Crysis 2 Leaked

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http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02 ... -2-leaked/

a developer build of Crysis 2 containing the full game, multiplayer and the master key for the online authentication has been leaked, and is currently freely available from all sorts of astonishingly illegal websites. This sounds like it might be a serious tragedy for Crytek. Crysis 2 was scheduled for release on the 22nd of March, so the leaked build could be dangerously close to finished.

There isn't a facepalm.jpg big enough for this. Someone at Crytek was obviously negligent to the point of criminal stupidity and from what I heard, it was "leaked onto the network" which I assume means placed on a public FTP. Either way, whoever it was will probably face a lawsuit the size of everest and never work in the games industry again. Nice one bro.

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The leak also includes the CryEngine 3 Editor. Jesus.

[Mat Linnett]

Is (was) LegionXS still working at Crytek...?

[mrd]

*downloads*

[Tsakali]

*from where?*

[xer0s]

lol this is funny...

[Scourge]

Agreed. Probably just whet the appetite a little more for those that weren't automatically going to warez it anyway.

[Big Kahuna Burger]

ITT: the reason developers are giving up on PC gaming

[Scourge]

I don't see that they are. Maybe the giant developers, but tons of games still come out for PC regularly. Steam is doing tremendous as well as others selling pc games only.

[Whiskey 7]

lol this is funny...

Yes it is and thanks brisk

[Tsakali]

nah, they'll just come out with next generation consoles..

[Whiskey 7]

that's of course inevitable, but i'm hoping for that window to get a chance of opening in the meantime. the likes of Rage, BF3, Portal 2 and other multiplatform AAAs with the potential to wee all over their console counterparts could very well be it.
I could be very wrong, but these are interesting times in the world of (lol) video gamecraft, what with popular brands dying, publishers flailing about re-releasing and diluting their mega IPs to the point it becomes a joke whilst spitting and bitching at each other, studios closing and manufacturers focusing on arm flapping control gimmicks and casual audiences.

I am with your thoughts on this Memphis, agree on your point entirely, but what would I know

Although consoled may have jumped forward a little I do believe the PC is still there and coming back quickly in the gamer world

[Mat Linnett]

ITT: the reason developers are giving up on PC gaming

Yeah, PC gaming is really a lost cause, ain't it?

[Scourge]

ITT: the reason developers are giving up on PC gaming

Yeah, PC gaming is really a lost cause, ain't it?

That's what I'm talking about. Fuck consoles. \../, ,\../

[o'dium]

You forgot to mention this includes the master key for multiplayer, making it a bit of a bitch to sort the hackers out come retail

[Don Carlos]

Nightmare!

[o'dium]

Pretty much Must be a twat of a feeling the team has right now... In one fell swoop, a single guy has managed to:

* Destroy the online portion of this game before its even out, resulting in what I can only assume will be a hackers paradise (Get banned? No prob, Bob, heres another key!)

* Hurt the chances of future PC ports having time spent on them, or even coming at all. Crytek were pushing "PC is lead, it needs to have its chance" more than anybody else... This is a stab in the back.

* Ruined the image of what may be a great game, because lets face it, you know loads of kids will download it and moan to hell and back at how ugly it is, how slow it is, and how buggy it is, even though its an alpha... The games still over a month away, it will be old hat to a lot of people come release...

So yeah, it totally sucks to be them, and I hope they can some how figure out a decent solution to all this

[Tsakali]

can't they just use a diff key thing?

[GONNAFISTYA]

ITT: the reason developers are giving up on PC gaming

lol

There are probably more pirate torrents for console games than there are for PC games. Anyone who thinks PC gaming is dying (and devs are actively moving away from it) have no clue what they're talking about and have the same credibility as those that say the production of the PSP2 and DS 3D are indicators of "leaving the PC behind". It's simply another platform.

Also, 99% of all leaks come from the publisher, not the developer, so blaming "pirates" for getting their hands on leaked copies is fucking retarded.

As someone who's had every game they've ever worked on (including PSP) get pirated I honestly can't get too upset on Crytek's behalf. They'll simply create a new master, sell a bazillion copies and get on with making more games.

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can't see it having an inordinate effect on sales from folks reporting the game portion to be barely functional. warezers won't simply be able to mount a file and play through a free game.

May wanna think again. I downloaded it (OH NOES!) and it has all the campaigns, playable from start to finish with near-retail polish. There are a few sound dropouts and you need to manually turn off the console/shader server, but besides that, it's like a game 95% finished. Seriously, you could download this and play it without much interuption. It's a bit like playing the most generous demo ever created. Poor Crytek.

I'm sure the whole subject of playing leaked games is rather taboo with many here anyway, but it's out there now and if you want to know my thoughts about the game, here they are.

