Things Are Looking Good in the Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade

Still mad that they waited but hey...

I can respect them for at least releasing it... so fine crytek u get a pass.

I feel like I'm buying the "Video Settings" game not Crysis 2.
 
SPOILERS: Anti-Aliasing kills HDR Lighting at the end of the menu!

Crytek:"It's so good even our own PCs can't run it correctly!"

So this patch makes the game less tedious and annoying right?
 
It will fix things like the combat not being fun, and it being preferable just to stealth past it?

Wow, I'd pick this up if it were on Steam.

It will fix things like the combat not being fun, and it being preferable just to stealth past it?

@BeachThunder said:

Sold! Now all I need to do is open up Steam and buy the ga -- oh well, never mind then...

Trolololol

I need a new graphics card first. That looks insane!

Kind of funky to be watching this in a low res high compression video :p

Meh, not impressed....A bunch of BS im not even going to notice unless I stand still and stop playing the game altogether.   Christ I couldnt even see the difference in the comparisons.  DX9 dark, DX11 bright....looked like comparing PS3 to Xbox with their contrasts always being different.

i got the patch, hi-res textures pack and the DX11 ultra update today. it's amazing. being surrounded by those awesome bricks is actually kind of rough for my AMD 6990. they raised the recommended spec for dx11+hi-res and i exceed them all but it still stutters sometimes at 1920x1200. im going to upload a few pictures to the crysis 2 page. everyone should check them out. it's insane how good this game looks now.

 Not particularly interested in Crysis, but this does look pretty damn sweet. 

Damn, that water looks pretty.

Sure would be nice if they could patch in a better game too. 

Amazing stuff—good on Crytek for continuing to support the game in this way.

Jesus fuck, as if the game didn't already look incredible. Now if it would only come back on steam...

@Contra: nice! Crysis just got Worked. I agree. I have the game. Making it look better isn't going to fix my interest either.

I installed this and the high res pack earlier today. Makes the game look  nicer. Everything seems less flat (hurray for tesselation) and the water looks amazing. Overall, very nice upgrade. A hit on performance thought but it's still very playable on my machine with every single eye candy option turned on. My GPU is a GTX 570  at stock speeds and my CPU is an i7 920 overclocked to 3.5 ghz.

Still an average shooter? Still uninterested.

I bet graphics freaks were masturbating while watching this video

Now only if other developers would use this technology.

I've seen and heard a lot of comments about the gameplay simply following the tropes of the FPS genre, and that's true to a certain extent. But that's not the point of Crysis, just like it wasn't the point of Doom 3. These are advertisements for the engine, and I'd say CryEngine 3 sells itself very well. Crysis 2 on the Xbox 360 is the best looking game I've played, and yet they've managed to make it look ten times better on PC, particularly with these updates.
 
This is exactly what we need to push consoles into the next generation, and it doesn't matter if you are strictly a PC gamer; it's still a very good thing. Because technology will always advance on the PC, consoles will make a sudden leap to attain equal footing, development will continue on PC beyond the current console capabilities, and the cycle repeats. And all in the name of bringing us better and better looking games. :)

They should have just showed it side-by-side the whole way through.

Crysis 2 is back to being your top shelf PC eye candy.

holy fucking shit.

Wow this is fucking retarded. I's not support it's laziness; the game should have been like this at release.
Also, it would help if crysis 2 was like it's predecessor; a good game.

Haha. Yeah. No. 
 
Also, interactive water? Awww yeah! 
...wait, didn't Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance have that?

Aaand there goes my ability to max this game.

Water looks good lol

@Nomin said:

Nvidia sponsored? Still DX11 in crysis mode for the AMD guys?

Actually what I read about this is, that, without Nvidia, there would have not been a DX11 Patch. EA denied funding any further develepment on the PC. So Nvidia stepped in just like they did with Crysis 1, that's also the reason why we see the Nvidia Logo in the trailer.

So, I personally, see that as a good reason why it took some time and I will not bash CryTek for it. Maybe some of you should also keep it down a bit. ;)

Does this music sound like the "Last Mohican"-Theme to anyone else?
It's not the same, but they sound pretty similar in tone...

Did anybody just want, "EXTREME LENSE FLAIR" to show up at the very end of that trailer?

@ShoddyGo said:

Wow this is fucking retarded. I's not support it's laziness; the game should have been like this at release.Also, it would help if crysis 2 was like it's predecessor; a good game.

EA didn't want to fund the stuff they wanted to do with the graphics. NVIDIA did, but not until after launch. So that's basically why it happened like this.

I bet graphics freaks were masturbating while watching this video

Still an average shooter? Still uninterested.

@Nomin said:

... Nvidia stepped in just like they did with Crysis 1, that's also the reason why we see the Nvidia Logo in the trailer.

@magellan said:

I bet graphics freaks were masturbating while watching this video

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

Still an average shooter? Still uninterested.

Yeah it seemed Crysis was never a good or intesresting or even fun game.I never hear anyone going "Hey man Crysis is such a fun/good/interesting game you should try it out.It's always "Dude these graphics are dee shiiiit!" "Oh my gawd so beautiful!" While I agree about the graphics it really shows it is all it has to offer.  I guess if you spruce up a sub par product enough or focus on only one aspect enough people will only foucs/mention that aspect and let the others slide.

When I play games the most important thing for me is gameplay, and Crysis was more fun than the 2nd. Crysis 2 was so linear and scripted that this doesn't do anything to improve the game.

PC games, son.

That's freaking sexy. Too bad I can't run it at max, and too bad I didn't enjoy this game.

@ShoddyGo said:

Wow this is fucking retarded. I's not support it's laziness; the game should have been like this at release.Also, it would help if crysis 2 was like it's predecessor; a good game.

EA didn't want to fund the stuff they wanted to do with the graphics. NVIDIA did, but not until after launch. So that's basically why it happened like this.

I take it this is not for the xbox360 :(

@ervonymous said:

I find this funny, it's not like Creative Assembly made a big deal out of launching the DX11 support for Shogun 2 a few months after release. Granted they did advertise the game as having it right out the box.

Nvidia likely wanted it as part of their deal to pay for the extra work. It's basically them sponsoring the advancement of their field. At the end of the day it's advertisement, but of course it's also in their interest to drive up the need for better graphics hardware. Right now there's just not as much out there as there was even 3-4 years ago that pushes GPU sales.

@ShoddyGo: honestly I thought the first game was pretty much an unplayable tech demo. I had the hardware to run it, but the game was just so buggy and boring. The new one is merely a good looking COD clone with powers. At least now it it's a really good looking COD clone with powers.

Everyone knows what Custom Shape-Based Bokeh DOF is.

Hooray!  My card is DX11 compatible.....unfortunately as soon as I crank things up that high the game becomes unplayable....but the screenshots.......