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How can you have a surname like Koch, found a company called Koch Media, and not invest any of your money into being a porn mogul?
Crytek's virtual reality game Dinosaur Island is on Steam now - and it's a free download.
By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 18/11/2015
The Oculus Rift tech demo begins with you as a baby dinosaur in a nest. You're then free to explore the jungle environment, interact with eggs and a dragonfly, before meeting a huge dinosaur. The video, below, gives you an idea of what it's about.
Be warned: the system requirements are pretty steep:
Minimum:
OS: Windows 7, 8 or 10 (64bit)
Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K CPU @3.40GHz
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 980 or AMD Radeon R9 290
DirectX: Version 11
Hard Drive: 2 GB available space
You also need an Oculus Rift DK2 to run it.
Crytek said the system requirements are such because, as a virtual reality game, Back to Dinosaur Island requires a high frame-rate to guarantee a comfortable experience (Crytek's aiming for 75 frames-per-second rendered twice for an "optimal experience"). If you run it on weaker hardware, you'll have lower frame-rates, and thus a poorer experience.
Well its fuckcheap to employ developers and programmers in foreign countries, especially in eastern europe. In germany they worked hard on getting a certain reputation of exploiting employees, and still they underperformed on the last games, so they simply cut back extremely on their staff in germany and outsourced their workload.
Those Yerli bros just completely lack any sense of business acumen, let alone common sense. Expanding and acquiring companies abroad like crazy but hardly ever ship anything was a recipe for disaster. I already knew after they shipped Crysis that they were going down the wrong path.
Wonder what's gonna happen to the CryEngine though.
Those Yerli bros just completely lack any sense of business acumen, let alone common sense. Expanding and acquiring companies abroad like crazy but hardly ever ship anything was a recipe for disaster. I already knew after they shipped Crysis that they were going down the wrong path.
Wonder what's gonna happen to the CryEngine though.
Amazon something something.
Those Yerli bros just completely lack any sense of business acumen, let alone common sense. Expanding and acquiring companies abroad like crazy but hardly ever ship anything was a recipe for disaster. I already knew after they shipped Crysis that they were going down the wrong path.
Wonder what's gonna happen to the CryEngine though.
Amazon something something.
You mean Lumberyard? That's a CryEngine branch, and I'm not sure what the license agreement with Crytek was, but Amazon has full control and the source code of Lumberyard and a Crytek demise wouldn't affect them.
Lumberyard is 99.8% stock CRYENGINE 3.8 tech. They removed Scaleform and replaced it with some basic UI thingie. The stock netcode is gone and replaced with something else. Lumberjack is also bound into Amazon Cloud thingie.
Make sure you read Amazon's Terms of Service BEFORE you start using it. Amazon is even covered against a zombie invasion in there. Well at least legally (not that that would do much good).
What a joke of a company Crytek has become.
Crytek haven't paid their employees in Bulgaria in 3 months and all workers in that office are currently owed 3 full salaries. The company is not looking to pay these salaries any time soon and have spent the last few months lying about the availability of this money in order to keep as many employees as possible.
The Yerli brothers (Avni, Cevat and Faruk) are now looking at the second delay in the last 6 months (after finishing up a delay of 2 months just before the current one) and the third payment delay in the last two years.
The former director of the Sofia studio, Vesselin Handjiev, left several months ago and the studio is entirely at the mercy of Crytek Frankfurt's leadership, which has proved to be unsuccessful in stemming the current bleeding for 6 months.
Anyone who has an offer or is otherwise considering joining Crytek is advised to steer their ship elsewhere, as the current situation is rumored to apply to all studios within the company, even after the closure and selling off of several of the Crytek studios around the world.
This wouldn't have happened if those nasty PC gamers hadn't pirated Crysis
This wouldn't have happened if those lazy and shortsighted Yerli brothers hadn't been swayed into the Call of Duty craze.