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Crysis — How to Play Multiplayer Today

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18 October 2021, 15:05

author: Adrian Werner

Crysis Remastered Trilogy feaures no multiplayer mode, so we took a look at the condition of multiplayer in the original versions of these games and the mods that are useful for playing.

Last Friday marked the release of Crysis Remastered Trilogy, a set featuring refreshed versions of games from Crytek’s FPS series. Unfortunately, the remastered set offers only single-player campaigns, while the original versions of these games featured multiplayer. That’s why we thought it was worth taking a look at whether online skirmishes were still possible in the original editions of these titles.

Crysis and Crysis Wars? Yes, but only with mods

The console versions of the first installment didn’t have multiplayer. On PC, fans could initially enjoy multiplayer in the first Crysis and then in the enhanced online module called Crysis Wars, which was bundled with Crysis Warhead. The servers for both were shut down a few years ago, however. Fortunately, in this case there are simple and safe modifications available to remedy this. What’s more, in the case of Crysis Wars we can practically get the full version for free by making a slight change to the demo.

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To restore multiplayer in the PC version of the first installment, you have to use the CryMP project. It enables us to log in to the CryMP Network, a fan-made networking system that replaces the original game’s mutiplayer architecture.

1. CryMP Client — download page

Problems on AMD cards?

Playing the first Crysis on some AMD graphics cards can be very tricky. If you have problems with this, then use the fan patches. There are two — for the 32- and 64-bit version of the game:

1. 32-bit: AMD’s 3D Now! fix
2. 64-bit: Crysis — (64bit) Unhandlead point inexact result exception fix

Crysis Wars

In the case of Crysis Wars there was also a fan-made alternative to the closed network infrastructure. Here, however, the situation is interesting in that the fans have come up with a way to lift the limits of the long-defunct trial version of the game. In practice, we get the full version of the network module for free.

What do I need to do to play Crysis Wars for free today?

1. Install Crysis Wars Trial.
2. Install patch 1.5 for Crysis Wars.
3. Download the CW-Launcher mod and extract its archive to your game directory. This project unlocks all the content of the game and replaces the network infrastructure with a new one.

After these steps you will be able to play the full version of Crysis Wars on fan servers. Optionally, it is also worth installing the Falcon mod. It changes the gameplay and some unofficial servers use it.

Is there anyone left to play with?

In both cases the player populations are relatively small, but you will usually find at least one server with a larger group playing. Fans often organize themselves for sessions on the CryMP forum or on Discord (in the case of Crysis Wars), so it’s a good idea to keep an eye on these places to see when most people are playing. In addition, you can always just summon your friends, as there are plenty of empty but active servers just waiting to be used.

Crysis 2? Somewhat

In the case of Crysis 2 the situation is a little different. On consoles, you can still play on Xbox 360 (and Xbox One and XSX thanks to backwards compatibility) and PS3. The situation looks worse on PC. Electronic Arts shut down the PC servers a few years ago. The game had poor mod support and as a result there is no simple fan modification to bring back the multiplayer.

Every now and then, some projects pop up on PC, such as NanoWars, but the problem with these is that they run on pirated versions of Crysis 2 and they have anti-cheat solutions that are sometimes hard to distinguish from malware. So this is an option only for the most desperate fans of the second installment. The rest should stay with Crysis 3 or return to the first game.

Crysis 3? Yes

Finally, here’s the easiest option. Despite being eight years old, the servers of Crysis 3 are still active on both PCs and consoles. Groups of players are not large, but more often than not there are no major problems finding people willing to play.

Xbox One and Xbox X/Series owners can play the title thanks to backward compatibility. Those who prefer to play on Sony’s hardware will only be able to launch it on PS3, as newer generations of PlayStation do not support backwards compatibility. The good news is that the PS3 edition of the game is still available for purchase. Earlier this year the end of digital distribution of the title for this platform was announced, but fortunately this decision was eventually withdrawn. In the case of Crysis 3 this would have been particularly problematic, as the game has a lot of DLCs for use in multiplayer. However, it is difficult to assess how long such purchases will be possible, so those interested are advised to hurry. It’s already impossible to browse this part of the store through a web browser on PC or mobile devices. Initially, fans developed a plug-in for Firefox that enabled us to do this, but Sony made sure that it stopped working.

