Hi, can anyone please tell me the situation in C3 about the following things?

1 - Can i play entirely with cvars on single player or does it exists an unlocked exe to play with cvars on SINGLE PLAYER ONLY? or the cvar list is highly limited like it was in C2 ?

This is what one of the crucial points that has made the PC community so upset because the freedom to play with cvars was what of most pc user has always enjoyed on crytek games. If Crytek has done nothing to solve this it lets me think we will have to expect the same support as in C2, that is NOT a good news.

2 - Is the 3D (steroscopic) true or is the same fake as C2 ?

this is what i'm looking forward the most, as the 3d experience in C2 was compromised because of its stupid fake mode, and it was basically THE ONLY GAME with this issue, and what gets me angrier the most is that there was the cvars to set the game as real stereoscopic but nobody has never managed it to work, even with the editor, i asked also on the crydevs forum with no luck.

3 - Is the "stealth" ability so visible like on C3 closed beta or is more like the C2 one?

this is the only change that i didn't like when i've played the beta and i hope they have fixed it in some way.

4 - no external anti-cheat systems again ?

i've read a user got banned because he tried to change the fov, that's crazy guys, that's why punkbaster was born, it checks cvars and if you are "out of range" it will kick you out, banning an Origin account with 5 o 6 games for a cvar is simply crazy.

5 - closed servers like in C2 with very few customization options?

So server are available only from a few renters worlwide and we can't manage it how we want nor edit maps or game modes ? I know this looks to be a standard on latest games but it worths asking.

6 - no support for (eventual future) custom maps and auto-download of maps?

Considering that this feature was implemented in Quake 2 in 1999 maybe i think is not that hard, but it looks it is hard enough as in C2 there wasn't.

7 - no replay save and view for online matches ?

This is the best ANTI CHEAT system so far, would be nice to have it implemented, developers seems to forget some basic rules for competitive fps, replay was one of the most important feature on the top fps games more than 10 years ago.



can anyone please answer to one or more of my questions ?
thanks.

1: There are a limited number of user-configurable cvars that work in both single and multi, there's a thread stickied in this forum with all of those. For single player ONLY, check out Maldo's unlocker, but keep in mind that you can get banned for using it in multiplayer.

2: Not sure on this one.

3: It's maybe slightly less visible than the beta? You still have to be very careful using cloak out in the open.Never played C2 multi, so I can't compare

4: I don't know where you read that, you might be thinking of the guy who got banned for using Maldo's unlocker, which is perfectly understandable. You can legitimately change the FOV with cvars, but only up to 80. I'm pretty sure they're using their own anti-cheat software, and it seems to be doing a pretty good job. Way less hackers than C2, and less than the C3 beta. I've only come across maybe one or two suss players so far, and they might just have been good.

5: Not sure, I know server renters can change some variables, but I'm pretty sure there's more documentation in one of the forum stickies.

6: You'd have to ask Crytek for that one I think, I would have thought they could distribute that sort of thing through Origin though?

7: Unfortunately not, though given how totally broken the kill-cam is, maybe that's not such a bad thing... >_> but yes, I'd like to see it implemented too. After they fix the damn kill-cam.

Hope that helps, and don't forget to read the stickies (Y)

thanks for the answers, i'm going to read the other stickies, about the point 2 i've just found the asnwer on an external blog and unfortunately is the same fake as 2.

Honestly i've read already 3 or 4 threads where they ask for ban received using cvars, maybe they will just fix it but as i have already a lot of games on origin it makes me scared a bit, i've never cheated but i've always used an autoexec since the quake2 era.

Basically nothing has changed since C2, ok they got rid of most hackers, but in my experience there was not that much on C2 already, maybe i was lucky i don't know, but for me that was not an issue, while all or the above are more serious for me, and none of them has changed, so for me is a no go this time i'm sorry, i can't even enjoy the single player as i would playing with cvars and in real 3d (well, probably my machine also couldn't manage that even if it was available in the game).

maybe next time? or next patch?