just got through replaying Farcry for the past 16 hours, please forgive me typo police.

BTW, the minimum requirements on the box are far more restrictive than is necessary to play it. I put it on my PIII/GeForce 2 set up last night and it plays fine, with no lag. The settings for the most part I put on the minimum but it still looks fantastic, except for the particle effects. 

I enjoyed it a lot more than Doom 3 anyway. Like you say, it runs rather smoothly too - certainly a lot better than Doom 3 (which ran smoothish at 640*480, aside from pausing every time a door opened.) The level load times were probably about the same.

My favourites parts of Far Cry were definitely the levels which were set mainly outdoors on large islands and gave you vehicles to drive about in. Combat with the marines was generally far more enjoyable than with the mutants. 

Some of the Merc types in the later episodes are trouble too.

There could be a better selection of taunt dialog for them. "I'm gonna take you out!", "I'm comin' for ya!", "you want some of this!"

Hey, fellas; it's a war, not a date. 

...now that was funny. 

when can we expect another madfox map to show up? or 7 

Someone at Microsoft really likes your skybox collection. :) 

Of course you know that this means an explanation now? 

On Tuesday, Feb. 22nd, skies-kothic.zip was requested 1,566 times, downloaded once, and used 60gb of spawnpoint's bandwidth... top IP address of the day that day? 207.46.98.57 give it a whois... recognize the address or anything? 

Fucking dreaming about meeting #func people lol. Having some sort of picnic in the snow somewhere (I remember this large....scaffolding like structure you could clamber around on)....was sharing cheese straws with pope and either SPoG or Aard and a couple of others....and throwing snowballs at Speedy lol. 

did you get the emails ok? 

Continuing from a previous discussion, it is possible to bring custom models into FarCry

This link should lead to the English language portal.
http://www.crymod.com/index.php?templateid=showthreads&fid=20 

I love you too 

got them, I'll upload them later this afternoon and post them in inspiration and referance! 

Ummm? 

#7290 posted by Kinn
Intelligent crates.
Bring the crate into the game by giving it A.I. The oldskool tactic of searching around for a suitable crate to duck behind will be a thing of the past.

In the gaming future - crates search for you!


There has been robotics research on exactly this - a robot consisting of a big number of interconnected boxes. The connections are in 6 directions and reciprocal, so the whole thing moves by always lifting part of itself into the air and moving that part forward, putting it back to ground and then moving some other part.
I'm missing the url now, but the simulation videos looked wacky with the pile o' crates just "flowing" forward (they used some biological algorithm to the moves)... 

I can see it now: some sort of Wattersonian blob chasing the player with a gaping maw constantly and threateningly looming above him while the winged-skull crate logo repetitiously tumbles over itself again and again.

Awesome. 

a giant shiny purple wall slowly consuming a city ... 

That has nothing to do with crates! 

if it starts off in a giant crate :)

(Which it should). 

http://scampie.spawnpoint.org/sm47_scampie.jpg 

...I remember thinking "Ah, a real toxic dump!" 

as the crate in ph8dm2 

In order to build really tall areas in Doom3 maps, you have to make them absurdly tall in the editor? Just what is the FOV of the editor anyways? Looks like it's not the same as in the game.

Back in Q2 days the editor view pretty much corresponded with the feeling of size in the game. Good ol' Q2. 

doom3 has a lower default FOV, i think. Maybe that's the difference, if the editor FOV hasn't changed. 

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