We’ve been saying that CryEngine 3 is one of the most efficient and most impressive game engines out there and a few modders decided to prove our point. And although we decided to keep some maps for our upcoming ‘Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery’ feature, we can’t help but be impressed by modder’s hostilis work. This is one of the best foliage maps we’ve ever seen and pushes 49k instances and 800k polies in screen. Not only that, but the modder has used his own textures. Make no mistake, this can’t be achieved by current generation consoles. High quality textures, great LOD, incredible draw distance, huge environments with lots of detail, insane amounts of objects on-screen, and a lighting system with dynamic shadows and illumination effects. You might think that this is a simple map but no, when you start taking into consideration all of the features that are included, you can easily see why we’re not getting this kind of graphics in our current generation games. You can find some shots below, as well as a fly-through video. Enjoy! Continue reading Crysis 2 Modder introduces a custom foliage map that pushes 49k instances and 800k polies→
With the release of Battlefield 3’s patch 1.5, some extraordinary bugs were introduced to the game. Which is typical for DICE’s patches, right? Both Heat seekers and TV missiles were bugged and dogfights where – in general – screwed up. Thankfully though, DICE was quick to react and have just released a server hotfix that resolves those two issues and features some backend fixes. Continue reading BF3: Server fix for Heat seekers and TV-missiles rolled out, incoming fix for mortar in Grand Bazaar→
Although we have some interesting CryEngine 3 shots for all of you today, nothing can really come close to what modder ‘wenda’ has achieved. Wenda has released a video of his WIP map and we have to say that this is exactly how Skyrim would look like in CryEngine 3. The attention to detail is really amazing and although we’ve included an image from it, you really need to see it in motion. Alongside wenda’s work, we bring you some screenshots from the works of Cleric, RayFan9876, themodman101, [LSD]Timewarp82, birdeez and BmB. Enjoy! Continue reading Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery [March 25th – 31st]; this is how Skyrim would look in CryEngine 3→
Crysis and Skyrim fans, here is something special for you today. Modder an0nym0uzz created a mod in which he introduces Skyrim to Crysis 2. As you may have guessed and from its title, this mod enables you to shout your enemies to oblivion. Hell yeah. You can find its download link, the installation instructions and a video for it below. Enjoy! Continue reading Skyrim meets Crysis 2 with this ‘Fus Ro Dah’ Mod for Crysis 2→
All hell has broken loose yesterday, when a lot of gaming sites reported that the new SimCity game would require an always-on internet connection in order to be played. Well, it seems that this is not entirely true as EA has made a clarification about it. As it was reported by GameSpy, the game will require an internet connection in order to be started. However, the game won’t kick you out if your connection drops after signing in. Continue reading SimCity Will Not Require An Always-On Internet Connection→
Good news for all Battlefield 3 fans as the highly anticipated patch for the PC version of DICE’s FPS has just been launched. PS3 users got it earlier but thankfully, we didn’t have to wait for a whole week or when until it would be released on X360, right? The update will be auto-downloaded from Origin. If it does not, right click the BF3 icon in Origins and select the ‘Check for updates’ option. You can find its entire changelog below. Enjoy! Continue reading Battlefield 3 – Patch 1.04 is now available for the PC→
Good news for all those who still have Crysis installed to their hard disks, as mckool has announced that the full version of his total conversion, The Mutant Factor, is hitting the Net in April 1st. In order to celebrate the mod’s launch, mckool has released its launch trailer that can be viewed below. The Mutant Factor is a new singleplayer campaign for Crysis and Crysis Wars. This a completely different story with a new set of characters which is heavily influenced by the Half-Life, Crysis, and F.E.A.R series of games. Sounds interesting to say the least. Enjoy! Continue reading The Mutant Factor, a Crysis Total Conversion, gets a launch trailer; releases on April 1st→
A while ago, we posted some images of an upcoming map for Crysis 2 that would be based on Epic Games’ classic FPS game, Unreal. Modder ‘Cleric’ has released some new screenshots from his on-going work and we are happy to bring them to you. The map has been tweaked and looks better than before. Sadly, there is no ETA yet but we’ll keep you posted, so stay tuned. Enjoy! Continue reading Unreal comes to CryEngine 3 with this custom map – Part 2→
Today we bring you some new shots from the works of ReVan1199, birdeez, The Vulture, neo83_gr, chicken, rGOt, Synce, oscargimenez, theonebutcher and my God does theonebutcher’s sci-fi map look sexy. We were thinking into dedicating one post for those maps but instead of that, we’ve decided to prepare something a little bit more special for you – hint: it involves Unreal and CryEngine 3. Nevertheless, these following screenshots look amazing and prove how astonishing CryEngine 3 can actually be. Enjoy! Continue reading Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery [March 18th – 24th]→
One of the worst issues I’ve experienced in ME3 was the inability to import my Shepard’s face. Sure, my new Shepard looks sexier and younger but let’s be honest here, most of us want to continue the story with the same character. Thankfully, BioWare has finally resolved this problem and the first patch of the game – that does not have currently any ETA – will include this fix. Continue reading Incoming Mass Effect 3 Patch – Face Import Issues Fixed→
