View Full Version : Crysis Beta Feedback Thread
Gandharva
09-11-07, 01:12 PM
This is with 4xAA + 16xHQAF . And yes, the JPEG compresion is problematic in this game ;)
Press Print, Alt+Tab to Desktop, open MS Paint, paste the image into MS Paint and save as bitmap.
Then upload it. Thanks ;)
Press Print, open MS Paint, paste the image into MS Paint and save as bitmap.
Then upload it. Thanks ;)
Gandharva, FRAPS program has the option for capture in PNG, bit map or TGA ;). The problem is the upload at imageshack or photobuket
Gandharva
09-11-07, 01:17 PM
Gandharva, FRAPS program has the option for capture in PNG, bit map or TGA ;). The problem is the upload at imageshack or photobuket
Zip it and use Rapidshare :)
For the love of god can we get back on TOPIC! Tell us how the game plays, how the weapons are............
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/8325/screenshot0005ib9.th.jpg (http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0005ib9.jpg)
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7791/screenshot0007ej6.th.jpg (http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0007ej6.jpg)
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5967/screenshot0011gm0.th.jpg (http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0011gm0.jpg)
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4954/screenshot0013bk3.th.jpg (http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0013bk3.jpg)
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/9616/screenshot0018pb2.th.jpg (http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0018pb2.jpg)
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/8885/screenshot0027hv1.th.jpg (http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0027hv1.jpg)
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7490/screenshot00052yd9.th.jpg (http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot00052yd9.jpg)
Tried different resolutions and I like 1280x768 the most, even though i can use 1440x900 this just felt better for me.
Tygerwoody
09-11-07, 01:31 PM
Fileplanet has so many ads on there site, im sure they make a pretty penny from those.
Do you realize it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars or more JUST for bandwidth of File Planet? Yes, Fileplanet shouldn't have pay accounts. Not only that, but they shouldn't have ads either.
FilePlanet would go bankrupt within a month without subscriptions and ads. And thats being nice.
A FP account is really not very expensive.
People will shell out for XBox Live but cringe at the thought of FP, why?
Airbrushkid
09-11-07, 01:37 PM
No they should keep making money like your landlord. But not from me and many others. I don't beleive in wasting money like that.
But this is my 2 cents.
A FP account is really not very expensive.
People will shell out for XBox Live but cringe at the thought of FP, why?
Agreed and XBOX live Gold pretty much gives you nothing compared to the free version. Fileplanet is worth it imo, at first I didnt like them either but im getting my moneys worth so its all good.
Tygerwoody
09-11-07, 01:40 PM
A FP account is really not very expensive.
People will shell out for XBox Live but cringe at the thought of FP, why?
because torrents turned people into a bunch of cheapasses who want everything free. I mean, look at the bioshock thread for the first day? These crybabies were all tore up because there was actually a decent security in bioshock so it couldn't be pirated within a few minutes upon release.
That and living in your grandma's basement and jobless isn't a good way of having money in order to buy an account from Fileplanet. Mom and Dad will give their child money for an Xbox Live account because it seems "required". With Fileplanet, mom and dad draw the line because they don't care about "getting into a beta". Three cheers for losers without jobs. :thumbsup:
A FP account is really not very expensive.
People will shell out for XBox Live but cringe at the thought of FP, why?
Once upon a time I used to be able to download demos, for free, with no wait times, off the publisher/developer's website.
Yes I know that demos are much, much larger now. But that is not my concern.
Plus, not that I'm advocating piracy, but if you have the option of:
A) Downloading a 2 gig demo after waiting in a line for an hour or paying however much a month for the priveledge of downloading a demo or
B) Going to a bittorrent site and downloading the entire game for free with no wait, well...FilePlanet just doesn't look so hot anymore.
I'm in such a camp where I'm morally opposed to piracy, but the fact that it exists makes FilePlanet seem like a blatant rip off.
Tygerwoody
09-11-07, 01:43 PM
No they should keep making money like your landlord. But not from me and many others. I don't beleive in wasting money like that.
But this is my 2 cents.
...
Can I have $60? I want to get into this Crysis beta! I really want to Mom! Come on! Please! I'll do my homework and do the dishes! Please Please Please!
