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Dibbz

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So I've been playing it for a couple of hours now but I've got the feeling I'm doing something wrong. I like to be stealthy in most games and I noticed that you get an option to go certain ways like through sewers or something to get by enemies but it just feels weird how it has to be done.

I mean am I supposed to just whack on stealth and then run then recharge etc till I get by the enemies? Is that how "stealth" works in Crysis 2?

Then there is the option of going head on. There was one particular point early on at a dock where I got spotted and just said fuck it and fought what seemed to be 50 enemies. I'd kill a bunch then more would just jump over a wall and I'd have to kill them, then rinse and repeat for a while. Seems like a bad case of cod syndrome. Mind you that was only one section and I'm not sure it's as extreme in the rest of the levels, or is it?

I assume that they punish you for just running and gunning then but when the stealth path feels like an after though there's not really much of a choice for me.

Since I've not played Crysis one I feel like I'm out of the loop on these games are meant to be played. Maybe I just need some more play time to wrap my head around the game mechanics and it will click but it really does feel like they just throw you in with such little guidance.

BTW I'm playing on PC if that matters.
 
Dibbz said:
So I've been playing it for a couple of hours now but I've got the feeling I'm doing something wrong. I like to be stealthy in most games and I noticed that you get an option to go certain ways like through sewers or something to get by enemies but it just feels weird how it has to be done.

I mean am I supposed to just whack on stealth and then run then recharge etc till I get by the enemies? Is that how "stealth" works in Crysis 2?

Then there is the option of going head on. There was one particular point early on at a dock where I got spotted and just said fuck it and fought what seemed to be 50 enemies. I'd kill a bunch then more would just jump over a wall and I'd have to kill them, then rinse and repeat for a while. Seems like a bad case of cod syndrome. Mind you that was only one section and I'm not sure it's as extreme in the rest of the levels, or is it?

I assume that they punish you for just running and gunning then but when the stealth path feels like an after though there's not really much of a choice for me.

Since I've not played Crysis one I feel like I'm out of the loop on these games are meant to be played. Maybe I just need some more play time to wrap my head around the game mechanics and it will click but it really does feel like they just throw you in with such little guidance.

BTW I'm playing on PC if that matters.
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on Ultra settings + Hi-res pack

It will come to you the more you play. Came naturally to me to decide to sneak around or go guns blazing. I also didn't play C1.
 
Just play whatever way you feel comfortable. That's kind of the point.

Use stealth when you want to. Shoot guns in random directions when you want to. Cloak and stand between two people, whispering sweet nothings into their ears until they can't help but make out with each other.

With Crysis 2, the sky's the limit.
 
This is why I didn't like playing Crysis 2. I could play this sort of style with the first one, but in New York it was nowhere near as natural.
 
Any way you want. And at 60 FPS in DX11 Ultra with High-res texture pack, like me. Looks absolutely GLORIOUS!!!!

And make sure to get MaldoHD V3 texture pack if you have enough VRAM. OMFG so good.
 
Smokey said:
on Ultra settings + Hi-res pack

It will come to you the more you play. Came naturally to me to decide to sneak around or go guns blazing. I also didn't play C1.
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Oh yeah already playing on Ultra with the DX11 tessellation pack and high res textures but thanks for looking out for me ;)

EDIT: Maybe I'll check out some youtube vids for some stylish playthrough or something
 
You can take guys down in one hit with the v key if you are cloaked. Also, silenced guns won't break your stealth if you fire off a few shots.
 
My second playthrough of Crysis 2 was much more fun. Once I was less nervous and reliant on stealth, it allowed me to throw oil barrels at punks before setting their asses on fire or kill people with giant fake donuts.
 
Couldn't get into C2. The stealth factor feels totally different from C1.
Most of the time in C2 i just went guns blazing or snipe from a distance. Almost feel forced into it.

jungles, oceans and beaches compared to narrow city streets.
C1 makes it much move obvious for stealth if you fancy it.
 
Did you pick it up over the weekend during the 7 bucks deal? 'Coz thats what I did. Fuck stealth I'm just killing through the enemies.
 
I just went in guns blazing with some stealthing here and there for shit and giggles
worked fine
 
BoobPhysics101 said:
Any way you want. And at 60 FPS in DX11 Ultra with High-res texture pack, like me. Looks absolutely GLORIOUS!!!!

And make sure to get MaldoHD V3 texture pack if you have enough VRAM. OMFG so good.
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We need to go over your settings. I remember you saying a 570 was enough to pull off 60fps, so I figure my 6970 should be able to.

To the OP, use cloaking to get out of tight spots and get enemies to lose track of you. You should use armor mode and cover as much as possible. The point is really to play like is shown in the opening cinematic, I think.
 