On the other hand, if you want to play on PC, the CVar Configurator project is what you should try. It’s a tool developed by a former Crytek employee that enables you to configure gameplay and graphics beyond what the game’s menu offers. The most important feature of this app is the ability to customize Field of View.

1. Crysis 3 CVar Configurator — download page

1. Crysis series — official website

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For the Crysis 2 multiplayer, see Crysis 2 multiplayer

Crysis features a multiplayer very similar to Crysis Wars, the stand-alone multiplayer feature bought with Crysis Warhead, where the player plays against other Crysis owners on one of several maps. Every player uses a Nanosuit, either on the side of the USA or the KPA. There are two gameplay modes: Instant Action and Power struggle.

Contents

• 1 Game Modes
  • 1.1 Instant Action
  • 1.2 Power Struggle
• 2 Nanosuit
• 3 Weapons
  • 3.1 Damage
• 4 Maps
  • 4.1 Instant action
  • 4.2 Power struggle
• 5 Multiplayer

Game Modes

Instant Action

The vastly less popular mode, players are pitted against other players with only a pistol. Various weapons can be found around the map which can be picked up and used against the enemy.

Power Struggle

In this mode, the 32 players chose what team they want to be on (USA or KPA), with a cap of 16 players per side; and then both teams are given the objective of completely destroying the others base. This, however can only be accomplished by capturing a «Prototype Factory» which is powered by three «Alien energy zones» where a Ceph ship/scout has crashed. The more energy zones you capture, the faster your factories energy increases, until the prototype factory is capable of creating TAC guns which the only infantry weapon that can destroy the enemy base.

Other capturable points are:

• Spawn zones: if captured players of the team who owns the zone can choose to respawn at that point, decreasing the time taken to get to an objective or redeploying forces if more people are needed.
• Vehicle Factories: Creates vehicles (APCs, Tanks, etc.) that players can buy with prestige points (explained later). If the side also owns the prototype factory, singularity tanks and TAC tanks are producible, and the same sodehich are also capable of destroying the enemy base.
• Port: creates speed boats and hover craft (that is capable of going on land as well as sea), that players can buy using prestige points. 
• Airport: Creates Assault Helicopters and VTOLS, that players can buy using Prestige Points.

Once someone has purchased a Weapon of mass destruction (TAC gun, TAC tank, or Singularity tank), everyone is alerted to the fact by a nuclear symbol rather unsubtly flashing on the screen and a massive symbol (blue if they are on your side, red if they are the enemies) hovering over the nuker’s head, whether they are in a vehicle or not.  The symbol can be seen from anywhere.  Once a base has been shot by two WMDs, the game is won to the side that just destroyed the base.  If there is a time limit, the least damaged side wins, otherwise it is a draw.

Nanosuit

For balance issues, Crytek had to change the capabilities of the nanosuit for multiplayer. The most obvious difference to single player being that the US and the KPA suits are now, apart from visual differences, identical to each other.

Other changes for multiplayer:

• Sprinting in speed mode is only two thirds the speed of sprinting in single player. This is probably because sprinting takes up much less energy and the games designers were looking more for something to get you from cover to cover quickly rather than an all out sprint, ending up behind the enemy, as this would make enemies impossible to hit.
• Speed mode uses a lot less energy up, letting players sprint for around 7 seconds instead of around 2. This is probably due to the much larger maps that are used in multiplayer and the necessity for users to get to their objectives (in power struggle) faster (although there are always vehicles in the HQ of each side in power struggle)
• Jumping and punching in power mode uses 35 energy instead of 20 in single player.
• Energy and health charges at a much slower rate than in single player, energy at about a third of the rate and health at half the rate.

Weapons

Crysis Multiplayer features all the weapons in single player and several more.

Damage

Although the actual math may be different in multiplayer, all the damage the player receives in multiplayer is the same as if he or she were a Korean in single player; as a single shotgun shot at close range (or medium if the shotgun is on «concentrated» mode) to a player who is not on armor mode; and, as armor mode effectively makes the player’s energy a «second health bar,» it takes two shots from the same weapon.
Broadly speaking, most heavy weapons, like a mounted machine gun on a truck or VTOL, will kill a player before he or she can react, even in armor mode, just like single player.

Maps

Instant action

Steel Mill: urban close range combat.

Armada: US aircraft carrier, again close range.

Outpost: medium range island warfare.

Quarry: Quite open abandoned mine. Some large openings.

