F.E.A.R. Demo tomorrow
 

[url:6af5e]http://www.whatisfear.com/us/[/url:6af5e]

single-player demo

Shweet.

Hopefully they optimized the game... at all. MP beta played absolutely horrible and it doesn't even look THAT good.

But I'm definitely looking forward to this. Hopefully they'll reveal a little more of the storyline with the little girl to get people interested in it again, and not just the levels from the 10 minute video demo.

lol they shit looks cool rock:

the demo is out now.

fileshack
3dgamers
all the usual places

Hopefully since this is a proper demo it runs better than the multi beta, that thing ran horribly with any of the settigns turned on that made it look good. annoy:

Lemme know how it is, Gervagina.. I won't download if it's SHIIIITE.

Well the multi was pretty dire, had some nifty effects but it felt so friggin basic, was like you fired the smg, took your finger off the mouse button and it still fired for a little while. Looked like ass as well if you wanted to get over 40 fps everything had to be turned off. With everything on it looked good but nothing on the scale of doom 3 imo, even though the performance in doom 3 multiplayer crapped on that multi beta.

24 mins left till dload finished dance:

i should be getting my 6600 GT video card in the mail today! this will be the first game on my list
after im done with san andreas

here's a good no-line link: http://gamesdomain.yahoo.com/pc/fear/files/1121858


getting 800kb/sec

thanks. i was waiting in line at fileshack and i missed my 5 minute window to download.

Just beat it, It runs fine on my two year old machine.

For 600mb the demo felt really short, and as far as the shooter part of the game goes it's alright, but I didn't get to use all the guns they gave you in the demo because you can only hold three at any time.

It wasn't as scary as all the magazines made it out to be, and a few of the scenes that I could tell were supposed to be suspenseful only came off as really slow. The girl stops being scary after the second time you see her.

Slow-Mo is kind of annoying though, I wanted it to go slow, but not as slow as they make it.

Can't really tell how scary a game is gonna be based on what you said was a short demo. The demo's probably been diluted a lot, the developers are trying to keep players wondering wtf is going on till the full version comes out.

I thought it was awesome.

It's like Doom 3 atmosphere and graphics with good gameplay and a so-far good storyline.

FSAA doesn't seem to work in this demo, i have it set to 4x in the game options but everything appears ragged still.

Seems a little laggy in places, going around corners sometimes things freeze for a sec like the games loading in the area. Smg still has that weird feel to it like its firing in bursts when you take your finger off the trigger.

The game also comes with a new frame rate raping feature called soft shadows.

This is the regular shadow setting which is referred to as hard shadows, same thing as was done in doom 3.

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/fear/hardshadow.jpg[/img]

Now this is the new "soft shadow" effect, in other words the outside edge of the shadow is blurred a little to make it look more real.

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/fear/soft-shadow.jpg[/img]

Looks decent on regular player shadows but in other objects it tends to make your vision a little weird

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/fear/trippy.jpg[/img]

Kinda hard to look at that last one, makes it seem like your vision is blurred. oOo:

Doom 3 and Splinter Cell:CT have better soft shadows than that. Doom 3's have the least performance hit of them all.


That's just a really bad implementation.

Far as im aware doom 3 doesn't do soft shadows at all just the hard shadow version. That forum that was doing that "doom can do it too" thing has something on soft shadows and its only possible to do it through some kind of hack to set up a screenshot.

This as as close to theyve come to it

http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewto ... light=soft

Ah, your right. I was thinking self-shadowing for Doom 3.

But SC:CT does have soft shadows and it does kill your frames.

I still dunno why, its like a slight blur and an extra outline to the shadow, pretty pointless looking to me but it cuts right into your framerate =/

You hear that S.T.A.L.K.E.R has been delayed again to............2006?

heh, well they've killed that game off methinks, could've been fantastic if it was released now but next year its technology will have aged alot and it'll look 2D.

Although I do love to be proved wrong when it comes to gameplay. It doesn't bode well for it tho, may be the next Daikatana........as for F.E.A.R, well if it runs well on my system and has a great storyline then hell yes. That little girl and the image effects look fantastic.

I'm bein lazy but are the specs for this game mega high? MP?

[quote="mr.miyagi":345f2]I'm bein lazy but are the specs for this game mega high? MP?[/quote:345f2]no i can run it fine on my pos

Stalker can suck a choad, everyone wanted that game for co-op multiplayer, then that got dumped, It was meant to be out last year around the hl2 release date ffs. stupid:

have any glow effects on, gervy? i've noticed my FSAA doesn't work with glow.

FEAR demo was disappointing for me.

[quote="dr nein":0711e]have any glow effects on, gervy? i've noticed my FSAA doesn't work with glow.[/quote:0711e]

Had the settings maxed for graphics, i enabled 4xfsaa in the ati control panel and it seemed to work, some objects still seemed ragged thoiugh, may have had something to do with the soft shadows making it appear that way.

..any word on hidden sexual content? cool:

why vic? im dling it now... eek:

1. it was too short
2. it seemed like any other run and gun game.

I'm sure it will be better when its released, but the demo didn't impress.

[quote="Eight Ace":dafa1]..any word on hidden sexual content? cool:[/quote:dafa1]indeed, with the little girl that pops up everywhere.

[quote="Cool Fool":bdcdd][quote="Eight Ace":bdcdd]..any word on hidden sexual content? cool:[/quote:bdcdd]indeed, with the little girl that pops up everywhere.[/quote:bdcdd]

Alma

Good i thought it was just me

lol yea i was looking at the picture rubbing my eyes this morning thinking I had sleep in them or some shit...ffs oOo:

...probably just some encrusted man-junk.

It was an alright demo... I like bullettime, of course biggrin:

Im way to lazy and unmotivated to DL this game.

Dload and plzdie:

Not having PS has made me not happy gerv! offtopic:

ban:

shortest demo ive played. it went quick, but linear action packed it was. i see what gerv means with the reaction time from when you pull the trigger and when the gun fires. its ms worth of lag but odd and long enough to notice it. i wonder if this is a bug with the way they incoporated the slo-mo code?

wonder what mp WILL be like.

Multi in the beta version is kinda basic, sorta like mohaa\sof-2 in some ways. Only real thing that makes it any different is that mode where you have the slow mo syringe, you get it and it has to power up, when its powering up people know where you are on their radar because you have it. Then when it powers you can do the old slow mo bs. Its nothing really new aside from all the slow shit, to get it to run i had to turn most of the graphics down, still a beta though.