By Alec Meer on October 31st, 2007 at 4:49 pm.
Either Crytek are quietly trying to cause no end of hell for EA, or the wrong Crysis demo got released and there are a whole lot of panicking, screaming, crying German developers right now.
First, the script for the entire game was discovered lurking in the demo files. Then a simple config file edit activated supposedly DirectX 10 and Vista-only graphical effects in DirectX 9 and XP. And now, someone faffing about with the bundled level editor has managed to dump a load of good stuff from later in the game into the demo map and make it playable. To find out how, what, who and wither, you’ll have to read on…
What’s in there? Guns. Lots of guns – the game’s entire repertoire (as well as an impressive selection of various explosives), it appears. Tanks, boats, assorted military vehicles and ridiculously powerful helicopters (which handle a little like Battlefield’s, and are hilarious overkill against the still popgun-armed Korean dudes). And one of the much-mooted aliens. If you want an early taste of what these flying tentacle laser-horrors are like to fight, and how the game’s human NPCs react to them, this’ll do it. Oops.
You want ‘demofunmap #5′ from here, the work of canny German modder siLe`. Extract the level.pak file and dump it into C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis SP Demo\Game\Levels\island. Either overwrite the exisiting level.pak in there, or rename it to something with a different extension (e.g. .old) if you don’t wanna have to reinstall the demo later.
Then, start a new game in the demo (yes, you’ll have to do the cutscene’n'parachtute drop hoopla again) – be warned that apparently it only works on the Normal difficultly setting – and keep playing until the bit where you find your mate all Predatored up in the trees. Start following the objective arrow, and you’ll soon find a table full of a goodies, and an angry alien in the skies. Just beyond the table is an enemy encampment, and a short run to the left of that is vehicle and many-gun heaven. Clearly, this may spoil some of the full game for you. But in the relatively open environment of the demo’s island map, it allows for mega-playtime. Be warned that approaching the centre of the map in a chopper triggers the final cutscene and ends the demo, though.
Thanks to Gestalt for pointing this out, and apologies for not noticing sooner.
Best demo ever then?
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It would certainly seem so, I think i’ll give this a miss for fear of spoilers tbh
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If I recall correctly, didn’t the Far Cry demo also have a load of stuff still in there? Although I don’t think it was quite as bad (or good, depending on which angle you’re looking at it from) as this veritable bounty.
It’s a shame I can’t really play it in anything other than juddering UglyVisionTM on my rig.
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Well now they have to put in a James Pond easter egg.
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This is how a demo SHOULD be… Great, now I can’t wait to get off work…. 5 more hours. Why must RPS
tempttorture me so!!!I’ve already spent about 10 or so hours in the demo as it is…. now I can see myself spending 20+ hours with all these goodies. Wooo!
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Holy hell batman this is almost as bad a comedy of errors as the entire Hellgate debarcle… which strangely is getting no coverage here…
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Must… resist… demofunmap #5…
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Oh Eastern Europe, won’t you ever learn?
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I read somewhere that the original Far Cry engine had loads of hard-coded assumptions as to the presence of content and data – needing a good chunk of the game to run at all.
Perhaps Crysis is vaguely similar in that respect?
Or maybe it’s like Source, where one brief mention in an audio definitions file or whatever means the content is regarded as required, even if it’s never actually shown or played. I had fun* building MINERVA’s manifests and audio caches with that…
Still, it explains why the Crysis demo is such a big-wobbly-fat-bastard huge download!
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Can’t miss this. Will try it immediately. I’m gagging for some more Crysis. Well done Crytek for including Sandbox… hopefully we’ll see more stuff arrive before the game is released.
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Is there a way for some of your journalist types with contacts in the industry to find out if this was a mistake? Or if Crytek intended this? I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I’d be interested to know. More for the amusement factor than anything.
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God, this is essentially turning into Just Cause 2, isn’t it?
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I can’t find vehicle and many-gun heaven. But I am functionally retarded, so there’s that.
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It IS easy to miss. After deactivating the scrambler, head around the LEFT of the beach.
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Is it just me or is the demo level file a corrupted .rar file?
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I’m with Leeks, i’m functional retarded too. Can’t find anything.
I’m at the first enemy encampment, down at the beach. Now, facing the water, I have to go left?
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Yeah, there’s nothing new on the left side of the first enemy camp, I verified it with the editor, using the level.pak from demofunmap #5… weird.
