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What have we heard? What's the hub bub? Should this be a purchase of mine tomorrow? Any multiplayer functionality?

This WILL be a purchase of mine tomorrow along with the new Splinter Cell...

Hopwever, I don't know how much time I'm going to actually put into Far Cry since I'll be playing the hell out of the SC:PT multiplayer tomorrow.

-Jack

Magic Hub Bub Crystal says: good game, but to play ANYTHING besides BF: Vietnam right now is just retarded. I've literally played 3 rounds of UT2004, BFV is the all-powerful, the all-consuming.

Good point. What am I doing here? I'm wasting valuable time when I could be listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival whilst blowing to tiny bits, the opposition.

Anyone else thing the guy on the Far Cry box looks a little bit like Steven Baldwin (actor)?

*goes to play Splinter Cell: PT*

oh well THERE'S Survival Horror for you: Resident Actor starring the Baldwins as the thespiangetically challenged zombies.

So Far Cry came out today. How do you like it, those of you who purchased it?

I've been sick the past three days, so I had to get someone else to go out and buy it for me. I've only had a few hours with it, but those few hours were a blast. It's very flexible in terms of meeting your objectives, and is one of the few shooters I've ever played that truly rewards stealth over spray-and-pray. I won't say it's hard, but it is challenging, mostly due to the superior enemy AI.

Another thing I noticed was how valuable making head shots was. In other shooters (except CS), going for the head shot is a good idea, but you could usually get by with a few rounds to the chest. In Far Cry, 90% of the baddies have body armor on, allowing them to take 10-15 rounds in the chest before they go down. A three round burst to the head makes things a lot easier.

If you've got the cash, and the hard drive space to store the five disc install, then Far Cry is a great buy.

Holy crap this game is sweet!

Well, well looks like we already have a patch to look forward to today guys. I played single player a little last night and also some multi-player with my roommate. The multiplayer was fun, but had some serious lag issues if you had any more than 10 people involved. Assault is a pretty fun game mode though... I wonder why I like it so much... Anyhow, for those of you with Far Cry, here's what's changing:

posted Thu March 25 2004 11:56 AM
The bad news is that the patch will not release today. We currently plan to release the patch tomorrow (3/26).

The good news is that the patch will address all of the following features:

-Fixed issue with FarCry anti-cheat kicking players connecting to non-similar regions due to post process copy protection
-Integrated Punkbuster anti-cheat system (special thanks to Tony Ray for his help)
-Support for All Seeing Eye
-Fixed a number of issues with language localization
-Added crouch toggle feature so players can bind a "one touch" button to cycle prone/crouch
-Added zoom toggle (see above)
-Fixed bug with AI autobalance that sometimes caused it not to initialize outside of DEVMODE
-Fixed issue where player spawns a little higher in the air after a load from checkpoint.
-Improved AI saving state at checkpoints.
-Added new netcode optimizations, vehicles now use significantly less bandwidth in client to server updates. We are still investigating netcode issues, it is currently our highest priority
-LAN servers now restricted to LAN IP's
-Fixed some issues with sv_port variable not working correctly
-Added network commands to help players tune the network rates for better performance, including the following commands:

cl_cmdrate - Limit the number of command packets sent from client to server
sv_maxcmdrate - Limit the max cmd rate clients can specify
cl_updaterate - Limit the number of update packets sent from the server
sv_maxupdaterate - Limit the max updates clients can specify
cl_maxrate - Max bits per second can be adjusted
sv_maxrate_lan or sv_maxrate (for non lan, ie internet) will limit the cl_rate allowed on the clients
sv_DedicatedMaxRate - To change the server update speed

-Open query protocol to allow monitoring of the server with external tools
-Server config can now be anywhere with any name
-Fixed bug where "Join game" button no longer worked in multiplayer UI
-Fixed issue with dedicated server running on Windows 2003 Server edition
-Fixed bug when players get out from a vehicle, the player will go in standing pose (no crouch or prone).
-The message "drop your weapon to take this other weapon" will disappear only when the player go away from this weapon, not immediately.
-Fixed no pain sounds if an explosion didn't really hurt the player.
-Improved shader speed (up to two times faster) for NVidia Geforce FX cards on very high settings
-Fixed fog bug with NVidia drivers
-Fixed realtime shadows from blended trees
-Made improvements to lighting shaders on very high settings
-Fixed bug with lake reflections
-Added support fro PS3.0 shader profile
-Set default dedicated server log_verbosity 0 to print out console data. Before it displayed no info because logging was set to 0.
-Fixed an issue with command line game joining with the FarCry shortcut

Tim 'tbd' Ernst
Community Manager - US
Far Cry