Crysis PC Game - News: New Crysis Details Emerge from GC 2007

As part of a community Q&A held at GC 2007, Bernd Diemer, Cryteks Lead Designer, has answered a whole lot of questions which have revealed new details on Crysis and other Crytek ventures. CryEdit.net originally posted some videos of the Q&A which of course were in German. Crysis-HQ hosted them before CrysisNews.de summed them up in writing. Here is 'german-to-english translation'.

• VOIP will be a feature in Multiplayer. In some of the videos from GC 2007, there was a VOIP toggle setting visible in the options menu, so some of you would have already known this.


• The weather in singleplayer is somewhat scripted. For example, going to a certain part of a level may trigger a change of weather or certain natural disaster.


• The Day/Night in multiplayer can either be controlled by the server admin, or set to change dynamically.


• As mentioned before in earlier videos and interviews, statistics will not be peristant. So if the map changes on the server, your stats for the last map will be reset as you'll be commencing a new game. (seems fair)


• DX9 and DX10 players can play on the same server. Apparently the server takes care of it all, but I imagine those with DX10 won't receive the DX10 only benefits while playing online with DX9 players. So from what I gather, there will still be DX10 only servers.


• DX10 servers will be put under more load than DX9 servers. This is most likely due to the extra interactivity and destructibility in DX10, and possible because Vista will be required to run a DX10 server.


• Natural disasters can be controlled manually by server admins.


• Crytek still aren't revealing any new information on the public beta.


• Other Crytek games are currently in development. Keeping tradition, they will also contain the word 'Cry' somewhere in their name. Crytek's Budapest and Kiev studios will assist in the development of these upcoming titles.


• Apparently the nanosuit can't be disabled in-game. But can most likely be removed by modders. I can't imagine Obsidian Edge 2 with a nano-suit.


• The destructible vegetation can be modified by experienced modders, so I guess the technology behind the breakable trees could be applied to other objects.


• German gamers won't be receiving a cut-down version of Crysis; Crytek have opted for the 18+ rating instead.

Source: Crysis-Online