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By first, do you mean the first bunch of enemies you encounter? I mean the bit after you find your strung-up dead colleague. And y’all are definitely on demofunmap 5, not the number 4 one above it?
If so, it could be the map’s been pulled/replaced with something sanitised. Hmm.
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I realized the problem was that I only extracted the level.pak from the .rar -archive, I didn’t realize that I also needed to extract the contents of the .pak -file to /island -dir.
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thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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BAHAHAHAHHA… posted november 1st? hey guys I can tell you about the future ! :O
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I couldn’t find anything either, neither in-game nor by opening island.cry in the Editor.
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hi guys , i find my map here “sry my english is not the best , iam from germany ;) ”
Win vista have problems with my map , i dont know why
or make a copy from ur old level.pak and paste to the desktop and overwrite than my level.pak in ur island folder ,and than start a new game
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Update:
hello guys, I suddenly have found my modificated of the island map here and have to tell you some further things which may be important: Windows Vista does not work with it properly, the reason is not known yet.
This could solve this problem: Backup your old /island/level.pak in a whole new folder and then overwrite the /island/level.pak with the modified one.
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That explains it. I’m using Vista. =(
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Uhh I’m using Vista and the new level worked fine. I lol’d so hard at the nuke gun and nuke tanks.
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Man, the nuke tank was a hell of a surprise for me. I thought it was a normal tank and drove it around for about 3 minutes before encountering some Surprised Korean Guys. I fired the cannon thinking it was just a regular tank… boy was I surprised at the small atomic cloud that exploded onto my screen. I was just as surprised as all the Surprised Korean Guys… such a funny moment. I was laughing so hard.
I also had a similar surprising moment when I tried out the TAC launcher, thinking it was a humble grenade launcher, and not a small nuclear hand held cannon.
Great stuff, so much fun to be had in a little demo.
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awesome!!!!!!
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For those claiming they can’t ‘find’ the vehicles and the weapons, make sure you have downloaded demofunmap #5′. The linked site actually offers a #4 map as well, which doesn’t contain the massive stockpile, and I suspect those who haven’t been able to find the weapons/tanks have actually been playing that map.
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Ah, there we go. The first time I hit the link for #4, and didn’t get weapon heaven. Still, the weapons there were, and the new vehicles are great. That helicopter is a killing machine, and easy to fly, though I still haven’t found out how to strafe with it.
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deffo DL’d #5. those who can get it working in Vista, do you have 32 or 64bit…? wonder if that’s got anything to do with it?
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Yeah I also got #5.
And I’m on Vista Ultimate x86.
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I had the same thing happen to me, Chris. I fired the TAC into the water and, lo and behold, it was a freakin nuke! I just sat there, jaw dropped for like 30 seconds before I turned around to use it on the mountain. I’m pretty sure that de-forestation in Crysis is one of the most awesome parts about it. Plus nuking small KPA villas from afar…it just doesn’t get better. This gets my vote for best demo ever. I’m also using the inf health and inf ammo codes on it to amp up the fun a bit. I wish I could find an inf energy code to really turn the game into Predator 3. XD
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You know that feeling when you really have to take a piss? I’m getting that feeling right now, only instead of wanting to rush to the toilet to relive myself, I’m hovering my mouse over the Crysis demo download link. All these comments are the urine in my metaphorical bladder, screaming at me to do what’s RIGHT, what’s natural.
But NO! Must. Not. Play. Demo. ‘lest. I. Spoil. Retail. Game.
I’m staunch in my resolve.
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Aww, you spoil-sissies,
I`m shure Crytek will not let you run free with all that shit, there´s bound to be another “volcano”.
Enjoy it while it´s fresh.
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I’m really looking forward to this game! Just got the latest PC Gamer mag (remember print?) and they gave it 98%, which I believe is their highest score ever for a game…
Now if I had a powerful enough computer to run it on….
Lance
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Spoiler alert:
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@Alex: Yeah, nuking the little KPA huts was great, so satisfying, haha. I can’t think of the last time I have ever been so surprised in a game as the moment I first fired the nuke tank though. I think my exact words were “Holy shit! WTF!! It’s a freaking nuke!”
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@Thelps: Do it! Play the demo! Think of it as honing your skills now in preperation for the full game. I don’t think anything will be spoiled by playing the demo honestly. You’ll have a blast. This is one of the best demo’s ever, even without unlocking all the weapons and vehicles.
