[Crysis] - Borderline - Beta 2.

    Judging by the screenshots, this is definitely one hell of a promising map!

    If it wasn't for the shitty AA on the first pic, it almost fooled me as a photo, damn I love CryEngine!

    Would be more than glad to beta-test it for you mate, I'm participating on SP maps not IA so we're not competing with each other here!

    Thanks dude. You are always welcome to help me out with a testing session.

    I tried to consider the Nanosuit advantages into the gameplay. You can reach one more sniper with a clver jumping. Even some basic trick jumping is in there hehe.

    Heres the Beta 2 status report:

    One mayor thing was the overall lighting. I'm using the [HP] config and it makes Crysis looking good and colorful. But on the other hand if someone plays the level without the config the lighting looks flat and boring. So I reworked the whole ToD to make it look as near as the [HP] config as possible.

    The map also got a lot of performance tweaking. I reduced the textureload around 50MB at all. It was around 220-260 MB per frame because most of my textures were DXT3. Now they are DXT1 for diffuse/spec and .tif (using the Crytiff plugin) for normalmaps. Now it loads between 160MB in most cases but the peak doesn't went aboove 230MB per frame.

    A nice side effect is a smaller download too.

    Another performance gainer was to set up the maxviewdistance and spritedistance. Bushes got culled too soon and people playing at "low" got an advantage. Its well balanced now.

    New models for Beta 2. There are around 7 new models. 4 Environment model which make the city skyline background and three new buildings. I decided to replace the brick barn with a metal one ( visit flickr.com for a lot inspiration ). Since the barn is one of the main chokepoints it looks better and offers more possibilities for attack and defense.

    As a little gimmick I put two MG-Nests into the map. They dont do much harm to players but its a nice toy to play around with and maybe do a kill.

    Last but not least nearly all detailing models are set up. Theres a lot to explore.

    The next few days I will finish the barn area, place some solids and weapon tweaking.

    after this long update thats what I did the last two days . Finally

    two quick running-around-ingame-hots.

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    If you wonder about the fps ingame. my rig is a 4400+, 2GB Ram, 8800 GTS 512MB. High Settings DX9 (with DX10 effects) 1280x1024 driver set to quality and 2xAA.

    Great map!! Great map!!

    Check your PM's, I've sent you a RAR file with some pics, pointing out some of the stuff I would change

    Very very nice. There seems to be some strange bloom-effect on the beta2 screens.. some kind of "dark bloom" (Orlando Bloom!?! o_O... eh no.. I'm gonna stay with "dark bloom")? Looks alittle weird. Otherwise it's really promising

    I'm thinking of trying to make a map for crysis myself sometime, but I'm torn between that and CoD4.. It's either make a map for a small community with a cutting edge tool or make a map for a gigantic community with a very primitive tool (I'm just spoiled with the UT editor >_<).

    I really like this if only for it's atypical sky... though that could be a stock one... still is nice to not see the same skies in different maps.. no one will be on the same page as me.. my dads a meteorologist leave me alone!

    HP:

    Thanks for the feedback. I changed some things you mentioned. It was very helpfull.

    Nurb:

    The bloom looks strange because of the DoF effect while aiming.

    I was considering the same while looking for a game for doing some levels for. But as the contest stated I thought "why not?" because there are some decent prices there and made a map.

    CoD4 is also very intersting but I think I will stick with the CE2. Or go back to Battlefield2.

    The RC1 will be avaiable shortly. We will do some additional testing on wednesday. So if someone would like to playtest the map just PM me.

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    Could be a screenshot from Stalker 2... good job

    He should actually apply at GSC - his stuff would look brilliant there

    Why not working for GSC? DO the pay Rubel or Dollars?

    Anyway, the map is done and pushed to RC1. This means no more features or models will be added.

    Final testing within the next few days until submission deadline. Some texture tweaking here some color correction there.

    So final C&C is very welcome now.

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    Sorry for spamming in so many screenshots here but I rely on this community and i trust in the opinions of (most) users here.

    Like I said in Crymod.com, Top notch stuff buddy! As usual... Alot of improvements since your first beta!

    I love the barn, nice stuff, Although I'd use a diferent texture for the floor, like cracked concrete, or place some dirt decals in it.

    Oh and the SSAO still looks a bit exaggerated, but might only be me!

    Congratulations!

    yes i thought the same about the concrete. maybe i'll leave the map alone for one day and work with a fresh eye on it afterwards.

    the atmosphere is amazing! Crysis engine can also produce good quality looking maps without a jungle Some screen shots look like they came from stalker, but with more quality in them.

    Can't wait for you to release it

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