Crysis 2

That's not gonna happen for a looooooong time, unfortunately. The last big EA games to be released on Steam were Mass Effect 2 and Crysis 2, and for some time they didn't receive much tech support from EA until a few months after release. From that point on, EA stated that all of their future premiere titles would be launched only on their Origin service. This is why Battlefield 3, Sim City 4, the recent Need for Speed games and Crysis 3 were not released on any other online distributors.

So no, you're not gonna see Crysis 3 on Steam... if ever.

Yeah . . . that won't last. EA will suffer backlash for it and lose a crowd of their gamers. Origin is plain shit and I actually dumped it entirely from my computer.

Now that I've won a Soldier campaign, I'll set a new challenge for myself: A Veteran campaign using the upgraded stealth suit and doing a Human-Pacifist Ceph-Extermination run. Leave no Ceph standing, kill as few humans as possible.

I managed to outstealth the cloakers using the cloak tracker. I'm sure I can outstealth others as well.

Origin isn't THAT shitty to me. If anything, I think its supposed shittyness is greatly exaggerated barring a few rare instances. Sure, as a storefront it's rather limited and comes off as an obvious attempt to get away from Steam ASAP, but as a client for playing games, it's no worse than running Steam, U Play, Beamdog, or Games for Windows Live individually.

They've also started using the tactic of having brief, but large discounts on select games for a small period, just like Steam does. On several occasions I've seen the C&C collection go for less than $14, and another special where you could get the Battlefied 3 base game plus all of it's expansions for slightly less than $30. Also, some of their games are now having special Steam promos where you can get certain DLC packs for free if the base game was bought online.

So yes, Origin is actually trying to be competitive with the other companies out there, for once. It's nowhere near as cheap and efficient as Steam, but at least they're actually giving a damn now.

Steam itself is actually getting that bad for me, too. It updates every day and I can't play anything til it finishes, and there are times when it glitches and half my games come up as not installed.

But, I have a bunch of games on there, so I bear with it. Plus games can be cheap on there. I got Cry2 for 8 bucks.

Origin boots my router off the internet by running. Which means it's pretty much a no go for me.

Which is unfortunate, since I have BF 3 sitting unplayed. And as much as I'd like to see you proven right, I highly doubt EA is going to switch back to Steam.

Then again, new company director, so maybe...

I doubt they'll have much of a choice, really. Valve managed to grab Cry2 back. I don't doubt if they could pull it off, they'd use legal agreements to take out Origin and get ALL of EA's games.

The whole reason why they managed to get EA to support the Steam version more or less boils down to the possibility of a lawsuit. If EA stopped supporting the Steam version entirely, it would've been considered a VERY bad business practice since everybody who bought it on Steam would've probably been left with copies that would only have a working singleplayer mode, if even that. The multiplayer relied upon EA's server's and DRM, not Steam's, and that would've caused a whole lotta connection conflicts, making the multiplayer an absolute hell to get properly patched and running. And if that kept up, anybody who would've filed suit against EA for false advertising of the Steam version having functional multiplayer would have some very good grounds to do so.

Then again, Crytek eventually let the player community create their own servers to run the game on, so that probably would've gotten around the whole multiplayer hiccup... Eventually.

This stealth run is . . . interesting. I'm already to the point that the Ceph are appearing, and I've only killed three people. It was mostly impatience and fear of being shot that caused those three. They were all in the beginning. The first two people, and the one inside the yellow tunnel of the medical tent. I don't think I could have avoided the guy in the tunnel, really. It was way too narrow.

Now I get to watch the Ceph kill CELL troops before I step in and kill the Ceph.

Gonna be hard to keep the kill count low once you reach Roosevelt island. Pretty sure there's a couple of points from there onward where it's required to wipe out the CELL troops in an area, particularly with the battle against Lockhart.

EDIT: The ending of that mission in the half-submerged Hargreave-Rasch corporate office might have another point where you'd need to kill some CELL troops. In particular, that point where you get ambushed by several heavy-armored grenade-launcher guys: I recall needing to kill everybody there before the cutscene triggered.

edited 7th Aug '13 6:21:15 AM by SgtRicko

I know. Other than those areas I won't be killing people if I can avoid that.

I took out CELL troops on Roosevelt Drive, during the AFV chase section. Other than this and the sections where the objective requires it, I won't kill people, I'll run in stealth.

MAXIMUM HYPE

Edited by eagleoftheninth on Jan 27th 2022 at 2:05:40 AM

Not much to go by, aside from a slight hint of a reddish theme, and the usual nanomachines.

That, and the game's in the early stages of development - gonna be a long time before we see anything noteworthy.