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Ok i been playin this game for a good hour or 2 now and im left with one question:

Why the **** do people keep attacking me!?

seriously. I get given a top secret mission that no one but me and 2 other guys know about. I leave the town and BAM! "There he is!"...there who is? I dont even know who i am and you act like ive just killed your dog.

this is punctuated by the fact that if you clear and area, leave and go back to it (all within 5 mins) they have all respawned.


oh, and dont even think about getting in a car. The second you come within viewing distance of a crossroad every enemy vehicle in the encircling 5 miles come guns blazing at you as if they've been waiting on this moment their whole lives.

then theres the actual combat...your enemies are psychic and have the worlds strangest aim; the closer you get the harder you are to hit apparently, god forbid you get more than 10ft away, else they start unleashing their homing shotgun shells on you.

the first 30mins of this game was excellent. Up until i rescued my first buddy, which i executed rather stealthily and all the guards acted as you would expect. But now everythings very confusing. I have no idea who i am, who it is im working for. Why i can work for the faction whos men i just slaughtered moments ago. Who are these random sentries that hate me so much they actually spend their whole lives waiting to ambush me

man i hope this gets better again.
 
sarutobi said:
Ok i been playin this game for a good hour or 2 now and im left with one question:

Why the **** do people keep attacking me!?

seriously. I get given a top secret mission that no one but me and 2 other guys know about. I leave the town and BAM! "There he is!"...there who is? I dont even know who i am and you act like ive just killed your dog.

this is punctuated by the fact that if you clear and area, leave and go back to it (all within 5 mins) they have all respawned.


oh, and dont even think about getting in a car. The second you come within viewing distance of a crossroad every enemy vehicle in the encircling 5 miles come guns blazing at you as if they've been waiting on this moment their whole lives.

then theres the actual combat...your enemies are psychic and have the worlds strangest aim; the closer you get the harder you are to hit apparently, god forbid you get more than 10ft away, else they start unleashing their homing shotgun shells on you.

the first 30mins of this game was excellent. Up until i rescued my first buddy, which i executed rather stealthily and all the guards acted as you would expect. But now everythings very confusing. I have no idea who i am, who it is im working for. Why i can work for the faction whos men i just slaughtered moments ago. Who are these random sentries that hate me so much they actually spend their whole lives waiting to ambush me

man i hope this gets better again.
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So you are enjoying your time with the game then? :D
 
MoNkEyMiKeY said:
And you think everyone will be climbing over each other to buy a game where you can change the head gasket, check the valve clearances and put it in for an mot?!
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I'd rather they just made your vehicle less vulerable to damage like in other games....but nice idea anyway.
 
Im not very impressed with the games grapix at all at high rez .

The game is very buggy and has many issues that need to be fixed .

I cant even imagine playing multiplayer with this game .

Its a good game to play if you just want to wonder around and forget about this being the year 2008 and kill stick figures ,, lol

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ZoomZ said:
Im not very impressed with the games grapix at all at high rez .

The game is very buggy and has many issues that need to be fixed .

I cant even imagine playing multiplayer with this game .

Its a good game to play if you just want to wonder around and forget about this being the year 2008 and kill stick figures ,, lol
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Sorry, but if your're getting shoddy performance running a 4.5GHz E8500, 2x 280GTXs and 4GB of RAM on a 780i board then there's something wrong with your system somewhere.
 
Azagoth said:
Sorry, but if your're getting shoddy performance running a 4.5GHz E8500, 2x 280GTXs and 4GB of RAM on a 780i board then there's something wrong with your system somewhere.
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I am getting a good performance and my computer isnt half as good as that.

I have only played for about an hour but it seems like fun.

Have you tried upgrading your drivers, helped me out with a few little glitches.
 
Azagoth said:
Sorry, but if your're getting shoddy performance running a 4.5GHz E8500, 2x 280GTXs and 4GB of RAM on a 780i board then there's something wrong with your system somewhere.
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I didnt say it was unplayable , im getting 87 fps at high rez and it plays very smooth ,, its jusy buggy as hell .

I just said i wasnt impressed at all .
 
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Bench look alright? These are the Optimised settings offered by the game for my rig.

The game itself I havent been overawed with yet, I don't know why, it just hasn't grabbed me in the same way as Crysis and the like, though given its nonlinearity, maybe that's as it should be. Got through to the church with the priest and his malaria pills, and was advised I'd finished the tutorial, but don't feel like I have gathered much momentum to go on and do other stuff, not least of which other stuff that will probably take many minutes of tedious driving to get to.

