» Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:48 am Background:
I have played and enjoyed both Crysis 1 and 2, I only ever really played the campaign of crysis 1 and 2 but I did play a little online for Crysis 2 not much. I thourghly enjoyed the campaign and story and was very excited to say the least for Crysis 3 being released so I placed a pre-order of it but I ended up canceling this due to poor experience with the beta (I will not go into this as the beta has passed and after all it was just a beta).
So you maybe wondering why I now own this game well Lets just say that I decided to try out Crysis 3 and managed to get my hands on a "copy" and then due to liking the first bit of the campaign I decided to purchase the whole game on origin.
Now onto my Impressions so far:
Single Player/Campaign:
So far I have played some of the campaign and have enjoyed it so far but do feel a lack of story and depth and just don't feel as drawn into it as I was with crysis 1 and 2 but it is still a good campaign none the less.
I think most of my dislike for the campaign is that I don't necessarily like Psycho.
By don't like I mean that I feel no emotion to him and don't care for him at all, he doesn't make me love him or hate him and this is what ultimately makes him not a good character as he makes me feel no emotion at all, I would much rather have a character that I hate than I feel indifferent about.
Multiplayer/Online Impressions:
I thoroughly enjoy the Hunter game Mode and find it excellent.
In general I do like the rest of the Online play but do have a few quarrels.
Some suggestions on how to improve online game play from what I have seen and played:
[*]Add a Delay to how long it will take someone to do a power Jump.
[*]Add a function to stop people from spraying and praying.
[*]Balance guns better.
I say this because without fail I will go on a server and there will be some guy just jumping around which makes it impossible to get an aim on him and kill him, I will also have players just jump around get very close to you within punching distance and just spray to kill you, Now I would punch them to kill them but most of the time with them jumping fanatically everywhere they land in an odd position that requires me to quickly turn and see them and by this time I am dead.
I also Suggest Balancing the guns better because all tho there is a large amount of spray and pray there are some guns I have seen that look like they have absolutely no recoil compared to the lower level guns which gives and obviously huge distinctive advantage to higher level players.
I am not saying make all guns equal but I am saying at least give new players a chance to kill someone as they can start shooting someone from behind but because of the massive recoil on lower/starter guns there aim will go off or they will have to try burst fire it which is a slow and ineffective method of killing someone and the player they were shooting at can just spin around and kill them with a more powerful weapon that has no recoil to worry about.
All of this added onto the fact that it does take a considerable amount of bullets to kill someone degrades the experience for newer players.
[*]Report player button.
[*]Better Anti-Cheat for e.g Punkbuster.
[*]All games to be automatically recorded and put into a history vault.
[*]Fix Killcams!
Now its no secret this game is infested with hackers and having to come onto the forums every time you wish to report someone takes away from playing the game and having fun as it requires you coming off the game and onto here.
I don't have to go into why we need a better anti-cheat as it is obvious the system we have now is failing and you can see that by looking at some threads.
Having to Record your own matches to get proof of hacking also takes away from the fun as then once you see a hacker you have to alt tab out of your game and start your recording software.
Not to mention this also forces a player to stay in a server with a hacker and be killed by him multiple times to get proof via recordings and trust me staying in a server with a hacker is no fun!
Fixing kill cams I don't have to go into detail with as it is obviously broken and then hinders the abilty to catch cheaters or record them, it can also make people think others are hacking due to how bad it is broken and glitches.
[*]Stop Players with an excessive amount of ping from being allowed to join games.
I am not sure if this is due to some servers faults or if it is cryteks fault so excuse me on that.
But what I do see is a mass amount of player with Ridiculous ping levels for e.g 200 + playing on some servers.
They should not be allowed to join some servers where they have this ping issue as due to the way the hit detection works within crysis 3 it gives them a lag advantage.
