If you look at the destruction part of the tech demo
the dumpster gets awesomely crush from a big part
of a building that had fallen on it, i was just thinking how
much simulated and not pre planned destruction will
be in crysis 2?

well it's supposedly all real time which should mean the only "pre planned" stuff is in the cut scenes.

I'm guessing it should be for certain levels only, too much could cause a crash.

yeah i think i remember them saying it was limited in multiplayer but should be pretty impressive in SP.

For the Sp's, it's going to be chaotically fun

Singleplayer destruction looks pretty amazing, but multiplayer is rather limited so that the gameplay is not drastically affected by it.

It seems that in multiplayer, you can only break weak objects like glass or wood, but in SP, most things can be broken or deformed in some way, shape or form.

From a Interview about why they chose new york city as the setting i remember hearing, " with the new crytek engine, in the single player you can be walking around and have a building next to you collapse" Hope that gives an idea on what can happen

remember how last gen we were gpu limited in crysis. I swear this gen the gpu will be more than enough but seeing footage of crysis 2 we are in for cpu hell.

Nah, cpu's are very rarely pushed. There is a lot of untapped potential in even ￡60 cpu's.

Nah, cpu's are very rarely pushed. There is a lot of untapped potential in even ￡60 cpu's.

Maybe, a stronger combo of cpu with gpu could unleash the full potential of Sim.destruction in Crysis 2, but its still un-certain

Yea I really am lost if crytek is tapping the gpu to help with the physics or if it's pure CPU Also I do remember that physics does really destroy a CPU especially with what I've seen so far with the cryengine 3

No gpu-based physics, it's all cpu. But as i've said before, you can run games like mafia 2 with physX enabled WITHOUT an nvidia card, and decent (athlon II X4 630 is the cheapest at ￡63) cpu's still push along quite happily despite Nvidia throttling the maximum cpu usage to 40%. Crytek would have to be either be really inefficient with the coding (which they're not in CE3) or have waaaay too much physics going on that isn't noticable

In the end, all the physics in crysis 1 ran on a single, fairly slow, core!

No gpu-based physics, it's all cpu. But as i've said before, you can run games like mafia 2 with physX enabled WITHOUT an nvidia card, and decent (athlon II X4 630 is the cheapest at ￡63) cpu's still push along quite happily despite Nvidia throttling the maximum cpu usage to 40%. Crytek would have to be either be really inefficient with the coding (which they're not in CE3) or have waaaay too much physics going on that isn't noticable

In the end, all the physics in crysis 1 ran on a single, fairly slow, core!
Well, that was good to hear in a post. My old Athlon x4 was capable of far more than it seemed.

This is the Destruction ON A XBOX 360

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDPVNXD25Mc&feature=related

The physics part on consoles aren't a problem because xbox and ps3 have 3/4 cores @3+ ghz, console games rarely use more than 30% of the CPU power, so Crytek can take advantage of this processing power and make amazing destructibility like shown on the video and on PC the destructibility will be much higher, since consoles are limited to their DX9 GPU, so they have to use a lot of CPU power to improve the graphics

Already saw that video, back - way ago. Good one, though

More of the destruction will be more for aesthetics mostly, though destructible cover never hurts, in SP or MP.

More of the destruction will be more for aesthetics mostly, though destructible cover never hurts, in SP or MP.

I'm more on Sp, for that...