Crysis 2 editor available this summer

Crytek CEO and President Cevat Yerli promises Crysis 2 editor early this summer, full CryENGINE 3 SDK in August.

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In an open letter titled "Be Free... Be Creative... Be the Developer," Crytek CEO and President Cevat Yerli gave an update on plans to let the modding community get its hands on the engine behind Crysis 2. Early this summer, the developer will release a full-featured editor for Crysis 2. With it, modders will be able to build maps, items and custom content for the game.

After playing around with that over the summer, for those looking to do more, Crytek will release the complete version of CryENGINE 3 in August completely for free. The CryENGINE SDK will include everything needed to create a complete game from the ground up. To support those efforts, Crytek also plans to share all its documentation for the engine written by the developers and launch an improved crymod.com site for the community.

Like what Epic has done with its Unreal engine, Crytek also intends to extend its support to helping teams take their projects commercial. Though not giving any specifics, Yerli said that Crytek will offer a low cost licensing model for digital distribution of games created with the SDK. And, if you just want to make games for fun, that will remain completely free.

That's an awful lot of toys to play with. It should be interesting to see what creative ideas they can help bring to life.

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    April 22, 2011 5:30 PM

    Garnett Lee posted a new article, Crysis 2 editor available this summer.

    In an open letter titled "Be Free... Be Creative... Be the Developer," Crytek CEO and President Cevat Yerli gave an update on plans to let the...

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      April 22, 2011 6:44 PM

      This is epic. I mean...Crytek.

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      April 22, 2011 6:47 PM

      This is great news!

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      April 22, 2011 7:03 PM

      Honestly the new CryEngine seems like a step backward. Or maybe Crysis 2 just didn't use the full potential of it. During the single player there were so many horrible animations and no DX10/11.

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        April 22, 2011 7:43 PM

        Urge to kill... Rising...

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          April 22, 2011 7:50 PM

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            April 22, 2011 7:51 PM

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            April 22, 2011 9:35 PM

            I automatically engage a fit of MURDERER MODE whenever someone badmouths Crysis 2 for not including DX10/11 support at launch.

            NEWSFLASH: EVERY DX10 FEATURE FROM THE ORIGINAL CRYSIS CAN BE DONE IN DX9 (and was included in the sequel)! And DX11 is coming in a future patch. Not that I care, since I'm not one of the 6% of users (Steam stats) who have a DX11 card.

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        April 22, 2011 8:05 PM

        It's not, Bingo. Crysis 1 "Fuck it, we need more polygons here, and more shit over here, and..." Crysis 2 "Well uhm.. consoles."

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          April 22, 2011 8:38 PM

          Theoretically, there's patches in the works. Most of the stuff released and detailed in the www.mycrysis.com forums is all for bugs and glitches, as well as notes on the anti-piracy fixes of debatable success. They say there's a DirectX 11 patch coming, but there isn't a timeframe to go along with it, nor any official word on what DirectX features will be added/what current aspects will be improved. With this news, I'd like to think that the DirectX patch will come out before the SDK in August if not before map editor in "early summer," but who knows.

          Personally, I'd rather see all this stuff get done on MyCrysis or at least simply added to the CryMod site. Being an official site and all, CryMod is, or perhaps will have been, the place for maps and mods for Crysis and Crysis Warhead. It makes perfect sense to add such things for Crysis 2 to the mix, but--oh, man--the fallout if they flat-out replace all the Crysis/Warhead stuff with the Crysis 2 stuff....

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      April 22, 2011 10:28 PM

      I'm happy to hear that they are still doing that. I was really disappointed how it wasn't available out of the box like the original. I would rather have it a little later than not at all.

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      April 23, 2011 6:58 AM

      Patch the MP, remove the AI bugs, remove the hackers and then we'll talk

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      April 23, 2011 7:54 AM

      Wow, so Crysis 2 does NOT have dx10/11?! Wow, glad I didn't blow $50 on this console crap. DX9 game for $50 bucks lol.... Devs keep feeding shit on a plate to you sheep consumers and you all swallow it with a smile.

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        April 23, 2011 8:04 AM

        haha I love you guys, you're cute

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        April 23, 2011 8:20 AM

        What does any version of DirectX used in a game have to do with the price?

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        April 23, 2011 8:51 AM

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          April 23, 2011 8:57 AM

          Well he's a front pager so you can go with the second option.

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          April 24, 2011 4:16 PM

          Genuine idiocy is paying premium price tag for 10+ year old technology.

          The original Crysis has better technology than crysis 2 and you idiots are defending it.

          That is genuine idiocy.

          Thank you and good night.

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        April 23, 2011 9:12 AM

        So would the game magically be better if it had Dx 10 and a few effects were marginally better looking? All it would do is turn it into a benchmarking epeen meter.

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          April 23, 2011 9:12 AM

          Oops i meant to say DX10 / 11

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        April 23, 2011 9:15 AM

        So I guess you didn't buy Portal 2 either?

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        April 23, 2011 9:26 AM

        Dx[n] * (number of hours + number of discs) / number of console ports = $ value

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        April 25, 2011 9:52 AM

        Crysis 2 has its fair share of problems and I'll normally be the first the criticize it, but to judge a game outright without even playing it simply because of its graphics is just plain wrong.

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        April 25, 2011 12:27 PM

        Who else sees the irony of this moran spouting the same old, tired tripe calling someone else a sheep?

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      April 23, 2011 7:56 AM

      MAXIMUM SDK

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      April 23, 2011 8:25 AM

      Sounds like the PC version sold better than they anticipated so they are pushing out updates for it.

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