I don't even know what a "beta" is. Why should I give you money for that? You are 35 years old. Its time for you to start making money on your own Johnny!"
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/8325/screenshot0005ib9.th.jpg (http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0005ib9.jpg)
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7791/screenshot0007ej6.th.jpg (http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0007ej6.jpg)
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5967/screenshot0011gm0.th.jpg (http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0011gm0.jpg)
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4954/screenshot0013bk3.th.jpg (http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0013bk3.jpg)
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/9616/screenshot0018pb2.th.jpg (http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0018pb2.jpg)
Tried different resolutions and I like 1280x768 the most, even though i can use 1440x900 this just felt better for me.
Those are some nice screens man, the water looks awesome.
CaptNKILL
09-11-07, 01:45 PM
1. Limiting user base + potential sales for the developer.
2. Beta’s limited users base = less testing of the game = more bugs not caught.
3. Less system configurations to test betas on.
4. Purchasing exclusive rights to games then using those games to try and generate more Company revenue.
5. Changing the way all digital content is delivered to the user and making what use to be an open source delivering method into a personalized profit platform. ie. US health care system.
6. Using their subscribers base to generate even more income by forcing them to PAY MORE!
7. Calling games Open Beta when in-fact they are indeed CLOSED to the site payers ONLY!
1. Betas are not released to generate sales. They may do that some times, but more often than not, a game's problems will give it a bad name. Just look at the negative opinions of ET:QW based on the beta. If millions of gamers had played it, the game would be bashed into the ground.
2. As I said before, more "testers" does not mean better testers. The majority of people who see a beta are playing it simply to play the game... not to test it and help to report and solve problems. Most multiplayer betas require limited license keys anyway, or else the game servers will be overloaded and they will spend more time troubleshooting their servers. Server problems, mixed in with thousands or millions of anxious gamers is the kind of thing that creates enough negative PR to kill a game before its even released.
With limited license keys, you get a controlled amount of testers. The problem is, your keys are going to be filled up by the first few thousand joe-shmoes that see the headlines at VE3D or BluesNews. The likelyhood that even a quarter of them are serious about testing games is pretty slim. They just think its a "demo", play it, see a bunch of bugs, and call the game a POS.
By limiting the keys to the paying subscribers of a given website, you get people who are at the very least, willing to pay to test a game. You're more likely to get testers that actually give a s*** when they voluntarily payed to do it. In fact, people who actually enjoy testing and reporting problems to developers can reliably get into betas by paying, rather than getting screwed every time a beta is released while they are at work and 6,000 12 years olds fill the slots when they get home from school.
3. This is an issue of limited beta keys in general, regardless of if they require a payed subscription or not.
4,5,6,7. All these are "damn that evil corporation for making money" points. The world has changed over the past 10 years, we aren't dealing with a garaged based game developer sending a 3 meg beta of their latest game to Walnut Creek's ftp.cdrom.com (yeah I was around back then). Games are far more complicated, the bandwidth required to send games is massive and the amount of money involved is insane compared to what it was in the good old days.
Honestly, I'm tired of arguing this over and over. I payed for my account, and yes I even renewed it again this year. It'd be nice if people would just deal with it and stop filling beta threads with Fileplanet bashing.
Tygerwoody
09-11-07, 01:47 PM
Once upon a time I used to be able to download demos, for free, with no wait times, off the publisher/developer's website.
Yes I know that demos are much, much larger now. But that is not my concern.
Plus, not that I'm advocating piracy, but if you have the option of:
A) Downloading a 2 gig demo after waiting in a line for an hour or paying however much a month for the priveledge of downloading a demo or
B) Going to a bittorrent site and downloading the entire game for free with no wait, well...FilePlanet just doesn't look so hot anymore.
I'm in such a camp where I'm morally opposed to piracy, but the fact that it exists makes FilePlanet seem like a blatant rip off.
I would love for you to ask MikeC to remove the ads from this website and continue to leave it up. I would LOVE to see his response.
Websites cost money. They cost ALOT of money. Bandwidth can cost anywhere between $5 a month to MILLIONS a month. These websites MUST make money somehow. Fileplanet CAN NOT FUNCTION without pay accounts. Ads do not make enough. Asking them to remove pay accounts is like asking MikeC to remove ads from his site.
