Crysis v1.2 Patch Hits The Web

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, March 06, 2008, 04:15 PM EDT

The second patch for Crytek’s highly-acclaimed shooter Crysis is now available. Patch 1.2 continues to tune and improve stability and performance according to notes in the changelog. The main improvements in Patch 1.2 include tweaks to multiplayer, mod support and balance of weapons, AI and vehicles, including:

Added mod loader to main menu
Increased damage of most player-fired weapons and decreased damage of most AI-fired weapons
Added auto team balance
Added grenade indicator for enemy and friendly team
Added additional audio feedback (headshot/body) on bullet impact
Fully implementing Crytek’s internal anti-cheat-solution
Added numbers to energy bar in PowerStruggle for quicker reference
Added team colors to kill/death messages
Team killed players no longer drop their weapon
Improved vehicle handling under braking and boosting
Greatly increased AAA damage vs. VTOL and Helicopter
Reduced collision damage for players hit by vehicles at lower speeds

There's much more listed in the release notes as well. Also note, that Crysis patch 1.2 can be applied to both Crysis v1.0 and Crysis v1.1 since both will update automatically to Crysis version 1.2.

Tags: Patch, Web, SIS, Crysis

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