I'm sure the game will grow on me eventually, enough friends are telling me that it's great that I guess it has to, figure I'll leave it to the side for a while though.
 
Why on earth you benching / playing in dx9 when you have x2 280's? Also I cannot believe why some folk are comparing it to crysis, not that crysis was that spectacular anyway, granted at first look it was wow factor, but after a while it kinda wears off.

FC2 is completely different to crysis IMO and overall FC2 looks stunning and yeah certainly that will wear off in time. I like the game, it looks real nice, granted there are issues like mouse movement which is the main focal point (for me) I haven't yet come across anything else thats niggled me (as of yet) Some may flame me for my opinion, but the way I see it, this is not crysis, different game different engine.

Whilst typing this I thought I'd bench at both dx9/dx10 and funny that dx10 performs better than dx9.

DX9 clicky

* Average Framerate: 41.72
* Max. Framerate: 62.26
* Min. Framerate: 34.51

DX10 clicky

* Average Framerate: 49.02
* Max. Framerate: 64.02
* Min. Framerate: 41.63

@ stock 280 as NV betas won't allow fan control in Rivatuner.
 
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Montegue said:
Why on earth you benching / playing in dx9 when you have x2 280's? Also I cannot believe why some folk are comparing it to crysis, not that crysis was that spectacular anyway, granted at first look it was wow factor, but after a while it kinda wears off.

FC2 is completely different to crysis IMO and overall FC2 looks stunning and yeah certainly that will wear off in time. I like the game, it looks real nice, granted there are issues like mouse movement which is the main focal point (for me) I haven't yet come across anything else thats niggled me (as of yet) Some may flame me for my opinion, but the way I see it, this is not crysis, different game different engine.

Whilst typing this I thought I'd bench at both dx9/dx10 and funny that dx10 performs better than dx9.

DX9

* Average Framerate: 41.72
* Max. Framerate: 62.26
* Min. Framerate: 34.51

DX10

* Average Framerate: 49.02
* Max. Framerate: 64.02
* Min. Framerate: 41.63

@ stock 280 as NV betas won't allow fan control in Rivatuner.
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I agree. The comparison is coming because they are both FPSers. Crysis did look pretty but I wasnt very impressed with the actual game. The only reason crysis is staying on my computer is so I can test future hardware with it.

Onto DX10. Does it look much better on DX10? I have only tried on DX9 at the moment.
 
From my POV there isn't much of a difference, that said i've only tested DX9 via the benchmark, no intentions of playing the game in dx9 when i have a dx10 game and card. I assume it's like any other dx9/10 game there results from both modes are minimal, with lights and shadows etc.. From the benches I couldn't really tell the difference, both modes look very nice.
 
bloodline76 said:
What bugs are you getting?
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Model glitchs like twitching heads , skating and bad shadows .

Hit box's on models .

I seen a box move back and forth .

Random lockups from time to time .

Tool lockups like the timer on the watch and monuclar .
 
ZoomZ said:
Model glitchs like twitching heads , skating and bad shadows .

Hit box's on models .

I seen a box move back and forth .

Random lockups from time to time .

Tool lockups like the timer on the watch and monuclar .
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Not noticed anything like that yet, although i've not been payin that much attention to the models apart form shooting at them. No lock ups either (as yet *fingers crossed)
 
Montegue said:
Why on earth you benching / playing in dx9 when you have x2 280's?

I just got the game and havnt loaded it on my vista drive yet .

Im sure the fps and eye candy will be better .

I will load it in vista64 tomorrow and see if its any better as far as the bugs are concerned .

The game plays smooth as glass in dx9/1920x1200/very high/high settings .

Like someone said a few pages back , its the little stuff that i pick up on also that make ya think your playing a game from 2001 instead of almost 2009 .
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This game is dull, dull, dull :( Story is boring. Guns are boring. World is boring. Mouse control is akin to stirring a stick in a bucket of treacle. Feels like Far Cry 1 and Stalker had a love-child and this was the aborted fetus they left behind. Where are all the animals - Africa is vibrant and teaming with life......I've seen more wildlife on my bathmat than in FC2. Combat is a yawn - none of the realistic and satisfying gun-play of, say, COD4.....just generic guns, making generic sounds, and bullets that are made of jelly babies judging by the amount of damage they do.

Looks very nice....but who cares about that after a few mins of actual gameplay?

My faith is gaming is starting to diminish once more :(
 
ZoomZ said:
Model glitchs like twitching heads , skating and bad shadows .

Hit box's on models .

I seen a box move back and forth .

Random lockups from time to time .

Tool lockups like the timer on the watch and monuclar .
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Haven't experianced any of these, must be your PC...
 
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