If you want to torrent, thats your choice. If you want quality downloads that you can depend on, you are going to have to pay.
I would love for you to ask MikeC to remove the ads from this website and continue to leave it up. I would LOVE to see his response.
Websites cost money. They cost ALOT of money. Bandwidth can cost anywhere between $5 a month to MILLIONS a month. These websites MUST make money somehow. Fileplanet CAN NOT FUNCTION without pay accounts. Ads do not make enough. Asking them to remove pay accounts is like asking MikeC to remove ads from his site.
If you want to torrent, thats your choice. If you want quality downloads that you can depend on, you are going to have to pay.
Well, like I said, before publishers & developers cheaped out, they used to serve up the demos themselves. Hell, ftp.idsoftware.com still does! Although now that I goto check it seems to be down...so I guess bringing that up does me no good :/ I'd never expect a 3rd party to pony up the bandwidth to give out free samples of games. But they shouldn't have to. Like I said, it should be up to the publishers and developers.
I just don't see the point of paying, in any capacity, to play a demo. A demo is fundamentally an add. A teaser. Why pay for something that is designed to get you to pay MORE. It's greatest racket of all. People like you have actually been convinced to pay in order to be advertised to, and whats more, you attack anybody who perceives the lunacy of it.
I would love for you to ask MikeC to remove the ads from this website and continue to leave it up. I would LOVE to see his response.
Websites cost money. They cost ALOT of money. Bandwidth can cost anywhere between $5 a month to MILLIONS a month. These websites MUST make money somehow. Fileplanet CAN NOT FUNCTION without pay accounts. Ads do not make enough. Asking them to remove pay accounts is like asking MikeC to remove ads from his site.
If you want to torrent, thats your choice. If you want quality downloads that you can depend on, you are going to have to pay.
if it works it works.
lol no quality about it
Im not into piracy personally, but I feel that companys could garner alot more sells by their attitude and dealings than just slapping starforce onto their games ;)
$n][pErMan
09-11-07, 01:58 PM
Pay for a demo... lol. I'll wait for the game thank you very much. As for how gay these wait in line download sites have become... I will try and scrape the file off bit torrent when I get home :) Im sure someone somewhere has got it on torrent. Note... I never condone pirated software... but I dont consider a demo worth money :)
slaWter
09-11-07, 02:01 PM
This is with 4xAA + 16xHQAF . And yes, the JPEG compresion is problematic in this game ;)
8800 GTX + C2 2750 MHZ
Same IQ settings for the 1080p shot?
Unstable_Hero
09-11-07, 02:05 PM
Do you realize it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars or more JUST for bandwidth of File Planet? Yes, Fileplanet shouldn't have pay accounts. Not only that, but they shouldn't have ads either.
FilePlanet would go bankrupt within a month without subscriptions and ads. And thats being nice.
Cause FP is the only place to dl the good stuff, it used to be spread out across the internets. Can we just get back on topic no ones gonna win this argument.
CaptNKILL
09-11-07, 02:10 PM
Can we just get back on topic no ones gonna win this argument.
I agree.
Though, I think most people aren't talking because they are under NDA...
So this thread is going to be dull unless someone starts spillin' the beans. :p
Fats_43
09-11-07, 02:12 PM
Honestly, I'm tired of arguing this over and over. I payed for my account, and yes I even renewed it again this year. It'd be nice if people would just deal with it and stop filling beta threads with Fileplanet bashing.
/agreed Me too, you asked so I listed what I think are issues. I respect your opinion Cap. Also, step back for one second, swing that S^$# the other direction. Pro FP advocating doesn't do much but provoke the FP haters does it?
Now back on topic, I really want to see this MP beta in DX10 :/
I also hear there is a Crysis CD at walmart for $5, can anyone confirm this? Is this a demo?
CaptNKILL
09-11-07, 02:15 PM
I also hear there is a Crysis CD at walmart for $5, can anyone confirm this? Is this a demo?
Eh? :eek2:
Fats_43
09-11-07, 02:16 PM
I also hear there is a Crysis CD at walmart for $5, can anyone confirm this? Is this a demo?
What? like a pre-order type thing?
vBulletin® v3.7.1, Copyright ©2000-2012, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.