Crysis 2 is being built on the company's new CryEngine 3 technology, which it showcased at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco earlier this year. Yerli explained that the CryEngine 3 was a significant breakthrough for the company. He said that it's capable of scaling performance considerably, so he maintains that the PC version of Crysis 2 will look far better than the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions. At the same time, the console games will be as state-of-the-art as possible for those platforms.

"We don't need to dumb down the game; the technology provides all the horsepower we need to make a kick-ass 360 game, a kick-ass PS3 game, and push the PC gaming forward still," Yerli said.

The fact that I can illegally download a game right now, for free, faster than I can buy it, is truly an issue. There’s a whole chain of problems there, and a business model change is needed for this. Piracy has been a problem for years, but what we are seeing now is more and more people looking at buying and consuming media online. These people want to be served their content differently, and I think you have to cater to that.

• When spectating, buy menu won't switch tabs
• Occasional HUD buttons displacement
• Shoot + Zoom exploit with Sniper Rifle
• Potential renderer crash
• Score limit is correctly calculated in PowerStruggle
• Vehicle damage direction display
• Server crash when using last purchase to repeatedly buy vehicles

• Added health bar of player who just killed you
• Added automatic respawning in Instant Action/Team Instant Action, defaults to 20s after death
• Added new visual hit indicator asset - shows whether you hit a player or a vehicle
• Various messages for accessibility improvement
• Reworked options menu
• Added new map: Ruins

• Increased melee damage, and improved its consistency

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It's almost time for another patch, we've included some fixes that should really improve stability and remove the known exploits, there is also various updates which will be noticible in-game and improve game balance. In addition to this we also have a new map release! Ruins is set in a church ruins environment where players are able to do combat both inside and outside the ruins. More information will be released in the future but for now we have four new screenshots available for you.

Discus here