Stealth is tough to use until you get some upgrades. That dock section you mentioned is super easy to get through unnoticed though. From where you enter, jump off into the water on the right and swim to the warehouse. Cloak, power jump, and just walk right in. Crysis 2 is best when you mix it up or use some combinations of the powers. Once you get more upgrades you'll be able spec out Alcatraz for more specialization.
 
tycoonheart said:
Did you pick it up over the weekend during the 7 bucks deal? 'Coz thats what I did. Fuck stealth I'm just killing through the enemies.
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Where was the sale?

Downloading Maldos HD texture pack now. Looks like some good improvements are made in that pack.
 
I feel like the gameplay elements don't mesh together all that well; at least compared to the original game. A few of the abilities you're given are basically death sentences. Things like power melee or power throw just leave you out in the open with no energy. The animation for the stealth kill is so slow you'll most likely be spotted in the process and every CELL in the area will be alerted and firing upon your location faster than you can blink. The ground stomp also turns you into a sitting duck. You just can't play this game like Crysis 1. Stringing your powers together isn't as fluid or useful. It just gets you killed.
 
BigJiantRobut said:
Is that the one that replaces all the textures with stuff from google image search that doesn't fit at all, and all of the fake ads with terrible quality images of HAWT BABES?

Because nobody should install that one. Vanilla or the texture pack is the way to go.
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It is most definitely not that.
 
I'm pretty sure I've stealth my way through most of the game (60-70%). It was about carefully going to a cover, deactivating stealth, replenishing energy, activating stealth once again, going to the next cover in your path, rinse, repeat. Best part is that it was actually fun to do because you could still fight whenever you wanted.
 
Run fast into dudes shoot and malee some run to a safe location use stealth to hide.repeat till you clear the area!
and dont use cover its basically usless!
 
Grymm said:
Step 1 Get high
Step 2 Install Maldos HD texture pack
Step 3 crank those DX11 settings all the way up
Step 4 use a 360 controller (yes I'm serious)
Step 5 get higher
Step 6 play
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And where the fuck is Particles Mod recommendation? :>

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Played Crysis 2 on the PS3 back when it released, and really enjoyed it. Also, the final area was surprisingly awesome.
 
Dibbz said:
So I've been playing it for a couple of hours now but I've got the feeling I'm doing something wrong. I like to be stealthy in most games and I noticed that you get an option to go certain ways like through sewers or something to get by enemies but it just feels weird how it has to be done.

I mean am I supposed to just whack on stealth and then run then recharge etc till I get by the enemies? Is that how "stealth" works in Crysis 2?

Then there is the option of going head on. There was one particular point early on at a dock where I got spotted and just said fuck it and fought what seemed to be 50 enemies. I'd kill a bunch then more would just jump over a wall and I'd have to kill them, then rinse and repeat for a while. Seems like a bad case of cod syndrome. Mind you that was only one section and I'm not sure it's as extreme in the rest of the levels, or is it?

I assume that they punish you for just running and gunning then but when the stealth path feels like an after though there's not really much of a choice for me.

Since I've not played Crysis one I feel like I'm out of the loop on these games are meant to be played. Maybe I just need some more play time to wrap my head around the game mechanics and it will click but it really does feel like they just throw you in with such little guidance.

BTW I'm playing on PC if that matters.
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Scout areas before firing your gun. Put your silencer on. Mark soldiers so you can time any actions you take.

The dock area gives you plenty of choices in how you approach it. You can blow up a barrel down by the water taking out some soliders with it. Or move through the left hand side of the bridge and not initiate any combat with the soliders at all.

I liked to cause a diversion on the dock snipe a few soliders then move in and mop up the rest.
 
Dabanton said:
Scout areas before firing your gun. Put your silencer on. Mark soldiers so you can time any actions you take.
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What does marking do? Does it just highlight the enemies on the map? I mark people but have no idea what I gain from it.
 
Dibbz said:
What does marking do? Does it just highlight the enemies on the map? I mark people but have no idea what I gain from it.
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you can see their locations through walls and shit thanks to the little arrows that remain on their bodies in your hud
 
Dibbz said:
So I've been playing it for a couple of hours now but I've got the feeling I'm doing something wrong. I like to be stealthy in most games and I noticed that you get an option to go certain ways like through sewers or something to get by enemies but it just feels weird how it has to be done.

I mean am I supposed to just whack on stealth and then run then recharge etc till I get by the enemies? Is that how "stealth" works in Crysis 2?

Then there is the option of going head on. There was one particular point early on at a dock where I got spotted and just said fuck it and fought what seemed to be 50 enemies. I'd kill a bunch then more would just jump over a wall and I'd have to kill them, then rinse and repeat for a while. Seems like a bad case of cod syndrome. Mind you that was only one section and I'm not sure it's as extreme in the rest of the levels, or is it?

I assume that they punish you for just running and gunning then but when the stealth path feels like an after though there's not really much of a choice for me.

