Taken from InCrysis.com:

So it seems it's not possible to alter files anymore

They have locked the game to read PAK files only so unpacking them doesn't matter anymore as they forced the "sys_PakPriority" cvar that ensures PAK reading only

Unpack the violins, prepare the coffin and join the lament: Crytek killed the PC version.

Can't you repack .PAKs though?

Apparently not. It seems impossible in every way now.

if this is true, Crytek just shot themselves in the foot. are they sooo self absorbed to were they think there games are so flawless that they do not need modding?

Locking the files is their idea of anti-cheating remember?

This is a Crysis

With making the PAK-Files readonly they ensured that this files cannot be modded. No modded files equal no cheaters with this particular files...

So im certainly fine with it!

Well one thing is for sure, im not buying any product from Crytek from now on, just because i hate liars and greedy punks...
I mean the release a patch that don't fix anything but closes the game even more? Also they didn't say anything in the patch notes about it so it means they were doing it sneaky style so people wouldn't notice it. Anyway i will still play Crysis 2 only because i got buyers remorse and im not ready to shelf a 50 euros game with 2 weeks, even thought its broken to begin it...

God i feel so cheated... peace!

Also they didn't say anything in the patch notes about it so it means they were doing it sneaky style so people wouldn't notice it.

I think you dont quite understands what exactly is discussed here: It WAS in the patchnotes. What they did was not "destroying the modding-part"...
What they did was making the code more cheat-resistant. What do you think made it so easy to cheat? It was that the config-files were easily accessible for manually coding. You can use that for modding true. But nothing else do the cheaters do. But instead of modding it to prettyer effects in the engine, they modded a better nanovision to see everything in every distance. They moddded that they can jump higher, have more speed and can shoot when cloaked. They simply modded the config-files.

So when Crytek made the config-files inaccessible for modding, they made them inaccessible for the coders of the cheating-progs. This is called cheat-prevention. And this is in the patchnotes.

And you dont want to pronounce every little detail of the cheatprevention, because the "hackers and crackers" shouldnt know exactly what was done to prevent them for obvious reasons...


But all this aside, i nonetheless feel i got an unfinished game and am angry because of that. Get your **** together withe EA Crytek...

it blocks hacks. so its ok.

rubbish, you can extract any file and autoexec still working.well plenty of bloody cheaters out there anyway.so patch sux

So I can either have a working multiplayer (in the future - because pirates can still play it for free and hackers can still hack without a problem) or I can see some high quality textures (like Rygel′s) in the future?

Please, dear crytek: For your next PC release just hire 2 of the great modders out there for several months before your pc release and let them help you bring out a game, that is designed for PC...

Also they didn't say anything in the patch notes about it so it means they were doing it sneaky style so people wouldn't notice it.

I think you dont quite understands what exactly is discussed here: It WAS in the patchnotes. What they did was not "destroying the modding-part"...
What they did was making the code more cheat-resistant. What do you think made it so easy to cheat? It was that the config-files were easily accessible for manually coding. You can use that for modding true. But nothing else do the cheaters do. But instead of modding it to prettyer effects in the engine, they modded a better nanovision to see everything in every distance. They moddded that they can jump higher, have more speed and can shoot when cloaked. They simply modded the config-files.

So when Crytek made the config-files inaccessible for modding, they made them inaccessible for the coders of the cheating-progs. This is called cheat-prevention. And this is in the patchnotes.

And you dont want to pronounce every little detail of the cheatprevention, because the "hackers and crackers" shouldnt know exactly what was done to prevent them for obvious reasons...


But all this aside, i nonetheless feel i got an unfinished game and am angry because of that. Get your **** together withe EA Crytek...

To bad it works in crysis1.. so your theory is bs.
In crysis1 you can mod your file.. the paks are not encrypted and there where no cheaters findling with the xml files. But what a suprise crysis1 came with punkbuster and fixed cvars form day1...
Sure there where also cheaters who used mempatches etc. but at least the where a lot harder to make then just edit a xml file.
Also you had rcon, kick, ban and vote map/kick form day1.

If you compare Mp form crysis 1 and crysis2 its so dumped down its not even funny... but thats the result you get when dev team with only console programming background tries to apply the same principles to pc gaming...

To bad it works in crysis1.. so your theory is bs.
In crysis1 you can mod your file.. the paks are not encrypted and there where no cheaters findling with the xml files. But what a suprise crysis1 came with punkbuster and fixed cvars form day1...
Sure there where also cheaters who used mempatches etc. but at least the where a lot harder to make then just edit a xml file.
Also you had rcon, kick, ban and vote map/kick form day1.

If you compare Mp form crysis 1 and crysis2 its so dumped down its not even funny... but thats the result you get when dev team with only console programming background tries to apply the same principles to pc gaming...

+1

Look the thing is simple:

The way the guy was modding stuff (Although cool and awesome) wasn't exactly the official way.

The SDK release is what we're waiting for, and whether or not that comes out is the real test if Crysis 2 is a failure of a PC game.

For that you should probably be looking at a 3-4 month cut off limit, any longer then that and the tools probably aren't coming and then you can say crytek sold out.

Look the thing is simple:

The way the guy was modding stuff (Although cool and awesome) wasn't exactly the official way.

The SDK release is what we're waiting for, and whether or not that comes out is the real test if Crysis 2 is a failure of a PC game.

For that you should probably be looking at a 3-4 month cut off limit, any longer then that and the tools probably aren't coming and then you can say crytek sold out.

Pretty much this

Oh this makes me so mad. Stupid ****!

I love what a lot of people are sayin,
Wait for this wait for that, as in, oh look the beta leak is out, people said oh but the final release will be better, then the demo was out and people said again wait for release and it would be better, then they said oh wait for patches then it will be better.

See where I'm goin with this, all the people who are saying wait as somethin better will be done by crytek are being proved wrong time and time again.

The only way I can see about modding is what I did on crysis 1, have 2 game directories.
I installed crysis then copied the crysis install folder to another one called vanilla, mods installed in the original directory and vanilla used for mp and both work fine so I'll prob do this as I'll prob mess around with the files to get the mods working

I love what a lot of people are sayin,
Wait for this wait for that, as in, oh look the beta leak is out, people said oh but the final release will be better, then the demo was out and people said again wait for release and it would be better, then they said oh wait for patches then it will be better.

See where I'm goin with this, all the people who are saying wait as somethin better will be done by crytek are being proved wrong time and time again.

The only way I can see about modding is what I did on crysis 1, have 2 game directories.
I installed crysis then copied the crysis install folder to another one called vanilla, mods installed in the original directory and vanilla used for mp and both work fine so I'll prob do this as I'll prob mess around with the files to get the mods working

I know. It's so true. To be honest the game was better when we had full control over the cvars and such.

Also the demo had more cvars.

Crytek does NOT care about us PC owner guys, it's so blatently obvious. We just need to spread the news as far and wide as possible. They screwed us, now we screw them.

true!

**** crytek. I buy game only for modding in sandbox, although I could simply download the pirates.

i just dont understand the point of cheating ... games are made for fun , cheating is made for morons that ruin other people's fun , i will never understand that....

Crytek does NOT care about us PC owner guys, it's so blatently obvious. We just need to spread the news as far and wide as possible. They screwed us, now we screw them.


your a moron if they didnt care they wouldnt bother to patch anything at all.

out of the ways to cheat they have closed one method aswell as stoped pirate copys from going online as a side effect the pak files had to be locked because thats how they were cheating.

the other method will have to wait till the next patch or whenever crytek releases a update to intergrate punkbuster.