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There are no weapons to be found!! what the hell
Yes, I got #5, yes, I even checked in the editor. >:(
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No idea if I can post without registering here – but the problems with people loading maps in Vista I think are just to do with paths.
The way these things normally work is that it looks inside the pak files inside a folder for the data. It looks in ANY AND ALL pak files. So if you have the original level.pak and the modified level.pak which one it loads is dependant on which one the filesystem reads first. This will be consistent on one machine (probably) but not necessarily the same order on different machines or operating systems.
So the solution (tested in Vista) is always to move the original pak somewhere else before running the game.
Please note that all of the above could suffer from being entirely incorrect! :)
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Woa! The original demo was fun….(im kidding) took me three 3AM-6AM sessions to download the demo over my neighbors
wirelessly shared HughesNet connection FAP(unfair) and now I have to wait untill 3AM again to get this!!! BUT IT WORTH THE WAIT……….!!!!! Dont worry im not stealling his internet HE let my family use his USB wireless-G modem and its good for downloads but not games…….
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Hum, does these maps only work under Vista? Cause as soon as the game loaded up (selecting new game) it crashes.
I’m running the x64 version of the game under xp x64 sp2.
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I just found out the reason most of you arent able to get this to work… it must be played on Normal difficulty. Delta (and probably the others) wont work. Different spawn sets for different difficulties or something.
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So does anyone know how to lift the helicopter off the ground instead of hovering and colliding into the mountain.
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ah. Got it. A/D is tilt left/right (strafe), and W/D is collective up/down
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er, W/S
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The map crashed for me under XP x64. I switched the shortcut on my desktop to point to the x86 binaries and that worked. Perhaps I should send a bug report to Crytek.
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Oh YEAH! I’ll still buy the game though, and I don’t care a bit about spoiler alerts, or plot alert… it’s all about killing shit anyways :-)
Thanks for this AWESOME post!
And thanks to our German friends.
-P
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WHOO HOO!!!! THIS GAME KICKS ASS!!! I CANT WAIT TO GET!!!
lol I was scared when i saw tentaclepuss but I ran and got the much rejoiced gausse gun, sushi anyone?Also be careful with mininuke gun…. I ejected the shell without aiming and obliterated every vehicle around me……
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Mod wouldn’t run with Vista 64 bit–I had to point my shortcut to (“D:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis SP Demo\Bin32\Crysis.exe”) And then it worked!
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Yeah, this mod is way too kewl–I am sure UBI (FarCry2) team is crapping their pants right about now; serves them right anyway since they have that shitty little forum where you just sit around and talk about nothing for 6 whole god damn months waiting for the game to be released. I thought about getting Call of Duty 4, but Crysis makes that game look 10 years old so for get it! I really enjoyed FC1 and can’t wait for some multiplayer mayhem with the new release. The only issue I have is upgrading when I thought I already had pretty decent rig with my 8800 vid card. I can’t run in HD withut a serious FPS loss so I am stuck in SD mode–Hell, I don’t even think todays hardware can make this game smoke! So it looks like the hardware peeps have their work cut out for them–get to work god damn it!
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All these vehicles and weapons have been available for over a month in the MP Beta anyway… :-\
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Is there any benefit from 4gig/64bit (Vista) set up or not??
Cheeries.
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Heh.. I remember at least one demo some years back that shipped bundled on a forgotten realms anthology CD, with the sourcecode for the game in a subfolder.
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Crysis. lol dont understand the fuzz about that game. Only thing that makes masses to turn their heads is graphics. silly.
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[quote]Crysis. lol dont understand the fuzz about that game. Only thing that makes masses to turn their heads is graphics. silly.[/quote]
have you played the demo? doubt it. Crysis is an awesome PC game I would actually buy this game rather all the other turd games like cod4 which was exactly like cod2 nothing new…
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I am on XP, does this freak of nature map work witih XP as well as Vista??. Have downloaded correct file (5) , and installed pak file to correct place, started new game ,but can i find any new weapons or vehicles I THINK NOT. Maybe one needs a lawnmower to cut the grass first! Or is this a wind up.
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so, dx10 turned out to be total bullshit then? =) it runs on vista ahha a=)
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and xp ahahha!
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The weapons and vehicles are on the beach next to the enemy radar station–you can’t MISS IT!