Since I've not played Crysis one I feel like I'm out of the loop on these games are meant to be played. Maybe I just need some more play time to wrap my head around the game mechanics and it will click but it really does feel like they just throw you in with such little guidance.

BTW I'm playing on PC if that matters.
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this is always the issue on stealth games imo.

inevitably you lose stealth cover and end up fighting a shitload of enemies. then i always feel like i'm playing the game wrong.

anyways c2 isn't a hard stealth game imo, the intent isn't to bypass everybody (though there are large swaths late in the game that seem meant to bypass, and i did). it's more like to use your stealth as an added weapon to get the jump on different scenarios. i'm sure if you try hard enough you can break most of the game, but at least it's trying something ambitious, which automatically leads to that vs other less ambitious games.

reminds me that it's a really good game. really fun to just pick up and fuck around in, toy with the ai etc...
 
you need to do stealth melee takedowns on EVERY enemy. all of them, no exceptions.

I couldn't do it, I resorted to a pop in and out of stealth method to pop off single headshots on my victims, poor bastards never saw it coming.
 
BigJiantRobut said:
Is that the one that replaces all the textures with stuff from google image search that doesn't fit at all, and all of the fake ads with terrible quality images of HAWT BABES?

Because nobody should install that one. Vanilla or the texture pack is the way to go.
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From what I've seen Maldo's pack looks pretty faithful to the original textures, just super sharp. I only have the PS3 version so I can't install it but in screens I don't see anything that stands out as being ridiculous or overdone.
 
If there is a mod that replaces or disables the main menu music for this game, I'd probably replay it.
This is the only instance of a game where I HATED the music to a point that I avoided playing it. (Just talking about the menu music)
 
Robot Pants said:
If there is a mod that replaces or disables the main menu music for this game, I'd probably replay it.
This is the only instance of a game where I HATED the music to a point that I avoided playing it. (Just talking about the menu music)
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A game could have the greatest music ever composed on the menu but over time it kills me. I'd prefer just some ambient noises or something on the menu.

That being said I love the menu music on Crysis 2 but it will become annoying after a while.
 
Dibbz said:
A game could have the greatest music ever composed on the menu but over time it kills me. I'd prefer just some ambient noises or something on the menu.

That being said I love the menu music on Crysis 2 but it will become annoying after a while.
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Yeah, Crysis music is really an odd blend...it's integral to the (imo excellent) experience yet, very uneven and at times gratingly overbearing.


I've been playing some KZ3 and some C2 lately and it's much better how KZ3's pause menu is silent.
 
Stealth past most fights, the AI is dumb as a rock. I thought the stealth stuff was broken, but often you need it to get out of fighting.
 
I never played Crysis 2, but in the first Crysis "stealth" pretty much just meant not killing people, the only reasonably quiet ways to take someone down were a max-strength punch and the sleeping dart, neither of which were particularly time-effective. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Crysis 2 was the same way, although I do remember seeing that they added a way to assassinate people out of stealth.
 
Elsolar said:
I never played Crysis 2, but in the first Crysis "stealth" pretty much just meant not killing people, the only reasonably quiet ways to take someone down were a max-strength punch and the sleeping dart, neither of which were particularly time-effective. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Crysis 2 was the same way, although I do remember seeing that they added a way to assassinate people out of stealth.
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The darts are gone, but you can use a silenced shotgun. You're allowed one shot before decloaking.
 
This is how you're supposed to play the Crysis games. It's unfortunate that they gimped the suit so bad for Crysis 2 but that should still give you a good idea.

You aren't supposed to be "stealthy" or "rambo" or whatever archetype you're thinking. The idea is to blend all the abilities of the suit together to become a ridiculous killing machine.
 
injurai said:
Explain yourself...
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I shall.

No doubt mouse and keyboard is best for precision. However this games campaign, on any difficulty level due to the power of the suit, does not require precision.

So you have this game whose visuals are wonderful and draw you in. To get drawn in further the controller helps a bunch because you can control your movement speed due to the analog sticks and also because the game was obviously made for a controller. It has that slight bit of aiming assistance, the rumble works (although I may actually turn that off, it doesn't suit everyone) and the way the suit powers work now lends itself poerfectly to the 360 controller configuration.

If you're playing the multiplayer competitively then yes use your mouse and keyboard.

But if you're just trying to get sucked in by the games single player then using a 360 controller is the way to go.

And for the most part any PC game I can think of that incorporates any form of stealth benefits from analog controls to help the atmosphere. How stealthy do you really feel using your keyboard when you're moving full speed all the time due to lack of analog? Controller excels there.
 
You make some good points. But for me kbam is the only input method that allows me to get immersed. I always remember that I have a controller in my hand. kbam feels like it's connected directly to my brain stem. Movement and aiming just happens.
 
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