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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:24 am
by Bacon
Farcry sucks :lol:
Re: FarCry
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:25 am
by SoM
riddla wrote:About to load it up for the first time ever now that I've bought a 6800GT. Got it for $19.99 today at bestbuy. In the past I've played the demo for about 15 mins tops, so I'll be a total n00b but finally with decent graphics/fps
Any specific shit I need to know?
get the latest patch and crank everything to VERY HIGH and enjoy
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:26 am
by netrex
Fun game
When you use your binoculars, remember to listen to what people say etc.. Some fun stuff there =) With that card you can run it at any resolutoin with antialias and anisotropic filtering on full I guess =) It ran pretty smooth on my old Radeon 9800 Pro.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:31 am
by netrex
Never patched it. Test
Hm. Think I'm gonna play it also. Never played through it.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:33 am
by SoM
riddla wrote:Can I just grab the 1.32 patch and go or do I need any other patches first? (I've noticed some previous patches are huge in comparison)
just grab the latest patch, only one u'll need
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:39 am
by shadd_
far cry likes a fast cpu. whatcha got?
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:53 am
by netrex
Should be plenty. Ran very well on this PC when I had the 9800 Pro. I run a P4 2.6GHz PC800 with 1GB RAM then.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:56 am
by shadd_
yeah you'll be able to enjoy it to the fullest. fun game.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:00 am
by Duhard
god farcry was bad...running around the island shooting bugs and dragonflies got boring real quick..
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:52 am
by SoM
riddla wrote:according to many on the ubi forums you need 1.3 first, then 1.31 or 1.32
bull
i just got the 1.3 ( 70 odd mb ) and all went fine
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:20 am
by ajerara
it wasn't my type of game, but enjoyed the large open spaces and the beautiful graphics.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:26 am
by Hannibal
all nonblack things are nonravens
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:37 am
by Dante
Give the HDR setting a try. It should improve some areas.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njc4LDQ=
You must first make sure Anti-Aliasing is disabled because this feature is not compatible with AA. Bring down the console and type “\r_hdrrendering x” (where x represents a number which indicates the type of HDR lighting). There are 11 different types of HDR lighting in FarCry. We have found that the number indicates how the light rays being cast from the HDR lighting are rendered. For example, if you type “\r_hdrrendering 2” we have found this disables the light rays. If you type “\r_hdrrendering 10” or “\r_hdrrendering 11” you will find some very unique ways of rendering light rays. Most people have found, and we agree, that “\r_hdrrendering 7” provides the best quality.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:19 am
by Eraser
Far Cry's AI was utterly horrible and hugely annoying at times, but it was a very cool game IMO.... and that says something, I ranted like an o'dium about Far Cry all the time.
The first bits are pretty boring. When you get to the ship, it's horrible, but after that, things pick up pace pretty quickly.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:39 am
by Grudge
I had great fun playing it. The outdoors maps in the middle of the game are awesome. The last two maps really suck though, so don't expect a great ending.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:15 am
by Ryoki
I'm gonna agree with Grudge there. I never even finished the game, but replayed most of the early to mid levels for a while because they rocked so much.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:23 am
by o'dium
FarCry was one of the better games i've played in recent times. I used to have to run it on lowest detail too because my rig sucked.
But now it runs fine on my new spec PC at high everything and its even better.
HDR will kill your Frame rate though, so turn it off, its not that nice anyways.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:29 am
by dzjepp
Game is pretty f00king hard on realistic (or whatever the highest setting is). I never finished it, got somewhere before the swamps? as I had to format the drive so my saves where lost. :/ Nice game though. Does anyone remember the mission where you are in some facility (thats like right after you meet the first giant rocket wielding mofo) and you had to go upward in a circular path, they had so many fuckers there I kept quick loading that part right at the doorway cuz they kept killing me (some had shields). Took a while but finished that bit.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:35 am
by o'dium
Realistic in FarCry makes you wish you bound quick save quicker...
(You can bind quick save, so its an instant button push save, you know)
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:45 am
by Eraser
o'dium wrote:Realistic in FarCry makes you wish you bound quick save quicker...
(You can bind quick save, so its an instant button push save, you know)
ehm, quicksave in Far Cry?
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:47 am
by o'dium
Eraser wrote:o'dium wrote:Realistic in FarCry makes you wish you bound quick save quicker...
(You can bind quick save, so its an instant button push save, you know)
ehm, quicksave in Far Cry?
Yeah, pull down the console and type quick_Save or something and it saves your game. Its jsut like Q3, so bind a button to it :icon32:
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:01 am
by brisk
I played through it recently too, after a recent system upgrade. The game itself is fun, and the graphics still look superb. I think the aiming system is great, and its all very realistic. The only thing that spoils it is a lousy plot, and terrible voice acting. But put those aside, and its one of the better FPS's out there, by quite a margin.
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:04 am
by Eraser
you just had to mention the voice acting eh :lol: It's the worst in any game ever!
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:05 am
by o'dium
brisk wrote:I played through it recently too, after a recent system upgrade. The game itself is fun, and the graphics still look superb. I think the aiming system is great, and its all very realistic. The only thing that spoils it is a lousy plot, and terrible voice acting. But put those aside, and its one of the better FPS's out there, by quite a margin.
Yeah, the plot was awful, and i nearly threw my damn mouse out the window at the "end" twist (You know what I mean
)
Byt the game was very fun to play. The first time you get the handglider, its just like... Is all THAT a level? FUCK! I'm so used to farty little room games where you have bad FPS in 5 connected rooms, then you move onto a game where there is an entire island to explore in crazy detail, and its like... God...
Awesome game. I want to get Instincts, which is FarCry 2, because it tells Jacls story AFTER FarCry, but its damn xbox only and the Frame rate and graphics look to be suffering on it
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:06 am
by o'dium
Eraser wrote:you just had to mention the voice acting eh :lol: It's the worst in any game ever!
I just imagine it being a porn film, they its up to par