Power struggle

Shore: Sea side cost, lots of foliage for cover, except in sea and coast. US base is, notably, an air craft carrier, meaning it is rather difficult to get to undetected without swimming all the way underwater.

Contains 4 spawn points and a vehicle factory

Beach: Predominantly coastline map, with little in the way of cover compared to other maps, due to there being such a high percentage of sand and sea.

Contains 5 spawn points, 2 vehicle factories and a port.

Mesa: Very open map with fortresses dotted around a desert at key points.  While there is no physical cover in the desert, players can lie down (and usually cloak) and usually go unseen, due to there being tall grassy bushes all over the place.

Contains 3 spawn points and two vehicle factories.  There is also an airport and a vehicle factory right next to each base.

Refinery: open streets and urban warfare, large fights usually take place over the vehicle factory due to the overkill they create on narrow streets with no where to run.

Contains 3 spawn points and a Vehicle factory.

Plantation: jungle/plants create plenty of visual cover, with a dome around the prototype factory, making the intense fights there even worse de to the close quarters fighting.

Contains two spawn points.

Multiplayer

The Windows PC versions of Crysis closed online multiplayer modes in 2014 as a result of the GameSpy server shutdown. Players have created an alternative, Openspy.net master emulator that works just like Gamespy.net old master server. All you need to play is in the link below.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/17300/discussions/0/1694922345927055485/

Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.

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«The world is on the brink. Lessons from the Caribbean Crisis. Documentary

No one could have imagined that today, sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Western Europe and the United States would once again decide to blackmail the world with a nuclear catastrophe. European and American rulers do not seem to know history and do not understand that such a confrontation has already taken place.

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For the first time, the film will feature declassified archival documents that explain the true causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Participants in the top-secret operation of 1962 will tell how the missiles were delivered across the ocean unnoticed, why the operation was called «Anadyr» and why the units sent to Cuba in the summer of 1962 were supplied with skis, stoves, felt boots and sheepskin coats.

Georgy Petrov, a participant in the Anadyr operation, recalls: “We received civilian clothes. It became quite clear that we were going somewhere. Our battery was divided into two parts. Half with equipment, indeed, they rode in the holds.

The Caribbean Crisis escalated on October 14, 1962, when a US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba.

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Within 13 days, this was followed by the announcement by America of a naval blockade of Cuba, attacks on Soviet submarines, and putting the armed forces of both countries on alert. Then the world was on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe, but the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F. Kennedy were still able to agree. The Soviet Union withdrew its nuclear weapons from Cuba, and the Americans withdrew their medium-range missiles not only from Turkey, but also from bases in Italy and England.

“Both the United States and the Soviet Union realized that a direct confrontation between the armed forces of these two countries was unacceptable. For it will inevitably escalate into a nuclear conflict, and this will bring innumerable victims to both sides, ”said the participant in the Anadyr operation, Colonel-General Viktor Esin. nine0003

The resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis reduced the danger of the outbreak of the Third World War. This was followed by a twenty-year period in which peaceful competition became global politics and the United States showed a willingness to recognize the Soviet Union as an equal entity.

However, experts say that the scenario of the Caribbean crisis can hypothetically repeat itself after 60 years. The catalyst for confrontation this time is NATO’s desire to continue its expansion to the east. In this sense, the current situation is much more dangerous…

Actors in the film:

Sergei Lavrov — Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Andrey Kartapolov — Chairman of the Defense Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Anatoly Torkunov — Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Valery Garbuzov — Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science «Institute of the United States of America and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences»

Olga Pavlenko — Head of the Department of Foreign Regional Studies and Foreign Policy of the Russian State University for the Humanities

Igor Permyakov — Director of the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History EAT. Primakov Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Viktor Esin, participant in the Anadyr operation, Colonel General

Mikhail Makaruk — Major General of Aviation, First Vice-President of the Russian Society for Friendship with Cuba

Georgy Petrov — participant in the Anadyr operation, executive secretary of the International Public Organization «Commonwealth of Cuban Warriors-Internationalists»

Alexander Gulyaev — Head of the Department of Scientific and Research Institute (Military History) of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Alexei Iryutin — Head of Department of the Research Institute (Military History) of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, lieutenant colonel

Aleksey Kuznetsov — Head of the Department of the Research Institute (Military History) of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel

Alexander Ageev — Director of the International Research Institute of Management Problems .