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i tried downloading the demomap fun file # 5 and saving it as level.pak not .rar in the island folder after taking out the original level.pak and it wont work
i start a new game and the screen is just black , music plays but it doesnt go to the loading screen??????
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i also cannot find those weapons and vehicles.
i have seen in some trailers that we can throw an enemy away under strength mode, how can i do this?
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Many Thanks to STEVE and JONRICO. Found weapons at last like you said on beach to left of Radar Jamming m/c, but I had left a copy of the original pak file in the folder and although i had renamed it, it was ‘still’ being picked up instead of the modded pak file. Even though i run a 9800pro with all low except for ‘mid’ textures the ‘nuke’ effect fired by a tank has to be one of the most amazing sights i have witnessed in all my years of gaming.
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they did it on purpose FYI
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The nuke tank isn’t a spoiler, it’s how you end MP games. I’m 100% sure it’s not in the single player, as that a several other weapons are MP only, simply because the MP takes place after the invasion with some getto rigged alien tech.
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Hey how do you kill the alien floating in the sky? I keep shooting at it but it still follows me everywhere and killing me every time.
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Just pick up the gauss gun and give it a couple of hits, it won’t annoy you anymore.
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YA I DID EVERYTHING BUT WHEN the game goes to the loading screen its just black …. nothing plz HELP
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Make sure you shoot the alien down over enemy territory; I had the misfortune of killing that SOB over my head and it came crashing down on my vehicles taking out 3 of them.
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omg theres another miles!!!! :O i thaught i was the only 1 lol…. how do you place the nuke tank in the editor? :D
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DL permissions for the original link for Demo Funmap #5 seem to have been turned off. :(
Anyone have an alternate link? Many thanks in advance…
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No, it works, just click the links and enter the code to download from that link, I just did.
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Found evrything but the nuke tank. Where is it located?
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Is anyone else experiencing 5k/sec download? Goddamit, 3 hours untill i can attempt to dive bomb the attack boats!
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So, I enter the download code to start downloading the funmap #5 file, but I get a “Forbidden. You do not have permission to access this document.” error.
Is no one else having this problem? I’ve tried it from two computers in my household, so maybe I have an undesirable IP address. :(
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don’t enter the code, highlight it, and then drag it to the form where you’d type it, then you can’t get it wrong.
if you still get the “Forbidden” message, try setting your browser security/privacy to default/medium
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Nope, neither of those is the problem. I’ve already tried on three different browsers (IE, FF, Saf) on different computers. I’m starting to wonder if the site has a problem with Comcast for some reason? (Or maybe I just like blaming everything on Comcast…)
Does anyone know of an alternate download site for the #5 Funmap? I hate missing out on all the fun…
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Go here for the file download the torrent file at the bottom http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1411979/6976998
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fyi, pressing the left alt skipped through the cut scene for me, idk if it will work for everyone else but its worth a shot.
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scratch that, the spacebar does it.
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I played the beta, and all of the weapons and viechles were in that, except for the helicopter and VTOL. Tac Launcher is a good weapon, remember to hold down fire to bring up a targetter to make sure it goes where you want it to.
do you get the MOAC and MOAR in the demofunmap? btw, the alien in the sky, is it a hunter, or just a normal alien thingy. cheers.
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p.s I think I’m gunna wait for the full game to come out, playing the beta pretty much burnt me out entirely of the multiplayer, and it took me 5 days to finish the demo purely beacause I couldn’t be fucked to play the game. Don’t get me wrong though, I love it, and I’ll relish the opportunity to show my console loving fanboy bitch friends what a real game looks/plays like, but I can’t be arsed with multiplayer, I’ve preordered the game, but apparently Fairlight will have the full version cracked and uploaded within a few days, So I’ll download it as soon as it appears.
but I’m still gunna buy it, beacause crytek have proven to me, twice both in the beta and in the demo thatn they’ve made something special and deserve to be paid for it.