I played the first two stages, then stopped simply because I actually want to play the final retail game without any of the small quirks this has. If you want my absolutely honest opinion, this is basically COD: New York, with the added benefit of nano suit powers from the first crysis. It has a first person cover system, which you can peer over cover and shoot in first person and the general gunplay and gameplay mechanics are EXACTLY the same as COD. It's also linear as hell, so unless it changes in the later stages (and i'm sure it will actually) then don't expect the huge-scale, go wherever you want style gameplay of Crysis 1. It's path A to path B gameplay. This is a game using console-shooters like Halo and COD as it's inspiration, not it's own heritedge.

You also don't switch between nano jumping and nano-melee anymore. You just hold the keyboard button down longer and it does these for you automatically. Much nicer for doing combo-type stuff and less finddling in the nano menu itself.

The AI is unbelievably bad so far. I'd say it's an early build issue, but from what I saw, enemies often just walk out in broad daylight and let you mow them down and/or just sit behind cover and easily let you creep up on them and shoot them point blank. They also got stuck occasionally, with one soldier just walking straight through a wall. Again, these issues will hopefully be fixed for the retail, but considering this build is apparently less than a month old, it's still got alarm bells ringing and the like.

Graphics in this leak are DX9-only, so I dunno about the DX11 features. I did play it in 1920x1200 at hardcore detail and it looks nice enough. Very good lighting and the HUD layout is well made. When you do see the expansive NY cityscape, it does look very pretty indeed. I'd say it looks as good as Crysis 1, but definitely not better, at least in DX9. Performance is decent too and it ran well on my machine in 64 bit mode.

So yeah, it's a weird one. I'm sure it'll be fun, but it's a typical traditional shooter at it's heart so don't go expecting any real innovation from this. PEW PEW!

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Its not about the number of copies that can be pirated, you know that. Its about the ease of doing so. Any nub can get a stock PC from the shop and download a brand new PC game with pretty much zero knowledge on their part. It doesn't work the same way for consoles. Even though console games are pirated just as often as PC, its much harder to get them "working" and nine times out of ten you have to chip the console or at least do something risky with it.

On PC, the main issue is and always will be its far more fucking easy to download a pirate game than it is to download a legit title... I've had a few games I've downloaded off News servers and had such a good time with that I dropped the cash for (Because thats the new demo, thanks to lazy devs) and yet when I get the full, legit game, I can't fucking play without jumping through 97 hoops and sending the developer 9 forms of id and a photocopy of my foot...

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Its not about the number of copies that can be pirated, you know that. Its about the ease of doing so. Any nub can get a stock PC from the shop and download a brand new PC game with pretty much zero knowledge on their part. It doesn't work the same way for consoles. Even though console games are pirated just as often as PC, its much harder to get them "working" and nine times out of ten you have to chip the console or at least do something risky with it.

Not anymore with the PS3. You literally just put an update PUP on a USB dongle and stick it in. Unpack the game onto an EXT HDD (or FTP the files over) and play in the bootmanager of your choice. It's even easier than mounting ISOs and cracking on the PC now.

Piracy is a problem for everyone. It's just cool and easy to blame it all on the PC and it's users.

When publishers stop holding back games for an outdated physical distribution model (game stores) and start releasing on Steam the moment a game is gold, then leaks will become a non-issue. They also need to lower costs on digital games, since paying the same price for a data file as you do for a physical package is retarded, whichever way you look at it. Dont even get me started on DRM.

[GONNAFISTYA]

wank

Almost every word of this post is utter bullshit.

* Destroy the online portion of this game before its even out, resulting in what I can only assume will be a hackers paradise (Get banned? No prob, Bob, heres another key!)

Like any other form of key generation Crytek's engineers can easily block those that are from the "old" master. They simply tag every permuation as "fake" and block them when they try to connect. It's the same way Valve does it.

* Hurt the chances of future PC ports having time spent on them, or even coming at all. Crytek were pushing "PC is lead, it needs to have its chance" more than anybody else... This is a stab in the back.

The entire architecture of CryEngine3 is based on multiple platform development, not just PC. You literally click a button and your output is either PC, PS3 or XBox. PC is NOT Crytek's only focus and hasn't been for quite some time.

* Ruined the image of what may be a great game, because lets face it, you know loads of kids will download it and moan to hell and back at how ugly it is, how slow it is, and how buggy it is, even though its an alpha... The games still over a month away, it will be old hat to a lot of people come release...

Nearly every single game developed in the last 20 years was "complete" (gold master) months before release. It takes time to manufacture and distribute millions of copies in a timely manner. If the build that was leaked is very recent (as in the last few weeks) chances are it's the final build. If the build is several months old, then it's probably a beta or one of several final build candidates (which routinely get rejected due to bugs or TRC infractions).

[Pauly]

It looks shit anyway

[fKd]

i have to ask, who here would even play this online?