outnumbering hordes.
> 
>     :)
> 
> 
>> Still, I guess this is what hardened game players call "fun". (Personally, 
>> I prefer having a possibility of victory. When defeat is certain, that 
>> isn't fun for me.)
> 
>    Lol, you gave up before you even started. What difficulty level did you 
> play it on?
> 
>      Try the hardest. ;)

This was on the lowest difficulty setting available.

My mistake was trying to follow the river. I eventually figured out that 
I actually want to go the other way. Once you sneak into the bushes and 
get far enough away, people stop chasing you.

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>> OTOH, I'm now trying to fly an aircraft.
> 
>    Ah, the VTOL. I found that hard too at the beginning, but just move your 
> mouse around freely in conjunction with your move keys. Sorted. :)

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>>> Apparently that's the final battle though. Well, until Crysis II or 
>>> something, I guess... o_O
> 
>       Crysis 2 is being worked on, so for the time-being, you have to try 
> Warhead. :)


as a pair through Steam, you save... 99p? WTF?? How is that worth it?!

>        Now you can play my map if you like: 
> http://www.crymod.com/filebase.php?fileid=2305&lim=0&letter=T
> 
>        Let me know what you think.

OK, I'll see if I can get that to work...

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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> (Actually, that's not true. The *most* annoying thing about Crysis is how 
> feeble all your guns are...)

      Did you find the Gauss rifle?


           ~Steve~




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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>>> Apparently that's the final battle though. Well, until Crysis II or 
>>>> something, I guess... o_O
>>
>>       Crysis 2 is being worked on, so for the time-being, you have to try 
>> Warhead. :)
>

> a pair through Steam, you save... 99p? WTF?? How is that worth it?!


 It's not apart from with Warhead you get Wars MP free. Now wait until you 
try that suit with real people, heh... :)


>
>>        Now you can play my map if you like: 
>> http://www.crymod.com/filebase.php?fileid=2305&lim=0&letter=T
>>
>>        Let me know what you think.
>
> OK, I'll see if I can get that to work...

     Cool, thanks. I think you'll enjoy it but you'll have to update to 
patch 1.2 to get the objectives to work: 
http://www.crymod.com/filebase.php?fileid=1073

    It's a crazy map and it's supposed to be part 1 of 3, but before I get 
to 2 and 3, I'll update part 1 first.

      ~Steve~

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> OTOH, I'm now trying to fly an aircraft.
>>
>>    Ah, the VTOL. I found that hard too at the beginning, but just move 
>> your mouse around freely in conjunction with your move keys. Sorted. :)
>


  Ah, I think I know what you mean. Try a long (steady) arcing sweep across 
your mouse mat to turn. It's the same with turning turrets on some tanks. 
And don't forget that you can use Q and E to strafe in the VTOL (hit your 
left shift key for speed while doing this). Actually, the more I think about 
it, the more I realise how versatile the VTOL really is.


  ~Steve~

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>> (Actually, that's not true. The *most* annoying thing about Crysis is how 
>> feeble all your guns are...)
> 
>       Did you find the Gauss rifle?

Yeah. "Nomad, take the Gauss rifle" was my first clue.

As far as I can tell, it's like a shotgun, but less damaging.

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