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I tried to download but, it said it was forbidden and I wasn’t allowed to access it :(
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on windows vista it only seems to work useing the 32 bit exe found in the bin folder in its main directory
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O RLY?, are you trying to DL it from the german site? I had the same trouble on that website. The link wingfoot1 left has another link in it that lets you torrent the map from demonoid. just look near the bottom of the first post and there should be a link that says “download this torrent” or something like that, I cant get the exact wording because I am on a work PC and the link is blocked here at work
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Billybob,
Run the game in 32bit and uncheck the fullscreen mode. Save the optinos and exit, then go ahead and start the 64bit version, should run for ya then
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It won’t let me download #5 i have tried multiple times….If anyone knows of a different place to acquire it that would be awesome
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yeah i cant figure out how to download it either
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hey.. i try to download it but i dont get a forbidden… some unlegible text pops up with a button with i think says go back.. also i have translator on so.. can someone just post this on megaupload or something and give me the link? thanks! respond to this (if you can email respond)
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A torrent would be nice, it seems as though no one can download it due to the fact that the German site is giving “forbidden” messages and demonoid is down. Thanks in advance.
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german site seems to be working again. i just downloaded both of the maps.
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Not working for me, it gives a Forbidden whatever method I use to copy that password in the text input box.
Does anyone have a mirror URL, or have it uploaded to something like megaupload?
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Here’s one:
http://www.clubic.com/patch-jeux-video-6005-0-crysis.html
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crysis is out !
http://diensa.blogspot.com/
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What do you do with that .blogspot_1_ file?
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Cinder.. im downloading it now.. if it works.. i wana fucking hug you! why is the greatest demo map only out on a site that seems not to work for my comp.. but shining hope has come!
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http://rapidshare.com/files/66168850/level.rar
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Looks like I am the third person in this blog to encounter a black screen while loading. Annoyingly I can’t seem to check out this wonderful demo everyone is talking about. Don’t suppose anyone has any ideas on this? PS. Appears to be doing something as CPU is quite high and there are odd snippets of sound.
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well arunhill you arent alone.. i just got black screens allover the fucking place.. anybody have a fix for that? ill try “running as admin” now… 5 mins later: ok.. that doesnt work.. some one please get a fix fer this ty! XD
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Damn thx for the heads up. I’m definitely taking another look at Crysis Demo (*before my game comes in the mail). The idea of stalking Koreans in a heli comes to mind ^^z
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Ok, finally got rid of the dreaded black screen. Although my laptop has only just been released (XPS 1730) and Nvidia don’t have drivers on their site for the cards, they suggest you get them directly from Dell. Turns out that Dell has indeed released a new driver and guess what, it worked! Finally got to check out Crysis and I can confirm that it is a visual feast. I very much look forward to getting the full release.
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heli cntrols for full game are
w forward
s back
a left
d right
q&e roll
space up
ctrl down
left shift afterburner
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You can use these tags –
Preview: have you made a silly boo-boo?
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can someone post a video of them actually going to the weapons place from the beginning? And maybe actually installing the mod? I’m totally lost…
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GAH someone please help
I extracted level.pak to the island folder
backed up the original
started a new game on normal difficulty
The weird thing is, there are some changes to the game, like enemies spawning in different places and some enemies having a high powered rifle instead of the normal rifle…but no alien, and no extra island!
I don’t think I extracted it wrong, because there’s still SOME stuff…and I don’t think that I downloaded the wrong thing either.
Grr…nobody ever makes these instructions idiot-proof
sorry for triple post
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i aint buying the game so it would seem sensible to mess around now
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hey guys! so I dont really understand what I have to do in order to get all of the weapons. So I dowloaded the demo and have worn it out already after 2 days of messing around with blowing up the huts and now i want more!
so what is demofunmap 5? where can I find it? does the demo come with demomap 4? and what files do i move once i have map 5?
PLEASE BE SPECIFIC AND CLEAR!!!
THANK YOU!
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ok so there is a link to http://www.clubic.com/patch-jeux-video-6005-0-crysis.html# for the demomap #5 but where on the page do you install it??? its all in french! and when i click on the link it just takes me to the top of the page!
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I have windows vista and it works perfectly on my computer.
(soz for the bad english.)
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lol i got full game, u guys sux!!
only kiddin, dont really, got demo, (please dont hurt me :(
good job with the mod
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I had my computer hard drive reformatted (no partitions) and placed XP on it. I have “Crysis” and tried to install but when it goes through the installation it tells me it can’t find Animations.pak file. I looked for it and found it. Why can’t it read it during installation ?
Any help would be appreciated. Peace
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wish i never played this mod T_T now i spoiled the whole game!
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good
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i dont get theese instructions!!! please telll me how and i’ll make a utube shotout for you and put a shoutout 4 u on my site stardust342@gmail.com
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the 3D is awesome !!
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Thanks for your effort and hard work!
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