I've always quite enjoyed my time on this game, but recently I had taken a break to play some other things. I'd been reading the forums on and off, seeing that they'd been making network tweaks, fixing a few bugs here and there. Then out of nowhere the Decimation Pack hit, along with my beloved FY71, so I had to hop back in.

I was surprised to find out that their tweaking made 95% of the games mostly lagless for me, or decent enough to where it doesn't seem to almost ever affect my gameplay. I still get the occasional "How did he live?" moments, but I can't think of any online shooter out of the bunch I play that doesn't have that syndrome once in a while.

My friend had quit for a while due to the lag (including some ragequit moments), but now him and I are just absolutely rolling the enemy teams, match after match. I had 2 bar in a game and went on a 23 kill streak without dying. He went 29-5 on a match. Most of the matches ended with us 20+ kills and at the top of the scoreboards. Feels damn good!

I've also been fairly surprised at how easy it has been to find games on both of the map packs. Was in full games the majority of the night. I'm not sure what times people are playing at that causes them not able to find any other players. Yes, it happens ONCE in a while for me, but I can get on at 5am EST and still manage to find full games.

I only wish this game had a large following like the other big games out there. Maybe I'm a bit of a Crysis fanboy, but I just love the series. It is my absolute favorite.

Anyone else been noticing improvements, or been having fun in general?

As much mixed feedback as Crysis 2 gets, Crysis 2 (and the entire Crysis franchise) is one of the better game franchises out there in my opinion. Yes it's not as popular as CoD, Halo, Gears, Battlefield so that doesn't make it a Blockbuster, and yes it has its share of bugs and gameplay gripes (but all games seem to have one or the other). I'd still call it an A-Rate game instead of a B-Rate game (ya know, The Darkness, Singularity, etc.)

I think Crysis 2 brought a solid and addicting multiplayer world to Crysis (lets be honest, the C1 multiplayer can be a nightmare). However, I think the Crysis 2 campaign lost some of the shock and awe that Crysis 1 had. Granted, sequels tend to do that, like Bioshock 2 for example. However, despite Bioshock's return to a same location, it still had a cool impact. Even with a setting change in C2, I never felt the same kind of awe I did in Crysis 1.

Remember those key moments in 1? Finding your first nanosuit teammate in the tree, finding the frozen ship, going inside the alien artifact, then trying to flee with aliens after you, then the carrier? These were not just set pieces, but really made Crysis feel unique, and I felt svcked in by the story and what was happening in the world.

In C2, I couldnt get involved in the "world", I felt like it got bogged down with politics (CELL vs. Marines) and story that was hard to piece together (via just the intercom). The destroyed NYC was amazing to look at, but it didn't provide much to the story.

I hope Crysis 3 keeps the addicting Multiplayer of 2, but brings back the epic adventure I felt in the C1 campaign.

I agree with what you're saying about campaign. I actually loved the new locale, but the story was very hard to follow and didn't really mean as much to me. The characters didn't stand out as the first game, either. I still remember that colonel or whatever on the battlefield that was all "I'm a marine son! I'll walk on water if I have to!". Also loved the story elements that took place on the ship. Good stuff.

For Crysis 3, I want a tighter, more straight forward story.