~ * Crysis Warhead - Official Thread * ~

williamd · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:06

Paulus said:
ooh , what happens in the official thread?????

We talk about the game, only we do so in an official manner.

Strife212 · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:06

Loowi_ashley said:
LMAO, everytime some-one makes an offical thread they get shot down for it, everytime, same old people, bet their little hearts beat faster when they see "****OFFICAL*****"

It's because the first post was totally blank at first, now none of the early posts make sense

Metalface Mark · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:07

Im going to wait for the unofficial thread, they are usually a bit livelier.

Paul11 · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:07

so does anyone have anything official to discuss about the game?

Strife212 · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:08

I'm pretty hyped for this tbh

Can't wait to see what it runs like !

KNiVES · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:10

Several forum posters on NeoGAF from the US confirms there is absolutely no SecuROM in place for the Steam version. No DRM.

helmutcheese · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:12

Strife212 said:
I'm pretty hyped for this tbh

Can't wait to see what it runs like !

Strife212 · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:12

KNiVES · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:14

A few also confirm it's running significantly smoother than the original too. Some guys are managing Enthusiast (very high) when they could only manage High on the original.

Interestingly, they say Enthusiast (very high) now only runs off DX9, not DX10. It seems DX10 was removed.

Strife212 · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:14

Hmmm....

I'm wary of believing this looks better than the first game. Something's gotta have given.

slipd · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:17

I want to know what all this "activation/3 installs and that's it" malarkey is? I've got the DVD version on pre-order from the South American river company, but I'm very tempted to cancel it if that's the case, and get it from Steam

Could someone in the know, clarify?

Cheers,

SW.

KNiVES · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:19

Strife212 said:
Hmmm....

I'm wary of believing this looks better than the first game. Something's gotta have given.

They basically made a lot of 'DX10 only' features DX9. I'm betting the illusion of faster framerates is simply down to making it DX9 instead of DX10 more than anything else. Obviously you have the engine fixes.

The developers probably took a long, good hard look at everyone's custom configs too - and implemented changes to the engine based on those. The original Crysis came with the equivalent of a horrible, ugly and clunky config. I've no doubt Warhead has changes to its config that were copied by those such as Xconfig, Cuba's Custom Config, Natural Beauty, etc.

sam.wheale said:
I want to know what all this "activation/3 installs and that's it" malarkey is? I've got the DVD version on pre-order from the South American river company, but I'm very tempted to cancel it if that's the case, and get it from Steam

Could someone in the know, clarify?

Cheers,

SW.

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edit: to clarify, DRM is on retail box, 3 installs max, none on Steam

bee · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:24

yep screw it, steam version it is. if you don't like drm and still want the game then let EA know by buying it on steam rather than retail and maybe they'll get the message..maybe anyway

Revolution6000 · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:24

Does it say unlocking 1 day 2 hours for anyone else =( Which would make it the 19th.

xb8browney · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:32

Dogoid · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:34

this game has appeared on bit torrent trackers, not sure which version , but its a clonecd without any crack.

bee · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:47

xb8browney said:
http://nadenebrown.com/gallery/war.jpg

how've you got that? early retail sale?

Dogoid said:
this game has appeared on bit torrent trackers, not sure which version , but its a clonecd without any crack.

great! if i was 14 with a paper round and couldn't afford £15-20 i'd be right on that! :rolleyes:

helmutcheese · 17 Sep 2008 at 23:52

bee said:
how've you got that? early retail sale?

great! if i was 14 with a paper round and couldn't afford £15-20 i'd be right on that!

That COULD be STEAM and the game is so far locked (I'm guessing as do not use STEAM).

Crysis was so buggy it was not worth buying, this COULD be the same.

williamd · 18 Sep 2008 at 08:05

I never experienced one crash on Crysis. In fact the only bug I ever experienced was not dropping the rocket after you'd run out of ammo. They fixed this though.

TNA · 18 Sep 2008 at 08:33

This is annoying. They should have released the game by now. It seems we may have to wait till the 19th to get it