DaBeast on 24/8/2011 at 11:11

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My copy just arrived in the post, installing now

Trying very very hard not to let my excitement get the better of me.

Edit: http://i.imgur.com/W7JNH.jpg

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DaBeast on 24/8/2011 at 12:05

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ahahaha, nice

I'd considered firing up a tunneller I used to use and change my ip to some american one just so I could get it going, but the risk to that is a premabanned steam account so I guess I'll just wait.

Fallen+Keeper on 24/8/2011 at 15:11

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Renzatic, you almost made me cry out of joy with your story. It was far more informative than most of the reviews I've read. THANK YOU for your time. :) And also: fuck u! Now I can't wait!

Yakoob on 24/8/2011 at 18:27

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So like anyone wanna be fucking cool and donate a new laptop to me so I can play it? I'll give you ummm... my vintage glasses case :D

Renzatic on 24/8/2011 at 19:08

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Yeah. They do seem to have a bit more narrow cone of vision in this game. If you keep pace, and stay parallel with them, they won't notice you. That might lead some people to think the game will be a little easier in stealth, but it's not. The AI can and does turn around to look behind them on a regular basis, and they'll notice you off to the side while they're turning (which shocked the shit out of me at one point). Plus, even if they didn't do random turn abouts, that wouldn't stop a guy 3/4ths of the way across the room from spotting you. The vision cone is narrower, but it shoots out a helluva lot farther than I've seen in just about any stealth game.

To test it out, I wanted to test out how far away I could stand away from a camera, and remain undetected. (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3018396/DX_Cam.jpg) As you can see, they can get a bead on you from a fairly good distance away. I couldn't get any farther back, because I'm against a wall in that shot, but I do have good reason to believe that they can spot you from even farther away than this.

I'm sure the later levels, where you have to contend with much more than 3 or 4 isolated cameras, and a small handful of guys, are gonna be evil.



I think the game is more CPU than GPU intensive. Case in point, I've got an ass old machine, and the game does get a little chunkity on occasion. Nothing too bad, but I do like keeping my games running above 30FPS at all times if I can.

Knocking down the resolution from 1920x1080 all the way down to 800x600 does absolutely nothing to fix the frame rate, nor does turning off any of the eye candy options. If you've got a decent CPU, I think a 330M will at least be playable.



Ha! I'm having fun now! Also, NO FUCK U OLOL! :shakes fist: :mad:

But seriously, I personally think it's worth the wait. Though you shouldn't have to to begin with. I mean all the European folk already have the game either preloaded, or have the disc waiting in the box. So why are they making people wait for the damn thing to activate? SET THIS GAME FREE!